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Note to self bros before hoes

raven — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:43:19 +0000

Note to self:

bros before hoes.

Tagged: Life, quotes

You move to college make new friends but…

raven — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:52:12 +0000

You move to college, make new friends but lose most school ones.
You get a job, make new friends but lose most college ones.
You commit / get married, start hanging out with more couples, lose most single friends.
You have kids, you start hanging out (if you ever can) with parents with kids, lose most child less friends.

Is friendship a zero sum game?

Tagged: Friends, Friendships

Shame on you, LCC

raven — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:32:21 +0000

Using a double negative to fool people into allowing you to mail them is one of the cheap tricks of trade for spammers and unethical websites. Not something I’d expect of a reputed cycling advocacy charity.

Shame!

P.S.: I did submit the petition. But that’s because I believe strongly in the cause. That stupid checkbox label almost put me off signing it, though.

Tagged: cycling, LCC, Mailers, opt-out, spam

Strong conflicting feelings Really happy for someone Really…

raven — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:26:25 +0000

Strong conflicting feelings. Really happy for someone. Really disappointed with them as well. ‘Love’ fighting ‘retaliation’.

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and just like that that push you away…

raven — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:02:48 +0000

… and just like that that push you away.

Time to archive the good memories, and move on.

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Tagged: breakups, Friendships

The idea so far Turn the process on…

raven — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:09:25 +0000

The idea so far:

Turn the process on its head. Instead of building the prototype and then testing it in market/focus-groups, test the idea and then build if the fish(!) are biting.

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Tagged: ideas, lean, NPD, Startup

Catholics have the Vatican Muslims have Mecca Jedi’s…

raven — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:50:11 +0000

Catholics have the Vatican.
Muslims have Mecca.
Jedi’s have Forbidden Planet.

Why have I not visited this place till date?! http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/forbidden-planet-london

Tagged: Geek, London, Yelp

Shit Hank Moody Says

raven — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:07:20 +0000

Sometimes it is better not to touch your dreams.

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Tagged: californication, dreams, hank moody, quotes

Advertising Effectiveness

raven — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:24:53 +0000

If you ever wondered about the effectiveness of advertising in turning a product or a campaign around (for good or for worse), this might help. According to numbers published by WSJ,

43% of all spending by Super PACs so far has been to oppose Newt Gingrich.

75% of all ‘opposing’ spending by Super PACs has been targeted at Newt Gingrich

Super PAC spend opposing Newt Gingrich was 8.7 times of spend supporting him.

If the result in South Carolina and the ratings in Florida are any indicator, these figures seem to be presenting a pretty damning statement against advertising effectiveness.

Tagged: advertising effectiveness, Elections, Newt Gingrich, Super PACs, US, wsj

I came here tonight because when you realise…

raven — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:46:51 +0000

I came here tonight because when you realise that you want to spend the rest of your life with some body, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Harry, in Harry met Sally.

Tagged: love, Movies, quotes