Taking Customer Feedback to a New Level

This is extremely "R" rated, so if you're one to be offended, please don't play it.

Interesting to see how this company used some pointed customer feedback to make their point.

Most companies don't have the guts to do something like this.  Personally, I like it.  What do you think?

Journalism Hits Bottom, Digs

With the integrity of paparazzi wading through the garbage of their victim, the Left gleefully, lustfully, and aggressively is going through 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails from her gubernatorial tenure.  It seems that everyone wants to be the next one to find that next fatal Palin gaffe - the next stupid thing that they can attribute to her to prove to the rest of the world how amazingly ignorant she is.  

So dig they do, like factory workers in Mr. Beauregarde's sweat shop, because the little Violet Beauregarde that is now the American Left DEMANDS that they do.  And like Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault, America sits at her TV and sees nothing.  

I'm no fan of Palin, and as stated here earlier, and I think she's unelectable.  Despite that, I still can't fathom the amount of vitriol that would propel such a hate-driven, quixotic endeavor. 

Journalism just hit its rock bottom.   

And they're still digging... 

Yellow Dog Patrol Now Optimized for Mobile Devices!

When a user accesses a website from a mobile device, either the traditional site is served, or a special mobile-optimized site can be served to make things easier for mobile users and their significantly smaller screens.

Up to this point, if you accessed Yellow Dog Patrol via your mobile (and in looking at the web analytics, many of you have), you would have received just a standard rendering of the normal web site. 

No more, my dear reader! 

I'm happy to report that the site has now been optimized to make reading YDP much easier on your mobile device.  The attached a screen shot of what the site now looks like in mobile mode for an iPhone. 

From a user's perspective, there's nothing needed on your end; the site will recognize if the inbound traffic is from a normal PC/laptop or a mobile device, and will automatically serve the correct version without you even noticing. 

I don't know, but maybe this whole internet thing is going to catch on...

Obama's Unemployment Graph of Shame

Remember back in the day where stimulus was being pitched as, without it, we'd see unemployment grow to nearly 9%?  Well, when plotting exactly what's happened, it is clear that the administration was either far too optimistic, completely clueless, lying, or some combination of the above. 

The graph is brutal, and will be a bludgeon for the Republicans to use throughout the election cycle.  Obama can't distance himself from it as far too much political capital has been spent on it.  You own this, Champ. 

In the mean time, check the last three data points.  Double-dip, or bumps in the road?  If you listen to our fearless leader it is the latter.  Too bad his track record on economic projection to this point has been an abject failure. 

Likewise, in a shockingly underreported analysis by USA Today, the country now has $61.6 trillion in unfunded future financial commitments.  Just to understand how big that is, here is what that number looks like when written out: $61,600,000,000,000.00 

Think about that! 

It comes out to $527,000 for each and every US household.  Here's hoping you have a spare half million lying around. 

The train wreck this administration is wreaking upon our economic survival is staggering.

Brown County Lottery for Packers Tickets - Winner!

In our new town, Packers tickets are nearly impossible to come by.  Season tickets are completely sold out, and are handed down within families like treasured heirlooms.  Single game seats can be had from scalpers, but usually at outrageous prices.  

 Fortunately for us, there is another avenue.   

Back in 2000, the team agreed to make 40,000 single game tickets available for purchase if the residents of Brown County agreed to accept a 0.5% sales tax that was used to fund the Lambeau Field expansion.  The motion passed, the Frozen Tundra was upgraded, the tickets freed up.

The tickets are made available via lottery for every adult in Brown County that chooses to participate, and since we're residents, my wife and I both applied.  Guess who went two for two?  Woot!   

The good news is we both got drawn, and that they're both regular season games (getting stuck with preseason games would really stink).  The bad news is that one is on Christmas, the other is on New Year's Day (hello, Frozen Tundra), and that neither game is against our beloved Vikings.  

I'm in the process of trying to find other lottery winners that got drawn with the Vikes and want to trade, and we'll see how successful I am.  In the mean time, I just hope they decide to play this season and we actually get a chance to use these. 

Surprise: Weiner is a Lying Dirtbag

As was reported here a couple of days ago, Anthony Weiner was indeed lying. I think most objective people are not surprised - if you have just a basic understanding of human nature and social media, you knew the guy was lying from the jump. So when it was announced yesterday that there was a lot more evidence against him, and the new pictures found their way forward, there was little surprise. Littler still when a press conference was hurriedly called so he could "take full responsibly."

Here are some random notes about the conference and surrounding events:

• What does "taking full responsibility for my actions" mean? He's not quitting. Only apologizing. That's full responsibility?  Wow.
• What's up with trembling voice? Dude, you lived the life you wanted. The choices you made were all yours. You chose your lifestyle and were under total control of the decisions you made to propagate it. So why are you crying? That you got caught and can no longer send inappropriate messages to women half your age? Maybe that's the reason. 
• Here's a heads up to everyone that uses the net: everything you do is traceable. Everything. The email you send, the "anonymous" post you make on a blog, every website you visit, your Facebook post, every tweet you make, you name it, it's traceable. And no matter how you try and delete and cover things up, it lasts in the cyberworld forever, and will eventually be found out by someone. There is no such thing as anonymity on the web. Ever. 
• I think he keeps his job. Clinton did much, much worse. Hell, Ted Kennedy killed a woman. 
• He likely won't keep his marriage, but I don't think that matters a whole hell of a lot to him anyway. 
• I'm truly amazed at how many on the left, especially the left bloggers, got played. They so wanted this to be a hit job against their favorite attack dog that they lost every iota of objectivity, and much of their integrity. All of the articles blaming Breitbart for the "hack," explaining how the account was indeed "hacked," and generally pointing the finger everywhere except in Weiner's direction make them look like the partisan punks that they are. And at the end of the day, they got totally played by Weiner. Like a 20-something girl on a Twitter feed, they were merely a tool for him to use. And use them he did. 
• What's up with the shaved chest (and I assume pits as well as everything else)? This look started in the gay community and jumped over to some in the hetero community, but why, I'll never know. Again, it is just all so disturbing, especially for a guy married in his mid-40's. Don't get me wrong, a little bit of man-scaping is fine. But the totally clean shave is just downright creepy. 

This story likely won't be dying as the wife still has not talked in public, and the media machine likely will not rest until she's weighed in. It will serve as a distraction to Democrats coming into the 2012 election. How long it remains so will be completely up to the man responsible for it all.

Monday Morning Blues

Here's Joe Bonamassa to ease us into the work week.

Play on, brother...

Sticking it to "The Man" in Green Bay

Last Thursday I attended a conference at St. Norbert's College here in Green Bay.  At 2:00, I needed to head back to the office, and was greeted by this friendly crowd. 

This was half of the protest, with the other half residing on another corner. 

The union garbage in this state is getting out of hand.  Between efforts to repeal Walker, to destroying the state capitol and wasting precious state funds in midst of a protest, to standing on a non-busy corner at 2:00 on a random Thursday, the union effort appears misguided at best, and wasteful and ignorant at worst. 

Here's a couple of tips to help our union brothers and sisters:

• There's a recession going on, dipstick.  Unemployment is now over 9%, and underemployment at a whopping 17%.  That's just about one in five.  To think you have some special right to not feel the same pain that the private sector has felt since Obama took over (when underemployment was about 7.5%) is ignorant. 
• If you want to protest, how about doing it when you're going to be seen - like at rush hour where people that are actually working and paying taxes are commuting home?  Thursday at 2:00 at a college campus will move the needle for your cause a whopping jack squat.  At 2:00 the state's taxpayers are working, not working on their sun tan, trying to relive/imitate some cool 60's protest. 
• Based on new unemployment numbers, drops in durable goods orders, and continuing deflation of housing, the economy has begun its double dip.  It is going to get worse from here, and unless you're adding value to your employer, you'll find yourself one of the ever increasing company of un/under employed. 

Instead of bitching, you may want to get to work and be thankful you have a job at all.  Lots of your neighbors don't.