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This is who my spam is from

In NaBloPoMo, Odd, Photos and Videos on 5 November 2009 with 2 comments

Two things about email:

1. Types of emails I don’t like:

1. Lib­rary Elf emails which I inev­it­ably don’t read until after my books are overdue.
2. Those Face­book emails you get because someone you don’t know has replied to someone you don’t know on a dis­cus­sion about some­thing you can’t remem­ber com­ment­ing on six months ago.
3. Invoice emails/emails gen­er­ally inform­ing me about money being removed from my account and put into someone else’s.
4. The emails from Abbey where they use Comic Sans. Hello. You are a bank. This is, for once, not a phish­ing email. At least try and make it look like you didn’t get a bunch of Indone­sian schoolkids to write it.

2. A list of names taken from my Spam folder in a fruit­less search for Nanowrimo char­ac­ter names:

Louve­nia Cardera
Mar­garito Cai
Laur­een Back­bone
Char­main Berdy
Mar­cone Omar
Hufstedler Wayne
Adena Sweat­mon
Sweet­land Bulah
Hanna Had­daway
Alpha Votoda
Blanch Sto­et­zel
Ver­n­ita Treichler
Voc­cia Simonne
Ilu­min­ada Hes­ford
Jim­mie Amorosi
Des­per Debera
Mer­cedes Dress­man
Flans­burg Jone
Maizes Bobby
Romeo Van­v­ranken
Aus­tin Sweezy
Kurt Letcher
Evan Bustillo
Kaili­poni Clyde
Steep Kur­tis
Dina Shopp
Shona Gal­leno
Cor­alie Zippe
Bong Zakar
Assunta Wedge­worth
Char­lotte Pof­fen­roth
Eyre Edgar
Gar­land Mamros

The 50 Dollar Logo Experiment

In Design, Odd, Websites on 20 February 2009 tagged Design, links, logo with 1 comment

The 50 Dol­lar Logo Experiment

I turned to the clev­erly named 50DollarLogo.com, a site based in Sri Lanka or some­where prom­ising six logo designs, unlim­ited revi­sions, and a 1–3 day turn­around. Who needs messy things like research, insight, or even a modicum of inform­a­tion about my busi­ness, when I can have unlim­ited revi­sions?

This feels a lot like my life at the moment, only I am the one try­ing to make a decent logo out of cheese and Naz­areth and the people I work for want some­thing with more anthropomorphism.

Bed Head After-Party

In Design, Odd, Things on 28 January 2009 tagged Design, hair, packaging with Comments Off

I have a pack­aging thing. I love pack­aging design. This comes in espe­cially handy to pass time when doing some­thing I really don’t love, like hav­ing my hair cut. All that sit­ting still and not fid­get­ing and mak­ing small talk about Christ­mas (come on, people, it was a month ago. Try harder.) and hav­ing to sit in front of a mir­ror for an age when, for the most part, I’m vam­piric about mirrors.

A big chunk of hairdresser income comes from selling over­priced hair product, and over­priced hair product gen­er­ally has bril­liant pack­aging in order to make people like me buy some over­priced hair product they won’t use but will gaze at lov­ingly.  Depend­ing on the tar­get mar­ket,  pack­aging ranges from classy to fun to, err… this:

… oh come on, it’s not just me, is it? Is it?

T-Mobile at Liverpool Street Station

In Odd, Photos and Videos on 19 January 2009 tagged advertisment, video with Comments Off

Well. That just never hap­pens at my bus stop…

Warning: Not to be taken

In Odd on 27 November 2008 with Comments Off

To take or not to take, that is the question…

I’m just not sure how long esven days is…

Welcome back!

In Odd, Websites on 26 November 2008 tagged awesome, video with Comments Off

Inter­rupt­ing a two day sleep-fest (something’s broken, but I don’t know what…) to tell you that I love this to pieces:

Wel­come Back from ImprovEvery­where on Vimeo.