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These folks should have thought a little harder about naming their business. I guess as a B2B oriented company they didn’t think it would matter much. Anyway, it was an amusing photo as I imagined someone repairing my tractor and then offering some psychological advice.

I twittered Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, suggesting that if he was going to get his photo made with Bill Gates today that he should put up bunny ears behind Bill’s head. I told him if he did it, I’d link to it. Well you can kinda see that he was trying, so, he kept his part of the bargain, so I’ll keep mine.

Unfortunately it’s hard to see me giving Bill Gates bunny ears in photo due to bad resolution & boxes in background. I should have put my fingers higher. But Bill posed for photo knowing I would do bunny ears so kudos to Bill!

Thanks for being a wierdo for me Tony, and thanks to Bill for being such a good sport.

Look me up when you come visit the Zappos Lexington folks, I’ll buy you a beer.

From Yahoo Answers..

…it’s okay dude, we know how you feel.

Yes, that is a lion. In a sidecar. Pulling G’s with some real entertainers. Not a warning sign in sight. Now that’s entertainment. Line forms to the left.

Actually, the setup was a wooden barrel board wall of the “Thrillarena” or “Wall of Death” It’s called Motor Drome Riding and it was popular in the 20s and 30s. Someone along the way said “Hey, let’s put lions in the drome” uhhhh kay… sure, that’ll bring ‘em in. And it did.

Jason Falls had me thinking about this post after I wrote it so I updated it. When you use Gimmicks, you must just keep cranking them out. You must start out with a dog in the sidecar, then a goat, then a friggin’ lion. But what do you do when the lion gets boring?

So if you’re dependent on gimmicks - keep your foot in it - cause if you slow down, you’ll be lunch.

images from thrillarena.com

No wonder we’re a tired nation. It takes 5 minutes to read a no-parking sign. I came across this sign today, and thought it was kind of pathetic. 65 words to say “15 minute parking” .. nuts. Where will it end. By 2028, the sign will reach the ground and you’ll have to check a box agreeing that you read it.

Ok, folks - I pose a challenge to the geekdom out there. How to disable, permanently, these obnoxious speaker boxes that are attached to every friggin’ gas pump I’ve been to in the last 6 months. The MUTE buttons are worn out (”dimple collapse”) so you gotta sit there and listen to the bloody things go on, incomprehensively, about worthless crap inside the stores. It was some brilliant marketer’s idea - I can hear it now “We need to bring people into the store from the pump, ’cause that’s where the profits are. ” I know a few out there think it’s a great idea. Muzak was bad enough, but, it was in the distance, and didn’t drown out your cell phone or NPR on the car radio. And next it will be video, where we’ll need a different solution (I am so absolutely sick of TV everywhere I go - yes I own a universal TV-off keychain. ) And finally, Google Gas Pumps will surely be next.

How about an opt-out feature where I can pay you five freakin’ bucks for a year of peace and quiet? It’s unlikely. Nielsen media reports a 70% brand recall for gas station TV. Damn, that’s good. But I wonder how many are remembering the brand so they can avoid any product annoying them at the gas pump. “Never, ever buy friggin’ Dr. Pepper again.”

So I call out to you, the Hardware Gods of the Interweb….

I figure if we can mess with the electronic voting systems, we should be able to fk with these things a bit.

So, electronics wizards, how do you disable them without opening them or beating them with an object or getting electrocuted (and starting a large fire.)

Electronic pulse?
Handheld High Output Laser?
Freon-freeze+ gentle tap?
Secret series of keypresses? (that would be ideal!)

All ideas welcome.

Required Disclaimer, Of COURSE I am not condoning vandalism in any shape or form. This is just an academic discussion.