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Tweets posted from October 11, 2009 thru October 17, 2009.

• From the Modern Marketers Dictionary: A Sidekick – The resultant shift in market share after a serious gaffe. (http://bit.ly/sgcqy)
• Advice to business speakers: The term ‘loosely engaged’ should be carefully considered before addressing an audience of wedding planners.
• Attention unseasoned joke writers. This is as easy as it gets. (http://bit.ly/q1NJV)
• Governments don’t plan, they scheme.
• A communication medium may not determine how the brain works. But it does determine how the brain is working.
• Journalist – A peddler of decontextualized messages, well suited to a particular medium, designed to elicit a predetermined response.
• My clothes are dirty. The interweb seems to be a place where folks routinely do others’ laundry. So, anyone want to do my laundry?

Tweets posted from October 4, 2009 thru October 10, 2009.

• The funny, smart, sometimes oracular Graham Chapman died twenty years ago today. A lamentable day – nope! Life of Brian DVD is on the tube.
• A sales projection meeting that includes the word “if” is ≈ a Vegas conjuring act. What is being projected onto the future is bias, not sales.
• A sad day! (http://bit.ly/27zbpW)
• If you’re a ‘pro blogger’ upset with having to tell the truth then you’re not a pro blogger.
• Testing, testing this is a test. Is twitter in the midst of a no whale fail?
• Nobel Prize committee members must be the type of people who flap their arms inside of an airplane thinking it helps the thing to fly.

Tweets posted from September 27, 2009 thru October 3, 2009.

• What a product does technically is minor when compared to what our mind does with that product.
• At this weekends photo-shoot my client requested Lyle Lovett music. Tickle Toe & Here I Am was put on repeat. Almost refused my fee. Almost.
• Agree or disagree with ‘em, it’s always a good thing when people who say they love San Francisco live there.
• Editing your own writing is like having a room full of fun house mirrors inserted into your brain.
• It’s maddening that folks can tweet their Google Wave experience before I’m “invited” to try it. Large, limited releases stink.
• It ought to be illegal for an urologist to invite you to dinner right after he tells you he is an urologist.