Blueberry pancakes with grade B maple syrup.. the tiny blueberries from Trader Joe’s and grade B from Coomb farms in Brattleboro via Rainbow
Went to the Holiday Gifty Art Sale at the Crucible.
Went sailing with Dan Goldwater and friends. From Berkeley, around Alcatraz and back! Wonderful. Sea water, sails, good conversation, propane powered potato gun, “hey, it’s getting dark, we should turn on the running lights.” “Well, yeah, we ‘should'”. (what do you want, it’s a free boat?)
Had a great dinner with RICK and Charlotte at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland.
And our evening ended with a bang when we watched a pickup truck in Oakland drive too fast around a turn in front of us roll over. We pulled over, expecting to have to call an ambulance but the kids inside were scared or whatnot and they put the truck back in gear and drove off as fast as they could
Thanks are due to Scott Beale for posting about the Flaming Lotus Girls Calendar. I’ve been promoting it quite a bit in the last few days. In the image, you can see on the right side that I spent $105 for a 1 week all-text ad on LaughingSquid. Click-thrus seem to be good. I also bought some Google Ad-words.
And being the consummate huckster, you can still get -your- FLG Fire Arts Calendar before Christmas. Just go to flaminglotus.com/calendar.
Charlotte was interviewed by a live internet television show called Church of the Perpetual Party when we were at the Fire Arts Festival in July. Here’s the entire show.
Interesting bits:
Gaspo’s Chakratron at 7:20
Dance Dance Immolation at 15:20
interview with Charlotte and Serpent Mother footage at 23:00
It might take a while for the whole 50mb show to stream onto your computer.
Here are a couple sites that will let you download videos from YouTube to your computer. YouTube is great and all but it won’t be around forever. So that video your best friend posted of his cat playing piano…. eventually it will get lost on the interweb unless you snag it!
To download videos from other sources, like something that would normally only play in a protected stream to Windows Media Player, use Replay A/V from Applian Technologies.
I ended my job at Valley Yellow Pages a week ago. TJIC wrote to me about it and I responded…
>Did the yellow pages not end up paying that much?
Not so well. One of the clinchers happened a couple weeks ago… There was an office-wide meeting. The boss, Jesse had a bunch of numbers on the board. The first ones looked like this:
171k 91k 84k 70k 54k 53k 52k 50k… He had 13 numbers on the board in all, the last one was 40k. He told us, “I won’t say who each person is, but these are the earnings of each person in the office. Look how well you can do! I want you to do like this [pointing near the 91k] and not like this [pointing to the clump around 45k]. As he kept speaking about how much money we could make, I thought about the numbers…. 171k, That’s Tambri. She’s a Yellow Pages MACHINE. Her son had a broken arm a month ago and she told us how she was in the Emergency Room going over her Leads waiting for the bone to be set. 91k, that would be Jackie. No one knows how he gets so many contracts. No one. It’s actually a tiny bit suspicious. But hey, he’s doing well for himself.
And then there’s the rest of the pack… rather, I should say, the rest of the bell curve. You see, there are 30 salesmen in the office. First, Tambri and Jackie are the outliers. From a few seconds of mental calculations, it looked like the midpoint was about $38k. So the AVERAGE salesman in the office makes $38,000. The meeting wouldn’t have been quite so upbeat if the boss had shown the other side of the curve.
So to answer your question, no, Yellow Pages doesn’t pay that much.
