Loyalty

This iPad drawing in Fifty Three Paper from a couple of months ago was animated by a fascination I’ve had with the notion of loyalty as the glue that bonds followers or subscribers to both a.) whatever and/or whoever they hold dear as well as b.) their like-minded, fellow followers. Who better than the Koch brothers using Elmer’s Glue with their own bare hands to assemble their followers, I thought, to illustrate this? When the unidimensional adhesive cures, you’ve got yourself something like solidarity, an exclusive affinity group, a virtual gated community of sorts; it’s the basis of culture without all the messy pluralism and diversity.

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Excel Format Prison Cell Wrap Text

What more can I say? Depends upon how you look at texts.

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How’s my driving?

If you’re a truck driver, you may want to go to an archived post here in portfoliolongoland. Never mind, stay and make yourself at home. You must get this all the time from amateur car drivers like me who have the audacity to use your highways and are crazy enough to complain about your professional conduct at work. Now I’ve thought about calling the one-eight number, but frankly, I’m afraid the dispatcher would contact you and your buddies by Citizen Band radio and have me and my vehicle completely flattened.

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Ed Takes Action Regarding Target’s 5th Tip

Dear Target Guest,

In light of the recent intrusion into our information systems, we recommend the following tips to guard against possible scams in the future:

  1. Never share information with anyone over the phone, email or text, even if they claim to be someone you know or do business with. Instead, ask for a call-back number.
  2. Delete texts immediately from numbers or names you don’t recognize.
  3. Be wary of emails that ask for money or send you to suspicious websites.
  4. Don’t click links within emails you don’t recognize.
  5. If there is an unauthorized surveillance camera in your bathroom, paint over the lens to protect your privacy. (Note: Use the attached 10% discount coupon to purchase 1 can of black paint for this project. Offer expires April 23, 2014.)

Thank you for your patience and loyalty to Target.

G. Steinhafel

Chairman, President and CEO
PS On December 19, 2013 the retailer (Target) said that as many as 40 million credit card and debit card accounts may have been compromised during Black Friday weekend through December 15, and that information stolen included customer names, credit or debit card number, the card’s expiration date and CVV (card verification value). Now, in an update on the hacking investigation, Target said that an additional 70 million people were affected, and the stolen customer information includes names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. Target said that much of this data is “partial in nature,” but it will nonetheless provide one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to all guests who shopped at its U.S. stores.
Source:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2014/01/10/target-data-breach-spilled-info-on-as-many-as-70-million-customers/

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Big Move Anxiety

It’s not the 1,824 miles, the 28 + hour drive, the movers, all our stuff, getting the certified houseplants in, the change of address forms, the new time zone, the goodbyes, the new networks, etc.; it’s the thought of those LIGHT SWITCHES AND THEIR PLACEMENT that’s keeping me up.

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By the way, this photo-trickery was done in PowerPoint … as if that were related to another previous post.

Hair Conditioner for Offensive Lineman

Every team has at least one. Football players with long, flowing hair, hair, by the way, with special needs, especially on offense! Now, you can be the one. You and your hair can run with the ball just like the pros. Game on!

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South Side DSM

Our 7th floor king size bed, South Side facing, morning view shed…
Our days are numbered.

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Soft-Serve CFLs

General Electric and Dairy Queen have partnered in the development of FluoroFlo® technology to deliver soft-serve CFLs that are lower in milk-fat (3% to 6%) than the old-fashioned incandescent varieties (10% to 18%).

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Illumination and Nocturnal Emission

Incandescence is a hot subject these days, especially in light of how cool fluorescence is becoming in some circles. When this occurred to me last night, a light bulb went off, and I realized something was different but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

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Just Another Night … Take My Wife-Please

Why didn’t I think of this in the first place?
(Here’s what I mean by “the first place.” I did this same drawing in another post entitled Stand-Up Anthropology with a different twist and corresponding word bubble roughly related to the old comedic phrase, take my wife. As I was doing that post, it occurred to me that it might be even more anthropologically relevant and perhaps funnier, per se, for a female comedian to utter that old line in a regular comedy-club setting.)

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