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The Coney Island pizza post reminded me of a commercial for American Express or something like that from many years ago when they were doing lots of commercials featuring people who ran businesses. One of them had the dudes who started California Pizza Kitchen. One of the guys was so obnoxiously smug, thinking he was so creative when he asked, "Why not put chicken on a pizza?"

But it's also sad to realize that, at the time, they were probably one of the first places to think of putting interesting things on pizza.

This is a much better time to be alive.

I am now reminded of the best one-sentence failure I can ever remember. A guy was being sued by Apple for leaking a copy of an unreleased Mac OS and gave an interview telling his side of the story. The first question was typical, "Tell us a bit about yourself."

"I'll try, but I don't want to sound too...pompous."

Wow. Yeah, already failed there. If you can't even think about yourself without worrying that you'll come across as pompous, you totally are.

By the way, I tried to find this interview, but a search for "apple lawsuit pompous" returns 4,060 results.

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This is cute, but it's sad to think that they either don't know how to spell "voila" or think that most people who see it won't know how to.

Reminds me of a time when a copywriter in my office wanted to do an ad ending with "Capisce?" He figured that everyone knows what that means when they hear it, but few people would recognize the spelling. He was leaning toward spelling it "kapeesh" instead. I successfully leaned him away from using it altogether.

I'm reminded of lots of things tonight. And lately. I should think of a clever acronym to use. No, no I shouldn't. I should lay back down instead.

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Dear sillyape, sorry I missed your call. However, you leave the best voice mails ever, so I'm kinda glad I did.

Technology is wonderful

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Last time I was here the ticket kiosk was broken so I had to stand in line behind abot 200 people. It works today, so I walked up, swiped my card, and had my ticket printed in less than a minute. Now they just need to automate seat assignments and customs so I can get all the way to Canada without talking to anyone.