Aging (no offense, Ed)

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Stimuli

1. The Thorny End of A Red Rose
2. A Sharp Stick in the Eye
3. Prunes
4. Starbucks
5. $Trillion
6. Reminder Emails from Sparkpeople.com
7. C₈ H₁₀ N₄ O₂
8. Tax Evasion
9. Nancy Pelosi – She’s got the whole package working for her
10. A Soft Touch
11. Protein [?]
12. Barb
13. Mountain Dew
14. 24 Hours to Live. WWYD
15. Blatant Threats
16. A Good Goad
17. Global Cooling
18. Global Warming
19. All Your Friends are Doing It
20. Aging (no offense, Ed)

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Avoid depression. :)

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Things You Could Do With $700 Billion

1. Buy a house of cards
2. Socialize a bit more
3. Avoid depression. :)
4. Buy a better bowling ball
5. Impress the ladies
6. Look to AIG for alternative answers and assurances
7. Y’ought to be able to buy a yacht for that;
   join the U.S. CEO Flotilla
8. Not solve the financial crisis
9. Buy buckets and barrels of French wine!
10. Fund golden parachutes, Wall Street style
    (10.5: Give everyone in the U.S. $2,300)
11. Purchase the means to produce more, consume less.
12. America
13. 700 trillion pieces of Bazooka Joe (I think)
14. 1.4 trillion McDonald’s Apple Pies
    (of course on sale buy 1 get 1 free)
15. Fund AIG executive retreat
16. Pay off 1/1000 of U.S. debt to China
17. Buy a decent-sized island; launch America 2.0
18. Provide alternative energy sources to entire U.S.
19. (buy) Houses for people to live in
20. Live like a Buffett – Buy Iceland

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My thoughts
(Hey, inflation is affecting everything)

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Things You Can Buy for ¢.50

1. 40 minutes of parking downtown
2. ½ a Redbox Rental
3. Movie tickets circa the Cambrian period
4. ½ an iTune
5. Not one, but two, bear claws
6. 1/8 of a gallon of gasoline
7. 50 pennies on the open market
8. Today’s newspaper
9. 1.2 inches of a Subway® footlong (upgrade now to new 16.5)
10. 2 bits
11. My thoughts (Hey, inflation is affecting everything)
12. Some orbit gum for his dirty mouth?
13. 50 rides on the pink pony at Meijer
14. 2 ½ text messages once you’re over your limit
15. 2 bags of Top Ramen
16. Large, spirally-delivered gumball
17. A new moral compass
18. A bling diamond ring
19. Shave and a haircut
20. This board – finish it and I’ll give you $.50

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Because we believe we can add value
for users and, at the same time, help drive innovation on the web.

-Google on their new browser, Chrome

Open Source

Google launches Chrome, its open source web browser, today. News of the release, initially leaked in comic book form then later confirmed on The Official Google Blog, has the Internet abuzz with talk about the demise of Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Chrome is a natural addition—an integrated mechanism to deliver the search giant’s extensive suite of free, albeit ad-driven tools and services.

Open Season

Chrome bolsters Google’s efforts to prevent Microsoft from leveraging Internet Explorer to wrest Google’s position in the search market space.

But whether users adopt Google’s latest development en masse, or not, marketers in every sector will benefit from a viable communication partner offering an integrated delivery vehicle.

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Give it to Freddie or Fannie.

Our latest list of inane musings from the Brainstorm office white board:

Top 20 Uses for a Tax Stimulus Check

1. Lottery tickets (21st century retirement plan)
2. Buy a heart monitor
3. Fund my HSA
4. Take an IRS agent to lunch – figure out what they find stimulating
5. Fund the office snack bar for a year
6. Pay back-taxes
7. Buy a discount Halloween costume, scare someone, see what happens
8. Travel to the south of France
9. Fill up an H2 gas tank
10. Have Village Health tap my knee at 3am one night
11. Give it to Freddie or Fannie
12. Fund a tax deductible 529 College Fund
13. Buy magic beans
14. Buy something. Anything.
15. Buy stalk in magic bean commodities
16. Pay ½ my re-revised property taxes
17. Buy a Kobe Cowboy Burger
18. Invest in Enron
19. Donate to the Westcott House
20. Replace a burned out $1200 clutch. Ugh. (< —That’s an expensive purse!)

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