gonna fly now

I was driving into work today, enjoying my free trial of XM Radio, when I decided to check out channel 7 - Hits from the 70s. Bill Conti's "Gonna Fly Now" came on. You might remember this song from the movie Rocky. It got me so pumped up I could not wait to get into the office.

This week has been the toughest on record. As of last night I worked 43 hours and Thursday and Friday are still to come. The sheer amount of work is down-right daunting. So many things to QA; pages to re-write, processes to re-do, banners to approve, bugs to log, bugs to fix . . . the list goes on and on!

The good news is that the site is really coming together. Everyone we show the site to get really excited by the concept. The redesign was well-worth it.

data entry

Its about 9:00PM and I have already worked a 13 hour day. The office is calm and dark, most employees having gone home hours ago. The cleaning crew has come and gone. An editor and I are grooving to some progressive trance and entering content into the database. This type of data entry is mind-numbing. Fortunately, we're both in a hypnotic state: exhausted but determind to make progress tonight.

We are about 10% of the way to our goal and we have 10 days left before launch! Next week we'll have a team of temps coming in to help out and we just might make our deadline.

burger-thon 2005

Newest Gut Bomb in Burger Wars Is Audacity on a Bun

Some guys from the office were talking about food today and they mentioned the new 2/3 pound burger on sale at Hardees. I told them I could eat one and no one believed me. Since they don't have Hardees in Socal we decided to go to Carl's Jr. instead.

One day in the not too distant future I will have my second encounter with the double $6 burger.

ad-verbs

Most people know that I like making up words. One of my favorite category of new words is "ad-verb".

ad-verb - The use of a company's name, product or service as a verb. Use indicates the ubiquity of the product or service and is a form of advertising.

Examples:

Xerox this presentation and make twelve copies.
Sarah Fedexed the contract to me yesterday.
I worked late so I decided to TiVo it.
When I look for something online I usually just Google it.

A while ago TiVo got flamed for sending letters to newspapers asking them not to use TiVo as an ad-verb. What a bunch of dummies! Most companies would kill to be ad-verbed.