Friday, September 23, 2011

Nomad soul feed


I know it's just another ad for another commercial product and it's foolish to so enamoured by it. But come on, it's a car after all and sometimes you feel that an ad has been tapped right out of your nomad soul. So without much further ado, here's the transcript from an ad I saw and was simply blown away.
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"People don't make a list of websites they wanna see before they die...
They don't fill photo albums with pictures from an online search...
'Like being there' is not like 'being there'...
It's OK... the Internet will be just fine without you...
That's why we built the Dodge Journey...
Your search engine for the World Wide World."
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PS: Not the exact same ad that I saw on the sportsgoods store's TV but almost the same till about 0:45 into the video
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Guarantee



Wonderful job, NASA! So you send this 6.5 ton satellite up into the sky, let it hang around in the atmosphere for 20 odd years and then just let it drop back onto the earth but can't say exactly where? Then to calm our nerves they say that a satellite of this size crashes onto earth at least once a year so it is really no big deal. 
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No big deal indeed that even after burning up most of its bulk, the largest piece of the debris might still weigh 155 kilograms. 155 kilograms! Of flaming hot metal at a blazing speed with a 1 in 3200 chance of hitting a human!
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So much for planning life out. Plan your studies, plan your career, plan your savings, plan your future and then one random day a man made piece of junk from the depths of space might reduce all that planning to zilch or at least 160 pounds of human barbecue.
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No, this is not a call to abandon all focus in life on realizing that at the end of the day it is so spectacularly random. This is only a reminder that there is never a guarantee on how things will turn out. All we need to do is hang on for the ride, as long as it may last.
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