Advogato blog for dsAdvogato blog for ds12 Mar 2004- March 12, 2004 For those who have not been exposed to the clever marketing strategery behind Girl Scout Cookies, it basically goes like this: About this time every year, thousands of young girls sell boxes of cookies on heavily-trafficked street corners for fundraising. The cookies are only moderately tasty. The girls are of course much too young to be interesting to even a dirty old man such as myself (although they are often accompanied by mothers who are). The trick is that the cookies only have...http://www.advogato.org/person/ds/diary.html?start=13 1 Mar 2004- March 1, 2004 I need encouragement to work on a bunch of various projects. People tell me that liboil is cool and that everyone should use it. I'd like to pretend it's not vaporware, but realistically, it is. I've got the oven; throw some mud my way, and I'll make bricks.http://www.advogato.org/person/ds/diary.html?start=12 |