Best Ad Campaign of 2009 (updated)

Posted on June 16th, 2009 in General by Scott Jones

Well, guess I should have known better than to try calling this in March.  ‘Cause here it is less than three months later and JetBlue has already — much to my surprise — been topped.  The winner?  The Toyota Prius “Harmony” commercial, embedded below.  Some of the most amazing and artful visuals ever put to motion pictures!  And perfect audio with the Petra Haden version of “Let Your Love Flow”.  I Hope my neighbors the Bellamy Brothers got a good deal on the use of their song (they’re from just up the highway, Dade City, FL).

ADMORT, Where Are You?

Posted on May 21st, 2009 in General by Scott Jones

One way or another, I can find just about anyone on the Internet.  It’s one of the things I love most about it — every relative, friend, neighbor, coworker, girlfriend, whoever, from any phase of my life, probably has some sort of Internet footprint that can be found.  (Long-dead ancestors too, for that matter!)  Usually, it’s as simple as a Google search.  Sometimes it takes more work.  But as long as the person is still alive, they can probably be located and contacted on the Internet.

Probably.  But not always.  There are a handful of people, a couple of them very important to me, that I’ve never been able to track down.  Since I’ve tried almost everything else, I’m going to try posting here about my two main missing friends that I’ve a) lost contact with and b) cannot for the life of me find current info for online.

Dinner With John Dvorak

Posted on May 11th, 2009 in General by Scott Jones

I wrote this up recently because someone asked, and I feel the need to share.  Since I no longer work for Altiris or Symantec, and despite the risk of creating a karmic debt, I’m gonna go ahead and do something I don’t usually do — publicly speak ill (albeit factually) of someone in the industry.  I figure the risk is low; it’s unlikely that John Dvorak will ever be the key to getting a job I want, and if he gives one of my products a poor review, that would likely only help sales.  So here you go…

Southern Mustang Recipe

Posted on May 3rd, 2009 in General by Scott Jones

The “Mustang” is a drink I developed in the early nineties in Gainesville, Florida.  It was inspired by the fantastic blend of Jack Daniels and Cherry Coke that my college roommate Beth had introduced me to in 1985.  I wanted to perfect that, so took it just a little further.  The name comes from my love of the Ford Mustang (I drove a black ‘90 GT convertible at the time the drink was conceived).  “Southern” was added to the name later, to distinguish it from the unrelated Fiery Blue Mustang.

Please Help :: Good Home Needed for Good Cat, In/Near Florida!

Posted on April 23rd, 2009 in General by Scott Jones

My ex-wife (Elizabeth) has a cat… a white Siamese named “John”. He’s meant to be an outside cat, but considering the wild animal population where they live now, letting him out there isn’t safe. He’s not doing well inside — poor guy has become neurotic and keeps looking at the wall, nervous all the time and peeing where he shouldn’t. I was planning to take him when I move into my own place up there, but since I’ll likely have an apartment, the situation won’t be much different.

Jimmy Page Eyes

Posted on April 8th, 2009 in Music by Scott Jones

This story is one of the first things I ever posted publicly on the Internet. Way back in maybe 1995 or ‘96 (maybe even ‘94, I dunno for sure), I tried one of those “Ten Gazillion Hours Free!” disks from AOL. C’mon, admit it — didn’t we all do it at least once back in those days? Well, the only thing I found on AOL that was remotely interesting to me was the Led Zeppelin discussion board. It was there that I posted this true story from 1989. It appears that the content of those boards has not been preserved anywhere online, so I’m going to tell the story again here.

Libertarian Hotties

Posted on April 6th, 2009 in Computers & Technology, Politics by Scott Jones

Now this is hot:

Libertarian Hotties

Come on, Baby, bite my (Cat 5) wire!

A Navy memory…

Posted on March 21st, 2009 in General, Politics by Scott Jones

I left this comment in the HMS Broadsword guestbook: http://pub47.bravenet.com/guestbook/4010309441. Any Reeves sailors reading this who worked in CIC or the radio room and remember what I’m talking about? :) Yes, sailors who’ve been at sea for months get a little weird:

F*** Tennessee! (and the horse it rode in on!)

Posted on March 18th, 2009 in General by Scott Jones

My comment on this Gainesville Sun column has been deleted. Perhaps I was too explicit… Here it is, for the record:

“As a 42-yr-old who started at UF in 1984, I’m amazed that anyone could doubt the rivalry status of this game! ‘No hate, no history, no rivalry’ my A–! Pat nailed it when he said, ‘definitely blame it on Tennessee’s administration for pushing to strip Florida of its first SEC title following the 1984 season.’ Your sidebar summary of the ‘85 UF-UT game failed to mention how many Tennessee players were carried off the field that day with injuries. That game was perhaps the greatest physical manifestation of hatred ever on a college football field.

Is Tux moonlighting? Or did he get laid off?

Posted on March 10th, 2009 in Computers & Technology, General by Scott Jones

So this evening I’m driving by a convenience store in Gainesville, Florida, when my daughter Guinevere (now 6 yrs. old) suddenly blurts out, “Hey! That store has a Novell penguin!” I figured it was just some picture of a penguin that maybe kinda looked like the Novell Tux that used to sit on my desk. (Example here; not my daughter, but a great photo.)

We love penguins (who doesn’t?) — especially Linux penguins — so I backed up to investigate. My jaw dropped. It was Tux! Not just sorta-kinda Tux, but the real, official Larry Ewing-drawn Tux, faithfully reproduced — four times! — in roughly 2.5 foot treatments on the walls above the beverage coolers and “Beer Cave”.