2009-04-07

Toyota production in a nutshell: 

Before doing, declare your procedure; do it; refine it. Have a work-flow model; use it strictly; refine it. 

2008-11-01 Zazzle is live:

The store.

2008-10-25 Christmas stuff in stores already...

The season is upon us!  It's true!  The stores stocked Xmas stuff on 10/1!  Pretty soon we'll be having Labor Day Xmas promotions: "Come get 20% off at our back-to-school Christmas sale!"  Anyway, the beauty of teh internets is that one can ask Santa for things all year long and then automatically execute a XLCH (Xmas List Clearing House) transfer to the North Pole, a few months before Christmas.   That way Santa can get his final inventory ordered from the toy factories he outsourced to China in time for Fedex (hereafter "Blue/Green and White Santa"), UPS (hereafter "Brown Santa") and USPS (hereafter "Holiday Asset Procurement Processing for Yuletide Xfers, Management, And Services") to deliver your requested items by midnight on the night of the December 24th.  On receipt, Santa's business intelligence software evaluates your Item Request Manifest against your TSA Threat Assessment Index (TM), 2007 AGI, state car insurance score, Stop and Shop card purchase history, Google search history, and credit rating to
determine gift eligibility.  If you have the correct "goodness"
profile, his application middleware forwards the list to the
lowest-bidding Indian data processing center for order execution.  If all goes well, and nothing gets lost in translation, you should get something for Xmas - even if it's only something with which to keep your house warm...  

UPDATE from our intrepid reporter, Todd Keck:

"You didn't hear???  Santa Clause couldn't get credit.  The operation's furloughed until the IMF gets back to him.  The dwarves are down in LA looking for temp work."

 -Adam

2007-09-12 A Limerick for our favorite N.E. bus line

The Fung Wa will get there right quick,
With driving techniques quite slick.
Like skiing the slalom,
With wheels on the bottom,
Use the bags in the seats if yer sick.

(c) Adam Keck 1997-2008