quirky

Here’s something quirky that happened at a sales kick-off event I was recently at. I’d witnessed this kind of thing before a couple of times, but had completely forgotten about it. And how good it is. You can imagine the stage. The first post-lunch (and by the way,

So, today is Friday [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2001/jul/13/netnotes.derekbrown] the Thirteenth. It’s how I learned about the bizarre word which is the title of this blog. It means the fear of the number 13. I came across it when one broadsheet pondered [http:

Organised religion. I share the bulk of my compatriot’s Dawkinsian outlook on these things. Yet each to their own. Except, it seems, when that ‘own’ is Scientology. The press have fallen over themselves to lambast these guys in the wake of the TomKat split. Even locals in Bali talked

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/07/bank-boiler-room-warning-letter.jpg]Here’s a letter someone I know recently received from their bank. A huge global finance institution. And therefore one to be hated by just about everyone for their greed, deceit and arrogance. So, boiler room outfits are evil, unscrupulous

I hate Nike. I can’t believe I have just spent $500 on their kit. I shall never again be buying their rubbish. Nike sucks. They own Cole Haan. I recently went into their Columbus Circle store in Midtown New York. I left with two pairs of shoes that will

I’ve mentioned before that being in faraway timezones provides unexpected radio listening opportunities, such as listening to Dr Karl. On this occasion, when trying to fathom how salmon swam up the over-polluted and brine-heavy River Tyne, he told one of his favourite jokes. When Einstein got to Heaven, he

Bankers. Is there any profession out there more hated right now by Joe Public? Even the Governor of the Bank of England thinks they’re a disgrace [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/sir-mervyn-king-attacks-banks-amid-new-scandal-7899256.html] . Perhaps it’s time he did something about it, rather than talk. Not

The one strange benefit of being in different time zones is listening to middle-of-the-night radio in the daytime. This led me to the pleasure that was hearing Dr Karl [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kruszelnicki]. So, here’s the kind of item he illuminates. The Voyager spacecrafts. Launched in the

I had a thoroughly enjoyable supper on Polk in downtown San Francisco Saturday evening. One dining companion had a fascinating backstory. From fleeing Burma at the time of an authoritarian crackdown when 14 to living in Japan for over a decade, he certainly was one American who thankfully knows about

[https://salespodder.com/content/images/wordpress/2012/06/sf-sammys-gourmet-deli.jpg]America, o America. Or as a presidential candidate’s new app released last week called it, Amercia. It’s been a while since last in San Francisco, but boy, have things changed. The omnipresent poverty on every street corner is