Saturday, March 06, 2010
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links to this postMonday, February 22, 2010
Sometimes I think of random stuff like - "I wonder how much it would cost me to have custom magic 8-balls made with my own messages?" Today's thought was - "I wonder how much it could cost me to put up a billboard for fun."
Click the link for what I found.
Mobile Billboards
Flexibility is the main advantage of this unique “mobile billboard.” This product can be used to achieve market saturation, or be skewed to reach a specific demographic target.
Cost
Avg. $1,000 a day.
Market, travel time, # of days influence pricing
Production: Avg. $600-$800
My initial reaction is who would pay $1k/day for a mobile bi...llboard when you can get a big one for $1,500-5k a month??!! Yeah, it rolls around but still... do you get 6x-15x the exposure vs a immobile one??
BTW - for the magic 8-balls, there's a minimum order of 500 and the total is $6k. Honestly, cheaper than I thought and if you end up getting one for Christmas, try to act surprised.
Click the link for what I found.
Mobile Billboards
Flexibility is the main advantage of this unique “mobile billboard.” This product can be used to achieve market saturation, or be skewed to reach a specific demographic target.
Cost
Avg. $1,000 a day.
Market, travel time, # of days influence pricing
Production: Avg. $600-$800
My initial reaction is who would pay $1k/day for a mobile bi...llboard when you can get a big one for $1,500-5k a month??!! Yeah, it rolls around but still... do you get 6x-15x the exposure vs a immobile one??
BTW - for the magic 8-balls, there's a minimum order of 500 and the total is $6k. Honestly, cheaper than I thought and if you end up getting one for Christmas, try to act surprised.
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links to this postSaturday, October 17, 2009
I just wrote this e-mail to a friend because he asked me about buying TVs. Since I already put in the time to write it out, I thought I'd share it here...
Before I tell you about the newest TVs, I should tell you about popcorn hour...
popcornhour.com
I have the Popcorn Hour A-110 and it lets me play whatever video files I've LEGALLY *grin* downloaded on my TV via HDMI. It's great.
OK - TV talk time - Between plasma and LCD, I'd buy an LCD TV. In fact, there is a new type of LCD TV on the market that uses LED lights to light up the panel which allow them to be a lot thinner, lighter, and run a lot cooler than your traditional LCD TV. A few of the large manufacturers of TVs are starting to produce them and surprisingly, they're not that much more expensive.
Keep in mind that with Black Friday coming up there will be A LOT of deals on TVs. If you decide to get a traditional LCD TV, you could probably get a 50+ for the same budget at a Black Friday sale.
Here's a link to the LED-lit LCD TVs from Best Buy.
I bought my last TV from Costco before they changed their return policy on TV sets. Once mine burns out, I'm sure they'll have some REALLY cool TVs there for the same $1800 I spent on mine. BUT - if I were in the market for a TV, I'd totally get one of the LED-lit LCD TVs because I dig how thin they are (less than an inch thick), they don't put off a lot of heat (I can walk by my Vizio LCD TV and feel the warmth, and they're REALLY light weight (like - you don't have to worry about the TV falling off the wall).
As far as features are concerned, 240hz, computer input, 1080p, as many HDMI plug-ins as possible - this is the usual group of good features that come with most of the nicer TVs.
Hope that helps man.
Clifford
Before I tell you about the newest TVs, I should tell you about popcorn hour...
popcornhour.com
I have the Popcorn Hour A-110 and it lets me play whatever video files I've LEGALLY *grin* downloaded on my TV via HDMI. It's great.
OK - TV talk time - Between plasma and LCD, I'd buy an LCD TV. In fact, there is a new type of LCD TV on the market that uses LED lights to light up the panel which allow them to be a lot thinner, lighter, and run a lot cooler than your traditional LCD TV. A few of the large manufacturers of TVs are starting to produce them and surprisingly, they're not that much more expensive.
Keep in mind that with Black Friday coming up there will be A LOT of deals on TVs. If you decide to get a traditional LCD TV, you could probably get a 50+ for the same budget at a Black Friday sale.
Here's a link to the LED-lit LCD TVs from Best Buy.
I bought my last TV from Costco before they changed their return policy on TV sets. Once mine burns out, I'm sure they'll have some REALLY cool TVs there for the same $1800 I spent on mine. BUT - if I were in the market for a TV, I'd totally get one of the LED-lit LCD TVs because I dig how thin they are (less than an inch thick), they don't put off a lot of heat (I can walk by my Vizio LCD TV and feel the warmth, and they're REALLY light weight (like - you don't have to worry about the TV falling off the wall).
As far as features are concerned, 240hz, computer input, 1080p, as many HDMI plug-ins as possible - this is the usual group of good features that come with most of the nicer TVs.
Hope that helps man.
Clifford
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links to this postSunday, March 22, 2009
A bachelor's guide to making PERFECTLY cooked salmon in 8 minutes.
Ingredients: salmon fillet, "i can't believe it's not butter" spray, seasoned salt, rice, and foil.
1) Start cooking some rice in your rice cooker. While it's cooking, go out and pick up some salmon fillets from the butcher.
2) Take your salmon and spread it out on your tin foil with the scales facing down.
3) Spray the "i can't believe it's not butter" (the low fat version works well) all over meat side of the fish.
Do not spray the "I can't believe it's not butter" on the skin/scale side of the fish. It needs to stick to the foil.
4) Evenly sprinkle your seasoned salt over the fish.
5) Fold the tin foil over the fish like you're making a salmon taco with your tin foil and carefully put it on your George Foreman grill so the open side is facing uphill to prevent the juices from draining off your tinfoil. Don't have a George Foreman grill? Go out and get one silly, what kinda bachelor pad are you running over there w/o one?
6) Let the fillet cook from the bottom up and check back on it after 5-6 minutes. You can take a fork and peek at the fillet to see if it has cooked all the way through.
7) Once the fish is done, just pull the tin foil off the grill and put the whole thing onto a plate.
DO NOT REMOVE THE SALMON FILLET FROM THE TIN FOIL
8) Add more seasoned salt if needed.
9) Gently break away chunks of salmon from the tin foil while the skin sticks to the foil. If you've cooked it right, the salmon will easily lift off the skin. Once you're done, the tin foil can be easily folded up and thrown away ensuring an easy clean up process.
:)
Clifford
Ingredients: salmon fillet, "i can't believe it's not butter" spray, seasoned salt, rice, and foil.
1) Start cooking some rice in your rice cooker. While it's cooking, go out and pick up some salmon fillets from the butcher.
2) Take your salmon and spread it out on your tin foil with the scales facing down.
3) Spray the "i can't believe it's not butter" (the low fat version works well) all over meat side of the fish.
Do not spray the "I can't believe it's not butter" on the skin/scale side of the fish. It needs to stick to the foil.
4) Evenly sprinkle your seasoned salt over the fish.
5) Fold the tin foil over the fish like you're making a salmon taco with your tin foil and carefully put it on your George Foreman grill so the open side is facing uphill to prevent the juices from draining off your tinfoil. Don't have a George Foreman grill? Go out and get one silly, what kinda bachelor pad are you running over there w/o one?
6) Let the fillet cook from the bottom up and check back on it after 5-6 minutes. You can take a fork and peek at the fillet to see if it has cooked all the way through.
7) Once the fish is done, just pull the tin foil off the grill and put the whole thing onto a plate.
DO NOT REMOVE THE SALMON FILLET FROM THE TIN FOIL
8) Add more seasoned salt if needed.
9) Gently break away chunks of salmon from the tin foil while the skin sticks to the foil. If you've cooked it right, the salmon will easily lift off the skin. Once you're done, the tin foil can be easily folded up and thrown away ensuring an easy clean up process.
:)
Clifford
