http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/ work inspired en-us Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:22:43 EST Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:22:43 EST http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Movable Type Commercial 4.25 60 http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/04/google_green.html Why is the staff at Google smarter than everyone else?Because their offices look like this? And this?Honestly, I wish I could name one executive at Google. I'm wondering if I asked anyone in my office (include the technologically advanced Jenn... Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:08:46 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/clone//11.2036 Tim Donnelly Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/04/april_foolin.html (I thought at least you'd like an image from the "Rens Faire", correct?)Maybe I'm mistaken but it seems to me in the 5 years since I've been doing an April Fool's version of our Client Newsletter, that a lot of... Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:42:37 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.2022 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/03/more_bathroom_humour.html Keisha is right, this is a strange place to put a No Soliciting sign....... Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:05:57 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.2000 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/03/3d_to_freak_your_friends_out.html The group who set out to do GE's Ecomagination site really took the wow factor to the next level.I mean this is insane - everyone I've shown this to has been blown away. The only problem I see with the... Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:23:50 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1992 Tim Donnelly Design Marketing Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/03/true_that.html I'm not a stats guy, but a couple years ago I was asked by my former company to find some interesting figures about the corporation, then create PowerPoint charts.I still think this is fairly compelling.Not long after this project I... Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:43:20 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1983 Tim Donnelly Career Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/03/faceoff_book.html True, Facebook just turned 5 in February. And it seems, just in the last 6 months, to have increased its users somewhere in the area of 5000%. Or maybe a bunch of the 35+ crowd just joined. All I know... Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:40:46 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1978 Tim Donnelly Comedy Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/02/tax_deductions_for_freelancers.html (Please note, I am not a Certified Tax Planner, nor do I play one on TV. And, as far as I can figure, neither is Thursday Bram, who wrote the article I'm linking. Please research any of these ideas before... Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:17:02 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1959 Tim Donnelly Career Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/02/from_the_why_didnt_i_think_of_that_files.html Good golly, The Snuggie Pub Crawl. Don't be sad, Los Angeles,over 484 people are signing up to do the crawl in our fair city, too. Just click here for details.Remember, you actually can crawl from bar to bar in a... Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:47:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1956 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/02/that_burgler_looks_like_uncle_ray.html More Valentine's Day gift ideas from the Costco grab bag.Just look at this outstanding gift. Your mother can display all the pictures of the grandkids on this 7" LCD wooden photo frame. Aw, remember that time at the beach? Wow,... Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:34:05 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1910 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/02/look_ma_i_can_stalk_my_friends_from_here.html (From Guest Blogger, Jenn Tran)If you're like me and have a colorful and interesting mix of friends (or co-workers for that matter), you too might often find yourself wondering where on earth they might be at any given moment...Let's... Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:25:20 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1898 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/01/all_i_really_need_to_know_i_learned_without_wifi.html You know there's so much to be learned when you're without WiFi for 7 days.One, that many friends no longer use phones to arrange evenings out (or if they do, it's to send an email to arrange it). Two, it's... Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:52:05 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1819 Tim Donnelly Networking Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/11/shiny_happy_people.html It's nice to have company, isn't it?Which is why we're WICKED PYSCHED to announce that our Boston office (which includes our HQ) was just named one of the "Top 100 Places to Work in Boston" by The Boston Globe!They're a... Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:41:02 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1733 Tim Donnelly Career Personal Blogging Recruiting Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/10/beware_of_aquenters_with_knives.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:57:56 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1712 Tim Donnelly Art Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/10/mmmm_its_war.html Maybe it's just because I read the LA Times Food Section every Wednesday that I've noticed this other, non-computer related, war going on.It started, it seemed, with a full page ad from Campbell's Select Harvest shown above, letting everyone know... Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:06:59 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1699 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Food and Drink Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/10/fight.html I'm man enough, my friend, to admit my wife KO'd me twice last night in Wii Boxing (perhaps, though, not man enough to let you know how our Wii Tennis match turned out).Maybe it's just that we're all under siege... Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:25:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1687 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Marketing Personal Blogging Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/10/praise_be.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:08:46 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1661 Tim Donnelly Career Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/10/current_time_current_temp.html I'm not lying... it's dang hot.Here's what my Mac widget is saying:... Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:16:07 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1650 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/09/lean_mean_and_green.html You know, it's all I can do to try to get people to be more "eco", "green", or choose your own environmental catchphrase, without appearing to be Hitler Youth and yelling at someone every time they throw out their Coke... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:41:36 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1643 Tim Donnelly Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/09/suggestive.html So, I spent all yesterday on jury duty downtown yesterday and learned quite a few things.One, be prepared for a lot of sitting around. Happily I brought my entire address book database with me and managed to clean up... Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:48:58 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1616 Tim Donnelly Design Marketing Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/08/in_case_you_wer.html Daphne, who used to work in the LA office with me has an excuse for missing these viral Dove Ads - she's in our Sydney, Australia office. But me, who sits at his computer all day in the second... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:23:26 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1536 Tim Donnelly Art Design Marketing Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/08/i_dont_think_i.html Reason #21: Giamela's Meatball Sub I used to eat at this place back when I worked at Sunset-Gower Studios in Hollywood. You'd never suspect that I lived, literally, 7 blocks from one. Probably because the last time I got... Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:43:53 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1522 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/08/i_am_woman_hear.html It's not often that I'm promoting things that don't work, but this one is fascinatingly out of whack. Jenn had sent me a link of a JavaScript script that supposedly can tell your gender by your browser URL history.... Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:14:38 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1520 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/08/word_of_the_day.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:22:57 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1516 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/07/101_unusual_thi.html As a Designer, Art Director, Creative Director, Project Manager, etc. that is. Not to push the Eco Point so far that I create backlash make people destroy the Earth just to spite me and my treehugging compatriots, I did... Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:45:32 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1507 Tim Donnelly Career Design Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/07/you_may_just_pe.html You know, some emails are too funny not to blog about. From a mutual friend, regarding a recent error on his credit card. R---, I just want to reconfirm our conversation. You will be receiving a credit of $585.70... Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:04:18 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1495 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/07/this_blog_is_no.html Really, we had every intention in the world to update this blog for you. But as the man said, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Hopefully you weren't visiting here every day hoping for some crucial piece... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:14:47 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1489 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/06/you_say_its_you.html It's hard to capture, either in pictures or in words, the feeling you get on your birthday day at Aquent. I'll let the camera tell part of the story: (I had to include the bunny in my rolling file.) I'm... Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:33:39 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1486 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/06/its_in_the_can.html (From guest Blogger, Jenn Tran): Dr. Fredric J. Baur, the genius that created the patent for the container for Pringles, passed away recently. As part of his last wishes, he wanted his remains to be buried in a Pringles... Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:26:29 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1470 Tim Donnelly Design Food and Drink Marketing Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/06/dont_drink_the.html As it may raise your cholesterol level and put you at risk for coronary heart disease. I like beef, but I find these cliffs disturbing in a bad-modern-art way, which is probably not the intention of the Beef: It's... Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:51:09 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1469 Tim Donnelly Art Food and Drink Marketing Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/best_and_worst.html Of Bike to Work Week (in case you weren't bored of hearing about it already). Best: Seeing my friend Edmond walking through Hancock Park and being able to join him for mile or so. Not the kind of nice surprise... Tue, 20 May 2008 18:48:26 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1454 Tim Donnelly Ecology Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/its_here.html Bike to Work Day? Success! A whopping 10% of the office biked in today. Woo hoo! Okay, okay, it was just Rebecca and I, but there are only 20 people on-site today, so there you go. Meri got as far... Thu, 15 May 2008 20:50:23 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1448 Tim Donnelly Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/me_not_me.html So, I'm on Day 3 of biking to work and I do not yet look like this. Which is good, because chains make me look fat. The thing I'd forgotten about biking to work? That everyone you meet in... Wed, 14 May 2008 19:46:29 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1443 Tim Donnelly Career Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/bungler_king.html I'm not exactly the Grammar Police here (just ask any of the Proofreaders who read my blog), but isn't "Gotta" slang for "Got to" (i.e., " She's Gotta Have It " and " Something's Gotta Give ")? So why is BK telling me, "Got to buck"? Tue, 13 May 2008 12:45:13 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1442 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/its_bike_this.html And bike that. It's Bike to Work Week, home of Bike to Work Day and Bike to Work Month. (Somewhere, I'm guessing, 2008 is Year of the Bike. Oh, yup. Here.) Once again I'm going to try to fulfill... Mon, 12 May 2008 14:36:19 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1441 Tim Donnelly Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/so_much_for_my_1.html I am so switching to Pepsi Ice Cucumber. Well, once they release it in America. (Special thanks to Rebecca who pointed this out!)... Tue, 06 May 2008 21:01:13 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1433 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/05/save_cinco_de_m.html Via the ubiquitous LA Taco Truck. In case you hadn't heard, the City of LA is cracking down on taco trucks. According to the LA Times an existing law requires trucks move every 30 minutes, but "because the fine... Mon, 05 May 2008 14:27:32 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1430 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Food and Drink Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/03/hard_to_believe.html But after a year (and almost a half) we finally have office signage. This may limit the number of people coming into our office and asking if we are RadarWorks. Or not.... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:43:58 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1388 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/03/lights_out_uhhu.html I spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out how they did all this only with flashlights. A 4-minute clip from Japan sent to me by my friend Paul of something called PIKA PIKA. Don't know who Bremen is, the... Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:47:06 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1366 Tim Donnelly Art Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/03/youll_never_get.html Has the world of online ratings spread too far? I can understand why someone would want to post and read reviews on Target's 11' King Canopy 1-Touch Patio Umbrella or Black Xhilaration Newsboy Hat, but not so much the... Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:45:34 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1360 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/never_have_i_be.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:50:24 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1352 Tim Donnelly Ecology Food and Drink Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/natural_mohawk.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:11:10 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1348 Tim Donnelly Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/go_bama_1.html Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:45:32 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1341 Tim Donnelly Networking Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/why_ask_y.html Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:33:03 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1337 Tim Donnelly Design Marketing Personal Blogging Sales Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/pretty_sketchy_1.html Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:05:45 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1334 Tim Donnelly Art Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/enjoy_life_eat.html If I wasn't so danged full from my greasy pizza lunch from Damiano's Mr. Pizza, I might find the time to go to one of the fancy restaurants joining in the fun that is dineLA Restaurant Week. Restaurant devotees... Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:58:10 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1327 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/make_the_time_1.html You may think you don't have time for this today, but you do. Instead of tuning into the repeat of Two and a Half Men, take 15 minutes to read Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail. Though you'll... Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:23:17 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1320 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs History Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/change_the_marg.html I once heard an interview with eco-celebrity Ed Begley, Jr. that he wasn't "green", he was just incredibly cheap. On that Saving-Money-And-End-Up-Being-Green front, Tamara Krinsky came up with this idea: Save Paper By Increasing Your Margins Really. Now, I'm just... Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:22:12 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1318 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/clean_up_on_ais_1.html Not normally into the blogging about celebrities mode, but those of you who don't live in Los Angeles may not be aware of the kind of stuff that goes on all too often here. This email from our own Charlotte... Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:59:33 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1314 Tim Donnelly Celebrities Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/apple_does_it_a.html Our new iMacs are here and, I may add, they are drop dead gorgeous. True, they are just a computer, but dang it all, a really beautifully designed one. They've been here a week and I'm still waiting for the... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:59:18 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1311 Tim Donnelly Design Marketing Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/you_say_you_wan.html I just spent the holidays back home in Nebraska with my family (and lived to tell about it) and I'd have to say that one of the unexpected pleasures was, weirdly, the Wii. Both my brother's and sister's families both... Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:47:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1306 Tim Donnelly Games Personal Blogging Sales Sports Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/how_did_it_happ.html You might not know it, seeing as how I work for a company dealing heavily with technology and write a blog, but I'm half Luddite. Yes, my family has no cable or satellite TV, still work off a paper... Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:21:33 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1303 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/12/up_close_and_pe.html Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:48:02 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1301 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/12/greenwashing_ga.html I've been passing by the new BP gas station on Olympic for about 6 months now and for the life of me I can't figure out what the company is doing. Here's a gas station who rents (or owns)... Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:56:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1286 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/11/greening_up_bla.html As green as some of us want to be, the hard fact is we're going to part with some cash for consumable gifts for others this holiday season. There's good news, though. Every year the blog Treehugger runs a... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:13:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1279 Tim Donnelly Books Charity Ecology Personal Blogging Sales Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/10/spooky_days_hav.html Happy Halloween, ya'll! Hope you have fun, however you celebrate.... We celebrated here by dressing up as Marshall Stallings, our Operations Manager (pictured, left). A few other things for you today: Tip of the video iceberg? Click here check out... Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:13:10 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1261 Tim Donnelly Design Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/10/blogging_in_the.html So even though I have no idea what an intarsia pattern is, I'm blogging ahead! Chronicle Books is holding a design contest that many of you Designers out there might find interesting. They're putting the finishing touches on their latest... Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:46:51 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1258 Tim Donnelly Art Books Design Personal Blogging Television http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/10/you_know_youre.html When your mother calls you at work. As mine just did. Everyone in the office is fine! Ryan was evacuated out of his house on Sunday (able to take nothing with him except his wife, two kids, and two dogs)... Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:28:29 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1256 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/10/lights_out_aha.html This is an interesting idea, to encourage energy conservation, a league of people is pushing for a Lights Out Night. It was started in Australia, witnessed and borrowed by a San Franciscan, now adopted by a Los Angeles group... Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:34:12 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1253 Tim Donnelly Ecology Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/10/stairwell_to_he.html Falling smack dab in the middle of Rocktober, Blender magazine names what it believes to be the 40 Worst Lyricists in Rock. Ever conscious of being hipper than thou, they've aimed their guns at Sting by naming him #1.... Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:50:40 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1246 Tim Donnelly Music Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/10/night_of_the_li.html Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:43:19 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1242 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Music Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/10/rocktober.html Like many Limited Liability Corporations, Aquent celebrates Rocktober. This means changing our hold music to our classic rock compilation, taking long rides in the company Camaro, and hosting rock-themed pot lucks in our kitchen (i.e., Chicken McNugents and Sympathy... Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:40:58 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1237 Tim Donnelly Career Food and Drink Music Personal Blogging Sports http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/09/its_a_logo_loco.html Look, we got a logo to go with our honor! If only it was in Aquent Orange I could make a vinyl poster and hang it over Marshall's desk. Oh well... You can check out the whole article on... Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:55:31 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1229 Tim Donnelly Career Job Posting Personal Blogging Recruiting http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/09/yes_but_what_pa.html Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:52:58 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1227 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Personal Blogging Science http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/09/million_dollar.html This is a picture taken a couple days ago from our Aquent office in Sydney... Yes, those are snipers. All a part of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) forum going on there. Here's a few of the local headlines: Apec’s... Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:24:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1212 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/hertz_so_good.html They talk about the power of the blog and I guess I just semi-proved that was true. A few days ago I was going on (and on and on and on) in a post about some of the companies I... Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:00:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1202 Tim Donnelly Cars Marketing Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/bathroom_humour.html Here's a first, the un-whoopee cushion: GasBGon Flatulence Filter The GasBGon flatulence filter seat cushion is a fun, yet serious solution to the embarrassing problem of malodorous gas (breaking wind). GasBGon seat cushions apply cutting edge carbon filter technology... Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:55:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1201 Tim Donnelly Ecology Food and Drink Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/downhill_grade.html I'm back! After a week of travel to Philly, the Jersey Shore, and points beyond, I am back to ringing phones, 300 emails telling me who in the office has just gone to lunch, and a cubical full of boxes... Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:28:30 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1197 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Personal Blogging Travel http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/not_so_thrilled.html Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:20:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1191 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/lets_take_it_fr.html Whenever we get together for our Back to School Training every year or so, there's a theme party at the end in which offices are encouraged to dress up. Previous year themes have been: Dress to Represent Your City. College... Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:29:56 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1187 Tim Donnelly Games Networking Personal Blogging Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/where_is_tim_to.html Tim is right here, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Boston, MA with 200 of his favorite colleagues! It's Aquent's annual group hug with half of the company participating in learning, eating, camaraderie, and the kind of silliness mixed with... Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:14:23 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1185 Tim Donnelly Career Food and Drink Networking Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/07/update_on_tims.html Many of you (who have good memories, read this blog, and are dying to know what I'm doing in my spare time since I don't watch television) may recall that I started the SharpBrains brain workout in late June.... Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:28:49 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1182 Tim Donnelly Games Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/07/fish_n_flush.html Good golly, I think I just found the new Aquent toilet. Be sure to watch the boring video long enough to see it in the dark. If only the tank was a little more orange, then I'd be sure to... Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:04:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1179 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/07/smells_like_fau.html People mark the beginning of summer in different ways. For some it's the first barbecue without wearing mittens and a hat. For others, it's the Summer Solstice. Still others wait for the cue from fashionistas to start wearing white shoes... Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:52:38 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1169 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/07/save_ferris_not.html I've been hearing quite a bit from my local NPR stations (KCRW mostly) about the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) bid to increase Internet radio's royalty burden, but this is the first I've seen Designers weighing in on the... Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:39:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1167 Tim Donnelly Music Personal Blogging Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/i_almost_forgot.html Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:48:34 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1164 Tim Donnelly Health and Fitness Personal Blogging Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/i_think_im_goin.html I'm no Photoshop pro, but I have no idea what's going on with this picture I found while searching an online catalog. Look carefully at the top half of this man, then his legs. I've kind of lost the will... Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:09:26 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1153 Tim Donnelly Art Design Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/been_awhile.html Busy days at Aquent Los Angeles, some productive, like the installation of the colossal magnetic white boards in the Conference Room (15 feet): And in the main meeting room (20 feet): And some not so productive, like Bart's birthday Desk... Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:50:50 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1139 Tim Donnelly Career Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/why_its_okay_to.html I hate the way bike helmets look. I hate the way they feel. But I probably would have suffered a massive head injury when a car pulled out in front of my bike and sent me flying in the street... Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:59:41 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1137 Tim Donnelly Ecology Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/besame_not_so_m.html You know what irritates me most irritated about Ticketmaster? (He says, recently purchasing tickets to Cesaria Evora using their system.) Not that they outrageously overcharge for tickets, I expect that, but that they hide their costs to the consumer. Consider... Thu, 31 May 2007 21:52:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1135 Tim Donnelly Marketing Music Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/feast_of_the_st.html A little something for your Memorial Day weekend... From the Committee to Consolidate American Holidays 2006 newsletter: As head of the Committee to Consolidate American Holidays, I would like to introduce you to the many benefits of adopting our revised... Fri, 25 May 2007 20:31:53 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1130 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/bike_to_work_da.html The winners: Natalie, Becky, Kerry (15 miles!), Andy, and I. Wait, WE'RE ALL WINNERS! (bwaa haaaa....)... Thu, 17 May 2007 15:57:54 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1122 Tim Donnelly Ecology Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/i_like_bike_my.html You know you may be a little deranged when you feel the compulsion to blog every day, even with all the fires burning around you (sometimes literally). It's a busy week, but I did want to let you know, I... Tue, 15 May 2007 20:30:13 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1118 Tim Donnelly Ecology Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/wham_bam_thank.html I've officially found the funniest Widget. Though it's not such a laughing matter that Houston has that most accident-prone light rail system in the world (almost 20 times the national average according to the ActionAmerica Web site), but creating a... Mon, 07 May 2007 20:22:18 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1109 Tim Donnelly Celebrities Current Affairs Personal Blogging Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/another_reason.html Two words: Meat Raffle Every Saturday at 2pm at the Hexagon Bar in Minneapolis. Bring your cooler just in case you win. (Thanks to Bart, whose brother will be appearing at the bar for some local live music. SXSW watch... Tue, 01 May 2007 20:52:03 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1103 Tim Donnelly Health and Fitness Personal Blogging Travel http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/back_seat_desig.html There are reasons I like to be in a room alone when I'm writing. One, the sound of the ever-ringing phone at Aquent is finally quieted. Two, I can talk to myself without anyone else in the room thinking I'm... Tue, 01 May 2007 12:25:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1102 Tim Donnelly Art Career Design Personal Blogging Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/air_your_dirty.html Legitimate Package Rip Off or Market Share Hogging? YOU DECIDE! A small organic plant food company, TerraCycle, is being sued by Scotts Miracle-Grow who claims the upstart's packaging too closely resembles its Miracle-Grow product line and that it is making... Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:16:51 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1100 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging Science Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/stopping_climat.html In the wake of Earth Day, I've been catching up with some recent articles, blogs, and podcasts on the subjects of climate change, carbon footprints, conservation, and the like. I just got done listening to Chris Goodall, author of How... Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:49:19 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1096 Tim Donnelly Current Affairs Ecology Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/look_before_you.html Even though we're heard a lot of talk about ethanol being a silver bullet for all our oil-bred woes (reliance on unstable countries for oil, rampant pollution), atmospheric chemist Mark Jacobson at Stanford University has been more than a little... Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:48:20 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1095 Tim Donnelly Cars Current Affairs Ecology Personal Blogging Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/beaten_but_not.html Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:36:17 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1093 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/now_thats_a_goo.html From NY Times. I guess this is how you can tell that you have a good post. Comments? (thanks to the folks at Speak Up!)... Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:34:09 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1088 Tim Donnelly Art Design Personal Blogging Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/brownie_points.html Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:57:20 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1081 Tim Donnelly Celebrities Design Food and Drink Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/little_dis_orga.html I was speaking with our new Account Director, Diana, this morning about getting organized around the office. She asked me about syncing cell phones with the office Now-Up-To-Date calendar, not realizing that I almost never use my cell phone except... Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:18:47 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1074 Tim Donnelly Career Design Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/its_going_to_be.html I hadn't heard about bait cars until I was listening to this story on NPR this morning. Police departments all over the US and Canada are placing wired, remote-controlled vehicles in theft hot spots, then are alerted the moment thieves... Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:52:33 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1072 Tim Donnelly Cars Current Affairs Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/i_wanna_be_like.html I miss my bike. I really do. For a year or so (during Daylight Saving Time) I could ride 4 miles from my son's school to Aquent every Friday . This was a switch up to dropping both my son... Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:59:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1064 Tim Donnelly Ecology Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/not_in_my_front.html Sometimes it doesn't pay to clean. I washed my front porch down with a hose on Saturday instead of sweeping it as I usually do and as I stepped back to admire my work I saw what looked like a... Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:38:39 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1060 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/for_those_about.html We salute you. If you're bent over your computer all day (aren't we all?), chances are that your upper back is really tight. Jojo over at the Cool Tools blog discovered this amazing massager when her physical therapist showed her... Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:41:41 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1059 Tim Donnelly Health and Fitness Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/wackipedia.html I don't mind posting this site's content verbatim, because I have a strong suspicion the people will never understand it. I believe this is another case of translating something from English into an Asian language then back to English. Or... Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:40:56 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1054 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/tommy_seebach_b.html Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:40:03 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1053 Tim Donnelly Celebrities History Music Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/poor_joyces.html I'm letting Emily take the heat for this one (well, she did okay with Olivia first...) But she sent this out to a some of the Aquent Talent today: So, it is my co-worker, cube mate and best buddy Olivia’s... Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:55:33 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1045 Tim Donnelly Art Celebrities Games Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/thats_a_spicy_m.html Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:17:58 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1038 Tim Donnelly Food and Drink Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/green_like_me.html There are people who should embrace the most cutting edge technology/products and those who should just wait until they're available for general public. Take the Beta version of any software. If you don't mind finding bugs and reporting them to... Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:20:25 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1031 Tim Donnelly Cars Current Affairs Ecology Personal Blogging Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/aural_design.html I'd originally bought my iPod for music. Seemed like a good idea. Get rid of lugging the CDs in the car, to and from work, into and out of the office... But the weird thing is, now podcasts take up... Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:03:11 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1030 Tim Donnelly Art Career Ecology Personal Blogging Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/hole_foods.html Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:35:37 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1023 Tim Donnelly Design Ecology Marketing Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/my_breakfast_wi.html You know it's coming up. And you know what you have to do. Yes, I'm speaking about Valentine's Day. And it's in a short 9 days. I was looking through Craigslist for used iMacs the other day when I came... Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:41:05 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1016 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Sales http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/01/set_the_way_bac.html When you think of the nightly news in Omaha, you probably imagine a farmer in overalls talking about the frozen pork bellies, Lorsban insecticide, and the weather. Which is not quite on the mark. The anchors in Omaha no worse... Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:00:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.994 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Television http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/01/lawn_boys_of_su.html When I was young... (uh oh, here he goes again) No, wait, this is a good story, not like last time. As a member of a family of four in the Midwest, the kids had to pitch in to mow... Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:47:17 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.988 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/01/from_the_where.html I see them nearly every day on my commute. The Los Angeles Traffic Cop-in-Training. They stand at the middle of an incredibly busy intersection with their hands by their sides, watching cars go by. I'm not quite sure how this... Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:03:42 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.985 Tim Donnelly Cars Personal Blogging Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/01/heck_yes_we_got.html You can go home again, but it turns out you can't demand what the weather's going to be like. After 6 years of vacationing in my home village in the Midwest, my son finally got to see snow. And not... Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:12:29 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.984 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/12/5_5_5_5_lets_si.html They're playing tag again. And Heather Hamilton over at Microsoft got me (which is kind of flattering). For the unfamiliar, Blog Tag is where a blogger writes 5 things about themselves most people don't know, then tags 5 other bloggers... Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:54:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.983 Tim Donnelly Personal Blogging Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/12/frosty_the_jett.html See, it does get cold in Los Angeles. Here's the proof, a picture of the roof of my VW at 7:30 this morning! I'm not saying it's like our Denver office closing or anything because of bad weather. Just more... Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:12:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.976 Tim Donnelly Cars Personal Blogging