Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
Today I go into the store (GR2), and what do I see? Coca Cola Zero. Not just one bottle but a flat, who brought that in? I thought it was a generous employee who decided to treat the rest of the staff. There’s a bunch of bottles in the fridge, free pens, and coupons for free 12 packs. What does it mean? Are we being marketed to? Are we a test market? Are we guinea pigs? Are we taste makers? It’s probably all of that. Viral marketing of some sort is going on. I hate it. I took some some bottles, and took a taste test. Just like I thought, soda with shitty aftertaste. But regardless, it’s free and I’m thirtsy – and sometimes all that beats being a guinea pig.
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I’ve been working in a cubby hole ordering products for the GR stores. Nothing too exciting to report from the GR front except GR46 is rolling out. The best part about ordering products is that I’m looking through thousands of pages of catalogs. Each page is an amalgamation of 1000s of hours of work, whether it’s designing and manufacturing a product from a desktop in the USA to a factory in China, or research and writing of pages to put together a book. Maybe for a t-shirt it’s a lot less effort, but at some point in the past, someone had to figure it all out, and the software was definitely a 1000+ hour job… learning it, perhaps the same. And I flip right through the pages knowing in an instant if something will work or not for our stores. Sometimes, it’s an entire catalog of 100s of books and not one is something I want to stock. It’s 100 books x 1000 hrs = 100,000 hrs of work, and that’s conservative. I’m sure books take much longer, and all that effort gets pushed aside by me, sitting at a table with a catalog. That’s how it works.
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1) From Blogger: There are problems with external publishing on the new Blogger. We are working on a fix. Thanks for your patience and we apologize for the inconvenience. 2) That means no pictures can go up. Today is day one of having an extra helper! Do you have help in whatever you do? Are you able to figure out what the heck they’re supposed to do to help? That’s all upcoming and we’ll see how it goes. 3) A recent debate over who’s the best guitar player has been going on. Is the best about speed? Think about that. The best. What does that mean to you? Is it dexterity? Is it playing something soulful and slow? Can you be the best and slow? What about a curveball, noise music… if you play noise like thurston moore, can you be the best?
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Anna Nicole RIP
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But then again blogger is free. you can’t complain about shitty service when something is free right? So you won’t get to hear the olestra story, the free gear I got, or anything like that.
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