There have been some pretty good advertising ideas I’ve had the pleasure of seeing (including a banner over 20 stories tall for the Transformers movie).  Seeing this ad just made me wonder why they would use this graphic, would put it on a bus, and put it on a bus that primarily is driven within low income, primarily Hispanic, neighborhood.

Since I took the picture to share, it’s available in four ways. 

First, the ad without the bus:

Next, the ad on the side of the bus, but zoomed in:

Now the full picture I took, in a lower resolution mode and resized:

Now if you want to have the full image, as taken and downloaded from my Canon SD550 camera, click here.

So on I called BestBuy (1-888-237-8289) and got placed on hold for 24 minutes and 14 seconds while waiting for online ordering support to help me out.  The items I ordered were sent via USPS, which is United States Postal Service, more commonly referred to as US Mail.  BestBuy’s order page linked to the UPS, which is United Parcel Service (“What can brown do for you?”).  Of course UPS’s page just told me that I had an incorrect tracking number.  More on that in a moment.

The BestBuy online order representative I spoke with was Nikola.  Nikola was very friendly and helpful, she sounded like she was smiling while talking on the phone.  Nikola told me that even though I had deleted my shipping address, it was probably the primary address when my shopping cart was filled and could have somehow not been removed when the order was placed.  My order is expected to arrive at my no-longer-address somewhere between August 1 and August 8, leaving me with the following options:

1. I can order again and pay for both shipment of items, giving the new owners of my old house a bunch of movies;
2. Contact the current residents of my former home and ask them to give me the items when they arrive;
3. Wait until after August 8 and then call BestBuy requesting another shipment be sent, this time to the correct address.

I’m going to go with option 3 because I don’t want to buy anything for the new owners of my old residence; I’m not interested in contacting strangers and asking them to do me a favor; and I can wait an extra week for getting the movies.

So I’ll re-order the movies in another week and see how that goes.

Oh ya, on the UPS-USPS thing.  BestBuy ships directly from one of their warehouses via UPS, that delivery is then dropped off at USPS.  Strange?  I think so too.

I’m a happy/loving drinker.  Not the aggressive kind.  I make lots of friends this way.  Well, not a lot of “friends” as much as I’m not sarcastic and people probably appreciate that about me (BTW: if I weren’t using the backspace key every three keystrokes this blog would have nearly 95 percent error rate).

For some reason I don’t know why beer affects me like this while harder alcohol doesn’t have the same affect.  I can drink 4+ Jack & Diet Cokes in an hour with less buzz.  I’m not sure why I’m writing this blog.  This is really odd.  I’m watching some TV show (not sure what, I’m only listening and not watching actually), but I’m sure that it doesn’t matter because I won’t remember it tomorrow.

Anyone ever drink to forget?
Drink to feel better?
Drink on a work night hoping that nobody at work asks for any work?

Pretty sure that I would hang this billboard the same way right now.