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Calvin and Hobbes: Playing ball with Hobbes

Online Metrics Insider: The Lighter Side of Metrics Today

The Lighter Side Of Metrics Today  by Pat LaPointe , Tuesday, October 13, 2009 In the pressure of the current business environment, humor isn't lost. Here are a few ideas for metrics and measurement tools I've come across in my travels recently that you might like to hear about: Aleanment Index  - how you manage expectations for what will get done with fewer headcount than last year. Bland Awareness: A measure of how uninspiring your brand is. Brand Vasequity: A calculation of brand value taken after your marketing budget has been neutered. Customer Satisfiction: A metric that skews customer feedback in the most favorable terms for your next presentation to senior management. Dashbored: A comprehensive set of marketing performance metrics guaranteed to make your CEO's eyes glaze over. Dumbographics: Statistical data describing the consumer segment stupid enough to purchase your competitor's overpriced, poor-quality product or service. Mantric - the one metric that looks so good you hear about it over and over and over. Misery Mix Model - a statistical methodology for ascertaining exactly why your plans failed to achieve objectives. ROE (Return on Everything): What your CEO is demanding. Six Stigma: A set of visible marks on your forehead signify a failed attempt at improving the quality of the creative-development process. If you've got others, I'd love to add them to our collection - post below. This commentary is insightful. I recommend it to others. Post your response to the public Metrics Insider blog. See what others are saying on the Metrics Insider blog. Pat LaPointe is Managing Partner at MarketingNPV -- specialty consultants on marketing measurement and metrics, and publishers of MarketingNPV Journal, available online free athttp://www.MarketingNPV.com

Calvin and Hobbes: Hungry Tiger

Roink!

 

Calvin and Hobbes: No subject

Reading this comic strip reminds me why I must not be upset about what happened today. If I let anger and frustrations get better of me, I will end up hurting myself.

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Commercial: Carre de chocolat_Non Blink Eye

Heh... I love chocolate! Moink! :)

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A hilarious TV commercial from Japan. This Japanese lady in the story is challenging the world's record to keep her eye non-blink as long as she can. Bravo to DENTSU, the agency produced this wonderful spot. I just can't stop laughing even after viewing it so many times.

Boing Boing: Stuck Tic Tac gallery

Stuck Tic Tac gallery

Posted by David Pescovitz, September 25, 2009 6:18 AM | permalink

There's something pleasing about finding your last Tic Tacs wedged inside the dispenser and freeing them. The creator of this "Collecting Stuck Tic Tacs" gallery seems to agree. (Thanks, Dean Putney!)

There's something pleasing about finding your last Tic Tacs wedged inside the dispenser and freeing them. The creator of this "Collecting Stuck Tic Tacs" gallery seems to agree. (Thanks, Dean Putney!)

Stuck Tic Tac gallery

There's something pleasing about finding your last Tic Tacs wedged inside the dispenser and freeing them. The creator of this "Collecting Stuck Tic Tacs" gallery seems to agree. (Thanks, Dean Putney!)

Non Sequitur: The short attention span cemetery

This is so true...

Non Sequitur: Why Engineering and Philosophy Aren't Always A Good Mix...

Calvin and Hobbes: Race - On Your Mark... Get Set... Go!

Calvin and Hobbes: The problem with having a tiger for a friend...

Calvin and Hobbes: All cans sound the same

Calvin and Hobbes: Tigers just live for that!

Non Sequitur: Look at the bright side...

Heh :P

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Non Sequitur: The Birth of Corporate Leadership

Heh :)

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Non Sequitur: What goes around, comes around

Calvin and Hobbes: Water Bomb

Calvin and Hobbes: Tigers' tummies are solar cells

Hobbes will always have an explanation for what he does although it is not always convincing...

Calvin and Hobbes: If you've seen one star, you've seen them all

Star gazing... heh :)

Non Sequitur: Twitter

Do not attempt to send abbreviated SOS message via Twitter :P

Calvin and Hobbes: My Tiger My Heart

As sweet as a plum
And lovely as dawn
Rolling its tongue over its gums
Like tiger and me
As happy as could be
Sat out on the porch
As the whole of the sky
Clouds quietly over
And it starts to cry
Softly on my shoulder
We don't want to grow up
But we have to grow up
As sad as I am
I do understand
I do understand,
It just makes me sad

My tiger my heart
We're growing apart
We're trying to be friends
But it's hard sometimes
To be friends with something
That eats butterflies
And pencil sharpeners
And i think it would be
Happier being free

My tiger my friend
My little godsend
I know someday we'll be happy again

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See also: Calvin and Hobbes - Love will lead you home