This is not a trolley...

Dear Metrobus,

This is not a trolley.  Just because you paint your buses to look like a cartoonish mockery of a trolley does not make it a trolley.

“The #99 Downtown Trolley features a whimsical and colorful wrap that transforms buses into trolleys,” said Dianne Williams, director of communications at Metro.

from globe-democrat.com

No… no it does not.

Still, I guess I am glad that they are expanding the public transportation in STL.

I’d rather have real trolleys though…

Starbucks is starting a new campaign to start making their coffee shops no longer look like a Starbucks.  Their stores will soon lose the ubiquitous logo and try to look like an independent cafe and not part of a huge, over-reaching corporate monster.

The Seattle Times reports the coffee giant is about to take the wraps off of three new shops they’re dressing incognito.  (Shhh, don’t tell anyone!)  The stores will be branded with the names of their neighborhoods and no sign of the ubiquitous Starbucks symbol.  They’re reportedly being designed as eco-friendly, rustic places where you can also buy a beer or glass of wine and listen to a poetry reading.

- abcnews.com

Then they announce that it is not coming out for an additional four months.

Now it is out and I just got an email telling me that it is out of stock and they have no idea when they’ll have enough to send me a copy and that my order is now officially a backorder.

Really?  I pre-order it six months ago and they still were not able to provide me with a copy on the day it comes out?

Now, I am open to the idea that perhaps it was already over sold in January… but I would have thought that six months is plenty of time to make up some of that inventory.

It’s just as well, I really do have things to get done as of late, so it’s kind of a mixed blessing.   Still, I should be playing me some Sims 3 right now.

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UPDATE:  EAGames sent an email apologizing and is sending me a copy over next-day air.   Maybe they’re not such bad eggs after all.

Still, I really need to get some things done so it might just sit unopened for a week or two… who am I kidding, it’ll be opened and installed within hours of arrival.

Nice knowing you, productivity.  See you in about three months after I burn out on the Sims.

Yeah…so this commercial has got me going insane.  I mean, are they trying to be funny?  PREGO COMES IN A JAR TOO!!!!  They even show it in a jar right after they make fun of the other stuff coming out of a jar.

What is their market demographic?  Four year olds?  I think even a four year old would be like, “Uhh… but your stuff comes in a jar too!”

FEH!!!

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Edit: I failed to note that their slogan is “It’s in there”.  It’s in where?  THE JAR?