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Monday, April 04, 2016

Sugaring off

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Well, sugaring off month has just ended. That’s the grand and glorious month of March, when the maples are tapped, the sap drips into the bu...
Friday, April 01, 2016

Anthony’s Pier 4: bringing on the wrecking ball

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When I first moved to Boston, in the late 1960’s, the city wasn’t exactly known as the gourmet capital of the world. Not that anyone would ...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Poor Little Rhode Island

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God knows, plenty of people – marketing pros and amateurs alike (and there are a ton of amateur marketers out there, as it’s a rare individu...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Wolfman wanted

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Every once in a while, I hear about a job and say to myself, ‘hmmmm, that might be interesting.’ And then I remind that same hmmmmm-ing self...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Oh, grow up. (Seriously, folks, what IS wrong with adult egg-hunters?)

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This past weekend produced not one, but two – count ‘em two – absolutely edifying (NOT!) Easter egg hunt-related stories, both of which took...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Kids– and AI chatbots–say the darnedest things, don’t they?

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Back in the day, in the early 1980’s, when those of us laboring in the tech fields did so on mainframe computers, we would occasionally ente...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Happy Peep-ster, all you peeps out there

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It’s not as if I’ll be heading out to the Easter Parade in my pastel topper, straw hat, and new patent-leather Mary Janes. It’s not as if I’...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, where Ima gonna go…(Or, Pink Slip does politics)

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The other day, my niece Molly – who’s definitely a plan-ahead kind of gal -  sent me to a link to an article she’d seen on irishcentral.com....
Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Oh, if we’d only had “placemaking” back in the day

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When I was in business school, at MIT-Sloan, there was nothing – or, more generously, next to nothing -  in the surrounds. If my recall is c...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

National Goof Off Day. (Perfect timing…)

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Well, I was cruising the web last evening, looking at the usual suspects when it comes to finding Pink Slip topics, and not finding anythi...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Hello, demo dolly.

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Many years ago, I attended an after-hours event at some mega industry trade show. Comdex? Internet World? I can’t quite remember. What I do...
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Friday, March 18, 2016

Here’s to good old milk

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In 1945, America’s per capita milk consumption was a quite astounding 42 gallons. That was the high-water mark – or the high-milk mark – for...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Kiss Me I’m Half Irish

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I’ve been at this a while. Long enough that this is my tenth St. Patricks’ Day post. My St. Patrick’s Day celebration will be simple. I wil...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

No pasta salad for you, Reebok employees

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Reebok has been on a fitness tear for a while. And why not? Their business is aimed at getting all of us out there running, walking, cross-f...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Happy on the job/unhappy on the job. (There’s a list for everything.)

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I’m a colossal sucker for a list, and it almost doesn’t matter what the list is of. But one I saw recently is especially near to Pink Slip’s...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Let there be daylight savings time. (Ahh, ahhh, ahhhhhhh….)*

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Well, over the weekend, we sprung ahead, clock-wise. So now it’s light into the evening. Psychologically, this is a biggy. Sure, we’ve been ...
Friday, March 11, 2016

Never chat what you can speak when you’re talking about Hulk Hogan or at any other time, for that matter

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Group chatting is nothing new in the workplace. Way back in the early aughts, I worked in a company that was an agglomeration of a bunch of...