Rauf Aliev

January 17 2016, 14:19

Signed up at the library. — at DC Public Library – Georgetown in Washington, DC

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January 17 2016, 13:14

Hmm… And tomorrow everyone is congratulating Black people for the holiday, right? 🙂

Here on roads across the country, you will encounter the brilliant advertisement EAT MOR CHICKIN (“Better eat more chicken”). In the original advertisement, three cows hold signs with these three words. In the modern version, three-dimensional cows have formed a pyramid in front of the billboard and are convincing passing drivers to switch to chicken.

This Chick-fil-A fast food advertisement has been around for twenty years. It’s funny that the cows have become the main, sole, 100% recognizable symbol of the fast food restaurant chain, whose name is entirely in chicken and there’s actually no beef in their food at all.

S. Truett Cathy, the owner of the chain, released the book “Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People”. It’s a great example of how an advertising idea can change an entire direction in business.

January 17 2016, 11:10

On Friday, the local DMV was closed because state agencies in Virginia were celebrating the birthdays of Confederate Army generals from the Civil War era, Robert Lee and Thomas Jackson (whose actual anniversaries fall on Tuesday and Thursday of the following week respectively).

And on Monday, the DMV is off in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday (which this year actually falls on Friday).

Oh, they really went all out. It looks like the exam can only happen on Tuesday now.

January 17 2016, 05:07

Thank you to my family for the wonderful New Year and birthday gift! Now I have a new Yamaha 🙂 Well, not exactly new, but it sounds better and all! Brought it from Philadelphia

January 17 2016, 00:10

Well, I just had to take a photo

January 16 2016, 23:02

At Denny’s in Perryville, MD

Denny’s

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January 16 2016, 02:05

In the states, quite often you can encounter all sorts of unusual vending machines. In the photo:

– Coinstar: counts change and converts it into normal money. You dump out the contents of a child’s piggy bank and head to the liquor department around the corner.

– MINUTE KEY (https://www.minutekey.com/): makes a copy of your key. You can even get a personalized designer copy.

– RED BOX. It’s better to explain more about them.

RED BOX (http://www.redbox.com/) – is a vending machine service for renting movie and game discs. Any movie or game from the vending machine can be taken for $1 a day. There are more than 35,000 RedBox machines. Payment for the disc from the machine is done by credit card. You can choose not to return the movie or game, but then more money will be charged to the card. If you return it, it can be to any machine, not just the one it was rented from. Then, the cost of the disc will be charged. They’ve devised something to protect against copying.

I had a similar idea back in 2009 (http://rauf.livejournal.com/609620.html)

– ENGRAVED ID TAGS: A machine for printing tags for pets on collars. Available in various shapes and colors. Well, you know, IF FOUND PLEASE CALL..

http://hf2013claibornedesignprinciples.pbworks.com/w/page/69577860/Tag

– MINI MELTS: A machine for producing unusual granulated ice cream. There’s even one somewhere in Moscow, apparently.

http://www.minimelts.com/