Thanks to Sara for sending me this time killer. Create your own slogans!
http://www.sloganizer.net/en/
Here’s some of my faves that were generated:
You better get inside Palmer.
The Spirit of Palmer.
Palmer for me!
Oh my gods, it’s a Palmer.
The view on Palmer.
Every Palmer has a story.
Palmerrific.
Always the real thing, always Palmer.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/11/gallery_saddest_cubicle
Stop yer complaining about your office! There’s now way they are worse than these ones!
My favourite is how they put an IT contractor is a steel shipping container!
Wow. I’d like to thank Paul for inadvertently recommending this book via The Wolfshack. I haven’t read a book which had me wanting more in awhile. Sure, I dabble in the Star Wars novels if there are new ones, but they are the same old. This was a fresh tale of thieves and their swashbuckling ways.
The story revolves around Locke Lamora, a thief in the fictional city/village/whatever you want to call it of Camorr where it plays like something out of an old role playing game like Quest For Glory – where they have thieving guilds, magicians and brute force. In Camorr, they are under the rule of Duke Nicovante and Locke Lamora and his fellows (The Gentleman Bastards as they like to call themselves) take it upon themselves to steal from the rich and elite to line their pockets with a small wealth. They start out as regular thieves but end up becoming con-artists in the process and thinking up more elaborate schemes.
Scott Lynch (from reading his bio and whatnot) is a young chap…my age or thereabouts who wrote this marvelous tale. He doesn’t shy away from admitting that he is into video games, comic books, everything that is good in the world…so the book was like a familiar friend. The sense of camaraderie between Locke Lamora and friends made you feel like you are eavesdropping on a grand adventure. I especially liked how the author intertwined flashbacks at the appropriate times.
I haven’t read many novels this past year but I would probably say this will make it as my #1 of the year. I am tempted to pick up the second one, but the series is seven books long and the second one is the only other one out there. I feel like he is pulling a Harry Potter…the first novel was a self-contained story but left us with questions at the end which will undoubtedly be answered within the series.