Odds and Ends from the End of the Weekend

- On the way back from New York today, the train got stuck for about 30 minutes. The conductors shut down the power, so we sat there without any electricity or air conditioning until we were back up and running. Not very comfortable. The conductors were communicating with each other via the PA system, and kept alluding to the "rear car being on the 3rd rail". From reading about all of the subway issues that occur on a weekly basis, I believe the 3rd rail is the high voltage rail, so this couldn't be good. Regardless, everything was fine, and we kept going, albeit 30 minutes late. Point of the story is that I could have had some good stories if they made us get off the train in between stops or something crazy like that, but thank goodness it was nothing more than some 'simple mechanical issues'. In the end, it's better that I don't have a story about being stuck on the train. We'll leave it at that.

- I saw this clip a few weeks back and forgot to link it: VH1's Best Week Ever did a parody of those Mac vs. PC commercials. Pretty funny stuff. I've decided that one of my goals in life is to offer commentary on some newsworthy pop culture item for Best Week Ever.

- Amy alluded in the prior comments about this new ad campaign that is in the major cities around the country. Premise is that a woman named Emily is publicly bashing her cheating husband, Steven, in billboards across the US. Additionally, there's a blog where Emily tells her stories in detail: That Girl Emily. News articles recently caught on to this ad campaign, which Alexis tells me is possibly related to an upcoming show on Court TV. Here's a link to the
ABC News article that Amy mentioned. I'd say it's a rather creative strategy, since I always appreciate creativity in the marketing and advertising world. It'll be interesting to see what actually comes out of this whole effort.

- This will be the last full week of blogging from the Stamford homestead. Back tomorrow.