I’ve always wondered who said that!!! …

Wow. Such marvelous eloquence. The question now becomes which came first, the quote or the perfume? My guess is the quote, since the idea of being able to “fall in love all over again” seems to have been around a lot longer than that perfume could have been…

On a related note, as if finding the source of such a timeless quote in the makeup section of the mall wasn’t serendipitous enough, I found this melted puddle shortly thereafter on the platform at the train station:

It was obviously around Valentines Day.

I did not take this picture to say anything about the apparent misplacement of the apostrophe after “GET” instead of before “EM.” That only just occurred to me now… and that’s not worth a blog posting.

No, the reason I took this picture is because of that glorious tagline: GET ‘EM

“Hey, look! I’ve got socks for $1. You know what you should do? GET ‘EM!”

And of course every sign was the same, with a different dollar amount:

Sunglasses? GET ‘EM!

Handbags? GET ‘EM!

Mysteriously misspelled “name brand” hats? GET ‘EM!

Wallet just get stolen? GET ‘EM!!!!!

Northwest Airlines uses an outlined circle and little triangle in their logo to create a compass. And it points, as you would assume, northwest.

Now that in and of itself is fine. But the problem comes when they put the logo on the “other” side of their planes. They don’t just do a print of the logo as usual – they flip it!

The result? The compass points northeast. Which, in my humble opinion, is just downright silly. But I guess it could have been worse – they could have flipped the image along the horizontal axis…

Jersey gets a lot of flack for supposedly being “stinky” and “smelly” and “ugly.” David Letterman described it as the “curb-of-New-York” and in the Top 10 Rejected New Jersey Slogans at Literal Barrage, 2 of them rag on odor:

• New Jersey: Come Smell For Yourself.
  
• New Jersey: No, Seriously, What’s That Smell?

I even saw, “New Jersey… not enough ocean to wash it clean” in a comment on Free Republic.  I won’t be so obtuse as to deny that there is any humor in that statement, but on my train ride this morning I was reminded of something that so many people overlook.

Among the concrete jungle of Newark and the industrial nightmare that strangles Jersey on the Hudson, there are the factories that make our world a happier, shadier, fluffier place.

The cloud factories.

I eagerly snapped a couple pictures of one of these factories at work, to post here and show them to you. As you take a moment to look, I ask a simple request: that you remember and appreciate where clouds come from.

Because the next time you are laying in the grass on a cool summer’s day, picking out dogs, cars and elephants in the grand fluffiness in the sky, remember…

Jersey gave you those clouds. 

Very cool technology – the image on the paper is recognized via the webcam and voila! You get an interactive 3D model on your computer screen.

Do it yourself here: PlugIntoTheSmartGrid.com

This video has people from all over the world singing and playing “Stand By Me” together. I would love working on a project like this, coordinating it, recording it, mixing it, playing it… totally awesome idea. Playing For Change