🖇️ HUB
Links to posts and pages that are within the philpin.com domains
🖇️ Never had a high opinion of him … … seems like others feel the same way….
🔗 Please get Ramaswamy off my TV, and other debate thoughts.
Us vs Them OR Us and Them OR Us + Them
Interesting thread over on LinkedIN from my friend 🔗 Dave Wilt - who started on the track of ‘vs’.
🔗 Corporate Identity Politics. (It was kind of about Sales and Marketing alignment - a problem which was a problem long before I started out in business. You would have though by now we might have fixed it? But no.)
Anyway - about half way through I managed to pivot the thread to 🎵 Music … mainly because the core topic just gets talked about - and IT IS NEVER FIXED - so … ‘BORING’.
From the thread …
You might notice that the original song was called ‘Us and Them’, while the tour and film is called ‘Us + Them’.
“It’s not a mistake. It’s a subtle modification. The original ‘and’ was not necessarily inclusive. It was highlighting one or the other. The power of ‘+’ sign is additive. It drives home the idea of being united. Together.”
It’s a small and very important detail. It’s language.
If you want to read the newsletter I was going to write about … ‘🖇️ Rewriting History’
I didn’t see the sign above this graphic saying no photography until after I took it.
Then again, there was nothing to say you couldn’t publish it if you had.
I was more taken with the ‘consistency’ of the advice as to how you should pack and travel.
To be clear - not taken at 🖇️ Heathrow.
Finally! Can sit down, ‘avec l’ordinateur’, and fix the broken posts and links that have been posted on 🖇️ my blog these past few days.
Thankyou for your patience.
And so we hit ‘30’ - 🖇️ September Challenge Completed.
📸 230927 🖇️ #MBSept
(Em)Bracelets also available .. they are the ones on the left.
📸 230926 🖇️ #MBSept
Beverage line 1 - where ‘Establishment 1’ could teach ‘Establishment 2’ a thing or two about attracting a crowd.
Beverage line 2 - where ‘Establishment 2’ could teach ‘Establishment 1’ a thing or two about providing a relaxed environment.
There’s always a balance!
Bonus? The word ‘beverage’ appears in both photographs.
Just updated my ‘🖇️ Places I have lived and visited’ list to include Poland. Got here last night … heading back on Sunday,
It takes a lot of energy not to trust someone.
Heathrow Is So Special … And Not In A Good Way.
The bag and its contents (not always the same - but pretty darn similar) has flown ‘in cabin’ all over America, to and from Mexico, down to New Zealand, around New Zealand across to Oz and back, then returning to America through Hawaii and onwards across to London … not a single problem.
Terminal 5, Heathrow … 45 minutes stood at security analyzing and rescanning that very same bag three times. Some items thrown away … like a small bottle of perfume, creams etc. Some items packaged up and in around 48 hours you can go online - pay the ransom fee and have it shipped to an address in the UK .. good job we had one.
They wanted to confiscate the medications .. no we don’t have the prescriptions with us, but if someone dies are you prepared to accept the consequences?
In the end, one small bottle of perfume thrown away was the most expensive item, but maybe 10 others also disposed of … several other bottles packaged up into a plastic bag … in the next couple of days, we can log on … pay the ransom and have the balance shipped to the UK address. It was totally unclear why;
- some items were destroyed
- others were repackaged to be sent ‘home’
- whilst others were given to me, so I could travel with them … Jax couldn’t
I asked if we had checked the bag, would it have been ok? No problem at all sir.
And then I just couldn’t resist. Can you explain why all of these containers are a problem … after all, they are all below the publicised amounts allowed. Oh yes sir… that’s not the problem, there are just too many of them. So, I went in to ask … where do I find the regulation that describes the total number off containers am I allowed?
Blank looks.
“Leave it John”
Adding insult to injury … get to the gate and told that it is a full flight … ‘that bag’ needs to be checked in.
📸 230923🖇️ #MBSept
With Champagne you could have not just ‘a day in a life’ … but more importantly ‘a life in a day’.
📸 230922🖇️ #MBSept
This is ‘The Road to Hana’ … just not the one that everyone else travels on … maybe because a different part of it is ‘giving way to the Ocean’?
📸 230920🖇️ #MBSept
Disruption isn’t new. Disruption isn’t always about Silicon Valley. Disruption isn’t ’American’. Imagine the disruption to people’s lives in the tiny hamlet of Akaroa when this was installed in 1901.
