Starbucks happy hour becomes a reality

A sign from the Willowbrook Starbucks in Houston, TX.

Starbucks finally listened to me!*
Back on December 12 of last yearI wrote a piece in response to an Ad Age article that was sent to me by faithful commenter TD. As I said at the time, I think Starbucks should offer a happy hour. It [...]

Two of my favorite things should come together.

Tomorrow is the Starbucks Annual Meeting, which I really wish I was going to.  I’m a shareholder, but with just recently taking a vacation, decided I should be at work, rather than checking out what Howard talks about tomorrow.  He’s typically not rolling out as many new and noteworthy things as Steve Jobs, but since [...]

I got more than double billed…and I’m not even mad.

So this morning my hosting company Dreamhost sent me an email saying that they had billed me for the next year of web hosting, plus updating some domain names, and that my credit card had been billed. Well, I was at work so didn’t look into it much, but I thought I had been [...]

Jawbone, pulls a sweet PR move

Jawbone, is representing at CES with a booth, and not only that, they are using up some of their new money on an amazing PR move. Jawbone, is accepting any other phone headset as a trade-in for their amazing headsets. I have one and LOVE it. It has made using a bluetooth [...]

HP, AT&T, and Starbucks… Thank you?

I got a package today with a return address of HP but with similar branding for both HP and AT&T.  I had no idea what it may be, I have a Blackberry from AT&T and a printer from HP, but could not think of what would have these two companies reaching out to me at [...]

A Beaver Plane

Horizon Airlines, which is based out of Seattle, has decided to paint four of their planes to match the four major universities in Washington and Oregon.  I’m most excited about the Beaver plane, and very uncertain how I would feel if they asked me to get on a duck plane.  I know that there are [...]

Starbucks Happy Hour?

A friend passed along this article from AdAge, "Forget the Cut TV Critters, Starbucks Needs a Happy Hour."  I previously was of the notion that Starbucks was above having to have a happy hour, but with their stock performance as of late, it may be time to reconsider.
Some Seattle natives may remember when Tully’s in [...]