Comments on: Monthly Milestone: Snowfall of Information http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/02/02/monthly-milestone-snowfall-of-information/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=monthly-milestone-snowfall-of-information it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Sabra Briere http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/02/02/monthly-milestone-snowfall-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-62161 Sabra Briere Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:16:51 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=57012#comment-62161 Vonnegut Hardware was a landmark for me in India-no-place. I liked the name before I heard about Kurt, liked it more afterward. Lucky to have a memory like that!

]]> By: Dave Askins http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/02/02/monthly-milestone-snowfall-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-62158 Dave Askins Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:50:05 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=57012#comment-62158 Re: [4] and the idea that the promotional yardsticks were not free.

That particular yardstick has more history than is revealed in that photo. I wrote about it a couple of years ago in a note on the Teeter Talk website, and included some photos of the whole yard stick:

Kurt Vonnegut is just one more guy I never rode the teeter totter with. But my father-in-law attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis at the same time as Kurt Vonnegut. And somewhere over the years, a promotional yardstick from the Vonnegut family hardware store accumulated to the set of my wife’s possessions. When I saw the yardstick, the first thing that came to mind was, Mmmmm, you could get about three toy teeter totters outta that … and it’s already measured for you! But I could imagine people arguing about who got the totter with ‘Vonnegut’ printed on it. So I left it intact.

]]> By: Leah Gunn http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/02/02/monthly-milestone-snowfall-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-62153 Leah Gunn Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:39:49 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=57012#comment-62153 Who needs a yardstick when you can have a measuring app on your smart phone??? :-)

]]> By: jcp2 http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/02/02/monthly-milestone-snowfall-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-62151 jcp2 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:16:10 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=57012#comment-62151 They never were “free”. The costs were built into prices of other things.

]]> By: Vivienne Armentrout http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/02/02/monthly-milestone-snowfall-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-62145 Vivienne Armentrout Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:11:29 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=57012#comment-62145 I wonder how many local merchants provide those free yardsticks now?

]]> By: Bill Tozier http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/02/02/monthly-milestone-snowfall-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-62140 Bill Tozier Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:25:23 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=57012#comment-62140 But how do you MONETIZE your SEARCH ENGINE REVENUE STREAM, then? You can’t really market, unless you get some consultants and use the right adwords!

What kind of “journalism” is this, if all you have is words about things you understand?

Not seeing the value add for your investors, folks.

[the preceding includes a number of jokes and thankful appreciations to you all]

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