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Ideas are powerful! What a wonderful conversation we had on this #maximpact episode 101! While creating a text transcript for this video (included below), I realized how many incredible gems are included in these 40+ minutes.
I had David Amerland, author and analyst with davidamerland.com, on the show once again and it was a blast!
We talked about human-to-human interactions in business-customer relations:
- Why did we hide human side behind our professional facade?
- What's required to be a successful 21st century business?
- What's the value of your customer?
- What cooking risotto can teach you about your business?
- It doesn't matter how good you are – you won't get business if the main piece is missing.
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Max Minzer: Hi and welcome back to #maximpact episode 101!
Thank you for listening, watching, reading. I'll have this recorded on maxminzer.com if you would like to read, watch or prefer another format. You can communicate with us with hashtag #maximpact on Twitter or on Google+ event page and we will answer your questions live.
Our topic today is Humanization of Marketing: human to human interaction and we have David Amerland back on #maximpact.
Hi, David!
David Amerland: Max, Hi! I'm delighted to be back. And what a subject so I'm looking forward to it!
Max: David is the author and analyst with DavidAmerland.com exploring digital world as an author, writer and speaker.
Before we begin can you give us a little bit of a background – where you started and how did you get to the point of writing books about marketing?
David: Haha! That is probably the most circuitous route ever. By training I am a chemical engineer and that's what I, basically, specialized in.
And while I was doing that I had a thing for writing ever since I could basically think about writing. So while I was at the University I was also moonlighting as a journalist doing mostly scientific articles for the newspapers popularizing science.
When I left the university the easiest thing for me was to step into ready made job. Which is what I did.I started making money online on Teach Me! Personal Finance's LifePoints Review: Legit, Good Paying and Fun Too, was a great way to learn more about this popular panel. Then I became a journalist for The European, at the time it was a UK newspaper, and I traveled all over Europe on an AmEx card. Everything was pretty amazing. It was a fantastic job to have as a young man, really. What I did is I wrote short pieces about culture and science across Europe for the paper and that was my beginning, really.
Which then led to 1993 when price of paper went through the roof. Newspapers got back on on ropean and it closed shortly after.
And then I jumped into business journalism working for a large corporation the UK, called John Lewis Partnership, as a communications adviser and later on as a communications specialist. Throughout all that, through science and journalism at a time, you are actually working with technology at the cutting-edge. I used to file stories stories using the Internet at the time for the NUJ-Net, which is the precurse of the Internet in the UK. It was, sort of, closed-circuit system which journalists had access to. .
So, one thing led to another. You accumulate knowledge and put that knowledge into practice. All this is new, in terms of translating technical stuff into practical stuff, and found itself in the domain of technology in business.
Max: And here we are.
David: Yeah, I find myself working in business at the cutting edge of it – at the interface where technology allows you to do new things in a different way, perhaps, in a better way, and tries to give you a competitive advantage.
I left the John Lewis Partnership in… 2003? Let me think about this…
Max: You are getting old, David 😉
David: I am. Yeah it seems so far, doesn't it? It wasn't that long ago… 2002. And then I freelanced for a while. I did my own thing. I was a PR director for a sports organization in the UK. Then I joined Direct Studio doing SEO for them. I was the leader of their SEO team and after that (2010) I wrote my first book and I just made the leap into full-time writing. In a nutshell.
Max: We are going to talk about humanization of marketing. That means we're going to explore connections businesses have with their audiences – how do you benefit and bring value on the table as a business.
But before we talk about this why do you think you can talk about the subject? What right/authority do you have to talk about it? If you can explore that…
David: Oh, absolutely! That's a great question and, essentially, I do a lot of things. What I do primarily these days is write books about very specific subjects. In doing that, I have to do a little research that cuts across many different verticals. Not just technology and not just science but it also involves psychology and marketing. A lot of this stuff which I research these days impacts upon the stuff which I was actually implementing in my corporate job. There are also many companies like SearchUp SEO that can make your business website convert better and increase the visibility of your company online.
On top of that, I have the privilege to advise quite large corporations who are active across different domains and different countries. They always very generously share data they have with me as we discussed problems and the successes. That gives me a bird's eye view, which is quite unique, really. It's a privileged position to have because not many have it but it fell into my lap as it were. It was not part of the grand plan.
What I do is I take all the things which I have access to and synthesize them, which is where the analyst part comes in, partners in, really. And from there I, sort of, formulate a picture which gives me a theory, which these days are shared generously, and we see how it actually impacts and how it goes.
Max: Interesting! Humanization of marketing. Coming back to that. Where have we failed?
We come from interactions on the market where people would know each other on the street. And we come to today where we buy from people we don't know. So I'm trying to explore – where have we failed that we even have to talk about this subject now?
David: I think the more pertinent question here is why have we failed?
We love human interaction and we are at the most comfortable when we're dealing person to person. It is also the most challenging because we invest the greatest amount of resources in our brain power, in terms of analyzing a new situation, reading a new person and deciding whether to trust them or not. A lot of the work is done on subconscious level and neuroscience gives us that. If we look at studies, the brain works incredibly hard to actually decode a human to human interaction and situation. We're exceedingly good at this. We are fantastic!
So if we're so good at this the question is – why have we become so bad and why did we become so bad for the greatest part of the 20th century in what we try to market at an arm's length and actually went out of our way to hide a human side behind up blonde corporate facade which stood for professionalism?
It comes down to one word – scale.
Scale means everything we do is guided by a gain-loss mechanism, really, a gain-loss algorithm. In order to gain something we need to lose something because we need to invest energy and we are essentially hard-wired to maximize and optimize that process. So really we are really good at trying to find shortcuts. We are really good at trying to scale things. We are really happy when we are doing the least amount of work and getting the greatest among the benefit.
And this isn't just work – it's anything. You eat a sandwich, for instance – there are probably 30 different ways you can and if we look at the way you're actually doing it it's the most optimized one for the effort and what you get back from it. This applies to business as well.
In the 20th century we discovered that we can scale things. We discovered broadcast mechanisms. We discovered shortcuts which actually created essential trust in our audience. If we could have, for instance, a very expensive shop, the fact that the we invested that amount of money into that shop, created that kind of facade, trained the staff to a certain degree – generated the trust that we need with our audience.
If we could have a skyscraper in one of the expensive cities in the world and a skyscraper cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and that was our headquarters – that again stood for something. So brand values which meant cost, which meant investment, which meant suddenly had a lot to lose in not doing things right became the shortcut in terms of creating that trust with an audience. In all that we dehumanized things because that became an easy read – something which everybody could understand.
In the process we lost a lot of things obviously. We lost a human connection (which now is important again) and as things happen every time we do something we also take advantage of it to the point of abuse. We did that with scaling things.
So if you are a large corporation and a customer had a problem with you and you had a million customers you thought "OK. I can afford to lose that customer. The best thing I can do here is instead of investing a lot of amounts of time and energy and effort in sorting a particular problem which is going to cost me money and it's not going to give me a lot back I may as well just cut them off. Cut my losses."
You can see the logic of it. People think evil corporations are evil people and it's not. Essentially we fall victims to the hard-wired mechanisms which operate within ourselves and within our societies which are there to help us optimize things – to make the most of the resources available. That comes down to time, and effort, and cognitive energy, and money. If you are a large organization – in manpower.
These are the reasons. And the beauty of it is that today we can actually see that and we can understand the logic. We understand why it happens but we also are at a point where we say "okay, now have the power of one, which can be amplified and magnified." So, suddenly, we count. So, if you have a million customers and the millionth customer is really having a problem and you cut him off and say "hey, we don't care about you!" he can basically say "you know what? you should because I can affect your business."
So this is a disruption in a balance of power which takes us back to the pre-industrial age where we didn't have scale. And if you didn't have scale what did we do? Well, you invested as a person a lot – you built personal relationships even with people you didn't do business with. Because you didn't know when the day may come when you would do business with them. Or you didn't know when the day may come when they would bring new business because they were in a position to do that. And in those days we invested in that not surely again because it was the only thing available.
So now we're in that transition period where we will begin to realize that in some sectors of business that humanization, that approach which doesn't scale easily is the only one that's available. And for other business, like Comcast or any virtual monopoly (like we see sometimes with the petroleum industry), it's business as usual to a large extent. But there's a ticking time bomb there. We can see what's happening. It'll only going come at time when the balance of power will shift and then, unless they evolve and change, they will completely lose our trust in custom.
Max: So what's at core of fixing that for a corporation or a small business? If we can single out major issues.
David: The answer here is that essentially we're asking one thing, which is flipped backwards and it comes two things: we ask businesses and corporations to behave like people and people to behave like businesses and corporations.
It seems like an antithesis. It isn't. Essentially we are asking large businesses to be human – to speak to us like we really matter. By the same token we expect people to not be mercurial and change their minds in the whim of the moment but to have a little bit of degree of consistency. Almost like a brand value.
If you say today that "hey I'm a vegetarian because I don't like hurting small animals which are killed for meat." Great! Three months down the line you can't say "Hey! I love bacon!"
That kind of flip-flopping is very human but it's not the kind of thing which constitutes trust in who you are and the digital identity you are creating. So it requires a little bit more thought of us as people and then a lot more work as corporations.
It's hard for both of us.
Max: I feel like what's missing is the mutual understanding and relationship between the consumer and the business. From your perspective of consulting and working with big businesses on a regular basis, how do we make sure we get a mutual relationship we need in order to connect to the needs of the customer?
David: That's a great question and I'm glad you brought it up like this because essentially any business that wants to become a successful 21st Century Business needs to align itself completely with a needs its customers and it needs to solve those needs and requirements like they themselves are on the receiving end of that.
To answer your question – what's required is better communication.
There's nothing wrong with businesses making a profit. So if you decide to pay $15.29 for something which we could, perhaps, have for $13.99 that small marginal difference shouldn't be the defining factor. What should be the defining factor is the reason for it and the value you're getting in what you're actually contributing to if you're buying it from somebody who charges a little bit higher as opposed to somebody who does it for a little lower. I also used ira investing to maintain the economy of my business high and save money at the same time.
So if think of the person or the company actually has a little higher has better values, is better for the planet, has better align with their staff, they treat their staff like decent human beings, they treat their customers like decent human beings and they're prepared to listen – you think "hey! Yeah, that's a kind of business I'd like to do business with."
There's an understandable greater involvement in terms of cost and I'm prepared to pay for it. By the same token, businesses should understand that people are not numbers anymore. We are actually people who matter and when we have a problem, it may be in a totally rationale or totally ridiculous, but to us at that point your time is really important and we really need to be listened to. We need to feel that our opinion really matters. Otherwise, why should our custom matter?
Bridging that gap between business-person and person-business is a degree of communication which needs to happen in a very granular, very detailed way at a very human level. So we're actually talking very plain language which doesn't always happen. And the reason it doesn't happen is because traditional businesses, the legacy models past, are not really geared to communicating like that. They feel very uncomfortable. They feel very vulnerable. They don't feel like they are in control their brand which makes them very insecure in how they behave and that causes a lot of problems.
So it's a little maturity which needs to happen at both ends of the scale. Both from us as consumers but also businesses and we are actually beginning to see a shift there which is hugely encouraging. It is incredibly slow. But it is happening.
Max: My last question before we get into the Q&A (if you're on Twitter or on Google+ event page send us a question – we'll answer it live)
I work with small businesses. What are some practical steps for them to shift from mentality of just getting customers to do business with them to actually building a connection and relationship, seeing their needs and addressing them.
David: Incredibly interesting question and it actually has a very simple answer or a relatively simple answer. It comes down to the way business is always operated. Rather than just getting customers business always, traditionally, worked out the cost of a customer over X number of months for X number of years.
The moment you talk about your customers like that – they're really your customers. You have a customer who may not come in today or tomorrow or the week after but you know that in the course of a year they're going to give you X amount of money rain or shine. And that's a relationship you can build on and if you can actually build a lot of value in that relationship so that customer becomes an evangelist you get two things: you get a certain degree of security how you do business and, secondly, you begin to find more customers at the lower acquisition cost.
To translate this into plain English for a small business what you have to do? Value customers and make them yours. Don't make them a customer that simply walked through your doors. Give them a reason to do it again, and again, and again. And actually realize that when they're doing that, as human connection, it goes beyond a simple monetary value.
It sounds a little bit like an artifice which in a way it is. But at the same time it is very human because the moment we connect like that the degree of satisfaction we gain on both sides of the equation increases incrementally.
Business begins to feel that it's actually doing a little bit of good as well as earning money. And a customer begins to feel that they are a valued person as well as a commodity which represents X amount of money to the business. When that happens there's a little bit of magic there because things become a little bit warmer, little bit more flexible and tremendously human.
Zara Altair: I have a comment for David because as I was thinking about what he said about scaling and wanting your customers to come back again and about shortcuts. I was thinking about cooking and I had a little post the other day about standing and making risotto. You make a commitment to stir for about 18 minutes. The moment the rice is perfect you stop.
I keep meeting these people who go "oh, there's a perfect way of making risotto in the oven." And I'm like – "nah ah! I'll you're missing the whole deal!" It's the stirring. It's the thinking about the people that are going to be eating risotto with you. That's part of the way that small businesses especially need to think about what they do when they're creating things, when they are cooking things up for their customers – "this is the gift that I am giving to you. I didn't stick it in the oven because I didn't have 18 minutes to stand and stir. I made it just right for you!"
I think that people get lost in the creation of content or whatever it is but that human basis is so important.
Or for people who are on Google+ and have a Google business page: I had someone start following my business page today and I wrote back to them and said "what prompted you to follow? was there some question that I can answer for you?"
We need to pay particular attention to our potential customers and give them the best result through what we can make. All of that scaling – it really resonated with me.
This wasn't a question. I just wanted to follow up
David: I love the example you brought, Zara, because, essentially, with cooking we can always tell the flavor. There's no hiding and the're no fudging it. There's no disguising it. And yes, you can get a risotto which you can pop in the microwave and comes out in four minutes. And it may look like risotto which you stirred for 20 minutes but the moment you taste it – yeah know which is which. Which is evidently where they the difference lies.
That's exactly the same issue we are facing today in terms of how we connect with businesses. We know great businesses treat us like people. If we look at how they do business they do business like everybody else. We can't really say what the difference is. But if you're within that business internally – it works differently. Zappos works differently, for instance. The John Lewis Partnership the UK works differently. We can see their impact in the world in terms of how people perceive them and how they appreciate them and what connection to have with them.
Zara: I totally agree and it's amazing that you mention Zappos. It came to mind as soon as you started speaking because I always remember the conversation when mailman came to my door with this package and he goes: "Zappos! they are just the greatest!" I had conversations with people who work there and they all said the same thing – "I just love it here! We have fun here! We love to help our customers!" That feeling really comes across.
Max: Thank you for mentioning that! One of the important things then is building the culture if you have a team – to communicate that message within your team as well. It's not just the customer-business interaction anymore but also that feel that you create within the team up the product or service.
Zara: So true. Even in the small business or brick-and-mortar with sales staff that culture comes across. The moment someone walks into your store they feel welcomed.
Max: And not just the sales staff, I'd say. One business comes to mind right now – auto repair shop. Mechanics sometimes can be grumpy. Educating them about not being rude when someone asks them questions and having some empathy to "clueless" people who don't know anything about cars.
Zara: I'm thinking about a mechanic I had long time ago who was my mechanic for years. He paid a lot of attention to each and every customer and he had a wide range a customers – from people with their Bentleys to people like me. I first met him when I followed my boyfriend to the mechanic, sat in my little blue Toyota Corolla waiting for him and everybody came out, came to the door and stared at my car. They had all these Bentleys and antique cars sitting in a lot and I'm going "come on! give me a break!" Then the mechanic came over and said "the reason we're all looking at your car is I have the exact same car – it's easy to fix, it runs, it does what you tell it to do, etc. I was a customer for life. I hadn't even known before and this was now my mechanic. He was my mechanic for over 10 years. It's those details…
David: It's the human connection. You connected with him as a human. Forget the customer, the business, the mechanic or their receive of a service.
Zara: Exactly!
Max: Joel! Thanks for for joining us! Do you have a question or just any thoughts on this so far?
Joel Klettke: Not so much a question but I think something that's really common, especially in the echo chamber we have which is digital marketing, and specially content marketing – there's this kind of epidemic where people prefer metrics over the audience.
You and I talked about it just recently – this whole phenomenon of click-baiting where you put out a title that has almost nothing to do with the piece. Or tale that's deliberately misleading and then open up the conversation with an apology which is basically just saying "you can't trust me. Now here's my opinion."
It's easy to talk about humanization in the person to person kind of context when we talk about brick and mortar and in-person interactions. I think translating that to digital is when it gets challenging.
As an agency you're paid to deliver a certain result. You measure that result with the metrics and it's easy to miss the fact that there's actual people that generate all those numbers that are supposed to be fueling all the engagement and things that you have going on. There's an epidemic that I've seen where people are trying to follow a formula or follow some kind of checklist to human interaction. When the companies are doing it right are the ones that are actually legitimately interested in meeting the needs and the pain points of the people that they're trying to address.
So I think it's strange because a lot of human interaction doesn't scale. A big company may not necessarily have time to individually thank or talk to every single one of their customers but when you look at somebody like Gary Vaynerchuk who has built this gigantic rabid following – he just does these little things all the time.
Max: If you aren't following Gary has a YouTube channel and podcast now and people ask questions. Very good stuff that you would want to watch Once a day or when it comes out.
Joel: I think in the end it comes down to us getting passed this worshiping of the metrics and worshipping the numbers and do things that don't scale, especially for a small businesses.
Get back to the point where it's customer-focused. But not customer-focused in a sense and how many clicks did we drive this month but in terms of how many problems did we solve for people. That's all I really have to stay.
David: I think, Joel, you made an important point. Now I need to preface what he said really because first of all, I totally agree with you – we focus too much on the metrics and not enough on the human side. Too much on the things that look great in spreadsheet and not enough on the things that actually matter.
But there's a reason for that. And the reason is that essentially a lot of the businesses that agencies serve are really geared to understanding the kind of language of metrics and spreadsheets as opposed to soft targets or long-term goals.
Two things have to happen here.
First of all, agencies need to start evolving and speaking a different language and as they do that they also need to educate their customers. And I'm speaking of direct experience here. I've seen companies or other agencies which are as big as clients they serve. We're talking about agencies which in the Asian-Pacific site they can have fifteen-twenty thousand staff themselves. And they serve large conglomerates with multi-million dollar budgets per year. They speak the same language and mirror the hierarchical structure of the companies they serve because that's how they happened to grow up and there's a strong symbiosis there.
Until they start morphing and they start seeing that change there's too much comfort at the moment in that relationship for it to completely breakdown. And its good enough (not good but good enough) at the moment actually stand as it is without many changes, unfortunately.
Things are changing. Companies are evolving. Social media is applying its own pressure to the way they operate and they in turn will begin to communicate a little bit differently in their needs and requirements to the agencies they actually work with, so the use of social media marketing tools such as Agorapulse is really useful in the purpose of improving any site marketing.
Secondly, the agents themselves also have to step forward. And those that do that – change the relationship entirely. I've seen a couple of small ones actually have done that very successfully. They managed to jump over the divide of customer and service provider and they are basically embedding themselves, in a sense, with companies they work with bringing in skill sets and experiences and flexibilities which the corporate world doesn't have.
And that now changes the entire nature of the relationship for a start. It makes the relationship a lot more a sustainable, a lot longer in terms of timeline. It gives a greater sense of security agency because it begins to deliver value on incrementally increasing basis. And at the same time it begins to build confidence in the client that the agency actually has their own interests first and the budget second.
Although you know so it should be – we know well it isn't. And that is a huge mental shift which benefits both. Again it's happening way too slowly for my liking but for perfectly understandable reasons. We can't have disruption happen to such an extent that things begin to break down too rapidly because chaos isn't useful. So, unfortunately, it's baby steps all the way.
Max: Time for quick questions and quick answers.
There's a question on the event page from Paula Allan. She's asking about brand advocates – if there should be a follow-up for them so they naturally continue to actively promote your content or service.
David: Brand advocates do so for their own reasons primarily. They should certainly feel that they're valued by the brand but not cozied up to. Because then it changes the entire feel of the relationship and authenticity and realism goes out the window. The brand should say "we are thrilled you think this way, we think this way too. And thanks to you, perhaps, we're changing the world, changing people's mind, and the same time it's work and it's fun too. If you say that – that's real and it's very human. If you do anything else – dynamic changes.
To answer your question, Paula, the brand has to be real, it has to be very human and it has to connect with its brand advocates in a very human, real way.
Farinaz Parsay: I want to share an experience which I had recently. I wanted to write an article about what is powerful and what's not in human relation. I had to do a lot of research and to my surprise in the definition of humanity and human/humanitarian there are a lot of really good concepts that I learned about. We never talk and think about those things in terms of a concept. I was going to ask David if you think we can have a checklist of what's powerful in human relations and business-customer relations?
David: This is more a personal thing, I think it is great to keep analyzing all the time, it is great to keep breaking things down because it gives a certain methodology but ultimately relying too much on that takes us eventually back to the other extend where we are ticking boxes without feeling it. It has to be a dialogue. And dialogue is always fluid and is very different and the same dialogue with a different person is a different dialogue anyway.
We need to have that kind of contact in the business world that we have in a personal world which makes it really hard to scale. I understand that and I understand that it's a problem but there's no real shortcut to keeping it real.
Max: Great! Thank you!
Tony, I know you joined late by I'm sure you got a taste of what this discussion is about so I'd I appreciate your thoughts too.
Tony Dimmock: Hi guys!
I think first of all, Zara, you mentioned before about what's cooking and the uniqueness on what you serve up to your clients and I think that was a fantastic comment and I loved it! The fact that you have every meal you make for client is unique and if they can smell that and they can taste that you are on your way to a winner. I loved that analogy. So thanks for that, Zara!
I think what Joel was saying – one of the key parts of how things work is a lot of metrics and numbers. But everyone forgets that at some point the client has a need and they ring up someone they think can help them and the first thing that client looks at, or potential client looks at, is can they get alone with that person they are, first of all, dealing with. So, before we get out metrics and bar charts and graphs and everything else if that person doesn't relate to the company – doesn't matter how many metrics, how many reports, what images or what graphics they can provide isn't not going to happen.
So in every single case in every company that's ever won any business the first part that you gotta get right is the human element. And that is – that you're relatable. Because if someone doesn't get on with you and doesn't like you or for whatever reason that they're not attracted to your proposition you know nine times out of ten is because we didn't listen, we didn't ask the right questions, we didn't show we gave a damn, we didn't this, we didn't that.
Max: That's why it's important for a business to have that value proposition. To think about their goal and what they have to offer that does nobody can.
Tony: Absolutely! And I think too often I'm we don't have a USP (unique selling proposition) and value we bring.
What I'll end with is this: I've always thought that the value is in the eye of the recipient or the beholder. It doesn't matter what we think we know, how good we think we are, how much we think we can help unless the client or the potential client understands and gets a taste of what we can bring to that business or two them. Doesn't matter what we do or how we do it – it's never going to happen. So we really got to make sure that they understand and that we help them see the value.
And that could mean anything but that value, unless there's a reason for them to engage with us and get started this, we might have the best car, the nicest reports, the best company, copywriting, brilliant SEO – who gives a whip? Unless we can put it in their head, unless they understand the value or we can help them understand what we can bring to them that's unique – we are absolutely up the creek without a paddle.
David: What Tony said is brilliant because essentially we're still talking about communication. You need to be able to communicate well, bridge the gap, make that connection.
The second thing he mentioned – tools anybody can get that'll make you special. What makes you special is you. You need to understand why you do things. Why do I write books? Not because I can write but because I write specific books for a specific purpose.
Which has to go beyond the fact of making a living as well. I ask myself that all the time – why does someone doing a particular job. Because it's not unique – the other people are doing that job. So If that person is doing that job they have to be able to do it in a unique way to themselves. They need to be able to imbue it with personality, with their own mission statement, with their own vision. And if they can't do that then it's just a job which will, perhaps, make them a living but not for very long they will fail eventually.
So you need to do the hard work beforehand, understand who you really are as a personal or as a business and work to project that across.
Max: A few more questions.
David: I wish I knew the amount of time I would have had to spend learning the things which learned the hard way.
David: I would've stayed in chemical engineering and actually practiced there.
Max: So, we would never meet David Amerland 😉
David: I love explaining something which really fires me up. And then communicating that to people and seeing them get fired up. Because first of all it's validation for me and, secondly, sharing with others and them getting fired up gets new ideas and it sparks off. And that's amazing.
The fact that I can do it through devices from anywhere – that's magic!
David: Discovering something new.. which… I just sort of discovered it because I put things together in my head. It just makes me feel amazing!
David: Oh, wow! I've got a lot and I read different books so if I were to go from all the books I've read, all different things, literature and literary in science fiction – the most defining one for me was Frank Herbert. He was a visionary and in a very deep sense. Although he's appreciated, the depth of his vision is always under-appreciated because it has so many layers to it.
David: The moment things become methodological to a degree that, suddenly, we work people instead of actually connect them. You can sense that sometimes. Not only that but sometimes I catch my own self doing it. I think it's ridiculous. But.. we are fallible. So, I hate that.
David: Martial arts – I've have been doing it for a while.
I did it competitively for number years. I competed for 10 years at the international level. If somebody could pay me enough money to do it as a living without ever slowing down or losing form – I would've done it forever.
David: I never gave it much thought? Although I hate the very idea that I will. But, ideally, I'd like to it to happen with me doing something I absolutely love doing.
Tony: David, I think the death of SEO will happen sooner 😉
David: I lost my focus on figure heads a long time ago. I get inspired by the fact that I see I'm humbled on a daily basis by ordinary people i connect to sometimes in real life and sometimes across the web whose passion for something overwhelms mine. Whose ideas and honesty and transparency are absolutely amazing! And the fact that we can start conversations and from those people can get fired up.
We never met. We're just dots on the screens, really. I find that absolutely amazing because behind those screens there are people, their brains, their minds, their ideas. And they're changing. We are changing. And I think sometimes – why can't it just happen tomorrow or couldn't I have been born fifty years later?
I think just been part of the journey and being part of the magic – I totally love that!
Max: Thank you! That was David Amerland.
David, thank you very much for being here!
Thank you, all!
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And Libby Lou thought she had died and gone to heaven.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Life Snippets #29
It's photo purge time.
For those of you not in Oregon, and clueless to our climate, we have had the craziest couple batches of weather over the last two months.
Snow, snow, ice, snow, snow and more ice.
The city all but shut down.
The kids were out of school for DAYS.
The Dad was off work for DAYS.
Our house became the pit stop for school families and neighbors, popping in, hanging out, drinking, eating, going to The Hill for sledding.
It was so much fun and just what the doctored ordered, because whatever I had going on, that no one could diagnose, magically disappeared.
So these photos are from our first batch of snow, and the first round of the kids being home from school.
The driveway was so dang pretty, all dusted in white, and we were pretty darned excited to see this much snow.
Then, a week, (or two??? It's all a blur.) later, Snowpocalypse happened.
It started at 2:00 in the afternoon and snowed like crazy for hours.
Opening up the driveway door, and seeing this, after only a short time, was a BIG deal for us Portland folk.
So much so, that I had to go out on the porch and take pictures there, too.
And then, to the back.
It's so crazy how much light it reflects.
It was so bright out, even after the sun had gone down.
And Libby Lou thought she had died and gone to heaven.
And Libby Lou thought she had died and gone to heaven.
I just can't get over how bright out it was.
These photos were all taken at night.
Our temps never got above freezing for the next five or so days, so the snow stayed.
And stayed.
Which began the parental and neighbor binge drinking.
The next morning, I was out with my Champagne, taking more pictures in the daylight.
The Dad said it was twelve inches.
Look at this, you guys.
It was SO amazingly beautiful.
I know some of you are used to a white winter, and this is nothing compared to other parts of the country, but for us, Big Deal.
It was perfection.
Although, as a gardener, I may not be singing the snow's praises when spring comes and I have casualties.
But until then....look at this tiny slice of heaven.
She played with a soccer ball in the snow any chance she got.
She went sledding with the kids on a big hill in our 'hood numerous times.
I kept worrying about her poor little feet, but I don't think she ever held still long enough to touch the ground.
She loved it so much.
The Girl got in on the action.
I'll take a Snowpocalypse every year.
Best, time, ever.
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Labels: Libby, The Backyard, The Driveway, The Front Yard, The Girl, The Kids, The Yard
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Champagne and 9 inches (snicker) of snow sounds like my kind of party!ReplyDelete
I think my favorite is the snow on the windmill palm. It looks so fancy. Pretty photos!ReplyDelete
Her feet never touched the ground,...ha ha,..probably true. Our little Lucy,....we watch her all the time, fretting and worrying and she looks at us and says,....seriously bitches, this is Canada, wtf are you thinking? as she struts along. Sigh. Your pics are gorgeous and I'm starting to wonder if you have had more snow t han us (jealous).ReplyDelete
You have created the prettiest back porch! We had 7" down in the southern burbs..enough to bring things to a screeching halt. It was beautiful and maybe we have one more little hit of winter weather before we get on the road to spring. I'm ready!ReplyDelete
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- Ashley said...
She's so cute! These photos made me giggle. I haven't seen her awake in quite a while--she's getting a little chubby, but so so cute!
And good job for taking a photo every month... I can really see the progression. Love you all!
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009
- Missy said...
I love looking at your blog, you are so cute Tori! You have an adorable little family
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009
- Amy said...
what a cute ***fantastic*** idea tor!!!
she IS getting so big --- and is so DANG CUTE!!!!
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009
- Adrienne Hansen said...
she really is getting SO big. I love her little smile. such a cute little gal.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- momma said...
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- jill d said...
talk about the cutest little peanut ever! oh i want to just to kiss that cute little girl. i LOVE that last picture, what a cute smile.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- Ashlee said...
She is supper cute!! I know she feels heavy now but could you imagine a baby at two months weighing 14 lb 13 oz ya that was Jaysa. Shes doing great keep it up!
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- Katie G. said...
She's startin' to chunk right up. She's so dang cute!
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- Kami said...
look at her pretty smile!! what a beautiful girl you have!!
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- AdAmy said...
The older and bigger she gets, "cuter" just follows.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- Skyler and Chelsea Thomson said...
Oh she is growing up so fast!!! She is sooo cute!
- Thursday, April 23, 2009
- MissLed said...
Ohh! I love these pictures so much. She is a little doll. I must meet her soon.
- Friday, April 24, 2009
- c said...
so cute! love seeing the progression of all the photos together. thanks for the link.
- Saturday, July 03, 2010


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User Reviews by KVR Members for BionicDelay
Version reviewed: 1.3 on Windows
It's 2018, and I still find myself reaching for this plugin (or its successor, Bionic Supa Delay) whenever I want something a bit more interesting that a bog-standard delay. I think it's safe to say this is my favourite free delay plugin by miles, and one of my favourite delays in general.
I don't use it much for standard delays - it's a bit wasted on that. What I love about Bionic Delay is its sound (it's a flavour delay for sure) and its interface. The interface is really well laid out, and dialling in your delay settings is child's play. There's the usual stereo tape delay settings you'd expect, with different (note-based) delay times to choose from, a ping pong mode, flutter etc. There are also handy low and high cut filters to help shape the sound of your delay.
While the delay settings are note-based, i.e. eighths etc., you can actually set the delay to other times as well using the groove knobs at the top. But really, IMO this thing shines when you want the tempo-synced delay effect. If anything, I use these options to create triplets/dotted delays, or very minor adjustments for the R and L channels so they aren't quite in sync. If I want a time based (rather than tempo-based) delay, I'll probably look elsewhere.
I recently made a dub tune, and Bionic Delay is all over that track. It's absolutely made for this kind of music, and the updated Supa Delay was developed together with dub producer Russ D. In the context of dub, it works great on anything and everything. Drums, sax, sirens etc. The key is obviously to automate the feedback.
And automating the feedback brings me to my other favourite use of Bionic Delay: it's brilliant for transitional effects. Great if you want one word of the vocal to ring out into the next section, for example. Automating the other parameters (e.g. play with the speed) also gives you nice effects that may or may not suit your track. It's worth experimenting. While I generally use this on vocals, it also works very well on impact sounds or anything else you want to sound big and filling up the room and with a lot of movement.
Downsides? Yes, there is at least one bigger issue. I don't know if it's my host (FL Studio), but Bionic Delay doesn't clear its buffers when you stop playing the track. It keeps the delay buffer stored and then plays it the next time you start the track, irrespective of where you are in the song. This is a particular problem when rendering tracks. There's often a burst of delayed sound at the start of every render. I generally leave a few empty bars at the start to deal with this. But if the feedback settings are high, the delay can actually continue to get louder and play over the entire render. Can be a bit of a bummer...
It's also a SynthEdit plugin, which may mean you'll furl your nose and say no thanks. That also means 32-bit only, but bridging seems to work fine for me.
All in all it's a great plugin, albeit best used for particular applications rather than a bread and butter delay. I was very happy to make a donation for Supa Delay.Read more
Version reviewed: 1.2 on Windows
This is a great sounding virtual echoplex. Closest thing to an analog tape delay that I have found. Been happily using it for years. Sometimes the best plugins are free. A must for your arsenal! The de-generation sound is unique and convincing. Being able to control runaway precisely is a beautiful thing. You can slam the feedback/runaway on this thing and it sounds interesting and full. Not digital sounding at all. Warm!!
This is a great sounding virtual echoplex. Closest thing to an analog tape delay that I have found. Been happily using it for years. Sometimes the best plugins are free. A must for your arsenal! The de-generation sound is unique and convincing. Being able to control runaway precisely is a beautiful thing. You can slam the feedback/runaway on this thing and it sounds interesting and full. Not digital sounding at all. Warm!! Read more
Version reviewed: 1.2 on Windows.
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I first stumbled upon Bionic Delay when I was frantically searching for a solid tape delay to get a Pink Floyd/Animals-style effect for a song. The interface is tremendously bright, and although I like the big sliders for the feedback and effect level, the controls on the bottom are a serious setback. They're simply too small and it's very hard to dial in just a little bit of modulation or flutter, but with trial and error you can get more subtle effects (I guess the developer wasn't shooting for that!)
Now I understand the main purpose behind Bionic Delay is to get that dub sound, and that it does extraordinarily well. But I've found this to be a superior day-to-day delay, with a thick sound that manages to "stick" to your material better than most VST delays, most of which I find too soft or downright nutty to use. There's something about Bionic Deay; it just works like some cherished vintage outboard gear, and I find myself reaching for Bionic time and time again, over high-end payware delays quite often!
It is very simple to use, and it isn't really necessary to consult a manual for this one. It is very limited in the times it can do, though, restricted to tempo-synced notes and percentages in between. That's generally fine by me - I usually use tempo-synced delays anyway, but it would be nice to have more control over the times. I find this puppy has a sweet spot between 30% and 60% feedback, where it sounds best and doesn't overload. Then, if you want the dub feedback, it does this very well after 60%, and really has a nice degradation of the delay line. WARNING: it gets out of hand quick, and some solid limiting is required if you want an infinite repeat without squealing at -0db.
The presets included are excellent, very useful, give a good idea of its capabilities and come in "insert" and "send" flavours.
Another helpful element is the include low and high pass filters. As you may know, as secret to getting a delay to sit well in a mix is cutting some frequencies so it doesn't bunch up in the mix, and Bionic Delay starts up with a (unknown) percentage of EQ knocked off the bottom and top, and I find this setting is usually just right already, but you have full control here and you don't need to insert an EQ after this puppy.
The CPU could be a bit better. This is an old Synth Edit plugin, and it shows. A few of these in your project, and the CPU meter will be significantly raised, and I find Cubase gets a little choppy when I'm running many of them. But it's not bad enough to worry about, it's worth it.
Because of its great sound, and despite any shortcomings, this delay is literally on every song on my album and will be used into the future, unless I find something very similar, with better modulation, controls and lighter CPU. Until then, I urge everyone to check out Bionic Delay. Truly a classic VST effect. Read more
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Windows.
Last edited by kritikon on 30th September 2005.
Personally, I'm not that keen on the GUI of this one - some of the knobs are a bit on the small side and very fiddly to set any fine parameters.
Soundwise it's OK as a general delay - not an awful lot of character but useable because of the ability to instil some wow and flutter, and also useful is the ability to tweak the delay timing off the exact tempo. But it becomes really useful when you turn up the feedback to get the repeating filtered dub delays. To be honest, you should probably ignore my earlier whining about general delays, as obviously this one is aimed specifically at being a big resonant dub delay, and at that it does a rather good job.
A reservation I have is that there is a certain point at which the feedback suddenly comes to life, but below which it is difficult to control - it doesn't seem to do an awful lot, but you pass the magic feedback number and hey presto it is immediately an infinite delay - all or nothing. When it's at "all", it's great and characterful, and the filter comes to life, and the delays go on and on and take over your mix wonderfully...sigh....but at "nothing" it is just a boring difficult to fine-tune delay.
So this is my proviso - use Bionic delay solely as a huge dub delay with lots of feedback and filtering and you'll be perfectly happy with it. It definitely has a different character than things like RetroDelay etc. It lends itself to dirty, mulched up dub delays very pleasingly. The type of delay that you bring upfront in the mix and drop out everything else for in-yer-face dub effect.
Another proviso is to have a limiter, or at least compressor after it. It will grow too big quite easily and will clip if you let it. Automation is also a good idea to bring down the feedback afterwards.
It's definitely not my first go-to delay for dub, but I wouldn't like to get rid of it. I wouldn't use it at all for bread and butter delay, but personally I don't see that bread and butter delay is the point of Bionic Delay anyway. Just every now and then, you want to go silly with a delay, and this is the perfect freebie delay to go silly with. It doesn't do much of anything that many other newer delays can't do, and it's not the best-looking on the block either, but it has its own little niche place for grunged up infinite dub, and you'd be daft not to at least give it a try if you do anything in the realms of dub or ambient. Bigger knobs and some colour other than orange would help it, but they're only minor gripes really.
It has a "grooveL" and "grooveR" function which are useful little tools to get the delays off the exact beat and tempo. Not enough delays have this type of feature - exact tempo matching with delays can sound pretty dull, and even muddy up your mix badly, so this is a welcome feature.
Another little gripe with the tempo sync is the lack of options - you've only got the basics such as 1/2, 1/4 etc - I'd like a few more options of dotted and triplet delays. But as I said before - if you use Bionic Delay for what it's good at (huge dub delays), then you're probably going to use either 1/2 or 1/4 note delays anyway.
Not alot more I can say about it really. For me, it's a one-trick pony. Ain't anything wrong with that...it's a good trick. Read more
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Windows
docs are fine, no problems, it's a bit simple to use innit, it's a delay. gui is charming, and clear. plenty of solid usable presets that do most of the things one might ask of a delay unit.
well for free i can't fault it. it eats one's cpu, i'll not deny it. but it's well worth it. you don't want to go piling on delay units, one might well be satisfied with a single characterful delay in a tune. and this is it. Read more
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Windows
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would be great if we can send alerts for the agent inactivities i.e. when it is not communicating or it is shutdown (for a certain amount of days)
Hi Duane,
I've discussed this extensively with Engineering and this particular one gets pretty tricky - there's essentially no way to tell if (a) the endpoint experiences some kind of fault (software/hardware) and stops functioning (b) the user unplugs the network cable, even if only temporarily (c) the user turns off the endpoint power without properly shutting down. Depending on the specific environment (all-desktop, some laptops, wireless, etc) these conditions may or may not be anything to worry about. Further, if we have to maintain timers for every agent that missed a scheduled checkin that gets very expensive computationally and won't scale at the level our service needs to scale.
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Thank you for the information. This could be really helpful.
Is this feature available in Endpoint Security? (It is not part of the default weekly health reports and I did not find how default "weekly report" could be customised. Also it is not available under Report Viewer > Health Summary)
The closest report I could find regarding agent activities is the "Agents scanned by Policy" which only gives the last full/quick scan dates.
It would be great if you let us know how we can access the report you mentioned in your email.
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OK, I will assume you are talking about Server Edition here. The report I was referring to is the Health Summary report, which is in concept very similar to Cloud's Health Digest. The "disconnected devices" widget, however, wasn't implemented in time to make it into that report.
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Genre: Drama / Arthouse
Language: German
Runtime: 63 min
Director: Johan Carlsen
Writer: Johan Carlsen & Jan Viethen
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1420547/
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It's easy to like "Headlock" because it presents something real to us, and there can never be too many movies about real life problems. It's a pretty depressing movie, with some brief moments of light to help us from feeling too miserable. I really adored the relationship between son and mother here, and because of their problems there seemed to be a special connection between them. The look of the movie goes hand-in-hand with the depressing style, being slightly bleaked out and gritty. "Headlock" is also very short, at 63 minutes, and it makes it a movie I can definitely recommend. You might not get a shock of awe, but it's hard to deny that it's a good, depressing yet sweet movie. Without pointing fingers, I do think that it might be a movie more appreciated here in Europe than in US. But what do I know?
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We all had a great time yesterday at the Moda Event. The turn out was great. The Moda book, Fresh Cut Treats was a hit and we will be getting more in. I will let you know when they are here.
I didnt have a chance to check out the doorprize until after you had all left and holy cow, that is the best prize. And I cant win it. The winner has 2 weeks to respond or we will pick another winner. Ready?
Chris Bell
Congratulations Chris!!


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Sweetcell (Mar 1, 2007)Peoples with mad coloring skills, I needs this painted. :) Think Vallejo.
Sweetcell (Mar 1, 2007)
drawn in 3 hours 43 min
DeadlyBlondeArcher (Mar 1, 2007)I like this drawling thing you do... (you saw drewed, I saw drawlled... tomatoes, you know... :) I still have a precious Pooh you so kindly drawled/drewed/drooled? for me that I'm still looking forward to coloring but haven't, yet. You also color very well, yourself... better than most, I have noticed... I guess you enjoy the drooling part better?
Silvair (Mar 1, 2007)Mad line-arting skills ;). I'm really quite a fan of this type of western comic book style, and how much depth the lines have :D.
Sweetcell (edited Mar 1, 2007)The drooling part better? LOL so funny Cindy. Hope you paint poo soon. Did that sound right?
Would you care to color Silvair? I'd love to see what you'd do with this.
Silvair (Mar 1, 2007)Ah.. my anatomical colouring skills are kind of.. er.. lacking. And I don't really know enough about the Lascaux applet to even colour in the lines.. I'd like totally butcher your art ><;. Sorry :(!
Sweetcell (Mar 1, 2007)Well, maybe another time.
Noremac (Mar 1, 2007)BOOBS!
davincipoppalag (Mar 1, 2007)your patience with details is mind boggling, Barb.. this has so much going on in it!
TaCO (Mar 1, 2007)I'll color it if you want.
I'll do it on a new layer.
Sweetcell (Mar 2, 2007)bumping fer colorists............
TaCO (Mar 2, 2007)bumping fer colorists?????
Sweetcell (Mar 2, 2007)Ok Derrick, memo'd to see if you wanna.
deathking (Mar 3, 2007)Id color at least one or two people in, I have comic book references color styles. If you add me send me a memo.
Sweetcell (Mar 4, 2007)
drawn in 11 min
Ok Derrick, go for it.
TaCO (Mar 6, 2007)
drawn in 3 hours 35 min
1st draft
deathking (Mar 6, 2007)This is awesome, the coloring is great, cant wait to see the next draft.
Sweetcell (Mar 6, 2007)I like the base so far. The girl on the right though needs to be lighter, and the girl on the left more mocha. He's wearing a shirt, thus the sleeves. The throne needs to be richer in color..... well keep on going. It's fine so far.
davincipoppalag (Mar 6, 2007)This it looks good so far (BTW CAM>>there are boobs)
Miss_DJ (Mar 10, 2007)coolness, Sweetcell. You should be illustrating somewhere, lady.
cmb (Mar 17, 2007)super dooper!, me like the shiny look to it!
TaCO (Mar 19, 2007)
drawn in 1 hour 59 min
2nd draft
Sweetcell (Mar 19, 2007)
drawn in 3 hours 52 min
Take a little bit longer.
You had a good base Derrick, but it wasn't quite what I wanted.
Sweetcell (Mar 25, 2007)
drawn in 1 hour 15 min
Sweetcell (Mar 31, 2007)
drawn in 2 hours 56 min
Done, another one out of my studio (and Derricks)
Get the hell outta here.
Punky (Mar 31, 2007)Awesome, he looks like a boss or something at the end of a video game.
Love the marble in the background.
HunterKiller_ (Mar 31, 2007)Whooo. Half naked lady servants.
Sweetcell (Mar 31, 2007)Lady servants or lady SERVANTS? ;)
davincipoppalag (Mar 31, 2007)They serve ants? I wouldn't wanna try those...
Pantera (Apr 1, 2007)Cool drawing and very good colouring, showcase piece :)
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I didn't have much else to do, so I tailed me. I wasn't a difficult tail until I sensed the hairy guerrilla breathing down my neck. From that point on it was like someone had stabbed or tickled my buried STEALTH button, and I disappeared around the corner –
– slipping over the border to the Czech Republic and into the parking lot of a puff or bordello named LOVE STORY. There I lost total track of me.
I didn't have much else to do, so I entered LOVE STORY under the pretense that I was seeking that very extra-special certain somebody. (Our mothers, legend has it, often bathed us together.)
LOVE STORY possessed the original Denny's aroma you can't possibly fake. Like a chamber of commerce flapjack breakfast promoting lemon-fragrance urinal balls. The skinhead behind the bar closely eyed a mirrored shelf of shot glasses. He was alone in the establishment, not counting me, plus the three no one could see performing on the loud dance floor.
I pulled the plug on the rocketry of Ornette Coleman playing like meth on steroids on wings, and a silence domesticated the place like a steady dopamine intravenous drip. (I grew up in a single parent environment, the perpetual reminder of my mother's sexual amnesia.) The three of us no one could see exited without explanation. I assumed a stool at the bar, saw dots, saw fireworks, and signaled the skinhead for a medic and oxygen tent. (If some day someone ever pops me, I too wish to be buried in a freshly waxed stretch———–limo.)
The short-sighted bartender slapped down a Czech Bud before me. He introduced himself as Finn, confessed that he was a kite boarder's kite boarder from Canada, and then regaled me with his turbulent life saga. I took in the melody of Finn's narrative as I attempted to decide which had been my most, most, most, favorite, favorite, favorite, dog, cat, and gerbil. A subtle earthquake heaved or heavy truck rolled past rousing a cricket behind the baseboard. (Wrong is perhaps the Falsch word for it, but to me the Czech Bud tasted wrong.) I decided on Tobias (beating out Queenie) for the dog, Lottie (beating out Scout) for the cat, and Contessa (no contest) for the gerbil.
Tens of minutes, like a series of Iranian centrifuges programmed by the Mossad, spiraled past all too quickly, and suddenly – just as Finn's epic life history crash-landed exactly at the point where he was standing and I was sitting – daybreak assaulted. (When I asked but was too little to know, my mother told me that, feet first, I had come from her mouth.) Finn summed up by saying, »A story like that you can only make up. My old lady thought magic had brought us together. Fiction is no stranger to life.«
»You can say that again.«
On the house, the kite boarder's kite boarder replaced my empty Budvar Bud with a Bud from Anheuser-Busch. »What about you?« he said. »What brings you here?«


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Your journey has led you down a path of no return. The acrid smell of death fills the air. And you know the road ahead may lead to your grave. But Quake, with his insidious, apocalyptic plans, must be crushed. If you fail, evil will shroud the universe for all eternity.
—id Software overview[1]
Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity is the second official mission pack released for Quake, developed by Rogue Entertainment and released on March 19, 1997, an exact month after the first expansion.
- Main article: Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity Story
Having defeated Armagon, the hero returns to Earth. However, things seem very wrong - apparently Quake has initiated yet another dark scheme to subjugate our world by altering the course of time itself. The hero is determined to put an end to Quake once and for all, and therefore boldly enters the dark realms again for one final confrontation to end the entire evil once and for all.
Just as in the original game, the game begins with an introductory level, where players choose their preferred level of difficulty and the episode they wish to play.
- Introduction (difficulty & episode selection)
New ContentEdit
Dissolution of Eternity has a lot of new enemies for an expansion pack. Seven new enemies, seven bosses and one of Quake's evil devices.
New BossesEdit
New Devices Edit
While Dissolution of Eternity has no new Weapons, it has modified ammunition for pre-existing weapons, acting as alternative weapon modes. Players can alternate between the standard and new weapon modes by pressing the weapon selection key (e.g. press "7" to select the Rocket Launcher, then press it once again to switch to Multi Rockets mode).
The Rocket Launcher can now launch multi rockets, where it fires off 4 rockets in a single attack. Since these multi-rockets are a separate ammo stock to that of the basic rockets, not only can the player store twice as much ammo for the rocket launcher, he/she can pretty much kill any enemy without even breaking a sweat. Even the Dragon can be defeated with these easily on the lower difficulty levels. It isn't until you're playing on hard or nightmare that it will pose a real threat.
- Lava Nails (based on the Nailgun and Super Nailgun): Deals about 30% more damage to enemies (except Hephaestus, also known as Lava Man) and ignores armor on players in multiplayer.
- Multi-Grenades (based on the Grenade Launcher): Explodes into 5 mini clusters after a timed delay. Useful for clearing a group of enemies - don't waste them on a single enemy.
- Multi-Rockets (based on the Rocket Launcher): 4 smaller rockets, deadly to everything including yourself. Do not try to rocket jump with this!
- Plasma Cell (based on the Thunderbolt): Unleashes a ball of plasma that deals heavy damage on impact and unleashes lightning bolts onto nearby enemies.
- Anti-Grav Belt
- Power Shield
- Vengeance Sphere (Multiplayer only)
Dissolution of Eternity features a new soundtrack, somewhat different from the original music style. Whereas the original Quake has an almost entirely ambient soundtrack, Dissolution of Eternity contains a combination of ambient, metal, and orchestral music, much like the previous expansion's soundtrack. The music tracks do not have official names. Composed by Jeehun Hwang.
The game received favorable reviews as Gamerankings gave the game 83.50%, a slightly higher rating than the first expansion, but negative on the pack being so difficult to play. [2]
External linksEdit
- Official site
- Mobygames
- Purchase from Steam
- YouTube walkthrough by Lingyan203
- YouTube walkthrough by GalleyUK
- YouTube walkthrough by AshtrayWisdom
- YouTube walkthrough by revenant0519
|Quake: Dissolution of Eternity
|Electric Eel · Guardian · Hell Spawn · Multi-Grenade Ogre · Phantom Swordsman · Statue · Wrath
|Dragon · Egyptian Guardian · Hephaestus · Mummy · Overlord · Quake's Guardian · Quake's High Priest · Temporal Energy Converter
|Lava Nails · Multi Rockets · Plasma Cell
|Anti-Grav Belt · Power Shield · Vengeance Sphere
|Expansions of Quake
|Scourge of Armagon · Dissolution of Eternity · Dimension of the Past
|Quake II
|The Reckoning · Ground Zero
|Quake III
|Team Arena


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Well, it's a new year here at Awesomeness…and while there might be some changes at your favorite (that's debatable) time waster, one thing will still be here for your depraved needs.
Fetish Fridays is still going strong!
And today I bring you a splash of blasphemy to add to your morning cup of moral perversion.That's right, we're talking nuns…and sex.
Now I was raised Roman Catholic and I've seen my fair share of nuns in my life…but none were like Sister Sucks-a-lot over here. But over at Nun Whores they promise to change your mind about how you think about nuns:
"You think they're usually that dull, modest and docile? You're wrong as some of those young beings are not strong enough to hold the lecherous inside devil restrained and powerless. That inner passion is strong enough to drive them into the sinful frenzy – naked nuns live their rooms deep at night and gather in the remote place for their orgies! You must see this as the scene is too hot to bear that calm!"
There's something about that quote from Nun Whores…it almost seems to be written in some sort of code my brain just can't crack. Seriously, read it again. Weird, huh? Anyway, I bet you're wondering just how in Hell did I even find out about Nun Whores!
That's easy, silly…NUNSPLOITATION.NET, duh. And how did I find out about that site? Well, my blog buddy, Tenebrous Kate, just happens to review movies for this wickedly sinful corner of the internet! They're pretty much the one stop shopping center for all things (and by things, I mean porn) Nun-tastic!
But they don't just review nun exploitation movies…oh no, my friends, they also cover the woefully(?) small genre of Nunerotica….that's code for nun porn….you know you want to click it…who's gonna know? Other than God, I mean.Still not exactly what you want…never fear, there's a whole anime section too!
That's right, creeps, you can also see cutesy cartoon nuns get raped by demons, priests, and even other nuns!
Good times!
Oh, and if you prefer the pictures in your mind instead of the ones on your computer screen, there's some hot nun fiction in the Convent Library! Here's a teaser from "Partying with Sister Ann" by Jan:
"Roberta froze and held her breath as she watched. Sister
Ann took her mouth away from the tit and pulled Paula's skirt
up around her waist. She fished around under the skirt and
found the waistband of Paula's panties and pulled them down.
Paula had to move her feet long enough for the nun to pull the
panties over her shoes. She watched as the nun put her hooded
head between Paula's legs. She could not see what the nun was
doing. She could tell by the look on Paula's face that she was
enjoying what ever she was doing."
Wow…um…I think I need to say a few Our Fathers and a couple of Hail Marys after today…but first, one last image..it's small…but it's a doozy…oh, and there's a video!
You're going to Hell if you want to watch the double fisting nuns…I'll save you a seat.


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Do you ever look in the mirror and wonder who the person staring back at you is?
I know that one of the most important things is how I see myself. I want to see the lion when I look in the mirror but some days that is easier than others.
I am aware that I am not alone in these struggles. And I have so many things to be grateful for I wonder if I should even post this…
Why do we insist on seeing the worst in ourselves? I always look for the best in others. Positive intentions – that's one of my first thoughts when I'm frustrated or irritated with someone else's behavior. So why don't I give myself the same latitude?
It's a mystery and something that I've filled pages and pages in my journals about. I have not yet come to an answer, not really, but I always feel better after having written.
When you get right down to it that is my self-reminder for the day. Writing always makes me feel better. Whether I'm writing in my journal, working on my fiction, or just brainstorming, the act itself helps me to process the world and my reality. And that makes my life run smoother.
But there is still the nagging critic that comes back to haunt me when I least expect it. Dealing with him is hard – I swear he's a member of the Zombie Apocalypse because he just doesn't die! But I'm getting better with shutting him up and as I focus on the quiet within myself I find I can hear the murmurs of my Creative Genie more clearly and she's the one I want to hear. Getting to the quiet and not always peaceful but ever creative land within my imagination is getting easier. And for that I'm grateful.
Tonight my mind is racing and my emotions are all over the place. It's been an eventful day and I can hear my journal calling me. That's the lovely thing about writing – it can be shared or kept private depending on the message. And I have definitely written something's that should never be shared with the world! I'm not sure what tonight's writing will bring but I'm sure that it will be powerful.
This post did not come out like I'd planned but that's okay. Someone once said "Life is what happens when you're making other plans." I don't ever remember who said it but feel like it applies. I'll get back to my plan tomorrow, who knows, I might actually get that post done too!
Until next time, my fearless travel companions, enjoy the magic and wonder that appears in your day.


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Access to our IPA Library for iOS Devices. Apple iPhone and iPad KODI Install from AppiPaOnline
Kodi 17.6, Popcorn Time, Slick TV App, Bobby Movie App
You will need the following:
- Computer/Laptop (Mac or Windows)
- iPhone/iPad Charging Cable
- iMazing/iFunBox/Xcode
- The latest version of iTunes
- iDevice updated to the latest iOS
- Using the Charging Cable, connect your iPhone/iPad to your computer
- Open iTunes
- Click on the Apple iPhone/iPad icon
- Click on "Serial Number: N/A"
- You should see the UDID# now ( long set of 40 characters)
- Copy the set of numbers and insert them in your order or use the form below
- Full Guide
NOTE: Due to the nature of testing applications, we cannot guarantee that the apps will last for the entirety of your membership without any revoke, nor are you being charged for the apps. They are a free bonus purely for testing purposes and should not be viewed as the product you are purchasing with our membership. In the case of Apple Revoke certificate, we will provide Free renewal until 3 month Service complete.
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Homescapes is one of the most famous games in the android market when it comes to puzzle solving the 3-match game. This game is the sequel to another dramatically famous Gardenscapes. Developed by Playrix, you can play this game anywhere on your mobile phone and it runs so smooth on a compactable device. Talking about OS then you can play this game with an iOS or an Android OS on your mobile phone.
In order to play this game, you've to be clever enough and you have to be mentally fit to play this game. This game is pretty easy at the start and gets harder level by level. This is really a great game that parents should force their kids to play such game as these games will help their kids to develop their mind much faster. Here we've come up with some tips and tricks to help you get started –
1. Your Power-ups
As in the game a three-match is a simple stack clearing move and matching up more than 3 or more tiles will make up a combo and this will make you a power-up that will help you clear a lot in very less time. There are many combinations and moves that you can use in order to make up some power-ups for you all. You need to know what each power-up do and how to make it. SO below mentioned tips and tricks will help you know that. So let's get started –
a) Rocket – This is created by combining 4 tiles and it will end up making a rocket. There are vertical and horizontal lines on a rocket and that is decided while combining the tiles. When you're combining the tiles then a vertical combination make up a vertical line rocket and vice-versa. Don't get confused in choosing them just look at the line on the rocket and it will let you know about your next move.
b) Bomb – This can be made by making a combination of 5 tiles in L shape. When you've made this combo then a bomb will be made there. The bomb will clear up around a 2tile radius of the tiles. Don't try using the bomb on the edge as it will minimize its power.
c) Paper planes –These are very rare power-ups and you may not find such power-ups in other games. These are a very effective power-up in this game and it will help you a lot. A paper plane can be made by combining 4 tiles in a square and it can be used in many different ways. There are 2 ways to use this paper plane and i.e. you can use this alone and it will clear up 4 tiles in cross section and then it will clear a random tile by flying there.
The second way is to combining paper plane with other power-ups such as rocket and bomb. When it flies to a random place then it will carry your power-ups with it.
d) Rainbow Ball – This is one of the most used moves and most powerful combo. This combo can clear up the whole board in just one move and it will be a lot more helpful when combined with other power-ups. This can be made by combining 5 tiles horizontally or vertically and you'll be able to make a rainbow ball. This is hard to make power-up but once it is made then you'll see yourself doing miracles. Rainbow ball will clear up a specific color tile when combined with it.
Bottom Line
I hope this guide work out successfully for you guys and you by trying Homescapes Hack.


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With Who: Just Me
Where: The House
How: Starz, recorded on my DVR
Synopsis: Technically, four grown ass men get together and compare how many times they can fart and not be funny.
For more information about this movie click here.
With Who: Just Me
Where: The House
How: Starz, recorded on my DVR
Synopsis: Technically, four grown ass men get together and compare how many times they can fart and not be funny.
For more information about this movie click here.
When: Sunday, February 25, 2014
With Who: The most beautiful 7 year old in the world, my daughter
Where: The House. No that's not a fancy name for a new theater. It's literal.
How: Netflix Streaming 3D
Synopsis: A Cavemen family full of survivors and one overprotective leader unknowingly face the change of an era.
What's The Croods? Check it out here.
When: Sunday, February 23, 2014
With Who: The Man In The Mirror
Where: La Casa
How: Netflix DVD
Synopsis: A man takes a drug that allows him to access 100% of his brain, but soon finds out there are multiple consequences.
This one flew under your radar and you've never heard of it? Check it out here.
When: Saturday, February 15, 2014
With Who: By My Lonely
Where: The Crib
How: Why you all up in my business?
Synopsis: Based on the true story of Oscar Grant, New Years Eve 2009
Never heard of this? Where ya been? Well, click here for more info about this flick.
When: Sunday, January 12, 2014
With Who: My Baby Girl
Where: The Crib
How: Netflix DVD
Synopsis: A Snail follows his aspirations of being an Indy 500 racer…..yes, seriously.
Never heard of this movie? Click here for more info.
When: Saturday, December 28, 2013
With Who: All By My Lonely
Where: La Casa
How: Netflix Streaming
Synposis: Documentary about Sea World, particularly following the death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010.
Never heard of this Documentary? Click here for more info.
You get it? It was a play on the Dark Knight Tri….oh never mind.
I've been away too long. I've missed it. My job paid me a small bonus and took everything out of me. Well I'm not on that particular position anymore. Time to get back to me and what I like.
So this post is to announce the return of my movie blog. No challenge this time to watch a certain number of films. Just me sharing my thoughts. Remember I don't do movie reviews. Too many of those on the internet. My thoughts are the more practical aspects of movie watching circa 2014.
So put on your seat belt. The one with the million opinions and observations is back at what he does best. Sharing his opinions.
You don't wanna miss this!
Here are some links to some of my favorite posts the first time around:
The Dark Knight Rises: Follow Up Questions
Looper: Two blogs in one. The experience and the movie
Sitting through the Oogiveloves for my daughter's bday


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Apple announced public Beta program for OSX Yosemite last year, but only select few users were able to enroll for the Beta program. This year going forward, Apple announced that both iOS and OSX users, will be able to roll in for the Beta program for iOS 9 and OSX El Capitan starting in July. While it is not clear whether this roll out will be restricted to only certain number of users, we hope that there would be no such restrictions given that no such announcement was made.
So, if you cannot wait for the final release of both the software for your Mac and iPhone/ iPad you can sign up the public beta and help Apple collect the reports so that they can improve upon the bugs before the release goes live. It is worth noting that public Beta will most likely be about 3rd or 4th beta release to developers, and therefore will be stable enough to use in the day to day usage. Add to it, if you install the Public Beta, when the final release is available, you will get the OTA automatically to exit the beta without having to downgrade or play around with the files.
In order to participate in the Beta Program, all you need to do is enroll yourself in the program here. You will have to log into the program by entering your iCloud credentials, post which you will have to accept the Terms & Conditions to be a part. Once the Public Beta is available you will be contacted via an E-Mail so that you will be able to download iOS 9 when it is ready for you.
In case you do not want to install iOS 9, we will be writing about some of the features of iOS 9 that can be brought on iOS 8, like the post on Power Saving Mode right here.


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Partnering with companies like IBM, Samsung, PayPal, MasterCard and YOU, DX3 delivers 2 days of immersive experiences, interactive exhibits and incredible content. Build your DX3 experience to connect with attendees, grow your pipeline and find new clients.
Get the details on how to connect with key decision makers. DX3 is Canada's largest gathering of marketing leaders from brands, retailers, agencies and technology companies.
DX3's brings together marketing leaders, decision makers, and buyers. 97% of attendees have direct purchase influence and more than 49% of the audience is director level or above.
It's one of the best places to meet the smartest minds in digital marketing and retail. [...] You can meet speakers from Fortune 500 companies, straight through to the top startups driving new technologies in retail.
Dx3 was the Canadian debut of our flagship technology, Pepper the Robot. From the national TV coverage that we received to the amazing brands we met through the Retail Collective on the Dx3 Show Floor, Dx3 exceeded our expectations as a top level retail conference.
There was a great cross-section of digital marketers on the show floor. We were able to speak to people at a fairly consistent pace throughout the two days and we found people were there to learn, so they were attentive to a bit of salesmanship. We will be back next year!


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