Monthly Archives: May 2002

General Chaos

Today's sign of the coming Apocalypse: Blue Pepsi, Vanilla Coke

A picture named pepsi_syndrome.jpgThe fifth and sixth seals have been revealed: Blue Pepsi and Vanilla Coke. Both companies jockeyed for news coverage positioning today, with Coca-Cola shilling mercilessly on the Today show.

Personally, vanilla Coke makes more sense than blue, berry-flavored Pepsi. But as I live up the hill from a Pepsi bottling plant, I guess I should watch what I say. (I just glanced out my window and another Pepsi truck drove by.)

(Is there any truth that Pepsi sent a case of Mountain Dew Code Red to the hackers that called their IIS worm the same thing?)

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Administrivia

With dreams like this, who needs nightmares?

I had a terrifyingly vivid dream last night. In it., I was at the Ziff-Davis HQ in Manhattan, watching on closed-circuit TV as the CEO announced that the company was merging with IDG. Both he and IDG chairman Pat McGovern were flop-sweating, talking about shareholder value, synergy, yadda yadda yadda, obviously well aware that none of it was going over very well with anyone.

Then, I found myself at a backyard barbeque at my boss's house with the rest of the staff, discussing the announcement and reading over the merger plans, when we found that they were changing the name of our magazine to Retail Info Systems News and taking it weekly.

It was all too real. Only toward the end did I become conscious that it was a dream–and mostly because I found myself explaining to my boss's son who Alien Ant Farm was.

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