Friday, November 26, 2010

Black Friday Feeding Frenzy

I have been getting all kinds of emails from my advertisers about Black Friday promotions that I should pass on to my readers (you). Canadians don't really do Black Friday as far as I know. I didn't want to cave in and do too much of that kind of thing, but I went to Donkey Tees and saw that they have a pretty good deal going.


Basically, you buy three things and you get emailed a $20 gift certificate. Most of their T-Shirts are under $20 each and they have a few cycling related ones I thought some of you might dig, including "Ride A Freaking Bike", "I can ride my bike with no handlebars" and "On A Steel Horse I Ride" among others.



Click Here to Check Them Out.
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Here endeth my Black Friday promotional activities. I'll be back to my usual programming on Monday.


-3 C this morning. Mutant Winter is getting excited.

R A N T W I C K

Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Gerber Carnivore Light and How I Changed the World

Hey, remember the Carnivore Light? Well, thanks to the awesome power of this blog and it's followers (now numbering in the tens!), the flashlight's maker, Gerber, has renamed it! I was just surfing around, following up on some old interests of mine when I found this:


A new Carnivore? I was giddy with excitement. Little did I know it would be more of a surprise than I could have dared to dream... the link went to this:


See what happened? I made fun of the name of this light and the company changed the name. I feel drunk with power. I'm sure they would have changed it the day my post came out if they could have, but I understand... you know, inventories, production runs and all that. Flashlight names can't just be changed overnight. What else can I joke about to change the world? This is awesome.

Incidentally, I found it easy to find sites selling Gerber knives and tools (those first links came from one of them), some even kind of representing themselves as the Gerber company, but finding the real Gerber website was a bit of a challenge because they weren't tops in google searches. I don't think they want to be and I think I know why.

Gerber blades, the choice of many hunters, military dudes and outdoors people of all kinds, are a wholly owned brand belonging to a company most famous for their scissors, one of the most trusted names in the hardcore sewing and quilting sector, not to mention being a favourite of xtreme scrapbookers. I'm just guessing here, but I think the people being marketed to with a website like this, using a poster boy like Bear Grylls, may not want their gear to come from the makers of grandma's good sewing scissors. Like I said, just a crazy notion that popped into my head.


Yer Pal,

R A N T W I C K


quilt image from here


PS - There is a slim chance that I am not responsible for the redesign and renaming of that flashlight, but really, what are the odds? Tiny. It had to be me. Right? Right.