Job Interview

The above is, sadly, not what I have been doing for the past four months - it's just a depiction of how I feel a job interview might go. If I indeed ever get to that stage. No, the way I've spent these last four blog post-less months is more along the lines of this:

The hard drive on my laptop actually did decide to fail about two months ago, and it took around a month for it to be repaired and sent back to me. The irony of it all was that it died on me just as I was opening MSPaint to start work on a new blog post. I still haven't restored all the files from the old drive, but at least it's back and running again. I have no idea when the next blog post will be up, given my workload and all, but I do hope it won't be far away.

Caterpillar Badges (Shameless Commercialization)

Following a conversation with some friends about the possibility of my making a few badges with my blog's caterpillar on them, I had a few made and they've turned out to be quite popular. All the badges I ordered have been sold, but I'm now taking orders for anyone else who's interested. I'm selling them for NZ$3.00 each, plus shipping costs for those of you I don't run into on a regular basis. If you'd like one (or more), send me a message at caterpillarequalsn@gmail.com letting me know, and I can get them made.


Back to regular broadcasting soon.

Man-[Noun]

Recently I’ve noticed that the concept of reinventing supposedly girlish or ‘women-only’ products such as iced coffee and dip by adding the prefix ‘man-’ to them has become a popular marketing ploy. Everything these days seems to be marketed at men. ‘Man-sized chips’, ‘tea that men can drink’, ‘made by men for men’, and so on and so on. And apparently, it works.

And it got me wondering: how far could you take this apparently successful man-[noun] formula? By making products that really are secure ‘woman-only’ products ‘manly’, could you actually sell them to men? Would it be possible to make, say, high heels appeal to a manly man’s manly tastes?

So here’s my attempt at taking a few products that are universally regarded as pretty much women’s territory and making them manly.