Doing Business: Goals & Outcomes

[gerisullivan]

Nineteen years ago this month, I received the dba (doing business as) certificate for PROmote Communications. Pretty much from the start, my goal, my reason for being in business was that I wanted to knock clients' socks off. That continues to be true today, and I'm pleased to report that I still manage to do so on at least a semi-regular basis. I even have two pairs of skzbrust's socks as evidence from the early days, and some mighty fine client feedback from more recent times.

But unlike the Mythbusters, I've never been able to count any broken windows among my business expenses. It seems Adam, Jamie, & crew inadvertently broke a few windows in Esparto, CA while filming an episode about a mile outside the small town.

As KCRA reports: "They were trying to literally 'knock the socks off' a mannequin by igniting 500 pounds of ammonium nitrate. But the explosion was a lot bigger than they expected."

Posted with thanks to Boing Boing for the link.

Comments

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Those guys really like to blow things up.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Considering the explosion that resulted from the coffee creamer cannon, what must have happened with the ammonium nitrate?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRw4ZRqmxOc

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Bigger than when they blew up the cement truck, I wonder? Yeow! I can understand why they went way out into the country like that, though. I know that area slightly, it being off to the southwest of the county where my grandfather lives.

[dalesql.livejournal.com]

I want to work for the Mythbusters. For them, I'd move to california.

[profgeek.livejournal.com]

I surely hope Steve washed those socks first...