I complete forgot about our blog...will do a better job of contributing.
Here's something interesting for you:
www.yourfonts.com
It's a website that will make a font for you out of your handwriting. I tried it myself and it's very simple to use. Just print out the template, fill in the boxes, scan and upload. Then you can install the font to your computer - also very simple - and use it in any application.
Not sure what to use it for yet, but it has a lot of potential.
And just a note - anytime you use your font and send the doc to someone else, you need to pdf it so they can read it, since your awesome, new font is only installed on your computer and not theirs.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Noah's Bagels
Yo...I have no idea why my name is "SC's in Gensler", but hi...it's Lauri.
I'm sure we've all ordered or purchased a fair amount from Noah's in the past...I mean it's Noah's....decent food and good prices, nearby, all that.
I ordered about $250 worth of food from them last Friday for the Upside of the Downturn event. I requested a 7:30 delivery time for a meeting that was to begin at 8:00 with some big time clients and hopefully clients to be... We just wanted some simple food...bagels, pastry and more importantly perhaps, for a crowd of 40 people, lots and lots of coffee. We know how hard it is to keep that many people caffeinated!
I called the afternoon before like a good, pro-active Coordinator and everything was a go.
Friday morning at 7:35 I decided it certainly wasn't time yet to panic. At 7:40 I could hold out no longer and gave them a ring. "Your order is on it's way". Okay, no problem...give 'em 10 minutes. It wouldn't take much in teh way of setting it up once it arrived.
At 7:50 I called again. "Let me check, yes he's on his way". "Can you contact them to make sure?!??!". "Yes, yes, he's on his way, he'll be there any second".
People started arriving early as they do and I put out a couple pots of coffee that were gone in 30.6 seconds. Sometime before 8:15 I called again and got the manager on the line. He assured me, again, that it was on it's way. Given that we are what, 6 blocks from them (?) I explained that having been told that for the last 35 minutes surely something has gone awry. He said he would call back immediately. 10 minutes later (immediately?) he said he didn't know what the problem had been, but it was, really, TRULY, on its way.
At this time the only saving grace had been that I had ordered food from Epplers bakery for our joint Workplace studio meeting that while it was due to arrive between 8:30 and 9:00, had arrived at 8:10... I quickly surmised that this was to be the new food for the Upside event and put it out as quickly as I could. It was essentially the same thing but with a "lessor" pastry and NO coffee. So I ran with it and just kept making coffee and watched as no one at any food (of course!).
Noah's finally arrived at 8:40, entirely too late, and we weren't charged for it. The manager was horrified, I'll give him that...but as I explained to him the worst part was that it was painfully clear that I had been LIED to several times about it being on its way. I suggested that it would have been much more productive to just admit fault and let me know I had to make another plan.
In the end, as always at Gensler, the food was eaten...but I would just use caution from now on I suppose.
P.S. Epplers was pretty great!
I'm sure we've all ordered or purchased a fair amount from Noah's in the past...I mean it's Noah's....decent food and good prices, nearby, all that.
I ordered about $250 worth of food from them last Friday for the Upside of the Downturn event. I requested a 7:30 delivery time for a meeting that was to begin at 8:00 with some big time clients and hopefully clients to be... We just wanted some simple food...bagels, pastry and more importantly perhaps, for a crowd of 40 people, lots and lots of coffee. We know how hard it is to keep that many people caffeinated!
I called the afternoon before like a good, pro-active Coordinator and everything was a go.
Friday morning at 7:35 I decided it certainly wasn't time yet to panic. At 7:40 I could hold out no longer and gave them a ring. "Your order is on it's way". Okay, no problem...give 'em 10 minutes. It wouldn't take much in teh way of setting it up once it arrived.
At 7:50 I called again. "Let me check, yes he's on his way". "Can you contact them to make sure?!??!". "Yes, yes, he's on his way, he'll be there any second".
People started arriving early as they do and I put out a couple pots of coffee that were gone in 30.6 seconds. Sometime before 8:15 I called again and got the manager on the line. He assured me, again, that it was on it's way. Given that we are what, 6 blocks from them (?) I explained that having been told that for the last 35 minutes surely something has gone awry. He said he would call back immediately. 10 minutes later (immediately?) he said he didn't know what the problem had been, but it was, really, TRULY, on its way.
At this time the only saving grace had been that I had ordered food from Epplers bakery for our joint Workplace studio meeting that while it was due to arrive between 8:30 and 9:00, had arrived at 8:10... I quickly surmised that this was to be the new food for the Upside event and put it out as quickly as I could. It was essentially the same thing but with a "lessor" pastry and NO coffee. So I ran with it and just kept making coffee and watched as no one at any food (of course!).
Noah's finally arrived at 8:40, entirely too late, and we weren't charged for it. The manager was horrified, I'll give him that...but as I explained to him the worst part was that it was painfully clear that I had been LIED to several times about it being on its way. I suggested that it would have been much more productive to just admit fault and let me know I had to make another plan.
In the end, as always at Gensler, the food was eaten...but I would just use caution from now on I suppose.
P.S. Epplers was pretty great!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
North Beach Pizza
Sooo...we had a slight mishap with North Beach Pizza last week for our combined Retail meeting when the delivery guy kept asking for an imprint of TQ's credit card even though she has paid online (TQ can elaborate). But today takes the cake.
The pizza delivery guy calls me at 4:45 and tells me he is downstairs. I ask him to bring the pizza to the 4th floor. He tells me he in unable to bring pizza into the lobby because the security guards hassle him. I try to argue with him to no avail, give up, and tell him I'll meet him downstairs. I run downstairs. No pizza guy. I run around the corner to the Embarcadero side of the building. No pizza guy. I end up running all around the building. No pizza guy. I run back up to the 4th floor to call him (and I am not exaggerating, I was haulin'). My phone is ringing as I get to my desk, and lo & behold, it's the pizza guy. He apologizes and claims that he is dyslexic and went to 1 Harrison instead of 2 Harrison and NOW he is downstairs in front of our building. He still REFUSES to bring the pizza upstairs, citing the same reasons listed above. So I run back downstairs and to my surprise he is actually there. I take the pizza (no time to argue AGAIN) and run back to the meeting. Finally.
I partly needed to vent because I was so frustrated with this situation and partly needed to inform all of you that North Beach Pizza for some reason thinks they can't bring food into our building or to our floor. I called NBP and talked to the manager and he assured me this will not happen again. Whatever sort of notation that was on our account regarding food delivery has been removed and they will be bringing our orders to the 4th Floor (unless otherwise specified) from now on. Just wanted to give you all a heads up for when you order with them. Because although it was a great workout to run around the building like a madwoman asking random people if they had seen a pizza guy, and I'm sure some people got a good laugh watching me run around (because I passed the same people several times)... it really wasn't all that fun.
The pizza delivery guy calls me at 4:45 and tells me he is downstairs. I ask him to bring the pizza to the 4th floor. He tells me he in unable to bring pizza into the lobby because the security guards hassle him. I try to argue with him to no avail, give up, and tell him I'll meet him downstairs. I run downstairs. No pizza guy. I run around the corner to the Embarcadero side of the building. No pizza guy. I end up running all around the building. No pizza guy. I run back up to the 4th floor to call him (and I am not exaggerating, I was haulin'). My phone is ringing as I get to my desk, and lo & behold, it's the pizza guy. He apologizes and claims that he is dyslexic and went to 1 Harrison instead of 2 Harrison and NOW he is downstairs in front of our building. He still REFUSES to bring the pizza upstairs, citing the same reasons listed above. So I run back downstairs and to my surprise he is actually there. I take the pizza (no time to argue AGAIN) and run back to the meeting. Finally.
I partly needed to vent because I was so frustrated with this situation and partly needed to inform all of you that North Beach Pizza for some reason thinks they can't bring food into our building or to our floor. I called NBP and talked to the manager and he assured me this will not happen again. Whatever sort of notation that was on our account regarding food delivery has been removed and they will be bringing our orders to the 4th Floor (unless otherwise specified) from now on. Just wanted to give you all a heads up for when you order with them. Because although it was a great workout to run around the building like a madwoman asking random people if they had seen a pizza guy, and I'm sure some people got a good laugh watching me run around (because I passed the same people several times)... it really wasn't all that fun.
Friday, January 9, 2009
How Do I...
Clean a Projector Filter
here's what to know: on the side of the projector is a small "lint trap" not unlike one on a clothes dryer. it slides out and has a piece of foam that lets air through but catches the dust. if the message comes up that the filter should be cleaned you can just take the filter out and tap it out or blow through it enough to clear it. ask IT to check the projector when it gets returned and they can give it a more thorough cleaning with some canned air if required.
(thanks Amanda!)
here's what to know: on the side of the projector is a small "lint trap" not unlike one on a clothes dryer. it slides out and has a piece of foam that lets air through but catches the dust. if the message comes up that the filter should be cleaned you can just take the filter out and tap it out or blow through it enough to clear it. ask IT to check the projector when it gets returned and they can give it a more thorough cleaning with some canned air if required.
(thanks Amanda!)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Okay, here we go...
I wanted to have something insanely clever to say...but alas, I don't. Go for it kids!
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