Tales from Hell-sinki

Yesterday in the brand new mall in Kandy, Sri Lanka, we noticed a crowd standing and watching, around the escalator. There were “coaches” nearby to show folks how to use it.

Yesterday I spent 8 hours in Dubai–which was enough time to be picked up in the airport by my friend Irfan, driven along a highway of Russian Doll skyscrapers- one bigger than the next, past the mall with the indoor ski slope, Up the trunk of palm island down one frond. We finally sat down at an ex-pat starbucks and eavesdropped on a group of “yummy mummy’s” Dubai strikes me as a big luxury hotel –where you’re either staying there or working there and everything has its price. That being said, sign me up to see the illegally acquired pod of dolphins and whale shark staying at at the Atlantis hotel.

Finally in Sri Lanka today. My van from the airport got pulled over a record 8 times. Luckily our van was LTTE free. Time to go explore…

While I’m busy trying to “handle” social media influencers and fit the entirety of CVS into my suitcase for my journey to the land fondly known as “the lanks” by my family, Ceylon by the British Empire, and WHAT??? by a lot of others I was happily distracted by a tip off to this site. Yes folks, it seems that animals are getting a bit to self important lately. I’d have to agree as the rats here in NYC seem to feel entitled to push their way in front of the subway tracks before the train even arrives….
http://fuckyoupenguin.blogspot.com/

watch at your own risk

Hola,
I feel like enough of youse have covered the tech aspect of this week so I’ll cover off what I do best- sheer randomness:

(ps. If you want to know what this picture is, I may have to wrestle up some of my old writing from my first trip to Barcelona to explain why this man is a little too close to Jesus. Although I’m guessing the guys that were there had the un-privilege to see it in person)

Finally back from a week that can only be described with a hybrid word: crazywierdfun. First off, it turns out, when I wasn’t looking my professional title changed from “social media communications” to “handler” courtesy of Scott Merrill and Eric Zeman. I am still trying my new title on “nice to meet you, I’m Molly, what? no, I’m a handler”

In any case, here are some of my highlights in no particular order (ok, maybe a tad-bit chronological):
1) It taking only 20 minutes to breach the subjects of religion, politics, aliens, the fate of traditional press, and the possibility that our paella was made my time travelers from the future over lunch on Monday. I don’t care where they come from, it was good.

2) Overheard about our dinner Monday night “yeah it was great to hear from that spokesperson but we let him off too easy” (Dave???)

3) 15 bloggers 10 spokespeople- GO! Yes, it was….dum da dum dum….social media speed dating.

4) Rob’s invention of the a new nokia durability test- “spastic (yet skillful) air guitar with thunderous fall on your backside”

5) 15 near death experiences coming down la sagrada familia. Highlights include: Jonathan’s disregard for balconies that were clearly DECORATIVE in nature, Scott egging me on “c’mon around this center-less spiral Molly! Jason telling me “about portland” so I could make it down the stairs, A newfound respect for Rob’s reasons for NOT going down the stairs

6) Scary Dancing spanish Christmas trees- Ricky, I never want to see the base of a felt christmas tree do what that tree did- I’m afraid I can never think of Christmas again without being haunted

7) Getting blissfully pick-pocketed while watching said tree perform its horrible feat of whatthehell-ness and having to sound too-leprechaunish when later at the bar i exclaim “where’s me bag of money??”

Mark’s dinner speech that has something to do with stuff that’s supposed to be funny for English people

9) Darla’s insistence that prank texting Ray is much more fun that technology talk- yes, it always will be!

10) Eric and Scott-I now understand why the next time I am lost and almost hypothermic- I will look for rabbits in a size 9.5 AND why no one throws a launch event for the 5 Euro phone

11) Kevin F’s sound airport decision not to add an entire ham leg into his bag and his way of making 1.5 hours of excruciatingly tired downtime actually pleasant. Ok, and the look on Jonathan’s face when he realized Kevin and I had 1.5 hours to his 3 hours of downtime.

overandout, until next time…
Molly

Here we are at Nokia World awaiting the big news. Here’s a very excited Jason Harris. Here with Darla Mack, Ricky Cadden, Robert Scoble, Scott Merril, Eric Zeman. The atmosphere is distinctly tired but psyched, psyched AND tired, ok, fine, tired.