My youngest daughter, Annie, celebrated her 8
th birthday over the weekend. Thanks to my wife’s expert planning, we were able to have a great birthday party for her at Sparetime Rec in Hallowell. After the year that we have all had, it was great to see her and her friends having so much fun.
So, how did she go viral? Did she bowl a perfect game? Get a toy on her first try with the claw machine? Recite the Declaration of Independence after inhaling helium? Nope…
Both of my daughters are huge fans of Harry Potter. Their mother had started reading the books to them during the pandemic. It was a great way for them to have some normalcy during the early weeks of the pandemic – ya’ know, when school went from being in-person to being fully remote in the course of one weekend.
Guilty! Yes, that’s me. I am at fault. Mea culpa. Maxima me culpa! I have violated the intellectual property rights (IPR) by buying DVDs, the videos of movies that I missed watching on the big screen, through whispering.
Oh, don’t tell me you’re not guilty as well. One time or another, most of us
I had a paid pro account at the time.
I actually had a conversation with a product manager; I checked the yes you can contact me when I cancelled my account. They simply refused to admit that an upsell was a advertisement and that disrupting my workflow on my paid, professional account for an ad was wrong.
The other interesting thing about that conversation, they could not understand how a sole proprietor would see no benefit from collaboration tools and kept making up bizarre scenarios where I could use them.
I actually asked them if they were a product manager or a salesperson at one point.