Know your audience
I never read the Stanford Alumni Magazine. It's a matter of principle. Any magazine that advertises Maserati convertibles on the back cover is not even trying to address itself to me (except for in the postal sense =P). The latest issue has an even wider gap between the back cover advertisement and myself. Can you guess what it is?
Private jets.
Um, yeah... Can I please request the starving grad student edition?
But seriously, how many Stanford alumni even are in the market for a private jet? Maybe it's all a show? Maybe they deliberately misadvertise on the back cover to make us feel like we're big, important people, and more importantly, to show the world what big, important people all Stanford alumni are.
Private jets.
Um, yeah... Can I please request the starving grad student edition?
But seriously, how many Stanford alumni even are in the market for a private jet? Maybe it's all a show? Maybe they deliberately misadvertise on the back cover to make us feel like we're big, important people, and more importantly, to show the world what big, important people all Stanford alumni are.
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posted by Meg at
10:30 AM
4 Comments:
if you cant afford the plane how about the following:
(taken from an ad inside the magazine)
Think Long Term Investments with Immediate Returns
Create a legacy for your family. Acquire a timeless landscare. Reap the rewards of time spend with loved ones and friends. Savor the peace. The security. The beauty. The Santa Lucia Preserve, 20,000 private and protected acres of California coastal foothills. A community of just 300 home sites. A hundred miles of hiking and riding trails. An equestrian center. A Tom Fazio designed golf course. A sports club. World-class hospitality. Estate home sites from 3 to 86 acres-a very few remain available from $1,000,000."
haha, protected nature with a golf course and 300 houses..sounds VERY protected...
By
Anonymous, at January 17, 2006 10:36 PM
Oh, I love the Class Notes! They're so much fun, if you vaguely remember the person, but would have never thought of them otherwise...
But the rest of it, yeah, it cracks me up, trips to the Caribbean for $10,000, with the company of Stanford students... Uh, thanks, I'll find my own company of Stanford students and we'll go for $300. :P
By
SVR, at January 23, 2006 11:27 AM
What, you mean your RAship doesn't cover a private jet?
By
Anonymous, at January 24, 2006 11:23 AM
You know, it might if I didn't squander it (foolishly, I know) on things like rent and groceries.
By
Meg, at January 24, 2006 4:58 PM
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