El Gaffney » chile http://www.elgaffney.com A Plethora of Marketing Ideas and Plenty More about Me Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:17:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 First Half Recap http://www.elgaffney.com/2006/01/first-half-recap/ http://www.elgaffney.com/2006/01/first-half-recap/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:12:00 +0000 Seth http://www.elgaffney.com/2006/01/first-half-recap/ Here’s the link to my photos/fotos from Rio, Santiago and Buenos Aires. I’m off on a quick trip to Mexico City tonight. I’ll try to get a shot of me in a sombrero before leaving but can’t make any promises since the city is actually quite modern. Hope you enjoy the show. Email (or comment I guess) if you have any questions about what each picture is of. I should know, but was definitely too lazy to label each of the 90 shots.

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Don’t you feel like you were in Rio with me? Okay, maybe not. But at least I gave you a little taste of the culture. Well, here goes the exact opposite for Santiago, Chile. Got in Sunday late at night, to the hotel at about 11PM, they didn’t have my reservation at the Hotel Intercontinental, persuaded them to put me up for just one night even though the hotel was full, waited another hour and a half to get into my room, woke up early for focus groups, had them all day, checked out of the hotel and into another called Plaza el Bosque, had a nice dinner, slept, woke up early, groups, had a nice lunch, and left for the airport at about 4PM on Tuesday. That said, from this and my last quick visit, it is an amazingly safe, clean and picturesque city with tree lined streets and surrounded by mountains. Unfortunately I didn’t get to take many shots. Here’s one I snapped from the top (17th) floor of my second hotel. Apologies Jay, if you thought this post was going to be about your second favorite movie (behind Notting Hill). We can talk about Hugh when I get back to the U.S.

]]> http://www.elgaffney.com/2006/01/in-and-out/feed/ 0 Deep Thought for the Night http://www.elgaffney.com/2006/01/deep-thought-for-the-night/ http://www.elgaffney.com/2006/01/deep-thought-for-the-night/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:11:00 +0000 Seth http://www.elgaffney.com/2006/01/deep-thought-for-the-night/ I just arrived in Santiago, Chile a couple hours ago to find that the hotel did not have my reservation. Rather than tell them how incompetent they were (which would have forced me to speak in English for maximum impact), I took a deep breath, spoke Spanish and got myself a room in what had minutes before been a “completamente lleno” (full) hotel. Earlier last week in Brazil I witnessed an angry American guest complaining (in English) that she could not understand how the entire hotel did not have a iron and she’d have to pay $4US (8.something Reais) to have her pants pressed. Before checking out today, I watched the same receptionist give an iron to a Brazilian guest. Let me be Reverend Run for a hot second (though it’s not easy without laying in a candle-surrounded bubble-filled bathtub). Sure speaking the local language makes a difference. But your body movements, tone (not Loc), volume, and general demeanor can make a bigger statement. There’s an international language… and it’s called respect. Do you remember how Doogie Howser used to end his shows with a lesson learned/recap? More importantly, how about NPH’s comeback? And what’s Max Casella been up to lately? (Yes I had to look up his last name, but I knew it was something like that.) I’ll try and catch up on a couple Rio days and nights tomorrow.

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