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The Ad Store received its order of delicious Girl Scouts cookies today — a wide assortment of flavors ranging from Thank U Berry Munch to the classic Thin Mints. We can’t decide which flavors we love the best — and we’ll see how long they last!
Have you placed your order already?

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Sn-OMG! Snomaggedon. Snowpocalypse.
Thanks for tuning in — we’re keeping busy with the latest and greatest live coverage of the snowstorm here at The Ad Store. No snow day for us, but luckily the office is cozy warm. Yes, we made the several blocks trek in the still falling and rapidly accumulating winter white stuff — [...]

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It’s here! It’s here!
Yes. Today we received our very own copy of the 2010 calendar “Men and Cats.” The cover (and the month of July) feature our very own Francisco “Cisco” Wong and his kitties, Lucas and Simone. The proceeds go to the organization PUPP, which provides free and low-cost pet assistance to the elderly [...]

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Important breaking news direct from the latest Ad Store status meeting: The new year will henceforth be referred to as “Twenty-ten” rather than “Two-thousand-and-ten,” and certainly not “Two-K-Ten.” The vote was nearly unanimous. On a side note, leading grammar-tician-ologists, or whatever they call themselves, agree with the Ad Store’s chosen pronunciation as well. We picked [...]

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On December 18, 2009, The Ad Store went to Chelsea Piers’ Sky Rink to celebrate the holidays with some good ol’ fashioned ice-skating. A good number of us never skated before, but that didn’t stop The Ad Store from lacing up for the challenge!
Here is a short video that captures the recent outing:

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Catching a laptop with your butt? Puh-lease. (If you don’t know what we’re talking about, click here.)
At The Ad Store, we work our buns a lot harder than that.

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Take three birthdays, a handful of pizzas, a couple of pies, some gelato, soda, a few candles, a little fire, and an anchovy or two.
Add The Ad Store staff, interns and Kalvin, the office puppy.
What do you get?
The Triple Crown of office birthday parties!
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James, our twice as nice former intern (as in he interned with us last year before heading out to Senegal for a while, and interned with us again briefly this summer), has found his Quidditch skills have landed him in the big arena. For those muggles out there not in the know, Quidditch is a [...]

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Our very own Franciso Wong and Cindy Kawasaki are wreaking havoc on the art scene with their visually stunning works. In collaboration with a photocopier known only as Nigel, the two have created innovative and expressive pieces that truly capture the human/machine spirit. We caught up with two of the artists to learn more about [...]

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Production person Kris Dikeman’s story, “Nine Sundays in a Row” has been selected as a finalist in the Story South Million Writers contest, a competition designed to showcase fiction on the web. The winner gets cash and glory. We demand that you vote for Kris’s awesome story. (Hey wow, that rhymes. Maybe I should start [...]

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