Just to give you guys a visual on Sohail’s Ansel Adams reference in case you didnt’ get it the first time:

Sohail Ansel, the ultimate traveler

“Where in the world is …?” has officially been changed to “Where in the world is SOHAIL?” We found this guy hanging around at a charity event and he was talking about life changes, something about lessons and helping people and also about wanting to travel the world.

So, Red Ledge is all about that stuff (thus us hanging around at the charity event) so we told him we’d hook him up with some gear and he could tell us all about his travels through pictures and as a guest blogger on our site. You might have noticed him up on the top of our blog author list recently (Sohail the Nomad) so expect to see some exciting things coming from him in the days (possibly months depending on how often he gets held up in customs) to come. The team at Red Ledge is definitely excited about his travels and wishes him the best of luck and the safest of trips.

Godspeed Sohail, Godspeed.

Someone sent me this SNL clip today and in more ways than one it seems eerily familiar (if you know our Western sales team, you’ll know what I mean)

Seems our industry is reaching more and more for any real innovation these days. I’m almost pretty certain that most of these ideas featured in this skit have come up before in product development meetings, and I’m also pretty sure that I’ve seen some of these features in the market already. Though the whole double hood thing is pretty revolutionary and sweet.

Deciding to use my power to help me re-live my youth (to this day I still can’t say “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego” without singing it, and if you know what I’m talking about then obviously you were as nerdy as I was), Red Ledge has decided to sponsor a soon to be world traveler in his quest to travel the already explored and take lots of pictures for our blog explore the unexplored.

In the coming days you will be introduced to this world traveler and become more acquainted in his quest and his unquenchable thirst for world knowledge. This explorer (who may or may not have been found yet) will become a guest blogger on our site and will enrich us with his travels so that those of us who are stuck behind a desk, reading blogs trying to pass the time, can live vicariously through him.

Hopefully we’ll get some good pictures and entries as a result of this, and holding true to the Carmen Sandiego way, we’ll also be posting up useful (and useless) facts about wherever his travels may bring him. So stay tuned as we reveal Red Ledge’s World Traveler.

Some memories from my last night in Hong Kong and Typhoon Hagupit:

Before dinner, in the lobby of our Hotel.

And yes that is correct, I’m doing the whole “Hey look how important I am on my blackberry, yet I still have time to point to the Typhoon level 8 warning sign and show everyone how awesome of a job the hotel is boarding up the windows.”

After seeing this one might want to reconsider going out for dinner on a night like this considering Hong Kong is located right on the water. We considered staying in, but 3 seconds later we decided how often do you get to go out on a Typhoon night.

Though Hong Kong is pretty small and it’s subway system pretty efficient there are still some places where you can’t simply hide from the elements.

Though the path was trecharous, we eventually made it to dinner, and after dinner my friend told me about a place of legend in Hong Kong. A place where boys become men, and men become drunk, and women become scared of the drunk men who were once boys. A place where this transition takes places only on treacherous nights like these.

And that place my friends, is Typhoon. Apparently they serve free shots when a Typhoon hits level 8, talk about sytematically trying to weed out the riff-raff of society.

Well that’s where it ended. A little night cap here and a little night cap there and before you knew it we were on a plane the next day flying over the typhoon to Taiwan and back to from Taiwan to the US.

So on a final note I’d like to bid my friends Typhoon Sinlaku and Hagupit farewell, you will be missed, we had good times, almost became BFFs if you had not tried to make out with me and whispher sweet nothings in my year.

Not bad though, all in all 3 typhoons/hurricanes in 2 weeks for the Red Ledge staff. Looks like a record we’ll have to try to beat next year.

2008

Red Ledge 3:

Spinning Swirly Things: 0

2009

TBD