Doug McDermott

Senior Writer :: Boston office

Tell a thing:
Doug is a writer in the Boston Office.
Say stuff about Education:
Mr. McDermott went to school at Boston University. While there he studied things like advertising, PR, and writing. He also studied Latin, Psychology, and Environmental Science. Those subjects landed him on Academic Probation.
A part about previous experience:
Our friend Douglas has worked in fields of business like Sports Management, Publishing, Video Gamery, and Questionable Internet Start Up. He has also worked for/with a bunch of agencies with names like Arnold, Hill Holliday, Digitas, and FCB.
What about Prom?:
The theme to his Senior Prom was “Wonderful Tonight” by Eric Clapton. Not the song about the kid and the window.

Goodnight Sweet Prinzim

Mammoths are go! And extinct!

Scientists once decried my knowledge of mammoths as “very, very poor”. In fact, my entire knowledge of mammoths could be distilled down to a few simple bullet points:
  • They can be used as vacuum cleaners
  • They can be used as showers
  • They are pretty much not around anymore
Fortunately, this all changed when I had the privilege of helping some Barbarians on a project for the wonderful people at the San Diego Zoo. The Zoo has a brand new exhibit called Elephant Odyssey that teaches visitors about Asian elephants and their prehistoric ancestors, Columbian mammoths.

DOWN WITH THE CLOWN FRIDAY

General Reuter, the popular and bearded Confederate Army hero, recently sent Phil and I some fine Insane Clown Posse materials. Enjoying Faygo Rock & Rye soda while wearing 2XL ICP shirts is a fine way to spend a Friday afternoon.
SUP FAMZ.

Our IT guys are better than yours.

Just now I was trying to unleash some fine brown liquor from its foul prison of a bottle. But there was a problem. It seems this brown liquor is so fine that it comes with some waxed seal business over the cork, which makes for difficult opening.
See:
Any time I have difficulty with something, I reach out to the IT department for help – like when I broke Hotbot. In this case I bothered Mr. IT Manager Ian.

The Most Dangerous Game

Good news everyone.
We drink a lot and sometimes that happens at bars. While at these bars, we often play a game called Photo Hunt. It’s a game in which drunkards try to find five differences in two (somewhat) identical photos while drinking and spending too much money. It looks like this:
Based on that bit of computer entertainment, we made this sweeeeeeet game. It’s for Photoshop Express and it’s called Identifive.

Songs about everything. Posters about songs about everything.

A few months ago we helped Adobe launch Photoshop Express, their free online version of Photoshop that lets folks mess around with and store (up to 2GB of) their photos. Excellent, right? Yes.
In that tradition of excellence, we also created a bunch of original songs for the members of Photoshop Express to use in their personal slideshows. When I say “we”, I really mean my good and extremely talented friend Sean T Drinkwater. This guy isn’t messing around when it comes to music. His songs are pretty awesome. See (or listen) for yourself at psxmusic.com.

UPDATE: NO STARGATES AND STUFF

Pfeffer and I will not be building a Stargate out of parts intended for one of the McLeod Mirrors.

Fix this.

There is a huge lack of Richard Harris/Orca Fanfic out there.