Postcard from Digital Frontier
I knew things had gone well for The Charcoal Project after attending the amazing PCIA conference in Lima last week. But I wasn’t prepared for the onslaught of traffic we began receiving early Monday morning.
What was it? Was it my presentation on our visionary Biomass Energy Efficiency Project (BEEP) in Rubaare, Uganda?
Was it our plan to organize an International Conference on Charcoal in Africa in 2012?
Or maybe it was something more subtle… like the bar games and tricks I performed to a rapt audience at the chicken restaurant “Donde Walter.”
Or, maybe, just maybe, it was my killer dance moves that I put on at the disco club last Thursday night in the Sta. Clara neighborhood near our hotel. Hey, maybe a pile of business cards had fallen out of my pocket during my whirling dervish gyrations and were scooped up by adoring crowds of Limeñas! Fever, night fever, night fever…
My speculation turned to a cold sweat when I discovered the unequivocal cause of the traffic spike. Yep. There it was. Splashed across The Bollywood Mantra, one of the local tabloids in Bombay: I was having a baby with Suzanne Roshan.
“Suzanne Roshan is on cloud nine as she launched her new showroom named ‘The Charcoal Project,” said the Mantra.
“She is very excited about the new showroom and considered it their third baby. She has two lovely sons but the new project that she has opened up is not less than her baby.”
“Highly excited Suzanne quipped about’ The Charcoal Project‘, “It’s more than furniture. It’s the concept we’re trying to sell. This is our third baby.“
Although I didn’t quite know how to react to having The Charcoal Project associated with a fancy furniture store in Bombay, I was nonetheless relieved to learn I was not having a third child.
Seriously, though, we wish Suzanne and her wonderful silver screen hearthrob of a husband, Hrithik, all the best of luck with their version of The Charcoal Project!
Hey, if The Charcoal Project does well, maybe we can share custody?
— Kim
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Just as I said – once I start writing for TCP traffic from India is bound to increase , well it did even before I started . 🙂
:), Kim,
I was quite confused when my usual google search for the cookstove world updates on your site took me to the fancily decorated “thecharcoalproject.COM” with a sitting half-eagle man on the front page! “Hmmm, what a conceptual move”, I thought, trying to guess if it was the 21st century’s media marketing “stand-out to be noticed” requirement that made your development oriented website transform so drastically…:)
However, the doubt was always there and I eventually had to bookmark your page to be sure that I am at the right address!
Continue your outstanding work and all the luck in 2012!