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I am awed and inspired to say that Karen Agresti accepted my proposal of marriage, which involved the songs “Ring of Fire”, “Ring My Bell,” “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”, a jar of herring, a can of Pringles, a spring, a key ring, an onion and an engagement ring on a plate.

The proposal idea was to do a series of subliminal “ring” hints until she finally couldn’t not get it. She could tell there was something staged going on but I had to go all the way to the “onion rings”, which had the ring itself, for the thing to become clear.

Life is good, I have to admit. Pretty damn good alright.

This is the QR (”quick response”) code I generated for the blog.

If you have a bar code (or QR) scanner on your phone, you can point it at the above image, and you’ll be directed to my blog.

As you’re already here, there’s no reason for you to do this, but imagine the possibilities this type of thing opens up.

Artists can quickly include a QR image on CD/vinyl packaging, on a PDF that comes with a download…heck, it could be the cover image for a DL itself.

Customers can then - just by pointing their phone at the image (or holding the object in front of their laptop’s camera) - be directed to whatever link the artist wants; perhaps a microsite where more information about the underlying product can be found; or to a twitter feed; or to a fb fan page; or to a link where a song could be downloaded…you get the idea.

Of course, retailers can (and should) be putting these QR images in their stores. Imagine, for example, if rather than sidling up to a restaurant’s in-window menu and perusing the fish choices, you could point your phone at the QR image, and immediately be taken to the restaurant’s Yelp page (or wherever…maybe a coupon that could be redeemed right then and there…that’d pull people in one would think).

Here’s a QR generator for you to make your own.

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When asked (in a YouTube comment) if he made the images in this video himself, Nordine (89) responds: “yup…in the computer.”

Love it.