But there are also some adventure activities in northern Finland that are just good old-fashioned fun.
Arabia, our favorite McOil, had announced it would stop serving up the quadrillions, but we'd take care of that with a good old American diet.
With all the recent studies showing the growing potential of digital marketing channels such as mobile and various social media networks, it was somewhat refreshing to run across new research that shows good, old-fashioned Word of Mouth (WOM) is holding its own as an important tool to deliver marketing messages.
And all of this for a clothing company that prides itself on good old fashioned American values.
It was just that back in the good old days of 2005, I thought it was kind of fun to go to the Apple store.
And despite investing some of the potential prize money to promote the team on Facebook and Twitter, Dr Rahwan and his colleagues found that most participants used good old-fashioned e-mail.
"We're fighting the perception that our old stuff is good enough, " he says.
For the past week, I've tried using a tool from Targus that breathes digital life into good old handwriting.
That's good for retaining old customers, but not for adding new ones.
The vision AgilOne is pursuing shows how advanced technology can be used to restore the intimacy with a customer that we associate with the good old days when shopkeepers knew each and every customer.
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One demands that prisoners' diets be restricted to bread and water, as in the "good old days", another that bodybuilding should be encouraged to improve the nation's health.
There are good reasons for thinking that old patterns are about to change and that the current recession-driven downturn in the demand for Western graduates will morph into something structural.
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So it is not surprising that here at home, the harshest critics of good, old fashion Yankee imperialism came out Wednesday in notes circulating in email in-boxes nationwide that Chavez may have been the victim of a U.S. plot to get rid of him once and for all.
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So I think the answer to the question, and it's sort of something I'd like to emphasize, is that the old rules really still are good.
The bottom line is that you probably don't need or want the VGE if you have a fairly new television, or an old one that is in good shape.
Sunday's FIFA Club World Cup final was supposed to be the day Brazilian starlet Neymar would outshine Barcelona's Lionel Messi the day haughty Europeans were reminded that there is pretty good soccer outside the old world, especially as it slides toward economic decline while Brazil booms.
They reason that since there is a heavy concentration of 18-44 year old men that watch football, it is a good environment to sell Chevy pick-up trucks.
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Politicians have made us believe that buying new things is good - that we shouldn't be miserly and hang on to our old possessions, our old appliances and our old clothes, but that we should toss them out the second they get worn and buy new ones - to keep the economy going.
The new Photos of You feature has a good shot at increasing that time, adding a whole new way to look through old memories, admire your own good looks or see even more of what your friends are up to.
The good old days of analytics models that are as simple as a six-sided cube have melted away.
More eyeballs online means that those with the content need to montetize that content just like they did in the good old days with TV.
"Good old marketing has convinced people that they should spend a lot of money on bottled water, " says Salome Freud, chief of New York City's distribution water quality operations.
She had kept her husband, who had finally become a really good husband, now that he was too old, too worn out, too scared, and too beaten down to cheat.
In addition to his dunks, Plumlee drew great reactions from the crowd when he made three hook shots good old-fashioned hook shots that just aren't seen in college basketball much anymore.
By making it, he is just confirming that he is still a good alumni of the old school of the administrative French elite (his 1980 class below had Villepin, Royal and Hollande in its ranks).
When Dick Thaler and Danny Kahneman (two of the founders of the field of behavioral economics) showed investment firms data confirming that their top earners were the recipients of good old fashioned luck, the bankers scoffed at their analyses.
That will be a good time to sweep out the old and bring in the new.
"We should toss away old and rigid attitudes that are not good for fixing the mental knots and rallying people's minds", the editorial noted.
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