This is my current favorite commercial. I can’t imagine any dog lover not loving it. The product involved, Beneful dog chow, is incidental. It’s all about the dog and the ball. Unfortunately this video is the long version of the current shorter commercial that’s being airing. The short version is much better, but I can’t … Continue reading Love this commercial
I love technology! I say that all the time. But here’s a particularly outstanding, if personal, example. That cannon icon (Arsenal soccer team logo) is my son’s current location in London, brought to me via Google Latitude. It’s beyond fun to log into the map and see exactly where he is at any time, especially … Continue reading Grandma loves Latitude
When it comes to social media, I’m happily illiterate and oblivious. I only just noticed that people who follow Pied Type on Twitter can click on “View media” and get a nice preview — including an image — of my posts. Certainly a lot more than just the posts’ headlines (limited to 140 characters), which is all I thought followers were getting. Cool! (Yes, I still say “cool.”) … Comments »
If spring still seems months away in your part of the world (or even if it has arrived), treat yourself to this Southern California garden. Fleur and Pip, young hummingbirds preparing to leave the nest (“fledge”) in the next few days, are on a live streaming webcam. Tune in to watch them and their attentive … Continue reading Hungry for spring
(Updated March 13 @ 12:12 pm MDT) The man who recorded Mitt Romney’s infamous “47%” comments was inspired to do so because of Bill Clinton, according to a story on Huffington Post. The filmmaker was a bartender working at a Clinton fundraiser and remembered that after his speech, Clinton made his way back to the … Continue reading 47% filmmaker to appear on The Ed Show Wednesday night
My apologies to those who may have come looking for a Daylight Saving Time post that I had up very briefly this morning. It was a reblog of an earlier post of mine, the first time I’d tried a “self reblog,” and I discovered several shortcomings I didn’t like. I could add a comment only at the end; I’d have preferred an introductory comment. The comment I added was restricted to one paragraph; paragraph breaks were automatically stripped out. The original “featured image” (the one that appears on the home page) did not get picked up as such, so I had to go in and manually designate it. And finally, the categories assigned to the original post were stripped out, as were any new ones I tried to insert manually. All in all, unacceptable. WordPress Reblog fails again.
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