Not ONE milkshake joke all evening.
Month: February 2008
Friday Cat Blogging
Bear, playing Guardian of the Cable Box. I really need to put that stuff away (or throw it out) one of these days.
Is It Me Or Is It YouTube?
Yesterday, a friend of ours e-mailed a link to a video of her new kitchen. I decided to send her back a video of our own kitchen. So I shot a quick video, uploaded it to YouTube, and sent out the link.
Then the weird thing happened. About 30 minutes after I uploaded the video, it disappeared off my YouTube account. Poof. Gone. No notice, no nothing. I have no idea why. The video is about 45 seconds of me talking as I walk through my kitchen; I didn’t add any music or graphics or do any editing at all, so there’s no possible copyright issues.
I don’t upload stuff to YouTube very often so maybe this is normal and I just don’t know it. Or maybe I’m the victim of some unfortunate glitch. Either way, it’s a little annoying.
At any rate, I signed up for a Vimeo account and re-uploaded the video there. If you’re really curious, you can see it (but I warn you, it’s kind of boring):
UPDATE 8:30PM: And now it’s back on YouTube. Go figure.
Randomness
Life’s funny sometimes. Earlier today, someone I thought was a nice person acted like a complete jerk and screwed over two people in the process (one of them being me). And then, this evening, someone that I barely know at all (but who seemed like a jerk on first impression) did something extremely generous and unselfish, and gave me something very valuable for no reason at all and asked nothing in return.
Karmic payback? Random chance? Who knows. We humans are great at pattern recognition, and we can see patterns where there aren’t any.
Either way, one thing is for sure. Today was a reminder to me — to judge people on what they do more than what they say.
Friday Cat Blogging
Haven’t done one of these in a while!
Our big boy Gimi just loves to roll over and show his belly! He’s actually lost a little weight since we changed their diet last year, but even so he tips the scales at some 15 pounds.
Two Great Reads
Seth Godin is widely considered to be a must-read blogger, but like everyone else, he has his ups and downs. This winter I’ve found his blog to be a little less inspiring. Not bad, just … blah. On the bright side, whatever lull he might have been going through seems to be over, because within the last week he’s put up two excellent posts:
1) The Three Marketing Levers
Fear, Hope, Love, and brand associations.
2) Soggy
Another look at why it’s so hard to get things done in business.