“If only everyone saw you the way your dog does.” Too funny! This is a great commercial, and I wanted to share the wealth. Good job, LA!
via HappyHour Sue
“If only everyone saw you the way your dog does.” Too funny! This is a great commercial, and I wanted to share the wealth. Good job, LA!
via HappyHour Sue
The oblivious asleep one is Leo. And I would be the ridiculously contented spooner. Yup. I’m not ashamed to admit it.
via “What is the picture you receive most often?” — Cute Overload
WHOA. Holy crap. That’s crazy!
The level of excitement which is burbling inside me right now is almost not containable. By chance, from my writing for CuteGeek.com, I got reached out to by a cool dude named Daniel Maloney who recently started up a new podcast called the YoungTech show, aimed at tech-savvy individuals under 30 who are interested in how technology, business, and marketing all interplay. I said “Of course!” when he invited me to join him on the first show, along with another CuteGeek lady, Radiris. But at the end of the show, I think we were both surprised how much fun I had and how excited being able to talk to a microphone for an hour about EVERYTHING I LOVED was!
So I asked Daniel, right around the same time as he invited me, if I could be of service in future shows. And then he invited me to be a regular. And then I spontaneously combusted in excitement!
Show 3 is coming up next Sunday, and when I checked out the site today randomly, you won’t believe what I found! MY AVATAR in the show logo! My eyeballs nearly popped out of my head.
(I had to take a screenshot and then link to it because the website does this timed cycle thing and I wanted to get my head in there, particularly)
Haha, and yes, I totally have an iPod in my hand because in the first episode I admitted, half ashamedly, that I was addicted like a junkie on crack.
I am so excited about this gig, you guys. Nothing would make me happier than if you check it out on iTunes, (heck, subscribe even, its free!) and show some love. For the first time, I could talk in an unabashedly exclamatory manner about all things gizmo and gadgety, and nobody will call me a nerd, and hopefully there will be at least 2 or three listeners (one of whom may be my mother…jussayin.)
When I first went to high school, I bought (in a back-to-school shopping sesh with my mom) what I thought was the perfectly cool school bag, and it was of the messenger variety. Now, for the next year, I would commute to school (via subway from Queens to the Bronx daily, a combined trip of approximately 3 hours) with a hundred pound weight on my back, but damn if it wasn’t stylish. It was, however, constrained to one shoulder.
And that made all the difference. Women everywhere suffer from chronically bad neck, shoulder, and back pains which arise as a result of our dumb habit of carrying an enormous weight on one shoulder. It is a true fact that, in a relaxed posture, one of my shoulders rests higher than the other, and if I were to lift weights above my head in each hand, one would appear to rise higher than the other. That is the extent to which I effed up my back wearing bad bags over the years.
Now, I crack my neck incessantly, wring my hands, wrists, and shoulders, rotate my spine to get it to pop, and rub my shoulder muscles to ease the strain daily. I am all fucked up, but I still need bags that work!
The newest addition to my bag collection, kindly provided as a test and review unit by the people at Speck, is super cute, functional, and durable. You can read the post I wrote about it here. But it’s still a one shoulder option. My other, work bag, is huge, heavy, and very un-stylish. Two shoulders though.
Isn’t there ANYTHING on the market which will work for me? 2 shoulders, business friendly, airport friendly, laptop bag purposed? Come on! The concept of this miracle bag has made it’s way to my holiday wishlist.
No, seriously, I got SO MUCH. I loved the Eurotrip, where we went to Sneek, Holland, then Amsterdam, then Barcelona, then Rome, Pompei, Pisa, Monaco, and Nice. Everywhere was beautiful and I can’t wait to go and explore again, and eat summore!
Here is my favorite picture from the Sneek (pronounced Snake) set– the rest are coming to Flickr soon!
You know how iPhoto ‘09 can recognize faces and asks you for their names so it can tag the people in your photos for you in the future? Well, I found this very amusing.

(From a recent trip to FAO Schwartz with my buddy Alina where we like to pretend to act like little girls and wander around the store lustfully grabbing at objects and play Princess pretend. More evidence below.)

Browsing Uglies

We met a real LIVE Ugly!

I wish I were a Fairy Princess...
Google is moving their smart grid initiative influence all over the world– they’re pushing some big buttons, and this is going to bring about big changes in the consumer energy consumption arena. On the business side, it is much more typical to see large energy utilities move towards smart grid by slowly deploying intelligent metering infrastructure throughout their territories, while expecting the consumers to tag along eventually, after the manual meter swaps occur and the infrastructure is ready to send and receive customer information. Google is going straight to the consumer with these initiatives (along with whichever companies they’re partnering with, TED in the US and Alertme in Britain), making their success inevitable, if only in light of the fact that they have the power (haha, punny) to HIT the CONSUMER first, even if Joe Blow’s utility company is in the process of planning out the two year long architecture and deployment processes necessary to make Blow’s house a smart home.
Kudos, Google. You got some smart cookies in the .org arm of the company.
AlertMe teams with Google, British Gas to give consumers more control over energy use | VentureBeat.