Posts 04 September 2010

14 Jul 2010

Finally, a most excellent use of the “social web”

I was a little late to the Old Spice party… but, I hope the Old Spice marketing people all got huge raises.

Goes something like this:

  1. Make Old Spice commercial
  2. Spawning Old Spice twitter stream.
  3. Twitter users directing tweets to @OldSpice.
  4. Old Spice commercial man responds on YouTube (in this case, to Ashton Kutcher).
  5. Twitters about his new YouTube response.
  6. Ensuing more discussion on Twitter where Twitter users send more tweets to @OldSpice.
  7. And sometimes even on Reddit.
  8. Or Facebook.
  9. And also on media outlets.

Utterly brilliant.

27 May 2010

Smoking kills

It really does. And will kill some younger rather than older.

‘I’m not worried about his health, he looks healthy,’ shrugged the boy’s father Mohammad Rizal.

Two-year-old Ardi Rizal, who was given his first cigarette when he was 18-months-old, throws a tantrum when his parents refuse him a cigarette

11 Mar 2010

Typical morning

I wake up to the sound of the older kid rummaging through the kitchen cabinets presumably looking for cookies or pretzels or some other not-appropriate-for-breakfast food. Immediately after, I hear the scream of the little one who apparently hadn’t made it to the bathroom on time and had peed all over his PJs and the floor.

So there I am cleaning him, disinfecting the floor when I remember we are dog sitting. I get the dog out the door for a little walk.

Come back, negotiate breakfast, the kids settle on bagels & cream cheese with a side of fruit (strawberries, blackberries and raspberries — this is important to Tobias, b/c they all have the word “berry” in their name). Get them dressed. Plop them in front of the TV for Spongebob Square Pants to buy me enough time to make lunches, gather up the dirty clothes and hop in the shower.

I then dial-in for my 8 a.m. conference call, put the phone on mute while I dress, check on the kids, and start packing everything up.

I put on their shoes and coat. Grab the backpacks, my bag, the dirty laundry. Clean the dishes. Turn off the TV. Herd the boys to the garage and into the car where they both insist I help them with their seat belts even though they are both more than capable of doing it themselves.

I am still on the call.

I start the washing machine. Get in the car. Drive the kids to the first school drop off. Take both boys into the school, sign Caleb in, watch him find a friend to ask to play. Take Tobias back to the car, strap him in, drive to the coffee shop. The street is really noisy, I am afraid it will be my turn to speak at any second, so we stay in the car a bit longer.

I can’t take it anymore. Tobias is talking non-stop about Harry Potter. We run out, order coffee and donuts at Dynamo where we stand in a long line behind no less than 4 men in their early forties with longish out of control curlyish hair, ducati-style leather jackets, tightish jeans — the early middle age hipster as opposed to the twenty-something hipster. Get back in car. Still on the call.

After an hour of having the earphones on, listening to others rambling on during their part and the laughing in between speakers, the call disconnects before I get a chance to speak. The phone system doesn’t let me back in when I try to redial.

I phone my boss who says “too bad you missed the call.”

This happens two or three times a week. Every week.

23 Feb 2010

Trending worldwide

Thank god for the Twitter Trending: Worldwide feature or I would have no idea what the modern male finds attractive. Or more interesting, unattractive. So much so, they are wiling to share it with the world. This is soul searching at its finest. Humanity, digging deep.

17 Feb 2010

Aaaah, the internet

This morning a friend sent me a link to a video of a fight on a bus in Oakland because, as she put it, “I know you love trashy.” Which, in the 24 hours since it was posted, has garnered 654,889 views and 10,948 ratings.

Then came the related Craigslist ad (since deleted) that said:

Bus Fight – 22 (oakland west)
Date: 2010-02-16, 4:20PM PST

You were on the 805 in purple spandex, I wasn’t there but I saw the video. Old man beat up young black guy; you just sat there with your headphones on. If you’re single I would love to meet up and talk about how cute you are.

PostingID: 1604132287

(She was pretty cute, I went back to look.)

Then came the over vigilant SFist on the case with latest updates and background information. Mainly about how the person who shot the video (who was also, I presume, the voice egging the two men on) granted a local TV news interview. And how the old white dude who beat up the young black dude, according to some random other dude, used to “… walk by my shop, wave a loaf of sourdough in my face, and scream obscenities about the San Francisco 49?ers.” Oh, and he was also apparently tasered at an A’s game last year.

It seems there is not a whole lot an internet full of drama-addicted gossip hounds armed with video cameras, google and craigslist can’t find out. I mean, how else would you know everything about Julia Allison and her love sagas. Or how The Sartorialist and Garance Dore are dating. Or who wins The Bachelor even before the season starts.

Man, I love the internet.


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