ads: Ain’t you forgettin’ something?
I’m a day late on this one, but it’s worth sharing. Heinz is airing a spot on UK television for their new “Mayo with a New York Deli flavor.” It pokes fun at the concept of mom as live-in domestic...
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DC weather: Trade-off
I’ve done it before and I’ll do it again. I have no problem walking through a torrential downpour if we get a good payoff as a result. Yesterday afternoon was downright nasty, and me like a fool just had to...
Life needs an “Un-Send” button
During one of our daily chats, I told Michael about the site Not Always Right with some hilarious anecdotes from employees dealing with some absolutely nutty customers who really push the boundaries of its namesake phrase. He responded with the...
the rain has stopped & I’m back on the drugs!
I promise that I shall never trust in the old advice, “Oh thank goodness it’s raining, I don’t need to take my allergy pills today!” Especially when it rains for 2 or 3 days straight. Even shutting out the outside...
celebrity crush: Jamie Oliver
I don’t often get celebrity crushes. I can accept that a certain actor or actress is hot, but in my mind I think about how much work they have to do to stay that way and I admit that as...
We are WAY past Footloose here…
Ok, I admit it. I watched “Step Up” last night. I’m not proud of this or anything, but when you ignore the “acting” and focus on the dancing, it was a pretty fun movie. Predictable plot and the lead characters...
Cute ad: Surprise Mom
I normally don’t pay that much attention to commercials, thank you TiVo, but I caught this one and it cracked me up. [flv:call_mom.flv 470 342] I do talk to my parents often enough, but I did get years of “don’t...
Never gonna make you cry…
The phenomenon of the Rickroll is truly going from cute to mega. Noticed on Kris’ shared feeds from Gothamist: Meet the Mets, Rickroll the Mets Thousands of Internet denizens–including some Mets–don’t want to ever give Rick Astley up, so they...
Office Pet Peeve #683
When our team has a higher than normal workload, for some reason all the requests starting coming in as high priority requests to which we joke, “It’s all high priority!” There are some people around the office that we think...
Who am I…?
You’ll have to excuse me as I just had a little geek-gasm. I was reading through some feeds while responding to work e-mails and the gawker sci-fi blog io9 had a story up today about the best space battle smack...