I don’t have any real complaints about the Doubletree Metropolitan (in Manhattan on the east side near the UN) except this:
“We hope you are enjoying the options of this basket. The items can be picked up and viewed for 20 seconds before being automatically charged to your guest room folio. If you need to move the basket, please do so carefully as the shifting of items may cause inaccuracies or charge on your folio.
Thank you and enjoy!”
Thank you, indeed!
I’m very impressed by the production quality of this Greenpeace video (though, in my opinion, it goes slim on content/substance towards the end). It’s obvious from this video that Greenpeace isn’t messing around when it comes to using video on the web to tell their story.
A simple productivity tip that works really well for me: Include your e-mail address in your voicemail greeting and let callers know that sending you an e-mail will get a quicker response than leaving a voicemail. Doing this will save you the hassle of responding to voicemails — even if you have CallWave or an Apple iPhone with its visual voicemail, e-mail’s almost always easier to manage and respond to.
I’ve been setting up a test on one of our websites using Google Website Optimizer this morning and it is terribly sloooooow! I’m pretty amazed by how poor the performance is. Google, please throw some more servers at Google Website Optimizer! So I don’t have the spare time to make blog postings like this one.
“Nice picture. When you figure out what to do now that we’re on facebook, let me know.”
🙂
I haven’t tried every photo frame out there, but the few that I have tried (CEIVA, Pacific Digital, PanDigital) miss something simple: I don’t ever want my frame to display anything without filling the frame.
Simple example: If I place my frame horizontally (ie landscape orientation), I don’t want it to display any portrait photographs — or at least not without cropping the photograph to landscape proportions first. No one would ever place a real photo frame horizontally and display a vertical photograph in it. Never.
If a digital photo frame is displayed horizontally, it should either exclude portrait photographs or provide some simple controls for a user to crop/zoom portrait photos to the appropriate proportions.
I wonder when a tech company will come along and do a digital photo frame the right way?
Last weekend in Louisiana:
At the rest-stop just over the Texas border in Louisiana.
Why walk around half dead?
Alligator skulls for sale… in Louisiana (the best part is hard to read, but it’s entitled “Aren’t alligators endangered?”)
Bobby Jindal bumper stickers and lawn signs were all over the place!
And in Washington D.C. earlier tonight:
Linotype machine in front of the Washington Post office — this is what your laser printer obsoleted.
P.S. I caught Spartan on television this evening and re-discovered how much I like David Mamet movies. I’ve only seen a few of his movies (Wag the Dog, The Spanish Prisoner) and one of his plays (Glengarry Glen Ross). What should I see next?
Our fruit trees have been bountiful this year (did I just use the word ‘bountiful’??), yielding baskets of apples, peaches, and most recently, figs. The figs are probably the most interesting ones because they came from a fig tree that was gift from my younger (but not youngest) sister to my Dad many years ago. Was it a birthday gift or father’s day gift? I can’t remember, but as a gift it had my sister’s mark — creative, thoughtful, and unconventional. When was the last time you gave someone a tree as a gift? Anyways, the interesting thing is that I don’t think this tree has grown much fruit in past years, but this year it’s been a basket a day for the past week and the forecast (per the resident green thumb, my Dad) says we’re in for another couple of weeks of figs. Incredible!
A lot of the apples and peaches were turned into aachar (pickles), courtesy of my Mom’s labor and Neelam Batra’s book, Chilis to Chutneys. A basket of hand-picked figs for your viewing pleasure:
