Check out this inane marketing campaign currently running which was on Motrin’s home page (Motrin.com) for at least 24 hours. I’ve included a YouTube link (someone else uploaded it) since undoubtedly at *some* point rational thought will prevail and they will pull the ad… after the damage is already done (there were many declaring a personal boycott of Motrin and/or encouraging others to boycott as well.)
Guy Kawasaki. Cool guy, if you don’t know of him you’re not hanging out on Twitter and the Net in the right places!
Anyway, he just posted a wonderful blog entry about his 26 hours aboard USS Stennis, a nuclear aircraft carrier. Yes, he even got to arrive via a carrier-arrested landing. *jealous* Enjoy his post with 130+ photos, 5+ videos, and lots of terrific factoids celebrating our US Navy & Marine Corps and the technology that supports them. Kinda buried in his post is an interesting external link about how to land on an aircraft carrier.
Note: This entry was actually started on MONDAY, July 28 –
It’s clear from my infrequent blog posts that I’ve been fighting “the crud” (sinus infection and, for awhile, lower respiratory infection) for months, really. About the time I’d get so fed up with it that I’d entertain going to the doctor, it would seem to abate, but only long enough to sneak up on me by the following weekend. When you have bad allergies (forget “seasonal”–these are omnipresent) you sometimes forget when you’ve crossed the line from “Geez, this is a horrible allergy season and I can’t remember the last time I felt really GOOD,” to “Geez, I feel really, utterly awful…the worst I have in a long time. And I don’t seem to ever being getting WELL.”
Both of these are from Twitter, with thanks to soultravelers3:
Dewitt Jones, a former National Geographic photographer, on why we should “celebrate what’s right in the world.”
And an inspiring travelblogue (travelogue + blog; did that as a typo but leaving it because it fits!) from a couple who retired early and are now traveling the world with their young daughter. They’re presently in Spain on their 20th month of a multi-year trip — http://www.soultravelers3.com/
Moo!
Now I definitely have to get myself some Moo cards–finally a sleek, simple way to carry them in my purse (read: diaper bag)!
Reposted from geekgal.vox.com
Reposted from my geekgal.vox.com blog:
Seen on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Victoria_Crater%2C_Cape_Verde-Mars.jpg
Description of image:
This image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view of Victoria Crater from Cape Verde. Since reaching the crater on Sol 951 (September 27, 2006) Opportunity has been making its way around the rim in a clockwise direction. Victoria Crater is roughly 800 meters (one-half mile) wide - about five times wider than Endurance Crater, and 40 times as wide as Eagle crater. The south face of the 15 meter (50 foot) tall Cape St. Mary is visible in the left portion of this image. On the right is Duck Bay, and beyond that, the north face of the 15 meter (50 foot) tall stack of layered rocks called Cabo Frio can be seen on the inner crater wall.
