Things of Interest to Lisa & John

John Cleese Responds to Futile Comments

John — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:30:42 +0000

Mailchimp, my new BFF

John — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:26:21 +0000

I was sitting with Lisa at a local coffee shop. She was working on a new Newsletter (for her awesome business, GetConnected Communications) We were talking about how to get Mailchimp’s default templates customized… at first glance it doesn’t behave the way we thought it should… I decided, even though it was a holiday, to submit a ticket to the Mailchimpilicious Support team.

Amazingly, in a few minutes I get a response from Abby in Mailchimp Support Central… It says, you want to customize, we got your email template downloads right here.

Arms in the air, victory! It takes just a few minutes in Dreamweaver the make the changes.

Lisa says, “Abby is your new BFF.”

You can guess what I did now, I’m sure. I send a response, declaring Mailchimp Support my new BFF.

Abby responds saying what kind of BFF would she be if she didn’t send me a T-Shirt.

Schaweet! I’ve been secretly coveting a Mailchimp T-Shirt since they were announced. I exchange personals and logistics… then a few days later…

I have my very own Mailchimp T-Shirt. You can be jealous now.

Recursive Image Search

John — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:15:31 +0000

Starting with a transparent image, this video shows what happens when you feed one search with the result of the previous search. 2,951 times.

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 from kingcosmonaut3000 on Vimeo.

Floppy Drive Music

John — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:41:28 +0000

A good friend sent me this link. The interesting thing for me is my kids will probably not really know what a floppy drive is.

Happy Digital Christmas

John — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:29:34 +0000

Fun and fast modernized view of Christmas.

Mailchimp and Homestar Runner

John — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:46:48 +0000

OMG. Two things I enjoy separately have co-mingled. Watch the video of the new Santa Naughty & Nice App.

Happy Holidays, Mike Chapman Style

Here are some screenshots:

Video Snowpocalypses

John — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:16:27 +0000

Huge Calvin & Hobbes fans live at my house.

Mailchimp Mailbag

John — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:32:55 +0000

How cable television gets from space to your TV

John — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:29:47 +0000

Of course, I like the shots of the Datacenter and the RNOC.

Head End: How Cable Gets to Your House from Space from Time Warner Cable on Vimeo.

Wow, Seriously Amazing Miniature Trains

John — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:06:28 +0000

When I was a small boy, my father spent five or six months setting up a miniature train at our house in the utility room. It had a couple of levels, a switching station, and a control board. It was awesome!

One of the best parts, at least to a budding geek like me, was the underside of the system where he installed lights to illuminate the wires. I have excellent memories of spending time just looking at that part of the set up.

I just now saw a video of the largest model railway in the world: Miniatur Wunderland. Simply amazing.