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This piece was produced to help promote the new website being developed by Yurrow at Yurrow.com. The animation uses 3 scenarios to illustrate the uses of the site and it’s benefits. The piece was produced and animated by Jason R. Coleman. The art was provided by Charlie Wetherington. If you would like more info about this project or if you are in need of creative for your next creative advertising or marketing project, please contact Extreme Measures Creative at info@extrememeasurescreative.com.

If you are into Fallout, my copy is up for grabs!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/170792328954?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_500wt_1156

Facebook errorsI recently had an issue with a new Facebook page. I created a new page to have for interacting with friends who may have interest in Melaleuca and its benefits for your home and home business.  I have a website that deals with this, but if you’re not on Facebook, you’re missing out on so many social possibilities that it could hurt your business. After I created the page, Facebook asked me to invite friends to get the page started. One of the ways to do this was by importing an email address list. I had a good email address list from Gmail and decided to import it and invite folks on that list. That’s exactly what I did. In doing so, I come to find out later through friends who are on that list that some of them received that invite in their email anywhere from 6 to 12 times! That’s enough to make anybody not want to “like” my new page wouldn’t you think. I know if I received a bunch of emails like that, I’d certainly not follow through even if it was a friend. Alas, I picked up no new “likes” on the page from that email invite process. Gotta love it when a friendly process actually shoots you in the foot.

 

Anyway, after sorting through “known bug issues” on Facebook’s site and noodling through all the time-wasting topics that didn’t apply, I finally found an area where you can report Facebook bugs. You can go here and report your specific bug. Of course Facebook basically says in it’s disclaimer that they don’t get to answer all email and it’s likely they’ll never do anything about it, but at least you have done your part in reporting the issue as it is. Now I’m not one of those people who feels like I have a right to use Facebook and they have to provide me with everything I want. If you use a service like this, you should expect errors and issues like any other piece of software. So, if you are one of those people, get off your high horse and thank Facebook for helping you find all your old high school classmates.

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It’s a horrible world out there folks. If you think you can let your kids out of your site for any reason in a public place…here’s a little dose of reality:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098608/Horrific-moment-man-attempted-abduct-seven-year-old-girl-middle-Walmart-captured-CCTV.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

 

It’s never too early to teach your kids about strangers! Some preschools do it, but you cannot rely on them. Make sure to teach your kids about this. By the way, you should never be in a public place and not be able to see your kids…period. Not safe!
If you have a great way of teaching your kids safety or you just want to share the way you teach your kids, please leave a comment below this post for everyone to see.

If I was in school still, I would do this. What a great opportunity. If you know a kid who draws well, make sure to tell them about this contest!

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but in the Nashville market of Comcast, they have initiated some horrible functions. I’m now prevented from fast forwarding through on demand TV shows. Cable needs to find another way to provide advertisers value and still allow viewers to see what they prefer to see. How come YouTube has figured this out and Comcast is still fumbling around trying to catch up?

Shopping at Target picking up some items. While I was there I walked by at least 6 employees who were not speaking English. Then I noticed Christmas items are here already! Then as I was heading to check out and there was a cashier with pink hair (male). Then as I was checking out with a different cashier, she didn’t say one single word to me. On top of all that, most of what was in my purchase was not made in the U.S.A. I think the OWS people should be more concentrated on buying American goods so they save more jobs rather than camping out for jobs. I’m just sayin’!

So for some unknown reason, I decided to set up a fantasy football team with NFL.com. I figured that if I do that, it may help me better keep track of what’s going on in professional football this year. I named mine the TN Copperheads. Kinda cool I guess. I lost my first game which was actually week 2 without even knowing who was on my team. This week I’ve looked at my roster and added some players and dropped some. I pulled others off the bench and benched others. Hopefully by paying at least a little bit of attention this week, I’ll have a shot at a win. We’ll see…If you have a fantasy team, leave a comment below and feel free to pass on any tips I may need.

Just watched some Ancient Aliens and another show about UFOs with flight recorder evidence of commercial and military personell and their experiences. Pretty convincing. This stuff is so interesting to me. I don’t know why.