Random Stuff at a Random Time
A middle-of-the-day random post? Sure! Why not?
1. In case you hadn't heard, the Pittsburgh Zoo has a brand new baby gorilla. I pretty much had no choice but to drop everything and go pay it a visit.
CAN YOU STAND THE CUTE? Yeah. Me neither.
The folks at the Zoo say the mom has been hanging out by the glass, so it's not hard to catch a glimpse of the tiny beast. I have a few more photos over on Flickr.
By the way, if ever there was a time when it was helpful that my camera is my bitch, THAT was it. It's crazy dark in there and Mr. Canon was all "Nuh-uh. Can't be done. Too dark," but I slapped it across the face and found a way to get it to work.
2. Want to make your DSLR your bitch? I can help with that. There is a spot left in tomorrow's afternoon Getting Started with Your DSLR course. Email me to register.
I also have a session coming up on February 29th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. If you can talk two of your friends into attending, one of you will get to learn all sorts of camera fun for free. One email is sufficient to register all three of you.
Questions? Let me know.
3. There is a new toy available that helps you find apps that might be of interest to you. It's called appSmitten and basically it lets you search for apps by categories (e.g. educational apps for kids aged 2-6). It will email you recommendations. I already used it to find three kick-butt apps for Alexis' Amazon Kindle and two for my iPhone, leading me to wonder why someone didn't think of this before? It was much easier to dig through the millions of available apps using appSmitten than it is in the Android or Apple store. You can check it out here, if you so desire. (FYI--that's an affiliate link. Unemployed people need to pay the bills, yo.)
4. I have started working on a refresh of this here bloggy blog, so if you see anything wonky over the weekend, SORRY! Refresh your page and you'll probably be treated to something new and wonky. It'll be a fun wonky game!
If you've got any suggestions or requests, now would probably be a good time to mention them. I can't promise that I can incorporate them all right now, but I'll try my bestest.
5. It has been something like 20 hours since I last treated the Internet to a Penny photo. I'll be back later to fix that.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Reader Comments (2)
I was at the zoo today too! Glad you got good shots of the baby gorilla because my camera was not cooperating :/
I don't tweet but I find it awesome when bloggers incorporate their 3 or so latest tweets on their blog somehow (I think of it as "magic"). It helps keep us technologically challenged folks in the loop. And maybe it'll force me to figure out twitter! My biggest question: If I have the twitter app on my iPhone does it count as texts if I tweet or receive tweets? I dunno.