A friend of mine stopped by this afternoon in a dark mood: her horse is lame, her computer keeps crashing, her website is balky, her favorite fruit is no longer in season....on and on.
I tried to distract her by feeding her cookies and showing her a really cool commercial for a satellite phone gadget that stars a friend of mine. The video shows him pulling ashore on a remote island off the Katmai Peninsula in Alaska, unloading this BlueCosmo device and his laptop from the boat, and then hooking up to the Internet right then and there.
This high-tech wizardry did not cheer her up. In fact, as the kids say, it was something of an Epic Fail.
"Great," she said despondently. "He can check his e-mail from Alaska. My printer won't even communicate with my computer and they're in the same room."
She left and headed off to continue her errands. Presently I got a text message from her: because we'd taken time to watch the video, she had arrived at the bank a few minutes after closing time.
Oh well. Maybe it will cheer you up. It's at http://vimeo.com/36125882.
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