Seattle: Victor Steinbrueck Park
4
Tag Archives: travel
Video Fridays: Frame of Mind
Since I’m still kinda reeling from what I wrote about yesterday, my posts today will probably be rather brief.
Today’s Video Fridays installment has been making the rounds, and I really got a kick out of it. The guys who made it admit that they’re riffing on ideas that have been done before, but I think they pull this off incredibly well, causing me several times to think, “Wow, that’s frickin’ cool!”
It’s tantalizingly short, but fun.
Like this:
One More From Garden Of The Gods
Like this:
Bridge in Boulder
Like this:
Fish & Bicycles Conquers Greece!
This is SO cool!
Soon after I published my Fish & Bicycles Conquers The World! post this morning, someone from Greece visited and clicked the Like button for that post.
As you can see, there’s a lot of room for growth in Greece for me.
Now, this was not just any ordinary visitor. It seems that this person is affiliated with this gorgeous establishment:
Lichnos Beach Hotel & Suites
As with my last virtual encounter with Greece, I very badly want to go to there.
I’m visualizing myself on that beach, sipping chilled white wine, eating fresh dolmas, and basking in the soothing blue of the Mediterranean Sea.
Um, excuse me, but…
Like this:
Fish & Bicycles Conquers The World!
I haven’t always had kind words for WordPress.com, my blog-hosting service.
Take April Fools Day 2011, for instance, when they thought it would be funny to alter users’ stats pages to look like we were getting ten times the traffic we were actually getting.
Not.Funny.
Anyway, today they’ve redeemed themselves, offering up a new feature on the very same stats page, a breakdown by country of where visitors to our sites come from. And, I’ve confirmed, it’s NOT April Fools Day.
Check this out!
The color scale, which indicates numbers of page views, isn’t very helpful at this point, because the map currently only shows data from the beginning of March 2012. Eventually, there will be a bigger variety of shades from yellow to red, but already I have a pretty clear picture of where my growth markets are.
Greenland! Greenland! Come in, Greenland!
And Iceland! Geez!
Listen, I get the irony that Iceland is a very green place and that Greenland is largely covered by ice, but could you please just set aside your confusion long enough to stop by Fish & Bicycles and say hello?
As for you, China. Well, I’m sorry that your authoritarian government won’t let you roam free on the internets, so I’ll give you a pass. However, if you do manage to break through the firewall, please know that you are most welcome here.
Now, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, well, you don’t really have an excuse, do you?
Moving Westward, it gets a bit dicey. Iran and Syria, your leaders and the extremists in your country are totally whack (so are ours, sometimes), but I know you long for freedom and I’d like to believe that you, like me, would much prefer peace to war. I pray that war will be averted, that you’ll give up wanting to wipe tiny little Israel off the map, and that we can eventually get down to some cultural exchange, right here at Fish & Bicycles.
Next, Africa, if only you knew how much I love you.
I’ve only had a brief personal interaction with you, during my 1996 visit to Egypt, which reminds me of what George Clooney’s character in O Brother, Where Art Thou said when he was offered some gopher, “A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without bedding her back down,” only the gopher, in this case, is you, Africa, and, unlike George Clooney, I accepted the small portion and have longed for more ever since.
Finally, there’s certainly more folks to reach in Central and South America, but it’s clear that the blame lies squarely with Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. I don’t know how I managed to offend the entire west coast of my neighbor continent down under, but I did mention you, Bolivia, one time in a post way back in August 2010.
Are you really still pissed off about Butch and Sundance?
