To Bee or Not to Bee: August 2015

Monday, August 24, 2015

Big Grizzly Kid

Everyone wants to play like a kid from time to time!

24 August 2015

23 September 2015 Addition: I hope this bear's name is Al. Then he's Bear Al Rolling.

This will be funny for anyone and ring true for cat lovers. Our boy Finnegan absolutely loves boxes. I have been keeping an empty printer paper box near my desk for him to curl up in for about a month. He's ripped out one side, but still thinks it is a palace!

Cats in Boxes

24 August 2015

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

A Kitten Learns to Groom

The kitten Neo was only 25 days old when he tried to copy his mother grooming herself. Very interesting and even more adorable! Both are ridiculously pretty.

18 August 2015

Friday, August 14, 2015

Man Poses as Target on Facebook, Trolls Haters

From AdWeek.com:

Brands can't be as honest as they might like in dealing with haters on Facebook. But sometimes other Facebook users can do it for them.
That dynamic played out in particularly rogue fashion on Target's Facebook page this week. As the retailer received a steady stream of nasty comments from people upset about its move toward gender-neutral labeling of children's products in its stores, Facebook user Mike Melgaard came to Target's defense—in a provocative manner. He created a fake Facebook account and posed as a Target customer service rep—under the name Ask ForHelp, with a bull's-eye profile pic—and began excoriating the haters with comically sarcastic replies.
He got away with it for about 16 hours, too, commenting on about 50 posts before the fake account was shut down.

I cannot begin to tell you how awesome I think this is. Sure, it made for a bit of a PR headache for Target -- as someone in PR, I sympathize. And as someone in PR, I imagine that they were also smiling a bit, both at the ingenuity that Mike Melgaard displayed and at saying what many were probably thinking.

Go read the entire list of replies via the AdWeek link above. Here are a few to get you started.

Thanks to my sister for the heads-up! Hilarious.

14 August 2015

16 August 2015 Addition: Target ultimately responded in cute fashion on its own FB page.

The photo also included the following message:

Remember when Trolls were the kings of the world? Woo hoo! They're back and only at Target stores.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

ATK: How to Cut Steak

America's Test Kitchen ran a test on the fact that how one cuts a steak after cooking affects its tenderness. This is doubly true for cuts traditionally seen as tough like flank.

The moral of the story: cut against the grain!

13 August 2015