{"id":540,"date":"2006-12-02T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2006\/12\/02\/friday-fun\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:50:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:50:27","slug":"friday-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2006\/12\/02\/friday-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the weekend again&#8230;and time for something to make us smile.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I&#8217;ve got a couple of video clips that should get you in the right mood for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>First up is a video, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatphoneguy.com\/\">website<\/a>, dedicated to &#8220;That Phone Guy,&#8221; that annoying person we&#8217;ve all run into in a restaurant, or on the train or in a movie house. They just can&#8217;t believe that everyone isn&#8217;t as interested in hearing their voice as they are.<\/p>\n<p>(Just for fun, take a close look at what kind of a phone he&#8217;s using.)<\/p>\n<p>That Phone Guy<\/p>\n<p>If you like that one, check out the rest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatphoneguy.com\/\">his website<\/a>. It gets better when you watch more than one.<\/p>\n<p>And for those of you who aren&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0142000280?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=43folders-20&amp;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0142000280\">GTD<\/a> geeks, and might not recognize him, the phone guy is really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/about\/#aboutmerlin\">Merlin Mann<\/a>, who runs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/\">43 Folders<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>Friday Fun #2<\/p>\n<p>For our second smile of the week, check out this demonstration of what happens when you mix a popular candy with a soft drink. These guys have come up with a winning formula for viral marketing. They apparently shopped around this video to get the best deal. I apologize for the quality. (Video is something that Google just can&#8217;t seem to get right, isn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n<p>Also, there&#8217;s a commercial at the end, which you can skip. But it&#8217;s worth it, in my mind, to see the video.<\/p>\n<p>The Mentos guys are back<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Technorati Tag: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Friday+fun\" rel=\"tag\">Friday fun<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the weekend again&#8230;and time for something to make us smile. This week, I&#8217;ve got a couple of video clips that should get you in the right mood for the holidays. First up is a video, and a website, dedicated to &#8220;That Phone Guy,&#8221; that annoying person we&#8217;ve all run into in a restaurant, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-friday-fun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-8I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}