Who knew that there was such as thing as an Sloth Orphanage? Anyway, just a little bit of cuteness to brighten your day.

Meet the sloths from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo.

Courtesy of BoingBoing

I feel like my head is going to explode if I don’t do a brain dump.

Things have been very busy at the company I work for EarthChannel so I haven’t been blogging like I would like to… The community web site I tried to launch last year PEG Channels has been a failure… EarthChannel really needs a blog to help tell our story and put a voice on the company so I’ve been thinking a lot about what that would look like and sound like… I really like how Griffin Technologies has handled their social marketing… we had some crazy flooding here in Nashville. Holly and I are fine, the office and house were no worse for the wear but a lot of the places I love have been damaged severely… I want to delete my Facebook account and feel like I should do the same with Twitter… Mike Rohde’s illustrations are in a New York Times Best Seller and there’s a really nice interview with him about sketchnotes and how the his involvement with REWORK came to be… there’s a lot of news about Flash and HTML5 which impacts my business and I have a lot of thoughts on the matter… I like Steve Job’s letter and thought it hit on some key points that I agree with… I bought Holly an iPad and she really likes it… Been thinking a lot about minimalism and simplicity and doing more with less, so I haven’t bought an iPad, but I still wish I had one… I miss the community that we had with the Nashville Palm Users Group and I haven’t found anything to fill that hole. I’m tempted to jump head first into something, but don’t want to overcommit to a huge time suck… I wish I had a podcast still, but I don’t want to do the work, can’t I just talk? I’m good at that… went to Baton Rouge and hung out with “the guys” and had a fantastic time with them… flash sucks… I love my I7 27″ iMac… coming from Louisiana it boggles my mind to think that only 13.53″ of rain fell here in Tennessee over a two-day period. I’ve seen 12″ fall in an hour in Baton Rouge. However, when you realize that 13.53″ inches represents two months worth of rain I suppose that gives some perspective… I’ve got to stop drinking diet coke and get back on my diet… I’ve got to get back to work.

Our Internet went down for about 30 minutes today, so I used the time to take a couple of new photos and a screenshot of my workspace today. You can find the set on Flickr at this link, or I’ve embeded the slide show below.

Since it’s Friday, I figured I’d post something funny. I may be a little late to the party on this one, but The Gregory Brothers created a series called Auto-tune the News on YouTube that’s a riot.

For the past few months, I’ve been exploring the ideas and choices around minimalism and simplicity. Some people may feel that it’s a fad and who knows, they might be right. For me personally, I’ve always found that I think better with less clutter and simplicity falls in line with my productivity methods.

I plan on writing more about this journey I’m on, but I need to get some distance first so I can look back and have some perspective. Then the article Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping! showed up in my RSS reader, courtesy of minimalmac.com and I just had to share it.

It has more to do with how husbands and wives communicate than it does with minimalism, but I hope you find it as humorous as I did. Enjoy.

Hopefully the text message above is an indicator that AT&T is looking to be more proactive in customer service.

AT&T has been ranked lowest in customer satisfaction as far as service is concerned. However, 98% say they’d buy another iPhone on AT&T because they’re so happy with the device.

I’m no huge fan of AT&T, but my service here in Nashville has been good and I’ve been happy with the service since I switched from Sprint for the iPhone back in 2007.

They have sent me several text messages (all free) letting me know about my minutes and text messages remaining, which I think is fantastic. The screenshot above shows a text message of a new cell site that’s been installed near my home.

I haven’t had to deal with customer service, but if the above image is any indication of how they’re being pro-active, I’m all for it.