Posted July 12th, 2009 by Mike Lawson
Ever since Dunkin’ Donuts revealed their new image and started peddling iced-coffee, I thought that I’d really like to give it a try…but I don’t live close to one.
Luckily on Friday I spent the night at my parent’s house and I on my way to the club on Saturday morning I passed a Dunkin’ Donuts and pulled in and bought a delicious iced coffee.
One thing that I noticed about the logo is that the font kind of looks like the font I used on this site. Am I right?
It was 100% unintentional. Do you think that when I re-designed this site I subliminally connected to the Dunkin design?
As a side-note, when I twittered that I was loving the Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, my friend Joe replied:
joeb7474Dunkin’ Donuts is a good place for a diabetic to hang.
Good point, Joe. But they’ll sweeten your coffee with Splenda.
Posted March 4th, 2009 by Mike Lawson
My Twitter icon is a picture of my face. It’s actually a work photograph. We have a “Get To Know The Staff” bulletin board, where there is a photo of each member of the staff and I Photoshopped all of them so they were black & white, and it looks like we are all wearing the same color blue shirt.
Do you use a real photograph of yourself for Twitter? Or do you have a cartooned version? Or is it some random icon?
Until very recently, my Twitter icon has been a drawing of myself that I made. And then I started realizing that an actual photo might help people connect with me and what I’m tweeting. There is also the chance that there are some acquaintances out there that could recognize me in a real photo, as opposed to a drawing or generic icon.
I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter lately, and I’ve been trying my best to be honest: honest about my diabetes, honest about feelings and honest about replies and support to other Twits. So why not honest in my photo too?
Last night my boyfriend updated his Twitter icon. Awhile back his icon was a photograph of his cute face taken at a bad angle…you could see right up his nose, and he was looking down so it looked like he had 2 chins (even though he is very skinny). Just straight up unflattering.
And Dan is a big Steeler’s fan, so when they made it into the NFL Playoffs he changed his Twitter icon to the Steeler’s logo. And that stayed there for about two months or so (maybe more). And it wasn’t until last night that he felt that he could change the picture.
He took this adorable picture with Olive. And that’s his icon right now. Cute right?
Or does she look a little freaked out?
She’s a Pug/Beagle (Puggle) and like most pugs she has a lot of skin up in the neck and face. It’s cute how it’s all bunched up.
Here are some icons of other Twits that I really like:
@starryskye81 Nice black & white with color (like mine)
@janaekrell A highschool friend. Everytime I see her face I smile.
@diabeticizme Doesn’t that photo say so much? She’s loving, she’s a mom, she’s happy & positive. Why wouldn’t you follow her?!
@ninjabetic Do I need to explain?
