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A Small Staring Role

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Some years ago an old high school friend had a southern food and cooking column he was marketing. To help him, I built him a small website to showcase some of the columns and post some recipes. It’s now grown to over 400 pages, and recently showed up briefly in an Ask Jeeves commercial.

You have to watch closely, but in a recent Ask Jeeves commercial there are two people in a lab. The female is holding a monkey. The male actor is conducting an Ask Jeeves search for a chicken pot pie recipe. He shows the other person the binoculars icon on the results page that allows you to get a quick preview of the referenced web page. The second page he floats over that pops up for a short time is, indeed, the Chicken Pot Pie recipe page from the Chefrick.com website.

I admit its a very short flash, and I could not have confirmed it with out watching it again and freezing it with the Tivo, but still…that’s pretty cool

B. John

B. John Masters writes about democracy, moral responsibility, and everyday Stoicism at deep.mastersfamily.org. A lifelong United Methodist committed to social justice, he explores how faith, ethics, and civic life intersect—and how ordinary people can live out justice, mercy, and truth in public life. A records and information management expert, Masters has lived in the Piedmont,NC, Dayton, OH, Greensboro, NC and Tampa, FL, and is a proud Appalachian State Alum.