Archive for February, 2010

Just to prove to you that we are totally down with the whole social media thing, we’ve decided to join Flickr. What is Flickr? you might ask. It’s a place where you can sign up for an account for free and then upload photos of whatever you want and share them with friends. Or strangers. [...]

If you loved the 1980′s game called Hungry Hungry Hippos, where your hippo tries to gobble up as many marbles as possible, you will love this new iPhone app. If you have an iPhone, that is. If not, I guess you should just stop reading this right now and rush over to the nearest Apple [...]

Through blowy blizzards, our fearless UPS man in the brown truck revved his engine vigorously, determined to plow through three feet of snowy, slushy solid precipitation to deliver his package on time to a little store in the woods called Hippo Mojo. NOT! Actually, it was a week late, but our package of note cards [...]

A few posts back we told you about our new logo–that we are still fantastically, overwhelmingly, head over heels in love with–and well, once we got the new logo in place, the rest of the site seemed kind of shabby, and not shabby chic shabby, just SHABBY. So, we dusted off our long dormant CSS [...]

Last week Lu the hippo of Homosassa Springs of Allahassee, Florida, turned 50 with park staff and visitors on hand to help him celebrate. Lu was born at the San Diego Zoo on January 26, 1960, and today weighs more than 6,000 pounds, consuming 15 pounds of alfalfa hay, four scoops of herbivore diet and [...]

Well, yeah. What other time of year do you buy Valentine’s Day cards? Unless you really, really, really like hippos, in which case you might buy anything hippo-y all year round, even a Valentine’s Day Card. Or if you are like me and you tend to buy things when you see them and then hoard [...]

I was so inspired by yesterday’s post about Orion, the poor hippo with a toothache, that I decided to make a little cartoon about the subject. Hope you like it! Finally, my Art History degree is coming in handy for something. I know my Dad will be proud.