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You are too cool for school, sweetness.

Dude, it has nothing to do with the fact that I like it. It's my calling. My proclivities are irrelevant. Abusing nice boys like you is what I was put on earth to do.

Men with Pens, http://menwithpens.ca. Hands down, no contest.

Most writing websites I've come across are heavy on one person's experience or their particular field. The Pen Men will cover anything and they have the varied experience between them to back it up. The comments section is out of this world, and they'll cover everything from writing your own web copy to the sometimes icky world of freelancing to creating believable characters in fiction. Whatever it is -- if you can write it, they'll write about it.

Holy crap. There aren't many times in life when you can say, "I have never seen anything like that." That is totally, unbelievably awesome.

The thing I love about this is not simply the insane size, which is pretty cool. But it's what the size indicates. That there are 500 people TO FEED. That it's not unreasonable to have 500 hungry people in one place.

We live in what is conceivably the whitest city in Canada. Our family all lives between 200 and 3000 miles away. I couldn't round up 500 people if I had a gun to my head, and I think that's sad. It's really cool to know that somewhere out there, massive crowds of people are chowing down on paella together.

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Oh, good Lord, yes. I feel like I'm the only person in the business world that doesn't think the sun shines out of LinkedIn's ass. Facebook was kind of OK for me until the whole send-me-a-plant thing started. But I really dig Twitter.

It seems like there's a popular opinion that if you don't absolutely HEART the biggest and newest social media site, you lose your Web 2.0 card. Well, you may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb -- I'll take the opportunity to publicly admit that the iPhone has been in Canada for three whole weeks now and I don't have one of those either. :)

What an awesome roundup of tips! We were pretty lucky with number two -- number one was a helper by nature. Now that we're thinking about number three, this part gets a little scarier. Number two does not help. He bosses. It'll be an interesting ride no matter how it goes.

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OK, the post was great, I admit. But the picture? Heaven. Perfection in small town paper form.

Totally made my morning. Now I have to go buy the DVDs. Thanks. There goes the kids' college fund.

Just doing my part to keep you abreast. She was well aware. She might have been good aware -- look at me and my stranger's-butt-bolted-on-cleavage, or she might have been bad aware -- normally she wears that shirt on dates, or in her moonlighting gig as a pole dance instructor, but she's out of clean laundry.

But she knew. And she did spend all day making sure she wasn't busting out. As it were.

I would just like to say that I am also offended by the ice cream lack. What's problematic is the fact that whenever there is plenty, it is shortly followed by lack, leading to being offended again. Quite the little wheel of life I have going.

Wow. Your word choices are so intense. What a great thing, blogging against sexual violence. You know, when I first read that at the top, I thought the 'creative expression' thing was kind of an add-on, but it made me think of how much more powerful that is. So many will just rant and rage -- I definitely fall into the rant and rage category on occasion -- but it's great to see someone putting their powers to good use.

Simply awesome.

Gorgeous photo, gorgeous blog. I'm all subscribed up. Looking forward to more.

Sometimes the most simplistic advice is the wisest. (Actually, that probably applies to almost all advice.) Great post, and fantastic picture. I love it!

Off to read marital espresso. (Found you via ZH, btw.)

That's too funny! The toddler rule I apply to my marriage most is, "If I'm in a bad mood, it's your fault. If you're in a bad mood, it's also your fault. If the baby's in a bad mood, look! It's still your fault." I've been working on it but it's not as easy as I'd thought.

And yes, your daughter is adorable. My little guy (17 months) wears glasses and I would have happily waited until he started driving as well. :)

I have to say, when I read your "so was putting a man on the moon" line, I thought you were about to launch into one of those nauseating it's-good-to-have-dreams-and-gosh-darn-it-I-can-do-it things. Then you laid down the NASA thing. Love it. Hilarious. I'll definitely keep reading to see your progress. Awesome.

That's a great list -- thanks for including IttyBiz! That's all I'm going to say... I have reading to do. :-)

The thing I had to realize -- and you really do have to realize it for yourself because you don't believe people when they tell you -- is that launch is different from anything else you've ever done. Launch is insane. If you do it right it's a controlled insane, but it's insanity nonetheless.

For us, we were marketing the launch of a marketing company, so it felt like the pressure was immense. That phase was such a big deal and it really felt like it wasn't ever going to end. Then we did it and nobody died or went bankrupt and we had to go back to regular life. That's the really bizarre part. Reminding yourself that launch is not, in fact, the only thing in the universe.

Today will be a very special day.

Today, we will drink egg nog lattes with our breakfast, just because we can. We’ll let Michael eat as many Froot Loops as he wants. We’ll turn the holiday music up loud. I will sing and the baby will cover his ears and everyone else will laugh.

Today, we will buy our tree, something lush and heady. It will be Jack’s second Christmas, but his very first tree. His brother will patiently explain every nuance and subtlety of the tree-trimming experience, and Jack will eat the tinsel anyway. We will enter into negotiations about where to replant it in January. I will say the front and my husband will say the back. He’ll probably win because he’ll probably be right.

Today, I will put on the boots I haven’t worn since before we had the kids and we will go out dancing. I will sip frothy pink drinks and he will call me “honey” and I will melt like I always do.

Tonight, when we get home, he will make me a late-night omelet.

Then, as I bite into my first buttery mushroom, he will look at me and say, “Today was a very special day.”

I'm a little slow on the uptake here. I put the notification of your comment in my "Needs feedback" file. Well, I thought I did. Turns out I drag-and-dropped it to the one next to it - "Mom Whining". No joke. And no wonder I didn't go back and look! :)

i agree with your point about democratized media. Now that most of the world has access to the voices of people who are not The Powers That Be, I think many will be able to make much more informed decisions. I don't think there's anything wrong with doing some things the way we've always done them (i.e. college). I think there's a lot wrong with doing things BECAUSE that's the way we've always done them.

Have a great weekend,

Naomi

"Creative destruction" is completely perfect. There's a t-shirt in there somewhere. I'd say bumper sticker, but then I'd have to buy a car.

Have a great week, Matt.

That is incredible! Then my brother could have known he would have worked at an outdoor barbecue right after he got his MA in English Literature and my husband would have had a heads-up about his six years as a bank peon with his Sociology degree.

In all seriousness, though, that is a completely brilliant idea. College and university students generally only have the institution's promotional literature to go by, and of course THEY say you're going to be wildly successful. I wish that had been around when I was in college. All two months of it. :)

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I'm right there with you. Even "entrepreneurship" is a little hoity-toity for my tastes, but at least it's all one word. When I was in high school, there was an Entrepreneurship course (which, for the record, I did not take) and rumor had it that in the first class of every semester, the teacher said that if you could spell the course name by the end of the course, you'd at least pass. That is a bad sign, people.

I checked out the Language Log, too. Did you see the piece on "The Butt-Crack of Dawn"? I have to go back to read it when my whole family won't be woken by my laughter.

Hi Matt, and thanks again for stopping by IttyBiz. I have to tell my Mom you think she's scrappy - she'll be delighted! I agree, in VC, in business, and especially in marketing, if you know how people think, you're 95% of the way there.

I've heard it said many times, no matter what business you're in, you're actually in marketing. I think the same could be said for psychology.

Naomi

Fascinating stuff. I always wondered where I fell in the birth order thing - I have two older brothers, but since they were so much older I didn't live with them and was raised as an only child. Thinking about the article you quote, I guess I behave more like a later-born entrepreneur. What great food for thought!

Thanks for the interesting article.