The Latest and Loudest

This is some of the best animation that I have ever seen.

Hey! We didn’t get any of THIS at the baby shower!

But I know we’ve got a Target gift card around here somewhere…

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—After decades of coddling young children, Johnson & Johnson unveiled
its new “Nothing But Tears” shampoo this week, an aggressive bath-time product the company says will help to prepare meek and fragile newborns for the real world.

A radical departure for the health goods manufacturer, the new shampoo features an all-alcohol-based formula, has never once been approved by leading dermatologists, and is as gentle on a baby’s skin as “having to grow up and fend for your goddamn self.”

My nine months pregnant wife is one semester away from earning her master’s in “integrated marketing communications” from Roosevelt University. The boy is due on the 19th of August and classes start on the 5th of September.

She says it’s not a problem.

Okaaaay.

But while we’re waiting, yesterday she received in the mail her author’s copy of the academic journal, IMC Review. Within, she has a scholarly article entitled, “Home Sweet Home, Loan, Lost Home” about the impact of unethical marketing practices of subprime mortgages in urban communities.

I am both very happy for her and jealous.

Wait. Can I be both or do I have to pick one…?

Good job, baby!

So it’s August 12th and my little one isn’t here yet. He isn’t due until the 19th, but the way my wife is acting, you would think he was two weeks late. According to the doc, my wife is healthy and my baby is healthy. That sounds pretty good to me. It’s just that my wife convinced herself that since the “due date” could be off by two weeks either way, that the baby would come early.

But he hasn’t. Yet.

We were hoping for 08/08/08.

My wife would like her body back now.

And I’d like my calm, cool, and collected wife back now.

It isn’t helping that he is getting bigger everyday and is already well over 8 pounds. This is our first and she’s had time to start wondering how he’s getting out of there…

She’s getting a little nervous.

But we’re ready for him.

Room carpeted, decorated, and stocked? Check.
Breastfeeding class? Check.
First-Time Parents class? Check.
Baby CPR class? Check
Car seat safely installed? Checked and Re-checked.

I think we’re ready.

C’mon, boy.

I first saw the 30 Day Challenge about 2 years ago. It is aimed at helping you make your first dollar online within 30 days through finding a niche and setting up a website(s) with content for that niche. After a lot of checking, I decided that it was legit. Problem was that I had missed the challenge and there was SO much material, that I was overwhelmed.

I decided to wait until this year and have been following them through “pre-season”. The challenge started August 1 and is now 12 days old.

Thank heaven that I was here since the beginning or else I would be overwhelmed AGAIN.

Anyway, so far the idea is that you will make that dollar through affiliate links, like Amazon or a Clickbank product or through sales of your own products. There is no attempt to use Adsense to make money and the rule is that the 30DC is supposed to be done for FREE.

You are not required to spend any money at all.

And I, for one, have learned a TON.

You can check it out here. (And no, it isn’t an affiliate link–though that would be a good way to make that dollar!)

After resisting all manner of instant messaging-type products for nearly a decade, I have finally succumbed to Twitter. I have been just generally amazed at how patient and committed its users are–right through a thousand losses of service and fail whales and the like, they just keep coming back. I

I find the opportunity to “follow” people without their being able to sell my email to Viagra spammers refreshing. And I love when people “follow” me because of some off the wall thing we have in common–like a love of Cinnamon Creme Cake from Corner Bakery or because we both have the same initials. It’s weird, but it works.

And if we get on each other’s nerves, we “unfollow” and there’s no hard feelings.

I also like how easy it is to take advantage of the “group mind” or “wisdom of the mob” or whatever the hell they call it.

Restaurant recs, tech advice, secret invites, coupons and discount codes, music reviews, etc., can all be had on Twitter.

Hope I don’t become addicted.