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Assorted tips, get it?

Assorted tips, get it?

I totally stole this idea from Seth Godin. You are welcome. 

  1. Fresh herb plants (basil, thyme, rosemary) are one of the best investments you can make if you’re a foodie. Buy a heat lamp, too.
  2. If you have an artificial Christmas tree, buy a bag to put in. You’ll thank me for this next week.
  3. Test your snowblower out before the first storm of the season.
  4. This Keurig is one of the best investments I’ve ever made in my life.
  5. Drink a glass of water the first thing after you wake up.
  6. Buy generic everything except: Triscuits, Peanut Butter Crunch, batteries, Oreos, and toothpaste.
  7. If you find a good mechanic, stay with them.
  8. Use the Oxford comma.
  9. If you’re going to have more than three paragraphs of text on a web page, make sure it’s broken up into readable blocks. If it’s not, nearly no one is reading it and you’re wasting your time.
  10. Use Three Sentences. Constantly.
  11. If you make the root of an onion the last thing you cut off, you won’t cry (as much). Most of the “cry juice” is in the root.
  12. Spend at least one or two 12-hour blocks during the week where you’re off social media.
  13. Try eating one vegetarian meal per day. It gives your digestive system a “protein breather,” if you know what I’m saying.
  14. Kefir is a pain in the neck to try and make. Just buy it from the store.

And that, my friends, is how you do random thoughts.

I’m stating it for the record right now: I want this to be my birthday cake next year.

Happy Birthday!

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Andy Warhol once said that “…everyone will be world-famous for 15-minutes.” It seems my fifteen famous minutes were to be spent with Kathie Lee Gifford. Yes, that Kathie Lee.

I spent the earlier part of this week in New York City for the Business Insider’s Social Media Analytics conference. One of the next challenges I’m taking on at MonkDev is figuring this out for the organizations we work with, as well as our own.

As you can imagine, the flights in and out of Des Moines are sparse, so I had a few hours to kill before my flight left after the conference concluded. I’d always wanted to visit the “Today Show”, so I wandered down to the West 49th-studio to see what all the fuss was about.

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