October 2009
“A longing for love and approval. That’s the dirty little secret of success.”
– Jeffrey Zeldman
Emergent Communication
Emerson’s daycare needs to find a better way to say Em’s been congested and coughing all morning than “she’s having problems breathing”.
Like, I dunno, “Em’s been congested and coughing all morning”.
Because “she’s having problems breathing” tends to put a parent into “OMG WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME AND NOT 911 YOU NEED A BUS...
Keeping the Gender of a 2-Year-Old Secret →
…discussion of whether couples choose to learn the sex of their baby before he or she is born, a number of you said you wanted to keep the secret as long as possible, because the moment people hear “boy” or “girl” they begin to make assumptions about a child. One couple in Sweden decided to take that logic a few steps further, and are refusing to tell anyone whether their toddler is a boy...
Who's Waving?
I got my invite last week, as I’m sure some of you did.
If you want me to be able to reach you there, let me know at myfirstname.mylastname@googlewave.com, or as an answer here.
If you know me well enough to know what my real first name is, use the name most people know as my first.
And before anyone asks, no, I don’t have any invites to give out.
The New Merson The Person →
mersontheperson:
I decided I want to start updating again, and the folks say it’ll be easier for them if I’m a channel they can share, whatever that means.
Over the course of the weekend my staff will be reblogging the posts from this blog to the new one. They’ll be given the original dates, so I don’t know if I’ll be polluting your dashboards or not.
Like I care.
Little girl’s on the...
Happy birthday to the lovely and wonderful...
jaydensmommie:
I hope your day is equally lovely and wonderful. I’m really glad I’ve found you here and had a chance to know a little of your life. From what I’ve seen you are pretty freakin awesome.
You have no idea how awesome she is, or how lucky I am to have her in my life.
