Category — Microblog Mondays

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I am pro-name tag.  I prefer the kind that go around your neck vs. the ones that clip on, but other than that, I am pro-any-name-tag-all-the-time.  365 days per year.

It is embarrassing when you didn’t hear someone’s name and now too much time has passed to ask it again.  It is equally embarrassing when you’ve forgotten someone’s name you should remember, and frustrating when you’re staring at someone and you know you know but you have no clue where you know them from.

And then there are all the other added benefits:

Nametags give people lots of space to be called what they’d actually like to be called. If the name that you’ve been given at birth feels like not the best fit, nametags would give you the opportunity to adjust as you please, minimal explanation required. (You can even include your preferred pronouns—there’s room!)

Are you also pro-name tag?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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There’s a company that is looking for two strangers to go on an all-expenses 50-day, 5 continent trip together and agree to have the whole thing filmed.  No, I’m not entering.

Not just because being filmed for 50 seconds (much less 50 days) sounds unappealing.  The other side is the stranger aspect.  They could turn out to be an awesome travel partner, which would make the trip fantastic.  Or they could be a terrible travel partner and end up ruining 50 days worth of sights.  So much of the enjoyment that comes with a trip is taking it with people you like.  Seeing things with people you want to have a conversation with afterward.  Going on a trip with one other stranger is also veeeeeeery different from going alone on a trip with an organized group.  With a group, you may have time apart or multiple people to choose from.

Plus… the judges are three white men.  If the goal is to thoughtfully place two people together who can travel in harmony, they may want to get more diversity on the team.  Unless that isn’t their goal.

So while I would love an all-expenses 50-day, 5 continent trip, cameras and strangers are deal breakers.

Would you travel (filmed!) with a single stranger?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I know next to nothing about Karl Lagerfeld, but I was fascinated by this article about his mourning instructions.  Not burial instructions, because I think most of us have those, but five pages of mourning instructions.

For example, he “provided his staff with the acceptable answers he wanted them to give to customers when they offer their condolences. On the approved list: ‘Thank you for your condolences’ and ‘It is a hard time for all of us’.”  He left behind the statements he wanted written about himself: “He leaves behind an extraordinary legacy as one of the greatest designers of our time, and there are no words to express how much he will be missed.”

I am equal parts in love and confused by his chutzpah to dictate what other people think and feel after his death.  It’s not that other people don’t write their own obits, but they don’t take that space to speak effusively about themselves with the emphatic statement: I will be missed.  We hope someone else will do that.

What do you think?

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The books you’re reading now — at least, the e-book versions — are the future books that people described decades ago.  Wired had a piece on all the ideas people had for where digital books would go:

The Future Book would change depending on where you were, how you were feeling. It would incorporate your very environment into its story—the name of the coffee shop you were sitting at, your best friend’s birthday. It would be sly, maybe a little creepy. Definitely programmable.

There are definitely books doing innovative things — I’m thinking of books that have accompanying apps.  But for the most part, my e-books are screen versions of my paper books, albeit with the ability to highlight with my finger and look up a word with a tap.

Read through the list of ideas in that article.  Which do you wish would come true?  Me — I want the indefinite Ulysses.

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As I said last year, Josh and I do not celebrate Valentine’s Day.  At all.  Every day is Valentine’s Day in our house.  Not that… like… I make heart-shaped pancakes all the time.  But I let everyone know how I feel every day of the year.

But what struck me this weekend was thinking about how damn important Valentine’s Day was for me back in high school or college.  If I was dating someone, I wanted to know how we were going to celebrate it.  If I wasn’t dating someone, it was a chance to get a really good mope going.  The worst was starting to date someone in January.  Was it too soon to do something for Valentine’s Day?  Would it look weird if I suggested it?

Elementary school was easy: it was class parties and paper Valentines.  But those high school and college years were a killer.

What are your Valentine’s Day memories from your teens/twenties?

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