I’m no good with words but if I am then this is exactly what I would say! in this world nothing owns us and we own nothing, you can buy me stuff, show off your designer labels (i’m guilty of buying labels, not because they are brand but for the quality). As time goes on, we loose the things we own, they become out of style, they broke, they crush, we will all eventually get old and ugly. The only thing that remains are an Extraordinary Mind.

Photo from Notes from the road: Colorado Plateau

Gas on your mind? :) Track your Gas Mileage with Fuel Forg, it’s a neat concept of using twitter to track your mileage, hummm that almost made me wanting to get a car to try it out, if you own a car try it out and let me know the results. Would love to find out.

Will the real winner please stand up. It’s smackdown time for some funky logos, check out the First Company Logo Smackdown, heehee geeks.

It’s cooking time, check out my Bento Lunch Box recipe at OpenSource Food. I’m generally a nice person 0:) as long as you don’t do something stupid to piss me off (then again, I guess that’s everyone’s red thin line), so recently at Open Source Food I’ve run into a very immature and rude member, out of NOWHERE he commented on one of my recipes of been not detailed and fake … how do you answer to such a stupid comment, yeah okay during my free time I LOVE to photoshop up fake food so I can post them on the internet, WTF I mean common i’ve heard of no brainier but this is just way too retarded. Cooking is something I do with my heart. not because of I’m been paid of and I certainly don’t get paid writing recipes online, if I ever do then you bet I’ll take the extra time write down to every tsp. if you think you can improve upon my recipe do so and send me a link i’d be happy to learn new ways of creating food, but don’t just go straight to someone’s recipe page and leave a stupid comment like “Dunno, you grabbed it off the net? What IS your recipe anyhow? Is it too freaking difficult to actually measure anything, or record durations? And incidentally, I’m not a girl.” duh, I know you are not a girl, stupid! PS: If you find out where I ‘grabbed’ off the net let me know I’m interested to find out. Ahaha this is actually the funniest thing that happened to me for a little while now, maybe I should frame his comments, laughter is always good for the body. :) The traffic is also doing pretty good, what a excellent PR.

Alright all fun aside i’m doing some small remodeling of DannieG.com, so i’ll end this post short. Night!

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My recent Missing In Action stored up quiet a few links. Now it wouldn’t be right for me to post it all tonight, I’ll just have to break them up - here are some for now!

Surreal photographs by Martin Klimas

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

There the genuine you is shining through. Without incongruency, mixed messages or perhaps a sort of phoniness. It’s you to 100%. It’s you with not only your words but you with your voice tonality and body language – which some say is over 90% of communication - on the same wavelength as your words. It’s you coming through on all channels of communication.

The above is a selection from The Positivity Blog’s post: Bruce lee’s Top 7 Fundamntals for Getting Your Life in Shape Phew what a long header!

I’ve been searching for a cure for my allergies for some time now, came across this very interesting article on Martha Stewart’s website, it’s called Self-Hypnosis for Allergies, after following the simple 3 steps I feel much better now, it’s all in the mind after all!

Hey it’s Martha again! forget about books, magazines or tv shows, NOBODY takes advantage of blogs better than Martha. Both a equally successful equally yummy, check out Body + Soul Challenge and Everyday Food’s Dinner Tonight

Buying a pair of jeans or buying a house, when it comes down to it, it’s all the same … hummm XXS is that a Studio or smaller? Next House is a pretty awesome housing solution, still not sure how it works but giving the chance I’d love to give it a try :) ps: can I pick the upgrade package that include a hot handy man?!

The Uno Motorcycle is utterly amazing, not only it saves gas it gives you the right to TURN ANYONE DOWN when they beg you for a ride ‘ah sorry would love to, but my bike is only build for one … moi”

Last, I leave you all good night with a funky Vodka website, remember don’t drink and sleep, one may never wake up.

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Word of the week: Social Media Strategist , looks like I was M.I.A on my blog for a while, Here are some links I’m currently enjoying.

Just checcked Google Analytics to see how’s DannieG.com doing, surprisingly it’s actually doing better than I thought; some pies and graphs to showoff.

you know your blog has reached the design community when: you have higher Mac visitors than Windows, with a 27.35% of screen Resolution set at 1680×1050 :) Gotta love those 20″ Cinema displays

If you are bored looking for a place to openly discuss something then - Join my Apple TV or Mac Mini discussion on Get Satisfaction

Random Question: Do guys clip their finger nails so they can type? It seems like I have to clip my finger nails every other week or it gets too long and slips off keys, is it a girl thing?! just wondering.

I’m crazy about Crepes, my favorite Boston place for crepes has to be Z-Square on Harvard {their Goat Cheese and Smoked Salmon Crepes are to die for}. That brings up my next fav. link of the week - I’ve find a wonderful Spinach and Ricotta Cheese Crepe recipe for make at home meals :) Breakfast sounds wonderful.

I love Treehugger’s take on Earth Day Survey ‘blah blah Earth Day blah blah blah blah’ I think if you are reading TreeHugger it won’t matter what day it is, you’ll try to be as eco-friendly as you can.

Love to show off your design skillz? how about showing it off on a side of the building for free!!! check out Diesel’s the wall contest

Last but certainly not the least - my hat goes off to a flickr/twitter/linkedin web buddy of mine - Kevin Lim. a few days ago, I was really surprised to receive a Linkedin email from him reads:

Hello,
Most of you know me as an avidly curious blogger, so I’d like to ask you something I’ve been pondering about for a while: “If you managed a company, would you hire a social media strategist?”

In this open-ended question, I’d like to get a sense of whether there is a need for someone culturally strong in the social media space (e.g. blogs, forums, social networks) to help companies communicate with their relevant public. This is in contrast to hiring a traditionally trained marketing person.

1. Do you see a need for a social media strategist today? (Yes / No + Why)
2. If yes, what kind of qualifications do you expect? (List some)
3. Also, if yes, what kind of bottomline (returns) would you expect?
4. Any further thoughts?

Your collective response will help me understand if we should expect a “dot-com bubble” for the social media industry. I’ll share the results once I get enough replies.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

Kevin Lim

I found the email message very interesting, would love to see the results. If anyone wants to give him your piece of mind then visit his blog post on this topic and make sure to post a comment :) In my view, I don’t think all PR keeps up with the different media, some are more traditional, I do think SMS is different than PR.

Digital design/tech is such a new field, people often generalize us - a good example … Doctors, it’s a field since the birth of mankind so by now doctors are finely filtered into different areas/specialities - heart, skin, legs, boob job, pet health … etc - but I think in the new media field there isn’t a clear line between what’s what, sure by now most people know a trick or two in Photoshop that doesn’t make them a designer - I studied art since age six, has a degree in fine art + digital art, how am i different than someone that has no background in art/color just barely studied a year or two of Photoshop? when someone took one course on website design back in college, does that gain them bragging rights and the ability to give talks to developers on web standards? If a PR firm surfs on the net all day does that mean they are on top of the wave? Have you ever saw an ad that says: looking for someone that can design, code and do flash? who’s to blame?!

FIN

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I received an insider tip that tickets from BOS - NYC are available to purchase on the 20th of Apr so this morning I went on Bolt to check, and YES! I was able to purchase a ticket to NYC for next Saturday the 26th, Total Price = $1

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Three extra inches of legroom per seat. Power outlets to plug in laptops, iPods, portable DVD players and other electronics? wait how much is this ride … if I tell ya it’s a dollar … oh wait today is a bad day - sorry it’s no April Fools joke - it’s the real deal. Head over to BoltBus.com to check them out ( Currently only servicing NY - DC or Philly) What about Boston :( no love here.

The Bolt Bus pricing system works on supply and demand. When a day’s routes first go on sale, at least one seat will be available for $1, with other seats offered at different price levels. The more in demand a seat on the bus is – for instance a bus is starting to sell out – the more seats will go up in price until the bus is full. Routes where seats are not as in demand will have more $1 tickets available. — Visit Suite101.com For a complete break down of the BoltBus.

Also one pretty new trend - i’m pretty sure it will catch on pretty quickly - it’s the same pill just a different flavor sugar coat … all in all … travel with bolt bus, buy 8 tickets from bolt bus , you get something back and they get a royal customer.

Bolt understands that customers expect simplicity when it comes to traveling on a bus. And when it comes to a frequent rider program, we’re keeping it simple as well.
Introducing the Bolt Rewards program. No miles, no restrictions. Simply take eight trips on BoltBus and you’re eligible for a free one-way ticket trip.

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