I need to have a good day of coding today. My list of projects is in good shape, a few big ones that are moving slowly, a medium sized project with a short time to deliver, and plenty of smaller tasks to fill in the gaps. Those short little maintenance to do list items really do work well as a change of pace and help clear my head. Just gotta keep swimming…

Movie Reviews…

Warrior – this movie is formulaic and filled with cliche, but Warrior is also a pretty great sports movie.

Small Business/Tech Links…

• 7 Reasons Why Pinterest Isn’t Yet Ready for Tech Brands
• How to Start A New Business in Less Than 50 Hours
• 5 Signs of a Great User Experience

Funny/Interesting Links…

• 21 Must-Follow Pinterest Users
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• The Snowfield

Abbe and I just received another VERY cool raffle prize yesterday for our Beef N’ Beer Fundraiser for LLS, a 60 minute hot stone massage from With Heart & Healing Hands Therapeutic Massage for Women! Dawn Marshall is a close friend of my family and was kind enough to donate this session that will go to some lucky winner that attends our Beef N’ Beer being held at the Marlton Tavern on December 4th.

Prizes now include:

• 4 Tour Tickets to the Battleship New Jersey
• 4 Tour Tickets to the Philadelphia Independence Seaport
• 1 T-Shirt and 1 Autographed Photo from Frankie Edgar, current UFC Lightweight Champ
• 1 Free Nutrition Consultation w/ a Whole Foods gift card from Dr. Mike Kirk at Performance Health & Chirpopractic
• 1 60 Minute Hot Stone Massage from With Heart & Healing Hands Therapeutic Massage for Women

For tickets to the Beef N’ Beer, please email myself orAbbe, they are $30/adults and $15/kids.

If you are unable to attend, please consider a donation: - http://pages.teamintraining.org/nj/wdw12/AllForLayna

Small Business/Tech Links…

• 14 Popular SEO Myths Examined
• How to Build a Strong and Powerful Business During a Recession
• DIY: Backlinking Strategy
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• Two-Thirds of Online U.S. Adults Use Social Media — But Why? [STUDY]
• VP Joe Biden Explains Why SOPA & PROTECT IP Are Anti-American & A Bad Idea

Funny/Interesting Links…

• baconlube – thanks Carly
• Apostrophe Abuse – thanks Abbe
• Clay Chess Stop Motion – thanks Amy
• Bruce Wayne’s medical history, from Gotham City General Hospital.
• Sam3′s telescope mural

I got a very cool email yesterday. Frankie “The Answer” Edgar, the current UFC Lightweight Champion is donating a t-shirt and signed picture to our raffle prizes for the LLS Beef N’ Beer Fundraiser being held at the Marlton Tavern on December 4th from 5-8pm! Thank you Frankie! We’ve got a UFC Champ in our corner in our fight against blood cancers! I like our chances.

For tickets to the Beef N’ Beer, please email myself or Abbe, they are $30/adults and $15/kids.

If you are unable to attend, please consider a donation: - http://pages.teamintraining.org/nj/wdw12/AllForLayna

Small Business/Tech Links…

• Has your website been penalized by Google? Here’s what you can do
• Adwords Search Queries Gone Wrong
• Google+ launches Pages for businesses and brands

Funny/Interesting Links…

• Religious Mockery on Facebook
• Drunk Rick Perry
• Student protestors in Colombia know how to get attention

Well, I somehow got everything done on my to-do list yesterday. Phils won another one on the road, beating the Pads 3-1 – solid performance from the Flyin’ Hawaiian.  Watched UFC 118 at the end of the night, and I’m not sure I’ve seen an entire night of domaination/near mismatches. Even Florian vs. Maynard was a clinic by Gray – I really thought KenFlo was going to put up a better showing. I was really happy with the Garden State’s own, Frankie Edgar beating B.J. Penn. Couture’s humiliation of James Toney was as expected, I just thought it would have had some drama to it.

Today Abbe and I are due for our long run, this week is only 6 miles, we should do well at this distance.

Here’s me playing the intro to Jeff Buckley‘s Grace…

Here’s me playing Either Way by Wilco…

Movie Reviews…

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – this really is a brilliant film. I know everyone expects this hippie to love anything subtitled, but calling this film the “greatest Swedish film ever made” isn’t a joke at all. The acting is incredible and anytime a two and a half hour movie keeps you this tense, that’s a sign of a well-told story. Really excellent.

Moon – talk about great acting… wow. Sam Rockwell is insanely great in this flick. I’m amazed this film only won a lot of smaller industry awards, this is a really significant effort. That said, this concept of losing one’s mind in isolation has absolutely been done before – but this isn’t Castaway set on the moon, it’s great sci-fi. That said, if you thought 2001 was boring and slow, this isn’t your kind of film.

• Hipster Dinosaurs
• Attempts to Fly
• Here’s where I tell Jose Canseco something important

Small Business/Tech Links…

• How to Make Free iTunes Ringtones

Today, I’ve got myself a nice full plate: finish a couple prototype pages for a big project (somewhat unnamed project, but I can tell you I’m working with BLP and Marty on this one), finish ERDs for Knoxville hospitals project, record video for Jeff Buckley‘s Grace intro for Sean’s guitar lesson this week, send out end of the month invoices, record video for Wilco‘s Either Way for Jan’s guitar lesson this week, run to the bank, short bike ride, hopefully watch a little of the Phillies-Padres game this afternoon, and then watch some of Penn vs. Edgar II tonight (Go Frankie!).

Have I ever mentioned how much Yogi loves bananas? Well, here’s proof, Yogi even turned on his eye lasers…

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