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2013-05-22 19:57:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

First swim of the year!

2013-05-22 17:12:53 (8 comments, 4 reshares, 49 +1s)

#parentingphotofail  


i'm just here for the lulz. 

2013-05-22 15:42:10 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

The way you hold yourself makes an immediate impression on your audience.  ~ Sarah Lloyd Hughes

gingerpublicspeaking.com

2013-05-22 14:01:07 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 41 +1s)

"If you're focusing on yourself and how you're behaving, you won't have time to look at others" - as said by me to my children. 

What kind of focus do you have? Does it waver and stutter-step? Or is it jaggedy rough like ADD on Quaaludes? Has your inner self talk become an endangered species? 

Stuff gets in the way. Lots of stuff. Other people, situations, work, money issues, that idiot on the internet who is wrong dammit! It's easier to look at that stuff really. Sometimes I think that as a species we can be inherently lazy. We like to rubberneck. We like to compare and contrast our lives to others. We'd much rather look at your stuff than our own.  What a perfect excuse to not focus my attention on my own behavior... I'll just look at yours. 

Let's just say for a moment that we purposefully changed our thinking every time westarted... more »

2013-05-22 13:37:09 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 33 +1s)

want. #scienceeveryday  

2013-05-22 11:06:16 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 28 +1s)

PSA
I'm No Longer Female aka How To Make What's Hot More Interesting Sans Banal Platitudes

A few weeks ago, two posters highlighted a very bizarre finding on Google Plus. That your profile's gender specification (Male, Female, Other) influenced the content you saw in the former Explore and What's Hot tabs respectively.

Google's Chief Architect offered feedback that the  Explore tab was using an older, more gender sensitive algorithm, however the What's Hot tab had been modernised, with gender as a factor, but not a big one. If anyone wants to know, what you see in What's Hot is supposed to take into account "properties inherent to the post and the viewer, which includes profile information," he said. A subsequent update mentioned that the algorithm had since been updated and all should be well in Feministaland. I decided to test... more »

2013-05-21 17:05:29 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

We’ve all sat through a lifeless presentation, where the speaker barely engages his or herself, let alone the whole audience.

How do you balance the kind of information you choose for a piece of public speaking to fascinate the maximum number of people?

2013-05-21 16:01:01 (14 comments, 1 reshares, 50 +1s)

that feeling you get when you realize you've accidentally plus one'd your own post...

it's sorta like getting caught playing with yourself in public.

 

#exhibitionist  


(in my case, when caught i just wink and grin) 

2013-05-21 14:26:40 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 43 +1s)

Easily offended people are annoying and uncomfortable to be around... online and off. 

#runaway  

2013-05-21 14:19:46 (8 comments, 4 reshares, 40 +1s)

it's a toss up really... 

2013-05-21 14:18:09 (6 comments, 12 reshares, 37 +1s)

#starwarstuesday   #howawesomewouldthisbe  

2013-05-21 14:15:08 (10 comments, 5 reshares, 28 +1s)

you put up with me... now you're stuck with me ♥

2013-05-20 19:58:13 (12 comments, 7 reshares, 77 +1s)

want.

2013-05-20 19:39:56 (21 comments, 5 reshares, 75 +1s)

the state of things... today. 

2013-05-20 16:34:44 (2 comments, 19 reshares, 27 +1s)

Science! #scienceeveryday  

▶ Reversing Obesity: http://is.gd/SpQwKM
▶ Stem Cell Cloning: http://is.gd/c9dVfC
▶ 3D-Printed Solar Panels: http://is.gd/PbD97i
▶ Brain Shocks: http://is.gd/6JnDAz
▶ Lunar Crash: http://is.gd/XoRoeS
▶ Bacterial Circuits: http://is.gd/hyEeSF

2013-05-20 13:51:27 (14 comments, 5 reshares, 48 +1s)

Because liquor.

and birds...

and teetotaling dogs.  

2013-05-20 13:34:35 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)

If you don’t believe in yourself and your message, the audience won’t either. Let them know exactly why they should listen to you and what qualifies you to discuss this topic.

http://www.gingerpublicspeaking.com/persuasive-speaking-guide-part-4-persuasively

2013-05-20 11:33:47 (5 comments, 9 reshares, 67 +1s)

you're welcome. 

2013-05-20 11:19:06 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 31 +1s)

You know you're a mom when... 

you like Monday. 

#tearsofjoy  

2013-05-19 13:50:46 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 34 +1s)

Doctor Who season finale???

Oh.My.Time.Lord. 

We finally see the one who broke the promise. Wicked cool. 

2013-05-18 13:54:46 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 34 +1s)

tonight... we go to Trenzalore. 

2013-05-18 12:21:01 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 37 +1s)

Soooooooooooo... had Chinese take-out last night. 


Then this happened...  


I. Will. Never. Eat. Chinese. Again. 

2013-05-17 22:45:55 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

2013-05-17 22:42:53 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 61 +1s)

Don't you forget it either!
Xoxo :)

2013-05-17 20:42:09 (12 comments, 10 reshares, 56 +1s)

this applies to ugly on the inside more...

2013-05-17 20:26:42 (26 comments, 29 reshares, 51 +1s)

I snorted. 

2013-05-17 20:09:15 (11 comments, 7 reshares, 30 +1s)

I'm a sucker for this malarkey. 

be kind. it matters. 

2013-05-17 17:06:52 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

 In part one we’ve talked about Authenticity, part two moving From Sleazy Selling to Authentic Allowing, and part three was all about Finding the Right Words. 

The last in our four part series on persuasive speaking is all about how you close the sale. 

2013-05-17 16:11:56 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 51 +1s)

field day! Baby J (who isn't a baby anymore) on the left with her bff Rosie. water balloon toss ftw! 

look at that pose... she's a character. I have no idea where she gets it from. 

2013-05-17 10:45:23 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 23 +1s)

Taylor Swift
#goat #goat2013

2013-05-17 10:43:34 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 49 +1s)

happy birthday to one of the most amazing, beautiful, gorgeous, intelligent, fascinating women i've ever had the privilege to know...

i hear you like cake... and i bet you rock a short skirt and long jacket ;) 

love you +lerato majikfaerie  ♥ i'm pretty damn glad you were born

2013-05-16 18:39:21 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

Happy Birthday to one of my favorite people online AND off...

+Lynette Young  my life is SO much richer for knowing you. Love you soooooo much! 

2013-05-16 14:23:46 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 36 +1s)

courage. 

2013-05-16 14:10:55 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

Epic G+ Hangout live with the International Space Station & Star Trek at noon ET today. Join us: http://go.nasa.gov/13i9DII  

2013-05-16 14:06:03 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

this new UI suits my ADD quite well. 

well played Goog... well played. Three columns of WIN! 

(and i'm just playing with my new Awesome Screenshot chrome extension. woot.) 

#newtoys   #googleplusupdate  

2013-05-16 14:02:48 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

this is cool...

via the ever awesome +Clare Cosgrove 

Google you just keep impressing me. I dig. 

2013-05-16 13:52:56 (16 comments, 19 reshares, 168 +1s)

Mimas (Saturn's Moon)

- Discovered in 1789 by William Herschel.
- Diameter : 396 kilometres (246 mi).
- The 20th largest moon in the Solar System.
- Resembles the Death Star (From Star Wars).

 http://is.gd/hjYl3d


#iknewit

2013-05-16 13:47:53 (12 comments, 3 reshares, 34 +1s)

seems legit. 

2013-05-16 13:42:46 (25 comments, 23 reshares, 36 +1s)

pretty much. 

2013-05-16 13:32:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Questions about Contentment?
I'm wrapping up my new free ebook, The Little Book of Contentment, and would love to know what problems/challenges/questions you have about contentment.

Help me out by sharing your question below!

(photo of me in Uji, Japan, known for the best matcha in the world)

2013-05-16 13:23:33 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 36 +1s)

#truth   #google  

i would add... if it's not on the first page it's not relevant. 

2013-05-16 13:19:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

ermagerd. 

Minecraft + education = all win! 

(my three oldest are obsessed with minecraft!) 

2013-05-16 11:34:58 (10 comments, 8 reshares, 55 +1s)

Somewhere there is a happy sunrise and happy birds... here the sun says "piss off! I'm tired" and the birds poop on your car.

2013-05-16 03:07:33 (14 comments, 4 reshares, 47 +1s)

and why shouldn't we think this way? for after all... 

if you don't like you, no one else will either. 

(you are delightful. I only hang with the best baby. and you... are... it. yes you. don't look behind you. YOU.) 

now come to bed already... i'm tired and don't like sleeping alone. ♥

2013-05-16 02:42:25 (28 comments, 1 reshares, 63 +1s)

Does autofix work? Left is autofix ... right is not. 

whatcha think? 

meh. i still see wrinkles in both. THEY LIE!!! they're not my darkroom! they're supposed to make me look 10 years younger and lots more interesting! autofix Y U NO FIX ME???

(you do know i'm not usually online this late and am slaphappy as hell right? right. carry on with your new UI perusal.) 

2013-05-16 02:33:39 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

okay. how to share this "awesome sized media" thingamajig? 

because my images are so uber important that they need to be HUGE-MONGOUS. 

smart people? 

2013-05-16 02:17:21 (20 comments, 13 reshares, 58 +1s)

please. i need to know. 

2013-05-16 01:53:56 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 25 +1s)

G+ Y U NO warn a girl. 

oh right... i wasn't paying attention to Google I/O today. 

let the butthurt commence freely. 

2013-05-15 16:28:29 (16 comments, 37 reshares, 44 +1s)

11-year-old Caine Smith was choked, beaten, harassed, and was called a long list of names simply because he had two moms and long hair. Instead of staying locked away and hiding, he stood up and did something about it.

If you share this, you'll be helping make sure The Bully Project is seen in schools across the country. Caine would appreciate it.

thebullyproject.com


via upworthy.com

2013-05-15 14:08:54 (5 comments, 6 reshares, 24 +1s)