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  • DomesticPsychology.com url shortener

    I’m a strong believer in owning your content. URL shorteners like http://bit.ly/ and http://3.ly/ bother me in that if the business changes or goes under, your short links die. http://3.ly for instance has been acquired or changed to http://qr.net which I still feel was a bad business move. If the business becomes unethical, they could sell your short links to redirect your traffic elsewhere. So, just like I believe you should view Facebook and Twitter as temporary places for content (much like a bulletin board on a college campus) and instead host your own site like http://domesticpsychology.com/blog/ (much more like a library or museum…and yes I know Twitter gets archived at the Library of Congress), I believe you should own your own url shortener.

    Anyhow, to live by my own words, I thought I’d buy Cathy a domain for her own url shortener for DomesticPsychology.com. My first thought was http://dp.me After two cups of coffee, I rethought that one. I’d say I am not sure Cathy would want to direct people to http://dp.me but then again I haven’t ever broached the subject 🙂

  • Egad! Another one of driving age.

    Happy Birthday Noah! You’ve grown altogether too quickly.

  • And all this time I thought I was an American

    Apparently, I’m European!

    "Americans maximize their… [happiness] by working, and Europeans maximize their [happiness] through leisure," he found.

    [Source, CNN, Why is America the ‘no-vacation nation’?]

  • Study: Christians feel guilty after sex

    BoingBoing summarized the UK’s MailOnline article Atheists have ‘better sex lives than followers of religion who are plagued with guilt’ in a BoingBoing article titled Study: Christians feel guilty after sex. BoingBoing writer Rob Beschizza gave my inner middle-schooler a chuckle when he wrote:

    Mormons came the hardest

    [Source, BoingBoing, Study: Christians feel guilty after sex by Rob Beschizza]

    Subtle and I’d say deliberately written. I want to know how they measured this!

  • Who Watches Who

    Based upon the commercials airing with tonight’s Doctor Who, the audience is wealthy, sad, old people with pooping problems seeking to connect with their ancestors and they have dogs.

  • Now this is good politics!

    Can you imagine how great the US Congress would be if they modeled themselves after the Ukrainians? CSPAN would become profitable! They could consult with the WWF.

    Note of record: At the time of my first viewing of this video, only 58 people had watched it.

  • Announcement

    Today, I’m busy.

  • Seen in Washington DC

    Source, imgur.com

    Here’s an animated Cathy:
    little devil

  • How do you spell stress in four letters?

    D-O-U-G

  • From the mouths of babes

    Cathy via SMS: "Y didn’t the cat puke everywhere BEFORE u left?"

  • Veg-o-rama is closed

    Knoxville is hard on restaurants. Seems like we close them as fast as new ones open. Today I tried to take a friend to Veg-o-rama for lunch only to find the door locked (had to ask myself if today was Monday) and a KUB door tag blowing down the street. If you’ve never had the displeasure of receiving a KUB door tag, it’s basically a notice that if you don’t pay your bill by 5pm that your utilities will be turned off. The Time Warp Tearoom says they’ve been locked up for about two weeks.

    To the best of my knowledge, Veg-o-rama was Knoxville’s only true vegetarian restaurant and introduced me to a variety of delicious entrees I presumed not achievable in a vegetarian dish. From their website:

    Welcome to Veg-O-Rama, Knoxville, Tennessee’s only full-service vegetarian restaurant and bar. Our eclectic menu features daily specials based on as much local and organic produce as we can source. We also feature regular menu items like the Veggie Burger, Chili Dogs, and the Getting-to-be-Famous Tofu Reuben that are available all the time.

    [veg-o-rama.com]

    Veg-o-rama was staffed by wonderful, friendly people. The atmosphere was inviting and accommodated conversation between diners. Additionally, Veg-o-rama added to the developing character of Central Avenue which holds promise of developing into a quaint community. I hope they are simply going through a rough patch and reopen soon but I presume the worst. So, what are your favorite places to each vegetarian in Knoxville?

  • Slow to learn

    On your wife’s birthday, it is ill advised to quip, "getting older makes you snarky!"

  • Tune in today 9-10am

    Radio tower detailToday, May 11, 2011 from 9am to 10am, I’ll be discussing blogging with Brian Hornback (Twitter: @brianhornback), Ed Brantley and Bob Thomas on WNOX‘s 100.3 The Ed & Bob Show (listen live online). You can interact with Ed and Bob on Facebook and Twitter. I suspect you can call in with questions or feel free to use twitter to send messages to @djuggler or post in comments here. This will be a blast!

  • What’s up with Doug?

    2011 was supposed to be the year of "no." I was going to take on little to no new work or volunteer activities (granted, I juggled many more events than normal but that was a blast!) Quite simply, I wanted a year to regroup, simplify, finish off some projects, and make a fresh start in 2012. I’ve mostly done just that. I’m getting my ps and qs in order. I’m evaluating past behaviors and business practices and planning for future improvements.

    Has it worked? Well, the house and family I’ve ignored in the name of paying bills is getting more attention (at least for the moment). But like a gas expands to fill a void, so does life expand to fill the time. One of my mantras is "you don’t have time, you make time." Fewer to-dos does not mean more time. So although long overdue personal projects are nearing completion, others are moving in to fill the void. Where’s that leave my head? I’d like to fall off the grid and go to Sedona for a few weeks. But then again, another side of me wants to fully immerse myself into work and do a 48 hour launch of a company. I suppose I’ll end up somewhere in the middle.

  • Of being dad

    Don’t suggest to your wife that she get a mammogram for her birthday. Just saying.