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I have been intrigued by latest happening around me starting from Majority mandate to Modi Sarkar to Mr. Gopal Subramaniam. All of this has pushed me to create a mind map of How India looks as on 25 June 2014. This is not exhaustive but covers what I read around. Do suggest more and I would be happy to add.
Making a shift from activity based mindset to target based mindset
It is more often than not that one will find activity based approach to work than target based approach at workplaces. It will not be rare for managers to hear from their people that they did what they were expected to do and if results are not there, then it is not their problem.
This "activity based approach" mindset is very dangerous. It cripples a person and makes a functioning brain dead. Slowly and steadily it cripples an organization. But how do you make the journey from one mindset to another? In-fact even before we answer that question, we need to ask – Is the shift important at all?
Though for some answer to the last question is obvious, but let me put forward my thoughts.
- Target based approach makes you accountable just like Karn whereas Activity based Approach only makes you responsible aka Draupadi. More on Draupadi and Karn here.
- Target based approach makes you a solutions manager whereby you would try out each and every solution possible to meet the targets. Agreed this spirit of meeting the targets by any way possible needs to be regulated to make sure no unethical practices are being followed.
Now how to let your people make the shift from one end to the other keeping in mind that this journey of transformation is very painful and frustrating. So here are some of the ideas -
- Communicate Clearly the targets – As cliche as it may sound but communication holds the key. The transformation journey begins with manager communicating all the targets very clearly to his/her people through formal channels. Once targets are shared with people, discuss them out with them; provide rationale behind the numbers; and take their buy in on the numbers. My experience says that if this process is done objectively and rationally, more often than not, people would agree to the targets given to them.
- Reinforce the importance of meeting the targets: Even though targets would have been mutually agreed upon by this step, it is difficult that an activity based mindset will be aligned with target based approach all the time. And if this alignment is not there all the time, then results would not come out. Therefore for thoughts alignment, it is imperative that manager reinforces the importance of meeting those targets. But having said that, care must be taken by the manager that it should not become over the board otherwise his/her people will feel stifled.
- Empower them: Anyone will be able to work positively towards the targets only if they feel empowered; empowered to make their decisions, empowered to think creatively, empowered to make mistakes and learn. This empowerment need not be in reality but in feelings. And it is here where a manager needs to work like a magician. He/She should make his/her people realize their importance which in turn will make them feel empowered. The manager should also be patient enough like a parent to allow his/her people to fall and rise again all by themselves. One will be highly amazed to see outputs when people feel empowered.
- Manager to work like a shared resource: When people's mindset is activity based, thinking of new ways to work positively towards targets become difficult; their minds are not wired like that. In that scenario how does a manager ensure that he/she creates a company of equals? How does he/she ensure that his/her people are motivated enough to work for their targets? The manager can target this problem by allowing himself/herself to be treated like a shared resource. By being a shared resource, he/she would help his/her people reach their targets. He/she would allow his/her expertise to be exploited by his/her people. By this, people would not be burdened by targets yet will get conditioned to handle them.
I am employing all the above mentioned strategies at my workplace (consumer internet company) to change the mindset. The work is still WIP but I am extremely hopeful that results would be great.
Feel free to share any other idea to make this transformational shift.
What if AAP were a website?
It is interesting to draw parallels between 2 worlds and it becomes even more interesting when one of the world is politics – Indian politics – World's largest democracy.
Delhi election is just 2 months away and this time we have a new contender in the fray – Aam Aadmi party (Thanks Mr. Arvind Kejriwal for saving us the boredom of seeing constipated Mr. Vijay Goel and corrupt Shrimati Sheela Dixit again – Hopefully!). But come to think of it, what would happen if Aam Aadmi Party were a website (ah! are we talking about wireframes again?)? How would it look?
So let me present here my version of the home page of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Now all the product managers out there would ask —– WHY??? What's the logic behind this atrocious home page??
So here is the logic -
- This website has its logo and branding on top just like any normal site. So no abnormality there.
- Menu bar fills up the next slot which lists down their important points which is again a normality.
- And then there is this big fat Footer much like Indian weddings. The footer runs across the site and consume close to 75% of the web space on each page.
- In the footer, there is a link farm which points only to one destination URL – Arvind Kejriwal.
- Rest of the space (left over of header, top menu bar and the footer – which is not more than 10%) is consumed by rest of the organization people.
All of us know that link farms used to work like magic in stone age but not now. Now Search Engines (and especially Google) have come down on them very heavily. As a result, link farms which used to generate lots of traffic in early days is now useless. Now only way to generate quality traffic is genuine and unique content aka pages.
In the similar fashion, AAP needs to remove this fat footer of Arvind Kejriwal. For AAP to actually get votes, it needs to build unique content pages (read: representatives from individual constituency). Currently all one knows about the site (AAP) is the FOOTER. Now one might say that voting happens for the party and not individuals but being the outcast, being the new kid on the block, it becomes critical for AAP to get its people familiarized.
This hypothesis is also reflected by surveys conducted by some of the news channels which say that though people want Mr. Arvind Kejriwal to be chief minister of Delhi but that want is not reflected in the number of seats projected for AAP.
Therefore following are some of the product changes suggested for AAP.
- Shorten the footer: Mr. Arvind Kejriwal needs to hog less air time. There should be other people sharing the burden equally. Mr. Yogendra Yadav, Mr. Manish Sisodia and Mr. Kumar Vishwas do their bit but still there could be lot more equality. Case in point: Mr. Arvind Kejriwal stealing radio air time talking about some survey conducted by Mr. Yogendra Yadav.
- Develop more unique pages: This means that individual constituency candidates should be more prominent and forthcoming in their approach. Though I am aware of AAP candidate's name from my constituency, I am not aware of what his agendas are or how is he different from other candidates? Should I vote for him purely on the faith? Since AAP is contesting for the first time, it becomes imperative for them to get their candidates familiarized with the common masses.
- Create HERO Pages: Like any website, AAP should create proper HERO pages (SILO structure) with correct flow of link juice. AAP has many hero pages like Mr. Yogendra Yadav, Mr. Kumar Vishwas and Mr. Manish Sisodia but all of them act like branch pages. Just like a HERO's page page-rank increases from its internal pages and not directly, reputation of these people should increase from their candidates' worthiness and not on their own worthiness.
Currently the initial cut of this product (Aam Aadmi Party) looks promising but user experience is still an issue. I hope they sort out their User experience issues and then we as Delhi citizens will truly get an awesome product. AMEN!
Content Creation vs Content Curation
I am sure every inbound marketer face this issue every working day. A true honest marketer would want to create content whereas the client/business owner would want to focus more on issues like ROI and scalability.
And since I have been on both the sides of the table, I can confidently say that the thrill of creating something original and seeing it go viral outweighs by far the satisfaction from simple curation. But having said, creating original content is mired with lots of problems like people dependency, slow execution and high production costs among others. So how should the decision be taken whether content should be created or curated?
All of us know content is king. With that logic, his (King's) people would be end users who would consume that content. But for any Kingdom to flourish, King's mannerism becomes very important. By mannerism, I mean how King rules his Kingdom. In the digital world, that mannerism is synonym with discovery/distribution channels like Search Engines, Social Media, Emails etc.
Therefore for King to serve his people satisfactorily, King must observe his mannerism (discovery/distribution channels). Put in another way, most critical thing to observe (at the time of content production) is that discovery agents (and majorly Search Engines) treat that content unique and worth revealing to end users. And it is not necessary that worthiness comes only from creation. It is absolutely possible with curation as well as Boundless has proved.
Boundless is the perfect example of how curation is put to use. It aggregates content from multiple sources and then chaff them and puts them neatly in different buckets. The output is not only liked by end users but also loved by investors.
So the question should be -
"Is the content (being produced) considered worthy enough by Search Engines to show to end users?"
So any business owner/marketer needs to answer this question first. There is quite a possibility that original content is also not considered worthy enough to be shared whereas curated content is making raves.
Hence after that question, whether to create or curate depends entirely on the budget and the commitment from all the stakeholders.
Facebook Embedded Posts & its relevance to Inbound Marketing
Facebook has made public the feature to embed any post from Facebook to any web property be it a small blog or a big website after testing it with big publishers. Here is a quick guide on how to embed a Facebook post.
- Click on the right hand side arrow of the post you want to embed.
- Click on the embed Post to get the code
- Now paste this code in the HTML of the page where you want to embed the post. This is how it will look after embedding.
Once we have understood how to embed Facebook post in a website/blog, let's understand the motivations behind this move by Facebook.
With this, Facebook has taken the social interaction out of its closed walls. FB has enabled people to share social chatter on other web properties thereby helping them collate different data sources. With all of this Facebook gains more visibility, outreach and engagement much like Twitter.
Now let's delve deeper how this feature could help inbound marketers. Here is the list of the items; and this is not exhaustive by any means.
- It becomes easier to enrich on-page content with this feature. For example – if Hubspot wants to take any particular piece of engagement from Facebook Page to their blog, they can do that thereby not only collating different data sources but also enriching their overall content of the blog.
- With enriching of the on page content, engagement would be higher (in all possibility) which would lead to higher average time spent on the page resulting in returning favorable signals to Search Engines.
- With this feature, we would also witness monies being paid for new kind of visibility. Now brands would pay established bloggers to include their FB snippets in their posts. This would work much like sponsored links with the only exception that it will not be seen in bad light. Bloggers are you guys listening? Facebook has just introduced one more revenue stream for you.
- I will also not be too surprised if new crop of online products come up based on only this feature – something like Pinterest of Facebook. And the idea indeed looks exciting.
I am really excited about the possibilities with this new feature. Please share with me if any other comes to your mind.
5 advanced tips to keep in mind for content marketing
Content marketing isn't new; it is there since ages. But for last few years it has gone beyond an important marketing tool to become the latest fad in the industry. And crusaders of content can't be blamed as well since it has actually become the central point of every marketing communication. (Disclaimer: I am also one of those chaps). The importance of content is all the more important in digital space since it also helps you in getting discovered (through organic means) beside engagement and recall.
With my experience, I have tried to compile a list of 10 things one should look while doing content marketing. Some of these points will help in the discovery whereas some of them in engagement and better association. Therefore it is possible that not all points are relevant to everyone.
1. Know your Users' Persona (KYUP)- Content is best served when impactful; which means it is always better to give your users the content which gels with their persona. For example – persona of a student looking for information on 2 stroke engine would be entirely different from say a mechanic looking for the same information. Therefore it is advised to first create user personas and then design the content according to that.
Why is it important? – KYUP is important since it will affect the way the content is consumed and then the possible actions taken by the user. For instance in the above example, theoretical content on 2 stroke engine might not be helpful for the mechanic who is looking for some specific answers.
2. Know Users' Intent (KUI) – Once user personas are created, next step is to know the user intent. User intent helps to understand the stage(in the buying cycle) at which the user is at currently which would in turn help not only build better content but also do better keyword research. For example – "Nokia vs Samsung" query tells that the user is still at the comparison stage and therefore if the content is designed to cater to that intent, the relevance and hence engagement would be higher. Here is an interesting post on User Intent.
3. Google Recommendations – This tactic was discovered just a couple of months back and therefore might not yield 100% results in all the cases. The reason why it is mentioned in this list is because the results are promising for the time being. Basically this tactic is about including related searches recommended by Google in content. For example – if elasticity of demand is searched, here is the screenshot of some of the recommendations by Google -
Therefore try to include these terms in the content. Logic: Google acknowledges that these terms are "related" to the main topic therefore if these are included in content, Google search algorithm would rank such pages higher. We are employing this tactic daily and seeing some promising results.
4. Use Google Trends – It happens a lot of times that content is written for a specific country and therefore it is very important that common parlance is used. But more importantly it is necessary to take into account the life of that common parlance. For example – Below is the graph from Google Trends which shows the trends for Homework Help and Assignment Help.
As is clearly seen that Homework Help searches has dropped drastically over last few years therefore any website which is optimizing the content for Homework Help needs to factor this drop and therefore might decide to alter its course of action. Having said this, Google Trends gives only relative numbers, absolute numbers will still be fetched from Adwords.
5. Co-Occurrences – Rand talks about Co-Occurrences in this post. Basically he says that anchor texts are dead and Google will continue to put more focus on Co- Occurrences. But I would stretch the concept further to design the content also in the similar fashion. For more on Co-Occurrence Definition, refer to the image below which is taken from Search Engine Journal –
So if a company's name(website or brand) is seen near certain term lot of times, Google believes that those 2 are related and hence assigns more weightage and therefore better rankings. It is speculated that Co-Occurrences will eventually murder anchor texts. But the story doesn't end here. If we believe that Google search algorithm will eventually become so smart as to catch Co-Occurrences in links then the same can safely be extrapolated for content as well. It means that while designing content, it needs to be taken into account that certain terms would be in close proximity to let Co-Occurrences work its magic.
I am excited to learn about your experiences of employing either of these tactics and know how they fared for you.
Penguin 2.0 – Observations and Learnings
Matt Cutts had recently indicated about the changes to be expected this summer. For more on the same, here is the Video – Click Here. And on 22 May, Google rolled out Penguin 2.0 update. Here is the post from Matt's blog. Penguin 2.0 rolled out.
Before we look at what are the main observations let me slip in a question here. Has anyone seen any changes in their SERPs post the roll out?
So what are key observations of this update which Google is internally calling Penguin 2.0? Here is the list -
- Around 2.3 % of English-US queries are affected to the degree that a regular user might notice.
- Social networking sites and real user's enagegment have emerged as winners
- Fishy websites with lots of crappy back-links have been demoted
Now what does the first observation mean? It means that 2.3 % of the total search volume is affected by the update. But what does "to the degree that a regular user might notice" mean? It means that top SERP results are affected hence making a user take notice. Dr. Pete wrote a fabulous blog post sometime back explaining the same concept. Here is the blog post. Since Google sees data from aggregate perspective, it says 2.3% but for webmasters and business owners, it could practically mean 100% in some cases. Has any of your SERP rankings for a particular keyword been pushed out of Page 1 post the update?
Second and Third observations are inter-related and gives us a sense of the direction where Google Web Spam team is heading. Here is an interesting screenshot which is been taken from Dr. Pete post on SEOMOZ blog.
Glancing through the list, one notices that social networking sites in general have gained post the update. This also indicates that Google is rewarding real engagement from real people as compared to crappy interaction of links. Have you seen any changes in your SERPs because of your social media optimization?
So what are the lessons to be learnt from all this. Here are some suggestions, these are by no means exhaustive and 100% accurate so please feel free to add/modify (to) the list.
- Integration of social with your website. This starts with simple things like integrating of social plugins, user interaction through FB comments plugin etc.
- Incentivize your users to talk more about your business keywords on social platforms. A social campaign revolving around core keywords would not only create a buzz but also help in SERPs.
- Write Content for humans and not machines. This is such a simple and basic thing yet majority of people still can't get it in their heads. The chances of sharing or engagement comes only when a user would read the content.
- Use lots of images in driving the content. These images needs to be user centric and not content centric. The image should pique user's interest to first read and then share. Another benefit of using images is that the same (directly from website) can be pinned on Pinterest thereby increasing chances of virality of the URL.
- Don't invest time in link building. Rather invest time in relationship building. This statement might seems to be cliche but it holds true forever. And the difference is in the perspective. Relationship building perspective is long term with real benefit whereas link building perspective is short term and shady.
- Branding of website (through inbound marketing) becomes important. This will not only build trust with users but also positive credibility with search engines. This will be covered in much more detail in a separate post.
Would you want to add to the list or modify anything? I would be more than interested in discussing, just let me know through comments.
Cardinal sin for building a founding team
So there is practically nothing left which needs to be said about how to build a founding team. Tons and tons of literature and gyan is available right across the web. So what else is possibly left to discuss!
I also thought likewise until I discovered the cardinal sin that could rapture any founding team. The rule is so obvious that after reading the post, everyone would say it should have been visible right from the beginning. But alas! I could not see it. And here it goes -
"Always make sure that co-founders are at the same stage of their life cycles"
Failure to ensure the above rule will result in different expectations of founders from the venture thereby different directions. Hence loss of focus.
I have personally made this mistake in one of my ventures where co-founders were not on the same stage of their life-cycles and hence expectations were different which resulted in the fall out.
Company of Equals – Turning bitterness into anger
This is a bit peculiar question which came up while discussion at home on some random topic. And it got me thinking which one is better? Is it anger or bitterness? But hey aren't two same in the first place!
Wikipedia came to help. Here is the full blown article on bitterness/resentment. The sentence which elucidates the difference is -
"Resentment is directed towards higher-status individuals, anger is directed towards equal-status individuals and contempt is directed towards lower-status individuals."
Therefore emotion behind both the gestures is same, what differs is where the vent is opening. And then remarkably I came across a picture which sums it up perfectly.
So what does this hold for business owners/entrepreneurs? And this has special meaning for high achievers as well.
An entrepreneur/businessman works on steroids and is always full of energy and enthusiasm. Same goes for high achievers and it might become difficult for other people to cope up with them. There would be a disconnect between the expectations and the delivery. And it might result into a situation where entrepreneur develops contempt for his people whereas people develop bitterness since they consider him (entrepreneur) to higher status individual.
To be honest, I have myself faced this situation couple of times when I went into a zone where nothing positive could out from me but contempt. I would keep thinking to myself what useless bunch of people I have for no wrong reasons or mistakes of theirs! And I would take couple of day's time to come out of that zone. But fortunately I have always followed the golden rule which saved my a** every time. Nonetheless it was wrong on my part.
For entrepreneurs/business owners it becomes critical to observe this aspect and provide their people enough space to vent out their anger. For that to happen the entrepreneur has to become equal status individual first which in itself is a task. But once done, it would provide an economy of Equals where productivity would be highest without any resentment or bitterness.
P.S – I am still working on the same. So it is still WIP at my end.
Urgent vs Important Paradox
We have had the pleasure (in fact feel lucky) of working with some of the best minds during our entrepreneurial journey. One such gentleman is Mr. Suhas Misra, from Tzinga (Hector Beverages). We have learnt a great deal from him and what is being shared in this post is also an outcome of our discussions.
So above matrix charts urgency with importance for tasks. What it wants to convey is simple -
We spend most of our professional time in doing activities which are urgent but unimportant.
Whereas the aim should be to invest more time in doing important tasks. Now here one might argue that urgent tasks become important by simple virtue of being urgent. But who made them urgent in the first place? Some stupid boss or some irrational client! Both of them can be managed.
One might also ask how is importance measured? How does one make sure that a particular task is important or not? The answer to that question would depend on industry to industry but Importance (for this post) is measured in terms of the impact on the overall value chain. Does the task at hand enrich the entire value chain or it is to be done because you are being asked to toe the line?
Every person should strive to evaluate his time according to above matrix. This will not only help him move up the value chain but also help the system in entirety. And it becomes the duty of the business owners to make sure their people strike a fine balance between the two.


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Government Orders YouTube To Censor Protest Videos | Consciousness TV
In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search terms by government mandate.
The latest example is You Tube's compliance with a request from the British government to censor footage of the British Constitution Group Lawful Rebellion protest, during which they attempted to civilly arrest Judge Michael Peake at Birkenhead county court.
Peake was ruling on a case involving Roger Hayes, former member of UKIP, who has refused to pay council tax, both as a protest against the government's treasonous activities in sacrificing Britain to globalist interests and as a result of Hayes clearly proving that council tax is illegal.
Hayes has embarked on an effort to legally prove that the enforced collection of council tax by government is unlawful because no contract has been agreed between the individual and the state. His argument is based on the sound legal principle that just like the council, Hayes can represent himself as a third party in court and that "Roger Hayes" is a corporation and must be treated as one in the eyes of the law.
The British government doesn't want this kind of information going viral in the public domain because it is scared stiff of a repeat of the infamous poll tax riots of 1990, a massive tax revolt in the UK that forced the Thatcher government to scrap the poll tax altogether because of mass civil disobedience and refusal to pay.
When viewers in the UK attempt to watch videos of the protest, they are met with the message, "This content is not available in your country due to a government removal request."
We then click through to learn that, "YouTube occasionally receives requests from governments around the world to remove content from our site, and as a result, YouTube may block specific content in order to comply with local laws in certain countries."
You can also search by country to discover that Google, the owner of You Tube, has complied with the majority of requests from governments, particularly in the United States and the UK, not only to remove You Tube videos, but also specific web search terms and thousands of "data requests," meaning demands for information that would reveal the true identity of a You Tube user. Google claims that the information sent to governments is "needed for legitimate criminal investigations," but whether these "data requests" have been backed up by warrants is not divulged by the company.
"Between July 1 and Dec. 31 (2009), Google received 3,580 requests for user data from U.S. government agencies, slightly less than the 3,663 originating from Brazil," reports PC World. "The United Kingdom and India sent more than 1,000 requests each, and smaller numbers originated from various other countries."
With regard to search terms, one struggles to understand how a specific combination of words in a Google search can be considered a violation of any law. This is about government and Google working hand in hand to manipulate search results in order to censor inconvenient information, something which Google now freely admits to doing.
You Tube's behavior is more despicable than the Communist Chinese, who are at least open about their censorship policies, whereas You Tube hides behind a blanket excuse and doesn't even say what law has been broken.
Anyone who swallows the explanation that the videos were censored in this case because the government was justifiably enforcing a law that says scenes from inside a court room cannot be filmed is beyond naive. Court was not even in session in the protest footage that was removed, and the judge had already left the courtroom.
The real reason for the removal is the fact that the British government is obviously petrified of seeing a group of focused and educated citizens, black, white, old and young, male and female, go head to head with the corrupt system on its own stomping ground.
In their efforts to keep a lid on the growing populist fury that has arrived in response to rampant and growing financial and political tyranny in every sector of society, governments in the west are now mimicking Communist Chinese-style Internet censorship policies in a bid to neutralize protest movements, while hypocritically lecturing the rest of the world on maintaining web freedom.
Via a combination of cybersecurity legislation and policy that is hastily introduced with no real oversight, governments and large Internet corporations are crafting an environment where the state can simply demand information be removed on a whim with total disregard for freedom of speech protections.
This was underscored last year at the height of the Wikileaks issue, when Amazon axed Wikileaks from its servers following a phone call made by Senator Joe Lieberman's Senate Homeland Security Committee demanding the website be deleted.
Lieberman has been at the forefront of a push to purge the Internet of all dissent by empowering Obama with a figurative Internet kill switch that he would use to shut down parts of the Internet or terminate websites under the guise of national security. Lieberman spilled the beans on the true reason for the move during a CNN interview when he stated "Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too."
Except that China doesn't disconnect the Internet "in case of war," it only ever does so to censor and intimidate people who express dissent against government atrocities or corruption, as we have documented. This is precisely the kind of online environment the British and American governments are trying to replicate as they attempt to put a stranglehold on the last bastion of true free speech – the world wide web.
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Which was your favourite display/booth/car/model? If we had to pick just one it would have to be the orange 2011 Scion iQ at the Scion booth. Simply gorgeous! Can't wait to see these iQ's out on the streets!
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You've been indoors for too much time, you have to get out, and Simpson Springs Campground in Utah is the outdoors at its finest.
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Culinary Class: Poultry Processing
In this week's culinary class, we learned how to reduce a chicken into its component parts. A really useful class. This is definitely a skill I need to practice at. It's not terribly difficult, just a little fiddly here and there, to get the cleanest possible cuts, and not waste any good meat. We discussed the classification of chickens by age. The youngest, and most tender, broiler/fryers. Next a


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This weekend our not-so-baby boy turned 4 years old. He invited a couple of his best friends over to our house for a backyard splash bash. Despite a few raindrops, everyone seemed to have a great time. The birthday boy smashed a pinata in a couple of swings, we played pin the tail on the octopus, made visors at the craft table, and had a lot of fun soaking each other in our homemade dunk tank. Happy birthday G!
Our boy is 4August 6, 2012
Guy's WeekMay 15, 2012
Daddy got to stay home with the boys a couple of weeks ago in a sort of delayed paternity leave. We did lots of fun things together. One day we tried to have a guy's "spa day" including haircuts, nail trimming, hot towels on our faces, etc, but both boys lost interest after the haircuts. Collectively we decided playing outside was way more fun.
I left C inside for 2 minutes so I could hook up the pump on the rain barrel system. Leaving him with a pile of strawberries while he was sporting his white onsie was probably not the best idea.
Happy Mother's Day, MommaMay 13, 2012
Easter BabyApril 22, 2012
Our Day at the Petting FarmNovember 14, 2011
When I found there was a vimeo app for our TV, I became interested in creating more videos of our adventures since it's now so easy to watch them from our couch. And playing them on the TV is guaranteed to keep the G-Man interested for at least 4 minutes. Here's one from our day at the petting farm.
Music: "The Littlest Birds" by The Be Good Tanyas
First day of schoolAugust 29, 2011
our boysJuly 22, 2011
the world's best s'mores makerJuly 18, 2011
Momma has been camping (and presumably making s'mores) since she was 2 years old. She's perfected the technique of browning the marshmallow to ideal s'more consistency. Here are s'more photos from our 4th of July vacation at the lake.
Not sure why C looks like a perfect little alien baby in this one.
Loucks at the LakeJuly 15, 2011
I decided to try a video instead of just stills from our last family vacation up at Stella Lake. Enjoy!
Music: "All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands" by Sufjan Stevens
mini guys weekend 2011June 10, 2011
Last weekend G and I spent the weekend up at the lake with Grandpa Steve. It was a chance to try out a mini-guys-weekend away from momma, and give her a chance to try to catch up on some sleep with only Baby C to take care of. Here are some photos of our adventures.
It started out with G sleeping until 9 am on Saturday, a feat unheard of when we're at home. After such a restful sleep, it was time for a couple of bowls of Smores cereal.
It was then time to help Grandpa cut up and haul a tree that had fallen in the yard.
After the work was done, G and daddy life-jacketed up and spent some time inner tubing on the lake.
We then tended our makeshift garden that we had planted in the back 40 at the end of April. I'm sure it had snowed since we put it in, but our pumpkin seeds were actually growing!
We spent some time helping Grandpa clean up around the firepit, with G sporting his bug shirt.
The weather was gorgeous, so we were able to put the boat in the water and get out on the lake a bunch. G was thrilled getting a chance to drive it around the lake.
And we spent a lot of time fishing as well. Or more accurately, we spent a lot of time untangling our fishing lines.
Or figuring out how the darn reel thing works.
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triplash said: My hate of prehistoic eating knows no bounds (not that i care what people choose to eat, but if you want to justify it, at least make sure the reasons arent dumb and scientifically innacruate as fuck?) #anger
yeah. agreed. there are some people who have a combination of allergies that make it so that what they need to eat coincides with the paleo diet but for people who do not have that cluster of allergies there is no point. it makes about as much sense as me not eating peanuts because some people are allergic to them.
it's really hard for me because i am gluten intolerant and so a lot of places where i need to go to find recipes for something i could eat have a lot of people who are on Paleo diet and they speak with a kind of food-purity language that is dangerous to me as a recovered anorexic. and there's a lot of talk of "Good foods" and "bad foods" and "guilt free foods" and it's so unhealthy.
Also there's no scientific evidence that prehistoric man did live like that and also there is some evidence that it doesn't take all that long for people to adapt to a new food — i mean it takes many many generations but less than the time paleo-adherents agree with. for example, the genetic mutation that lets europeans drink cow's milk happened very quickly and that has only been a few thousand years that we've been drinking it.
Also, in some websites for paleo there is talk about how we shouldn't eat new world crops because "our" ancestors weren't eating them before a couple centuries ago, which is patently not true for anybody indigenous to the Americas! and then there is talk about how we shouldn't eat rice because it was only introduced into the western diet not that long ago — as if anybody who is reading those instructions wouldn't have ancestors from China or some place that had been eating rice for thousands upon thousands of years.
So there is some racism in this paleo rhetoric as well, i think, or a lack of acknowledgement that not everybody reading up on the diet is anglo-saxon.
finally, i can not help but notice that all of the "good" foods promoted by paleo or really really fucking expensive. almond flour costs ten times as much as rice flour (which costs four times as much as wheat flour!) you can't have sugar but must have agave nectar or whatever. they might as well say this is a diet for rich people.
there are so few blogs out there that are posting gluten free recipes that are not at least occassionally posting paleo stuff and almost all of them buy into this "good food"- "bad food" mentality and i just want a few places i can go to that have recipes that are:
* affordable
* not fat shaming
* mostly from scratch because the chance that I'll be able to find some kind of gluten free flour at the market is fairly high but the chance that I'll be able to find "a box of gluten free cake mix" is zero. also "[brand name] [ethnicity] spice mix" is not going to happen, but "oregano, basil, and thyme" is much more likely.
* mostly vegetarian because meat is expensive
* nothing too elaborate or scary: mostly one pot meals.
if i crossed "not fat shaming" off the list i might actually find something, but it seems like a lot of my other (reasonable in my mind) requests are actually fairly unreasonable.
So I've really come to hate Paleo specifically much more than I hate any other diet because it'S always in my face and trying to trigger me into restricting and telling me that i'm bad because i can't afford to make a cake with almond flour and 12 eggs and organic free range agave nectar and dates. or whatever.
"…I'm bad because I can't afford to make a cake with almond flour…"
I hear you about having Paleo shoved in your face when you're gluten free.
I've been in a couple of communities that were full of this kind of thing. It's like people are looking for a way to be better than other people, and that's really what it's all about. Except before it was Paleo, it was Raw Vegan. It so happens that I eat Raw Vegan because it coincides so well with my specific allergies, but the diet is so fucking expensive. The requirements of this one Raw Vegan potluck I went to - that every single ingredient had to be raw and organic - meant that I was spending 20 dollars on one single dish.
More, a lot of the Paleo people I'm familiar with are horrible fitness elitists - frequently Crossfitters - let's combine elitism/classism with ableism!
my single, final annoyance with Paleo people -
Why is it that their food pics in their blogs, ALWAYS look like dog vomit?? Everything pureed all to hell? Last I checked, a piece of salmon on a bed of greens was still paleo, so wtf is with the dog vomit puree presentation?
I am NOT a food stylist and I can take better food photos than that.
** oh and in the United States (esp in the Bay Area), you get the same kind of attitude about veganism if you're a lesbian. Because there is some kind of compulsory lesbian veganism or something.
Seriously, Paleo is complete bullshit. I still wind up on Paleo blogs a lot because many of those recipes involve vegetables I should be eating, but it's BS. You wanna eat like prehistoric humans did? I hope you and your small children are prepared for the possibility of starving to death.
As for gluten-free, I think a lot of people may have gluten and starch confused and believe that a gluten free recipe is less fattening. Just a hunch.
I've seen LOTION advertised as "gluten-free!!" so I have no idea what people who are into buying gluten-free stuff as a consumer trend believe gluten is or does.
That makes more sense. Lotion, makeup, shampoo, etc is actually a concern for some celiacs.
Ah, okay! I thought the gluten had to be ingested to cause problems. Never mind.
Many doctors think it has to be ingested (gluten free lipstick, mouthwash, toothpaste, etc are definitely important) but some celiacs are at least worried enough about getting "glutened" that they feel they can't be too careful.
And with some reactions being very severe or debilitating (my immediate symptoms are comparatively minor whereas some celiacs have really severe symptoms and sometimes for days), and often "mystery glutening" being a frequent occurrence (having a reaction to something but you're not always sure what the culprit was), it's understandable.
Also, the casual contact - touching your face or hands, then touching your mouth, unconsciously - is enough for some people to get reactions.
Yes, I do avoid putting anything with gluten on my body, just to be safe. Another thing I stopped using: one scent of Ecover dish detergent which contains wheat protein. :-| The others don't have that on the label, but I hesitate anyway. Even with plenty of rinsing, I don't want to risk it. (And I am one of the people who gets very sick for up to a week, worse the longer I've been off it.)
I have seen a few people whose dermatitis herpetiformis came back when they had been eating GF for a good while, including one who broke out all over his scalp. With some more label reading, the problem turned out to be some kind of hair product or makeup. It could be that they got traces of shampoo or foundation or whatever in their mouths, but yeah. I wouldn't want to risk it if I can easily find products without, even if it's body lotion that's not going on my face or hair.
The basic standard I am using now was inspired by someone in blog comments somewhere: the Bus Pole Lady standard. That would be someone who stopped sitting in public transport seats because of the potential for crumbs, with people eating there—and then became convinced that she got glutened by holding onto a pole instead, and stopped using public transport at all. Because crumbs. Seems very improbable if she wasn't licking her hands or the seat of her clothes, but yeah.
I figure I'm doing mostly OK with being possibly overly cautious as long as I don't start verging on sounding like that. Especially bearing in mind that I am also dealing with OCD. Really don't want to go there.
Re: Paleo and why people do it - and why it's overwhelmingly white upper and upper-middle class people who do it - an analysis.
The Paleo Diet, like raw veganism and Total Organic Eating and Clean Food and Barefoot Running and Living Off The Grid and many of the other activities of White Liberal Hippies (tm) are attractive to people who don't have enough problems that they can work on in their lives.
Complication and problem solving are major human impetus. If you don't have enough actual problems, you will make problems for yourself to solve. Some people do it by taking on complicated projects (scientists, engineers, musicians, philosophers, etc) some people by diving into an actual cause (volunteers, social workers, people who build houses for habitat for humanity, etc) and some people will pick a trivial and meaningless drop-in-the-bucket facet of their lives that is nevertheless a fucking pain to change, and then focus all their effort on changing it and defending their choice. They proceed to declare moral authority and insist that their choice is SO IMPORTANT and that because it is hard that it must be worthwhile. No amount of logical rebuttal about how their actions are not actually accomplishing the things they think they're accomplishing will help, because it's not actually about accomplishing something. It's about feeling better by feeling like they've solved a problem.
Such people cannot be convinced that they are not in moral authority, because that would undermine the effectiveness of their coping. If they're not absolutely right, if they're not doing something important, if it's not so important that everyone should do it, if it's not useful, if it's not perfect…then it's not going to give them the psychological reward of solving a problem. They feel unsatisfied because they feel powerless or unfocused or listless or without purpose, so they've picked a thing that they've decided is the REAL cause of those feelings, and they're working on it. They will insist that it's working, that it's awesome and they will not let go. It's threatening to their coping to do so. It's threatening to their self-definition. And the longer and harder they've fought, the more committed they are, to their cause of choice, the harder it will be to get them to let go because then they're into sunk cost fallacy territory. This article parodies the downward spiral that can easily occur: http://www.nwedible.com/2012/08/tragedy-healthy-eater.html
If they admit that it's ever ok for someone not to be a vegan/paleo/organic/consume anything but kale and alkalized water, or that any criticisms of these niche diets are in any way valid, then that means they've wasted time and effort and money on something that's not perfectly worthwhile and universally applicable. That's a hard pill to swallow when the whole point was making a problem for yourself to solve. After all, it's really satisfying to go to the trouble of driving halfway across your city to the one store that sells certified organic fair trade raw vegan paleo frozen dinners in 100% recycled, 100% recyclable packaging…but it wouldn't be if doing so didn't somehow make you a better person. If you can't judge other people who aren't doing the things you have to do to adhere to the rules you've made as inferior, some or all of the thrill is lost.
People who have real problems to overcome in their daily lives are less susceptible to this; it's harder to be pulled into a hole of research and obsession with minutiae of some tiny facet of your life if you have to work sixteen hours a day to make rent and feed yourself and your kids and pay for medications and attend to actual dietary needs that will have real physical consequences if you ignore them, etc.
Super important. Another danger of these casually racist fad diets with no scientific (and even historic, in paleo's case) evidence like the paleo diet and the GAPS diet is that they lure and con people or parents/guardians of people who are chronically ill and/or disabled who are desperate for a solution that may not even be there. "Concerned" parents of autistic kids flock to the GAPS diet that is backed by nothing but parents'/guardians' anecdotes and unproven "scientific facts" as told by the mysterious doctor that created the diet. Society is partly to blame for this need to have some kind of control over chronic illnesses and disabilities. I know the all-too-common desperation to want to be able to treat my chronic illness away with something I could have possibly some control over, like eating a certain way and sticking to it, but that sense of control is just a myth.
I'm ashamed that I fell victim to it myself. I've had a doctor suggest the paleo diet to me and my parents for our chronic illnesses. We gave up after one week because we couldn't afford it, there was a lot of wasted food in an effort to experiment in making paleo-friendly alternatives, and it was way too overwhelming. We all felt and still feel incredibly guilty and at fault for our own suffering.
Not that avoiding or eating more of specific foods don't absolutely help people who have intolerances and allergies, but these fad diets are dangerous as well to people with illnesses/disabilities when their source is questionable. Because of them, we waste money we could have been saving up for on medication, therapy, doctor visits, or fuckin' anything else.
Reblogging again for another really important point; that ties back into feelings of powerlessness/lack of control, and the need to feel like you're doing -something- useful to solve the problem/perceived problem.
I'd just want to point out one little thing; being someone who has the allergies etc, and slowly figures out what not to eat - only to suddenly realize when looking up recipes that it falls into this or that diet and having one of two reactions (depending on state of mental health)
"Oh there's recipes! Groundwork! A foundation!"
"Crap, am I making this up cause I saw this somewhere?"
Because there will be people in your life who think you are and that it's not serious and you trust them, and the next thing you know you're sick for a week cause they used something with gluten or some other allergen cause 'eating like that is just a fad - I didn't think you'd really get sick'.
There's damage in making food choices a 'fad' while insisting it's 'the only way'- cause people with issues have to try and explain. "Yes I need to eat like that, but but but…I'm not saying you have to, yes it's real. Please don't poison me."
But eff hell yeah my shock at realizing how fast my groceries disappear now. And knowing I'm unlikely to ever have the energy to cook with all the alternatives others use as their 'problem solving trend 'health diet'.
Also wanting to smack in the face everyone who 'discovers' a cultural food and thus jacks up the price, just when I was feeling relieved to find something familiar to eat.
Diet Evangelists and other proponents of The One True Diet That Is Universally Applicable and Should Be Compulsory for All Humans: fucking shit up left right and center for everyone on multiple rubrics.
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look at this mushroom-sweet potato pot pie I am making
Melt about 1/4 cup bacon fat in a large pot (preferably aluminum). Add 2 or 3 popcorn kernels, and once they begin to pop, add about 1/4 cup more kernels to the pot. Cook, covered but stirring every minute, until the kernels begin to pop, then cover and continue to cook until the popping has slowed to 2 to 3 seconds between pops. Immediately dump the popcorn into a bowl and toss with generous handfuls of grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese and freshly ground black pepper. (x)
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and re: this, let's note that the gluten free/paleo trend is contributing to the demand for quinoa. Quinoa is promoted heavily as a replacement carb for people who eat gluten free because it contains a lot of nutrients that the cheaper GF carbs lack.
I could make cornbread stuffing, HOW did I forget that?
I want to make cranberry sauce but I don't want to roast a turkey to put it on and bread stuffing would be horrifically expensive for me to make.
what else can I do with it? Does it go with cornbread or?
Trying to find gluten-free dessert recipes that don't require me to spend $30-40 on tiny quantities of four different and expensive kinds of flour before I start is the #1 most frustrating part of having celiac disease, actually
(via Gluten Free Lemon Raspberry Scones | Yeah…imma eat that.)
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Multiple combos blade mode
By choosing Blade Mode will produce a transparent blue airplane that can be turned and moved, tracing orange lines throughout the surface areas of challenge reveal you precisely where they will be cut. This attribute can likewise be made use of to enter a bullet time state which will offer players the chance to exactly lower targets throughout minutes of activity, such as slicing with a falling target from numerous angles prior to it attacks the ground. This function can be disabling challengers, discovering weak points and spaces in shield, severing support columns to break down ceilings or walls onto enemies, deflecting enemy fire, or cutting with items to get rid of enemy cover. Attempt to enter into Blade Mode in order to lower Raiden s energy to the point that if dropped to a particular level. When his back is turned, Raiden can still counterattack enemies and do several combinations.
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