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Like speeches, punctuated by long lists of names? Nothin else to do on a Friday at 4:00? Have I got an offer for you!

Now, this is how we roll down in College Park. The 10th anniversary of Maryland day meant 12,600,000 calories of rich, cakey goodness backed into 50,000 cupcakes.

http://www.slashfood.com/2008/04/26/umd-celebrates-maryland-day-with-50-000-cupcakes/

I usually post on twitter that I’ve posted here. Which, due to the magic of plugins, updates my IM status and my facebook status to match my last twitter post. Then, if you come here to read the post, you see the twitter post that brought you here in the list on the right. Mirrors upon mirrors I tell you.

I might not have noticed this, but the marketing/advertising blog world (yeah, I know…) has had a lot of posts about the Droste Effect recently.

I’ll probably do a post about twitter and why I like it later.

Two recent events prove that no matter how much she tries to avoid it, my wife gets influenced by me and my life.

First, we were watching a rerun of Futurama, as we so often do. (Debatably, the amount of cartoons she watches is in and of itself an influence.) The Popplers episode was on. During the course of the show, Fishy Joe asks Fry and Bender what they are selling poplars for (1$/doz). Joe says they’ll never make money that way, that he should sell them for $2/doz in his restaurant, and that he’ll even pay then $1/doz, which they excitedly accept. Gretchen immediatly said “But they’d get increased distribution, lower overhead, economies of scale and market penetration”. Proof that she’s spent too much time around MBAs.

Secondly, her reaction to a very good OB/GYN visit? Make a baby blog:
http://martinbabywatch.blogspot.com/

The other secret about elections is that when you’re stepping down, you want great people to run for your spot. I marketed my post extensively, including the primary attributes “This position is, in fact, so awesome that due to the transitive property, you yourself will become awesome.” Everyone else talked about how much work you had to do.

In the end, I had 3x the normal amount of contenders for my position.

to use Dan’s method of summarization:

Dear China,

MORE PANDAS!

Thanks,
Tedward

P.S.
panda panda panda

• Lemon-lime Airborn is much tastier then the original orange flavor. The former tastes like weak gatorade, the latter is just off-putting. This is a common consensus among my cohort.
• If you’re on a trip like this, packing a lot of basic medicine would make you incredibly popular. Everyone is bumming tylenol and day-quill off each other.
• The trick that Chris B told me (apparently quite common) of taking a pepto in the morning and at night works really well, given some of the odd things we’ve been eating.
• Architects take really good pictures.
• Western food sizes really are huge, when you get things over here they seem tiny, and then I remembered that these were the sizes we grew up with.
• Somehow, more people recognize Maryland then Washington D.C. when we answer when we’re from. This may be due to the fact that there is an incredibly active Maryland center that has brought in a lot of investment.
• The deal is only valid while the status quo is maintained.

If you’re using Mail.app for your school mail, and your school has a default signature, you can still have Mail.app add it for you. Copy it from one of your emails and go to the mail menu, then preferences. Select the Signatures tab, and then the account name you used (mine is Smith). Then just click the plus and paste in your signature. Again, I’ll post pictures later.

Ted

If you have a mac, and are at all intrested in twitter, try twitteriffic. It’s the best twitter software for any platform. If you’re trying twitter add me at http://twitter.com/tedwardm

If you don’t know what twitter is, its basically the away message from AIM/the status message from facebook that gets updated and sent to anyone who has decided to follow you. You can set your privacy so you have to approve followers first if you prefer. You can update it via mobile phone and decide if you want to get updates via phone/bb. This is the sort of thing you might turn on before going out for the night if you and your friends want to be able to update latecomers when you switch bars, or to plan things like when people are leaving for events like Spring Fling, or SF pre-parties (As a MBAA officer, I have to pitch Spring Fling)

For a different explanation, try wikipedia or the Twitter Homepage

So, you know that everyone is a MBA nerd when you receive an invitation for a Happy Hour, and the invitation is a power point. Apparently, that’s the only way to do design or layout that anyone knows. It’s even nerdy when you realize that they did in fact format it according to the design rules for effective power points that we were all taught.