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Country Music Television is coming to St. Louis. CMT Adventure Country launches March 29th, and their inviting you to a pre-launch event.

St. Louis Galleria will be hosting the CMT Adventure Country event on March 27 and 28 from noon to 6PM. The event well be at the Macy’s court.

(map and directions)

The event is an Adventure Country Photo Experience. Come along for a free photograph of  your whole family in adventure gear, to be included in the CMT Adventure Country online album.

Two of the new shows are Gator 911, premiering April 9 at 8c, and Danger Coast, premiering April 9 at 8:30c.

Disclosure: My wife and I are not only big fans of CMT, but I’m being compensated for promoting this event.

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

Casey explains Chat Roulette by both words and demonstration. There’s a few bits of language that might make it NSFW or young children. No nudity though.

Found this video via Walyou.

Loving tech, social networking, and blogging doesn’t mean I’m not also a dad. Heck, I’ve been a dad over half my life now.  Chris Brogan started a site for men like me, Dadomatic.

Dadomatic is a place for dads that blog to blog about fatherhood and family. This can take the form of advice, product reviews, or how-to articles. Visitors to Dadomatic will find whit, wisdom, and wackiness. Best of all it’s family friendly.

I’d like to point you to my two most recent Dadomatic offerings:

Massage and your children

Love, Anger, Kids

Some of your favorite bloggers blog there as well. Jeffery Sass, Chris Brogan, and Doriano Carta aka Paisano.

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Pirate? That’s me and much more. Over the last few years the Flickr 365 group has brought out the hero, the villain, saint and sinner.  This particular picture though caused one young viewer to ask her parents if they knew a real pirate.

Some other friends online ask if I’m an actor. Truth? I am. That’s not the whole truth though.

We’re all actors.

Role players each of us. We learn to play weak when it serves us at an early age. Later some of us learn to play bully. Many of us act both at one time or another.

As we mature, we learn to take on many roles. Some are forced upon us, some we work to make part of our inner self. Parent is a great example. Most of us play at being a parent and only after some rough days does that role become internalized.

Blogger, it’s just another role. Part of the problem with this role is that we often miss that we’re no longer playing at blogging, but it’s now part of us. We keep telling ourselves we’re not really bloggers.

STOP. You have a URL. You post things. You’re a blogger. It’s that simple really. Blogger isn’t a title reserved for those that make a living blogging. There’s no swearing into the club ceremony when you get a thousand subscribers.

You blog therefore you’re a blogger.

So stop playing the role of wimp. No more acting the beggar or the fool. Sit down. Shut up. Blog.

N’ough said.

ATTENTION: If Your Subscribers Use Gmail Read This – Online Marketing, Visibility and Business Blogging Tips from Denise Wakeman: “Essentially, any URL that has a capital letter after the http:// is not an active, clickable link in Gmail.”

Denise learned about this from Alex Mandossian’s Productivity Strategies Facebook page.

Essentially if immediately after the ‘http://’ the first character is a capital letter the URL becomes just text. Click through to Denise’s article to see some examples.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

by William A. Ward, shared by Matt Maresca.

Matt’s, aka @Matthew_Joseph, has a tweet stream full of inspiration and positive attitude. He says this about himself:

Passionate in Personal Development, Inspiring the lives of millions by being my crazy self and having fun.

Go Matt! If you need a lift in your day, I recommend following @Matthew_Joseph.

Dr. Haggis, my Steampunk hero, shares another great video. This one chronicles the making of a replica of Jayne Cobb’s Gun.

Please click through to the Jayne Cobb gun video.

Anyone can surf the ocean, but how many can surf at work? Enjoy.

NOTE: This photography by EvaXebra.

Short story version for tonight.

• Tuesday afternoon having chest pains.
• Wife takes me to emergency room.
• Blood work. Xray. Questions (dozens).
• Late late admission.
• Late night blood work.
• Early morning blood work.
• IV.
• Stress test – involves imaging w/thalium, treadmill, more imaging.
• Wait. Wait. Wait. (no water, no food) Wait.
• Hours later doctor comes. “the tests are negative” “if it’s not heart problems, what is it?”
• Me: How would I know?
• Lunch arrives moments after I sign discharge papers. I eat half of it anyway.
• Home.

I could tell you stories though about how wonderful the staff was. There might be some cool things I could tell you about the procedures or the equipment. Heck, there’s always the wheel chair rides.

Love though, that’s what I’ll talk about. The pure outpouring I received from friends via Twitter. I couldn’t get on my computer but I had my Blackberry and Twitterberry. Therefore I had my tweeps.

Offers of prayers, positive thoughts, and more came over the ether. Wow. My wife and I were blown away. Folks offered to come to the hospital even.

To compare? I called coworker last night when I found out I was going to be admitted and left message at work. No one called at all today.

I challenge those of you who think Twitter is just about reporting bowel movements and breakfast to honestly put some effort into building relationships and come back and tell me that you can’t do more than that online.

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