Links: Marching Right in 2010 Edition

Friday, March 5th, 2010 at 8:27 AM | Category: Business, Language, Links, Meryl's Notes Blog, Writing 2 comments
Merced River from Yosemite
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Ah, I got nothing today — no stories, nada. Just lots and lots of work since I had a few appointments not related to business. At least, it’s been beautiful and sunny all week.

Brain food…

  • Bite-Size Edits: “Bite-Size Edits takes a text, chops it into pieces, and serves those pieces randomly to editors. Players get points for editing text, for providing useful comments, for helping to get a text completely edited.”
  • Using Web Tools For Creating and Managing Contracts: Important topic. I had one client (I had worked with him before without problems) who failed to live up to his part of agreement and I had no contract for it. (I know. Shame on me.)
  • How to Make Better Decisions: “Accepting ownership of consequences and balancing responsibility with your own personal goals lets you overcome stress, enabling you to making empowering decisions.”
  • I wish I would have known: Answers from 11 top freelancers: Focus on designers, but applies to others including writers. I wish I would have known that my inability to use the phone like everyone else would be a big barrier to getting clients. But reflecting on my life and career — the path that got me here was the best route.
  • The Five Best Mispronunciations I’ve Ever Heard: I love malapropisms every since I learned about them reading The Rivals
    . They’re fun. They inject humor in a conversation. Just heard one on NCIS this week: A character from another country said in reference to Kennedy shooting, “…shot from the book suppository.” More discussions over at Nathan Branford’s blog.

And for fun because we’re allowed…

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Links: 2008-12-12

Friday, December 12th, 2008 at 9:05 AM | Category: Business, Games, Language, Leftovers, Links, Marketing, Meryl's Notes Blog, Tech 1 comment

And for fun because we’re allowed…

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Following Instructions to the Letter

Thursday, November 1st, 2007 at 7:41 AM | Category: Customer Service, Leftovers, Writing No comments

Here is a good laugh from my friend, Libby.

The woman who ordered the cake from Wal-Mart specified that it should read, “Best Wishes Suzanne” and underneath that, “We Will Miss You.” The result (a href=”http://meryl.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/walmart_cake.jpg”>click to view larger image):

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