New Videos Are Up: The Big Cry & Granny Franny Call

We took a video on our camera in “email” mode so we could load it up on YouTube. To say the least the “high speed” internet access is a bit more like the 405 at 5pm on a Friday. Hope you enjoy. You will get to see a nice cry from Campbell and a few dorky comments from his parents.

Also, we set up a “channel” where we’ll put other videos once we get home. It can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=993998334FFC3F90

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A Few More Pictures Of Campbell

We’ve uploaded a few new pictures and I’m sure one of these nights in the midst of a midnight feeding I’ll create a video montage. In the meantime, I’ll continue just to upload picts to our flickr account which can be viewed on McFaddenplace or on Flickr (we’ve listed both because there have been some formatting issues in some browsers with the McFaddenplace albums).
Here are a few samples:

Campbell’s Big Burp

Resting Well

McFadden finally wins the Heisman (sorry Darren)

Kel give Campbell some motherly love

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Campbell James Debut Video On Mcfaddenplace.com

You saw it here first.

YouTube Direct

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Campbell James Mcfadden Has Arrived

Today, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:50pm PST, Campbell James McFadden joined us. He weighed in at 7 pounds 3 ounces and has a length of 19.5 inches. More to come, but in the meantime we’ve uploaded a few pictures which can be seen here (CLICK).

Mom and baby are doing great. Thanks for your prayers and thoughts.

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Double Feature Weekend: Juno And There Will Be Blood

By no means am a movie buff, geek, dweeb, or nerd. Often times I’ll sit in a conversation when others are talking movies and just nod my head and chime in with the occasional chuckle. And it’s not that I don’t like movies, I just am not motivated to go see a “blockbuster” in the theater and by the time it comes to DVD I forgot I wanted to see it. That being said, once in a while I get into a movie kick … and that happened this weekend.

Kelly and I went with some friends on Friday night to There Will Be Blood. To be honest, I had not heard of the movie until 90 minutes before the show began so to say the least I was not ready for what was ahead. I’ve inserted the trailer below if you too have not heard of it:

I walked out a bit shocked. It was an excellent film but please do not go in thinking it’s action packed. As we walked out, I heard many mumble “that was slow” and “did anyone talk in first 25 minutes?” with a few “too long” sprinkled about. Take all those comments with a grain of salt. The acting was spectacular and the storyline amazing (note: the movie is based on Upton Sinclair’s novel, Oil!.

Now onto Juno. Sunday afternoon we decided to catch another movie — after all, 2 movies in one weekend is very rare and in this case a great choice. Juno was a wonderful film that made me laugh, made me uncomfortable and made me laugh again. A great flick, and considering Campbell is due Feb 4th, the whole pregnancy thing was very timely. Oh yea, Jason Bateman was in the film. I had flashbacks to Teen Wolf 2. Yes I said that!

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Want To Boost Your Writing Productivity? Have A Baby!

Great blog post found on copyblogger.com; for obvious reasons this resonates with me!

“So, if you want to really take your writing volume to a new level, get into your zone and give yourself a real deadline (like the baby waking up from a nap). Of course, it’s not necessary to actually have a new baby in the house, but sometimes the things we see as writing obstacles turn out to be blessings (in more ways than one).”

Why Americans Should Never Be Allowed To Travel

It’s a funny note. One of my favorite quotes was:

“A man called, furious about a Florida package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in Orlando. He said he was expecting an ocean-view room. I tried to explain that is not possible, since Orlando is in the middle of the state. He replied, ‘Don’t lie to me. I looked on the map and Florida is a very thin state.’”

Oxford Sbs Launches Youtube Channel

I’m sure there are many universities and MBA programs that have YouTube channels, so this might not be breaking news but this is big for Oxford’s Said Business School (”SBS”). I did a quick search and found 174 videos on YouTube under “MBA Programs” and another 528 under “MBA school”. I didn’t check for duplicates but I’m actually shocked there aren’t more videos. Maybe Oxford is ahead of the curve?

Either way, you can check out their videos here: OxfordSBS

Or just view one of these samples:

BTW, students from 2006 there is a Grace spotting 5 minutes and 25 seconds into the video.

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Destination Clubs: Leaders In Luxury

Destination clubs are setting the standard for luxury travel. They are a great example for the vacation rental industry.

The President’s Putter Quick Recap

I have many handwritten notes that I’ll capture in a post-by-post, day-by-day summary but in the meantime I wanted to at least get a picture up and link to my slide show.