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What Do the Employees of TakeLessons Do in their Spare Time?

They use their lunch hour to record Christmas music in the TakeLessons Jam Room! Listen now.

 

Last Christmas: Everyone II by JasonHears

"Must do" things in Mykonos

Just got back from Greece, where we visited Santorini and Mykonos. I'll post a few pics later, but in the interim, here is a PDF of some "must do" things in Mykonos taken from a Mykonos local paper entitled 'Sand' that I found while there.

Enjoy!

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Win a $150 gift certificate for music lessons

Do you have the next rock star in your family dying to take guitar lessons? Enter to win a $150 gift certificate from TakeLessons and ParentsConnect!

http://www.parentsconnect.com/sweepstakes/take-lessons-giveaway

27 Ways You Know You Work at a Startup

Here's a fun post to start off your shortened work week on the right foot. It was written by our good friends Mel and Michelle of Artistic Hub. They do design contests for corporations.

Here's a pic of their 'corporate office'. It reminds me how fun it is to do a startup, struggle with people who become friends, and build something you're proud of. There's nothing better in the world...

27 Ways You Know You Work at a Startup

1. Your boss actually lives at the office and sleeps 10 feet away from your desk
2. Your conference room “D” is actually the dining room
3. Your work attire now includes your entire closet
4. You have phone cords running throughout the room
5. Your supply closet doubles as a skype call center

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World Beat Music

This is a great wallpaper.

MoVember

So, the guys in the office (and a couple of the gals) are proudly doing "Movember". What's Movember? It's where we pledge not to shave our mustaches (or lack thereof) during the month of November and raise money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

Please make a donation today via Paypal or Credit Card using this link:
https://www.movember.com/us/donate/donate-details.php?action=sponsorlink&rego=1393506&country=us

Here's the scoop from the official Movember site:

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Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a charity event held during November each year.

At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants, known as Mo Bros, then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo (Australian slang for moustache), raising money and awareness along the way for men's health and the fight against prostate cancer.

Movember culminates at the end of the month at the Gala Partés. These glamorous and groomed events will see Tom Selleck, Hulk Hogan and Borat look-a-likes battle it out for their chance to take home the prestigious Man of Movember title.

While growing a Mo is left to the guys, Mo Sistas (women who support their guys or just love Mo's!) form an important part of Movember by recruiting Mo Bros, helping to raise funds and attending the highly anticipated Gala Partés.

But it's not all fun and games, so why the extreme behavior?

Whichever way we look at it, men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy for men is many years less than that of women; seven years less for African American men and five years less for Caucasian men.

The obvious question is why?

Men lack awareness about the very real health issues they face.  Many feel they have to be tough - "a real man" - and are reluctant to see a doctor about an illness or to go for regular medical check ups.

The aim of Movember is to change these attitudes and make men's health fun by putting the Mo back on the face of American men while raising some serious funds for the number one men's health issue, prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in the US with one in six American men developing the disease and more than 28,000 men dying of the disease every year.

Movember is very proud to be teaming with the Prostate Cancer Foundation in the US.

All donations made will go directly to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, which will use the funds for high-impact research to find better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer. The Prostate Cancer Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

We challenge you to change the face of men's health.

Happy Halloween at TakeLessons.com

 

Have a very economically scarry Halloween...

Hug Nation: People of the Web

Just wanted to send a shout out to a past co-worker, John Styn. We worked together at CollegeClub.com back in the bubble days and he was always on the cutting edge of web development and creativity. John and his 94 year old grandpa, Caleb, was featured recently on Yahoo's People of the Web show.

John started Hug Nation with Grandpa Caleb and brought good to the many people who watched the live web cast each week. The whole premise was remembering how fortunate we are to have people around us we love, and to give them a hug while we could. I had a chance to catch a couple episodes last year and it was cool to see how they were using the web to broadcast emotion (what I call "emo-cast").

Anyway, never think you're too old or your idea is too off-the-wall. Use the web. Express yourself. Get better at being you.

Cars I Want

I know it's not very zen-like to be materialistic, but when Forbes publishes its list of The Most Coveted Cars, I can't help but to lose all minimalistic tendencies for the day.

My Favorites include the Aston Martin DBS, the Tesla Roadster (first fast good-looking electric car), and the Bentley GTC convertible.