5: Benadryl
4: Urban Outfitters
3: Tanqueray
2: Chipotle
1: Apple

Cali and I both grew up poor, but blessed. Cali grew up connected to an amazingly supportive Italian family and I grew up raised by Baptists who introduced me to Jesus and home grown tomatoes.

We’ve been married nine years and we’ve put off having a kid because we have an amazing relationship. We’ve never had an argument…ever and the big fear is that having a kid might be the factor that changes that.

For our Big Trip, we started a site called PaidByPixels.com. It’s similar to the principal of buying a brick in a pathway to support your college. You buy pixels to support our trip and get ads galore on PaidByPixels.com and on our network of Web sites. We call it the Pixel Board.

We don’t need nearly all of the pixels to sell to fund the Big Trip, but we need most of them to sell. Cali said tonight, if we sell all of them, we can have a kid after the trip. I’m pretty sure I can convincer her to get started on the kid mission about half-way through.

People have always said that you can’t wait for everything to be fine finically to have a kid because things my never be okay. Cali grew up in a struggle and she doesn’t want to raise a kid that way. I’m not opposed to admitting that I need your help convincing her. She loves me, and she loves y’all.

When people don’t get this Web 2.0 world we’re living in, I wonder if they want to connect to people at all. To us the connection we feel to our GeekBrief.TV friends is more real than the connection we have to anyone in the flesh-and-blood world. That’s why I’m sharing this mission with you guys and not the natural fam.

Over the last month on nights and weekends, we’ve been working on a Yule log video for portable players. It’s a project inspired by 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris and our meeting with Dave Ramsey. Tim’s book explains in exhaustive detail how to use the power of Internet technology to launch a business that pretty much runs itself. Cali asked Dave for advice, and he told her to create a great product that she’s proud to send to people.

The product we created is at iYule.TV. It’s a 30-minute Yule Log video shot in HD and scored by the amazing Geoff Smith of Digg the Code fame. It’s available in three resolutions: one for 4:3 portables like the iPod Classic and the iPod Nano; one for widescreens like the iPhone, the iPod Touch and the Zune; and one for TV and computer displays. All three sizes are also available without music for the Bah Humbug types who don’t like Christmas music.We’ve partnered with Geoff Smith and Paul Colligan to make it happen. Geoff’s original score is hypnotic, and I can imagine thousands of homes playing it during Christmas dinner. Paul Colligan’s Premium Cast application makes it possible for us to sell the videos, like virtual albums, DRM free.

Last Christmas, I put a fireplace video on my iPod and pulled it out during a romantic Christmas dinner. It’s a quirky, whimsical, romantic thing to do. I hope some guys get the iYule Log video and do the same thing. I also hope people who are giving iPods for Christmas will load this on the players ahead of time.A portion of the proceeds will go to three charities chosen by the producers. Geoff will give to the Songs of Love Foundation. Paul is giving to Tim Ferris’ LitLiberation project and we’ll be giving to Heifer International.

Here’s a sample and an example of why I hate flash (it starts all wonky):

We chose the Virb flash player because it’s the most beautiful one we’ve found so far.