Movember – there’s an app for that!
Okay, essentially everything I write here tends to be a peek into my personal side, but only my ‘android side’. Rarely do I let personal nature items slip into the post. But I’m going to let you in on one of my bigger secrets.
Something I really haven’t told a lot of people about in the past while.
My dad has cancer.
That actually was hard to write, and see written. I wrote in my personal blog a while back when he was diagnosed and the troubles he’s had with his chemotherapy… doesn’t get any easier, and I’ve stopped even writing there about it.
In the past I’ve done the Movember deal to be a part of the group, and hide/joke about how badly I grow a moustache. This year I’m doing it because I have a direct reason now. The joke side of it disappears. Sure, I still will not grow a decent moustache. That won’t change. What changes is that before I would laugh off the ‘ugh, Movember is a gross time of year’ comments with a ‘well cancer is worse’ response. This year I will KNOW that cancer is worse.
F U Cancer!
So this year (and I believe last year) there’s an app to help keep you updating the “Mobro page”. This is a page (like mine at mobro.co/ryanmmoore) where you get your friends/family to donate moneys to help us rid the world of cancer. You treat it like a blog/social network by posting updates and photos. It tallies your donations to date and if they didn’t donate anonymously it’ll say who.
The app allows you to interact with that page just as you would on the website. It’s great. Sure, it’s one more ‘social network’ – but a) it’s for a good cause, b) it’s only for a month.
what no g+?
going to have to screen grab to share
I won’t be able to pull of any of these.
my rule I’d like to add is “MOUSTACHES ONLY”… none of this generic “no shave november”… no beards, just moustaches!
It has a very nice look about it, but with some underlying Gingerbread-esque feel (which I found out at AndroidTO that the Tumblr guy hates that look).
Go get this app… sign up for Movember. If not, help support a Mo-bro. I’m starting a circle of ’em on my G+ page. Support not only by donating money to help us get rid of cancer, but also show your support for the cause by standing up for them when the ne’er do wells of the world try to sling mud at the moustache growers.
Follow me on my Movember cause at http://mobro.co/ryanmmoore
In conclusion, just going to leave this NSFW video… it’s funny tho’.