I found this article very interesting. It presented a number of studies that have been done which suggest that multitasking may be slowing you down much more than speeding you up. What do you think about these findings?
There has been a lot of hype about the IPad since it came out. While it looks cool, Microsoft has been boasting that it too had a similar product coming out soon. Unfortunately for them, specks on their new HP Slate have been leaked recently, and while some parts of it are better, overall it is looking like the IPad may actually be the better choice for these two first generation products.
It is impressive what you can do with a bunch of people you’ve only ever met online. I have friends who we only really get along when we are online, and that is ok. With a lot of my other friends and business associates, it has generally been better to connect at a deeper level whether that means we need some time apart to talk to each other over the long distances of the internet, or if that means that one of us needs to fly or drive in and meet face to face. Here is a great article on how to do the second part, taking an online community and connecting in person for the first time.
I found this great video on how to capture a great action shot with your camera. Best to use for sporting events.
So, thanks for coming back. This is actually the second part of my story about how my husband proposed. Here’s some quick catch up information. Josh and I were dating and he had asked me to join him on a trip to spend time with family members in Palmdale, California. I agreed and when he arrived in town the initial plans had suddenly been canceled with no explanation. I thought that was odd. I also thought it was odd when he pulled into an exclusive hotel and already had reservations. I didn’t complain though and we unpacked and got ready for the evening.
We left the hotel and he drove us to this place called Romi’s . It was incredible by the way, but once again I was wondering about all this luxury involved in the weekend. Romi’s was a really nice place and when no one else showed up Josh dismissed it as a misunderstanding and suggested we just enjoy our meal and we would hook up with them tomorrow. I admit I was a little suspicious because he made the whole thing out to be so important and now he was just blowing off meeting them. But I enjoyed my seafood linguini and the conversation we had. After dinner we went dancing for a little while and then headed back to the hotel. 
The next day he said we were to meet his family at this water park called Dry Town. That sounded fun to me and once we arrived Josh suggested we go on some of the rides. After about an hour I asked if Josh wanted to call someone because no one showed up. He said he would but first wanted to go on this ride called the Devil’s Punch Bowl. And then when we got to the top he pulled this case out of his pocket and asked if I believed in luck. I said, yeah, and then he said something about the odds of us finding each other are about the same as us finding the ring in the pool and then he tossed it down the slide in front of us. I thought he had to be kidding, but he seemed serious about looking for it so I played along. We spent all afternoon looking for that ring and when we finally found it I was surprised to see that it actually was a diamond . Josh said that was an omen and we should get married. The rest is, as they say, history.
Obama signed into action a Student Loan Reformation bill that will help students get student loans, keep these loans out of traditional banks, and will help students pay off loans as they can. This was only a day after signing into law a health reform law. Here is the video explaining a some of these two bills.
It’s always a pleasure to hear Holly Miranda playing at her old stomping grounds, and Nashville still shines as one of the best places to hear her music. It’s a pretty lively scene on most nights, and pretty much every time of year, but it’s made even better when something exciting is anticipated and then falls into place.
Her show recently made so many people turn their heads, because she is striking. There’s something of an aura of a mystic about her, one of those dream figures that comes walking sometime between dusk and dark, where you’re not exactly sure what you’re seeing. The dream could be starting already, or this could just be waking up, but it doesn’t matter, because when she’s singing, it’s somewhere between reality and a deeply unconscious moment on a mountain.
Her songs are like questions, sad questions that don’t make any sense but are absolutely true and right. Like the figures that we become when we’re traveling, moving from one moment in time to another, this is music that’s been heard before, but not in this life.
To hear her live is as exotic as a night in a gorgeous hotel , and room service is open and there’s no one to answer to anywhere. It takes you to a place you’ve always longed to go to, but never had a map.
She’s based in Brooklyn now, and the music is being included with the rest of the Brooklyn art rock, and that’s as good a label as any. It puts some notions of edge into the definitions, and this has an enormous edge. Gorgeous, haunting, ethereal, and somewhere deep there’s a sense that the banshees have woken up and decided to sing into this new artist’s ear, and we are the recipients of a perfect gift. Holly Miranda will be heard over the banter of the puppets of our time, singing sweetly from the depths of the sea.