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Multiplexing
I’m not just good at a couple of things. I’m good at nearly everything I do. Believe me, it’s a bitch. Life would be so much simpler if I had one skill, or one passion, and I applied myself to one thing for the rest of my life. But I could never deal with that. Why? I’m a multiplexer. I don’t do singular. My attention cannot remain focused unless it is split. I have to continually spin three to fifteen [...]
The Year in Google Searches
This is how Google saw 2010: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0QXB5pw2qE&feature=player_embedded]
Huntress kids 2010 Episode 5
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKhb9qbweik"] This is the last one in the series. Great music, and adorable children playing in the Portland sunshine.
Broken Health Care
"Do you have health insurance?" I overheard my friendly local barista asking one of her regulars. "No, what are you talkin about? Of course not," he shrugged. "Why?" "Because I was hoping you could fake a sinus infection for me, and get me some antibiotics, for my sinus infection." This is what we've come to. Our citizens can't even get medicine without working the system somehow. I read about the free-dental-work-giveaway last month, when volunteers and dentists took over the [...]
Huntress Kids 2010 Episode 4
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The Magic of Caffeine
Really, why do I bother trying to work without coffee? It's only after I've been sluggishly pulling myself through make-believe-working, when I look up from my web surfing and look at the clock, that I realize I've wasted precious hours by not being focused and productive. I put on a pot of dark, thick coffee, and within moments of the first few drops hitting my bloodstream, I begin looking at my desk in a completely different way. "What can I [...]