This was a rough week to get back into. My weekend was exhausting but fun. Hard to get in the swing of things. I'm pretty short on groundbreaking insight re: the world of information right about now.
All I want to do is relax and start reading all of these awesome books I have, like "The Drop Edge of Yonder" and "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said".
I have new things to try with my Bandmaster amplifier (bridging the inputs = sweeter tone?) but by the time I get home that will be off-limits, unless I want to infuriate the neighbors.
I am Searching and Seizing with most of my free time. This is the way of the world this summer.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
This doesn't bode well for me
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/us_world/NATL-Self-Control-the-Secret-to-Success-Study.html
(still trying to learn how to link in Blogger??)
The Marshmallow Experiment. I would definitely not be able to hold out, even if I'm not really into mallow.
There's a great article in the New Yorker about this same test. The crux of it is that there was a Stanford experiment in which elementary-school children would be put in a room in front of a plate of sweets, and told that if they could hold out for 15 minutes without gobbling one up, that they would get double the reward. As the researcher monitored their subjects throughout their adult lives, they found that kids with self-control were much more successful, less likely to be obese or addicted to drugs, and generally happier.
New Yorker Article link:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer
(still trying to learn how to link in Blogger??)
The Marshmallow Experiment. I would definitely not be able to hold out, even if I'm not really into mallow.
There's a great article in the New Yorker about this same test. The crux of it is that there was a Stanford experiment in which elementary-school children would be put in a room in front of a plate of sweets, and told that if they could hold out for 15 minutes without gobbling one up, that they would get double the reward. As the researcher monitored their subjects throughout their adult lives, they found that kids with self-control were much more successful, less likely to be obese or addicted to drugs, and generally happier.
New Yorker Article link:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_lehrer
Overwhelmed
Right now I'm feeling a bit stressed out. My wife and I are flying to a family wedding in Decatur, IN tomorrow and I'm trying to wrap up the Tomer assignment as well as getting on the stick for the IPL for Mahoney's class. That said, I'm actually enjoying getting the hang of RefWorks and playing around with Scopus. Still have to nail the RSS feeds though. There were a few fun trial and error phases with this assignment that I've happily gotten past.
This is my heaviest semester yet, with 2 classes at Pitt and another at Community College of Philadelphia in Educational Psych. The good news is, all this hard work will end and then Amy and I will be going to Europe on our Honeymoon. So there is a pretty bright light at the end of the tunnel!
One of the big summer bummers is that a bunch of bands I play in want to do shows in the next few weeks and I have to tell them that there's pretty much no way I can juggle practices in with 3 classes and 40 hours weekly at the office, minimum. That said, I'll still get to play a few shows, so I have something else to look forward to along the way.
This is beginning to feel like my diary. OMG! Can you just die>??
This is my heaviest semester yet, with 2 classes at Pitt and another at Community College of Philadelphia in Educational Psych. The good news is, all this hard work will end and then Amy and I will be going to Europe on our Honeymoon. So there is a pretty bright light at the end of the tunnel!
One of the big summer bummers is that a bunch of bands I play in want to do shows in the next few weeks and I have to tell them that there's pretty much no way I can juggle practices in with 3 classes and 40 hours weekly at the office, minimum. That said, I'll still get to play a few shows, so I have something else to look forward to along the way.
This is beginning to feel like my diary. OMG! Can you just die>??
Monday, May 18, 2009
Danger Mouse to release blank cd, calls it "art"
Apparently, the embattled DJ/producer is in trouble yet again with his label(EMI)over copyrighted material that makes up part of his new collaboration with artists as disparate as Iggy Pop, Sparklehorse, David Lynch and the Pixies' Black Francis.
His cheeky, Web 2.0 way of giving EMI the finger is by releasing his new cd as a blank. That's right, no music. Just an empty place for the album to be put. I wonder if anyone will buy it? We all know that there will be someone who buys it and is upset when s/he finds that it is devoid of music. Maybe a backwoods DangerMouse fan with no computer, just a walkman and a backpack?
In tribute to DM's creativity, I will be free-downloading the album this evening and giving it a listen. I bet it is good. I like Gnarls Barkley and DM's record with MF Doom, and of course "the Grey Album".
I hate to lay the hard truth on you, but we don't need any more proof than this that the people who've been selling us music for the past 50+ years don't really care about art, right? (cue headslap)
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Welcome to my blog (i hear crickets)
Hello everyone. This is my first blog, so go easy on me. It will enable me to speak my mind about all manner of issues in the world, especially those pertaining to the burgeoning amount of info we are dealing with on a daily basis. There will be deep thoughts, as well as some nacho-level thoughts. Who doesn't like nachos?
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