Gia is Everywhere!

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On my way to work Sunday (Last week... I need to post things faster?!) I was listening to the lovely public radio, NPR.  (Yes the crazy liberal station that wants to corrupt the masses by providing fair and balanced news coverage!)  Since it is a Sunday, the news was a little on the fluffy side, but I thought it had a great idea:  http://www.gaianproject.org/.  The Gian Project is a group of people try to raise awareness about working systems in the earth by creating beauty and inspiring you to conserve the beauty you see.  It’s a really new program and not quite up and running yet, but I thought it could be something amazing. It’s an open share platform that artists can add to and any one can take from!  Oh to be a part of this era.  This project gives me hope!

New Comp at Work

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I hate Vista Operating System!

That is all.

Picture from Beyond the Punchline Blog

Hehe, one day the nerds will rule the world!

NICE  HAZA!  Oh PC World how you make my life full of fun.  Thought this was great and wanted to share with you.  Sci-fi Nerds Unite!

Shakespeare Resources

I'm a big fan of books, owning them, holding them, reading them,  mmmm me love me some books.  However I also do know that books take up room and space!!!  Now that I've started this crazy research project I know for sure I would not be able to own, read, and hold all of my refrence sources.  That is why I love the internet!! http://shakespeare.mit.edu/  Is the best online source for quickly looking up Shakespeare's work!  Its the best!  Now there are some typos and issues with spelling and first folio vs second folio vs modern translations and editors opinions.  But for me to quickly find a line, scene in a play, its GREAT!!!  In fact to tell you the truth most of my research starts on the internet and then moves to hard copies.  So for you actors out their or Bard lovers great first stop to brush up on Shakespeare.&Or you can join me in my book love and buy every copy imaginable!!!

Hehe I've gotten things like this.

Hello World,
Doing some more research on tech stuff for work and I stumbled across This little fun iteam.  I thought it was great and wanted to share it with you.  Actually most everything I find at this website http://www.pcworld.com/  is either realy entertaining or informative.

Borders declares chapter 11!

Sad face for me.  I love books in fact I am most definatly a bibliophial!  The smell, the touch, the weight and presence that a book has.  You can smell the different types of inks and even the history of the book.  Was it well loved, was the person a foodie, or did it sit forgoten awaiting someone to charish its words within.  On February 16th when I heard that Borders was declaring bankrupcy my heart sank a little bit.  I love going to book stores and wandering around the shelves finding new treasures or being lost in the covers of a book.  For me Borders was the bookstore I go to in order to find some escape from this life.  (Yes yell at me and say support the local book store!  But there is only 1 in my area and its realy inconvenient and out of the way.  Plus I think it sort of stinks as a store,  ehhemm its called customer service.)  I do understand why the comapny is having issues.  They were not keeping up with changing trends in book sales as well as the fact that spending habits have changed and even less people are purchasing physical books.  I recently recieved an e-reader for x-mas.  It is an interesting device and I do plan on using it.  But it does signifigantly change how I aproch my reading and how I purchase books.  I only purchase and borrow books due to fact that becasue of an interesting lay of the land, county and city classifications I can't get a local library card unless I pay a pretty hefty fee.  So for me book stores are the only place for me to find new reading materials.  I wish them the best of luck in changing their business plan cause I realy do love books.  On top of which Borders slide into trouble represnts to me how thin of a line so many poeople are walking on in this economy. News article from NBC

Square CC reader

Best invention ever!!  Basically its a credit card reader that connects to an I-phone, or other smart phone.  Down load the free app sign up for the free program, and "random french word I can't figure out how to spell" instant CC reader.  As some one who has dealt with merchant accounts this is a god send for small business everywhere, or just a person.  There is a fee for the transactions but that is to be expected.  But its cheaper then other accounts I've managed and there are no membership fees or anything?!  I'm still playing with it but I think its great! We're using this wonderful little gadget at "As You Like It"!   Square for more info.

WOW, if only it wearn't true!

Your Kidding Right?!

Okay so I was doing some research for work and stumbled across this little nugget about the human race.  I can't believe that people even in America can hold some of these opinions!!!  My head hurts because of this article. 32%  of Russians and 28% of Americas think the sun circles the earth. Science for hundreds of years has excepted now that the world revolves around the sun!  55% of Russians and 37%  think all Radioactive waste is man made.  Maybe if you really uneducated or not able to problem solve well you might think all things that are radioactive come from humans.  But hello, Radon, Asbestos, poison all made by nature?!  29% of Russians and 41% of Americans thought Humans and Dinos lived together.  ?!Humans and dinos ruled the world together?!.  This is a point of religion and not a fact any more.  The only people who I have ever meet that even think this was are crazy religion people.  FYI I do plan on visiting the creationism museum at some point in time.  Just to spend the entire day laughing at the crazy wax figures!!!  (Folks keep in mind that polls, survey and such can be altered or come up with bad numbers!)

So I'm Behind the Times

Hello World,
In regards to watching TV, Films and such I don't tend to watch things when their popular or when the air time is.   I'm a big fan of DVR, streaming video, and renting things.  I like watching things on my term without the commercials.  The funny thing is that I recently signed up for Netflixs.  I've had it before when it was brand new and the turn around time and selection was low.  I decided to try it again when the started offering the streaming on the Wii.  Well lets just say I think its the greatest inventions for couch potatoes the world over.  I don't think I've been disappointment with it but once and it was cause I doesn't stream on my old Mac. (Pre Intell Chip but it still works like a dream)  If your into Movies and TV you have got to get this very cheap service.  I have saved so much money with renting things and entertaining myself.  $10 vs $100 a month?! 
The Funniest thing that has come about because of the Netflixs is that I'm starting to catch up on TV shows that I decided not to follow for what ever reason.  For the last month when I haven't been working, or producing "As you Like It" I have been watching Lost.  I know laugh at me, that is so 2 years ago.  I don't care, it was AMAZING!!!! I got the hype before, I watched a few episodes thought it was interesting.  However I had class and then 2 seasons later had no idea what the hell was going on.  I'm actually sort of glad I was not caught up in the immediate hype when it happened.  I would of had no life!  LOL  J. J. Abrams does a great job in creating interesting concepts and story lines.  He knows what people want and how to give it to them.  Oh if only I could be a fly on the wall in his office!  Or better yet work for him.  I do have to say though that when I started re watching the series from beginning to end I did guess the end by the third episode.  I'm still debating on how much was, hell, heaven, limbo and earth but I knew that they were all dead.  The one thing that bothered me was that at the end the iconography got a little heavy handed.  In some ways keeping track of all of the story lines was like reading Dune.  It was fun, I enjoyed it, now I can move on into my next obsession, GLEE!!! LOL which is the only show I currently tune into when it airs.  Not this week though, sad face, it hell week.  Which is why I love DVR!




http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Complete-Collection-Jorge-Garcia/dp/B0036EH3WU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297193351&sr=8-1

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/

http://www.amazon.com/Dune-40th-Anniversary-Chronicles-Book/dp/0441013597/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1297193706&sr=8-1

http://www.dunenovels.com/

http://www.fox.com/glee/

http://netflixs.com