Room to Think

Today's Florence Friday   is a simple video I came across in my "research".  That's right people, I'm posting on time this time. That's not to say that I'm not WAY behind in my homework, or my job search, or episodes of my TV shows, or hanging out with all my friends, or redoing my resume for the 71st time.  I just can't seem to focus on anything right now.  I researched Search Engine Optimization last night for a workshop I'm teaching this morning, but I'm using the data this blog has generated so it's only fair that I give you all a post.  =) The video?  It's called "Venice in a Day",  Venizia en un giorno . (I wonder how capitalization is in Italy...do they capitalize all the words in a title?) And it's beautiful. Hope all your Fridays are sunny like today!

So, obviously I'm a little late on the "Tuesday" part of TEDtalk Tuesday, but I don't have followers yet, so I suppose it's not going to matter in the end.  Besides, I haven't gone to bed yet.  In my mind, that means it's still Tuesday. Regardless, I intended to post this while I was in the Atrium today, but I ended up forking up $120 to the rec center all in one go because I decided to be on two intramural teams this quarter, and the line had me occupied for a good portion of my 2 hour break.  By the end, I didn't feel like blogging at all. BUT here is the reflection on my post I put up earlier today.  If you actually watched the nice embedded video I put up in the last blog, congratulations.  I'm happy that 20min video didn't make you feel like you were wasting time.  TED does have much more engaging presentations, I promise!  It also means you can skip most of this blog, down to the only graphic in this mass of words.  If you...

From my experience, the best way to start a new blog is to jump right in.  Today is Tuesday, which means that later today I get to sit by myself for two hours between classes, pretending to do homework while I'm actually watching people in and around the Atrium.  I figure that's as good a time to reflect as any. So, no, this won't be your typical blog from my bed, which means I'm already going outside the parameters of why I established this blog in the first place. BUT, I did start watching the video I'm going to talk about before I went to sleep last night, and finished it when I woke up this morning.  Take that  theme . The video is a TEDtalk--which, if you've never heard of it, this guy gives a fairly short explanation of them, I suppose.  If you'd like to watch more TEDtalks, because you agree that they make you think, there's a link to all twelve-thousand of them over there in the bar to the right. --------------------> or, you can just cli...