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TEDtalk Thursday: Traffic Jams of the past and future

So...this guy is Bill Ford...Henry Ford's great-grandson, and also distant relation of someone with the last name of "Firestone" (coincidentally). To be honest, he kinda rambles a bit, and sounds a bit like he's reciting a speech. If you're looking for the bit about traffic, I'd just go ahead and skip to about 7 minutes in. For now, I'll leave this here (because I've had a long day and it's 1am already and because tomorrow is going to be a long day too), and do a small review before I have to come up with more content for Florence Friday. Maybe I'll just do THAT at work.  =) Also, someone did a kinectic typography thing that makes the beginning of this talk WAYYYY more interesting: Happy TEDtalk Thursday!

Traffic Jams: Learning to focus

12:34am I've decided that's it's not best or most productive for me to write later than about this time of the night.  Tuesday night got a little crazy--definitely a little out of hand.  And though when I read through those posts, my only thoughts were: "Wow, I can still write cohesively at 3 in the morning!" and "Wow, I can get incredibly carried away" especially when my fingers can manage to keep up with the strings of thoughts as they pass through the ticker in my head that is in charge of motor control. A wordle of Tedtalk Tuesday--Happiness vs. Satisfaction I apologize. I love words. I love having things to say, and multiple ways of saying them.  But sometimes I feel like I should revel more in the beauty of being succinct. Last quarter I took a workshop class where I was required to write critiques for my classmates' work, and in return, they would critique mine.  It was  Kate Trueblood's senior seminar for fiction writing, s...