Dec 22 2011

hmm... now i'm unsure...

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i've been considering a new car for some time now. i'm currently driving an old ('92) honda civic—which btw still runs great even after over 350,000 miles, but the maintenance costs are getting more and more expensive to keep it going.

i was all set on the honda crz or Fiat500, which i'm still very much interested in, but today i read about the new Chevy Sonic. i've never owned a chevy before, and have never even considered one of their vehicles, but this one has really captured my attention.

the body is similar to the honda fit or toyota matrix—not as sexy as crz, but not bad overall, decent gas milage, and almost $5,000 less than the CRZ.

i dunno what to do now. check it out

Dec 8 2011

All I want for Christmas is...

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The theme this year for me has been a new car. I despirately need one—and this car has been on my radar... now paired with gucci... well then!

Now to find myself a nice rich person to buy it for me. Any volunteers?

Nov 1 2011

Visualizing Myself

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i was reading an article at Smashing Magazine about visualizing data/content. how can we make mountains of data work more effectively for us? how can we visualize the data without spreadsheets, etc? at some point i came across a link to a site "visualize.me" and i did just that. pretty cool site.

I linked it up to my linkedIn profile, and got some pretty cool results. i did spend some time altering some of the data it pulled, but overall, it think it does a great job of giving a visual picture of me, both professionally, and personally. i don't know, i might just start putting this in my email signature. i wonder if it will do more harm than good, or the other way around.

Sep 9 2011

Back to School

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I've started school again. I've been slowly working on a degree in Social Media Marketing & Global Business and after needing to take some extra time off for personal life reasons, I've decided it was time to go back.

This semester I'll be taking an International Short Story course with 37 short stories to read, as well as a Biology of Social Issues course. Over all the workload shouldn't be horrible. There will be tons of reading that's for sure, but not nothing too horrible.

The biology course sounds interesting. The purpose of the class is to teach non-science majors the fundamentals of science so that when approached with a situation to participate in social issue discussions, the person has an understanding of science in which to base their arguement on. The couse will cover everything from basic scientific studies such as cellular biology, to logical fallacies to avoid/identify when forming an arguement, to understanding how drug companies use double blind studies, controlled experiments, and placebos to test the effectiveness of their drug/product.

While I'm not wild about a science class, it does sound interesting and will be nice to have a re-fresher to basic science that I've not had to think about for many years.

The Short stories class sounds fun. Its all about examining how the short story is written, what its intended to do, and what the effect of reading short stories is to each of us. While there is a lot of reading, the more daunting aspect of the work will be writing the reflections on each story and participating in online discussions about them. Overall, it may be a busy semester, especially with trying to balance work responsibilities, and house work, but I'm up for the challenge and will make it work.