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Music Makes Me Happy!!

Here’s an interesting interview (found on “digg”:http://digg.com/music/How_Music_Gets_you_High) with a record producer-turned-neuroscientist, who is currently researching how the brain and mind handle and interpret music. “Read the article here.”:http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,71631-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
This guy is awesome. I am inspired just by his history alone. A guy going from a kick-ass job as a record producer for the Grateful [...]

How to Ruin Lives Through Craigslist

About a week ago, I posted an “entry”:http://jewlofthelotus.com/articles/2006/09/07/smalltransport-idm about a website for my Interactive Media I class. Well, this entry is _not_ for that class, but it is for another class of mine – Social, Cultural and Psychological Implications of Computer-Mediated Communication (more easily referred to as “TC491″:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc491/). Recently, we’ve been discussing online [...]

Facebook Gets "Generation Y" Off Its Ass (…Figuratively)

Thankfully, after three days of steady complaint, Facebook has done _something_ about the “News Feed” to calm our vexations. Early this morning, Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, posted to the Facebook blog (which was also simultaneously glued to the top of everyone’s “News Feed” – BUT with a nice little option to ‘Hide’) [...]

smallTransport IDM

WTF is an IDM? It’s an “Inspiration Design Model” and I get to critique five of them over the next 13 weeks for my “Interactive Media I”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/ class. The professor assigns a website for us to look at and analyze, we each comment with a blog post and reply to at least one [...]

F U, Facebook

So Thread got to this before I could: “Wow…WTF Facebook?!”:http://threadbox.net/articles/2006/09/05/wow-wtf-facebook

Snapshot Seekers on LiveJournal

So, I’ve joined a LiveJournal Group called “Snapshot Seekers”:http://community.livejournal.com/snapshot_seeker/profile. It’s a group for people who just like to take pictures, professionally or not. Well as part of their application process, I have to promote the group in two locations. This is one of them. :)
!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/beckigurl7/Snapshot%20Seekers/scavengerhunt.jpg!:http://community.livejournal.com/snapshot_seeker/
Check it out, my application will be up [...]

YAY, New Kitten!!

I love cats, I always have. So, I _had_ to get a kitten of my own. KT, my last roommate, left her cat here when she moved out. Gibby (KT’s cat), had a brief friendship with our subleaser’s kitten, Maya. But when Maya left, Gibby was pretty sad. So I [...]

Let’s Get This Ball Rollin

Classes have started back up again and so far it looks like this will be a pretty nice semester. I cut my course credits down to nine, which is less than full-time status, but I’m picking up three extra credits by helping out as a Studio Assistant in the audio lab (so I’m back [...]

After 11 days of blogger’s block…

Sometimes it takes me a while to see how amazing things are. And then **(big)BAM!!** all of a sudden it will come to me. At that point of realization, I will either become extremely excited or extremely confused. Like just now I realized how perfectly my floor lamp lights up my tapestry-covered [...]