Dude, Seriously - Kelly Wicks for Ohio House?

Friend of the family for ten years now, Kelly Wicks is running to be our representative for District 3 of the Ohio House of Representatives. Good luck Kelly!

Sony Style Sucks! I was scammed by Sony

http://www.sonyscam.info

http://www.schutze.com/sonyscam

Never again will I buy from Sony.

RSI -a thing of the past?

Aside from the obvious stumbling block of having to speak aloud with others around you (and using the microphone when others around you are speaking aloud), I'm rather convinced that speech to text software has now hit the point where the software is entirely useful. In the grand total of about 3 1/2 hours of training the software to my own voice, the software is now so accurate that the only mistakes I make our mistakes of word choice, sentence structure, etc.

I hope that if you currently have RSI, carpal tunnel, or any of the other problems that are associated with keyboarding/typing, you'll stumble across this blog and buy yourself a copy of Dragon naturally speaking. It costs less than many of the questionable hand devices that you will find on random websites or "as seen on TV" items, and it will reduce the number of keystrokes you use in a day by 95%.

If you've seen the rest of my blog, I think you'll realize that this is not an advertisement. I make no money if you buy this product, and excuse me if I'm a little bit hokey, but this is just so damn amazing.

And if you're wondering, this entire post was "typed" using this Dragon naturally speaking voice recognition software. I only had to make one correction, and I'm reasonably sure it is due to background noise made by another person in the room.

Life, flavored with orange peels and exotic spices

Life flows down the spiraling drain
and its the equinox now
no chorus of screams
but a gentle wafting

Life eternal buoyant
as always
though sinking like a stone
with giggles

every second stopping
without stopping
no more cockamamy metaphysics
just the nerves

orange peels
steeping in my cerebellum
and a memory of exotic spices
just another day

8 months!

I guess facebook has taken over from the bloggers, which is sad, because it only allows for such short statements.

Well, that's actually good when you have RSI like I do.

So, to make it short: This guy rocks : http://www.bandiantal.de/ I saw him selling Hand Made Ceramic Water Flutes, as well as dry flutes, at a renaissance/art fair in Krefeld Germany. He seems like a really nice guy, too.

Laughter Yoga

So, first update in 6 months! Last weekend I had the pleasure of a weekend spent taking a Laughter Yoga Leader certification class. I have already contacted a local Yoga studio and I will be leading a laughter yoga session there, hopefully on a regular basis. In addition, I will be leading a New Year's Eve laughter yoga session - Laughing in the New Year!
Once the specifics are settled, I will update the when and where at http://www.bglaughter.org

new use for South Main Elementary

Did you know that they finally have some cool stuff going on across the street from me at the old south main elementary building here in BG?

There is karate and tai chi as well as Belly Dancing and Kundalini Yoga classes right here in BG. They also do community drum circles, community knitting circles, and a dance center for dance lessons all right here in Bowling Green.

Anyway, thought I would share that.