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Dragon Diction Fun
Apr 9th
It’s almost as fun as playing with babel fish translator. In short it doesn’t really work that well. I just told it a simple story about the things sitting on my bed around me. The result? See for yourself:
Okay I want to see what crazy things I do think you are consenting but you didn’t say I am on the phone like that you come up and I am going to get away from you soon I had to work out system is intended to Adam breakfast
I’m planning on playing with it some more, but right now it’s not really usable for any actually work.
iPad Day 1
Apr 5th
Today was my first day with an iPad so I’d thought that I’d write up some thoughts about the device. First off, I’m an Apple fangirl so I’m a bit biased, but I’ll try to keep this as unbiased as possible.
So here are some of the things I like about the device:
- I love typing on it. Yes. That is right. The on screen keyboard is actually super easy. It’s way easier to type in then my Dell mini 9. It’s a bit harder to correct errors, but that’s not too hard.
- I can curl up with it. Like a book. Seriously awesome. Try doing that with a laptop.
- It has netflix. Yeah for them. This made me reactivate my netflix account.
- some really good apps. I am using CourseNotes as my note taking app. I love the design and the way that app is structured. Very nice job.
- and did I mention the on screen keyboard?
Some things that I’m not really liking:
- Get a screen cleaning cloth. The fingerprints build up and can get distracting. Especially when watching movies.
- I can’t get a blogging client to work. I’m writing this in CourseNotes right now. If you are reading it, then I got it online somehow. But the WordPress app has issues, the web version isn’t working, and the premium blogging software I bought won’t let me log in. But I guess that’s not the ipads fault.
- the calendar app doesn’t seem to let you add or edit calendars. At first I was stuck with one and then I synced to mobile me and now I have my calendars from my desktop but can’t edit them or anything.
- Am I just blind or is there really no world clock/timer app built in to this thing? Seriously guys? Surely this is coming at some point.
So yeah. The pros far out way the cons. Love this thing!!!
It’s Okay to Relax!
Mar 29th
During college, I pretty much quit working about 3 weeks before finals.
Okay, so I usually would start working on stuff again about a week later, but I always had my week. During this week, I would get a bunch of novels and read them non-stop for the whole week. I would go though 5 or 6 novels during that week. I pretty much would just veg out for the entire week.
Some would look at me and wonder how I was going to make it through the semester. Seriously, what was I thinking?
The truth is that I wasn’t thinking. And that was the point. I would take a week off from school so I didn’t have to think. And every single semester, I would come out of my week long hiatus ready to take on finals. I would go from being burnt out to refreshed.
Without my week off, I would have never made it through finals. My brain would have been so tired, It would have gone on strike as soon as I really needed it.
It’s okay to veg out.
So if you ever feel that you just want to sit in bed all day and read novels or watch movies, give yourself the break. It will help you be more refreshed and ready to take on what life throws at you. Your veg out may last a day, a week, a month, or even a year, but as long as you do actually come out of it and start working again, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Have you ever been so over worked that you need to take an extended veg out session? Did it help?
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