the life and times of emijayne

Just saw today’s quote from BratFactor: We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell Not that I should listen to this “follow your bliss” guy.. but this is interestingly how I have been feeling lately.

Wow.  Truly brilliant article from Whitney Hess:  See For Yourself: About the Power of Observing. At our core, interaction designers are anthropologists. We design interactions between people and people, and people and things. There is only one way to better understand people and better anticipate how they behave: observe. The user experience profession is pretty [...]

(I almost forgot!!!) Ada had been taught mathematics from a very young age by her mother and met Babbage in 1833. Ten years later she translated Luigi Menabrea’s memoir on Babbage’s Analytical Engine, appending notes that included a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the machine – the first computer programme. The calculations were never [...]

I occasionally catch up on akinoluna’s “the day to day, semi-normal life of a female marine“, and she had this very interesting note back on the 13th: John Basilone is one of the famous Marines we have to learn about at boot camp and they talk about him all the time in Marine Corps history, [...]

Just to update my three readers, I’ve taken a break updating my blog as my life has been turned upside-down (for the better) over the last year.  There are just too many people out there who want to gossip about everything that has happened, feeding information to those I’ve cut out of my life.  I [...]

In the midst of an actually decent day, I found myself slightly frustrated over a work problem.. and so I decided to take a mental break to work on organizing my office. Unfortunately, in the process, I saw something that was a reminder of two friends recently making fun of me behind my back.. about [...]

It is really amazing how little insights and new knowledge can completely change your whole world around.  Back in June, God opened my eyes to a whole mess of realizations about my life and life around me.  I cannot really speak of all of them yet.. as the timing is not quite right.  Although the [...]

We’ve all been happy and excited around here all week.. our family has a new addition!  :)   My big sister, Kathy, and her hubby just had their first child.. a son, Nate. He is so precious! Most babies  - and I am sorry if this offends any of you or your offspring – but most [...]

:) Well, I’m here.. with my shiny new playground.. Please excuse it for a while though – I am trying out new themes and playing with the ones I like in order to make them more me. In the mean time, feel free to poke around and visit some of my friends on my reading [...]