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• A comment on Talk: Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread

  May 5 2013: Seems more a question of constantly seeking, redefining or moving the benchmark
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  A comment on Talk: David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips

  May 3 2013: Great reply - thanks Kieron! I remember using WordStar as well, so I can truly relate to what you are saying.
  
  Here is a sweet video - perhaps you are familiar with Douglas Engelbart? Fastforward the video to 4:45 and checkout his keyboard (with his GUI). Amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs
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  A comment on Talk: David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips

  Apr 27 2013: I teach in Office Administration, where we strive to teach students how to increase their productivity with business correspondence. Oddly, the MOUSE is the one item I label as an inhibitor. I insist students learn such things as keyboard shortcuts, the F keys functions, and everything else that can keep their fingers in the home position. THIS light & humorous talk will now become part of my curriculum, and at the very beginning of the semester, where I will be able to say, " See, it's not just me!"
  
  Two mouses up, David Progue!

• A reply on Talk: Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment

  Feb 24 2013: I get what you're saying, and it makes sense. The way I see things is a bit different, though. Let me explain: true happiness is not something that happens to us. It's an inside job, a decision (perhaps), a perspective, an attitude. If we have the attitude, then everything contributes to our happiness in the grand scheme of things. Experiencing sadness --knowing how that feels -- contributes to our overall happiness. The opposite of happiness is being void of emotion, and "seeking happiness" is (for me) an oxymoron. We can seek pleasure, but happiness is a deep-rooted emotion that can occur even in the absence of pleasure....

• A reply on Talk: Charles Fleischer insists: All things are Moleeds

  Dec 30 2012: I wonder if the zig-zag was not planned, to stimulate our subconscious with respect to the way numbers can be confusing, but click together at the end when we see the patterns?

• A reply on Talk: Charles Fleischer insists: All things are Moleeds

  Dec 30 2012: I had a bit of different perspective. I found his inclusion of accents was a celebration of his eclecticism, which, in itself was quite humorous,almost paradoxical, by the time he concludes his talk. I find Fleischer's approach drives the message all the way through.
  
  I am a teacher whose maternal language is French yet whose dominant language is English, and I think this type of humour in the classroom help students to shed their inhibitions and to celebrate the uniqueness of their culture and language.
  
  It is rather fun that while I gained very little from a mathematical point of view (I am a bit of a dud in math & sciences), I learned so much from this talk.

• A comment on Talk: Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online

  Dec 30 2012: The only thing missing from this talk was the theme music of a James Bond music in the background. A very upright, informative talk!
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  A comment on Talk: Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk

  Dec 30 2012: Very intriguing talk - got my curiosity up!
  
  I think it would have been far more interesting if the scientific article, which was read by 2 groups,had been read by 4 or 5 groups; each group with a very different image, including one of the brain, an of course one group with no image.
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  A comment on Talk: Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment

  Nov 15 2012: Food for thought:
  The problem with this premise is the assumption that happiness is the utlimate goal. To progress, to experience life to its fullest, to be open-minded and to be fully human, we must experience all emotions.
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  A comment on Talk: Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness?

  Nov 15 2012: Using humour to deliver this message was genius. great talk. great person.