Mauriat Miranda     mjmwired

More Hum Drum

I had a really good blog entry a few days ago about the issues with musicians and sampling other music. It took about 1 1/2 hours to write up with a good deal of internet research. Then the moment before I was about to publish it, I hit some link or something and trashed the whole thing. I'm too lazy to redo it, but I'm still upset over it. ...

Sensory Compensation

Sounds like something out of Star Trek, no? Since I was in elementary school I would always find it irritating when someone told me that they could not study without some sort of "noise" (music or whatever). That never sat right with me. I was reading Parade Magazine this morning and looked upon "Ask Marilyn". Someone wrote in: I have fairly bad eyesight. But why is it that when I remove my glasses, I can't hear people as well?

The Mother Tongue

My parents placed my siblings and me into a private elementary school in the hopes of getting an optimal education. Often at times "private school students" is synonymous with "rich kids". So when a facility or resource is not available due to the smaller student body, usually the parents will have to pay extra (umm, extra extra) to provide this for their child. Case in point. I was in 7th grade and the "

Still Bloggin!

Yeah, I'm still here. Down with a nasty cold, sitting on my bed with a laptop (thank God for 802.11b!) ... Anyways, I always find it interesting how people generally place a great deal of significance in arbritrary numbers (present company included). This should be my 100th post. What does that mean? Absolutely nothing, in fact, I'm surprised it took so long to get to 100. Back in the fall of 2000 my Technical Communication prof was explaining how something called a "

A Man With Money

They were selling pizza for lunch in the cafeteria today. When they announced it on the intercom system, my Indian co-worker came running to my cubicle section to ask my team member for some money. Then seeing me, he said "Hey! Mauriat has got to have some money on him, he's not married!". We all laughed. He was right, on both cases. So then the day seemed to go on pretty long, I've been trying to work one issue out and was getting some help.