March 9: Volcano Taco
Posted by taneya on March 10, 2010 under Jihad, Photos | 
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Jihad & his volcano taco. He wanted to try the Volcano Box at Taco Bell. By the time he got to the burrito he was over-spiced 
Temple Grandin @ TED
Posted by taneya on March 3, 2010 under Video | Be the First to Comment
I just can’t seem to get enough of TED videos these days. Here is a talk by Temple Grandin where she shares how her mind works; specifically – that autistic persons think in pictures, not words so we need to recognize and cultivate that aspect. As a mother to two stepsons who have been diagnosed along the spectrum, this is of particular interest as I’m continually reading & learning.
View all TED talks in a spreadsheet.
Notes & Neurons
Posted by taneya on February 27, 2010 under Fun, Video | Be the First to Comment
I’ve been watching TED videos for the past hour and love this one from Bobby McFerrin. The video is from the World Science Festival and he’s demonstrating our mental connection w/ music. Cool stuff.
We Are the World 2010
Posted by taneya on February 19, 2010 under Video | Be the First to Comment
Feb 12: Cheesecake Factory
Posted by taneya on February 14, 2010 under Photos, Project 365 | Be the First to Comment
Oh my, Kalonji and I went out on a Valentine’s Day dinner Friday night with friends. We began the night by going to Cheesecake Factory. However, the line was so long we decided to go see the movie first (Wolfman), then come back to CF for dinner.
The movie was so much better than I expected. I love Benecio Del Toro & Anthony Hopkins both, so that made it enjoyable too.
Then, after the movie, we enjoyed our CF dinner. I had the Spicy Chicken Cashew dish and had to bring more than half of it home.
If Air Travel Worked Like Healthcare
Posted by taneya on February 12, 2010 under Healthcare, Informatics | Be the First to Comment
Oh, this is great! In my current class that I’m taking, Healthcare System and Informatics we’ve been having discussions about the healthcare system. Lots of discussion about the decentralization of healthcare and how that can hamper the process. I’ve just come across this video that highlights the points perfectly! It comes from Jeffrey Goldberg w/ The Atlantic.
To complement this, another blog I follow, Infor.matics, has a post that provides an alternate and equally insane scenario about what air travel would be like if it worked like healthcare.
88 Seconds in Greensboro
Posted by taneya on February 8, 2010 under Video | Read the First Comment
I was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, our family having moved there in 1978 when I was 3 years old. There’s been a lot of publicity for Greensboro this week with the opening of the International Civil Rights Museum. The museum pays tribute to the sit-ins in the 1960’s at the downtown Woolworth’s by four students at NC A & T. Growing up in Greensboro, that was a history I was always fully aware of as a child.
However, my mother brought to my attention this week another incident in Greensboro that I’d never heard of until now- a massacre of 4 people in 1979. Five demonstration marchers were shot and killed by Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party members. More can be found out about it at Wikipedia and I’ve already ordered the book Through Survivor’s Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre, so that I can learn more.
As I was reading about the massacre, I also learned that the band Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, whom I’m familiar with for their song from Pretty in Pink, If You Leave – did a song in tribute to the massacre. The open fire on the marchers lasted 88 seconds.
Here is OMD’s song, 88 Seconds in Greensboro.
January 31: My Namesake
Posted by taneya on January 31, 2010 under Fun, Project 365 | Be the First to Comment
If you didn’t know, I was named after a cougar in an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man. Below is said cougar, Taneha and Lee Majors.
Thanks to my mommy for sending it to me!
January 30: Snow Day
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today the kids got to play in the snow!
rest of the pics here.
January 11: Vanderbilt, My Vanderbilt
Posted by taneya on January 11, 2010 under Project 365 | Be the First to Comment
One of the Vandy bridges. Walked across it today; hadn’t done that in awhile. I felt very nostalgic going to the building again though considering I made that trek almost every day from August 2008-May 2009.
