At least they’re not spitting.

You know those dogs that they take to nursing homes that have been shown to help the residents feel happier and live longer?  This guy is going to live forever!

A coworker showed me the original dancing inmates video many months ago and I’ve been following them ever since.  Based out of a prison in the Philippines, thousands of inmates dance, march, and have a good-ole time showing off for millions of YouTube fans. 

Sure beats gang wars and prison fights.  What they need to set up next is a well produced International Reality Prison Inmate Dance-Off competition; call me Simon Fuller.   For more information about the prison and how the group got started, I found this MSNBC Dancing Inmates Article to be very interesting.

     On top of being thorough and courteous, for the first time in my adult life the sales reps at the counter didn’t try to strong-arm me into buying my prescription from them if I could find it cheaper elsewhere.  A gesture, I appreciated so much, that I gave them my full business.

     The funny thing is that I actually stumbled across the actual diagnosis test online (see the link below) a few weeks ago.  This is nearly identical with the one I was given in the doctor’s office.  I failed it then too, but I chalked it up to my monitor not being calibrated correctly; guess I was wrong!

     Supposedly there’s a red circle in the picture above next to the yellow square (Which I can see, thank you very much!).  Here is the link to the Free Online Color Blindness Test.  Please let me know if they’re just pulling and there really isn’t anything there.

     First, I wanted to have a place where I could write about and document all those things that have enriched my life somehow. These could include insights from my favorite books or articles that I have read, benefits from websites or software programs that have made life better for me in some way, or good advice I have heard from those much wiser than myself. I am very growth oriented by nature and always looking for ways to make my life easier / better / happier and wanted to use this site as my primary tool for documenting my journey and progress in case any of it may be of some benefit to others.

     My second goal for the site was to have one place where I could log and share any and all interesting (entertaining, educational, incredible) links / nuggets of information that I stumbled across as I attempt to satisfy my never-ending thirst for knowledge.

     So how am I doing after my first month? Well, it appears as if I have so far neglected my first goal entirely and primarily focused only on sharing cool links. This is an imbalance that I intend on correcting from this point forward. I have a long list of articles that I have been wanting to write (in some case for years) and while I will continue to post many of my favorite links, I am going to focus the majority of my free time to writing about all those things that I believe have improved my life in some way. This will be encapsulated with the WisdomHound.com’s new slogan:

     Yes, I have biases and beliefs that I currently hold. But if there’s one thing I can tell you about myself, it is that I am a frustratingly big flip-flopper and proud of it. I try not to take any of my beliefs too seriously and am always open to exploring the reasons underlying another’s point of view. Even if we ultimately arrive at different conclusions, the least we can do is understand and respect where the other is coming from.

     For those of you who visit the site primarily for the links, going forward I will be posting all links (including the few that make it to my blog and the many that don’t) on my public Google Reader feed below (which can be subscribed to separately if so desired).

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/WisdomHound

     After trying a number of different mediums for sharing links (Posting them Here, Twitter, Digg) I have found nothing to be nearly as useful as Google Reader for organizing and sharing links to my favorite Online content. In addition to having the standard features like RSS Feeds, Tags, Notes, etc. in typical Google-Stalker form, it’s also great for discovering new blogs & people linking to similar content to the kinds of stuff you are already reading anyway (very similar to Amazon.com recommendations). But enough free publicity for Google; like they need it.

○ Items that I presently have queued up to write about include website, book, & product reviews; observations; interviews; discoveries; insights; & links; All the stuff that I’d put in a book about what has made my life better "were" I to write one

It has always been my dream to be able to communicate with a computer directly vs having to worry about carpal tunnel and whatnot; but it does raise interesting security concerns