Lady Progress

A year has passed since I wrote my note

But I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep me together
Love can mend your life but
Love can break your heart
Ill send an s.o.s. to the world
Ill send an s.o.s. to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah
Message in a bottle, yeah

Half inspired, half appalled — who litters nowadays .

Boston.com reports that a message in a bottle actually made it from the Cape all the way to France!

Each year on her birthday, Ann Hernandez and her boyfriend, Alan Tomaska, would settle on the rocky shore of Thacher Island and uncork a bottle of champagne in a toast to the day. When the bottle was empty and the tide going out, Hernandez would tuck a handwritten message inside and Tomaska would hurl the bottle over the rocks and into the crashing surf.

It would take six years, but someone did. Defying nautical laws and odds, one of Hernandez’s bottles last month bobbed along the coast of France to a quaint village, where a French couple, Michel and Daniele Onesime, scooped it out of the water and read with wonder the note inside.

The NBA wants to use “replacement referees.”  Uhh…you mean scabs?  The SI article details, saying that the league hasn’t been able to come to an agreement with the vet refs.

NBA 0 – D. Patrick 1

At least our man D. Patrick is man enough to stand up to Hyatt when they fired 100 housekeepers in their interest to save a couple of bucks an hour.  Although, Hyatt isn’t really giving them their jobs back.

The Hyatt 100, as they’re now known, thought about the offer over the weekend. Then on Monday, they voted overwhelmingly to reject it. Now the union is calling for a nationwide Hyatt boycott.

Lots of them.

This is a cellar full of money (duh) that was made by buying sudafed and then turning it into meth.  I guess this is what happens when you sell drugs…you make lots of money, ruin lots of people’s lives…and then watch the 5-0 take it away.

At the local Whole Foods:

Hard not to love the creativity that’s constantly flowing in Cambridge

At least they didn’t look like these!  This is a scary carrot.  (Nice catch Wicked Local)

Just be glad it wasn’t this…the world’s largest burger. 

Thank you This is Why You’re Fat.

1.  Go to YouTube.com.

2.  Search for “shaq”

3.  Press Play.

This guy Mr. Clark who supposedly is the main (read: only) suspect in the Le killing at Yale is really getting the full strip search when it comes to his past.  The highly reputable NYT delved deeply into his past,

Mr. Clark graduated from Branford High School in Branford, Conn., and he appears first in the 2004 yearbook as a member of the Asian Awareness Club. He is photographed next to two women of Asian descent. The club, according to the yearbook, made egg rolls for a faculty luncheon and raised money for a trip to Chinatown for the Chinese New Year in 2004.

The fact that he made egg rolls for a school luncheon, can that really be so damning?  Oh…I get it, he’s got an Asian fetish and killed Ms. Le in a violent jealous rage.  And then rolled her into the wall just like he learned when rolling those egg rolls back in 2004.  

In the interest of not being boring, and from the prodding of my loyal fan Brogress, my new goal is to post one funny thing a day.  And then, if there is time I’ll write about something I actually care about.

So today, to start on a good note…I will post a vid from Funny or Die that plays off of two cult clubs.  Those who love the Red Sox and those who love Mad Men.

Disclaimer:  The first 30 seconds are the funniest…

This is why is makes me sick. 

No matter what one believes, is one innocent death worth killing a hundred guilty people?

I apologize for the interruption in service.  The Lady is back. 

Although some pesky thing called ‘law school’ might keep me from posting consistently, I will continue my writing shortly.  With a new focus on law, morality and justice.  How do lawyers maintain their individual dreams while serving their clients properly?

It’s not all about the money and fame of other big cities, it is about the little things.  The hidden mysteries like finding Pooh’s house tucked away off the beaten path of the square built by someone who just wanted to make strangers smile.

Concentrating on one thing at a time has become a nightmare.  From having your TV and laptop on at the same time, 10 different tabs open in your web browser, your phone (ringing and texting) and then of course the out-dated, totally passe one on one communication.  How do we do it all?  Or have we come to believe we are getting a lot done when really we are just wrapped up in a web of communication that might not ever lead to anything truly productive or efficient? Lately I feel that the latter is true and that is why I’m psyched to see an influx of weird / semi QVC-ish products on the market.

The first one that was brought to my attention is one that is so big in Korea they’ve already sold over 1.5 million and they use it in their schools over the loud speaker!  It is a mix of sound and visual — although it can be use with just the sound if you want to study with it on.  Gearlog says,

Developed by Daeyang E&C, the MC Square features six program modes with natural sounds like rain drops to soothe and relax your mind. With everyone in the stuffy room watching us, we both put the earbuds and goggles on. We turned on the player and began to see red lights flashing at our eyes. We were told to close our eyes and listen to the sounds of the ocean in the background. The combination of light and sound, an audio-visual stimulation (AVS), is known to cause “significant changes in EEG patterns and cerebral synchronization.” But why the flashing red LEDs? They’re “bright, inexpensive, and blood vessels in the eyelids pass red/orange light most efficiently.”

To me, this sound like a fancy way of meditating.  Meditation has consistently been proven to aid concentration and memory.  But we all like the quick fix so much more.  The NYT also recently reported about a study that measured gamma rays in monkeys and humans.  Supposedly the more gamma rays the better the concentration.  So they have been working to help the brain produce more gamma rays by synchronizing the neurons in one’s brain.  Pretty cool stuff.

I’m tired of getting an email and then a facebook message and then a twitter message and then a yelp event invite…all with the same text.  Lame.  Please be more creative.