A little bit about me

I keep forgetting how much having music in my life helps me. My creativity always seems to be a little higher when I have music playing in the background. I must say a thanks to a few friends who turned me on the www.pandora.com where I can build a radio station that plays my favorite hits without commercial interruption. Unfortunately most of the creativity is now going to get turned into doing a large project for work that suddenly became a top priority, but at least I am creating content of some form.

I feel a bit like Pooh for that title, but really that is what I mean. Having just finished my first read through of "How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci" by Gelb, I find myself thinking about thinking. It really reminds me of a poem I once read. The Centipede was happy quite, until a Frog in fun, said, "Which leg comes after which?", which raised her mind to such a pitch, she lay distracted in the ditch, considering how to run. But seriously, I found the book the be quite full of interesting facts about Leonardo as well as an excellent book on exercises on thinking and using your mind. I found this book through recommendations on Amazon and found a local copy that same weekend. In the book, Gelb provides a brief history of Leonardo himself, and some historical perspective on the great man. It is fairly obvious from the tone of this section that the author is a devout follower of Leonardo as the greatest genius that ever lived. After the history class, Gelb divid...