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Menu Change
By Kirsten Nelson, August 11, 2010
When we are fortunate
enough to
indulge in a real
lunch break, we all
have a favorite spot.
We are drawn there
by the menu, the service,
the location, or
some combination
of all three. When
that rare triumvirate
is
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You Can Quote That
By Kirsten Nelson, July 19, 2010
Wrap a phrase in
quotation marks
and it changes the
context. You wonder who
said it, and then you can measure its
truth against your
own experience.
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Talk About This
By Kirsten Nelson, June 7, 2010
They’re onto us.
They’ve heard our
story and they
believe it. But they’re
not going to let us
off easy. Audio and
video technology
has moved beyond
mere background
material or supporting
evidence—it’s
part of the
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Still Standing
By Kirsten Nelson, May 5, 2010
The scientific studies and tech blogs are abuzz with the theory that standing is the new ergonomic chair. Apparently people who stand at work are healthier and burn more calories than those who sit. The benefits also extend to
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High-Five
By Kirsten Nelson, April 1, 2010
Many of our most vivid memories, individually and collectively as a culture, are of great victories and defeats in sports. If you witness raised voices and waving arms at a group gathering, there’s a good chance that a game or
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Crowd Control
By Kirsten Nelson, February 26, 2010
As an image, the theater marquee has long represented one’s making it to the big-time. Countless movies, still photographs, and songs celebrate the glitz and glamour of seeing a name “in lights.” These twinkling icons of success
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Step By Step
By Kirsten Nelson, January 6, 2010
As the new calendar year begins midwinter, we are all looking for signs of spring. Not specifically the season welcomed with tulips and robins, but rather the advent of an economic recovery. The signs that trigger hopefulness
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Picture Perfect
By Kirsten Nelson, December 18, 2009
We’ve all had a good chuckle at the oversized electronics of the not-too distant past. Often, those self-coconscious giggles erupt when viewing films or TV shows from way back in the 1990s, the first decade where technology began
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Mental Tune-Up
By Kirsten Nelson, November 18, 2009
“Too much rock and roll” is one of the common refrains heard at crowded cocktail receptions, on busy trade show floors, or anyplace where members of the professional AV industry find themselves unable to hear properly.But one
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Non-Stop Robot
By Kirsten Nelson, November 4, 2009
In popular culture and in manufacturing the quiet efficiency of robots is a mainstay in the collective vision of the future. Working tirelessly in factories and potentially even helping out around the house someday, our robotic
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Place Your Order
By Kirsten Nelson, October 21, 2009
There are certain business transactions which continue to occur no matter what the state of the economy. The list of these is too varied and numerous to detail, and thus accountants, shopkeepers, and those who cherish archaic
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Look Twice
By Kirsten Nelson, August 17, 2009
History is littered with inventions that were ignored for their apparent insignificance, only to be “discovered” later by someone else, or else rescued from obscurity by an enterprising soul who couldn’t let a good idea gather
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Turn It Up
By Kirsten Nelson , June 22, 2009
Whenever you get in the car and start the engine, probably the very next thing you do is hurtle your hand toward the radio volume knob and turn it down. This is not always a consequence of aging, or the evidence of a conflict
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Doctor's Orders
By Kirsten Nelson, May 18, 2009
It's recently been speculated that music has a fountain of youth effect on listeners. Founded on the principles that came into being during the "classical music makes you smart" era a few years ago, further research has shown
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Secret To Success
By Kirsten Nelson, April 16, 2009
There’s a new coffee shop in my hometown which was once a greenhouse. This is fairly obvious even to those who never knew of its former life, because attached to the little rectangular building there is a huge plastic dome
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