Everyone has their guilty pleasures that they get awkward about when their significant other catches them red handed. Some are harmless (chocolate, sweets, twilight, undying love for nsync) and some of those guilty pleasures are very bad (infidelity, a secret substance addiction, Ricky Martin). Though my girlfriend is perfect in every way, shape and form, and even though she does countless after countless nice thing for me, and always looks gorgeous, I must admit she might have one as well: Visiting the local animal shelter.

Now, this is not really a guilty pleasure, if you are in the right state of mind. There are plenty of good reasons to visit the animal shelter: To look for your lost pet; maybe you go frequently because it has a habit of escaping. Maybe you go to volunteer service. The shelter is also a great place to adopt new pets. But if you already have enough pets for your small apartment, and you are going to their to avoid other important duties (going to the DMV, doing homework, cleaning your boyfriends how. just kidding, but seriously) and going to the shelter to spend 2 hours just staring at the lovely little precious animals, you might have a problem

This problem is most obvious when the girlfriend in question answers my phone call sheepishly and the conversation goes as follow:

Me: "Hi honey"

Girlfriend: "Hi..."

Me: "What are you up to?"

GF: "noottthhhinnnnnn"

Me: "Why do you sound like your hiding something?"

GF: "Idunno..."

Me: "Why did I hear a meow"

GF: "..."

Me: "Are you at the animal shelter"

GF: "NO!!"

Me: "(laughter) You know I can't get a kitten right now"

GF: "Yeah but..."

Clearly their is some guiltful feelings here as she knows that going to the animal shelter is slightly pointless just like binge eating is pointless. Yes, we know it feels soooo good, and your endorphines rage and when you look into that little kitty's eyes, it's like looking into a snow globe and ooo-la-la. But what I'm sayin is... You're only gonna make yourself sad!! At the end of the day you can't take all those little kittens home and love em and squeeze and hug em till you wanna just wanna EAT THEIR WITTLE FACES!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I'm sure it could be worse, and I don't think I'm going to try to make my girlfriend change because it is an endearing quality that I find cute, but boy is it a laugh when she calls to try not say that she's looking at kittens for me.

somethings just don't change

Even if you add another frame

case and point when share what you feel

it's another 36 frames and a film real

Can't complain when I think about time

and prefer that I'm talking in rhymes

but I think what I feel and consider

and every so often the feeling is bitter

like a picture like a pill so hard to swallow

a hundred dollar capsule thats just hollow

placebos antiobotics are whatever

Generation A

I would pose to you a concept or theory that we are now in a generation that is evolving faster than at any other period of time in the history of man-kind. I was reading an article in Forbes this morning that spoke on the changing business climate that has been brought about through the internet and social media outlets such as: twitter, facebook, and linkdIn. The writer Adam Ludwig also makes mention the influence of social media in the Arab world where millions of citizens are reaching to overthrow their government.

The rate at which we send and receive information is staggering. Television its self- once a bright and informing tool, now is now nearly obsolete while TV and film industries race to try to figure out how to make money. What do you watch TV for? You probably watch it for the sitcoms and sports. But have you ever thought about how behind the news channel might be? Through twitter, and facebook, we knew Osama Bin Laden had died before any new organization could get through to their TV audiences and certainly hours (or maybe an hour?) before President Obama could make an announcement.

The article speaks about the boom of internet entrepreneurs that are setting up shop to help us socialize more proficiently. For instance, rypple.com is a new internet company (I had never heard of) that let's employees rate and review other employees, company policies, and general business news as it happens, providing a more transparent business culture within the company.

The article touches and transparency, but I would also like to make a mention of what I would consider a new generation. Generation A- or "Generation Acceleration". The simple fact of the matter is, yes we are in the information age, and the information age is probably never going to stop. But the rate at which we digest information is accelerating exponentially.

Here's a normal day for me, much like many others

• Wake up, and read new emails received.
• Get dressed and go to work, on the way to work, read emails, or news feed
• Get new work load, and work
• throughout day, text, facebook, twitter and read news feed
• finish work
• keep reading text, facebook, twitter and news feed
• Right before to bed, read text, facebook twitter and news feed
• sleep, and get woken up to texts and such

It is true that kids in K-12 are being taught about the importance of 8 hours of sleep because teenagers are sleeping with their cellphones. We adults are doing it too, though maybe we are slightly more mature, or don't care enough to let ANYTHING get in our way of a full nights rest, but you can see an accelerating trend on the information we are receiving. It will not be too long when every single culture is watching their government or local business more than the government or local business can watch them in return.

What an exciting time to be able to watch things so quickly! I know I am only grazing (if that) the surface on these topics, but really the acceleration of media and news that goes into our minds is staggering! My girlfriend and I are starting a new little hobby where we study an ancient civilization for a month at a time. Next month we are studying ancient Egypt, and most of our time will be looking through online databases for information, and visiting a museum in San Jose. It is wild that so much information can be found within a months time.