Matt + Internet = Luv4E

I love the Internet... If I could marry the Internet, I would.

She would be so pretty, so intelligent. She would keep me up late at night. She would get along with all my friends. She would make me laugh, make me cry. She would let me watch TV whenever I want. She would love to read. She would know about current events (like here), the latest gossip (like here), and how to make a time machine out of paper clips and cardboard (like here).

But seriously though, I love the Internet
And the main reason I love the Internet is because she has made video so easily accessible, educational, and narrow-marketed.

And I discovered two examples of educational video online today...

1. Lingus.tv
http://www.lingus.tv/video/
Lingus.tv allows you to learn Spanish through short sitcom videos streaming online. I have been searching for this for months. Each episode (begin, interm, expert) has subtitles, with additional materials such as dialogues, translations, and lessons plans.
Awesome. Aprende espanol!

Here is an example episode:



2.Nurse TV
http://www.nursetv.com/13_weeks/

Now some of you may not be nurses, but after watching an episode of "13 Weeks", you may want to be a travel nurse. 13 Weeks is an internet reality show about 6 travel nurses on an assignment in Orange County, California, living in a big nice house, and going on adventures in their free time.

I am kind of mad someone beat me to the idea for the internet show. I think its a great idea to recruit people into nursing. However, I'm mad because I think I could've done a better job at picking the travel nurses. The first episode was entertaining, but frustrating. Why are the only 2 male nurses in the show flamboyantly gay or ambiguously gay?!

Not ALL male nurses are gay, flamboyant, or talk with high-pitched voices. Fact.
If you want to recruit more guys into nursing, don't portray all male nurses as high-pitched, homosexuals. Although, some are... there are several that are not.

For example, looks at these guys....
They're manly. I wouldn't want to get into a fight with these guys..

Haha. Okay. This is another bad example of male nurse recruitment... its a little on the cheesy side. But I know several straight, manly nurses.

All in all, I think the show is a great idea. You should watch the first episode at least. Maybe the episodes get better.

And I cannot wait to see what else the Internet will offer in the future.
Also, I cannot wait to make my own Internet TV show.
Maybe an INTERNATIONAL Traveling Nurse Show, where the female nurses are young, attractive, intelligent, and active. And the male nurses are straight, masculine, athletic and like to burt, fart, and talk very deeply.

And hit on girls all the time. Just kidding.

iPod. iMiss you.

So the other day on my to Mindo I think my iPod got stolen. When I got on the bus, some guys (that appeared to be working for the bus) took my backpack and put it overhead. I didn't think too much of it because it was only two seats behind me overhead. If someone wanted to get into it, I would surely hear them, right? So I sat down in my seat with an open ear...

After about 30 minutes I started thinking, "I remember Mari Paz or Augusto telling me that sometimes people on the bus act like workers and take people's bags. Then when they aren't looking or thinking, they steal their stuff." So I decided it would best to put my bag at my feet. So I did. With my backpack and 2 more hours to go to Mindo, I decided I wanted to listen to some good Reggaeton songs I had downloaded from the computer.

Songs like this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DhKtlVzjZZ4


Or this one:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QmT4FtGKuUo


However when I reached into my backpack, my iPod was gone. And I know I had it in my bag, the night before. I turned to see if those "bus helpers" were looking at my suspiciously or even using my iPod. However, they were no longer on the bus. They had gotten off on a previous stop. It made me sad to think I could no longer listen to my music or practice my reggaeton sing-a-long.

If you have seen my iPod, it looks like this...


Yes, its light blue. Don't make fun of it. Your iPod would be light blue too if you got it for free. Pastor Erik once made fun of me for it "Is that your sister's iPod?!" And I replied "Well... sort of." My original iPod was my sister's old iPod she never used. It was worse than light blue.
It was this...

Yes, hot pink... She never used it, and I refuse to buy something new if I can get it used. So I decided I would use her pink one... just never in public. After about a month of using it, a friend of mine said she would switch her light blue one for my hot pink one. I figured light blue is a little bit closer to Manly than hot pink on the Color Spectrum of Masculinity. And that's how I came to own my iPod.

Now its gone... and I guess I need to buy (actually buy) a more manly iPod.
Like this one...