Gordian Knots and Sudoku

My clever Risk Management friends in government offer help to public servants struggling with their own Gordian knot. Their 1-day Risk Management courses - like their movie recommendations - are superb but, alas, only available to fellow Ontario Public Service (OPS) colleagues.

And now: today's haiku (after wrestling with my own Gordian knot this morning:

haikugirl enjoys
solving sudoku puzzles -
her morning mind stretch

Perhaps I should be calling myself sudokugirl now? Not until I can complete a diabolical puzzle without cheating.

City Vote 2006

David Miller won
TO's Mayor once again
4 years like Congress

Watched Citytv's slick coverage of the municipal elections across Ontario. The results looked great on CP24 and Rich did a fantastic job making the countdown timer work. Yay Rich! It's all at citynews.ca

mirror neurons - COOL!

Spent an energizing day at the CSTD conference where Dave Chalk gave an enlightening presentation about his challenges growing up with dyslexia and how mirror neurons can play a role in learning. He calls it the most significant scientific discovery since DNA. The implications are definitely fascinating.

Mirror neurons explain our ability to empathize with others and to see an action and repeat it, like monkey see, monkey do. There's a study of dancers showing how the visual brain and the movement control brain (pre-motor cortex) respond to watching movement - truly fascinating stuff. It made me remember my years of Ukrainian dancing when our instructor would say "mirror image me" and we'd have to follow him on the spot, and somehow we did it.

Google it and research for yourself. Let me know what you come up with.

Where's Volver?

Our Film Club was all set to see Pedro Almodovar's Volver on Friday, November 3rd but it was nowhere. Babel was finally released in Toronto and none of us could face a 143 minute movie after a long week of work so we bailed and agreed to hold out for Pedro. Still trying to find out when it will be released in TO so we can plan our next movie night.

Anybody know
when Volver is in TO?
It might be Christmas