2012 Year of the Dragon – Bad News for Rabbits?

The Year of the Dragon will be terrible for those born in Rabbit years. Actually, rabbits will discard the tribulations and setback of the past year (which was the year of the RABBIT) and the winds of Dragon energy will allow you to rise to the challenge of making good things happen for you Good …

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February.6.2012 – 19:57 | By Karlos | Posted in Book Reviews, Motivation, My Digital Life, Personal, The Dragon Burns, The Maya and 2012 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The Columbus Circle of Time: Diego Plays Tzolk’in Again

Monday, October 14, 2019 1125am “I have to go,” Diego said. Without waiting for an answer, he raced out of the kitchen, up the stairs to his bedroom, where he sat at his desk, pulled on the translucent EyeStorms, and went back to the jungle. He pushed aside the shady undergrowth and raced ahead through …

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February.1.2012 – 03:37 | By Karlos | Posted in Columbus Circle, The Maya and 2012, The Novel, Time Travel | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Review: THE ETERNITY CODE (Artemis Fowl 3)

Top-secret, highly classified fairy-technology has fallen into the hands of a ruthless, criminally insane businessman. The Lower Elements Reconnaissance Unit (LEPrecon) suspect Thirteen-year-old master criminal Artemis Fowl, who previously outwitted fairies out of a half-ton of gold but helped them quelch a Goblin upwrising. But the master criminal isn’t Artemis, who seemingly has gone straight. Artemis …

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January.25.2012 – 04:06 | By Karlos | Posted in Book Reviews, Publishing | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

2012 Year of the Dragon – What You Need to Know

Chinese New Year starts on Monday, January 23 We’re entering the Dragon Year, one of the luckiest, most powerful of the Chinese zodiac signs The Dragon Year always symbolizes the apex of change (and is the year when Asian countries experience a baby boom). To put the dragon in perspective, in Chinese mythology, the dragon …

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January.20.2012 – 16:37 | By Karlos | Posted in Motivation, Personal | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Kicking Ass in the Year of the Rabbit – January Report

The Year of the Rabbit isn’t over yet. It ends on January 23rd. Then we enter the very exciting and predicted-to-be tumultuous Year of the Dragon. So get ready for a wild ride. Spiritual master Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says this is the year of happiness. 2013, he says, will be the year of victory. …

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January.13.2012 – 02:22 | By Karlos | Posted in Columbus Circle, Motivation, My Digital Life, Personal, Publishing, The Dragon Burns, The Maya and 2012, The Novel, Time Travel | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

My Digital Life: Perfect iTunes EQ Settings

Do you use iTunes as your default music player? I do, though when I think about it, I’ll SongBird. The following is my attempt to help you use iTunes’ built-in equalization tool to get a better sound, no matter what headphones you use. What is equalization? According to the wiki definition: Equalization is the process …

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January.6.2012 – 23:21 | By Karlos | Posted in Music Vids, My Digital Life | Tagged , | Comments (1)

2012 Already Rocks

In the past, I’ve written how much I hate January. I hate the lame resolutions: lose weight, exercise more, quit smoking, try harder, eat less spaghetti, blah blah blah. I hate the fact that no one sticks to their stupid resolutions. Maybe, it’s the New York weather I hate (and I LOVE New York’s weather… …

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January.2.2012 – 20:53 | By Karlos | Posted in Motivation, My Digital Life, Personal, The Maya and 2012, The Novel | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

The Distracted Writer

I just got back from a yoga class at Bend and Bloom. I hadn’t been there in ages because (1) the last time I went the teacher ruined the hour-and-a-half of yoga by playing some shitty chanting music during the end-of-session shavasanah, and (2) I’ve started going to Dharma Yoga Brooklyn. But Dharma Yoga was …

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December.30.2011 – 22:31 | By Karlos | Posted in My Digital Life, Publishing, Uncategorized | Comments (0)

What We’re Reading – Bye-bye 2011 Edition

Karlos: LUCKY YOU by Carl Hiassen. Didn’t make me laugh as much as other Hiassen novels. I’ve read most all of them and maybe once you get the formula, you get the formula but you keep reading because you want to find out (a) what happens to the idiots (and God there are so many …

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December.28.2011 – 22:17 | By Karlos | Posted in Bilingual Kids, Book Reviews, Motivation, Personal | Comments (0)

Using Your Bloody Red-Eyed Insomnia to Get Things Done

I had two good friends make suggestions on what I should blog about and I liked what they suggested, so here’s the first post for my good friend Laura Thanks to X’s “Nausea” for inspiring my title.over at Learning Catalan. Second, I decide what I’m going to accomplish: I sometimes wish I could be one …

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December.21.2011 – 21:51 | By Karlos | Posted in A Writer's Life, Columbus Circle, Motivation, Music Vids, My Digital Life, Personal, The Dragon Burns, The Maya and 2012 | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)