Among other things, but the chief topic of this post happens to be the fact that my German class was canceled today. I was quite surprised, really. There was no prior notice, but a sign had been posted indicating that our instructor’s 9:10 class would be canceled.
Anyway, lots of snow, a class was canceled possibly as a result. Have a good day!
Google/IG has some improvements that I really like. It turns out, the display of RSS feeds can now display part of the post from the feed, and it displays the date of the post. This is useful for things like the feed of a webcomic that displays the same title in every post, or for keeping track of how often I post to my own blog.
Speaking of cool things – I’ve been using /IG to keep track of this webcomic. (Actually, I linked to a specific strip. It shows something I’ve noticed about people with cellular telephones that take photos, and with point and shoot digital cameras.)
I am a bit of a luddite. I absolutely love technology, but when it comes to using it, sometimes I shy away from some of the newer and more adventurous technologies. One of these, has traditionally been digital music players. I was a fairly big fan of tapes, and I still am. However – December, 2006 brought around an interesting new device. I received my own digital music player.
There are basically a few reasons why I have had an aversion to things like digital music players.
Naturally, there may have been more, or it may just be my aversion to the way people act when they are using such devices. (the same with cellular telephones.) However, it seems as though what the portable digital music player device category offers is convenience, which is not necessarily a bad thing. A good recent example of this is that I recently needed to make a quick run down the stairs and to the ATM machine at the student union. Before, I would have used my analogue tape player on that mission. Instead, I brought the digital player. What I noticed was that I was just as “disconnected” and would have been so, even if I didn’t have headphones on. There simply was nobody for me to talk to. Another interesting thing.
Additionally, I didn’t have to, or feel the need to change music sources when I came back and sat down, and if my computer were having some sort of issue, or if I were using another computer, I would have still had access to my music.
I guess that this means I must concede… this digital music player device is fairly nifty, and thus far, I give it a rating of “fairly useful” among the sea of devices I’ve seen, read about, and had the pleasure to use. Naturally, I’m not dumping the tape player, or the optical disc player, but this has probably succeeded those two devices for music which will play on it. (If, however – I feel like only listening to John Tesh’s album “Avalon” (which I have on compact disc), or “The Disney Afternoon” (which I have on audio cassette tape) all day long, I will probably use the disc player or the tape player, respectively.)
Hey Everybody, this is just a little note to say that I recently acquired an epic “video game.” It’s the kind of video game you play with a camcorder, apparently! It’s this interesting 1990s thing called “Camcorder Helper” it comes with a little handbook, a sound effects CD, and little cards that suggest scenes to act out, among other things. It is from the creators of Magnetic Poetry, and the packaging suggests that it’s a combination of an awesome party game, and a “Video Chemistry Set.”
I need to throw a mini Camcorder Helper party some time.
Also, an update on CraGNoWriMo, which is now called “ProCraGNo” (Project: Crazy Group Novel.) Brandi has notes about our main characters, and the setting and basic premise. In upcoming meetings, we will discuss more of the technical details about what we will write the novel on, as well as when we plan on starting and stopping the novel-writing madness, and we will also discuss some of the ideas for chapters, specific events, etc. I might even bring notecards to that meeting.
Heya Everybody! I have news about a variety of things. Firstly, classes start tomorrow, and I am insanely happy about it. Tomorrow, I have GER102 and PHO281 – those were two of my favorite subjects in high school, so I’m interested in what I will think of them at the university level.
Nextly, I have a laptop so old that it is considered to be quite epic. It is an old Toshiba Satellite 486 laptop with 4 megabytes of ram, and a disproportionately large 2 gigabyte hard disc. It will dual-boot Windows 3.1 and IBM’s OS/2 Warp 3. I hope to use it for word processing and other retro things. In fact, I may get the CaGNoWriMo group to use it so that we’re all writing using the same computer, so that there isn’t any issue if some of us use Macs or PCs or whatever. Plus, I bet this thing would withstand being dropped or tossed in case of clumsiness or frustration. Plus, backups onto a modern computer would not be very difficult using floppy discs.
In other news, Brandy and I want to get CraGNoWriMo started by the beginning of February, so we hope that anybody who is going to participate will be able to make it to an Introductory meeting sometime soon. This way, we’ll be able to hammer out some of the details, and get going on the upcoming novel. With luck, each of us will be able to have a few characters, and have a lot of say in the overall feel of the novel, we were even thinking of having a very liberal amount of time available to work on your segment, and with luck, with that amount of time, we’ll be able to have two full rotations of the novel. That’ll be great.
Also, I’m working on moviemaking projects, and probably a lot of other things. Anyway – Happy Tuesday!