Stuck? Change Context, by Michael Knowles: "I know writers who panic when they become stuck. But I know a secret they don't know: There's no such thing as writer's block. There's only digging the same hole, or choosing to dig new ones. You CAN choose a different path. Successful writers do just that. How? By understanding what stuckness really is, and being ready to honor it."

List Your Way Out Of Stuckness: "You're stuck. You can't go forward. You refuse to go forward. You're procrastinating like crazy.



Here's a list method you can use to avoid stuckness of the kind described above"

Just a reminder that we are going to have a massive quiz on Monday. Chapter 10. There will be specific questions dealing with the section on "methods for analyzing images."

foe romeo: A creative generation: "Even more interestingly, the study found that 17% of young people have sent pictures or stories to a website and 'online creativity can be encouraged through the very experience of using the internet.' That is, the more time kids spend online, the more likely they are to produce their own content. And interaction breeds interaction. Does that mean we can safely assume that as internet usage increases its media timeshare, more and more people will become creative producers as well as consumers?

"

The New Yorker



A case study of technical writing gone awry. We'll look at it after the break.

Accelerate Your Macintosh! News Story - Tweaked Canon Digital Rebel/300D Firmware Unlocks some 10D Features: "Tweaked Canon Digital Rebel/300D Firmware Unlocks some 10D Features"

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We're only in class Monday and Wednesday!



On Monday we are going to talk about sentence tone and style. I can sense your eager anticipation of this discussion.





For Wednesday, you [++ MUST ++] read Chapter 10, analyzing images. Be prepared for surprise quiz as well!!!



(But wait, if he tells us about it, it's not a surprise...)

Replacing A Toilet Wax Bowl Ring



An excellent piece of technical writing.

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Salt Lake Tribune - Business: " Hazelbaker said the Escalade EXT has a standard anti-theft ignition immobilizer, which prevents the vehicle from being started without the right key, but it may not be as effective as newer systems. General Motors Corp. spokeswoman Kelly Wysocki confirmed that the Pass-lock system, which is on all current Escalades as well as 2005 models, is aging and said



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GM is considering a change soon."

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I've put our weekly schedule and topics on the wiki. There are still some details left to fill in, but it should give you an idea of where we're headed.

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Amendment 3 Debate and Q&A

October 18, Monday

1 2pm

UVSC Liberal Arts Building Room 101



Gayle Ruzicka: President, Utah Eagle Forum

Scott Mc Coy?: Campaign Manager, Don’t Amend Alliance

I am stressed right now as I try to finish chapter four of my dissertation before a looming deadline. It is a snarled mess, but there is some good stuff in there. As I try not to think of it this weekend, I find myself obsessing over weird things.

• tuning my crosman air pistol obsessively
  
  
• planning on building a full fairing for my recumbent, to replace my car
  
  
• installing all sorts of weird little scripts and consolidation a lot of my data
  
  
• learning radical, invasive new productivity methods that I don't have time to learn right now
  
  
• withdrawing from real contact with spouse and family
  
  
• Guilt, guilt, guilt!
  
  
• renting too many movies
  
  
• drinking milk again (the equivalent of taking up smoking for me)
  
  

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This program will let you easily resize and crop images.

Ambiguous: "Unfortunately, if a person who already has a human flu virus swimming around in them gets the bird flu as well, they could easily swap a few genes and start doing something Ebola will almost certainly never do; hang around on kitchen counters and doorknobs and in hugs and kisses. Then we have a problem . The SARS experience taught us that our current medical system is less protection than we thought it was, in fact it doesn't matter if you are going to Asia or staying home, we're all pretty much screwed at that point. To put more perspective on this potential danger the flu we're looking at could, with a few lucky mutations , start acting more like the 1918 Spanish Flu, which killed 20 million people and sickened 1 billion. According to my handy dandy 8th grade percentage figuring technique, that's over 60 million dead and 4 billion sickened within the space of about 10 months. Stats like that don't fit comfortably in the mind, especially in the modern world, where able bodied people are needed to baby sit electrical grids and nuclear weapon that didn't exist in 1918. But surely our modern medical can protect us better than the bloodletting barbers of the 1918? Well, maybe. I'd have a lot more confidence in it if we hadn't just canceled half of our nation's flu shots. "

Boing Boing: Bird Flu risk extremely low



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The beautiful city of Mankato.



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The beautiful city of Mankato.

Wedding Video Tips: Selecting a wedding videographer.

Jeffrey Veen: On Writing Short: "Yesterday at the conference table with a new client, we talked about their frustration with a classic problem. 'Users just won't read the instructions on our forms,' they complained. 'It really couldn't be simpler if they would just read the three sentences at the top!'

But of course we don't read instructions. It's a matter of context. When trying to get through an interaction, we're not in 'reading mode' ... we're in 'doing mode.' "

Peter Shor: "Peter Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American theoretical computer scientist most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm for factoring while working at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1994. He was the recipient of the Nevanlinna Prize in 1998, a MacArthur Fellowship in 1999, and a G�del prize in 1999 among other prizes. Currently, he is a professor of applied mathematics at MIT, and he is affiliated with CSAIL.

He received his B.S. in Mathematics in 1981 for undergraduate work at Caltech, and was a Putnam Fellow in 1978. He then earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT in 1985. His doctoral advisor was Tom Leighton, and his thesis was on probabilistic analysis of bin-packing algorithms. After graduating, he spent one year in a post-doctoral position at Berkeley, and then accepted a position at Bell Laboratories. Shor began his current MIT position in 2003. "

For class on Friday and Monday (depending on how much ground we cover)



1. Read chapters 7,8,9 (we've already discussed #7, but will revisit it briefly).



I asked you to do two other things: attach your current files to your wiki page, and discuss your research strategy on your wiki page, but we'll do these in class on Friday.



And, realisitically, we may not get to chapter nine until Monday.

Register to vote before 10/13!!! That's the Utah deadline.



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Crosman Airgun Forum (new)



Notes on modding the crosman 357

Our exploratory essay assignment.

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For Wednesday's class, please read pg. 116, "The Research Process." There will be a fun surprise quiz connected with this reading. Just so you know.

Don't forget to register to vote!. You have until October 13th. If you register to vote, prove to me that you have, and write up a paragraph or two about the voting process, you'll get extra credit.

Don't forget to register to vote!. You have until October 13th. If you register to vote, prove to me that you have, and write up a paragraph or two about the voting process, you'll get extra credit.

Don't forget to register to vote!. You have until October 13th. If you register to vote, prove to me that you have, and write up a paragraph or two about the voting process, you'll get extra credit.

cfarivar.org: What if half of the adult male population were charged with sexual assault?: "'Being a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the Internet.'"

What's on my mind lately:



The possibility of Bush winning

Job opportunities in Switzerland

Air pistol modifications

Modding the Crosman .357

David Allen's "Getting Things Done"

A ton of committee work

Putting together a PBA for my 1:30 meeting

Relationship with spouse--improving

What's going on with Ezra?

The Wexler IQ test

Home Schooling

Ritalin--it's not just for breakfast anymore

Why do all of my students write papers that would do well in 2010, in the first two weeks of 1010? Is there any real progression taking place or are they just tricking us?

How to make 1010 more of an intellectually rewarding experience

Would it be possible to attach a liquid food IV to myself so I would never have to eat again? Would my teeth eventuall fall out?

How do I consolidate all of my personal data in a useful way?

What are some examples of people who have radically transformed themselves after age 40? (in a good way)

Is it to late for me to become a world class athlete, even if it's just curling?

How many of my students are on the verge of a complete mental breakdown but are hiding it?

Why bother learning to write?

How to get 1010-ers intrinsically motivated to want to write.

How can I mod the C-357 so it will shoot 550 fps with a 14" barrel and a biathlon stock?

What is motivating my desire to purchase weapons used by Robot Assassins from the Future? Is this a midlife crisis thing?

1. What's on your mind lately?





2. Take one idea or topic out of your "what's on your mind" post and list or write as much as you can about that topic.