Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog: "I have a self-modded xbox too. I have a 130GB hard drive in it and used the exact steps that shepd described above to mod mine. With the exception of actually installing the mod chip, he left that part out and it wasn't easy.



I would never have anything else. For a little under $300.00 I can play new games I can never play on my PC now. A decent sound card and vid card would be way more. I have all of the older game emulators and ROMs I could ever want including MAME and the kids have their new stuff. Add to that a region-free DVD player and the ability to stream media from my network... I'm sorry I ever said a bad word about the xbox. But, like most M$ products, it's not so great until you tweak it the way you want it."

OfficeMax.Com - Product Block Page

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Some deadlines:



Chapter 1: October 27



50% complete: November 23rd



Rough draft: December 8



Final draft: December 16th.



We'll talk about these in class.

Microsoft Office Assistance: Create a Gantt chart in Excel: "here are many ways to create a Gantt chart. For example, Microsoft Project, a task-planning program, makes it easy to track and chart project timelines with a built-in Gantt chart view. Another option is to use Excel. Excel does not contain a built-in Gantt chart format; however, you can create a Gantt chart in Excel by customizing the stacked bar chart type.





This article shows you how to create a Gantt chart like the following example."

Boing Boing: Worst interface ever: car self-destruct switch

Mind Tools - Critical Path Analysis and PERT: "Drawing a Critical Path Analysis Chart

Use the following steps to draw a CPA Chart:



1. List all activities in the plan

For each activity, show the earliest start date, estimated length of time it will take, and whether it is parallel or sequential. If tasks are sequential, show which stage they depend on."

Sample PERT chart



A sample pert chart.

What is Gantt chart - a definition from the leading computer technical encyclopedia, dictionary and glossary

PERT

http://comment.bedfordstmartins.com

The Economically Efficient NBA Team | HOOPSWORLD.com | NBA News and Information: "In theory, above-max players and players on rookie contracts are the only players in the league that should be underpaid. Everyone else should be bid up to market in free agency. Quite obviously, that's not realistic. Players are overpaid or underpaid for any number of reasons. Injuries are a huge one. Not developing the way they were expected to, whether breaking out, busting, aging early, or displaying surprising longevity. Sometimes the market -- or one team, since that's all that is necessary to create market value -- is just wrong. "

College Student Journal: Religiosity and depression in intercollegiate athletes: "The present study examined the relationship between organizational, non-organizational, and intrinsic religiosity, and symptoms of depression in intercollegiate athletes. The Duke Religion Index and the Depression subscale of the Personality Assessment Inventory were completed by 105 athletes. Results showed that only intrinsic religiosity was negatively associated with affective symptoms of depression. Implications of these findings on the potential protective effects of religiosity against affective symptoms of depression are discussed."

An Integrative Approach to Depression: Part 2--Assessment and Treatment -- Zuess 8 (2): 99 -- Complementary Health Practice Review: "McCullough, M. E., & Larson, D. (1999). Religion and depression: A review of the literature. Twin Research, 2(2), 126-136.[Medline] [Order article via Infotrieve] "

Latter-day Saint Demographics/LDS Statistics/ Mormon statistics: "In 2000 Self magazine ranked Provo, Utah as the number 1 healthiest city in the country for women. The article said that the Mormon influence is the reason women in Provo experience such low incidents of cancer, smoking, drinking, violence, depression, etc. [Source: MSNBC] "

References for Women and Depression: "References for Women and Depression "

: "JULIE CART, Times Staff Writer

SALT LAKE CITY -- Doctors here have for years talked about the widespread use of antidepressants in the state. But there was no hard evidence until a national study that tracked drug prescriptions came to an unexpected conclusion:



Antidepressant drugs are prescribed in Utah more often than in any other state, at a rate nearly twice the national average. "

USATODAY.com - Expert: Mormon women less depressed: "SALT LAKE CITY (AP) � A Brigham Young University sociologist says data from national surveys show Mormon women are less likely to be depressed than American women in general and show no major differences in overall life satisfaction compared to women nationwide but do score lower on measures of self-esteem"

The Economically Efficient NBA Team | HOOPSWORLD.com | NBA News and Information: "Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball, points out that in 2002, when Zito won the American League's Cy Young Award, the A's paid him just $295,000 -- less than the NBA's minimum salary at any point since the start of the 21st century. Zito didn't pick the wrong sport, as he'll be making up for lost salary time when he hits the free-agent market in a couple of years, but, for the time being, his loss is the A's gain. "

The Economically Efficient NBA Team | HOOPSWORLD.com | NBA News and Information

ATF Online: Dallas Field Division - Man Sentenced: "Keller, Texas, Resident Sentenced to Federal Prison For Possessing Grenade Launchers"

Blogger Help : Can I have a blog to which more than one person posts?

The London News Review :: Should I Rip This? v1.0

CBS and Internet Fisking | Metafilter: "i'd live a life of sin without fear if i knew karl rove was going to organize and run the campaign to get me into heaven."

Post your possible paper topics below.

Rumsfeld memo

Post your secret memo in the comments below:

So--



What are some of the topics you are thinking of writing about? What are your questions? If you don't have any, make one up right now.

Codebase : Articles: "Wrangling OS X Permissions for a Workgroup"

Revise this memo for extra credit. Post your response in the comments below:

Hi,



I currently administer two networked classrooms for the English

department, located in LA 27 and LA 29.  It was brought to my

attention that at some point these rooms were mistakenly classified as

"open labs" which led to the decision to not install touchpads to

control the already installed audiovisual equipment.  Unfortunately,

these rooms are used for almost 12 hours a day to teach writing

courses, but the instructors can't use the equipment because the rooms

were left incomplete.  In essence, they are broken.



I'm writing to determine if there is a mechanism in place to have

these classrooms institutionally defined as classrooms, and if there

is a source of funding available to repair these rooms.



thanks for your suggestions,

Discussion question:





What makes a good question or topic for writing in an academic paper?



Please include examples of good questions that you've brought to class with you today.



Use the discussion link below.

For class on Wednesday:



Using google or another search methodology of your choosing, locate an example of a memo that was supposed to have been secret, but was revealed to the public. Place a link to this memo on your web page. Extra points for those of you that find a secret memo online somewhere that has not yet been shared with the world.

The New York Times > Opinion > EDITORIAL: Grokster and the Information Exchange: "the broader issue is the distribution of information. Software like Grokster creates a network of independent Internet users who can access one another's computer files without going through a central server. (Napster maintained a central server, which made it legally liable in very different ways.) Grokster can certainly be used to swap music illegally. But it can also be used to exchange electronic copies of books already in the public domain, transcripts of Congressional hearings or any number of other legitimate types of information. Much like a VCR that does not distinguish between a pirated tape and one legally acquired, the technology does not care what is shared. It is impossible to strike down software like Grokster for its use in illegal file-sharing without also destroying its capacity for legal and socially beneficial activities."

Hi, I apologize for being at jury duty.





For today's class, please read pages 1-15. Share books if you have to. Then, do the exercise on pages 11-12 in small groups.



Post the results to each of your weblogs so I can see your work.



Please email me ( craniac@gmail.com) or leave comments.





Thanks!

Hello!





For Monday's class, I would like you to read pages 1-22 in our text, and then complete one of the exercises (memo writing) on page 22-23. You can select 1, 2, or 3. We'll work on the exercises in class on Monday.



Please post your memo to your weblog



We'll review your work on Monday. Thanks, and please email me if you have questions or concerns.



craniac@gmail.com



p.s. you can post comments at the end of this message as well and they will be emailed to me.

Scrubs guy has a weblog.

The guy from Scrubs, who just made the movie "Garden State" has a
weblog, and its pretty funny at times:

http://gardenstate.typepad.com/


We took the kids rafting down the Jordan river at 7pm Wednesday.
Christine waited for us by the bridge. By the time I rowed all the
way to the bridge, it was just starting to get dark and Christine had
called the police. Joey was screaming, "I want to park the boat and
get in the white van RIGHT NOW." Other than that it was pretty cool.
We saw dozens of fish in groups of 4-5, swimming with their backs just
out of the water. When our little inflatable raft would approach they
would dive with a huge splash. I may get an electronic trolling
motor. 2 mph is much faster than I can row. Too bad they don't make
Kayaks that seat five.

Please bring copies of your third paper, even if you only have rough notes, to class today (Monday).

Google Search: jordan river utah : "Anyway, the thread on unique river hazards made me think of the time some friends and I tried to paddle the

Jordan River from its source in Utah Lake to the first major obstacle in the Jordan River Narrows in the south

end of the Salt Lake valley. I know the Jordan used to be a beautiful little stream, tree lined, home to

birds and fish and all sorts of nice clean critters. I know 'cause I'm an archivist and see photographs and

read accounts of what it used to be like. Well now its source, Utah Lake, is full of heavy metals from fifty

years of steel production and 100 years of agricultural chemicals and 150 years of sewage from Ovum, I mean

Orem, and Provo, Utah. The river as it goes through the Salt Lake valley has been a dumping ground for a

century and a half, and now instead of trees it has bridge abutments and old rebar, instead of nice fish it

has big greasy mutated carp that feed on offal from the meat packing plant, dead animals that people throw in

it, and the occasional poor transient who drinks too much thunderbird, falls in the river and dies. Ah, parts

of it are still pretty, but just when you think it's pretty nice you come around a corner and face a rapid

made entirely of shopping carts that hooligans have thrown in the river, or a bunch of kids giving you gang

signs and holding cans of spray paint. Just glad it wasn't guns."

Atari Vector ROM Archive

I'm just testing out the Ecto app, hoping it can do offline posting.

I'm working in the Library in Lehi today. If I can finish up my current diss chapter, I get to play my new guitar, which has languished untouched for over a month. I'll also go see "The Bourne Supremacy". Childish, to be sure, but hopefully effective. Turning in this section will also release enough stress from my life that I'll be able to ride my recumbent in the morning before work.

In case you didn't notice from reading the assignment sheet for #3, you need to read chapter five for class on Wednesday. Thanks. And thanks to the five students who came to class on Monday!

Just a reminder: Please send me the latest version of your second paper to: craniac@gmail.com



In the subject of the message put: "second paper sock monkey" so I can sort the incoming email. Thanks.

For your third assignment: Angle of Vision



It's based on chapter five, so re-read that chapter in Allyn and Bacon's Guide to Writing if you need a refresher. Specifically, your assignment is to



(1) locate a research site with people in it: work, school, library, car wash, meeting, club, church, health club, and



(2) observe that site for at least a solid hour. You can break that down into several visits of 20 minutes each, or one single visit of 60+ minutes. You need to then



(3) take detailed, descriptive notes of everything you see. It's not uncommon to get 3-5 pages of notes from a single observation. Next, you should



(4) Expand those notes with even more descriptive detail, then



(5) write an essay in which you describe the scenario you witnessed, first with a negative angle of vision, then with a positive angle of vision. Again, refer to chapter five for numerous examples of this. Each description should be at least 250 words long. Finally,



(6) write a conclusion of 400 words or so, describing what you learned from writing from these two perspectives.



PLEASE BRING YOUR OBSERVATION NOTES TO CLASS

Collin vs. Blog: The Network Fallacy?: "the argument, more than implicit in Taylor's pages and in the pages of many other theorists of our condition, makes what I would call the 'system' or 'network' mistake -- the mistake of thinking that because something is embedded in a network that sustains that thing and gives it both value and shape, it is incoherent to speak of its properties, or of the boundaries that separate and distinguish it from other nodal points in the network. Since identity is network-dependent, the reasoning goes, nothing can be spoken of and examined as if it were free standing and discrete.
The trouble with that reasoning is that it operates at a level of generality so high that you can't see the trees for the forest.
Well, yes and no. This is not a new 'mistake'--it's been around at least since the heyday of poststructuralism (and it would be easy to trace back through Burke and IA Richards as well). There, it was used as a reductio ad absurdum with which to point out the problem with deconstruction and the like--if it's all 'free play of signifiers,' then nothing means anything, and we might as well give up, blah, blah, blah. Basically, it involves ignoring one half of KB's 'paradox of substance.' "

Tour de France - Daily Scoop (Stage 17): "Armstrong said today he is not the new Cannibal--a reference to Eddy Merckx, who rarely gave gifts to anyone and seemed to relish personally torturing his rivals by doing things like chasing down their stage win attempts or attacking while already in yellow.



Today's win, and Armstrong's stance, are an interesting contrast to the idea, first reported here, that Armstrong would not seek a seventh Tour win, but instead leave the Tour open to other challengers. Would that be a gift? Or is Armstrong simply ready to leave for other goals--the Giro, the Vuelta or the Hour Record? Likely as not, not even the man himself knows. Gifts, after all, are usually a surprise until they're unwrapped.

"

Movies that "cleanfilms" won't edit:



25th Hour

8 Mile

Addicted To Love

American History X

American Pie

American Pie 2

American Wedding

Auto Focus

Bad Boys II

Blair Witch Project, The

Boat Trip

Cabin Fever

Dark Blue

Dirty Pretty Things

Empire

Far From Heaven

Fear dot com

Femme Fatale

Final Destination 2

Formula 51

Frida

Friday After Next

Gigli

Good Girl, The

Guru, The

Honey

Hot Chick, The

Hours, The

Jackass: The Movie

Life of David Gale, The

Mambo Italiano

My Boss's Daughter

Narc

Old School

Paid in Full

Possession

Real Cancun, The

Red Dragon

Resident Evil

Rules of Attraction

Scary Movie

Secretary

Silence of the lambs and sequels

Swept Away

Talk to Her

There's Something About Mary

Undercover Brother

Wrong Turn

Technology Review: MIT's Magazine of Innovation: "he address cranema@complicity.uvsc.edu will be removed from the Technology Review marketing database. Please note that it may take a few weeks before you stop receiving messages."



What a bunch of boneheads. "a few weeks" to unsub someone from a list? Time to add them to my Google spam filter.

responses to first paper



If your paper isn't in here, please contact me to set up an appointment to look at it together.

Please read this before Friday, thanks





gladwell dot com / The Coolhunt:



"Baysie Wightman met DeeDee Gordon, appropriately enough, on a coolhunt. It was 1992. Baysie was a big shot for Converse, and DeeDee, who was barely twenty-one, was running a very cool boutique called Placid Planet, on Newbury Street in Boston. Baysie came in with a camera crew-one she often used when she was coolhunting-and said, 'I've been watching your store, I've seen you, I've heard you know what's up,' because it was Baysie's job at Converse to find people who knew what was up and she thought DeeDee was one of those people. DeeDee says that she responded with reserve-that 'I was like, 'Whatever' '-but Baysie said that if DeeDee ever wanted to come and work at Converse she should just call, and nine months later DeeDee called. This was about the time the cool kids had decided they didn't want the hundred-and-twenty- five-dollar basketball sneaker with seventeen different kinds of high-technology materials and colors and air-cushioned heels anymore. They wanted simplicity and authenticity, and Baysie picked up on that. "

Just a reminder if you missed class on Wednesday. Please do the following:



1. post your second paper rough draft to your weblog. If your weblog is not listed on the right side of this page, post the address in the comments below.



2. respond to the rough draft that is directly below yours in the list using the extended prompts on page 107 of allyn and bacon. Keep in mind how useful it is to get good feedback, and that feedback is 20% of your grade.



Please contact me with any questions!

Gmail - [techrhet] thanks and best wishes to tari: "At SCSU, our Intensive English Center has existed in part on Connections,
and there Strider made a space where students visiting or recently moved to
the U.S. could construct something that was not so totally American that
they were aliens. In one class, two inimical students built bots to scream
at each other and kick each other to pieces, and they had to collaborate on
the cues for the bots so that they would work the way they wanted them to.
And Strider's spaces are filled with things he created for students to write
on -- refrigerators, baseballs, walls, bombs, pumpkins, tombstones, Elien
Golzalez, whatever -- and they did, the students wrote all over the place."

gladwell dot com / Big and Bad: "Over the past decade, a number of major automakers in America have relied on the services of a French-born cultural anthropologist, G. Clotaire Rapaille, whose speciality is getting beyond the rational--what he calls 'cortex'--impressions of consumers and tapping into their deeper, 'reptilian' responses. And what Rapaille concluded from countless, intensive sessions with car buyers was that when S.U.V. buyers thought about safety they were thinking about something that reached into their deepest unconscious. 'The No. 1 feeling is that everything surrounding you should be round and soft, and should give,' Rapaille told me. 'There should be air bags everywhere. Then there's this notion that you need to be up high. That's a contradiction, because the people who buy these S.U.V.s know at the cortex level that if you are high there is more chance of a rollover. But at the reptilian level they think that if I am bigger and taller I'm safer. You feel secure because you are higher and dominate and look down. That you can look down is psychologically a very powerful notion. And what was the key element of safety when you were a child? It was that your mother fed you, and there was warm liquid. That's why cupholders are absolutely crucial for safety. If there is a car that has no cupholder, it is not safe."

One more reading!



Please have this essay read by class on Wednesday, July 14th.





gladwell dot com / Big and Bad: "Ford had planned to sell the Expedition for thirty-six thousand dollars, and its best estimate was that it could build one for twenty-four thousand--which, in the automotive industry, is a terrifically high profit margin. Sales, the company predicted, weren't going to be huge. After all, how many Americans could reasonably be expected to pay a twelve-thousand-dollar premium for what was essentially a dressed-up truck? But Ford executives decided that the Expedition would be a highly profitable niche product. They were half right. The 'highly profitable' part turned out to be true. Yet, almost from the moment Ford's big new S.U.V.s rolled off the assembly line in Wayne, there was nothing 'niche' about the Expedition.



Ford had intended to split the assembly line at the Michigan Truck Plant between the Expedition and the Ford F-150 pickup. But, when the first flood of orders started coming in for the Expedition, the factory was entirely given over to S.U.V.s. The orders kept mounting."

For class on Wednesday, July 14:



1. Be sure to have read chapters 19 and 20, and answer the questions that I'll post on this blog.



2. Be sure to email me a copy of your rough draft of your second paper before class. Use the secret code phrase, "cheese whiz" in your email subject so I can easily sort your papers out from my other correspondence



Unrelated to class (so far) but interesting: 3hive.com, free, legal mp3s.

Hi,



Forgot about chapter three discussion questions, just make sure you've read it and can answer a pop quiz if necessary.



Regarding chapter four: Take a look at pages 72-73. There are three sample essays. Answer the following questions in the "comments" link below (make sure you are logged into blogger, or if you post anonymously and want credit, put your name somewhere)



1. How would you describe differences in the length and complexity of sentences, in the level of vocabulary, and in the degree of complexity of each sample essay?



2. Based on differences in style, who is the intended audience for each piece?



3. Which of these samples seems most convincing or authoritative to you, and why?



Please respond to this entry before class on Wednesday.

Here are some additional notes for your second assignment:



1. Rough draft due Wednesday (I will put up a link for you to submit it)

2. It should have the following components:



a. A personal narrative, with description

b. An argument, from multiple perspectives, about a local issue

c. 3-5 pages

d. a good conclusion that summarizes your discussion





Please contact me with questions. You should also have read chapters 3-4 by now. Discussion questions coming soon.

For today:



Please do all the other things that I asked for in previous postings:



1. Make sure your believing/doubting freewrite from page 37 is posted to your weblog



2. Submit your first paper as soon as possible to webct.



3. Email me if you have any questions or are having problems with anything.



4. Post the address of your weblog at the end of this message so I can get them on the homepage here.



We essentially have three spaces we will be using as we work online.



1. this weblog, http://tenmoreminutes.blogspot.com



2. Our email list, which has a page at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uvscwrite/



3. Webct, where we will submit final drafts: http://courseinfo.uvsc.edu



Everything that gets posted to the weblog will also be sent to the class email list. Please learn how to filter your email if you are worried about the traffic.

Notes from the Walter J. Ong Archives: "For instance, Ong was quite adimate about the fact that not only does primary orality not exist anymore, we, as literate people, are unable to accurately comprehend a primary orality consciousness. This doesn't mean that primary orality is primitive, it's just different. It's like anything else. Once you've had a cognitive shift, once you've obtained a new perspective, or learned a new bit of information, you can't unshift or return to the pre-changed understanding of an issue. For instance, at some point when studying Ezra Pound, one will learn that he had become an anti-Semite and a supporter of Mussolini. Upon learning this, one can choose to reject Pound as a subject of study, one can use this information to better understand Pound's work, or one can ignore it. What one can't do is unlearn this information or return to a time when they didn't know this about Pound. Because literacy permeates our society, literacy permeates our consciousness and we can't unlearn this cognitive shift. What Ong isn't addressing here is individual literacy."

Sometime between now and Friday, go to page 37 and complete the "believing/doubting" assignment. Post the results to your weblog. You should spend 15 minutes writing for and against the statement of your choosing. If you don't like the ones provided, come up with your own. Contact me or post a comment if you have questions about this. And remember, I am in 126g--swing by and say hi, or to ask for help, etc.

For class on Wednesday: Be sure and read the first two chapters of Allyn and Bacon's Guide to Writing. We'll be doing some in-class activities, and life will get boring in a hurry if you haven't done the reading.



Also, please paste the address of your weblog into the comments at the end of this post. If you just arrived today, then go to blogger.com (links all over this page) and create a weblog. Then come back here and tell me the address. Yes, I know you wrote down your addresses in class, but it's easier for me to steal the code from the comments in order to put them here on the web page.

Yahoo! Groups : uvscwrite



The above link connects to our class email list. Please subscribe if you have not done so.

Alliance for Computers and Writing (ACW): "Alliance for Computers and Writing (ACW) "

Please try downloading and installing this piece of software on your respective machines:



Firefox.





After you've downloaded it to the desktop, double-click to install. Really, it's a good thing.

The New Yorker: The Critics: Books: "One of the most mysterious of writing�s immaterial properties is what people call �voice.� Editors sometimes refer to it, in a phrase that underscores the paradox at the heart of the idea, as �the voice on the page.� Prose can show many virtues, including originality, without having a voice. It may avoid clich�, radiate conviction, be grammatically so clean that your grandmother could eat off it. But none of this has anything to do with this elusive entity the �voice.� There are probably all kinds of literary sins that prevent a piece of writing from having a voice, but there seems to be no guaranteed technique for creating one. Grammatical correctness doesn�t insure it. Calculated incorrectness doesn�t, either. Ingenuity, wit, sarcasm, euphony, frequent outbreaks of the first-person singular�any of these can enliven prose without giving it a voice. You can set the stage as elaborately as you like, but either the phantom appears or it doesn�t."

The New Yorker: The Critics: Books

Danny O'Brien explores the latest, cheapest, flash drive combo units.

Oblomovka: I'm still in the middle of deciding. But I've learnt three lessons: one, the folk who make the sensible engineering choices are probably the smarter and cheaper manufacturers too. Two: you always do your best consumer research in the two hours after you bought the goods. Three: no matter how long you stay out of the gadget rat race, there's always one more object of desire."

The Chronicle: 6/6/2003: Scholars Who Blog: "To a remarkable degree, blogs also appear to bring full professors, adjuncts, and students onto a level field. With no evident condescension, senior faculty bloggers routinely link to the political-affairs blog maintained by Matthew Yglesias, a senior at Harvard University. 'Nobody knew my name when we started this,' says Josh Chafetz, a current Rhodes scholar whose OxBlog, written with two fellow Americans at Oxford, has made him a well-known figure among academic bloggers. 'In many ways it really is almost a pure marketplace of ideas. You can build up a readership. You just have to write things that people like.'

'You do see some of the barriers of rank and hierarchy break down,' says the woman who blogs pseudonymously as the Invisible Adjunct. (She granted an interview on the condition that her identity not be revealed.) 'An undergraduate and an adjunct can speak to someone with tenure on a more or less equal footing.'"

: "Actor-network theory (ANT) is concerned with the processes by which scientific disputes become closed, ideas accepted, tools and methods adopted - that is, with how decisions are made about what is known. These decisions are often - usually - temporary, but closing the black box, in Latour's terms, of disputes allows people to take the work of others as a resource and move on, rather than continually reproducing and questioning it. According to their model, the work of science consists of the enrollment and juxtaposition of heterogeneous elements - rats, test tubes, colleagues, journal articles, funders, grants, papers at scientific conferences, and so on - which need continual management. They conclude that scientists' work is 'the simultaneous reconstruction of social contexts of which they form a part - labs simultaneously rebuild and link the social and natural contexts upon which they act.'
from Ole Hanseth
ANT was born out of ongoing efforts within the field called social studies of science and technology. The field of social studies of technology in general and ANT in particular are evolving rapidly. When going about doing your business -- driving your car or writing a document using a word-processor -- there are a lot of things that influence how you do it. For instance, when driving a car, you are influenced by traffic regulations, prior driving experience and the car's manoeuvring abilities, the use of a word-processor is influenced by earlier experience using it, the functionality of the word-processor and so forth. All of these factors are related or connected to how you act. You do not go about doing your business in a total vacuum but rather under the influence of a wide range of surrounding factors. The act you are carrying out and all of these influencing factors should be considered together. This is exactly what th"

Gmail - [techrhet] world's largest wi-fi zone


Polywogs and blogs: we should all in the end be astonished at the vast changes wrought by the gimmicks themselves. What will work will work, but it's the pace of change that I would like to hasten, and I've learned that the biggest problem there is not functionality but the psychology of our administrators. Good programs and good teachers will continue to be ploughed under because their cool technology was not rhetorically situated. Jeff may criticize "conformity," but there are advantages to framing what we do in terms that powerful people understand.

Southpinellas: SPC tech professor gives his textbooks for free: "Basham views the price of learning Cisco as a manifestation of class and status. Information shouldn't be accessible only to the well-off, he said.

The folks at lulu.com understand.

'It's the open source philosophy,' said Stephen Fraser, spokesperson for lulu.com. 'Open source is sort of a computer geek thing, but a lot of academics share this conviction that hoarding knowledge does nobody any good. The best way to leverage knowledge is to share it.'

"

Things I am going to do differently next term:



1. give more credit in class for peer feedback--make it a bigger part of the course



2. spend more time on sentence construction and organization



3. continue readings/discussions through the end of course



4. require 1-page blog entries every single darn day



5. get my responses returned more quickly



6. start an email list for the class



7. quit using webct, perhaps.

Jack Feeny reviews: Deep Purple: "Given the length of time Deep Purple have been together it has become common practice to divide the band into three different, distinct entities. The three ages of Deep Purple, if you will. There was Deep Purple mk I, a somewhat unsuccessful sixties hippy band; Deep Purple mk II, an innovative and influential hard rock band; and Deep Purple mk III, a derivative and wholly uninteresting hard rock band. I'll give you four guesses to work out which era I've concentrated on. Yep, Deep Purple mk II, but then you knew that anyway, didn't you?"

Jack Feeny reviews: Deep Purple: "Given the length of time Deep Purple have been together it has become common practice to divide the band into three different, distinct entities. The three ages of Deep Purple, if you will. There was Deep Purple mk I, a somewhat unsuccessful sixties hippy band; Deep Purple mk II, an innovative and influential hard rock band; and Deep Purple mk III, a derivative and wholly uninteresting hard rock band. I'll give you four guesses to work out which era I've concentrated on. Yep, Deep Purple mk II, but then you knew that anyway, didn't you?"

Getfitnow.com Fitness and Health Forums: Is it really safe to do shoulders on days 2&5?:





"I'm doing the 14-day workout 2. When doing chest, triceps, biceps etc. on days 1&4 there is always going to be an amount of load on the shoulders, eg. when doing the bench press. I'm afraid my shoulders aren't getting any rest, as there is shoulder involvement 4 days a week. I know it's possible to partly isolate the chest muscle when doing the bench press, but I believe there is still some involvement of the shoulders"

The weird thing I saw in the past week:



In Hawaii, they have these little scooter cars with one rear wheel and two front wheels. They're red, and egg shaped, and have a little black rollbar. As I was waiting for the airport shuttle outside my hotel I saw one of these come whining up the street with two really big, sunburned American tourists hanging out of it. I wept because I didn't get a picture.



The other weird but cool thing was seeing 60+ surfers with long, graying hair, heading down to the beach, walking through the waves of tourists, carrying their boards.

How Websites Learn | Acts of Volition: "A look at how Stuart Brand’s classic work of social and architectural criticism, How Buildings Learn, applies to web design and development."

Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog



An interesting thread on grammar vs. editing. You may find it useful.

Clay Spinuzzi's Reading List: "What really struck me about the book, though, was that the author seems so preoccupied with authenticity. He talks in great detail about how artificial scents and smells are formulated, about how kids in Colorado Springs no longer wear cowboy hats as the 'real' Coloradans did, about how chains actually got started compared to what is said in their literature. Maybe it's because I'm GenX, but I really don't have the preoccupation with authenticity that Schlosser does. Of course these restaurants are selling a brand, a mood, an experience. So do universities and churches, often with the same level of conscious cultivation. "

jrice: "Why does this need to be online? Is there a difference between the assignment (blog a reaction, follow these questions for guidance as you shape your reaction) and what you would find in a print-textbook? No, of course not. Here is a very good example of what I always draw attention to regarding blogging. This assignment really has nothing to with using the weblog for pedagogical purposes. Take away the blog, have students do the work on paper, and the result is the same."

Stupid Undergrounds

Collin vs. Blog

Network(ed) Rhetorics: visualizing conversation

gladwell dot com / The Coolhunt: "One day last month, Baysie took me on a coolhunt to the Bronx and Harlem, lugging a big black canvas bag with twenty-four different shoes that Reebok is about to bring out, and as we drove down Fordham Road, she had her head out the window like a little kid, checking out what everyone on the street was wearing. We went to Dr. Jay's, which is the cool place to buy sneakers in the Bronx, and Baysie crouched down on the floor and started pulling the shoes out of her bag one by one, soliciting opinions from customers who gathered around and asking one question after another, in rapid sequence. One guy she listened closely to was maybe eighteen or nineteen, with a diamond stud in his ear and a thin beard. He was wearing a Polo baseball cap, a brown leather jacket, and the big, oversized leather boots that are everywhere uptown right now. Baysie would hand him a shoe and he would hold it, look at the top, and move it up and down and flip it over. The first one he didn't like: 'Oh-kay.' The second one he hated: he made a growling sound in his throat even before Baysie could give it to him, as if to say, 'Put it back in the bag-now!' But when she handed him a new DMX RXT-a low-cut run/walk shoe in white and blue and mesh with a translucent 'ice' sole, which retails for a hundred and ten dollars-he looked at it long and hard and shook his head in pure admiration and just said two words, dragging each of them out: 'No doubt.'"

gladwell dot com / The Coolhunt: "One day last month, Baysie took me on a coolhunt to the Bronx and Harlem, lugging a big black canvas bag with twenty-four different shoes that Reebok is about to bring out, and as we drove down Fordham Road, she had her head out the window like a little kid, checking out what everyone on the street was wearing. We went to Dr. Jay's, which is the cool place to buy sneakers in the Bronx, and Baysie crouched down on the floor and started pulling the shoes out of her bag one by one, soliciting opinions from customers who gathered around and asking one question after another, in rapid sequence. One guy she listened closely to was maybe eighteen or nineteen, with a diamond stud in his ear and a thin beard. He was wearing a Polo baseball cap, a brown leather jacket, and the big, oversized leather boots that are everywhere uptown right now. Baysie would hand him a shoe and he would hold it, look at the top, and move it up and down and flip it over. The first one he didn't like: 'Oh-kay.' The second one he hated: he made a growling sound in his throat even before Baysie could give it to him, as if to say, 'Put it back in the bag-now!' But when she handed him a new DMX RXT-a low-cut run/walk shoe in white and blue and mesh with a translucent 'ice' sole, which retails for a hundred and ten dollars-he looked at it long and hard and shook his head in pure admiration and just said two words, dragging each of them out: 'No doubt.'"

If you'd like a little extra credit, read the above article and write a few paragraphs in response on your website.

How Websites Learn | Acts of Volition

this is a bold sentence



Italics have nothing to do with Italy. Or do they



titles should be underlined or italicized



tag + body + closing tag

UVSC Online Writing Lab Resources: "The following handouts were created by the UVSC Writing Center and are available for all educational purposes (classroom instruction, tutoring, web links, etc.), as long as source information is given.

"



A link to APA style guides and other good handouts.

Hello class,



I hope that your weekends were productive and fun. No, really.



Currently your final draft of the current assignment is due this coming Friday. Some of you haven't posted your outlines and rough drafts to your weblogs, so be sure to do that as soon as possible. Also, I haven't seen much evidence of responses to each other's drafts, in part because not all of the drafts have been posted to your respective weblogs.

Please take advantage of this time to get as much writing done as possible

The Open Source Portfolio Initiative - The Open Source Portfolio Initiative is a community of individuals and organizations collaborating on the development of the leading non-proprietary, open source electronic portfolio software available.: "he Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) is a community of individuals and organizations collaborating on the development of the leading non-proprietary, open source electronic portfolio software available."

Preface of Small Pieces - David Weinberger

Face to Face with Alan Kay

Squeakland interviews Alan Kay.

Free Culture

Awlcheck explained

Moulthrop - Computers And Writing 2004

EMMA's XML Potential

Face to Face with Alan Kay: "Q: You often say that the computer revolution hasn't happened yet. What do you mean by that?
A: If you look with a squinty eye at most of personal computing today, you'll see we're basically just automating paper—using digital versions of documents and mail. But as was the case with the invention of the printing press, the interesting thing about the computer is that it allows you to have new ways of representing things, new ways to argue about things, and new kinds of fluencies.


Most schools define computer literacy as being able to operate Microsoft Office and maybe do a little web design. They're missing the point. That's like saying, 'If you know which end of a book to hold up, and you know how to turn to Chapter Three, then you're literate.'


Literature is first and foremost about having ideas important enough to discuss and write down in some form. So you have to ask, 'What is the literature that is best written down on a computer?' One answer is to make a dynamic simulation of some idea that you think is important, a simulation that you can play with and that you can learn from.
"

Electronic Portfolios Resources

AAHE's resources, as suggested by Mday.

Electronic Portfolio Learning at Northern Illinois University

Young scholars,



I'm about four time zones away and so I'm a little late with posting instructions for today. Essentially, I need you to do two things today:



1. post the roughest of drafts of your current assignment to your weblog. Please try to get at least four pages up there. Please have those submitted by 5pm. You can try to build on the outlines and informal writing you've already put on your "blog" (short for "weblog")





2. Sometime before Monday, please respond to at least two papers, through using the weblog links on this page. Try to respond to someone you haven't read before. You might consider asking and answering the following questions:



a. What is the strongest, most interesting part of this draft, and why?

b. Sometimes rough drafts contain portions that look really interesting, but need more description and examples. For example, someone might write, "Ever since I was released from prison, my opinion of school metal detectors has changed." A sentence like this begs for examples of the author's new attitude, and for more background info on their prison time. Ok, lame example. Tell your author what you would like to hear more of.



3. What portions of this draft do you find less-than-clear or difficult to follow?



Thanks, and please post comments or email me: craniac@gmail.com with your questions.

Learning Record Online Guided Tour for Teachers : page 4

Notes from the Learning Record Online session.

As I mentioned last class period, I am away at an academic conference. In order to receive credit for coming to class today, you need to complete the following before 5pm Wednesday evening.



1. Freewrite for 10 minutes or 500 words on your blog, about possible paper topics.



2. Read each other's blogs and comment on their possible paper topics, telling them what you thing looks the most interesting.



3. Read chapter eight, "the exploratory essay" including the essays. Tell me what you think of the included essays in the comments link below this post. Be expansive, don't just write, "it was ok."



4. Post a rough outline of your next paper to your weblog



5. Extra credit: figure out how to put an image in a weblog entry. Then do so. And tell the class how you did it.

An update from The Straight Dope to an earlier decapitation story. Creep city.



The Straight Dope: Does the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation?: "In one early series of experiments, an anatomist claimed that decapitated heads reacted to stimuli, with one victim turning his eyes toward a speaker 15 minutes after having been beheaded. (Today we know brain death would have occurred long before.) In 1836 the murderer Lacenaire agreed to wink after execution. He didn't. Attempts to elicit a reaction from the head of the murderer Prunier in 1879 were also fruitless. The following year a doctor pumped blood from a living dog into the head of the murderer and rapist Menesclou three hours after execution. The lips trembled, the eyelids twitched, and the head seemed about to speak, although no words emerged. In 1905 another doctor claimed that when he called the name of the murderer Languille just after decapitation, the head opened its eyes and focused on him."

Assignment #4: Four ways of looking at a mandatory composition essay



To recap what we discussed in class--this is sort of the equivalent of those "choose your own adventure" books. Work through the following steps, one at a time:



1. choose one of four possible essay topics



a. A fun activity that I enjoy doing

b. Writing about a place or event

c. Writing about a song

d. Describe your life ten years from now. Use research to describe current trends and how they might evolve in the future.



2. After you have chosen one of the above categories, choose a more specific topic (for example, if you chose "fun activity" then you should narrow it down to "soccer" or "wakeboarding" or something specific).



3. Once you have your topic narrowed down, your essay will be composed of three sections.



Section I: You will write about your subject from a personal perspective



Section II: You will look at your subject from a research perspective, providing background information, a historical perspective, the role of your subject in culture at large, etc.



Section III: Final analysis: in this section, you will try to make connections between your personal experiences and the research/historical perspective. How does your perspective differ from the historical/research perspective? How is it the same? What other insights have you learned from your experience and research regarding this subject?





The entire paper should be at *least* six pages, hopefully more.



The first rough draft is due by 5pm June 11th, submitted to Webct.



The Final draft is due 5pm June 18th, submitted to Webct.



Your final draft should include 2-4 sources, in APA style. More on this later



Your final draft should be intentionally designed, with appropriate font and layout decisions, and at least two photographs or illustrations.





Please draw upon our in-class discussion as well for ideas on how to complete this assignment.

Interview with Chuck D & Hank Shocklee of Public Enemy: "How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop



An interview with Public Enemy's Chuck D and Hank Shocklee"

My over conservative VIEWS: "It weaves a dark thread

And it knows its way

Its narrow figure hides its deep vine

But dammit it's a pencil

Heh. That's it. A Pencil."

English 1010 Class: "The watch

1. I looking at the time to see

when I get out of here. With the second

hand moving aroud the watch.



2. The stainless steel shines from

the class rooms lights above

the watch.



3. Throughout the day he is my best friend

and my worrest enemy."

1010 Journal: "The computer sits on the desk.

I type on the computer.

It takes up time.



I am talking with Jon.

The computer sits quietly.

I don't know what I am doing.



The teacher comes in.

He sits at his desk.

The shadow of the computer.

Rests on his shirt.



You walk in the classroom.

The computer sits with its friends.

They outline the wall.

Oh, what a day! "

Me: "Flying through the air,

Smashing into the ground and bouncing,

like a volleyball.

The volleyball floats up out of my hands gracefully,

then a hand converges on it and slaps it,

so is my dating life.

Being knocked around without control,

feeling like I have no where to go,

is the life of a volleyball.

Bump, set, spike is how we do things,

in volleyball. "

A hiker is alone.

A hiker with a gps unit

is a mobile node in a satellite network

made of muscle, blood and oxygen



Sailors once died

for lack of longitude

now we pay thousands

for the gift of being lost

My attempt





The sun shone brightly

as we drove our minivan

over the deeply-rutted clay road

led by my Etrex

we found echoes of someone's life

and a metal ammo box full of hot wheel cars

Today in class:



1. Read and respond to Wallace Stevens poem on weblog

2. Talk about deadlines and online participation

3. Discuss portfolios and the joys of revision

4. Brainstorm about next paper. Some constraints. It must:

• be somewhat fun
  
  
• 6+ pages
  
  
• Incorporate using at least two sources
  
  
• be personally interesting
  
  
• be academic, loosely defined
  
  
• incorporate a little design and visual elements
  
  

A poem by Wallace Stevens:



Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird



                     1

           Among twenty snowy mountains,

           The only moving thing

           Was the eye of the blackbird.



                     2

           I was of three minds,

           Like a tree

           In which there are three blackbirds.



                     3

           The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.

           It was a small part of the pantomime.



                     4

           A man and a woman

           Are one.

           A man and a woman and a blackbird

           Are one.



                     5

           I do not know which to prefer,

           The beauty of inflections

           Or the beauty of innuendoes,

           The blackbird whistling

           Or just after.



                     6

           Icicles filled the long window

           With barbaric glass.

           The shadow of the blackbird

           Crossed it to and fro.

           The mood

           Traced in the shadow

           An indecipherable cause.



                     7

           O thin men of Haddam,

           Why do you imagine golden birds?

           Do you not see how the blackbird

           Walks around the feet

           Of the women about you?



                     8

           I know noble accents

           And lucid, inescapable rhythms;

           But I know, too,

           That the blackbird is involved

           In what I know.



                     9

           When the blackbird flew out of sight,

           It marked the edge

           Of one of many circles.



                     10

           At the sight of blackbirds

           Flying in a green light,

           Even the bawds of euphony

           Would cry out sharply.



                     11

           He rode over Connecticut

           In a glass coach.

           Once, a fear pierced him,

           In that he mistook

           The shadow of his equipage

           For blackbirds.



                     12

           The river is moving.

           The blackbird must be flying.



                     13

           It was evening all afternoon.

           It was snowing

           And it was going to snow.

           The blackbird sat

           In the cedar-limbs.

Ok, I got several of your number three papers responded to late, but they should all be up. If you are one of those who got your paper late and would like a little more time for your portfolio, please let me know.

If you managed to get your third paper uploaded to webct, then I've responded to it.



Third paper responses



If your third paper is stuck on your blog still, then it will take me a little while longer to respond. I will post my comments directly on the blog, so keep changing. Right now I'm hiding out, responding to these, but my wife will be awake soon (she is feeding our new daughter all night and is exhausted) so I need to get home and try and find the time to respond later today during the kids naptime.



[currently listening to: The Ghost of Tom Joad]

My responses to your second paper, doubting/believing.



click here.



For the most part I left comments as footnotes within the body of your paper. Please let me know if you have any trouble reading them.

Momaday, Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain.



A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma, north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in the summer the prairie is an anvil's edge. The grass turns brittle and brown, and it cracks beneath you feet....At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage seems to writhe in fire. Great green and yellow grasshoppers are everywhere in the tall grass, popping up like corn to sting the flesh, and tortoises crawl about on the red earth, going nowhere in the plenty of time.

Michael B?rub? Online



"Interestingly, when I went to graduate school and, toward the end of my first year at Virginia, started playing with Michael Dean and Todd Wilson in a band called Baby Opaque, I never felt a moment's anxiety about performing; I was so consumed with graduate-school anxiety that I didn't have any anxiety left over for music. I would show up for gigs, set up, sound check, play, pack up, and go home, all as if I were fixing sinks or something. Then when Nick was born, when I was 24, I was so consumed with new-parent-anxiety that I didn't have any anxiety left over for my dissertation, and . . . you get the idea. By the same logic, surely one of the reasons that I didn't have too many assistant-professor tenure-track anxieties in the early 1990s was that I was far more worried about how to take care of a newborn with Down syndrome.



Blog anxiety . . . what a silly thing. Maybe I'll go play some music instead."

A recap of today's class:

For next class period please closely read pages 518-530 and bring all of your work to class for revision.

today in class:



1. donuts and juice

2. review second essay

3. discuss use of detail

4. discuss transitions

5. work on second essay revisions in class

6. move all deadlines back

7. make presentation assignments for rest of semester.

DrWeil.com Question: Had It With a Hacking Cough?: "If you have a productive (non-dry) bronchial cough but bacterial infection is not present (the sputum culture will confirm that), I do not recommend taking antibiotics. The best treatments are the usual rest and fluids plus frequent herbal (sage and/or eucalyptus) steam inhalation. Warm steam soothes the irritated lining of the bronchial tubes, loosens secretions and promotes healing, and the aromatic herbs discourage secondary bacterial growth. An expectorant cough syrup might be of help."

5/19/04, Commencement Address by Bono - Almanac Between Issues: "Sing the melody line you hear in your own head, remember, you don't owe anybody any explanations, you don't owe your parents any explanations, you don't owe your professors any explanations. You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out.



But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid. You can build your own building, or hut or condo, whatever; this is the metaphor part of the speech by the way.



But my point is that the world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. Now if I were a folksinger I'd immediately launch into 'If I Had a Hammer' right now get you all singing and swaying. But as I say I come from punk rock, so I'd rather have the bloody hammer right here in my fist.



That's what this degree of yours is, a blunt instrument. So go forth and build something with it. Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, 'He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seems to think us too irresolute.'"



Inspiring words from Bono! (he's a rock star, you know.)

class:



I"m sicker today than I was Wednesday, and don't want to share the fun with all of you. Frankly, I've been too worn out from this to finish responding to your papers. In the meantime, revise what you can, and I'll extend all the necessary deadlines to compensate for this.



I will be checking email and the comments section of this page if you have any questions. I'm sorry about this, but my lungs are just chock full of . . . you know.



I am on campus, briefly, and will be going home to recuperate about 10 am. Thanks.



Please read chapter eight for next week. And don't forget to post a summary of chapter 7 to your weblog, so show me you've actually read it.

Theories of Psychological Treatment | Theoretical Approaches: Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy



"Prayer, although not much understood in the field of psychology, is an extraordinary—and I mean that literally: extra-ordinary, beyond the ordinary—form of cognitive-behavioral treatment. It can free you from all neurotic anxiety if you pray out of pure love, with all your mind and all your heart and all your strength as a renunciation of your social-psychological identity and pride."

It looks like most of you still haven't submitted the third paper to webct, so I'll work off of your weblog posting of the paper. Look there for comments--

Miller showing his age: "AUBURN HILLS -- A 38-year-old man playing a young man's sport looked every bit his age Wednesday night. Though foolhardy to declare Reggie Miller null and void in any playoff series, since few players have produced postseason dramatics with his career-long consistency, the scrutiny exists."



Oh great. I turn 38 in August.

TheFeature :: An Architect in the City of Bits: "What have you learned from the research so far?



Mitchell: The implications of location-awareness are far from obvious. The technology enables you to reconsider things as fundamental as, say, signage in a city. For example, we traditionally think of a stop sign as part of the fixed infrastructure of the city. But if you have a location-aware automobile, you can shift the stop sign to the dashboard so it pops up when you approach an intersection. If you have whole networks of location aware vehicles, the system becomes more elaborate. Perhaps the stop sign only pops up when there's another car coming from the opposite direction. You could even have elaborate intersection priority schemes. "

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > For Some, the Blogging Never Stops: "Sometimes, too, the realization that no one is reading sets in. A few blogs have thousands of readers, but never have so many people written so much to be read by so few. By Jupiter Research's estimate, only 4 percent of online users read blogs.



Indeed, if a blog is likened to a conversation between a writer and readers, bloggers like Mr. Wiggins are having conversations largely with themselves."

Dear writing students,



I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is I forgot to create a place to submit your third assignment until about 10 minutes ago. The good news is you have until noon on Thursday to submit it, and with all that extra time I'm confident that every single paper I get is going to be amazing.



We had grilled chicken for dinner tonight, and it was ok, but I have to tell you--marinating works so much better than just brushing on the lemon and garlic. That is all.

Links to images of class members, so I can place names with faces:



class pics

Dear class:

I am sick today, and my throat feels like I have been gargling Drano (tm). Please forgive my absence. (update: I managed to heroically make it to class) But wait! There are still some things you can do until we meet again on Friday. And here they are:

1. Post your latest draft of our third assignment to your weblog.

2. Go to the class webpage, and respond to the paper of the person whose name is linked with yours below. If there is no paper posted at that site, then go to the next person in line. I've put you in pairs below. You should respond in the comments section of the weblog.

Mandy Melissa	Brigham Aimee	Afton Isaiah	Shaun Lauren
Johnathan John S.	Jon Hunt Ben H.	Michael F. Annie P.	Kirsten O. Jennifer C.	Diego P. Adam B.	Chris T. J. Martin

3. How should you respond to each other's papers? Good question. I would like you to answer the following questions, in mind-numbing detail:

I. Your author has been asked to describe the same scene from both positive and negative angles of vision. Of the two descriptions, which one seems most accurate to you, and why? Include examples from the original text



II. What was the best part of this paper? What part didn't work? Include examples of each, with a justification for your choice.



III. What are the most useful points made in the conclusion? What else could be said in the conclusion that was overlooked?

For Wednesday: Read chapter 7, and be ready for a quiz!



also, bring in your current draft of assignment #3.

English 1010 Class: "I didn't go to sleep last night till 3 in the morning because I went Off Roading with a couple of my friends and we did that till 2 in the morning then when I got home we continued to stay up a watch Zoolander the movie"

1010 Journal: "There is a three year old boy running around my table, his father calls him over. The kid decides he isn't going to listen to his father and he takes off running. The dad takes off to chase him down. The kid needs ridilin. Girl fixes her shirt as she is walking buy, takes a glance in my direction. An overweight couple storm out of the store, there cart seems to be full of junk food. They probably wonder why they are over weight. "

My over conservative VIEWS: "Relating to older kids, there are bullies, but this is the only time I will intervene: A eleven year old tires to throw his weight around and begins to call a younger girl a number of nasty (I don't need to elaborate upon it)names, I tell him if he continues this crap, then I will show him the fastest way to the principals office, or even to the police office. He didn't listen, so a stronger show of force was required. More or less to say, being much larger and older has its values"

first two chapters: "The parking lot is no respector of persons or their rides. There are the tall the short the thin the fat the okd the young the white the black and everthing inbetween.



Some have ridden their bikes to this place. Others have walked. Some come in gym shorts with a powerful walk as though this was their training center.



Most women have their children whith them. Some of the elderly have bbruoght their husbands. Still ather women are in groups of two or thhree. Very few come alone."

English 1010: " When the car stopped the odometer read 112 miles, that is a long time to be on a dirt road going 30 mph"

English 1010: "-cartboy brings a load of carts in from teh parking lot and leaves the carts with out a word to the greeter and turns and leaves, scratching his butt"

English 1010: "-a future Relief Society president enters the building and with the fakest smile i've ever seen

-she laughs after everything she says to the greeter and prances into the store as if on a cloud, no one is that happy"

english1010:

"The two mexicans are still talking but at a new location, the kid with the tractor looks really bored for now he's just sitting there impatiantly looking at the two mexicans. A guy appears to be talking to someone on the level below, but he looks funny with all his hand gestures for I only see him and no one he's talking to."

:: Xinhuanet - English ::: "The Foreign Ministry and Chinese Embassy in France are trying their best to handle properly the affairs of the Chinese victims, make arrangements for Chinese survivors, and conduct negotiations with the French side on compensation issues, said sources with the Foreign Ministry here Monday"

Mobile Phones Move Beyond Voice: "Currently a cultural phenomenon in the UK, text messaging is catching on with U.S. mobile phone users. More than one-third, or roughly 38 million, of U.S. wireless phone owners use SMS [define], and increased usage will likely spur further adoption. "

USB webcam driver for Mac OS X: "Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Can you include support in your driver?

A: Generally, no - not because we don't want to, but usually we don't have such a camera for testing available and we don't have the necessary developer documentation. If you can provide me with both, contact us. "

quote to get us moving: "Sooner or later in life comes a time when it is performance that counts - not promises, no possibilities, not potentialities - but performance...the law of improvement is the law...of participation, of performance.

- Richard L. Evans

so we have to finish our theses... "

For your third assignment: Angle of Vision



It's based on chapter five, so re-read that chapter in Allyn and Bacon's Guide to Writing if you need a refresher. Specifically, your assignment is to



(1) locate a research site with people in it: work, school, library, car wash, meeting, club, church, health club, and



(2) observe that site for at least a solid hour. You can break that down into several visits of 20 minutes each, or one single visit of 60+ minutes. You need to then



(3) take detailed, descriptive notes of everything you see. It's not uncommon to get 3-5 pages of notes from a single observation. Next, you should



(4) Expand those notes with even more descriptive detail, then



(5) write an essay in which you describe the scenario you witnessed, first with a negative angle of vision, then with a positive angle of vision. Again, refer to chapter five for numerous examples of this. Each description should be at least 250 words long. Finally,



(6) write a conclusion of 400 words or so, describing what you learned from writing from these two perspectives.



PLEASE BRING YOUR OBSERVATION NOTES TO CLASS ON FRIDAY

1. get poster software on laptop

2. write a. about labs

3. record streaming radio (radio paradise) and look for mp3 slicing software.

4. audio hijack

5. two clips for crosman

6. optical sight question.

7. put assignments online, as well as Torino's response

8. download and respond to draft 2.

9. respond to bronwyn's note

10. use google for tasks and addresses, perhaps.

11. grab more dvds for trip. Connections.

12. Mark out good passages for presentation.

Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog: "As the previous owner of used VWs - a Golf, a Jetta, and a Passat, I can answer that question with a hearty 'YES'. Go get a new car. Once a VW starts to go, it just sucks up money like a high-dollar stripper."

Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog: "I'd walk away - I loved my 85 GTI, (and my family has owned an original Beetle, 5 Rabbit/Golfs and 2 Passats) but once it crossed 150K, it was just to expensive to continue the affair. The problem with a car that age (as scarabic has pointed out), even with a relatively young engine, is all the other stuff that doesn't even fail, per se, but just reaches the end of its useful life. Brake discs and rotors, shocks and struts, shift linkage, CV joints, instrument lights (you don't even want to guess the labor charge to pull apart a dashboard and replace a 50-cent bulb, not that it's a critical repair) and on and on.



If I had $6K and a car older than say, 7 or 8 years, I'd rent a Sawz-All, chop the roof off the existing car, drive my new convertible into the ground (we did this with a '79 Rabbit) and put my remaining $5950 down on a new car or something used coming off lease with a manufacturer's warranty. If the payment is still too high, I'd look for something else. $6K will buy you a mid to late '90s Honda Civic, for example."

CarFilter: Pimp out my 88 VW Golf, or put $5k into a newer, more reliable car? [more inside]



I've got an inherited 1988 VW Golf. It seems like every three months I'm dropping $3-500 bucks on a repair--wheel bearings, front end work, o2 sensor dead, etc.



the average repair cost per month for this car is about $85, not counting mileage, tires, oil changes and other consumables. It gets 27 mpg on my 40 minute (one way) commute.



My practical need is to get something that won't require as much maintenance and get my to work reliably and reasonably quietly. I'd like to keep my loan payments to around $100-$150, so maybe a low-mileage Saturn or something will do the trick.



However, I'm 37, we own a minivan, first mortgage, etc. and I'd really like to get something a little more fun to drive, that corners well. Despite its age-related creaks and rattles, and the fact that the steering is getting mushier, I like the feel of the VW steering. Oh, and the VW has about 60k on a transplanted Scirocco engine (8 valve).



So, do I:



1. get the boring commuter car, and satisfy my midlife crisis needs with a good stereo,



2. Get a Geo Metro or Suzuki Swift, something with great mileage, and then tweak it into a snappy little autocross car/commuter



3. Put $5k into the VW, turning it into a reliable, funner car to drive.



4. See a therapist about trying to find fulfillment through consumerism.

I've responded to your first essay and uploaded the responses to webct, with the exception of those who were locked out of webct and had to upload late. Please bring an electronic version of your draft to class Monday.

Here is the next spyware scrubbing utility we'll be using: spybot seek and destroy.



Gotta love those macho titles.

Australian IT - Man fined for downloading music (, MAY 14, 2004): " US federal judge has ordered a Bristol man to pay more than $US4,000 ($5,817) for downloading five songs from the internet.



US District Judge Janet C Hall Wednesday directed William Martinez to pay the minimum statutory damages of $US750 per song for infringing a copyright as well as $US289 for the costs of bringing the lawsuit.

The judge ruled because Martinez failed to answer a civil complaint brought against him or appear in court for the hearing.

Martinez was the second Connecticut resident caught up in the lawsuits filed by the recording industry ordered to pay for illegally downloading music.

Jennifer Brothers of Andover was recently found in default when she also failed to answer the complaint or appear in court. Brothers has been ordered to pay $US6,000. "

The Corner on National Review Online



Loads o' controversy in here.

Kinja, the weblog guide



Here is a great source of links to good topics for the doubting/believing game.

topic: what do you think about the Iraqi prisoner abuses? Who can we blame for this?

topic: are we justified in damaging Iraqi holy sites during the war?

The Australian: Rumsfeld rolls with the punches [May 15, 2004]:



"FRESH from his flying visit to Baghdad, Donald Rumsfeld looks more secure at the Pentagon than he has been in the two weeks since the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal first broke.



The 71-year-old US Defence Secretary apparently has no plans to heed the advice of critics and quit. 'I've stopped reading newspapers - you've got to keep your sanity somehow,' Rumsfeld told the troops. 'I am a survivor.' "

Ad-aware



Please open this link and install AdAware, then run the program. Our technician hasn't been able to get to the labs for the past week.

Hey!



Please make a blog entry today. Your choice of topic.

Today in class we are going to:



1. fine tune blogger

2. sign up for presentation groups

3. discuss chapters three and four

4. do some informal writing

5. read each other's stuff

6. discuss assignment #2: believing and doubting

7. go home



Assignment #2: The Believing and Doubting Game



Your assignment is to choose an interesting engaging, problematic statement, preferably taken from an actual newspaper or editorial, and hopefully connected with a local issue or concern, and play "the believing and doubting game" described in our text in chapter two. In essence, you will write approximately a page stating why you believe the claim and provide supporting evidence. Then you will spend approximately a page (250 words per page) writing as if you don't believe the statement, and arguing against it using clear examples. For the remaining half to full page you will explore the issue at greater length without passing judgement either for or against it. I should not be able to tell what your real opinion is by reading the paper, at least not until I get to the last section. In the last section you can describe if your opinions changed, remained the same, were called into question, etc. You may also wish to answer the question, "How is this issue connected to my identity? How is my identity connected to what I believe?"



This is somewhere between "open" and "closed" writing. Have fun with it. Include pictures if you'd like. Double space the entire thing. Use a legible font.



First draft due: 5/17/04 (Wednesday) by 5pm. Bring an electronic version to class.

If you have any comments about the course, please use the anonymous feedback link on the right------->



There are also comments available after each blog entry. If I can get them working.

Soprano Ukulele - Geared Machines - Mahogany: "A New Ukulele superbly built from the finest woods. Clean workmanship and excellent fret dressing are the first things you'll probably notice. The necks are expertly shaped and finished in a satin lacquer for a professional easy playing feel. The tone is very close to those selling for those 6 times the price.



Satin Matte Mahogany Finish



Inlaid Position Markers



Carrying case included - a $13.95 value



Uke Parts



Compare up to $69.95 retail



But it Now for $18"

The recent revelations about mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by inexperienced guards, anxious to please authority figures (such as interrogators, CIA, etc.) reminds me of the famous prison simulation conducted at Stanford in 1965, by Philip Zombardo and Stanley Milgram. Stanley Milgram strikes me as the Andy Kaufman of Sociology. He's the same guy who got people to electrocute strangers.



(the BBC reenacted the experiment a few years ago.)

In some cultures, freewriting is used as a form of psychological torture. The North Koreans, for example, fully integrated writing as part of their brainwashing process. Right now I'm practicing freewriting along with my class, and frankly, I'm afraid of what horrible crap is going to gurgle out of my subconscious for all to see on this weblog. Driving to work today I listened to Marsha Sinetar's True Wealth. It's somewhat new-age-ish and cheesey, but it made a few great points about money. One of them was that if you feel uncomfortable or guilty about having money, you'll never get any, and that our attitudes about money come from our parents. My parents have the most screwed up relationship to money I can think of. Initially, I thought it was just that we were poor-ish, but upon reflection, everything they say and do about money is completely screwed up. Happy Mother's day, mom!



The computers in our room are completely hosed today, despite having been "deep freezed" and rebooted. This sucks, and gives people even more reason to hate technology, this class, and, of course, me.



This weekend I shaved my head. Why? Because I thought it would feel interesting. It feels almost the exact same as having a crewcut. I feel ripped off, and now I have to walk around looking like a chemo patient.

CourseInfo @ UVSC



This is webct

Please email a copy of your paper to yourself before class on Monday.

sample paper

Today in class:



1. respond, as a class, to a student draft

2. respond to each other's drafts in small groups

3. work on revisions to drafts

4. submit drafts electronically to webct for additional feedback.

I don't know if any of you will read this, but please bring an electronic version of your draft to class on Friday. You can email it to yourself, save it to a floppy, burn it to a cd or stick it on one of those usb-thumb drives. Or post it on the web.

Class weblogs:

Mandy

Melissa

Brigham

Aimee

Afton

Isaiah

Shaun

Lauren

Johnathan

John F.

Jon Hunt

Ben H.

Michael F.

Annie P.

Kirsten O.

Jennifer C.

Diego P.

Adam B.

Chris T.

J. Martin

English 1010

Assignment #1: Literacy Autobiography

Length: 750 words (three pages)

Due: Friday, May 7, in-class.





The purpose of this assignment is for you to reflect upon and analyze your own literacy narrative, the story of your encounters with writing and language up to this point. It is also an opportunity to compare and contrast your experiences with the information found in chapters 1 and 2 of our text, the Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing. You may wish to answer some of the following questions, using specific examples from the text, and the text of your life.

• You may invent one event or example, but it must be plausible, convincing and you must tell us in a footnote at the end of the paper which anecdote you invented.
  
  
  
  
• You should use specific examples of “literacy events,” moments of writing, reading and learning that have somehow affected your literacy practices
  
  
  
  
• You can answer questions such as:
  
  
  
  o What is your relationship with writing?
  
  o What are your earliest memories of the written word
  
  o What are your favorite/least favorite types of writing. Of reading?
  
  o What classes, if any, have influenced your writing methods? How?
  
  o What kinds of informal writing do you employ on a regular basis?
  
  o What are ways in which you avoid writing?
  
  o Who is your ideal reader, and why?
  
  
  
  
• What counts as literacy? What doesn’t? Who decides?
  
  
• Does your experience as a writer correspond with the descriptions of writing in our textbook?
  
  
• You may write in either a closed or open format.
  
  

Discuss the assignment here.

English 1010 Syllabus



Literacy Autobiography Assignment

Stay tuned, your assignment sheet will be up shortly.

datacloud: Why I Hate Blackboard

Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog: "Realizing that every writer is idiosyncratic, I'll tell you what I do while acknowledging that it may, in no way, offer assistance to you.



Like a shark, I keep moving. Two hours at the library. An hour at a coffee shop. An hour in my apartment. Two hours at night, sitting in a cushy chair at Barnes & Noble. And so on and so forth. It's rare that I work six hours straight, or in one single location all day. But at the end of the day, I'll have put 4 to 6 hours into my work. I try not to pressure myself into writing more than a page or two at any of my 'locations'. Stil, 3 to 4 daily pages add up. I find that, by constantly repositioning myself, I'm never anywhere long enough to get bored, distracted, or tempted to reward myself with a '15-minute break' that stretches on and on. Granted, I'm a sitcom writer, so I suppose it helps to approach any project with a bit of ADD, as the perpetuation of ADD is sort of the unintended result of the work upon the viewer, anyway.



Finally, remember to never beat yourself up. There's nothing you write that can't be rewritten tomorrow, so quit agonizing over the perfect phrase or finding just the right sentence. I fall into the camp that a first draft of anything is like a wrinkled shirt, nothing that can't be fixed (and ready to be shown) so long as you're willing to do enough ironing."

I moved this blog to another location for a little while, but now I crave the approbation of google, so it is back.

The Tetex installation has stalled:

rm -f /sw/src/root-tetex-texmf-2.0.2-1/sw/info/dir /sw/src/root-tetex-texmf-2.0.2-1/sw/info/dir.old /sw/src/root-tetex-texmf-2.0.2-1/sw/share/info/dir /sw/src/root-tetex-texmf-2.0.2-1/sw/share/info/dir.old

rm -rf tetex-texmf-2.0.2-1

Writing control file...

Finding prebound objects...

Clunk.