Updates to the NCCCS CC CCL

The North Carolina Community College System’s Common Course Library has recently been updated to reflect the changing times in the information systems academic areas. The following courses have been discontinued: CSC 136 Fortran Programming CSC 137 PASCAL Programming CSC 237 Advanced PASCAL CIS 144 Operating Systems – DOS CIS 146 Operating Systems – OS/2 To […]

Word Proccessors Killing the Written Word

“Hello, it looks like you are writing a letter… would you like some help?” – Clippit (Office 97 – 2002) “Press F7 for an automatic spellcheck” – Word Processing Instructors everywhere How many times per day do you try to write something and then notice that something is misspelled, then you right-click that little wavy […]

End of Semester: Spring 2007

This has been an eventful semester for me, both academically and personally. Now that things are coming down to the last few days and I have only one more exam to take, I am beginning to freak out a little bit and things are getting stressful. The most active thing on my mind at the […]

Recipe: Chicken-Alfredo Pizza (quick version)

Chicken-Alfredo Pizza (quick version) 2 prepared pizza crusts, thin crust 2lb Prepared Chicken 16oz Alfredo Sauce (1 jar) 12oz Pepper Jack (or Monterey-jack w/jalapeno) cheese, shredded black pepper, fresh ground dry basil Preheat oven to 425°F, with stoneware pizza stone in. Place crusts on a pans that are easy to slide them from. Pour half […]

What does Curtis need?

What is it that I need as a person? Why am I always so unhappy? I am happy in the ceramic studio, and in other classes as well. I am happy during the day when I am by myself and there is no one else around. I am not happy when people are around me […]

Behind in Ceramics

I have thrown many pieces, including my sculptures, but I am back to my same fear from last semester, I am missing something or something will not go right. My sculptures are all done but one, but because of their size, I am now worried that I won’t have time to get them fired and […]

Potter Going Crazy

It is 0330, I should be asleep right now, but as much as a try, I can’t fall asleep, all of these thoughts are converging on my tiny brain at once. With such a short time remaining (14 days) it is becoming more of a challenge to keep these thoughts under control. I am going […]

Definition: To Throw An Egg

Throw An Egg – to use a lump of clay to create (“throw”) a closed form on the potter’s wheel, resembling an egg. //Just a simple clarification for anyone who thought I was planning to make a mess with yolks this evening.

A Sign of Relief in Ceramics

Tweedy has done something that she has never been known to do in the recent history of the studio, she moved a deadline. Being a few projects away from being done, I am glad that I now have closer to 20 days to get finished instead of the 7 previously. Task Old Deadline New Deadline […]

Coding on a Tangent

I set out working on SiteEngine for my personal site over a week ago, planning to write the stuff for the multiple site feeds first, then working on everything else, but I have found myself quite distracted by working on the mailing list manager tool for it. That reminds me, most of you, whether you […]