Art History 1 (ART 114) Activated

Today is February 2nd and that means that 2nd chance classes, including ART 114, are now active. That being said, since the early activation of the course in January, there hasn’t been a lot of activity in the course today, and I suspect that the remaining 10 or so students will fall in one at […]

Cryptic Blog Entry #2

At times I am a really selfish person. There is an item that was dangled in front of me a few days ago and now that product is only available to a specific group of people. This upset me greatly and I went into a very selfish mood over it, which I suspect bothered some […]

New GITI To Do Module

I feel like I have rewritten the ToDo module so many times, but it probably has only been two of three rewrites. None of my rewrites have been anything useful, or anything I have even really looked at after it was written. There was even one revision that once completely finished, I rolled back to […]

Academic Decay

Every semester many optimistic students sign up for courses, but how many actually stay in them, and of those, how many participate? Every semester when an instructor assigns weekly discussion board activities for online or hybrid courses, it surprises me how many people begin falling away from the course. In one of my psychology courses […]

Trouble Blogging

There are topics that do not get mentioned in this blog. That is something that is known to many of my readers. This in the past has never presented to be a problem, until now. There is something going on in my life right now that is very special to me, something marvelously exciting, but […]

Change of Clay Body

My enthusiasm for Standard Ceramic Company’s 563 clay body has been short lived. Upon going to get a fresh batch this morning I was informed that it has been discontinued. I am now in posession of Standard’s 220 clay body. Supposed to be very similar, but I will determine that. I liked how well 563 […]

Renewed Excitement for PSYC

I am not quite as worried about my psychology courses as I was before. I just finished my quiz in Theories of Personality on Freud and I got a perfect score. I am beginning to feel a little better about these courses. I believe my lack of performance in the courses may be related to […]

Active Directory Authentication on Ubuntu

My network is primarily a Microsoft Active Directory domain, with a majority of clients being member systems. An Ubuntu Linux system does not, in its default state, fit in to that network. Using a tool called Likewise Open I was very easily able to add my Ubuntu system to the Windows domain. Once the tool […]

Digital Photo Assignments

When it comes to digital photography assignments lately I am finding myself in one of two categories, and no where in between. Those categories are having pretty much no clue fora subject for the assignment, or having an overabundance of inspiration. My current project is macro, so I am very comfortable already with doing it, […]

Recipes Make No Sense

What is a cup of flour? Densly packed or lightly packed? Perhaps sifted? Volume is no way to measure things like flour, or grated carrot for that matter. So many things in cooking involve air, it is nearly impossible to measure by volume and have the correct amount. Kitchen scales are more likely to be […]