Over the past few days I have made several attempts at figure drawing. I have attempted to read the book that I borrowed from the UNC Library,The Artist’s Complete Guide to Figure Drawing. I find the book to be a little hard to follow and not as useful as I would like in a book […]
ART115 – Art History II – Got through the first module with no problems. I got an 80 on the quiz, but got 100 on both of the discussion assignments, so I’m happy for that. It seems like it is going to be a very fun course. I am still learning how to prepare for […]
I attempted to make biscuits for dinner this evening, but I seem to have inherited my mother’s ability to screw them up. Her biscuits always came out hard and completely inedible, but mine are a little different, they are very soft and crumble when you touch them. Unlike my mother’s, which taste like chalk, mine […]
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/open-source-tex.html While the idea is founded in solid ideas and overall good marketing, there is one factor being missed here, departmental textbook adoption. Colleges get a lot of "incentives" from publishers to use texts, often in the form of additional "resources", such as classroom aids and instructional equipment. In some cases, schools even get paid […]
It used to be that an Internet user had 2 choices for a web browser, IE or Netscape. Or in short, the browser that worked or the one that didn’t. Nothing ever worked on Netscape, everything worked on IE, then we jump forward a few years and now there is Internet Explorer, FireFox and a […]
What would a person do with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Humanities? I’ve been looking at the degree from UNC-Greensboro because it seems interesting, but I can’t really see it being useful. Anyone have any ideas on jobs where this could be a useful degree? http://web.uncg.edu/dcl/web/bls/default.asp
Why do I blog? What purpose does it serve? Does it protect me from being social, or does it give me something to do to fill my time? I really don’t know anymore, and there are days when I question the existence of the blog. It started being for academics, primarily, for my to document […]
I am presently enrolled in 18 credit hours and I am not happy. I am still bored. Nothing seems to challenge me and I don’t really like feeling like this. I feel incomplete. I need something to do with my life other than sit around constantly refreshing course websites, hoping someone will say something. More […]
I am used to being able to dump any conversion I need (measurements or currency) into Google with the syntax of "convert".n." ".unit." to ".desired format. In this case, I typed "Convert 87000 gold florins to US Dollars" as well as "Convert 87000 florins to US Dollars". It ignored both and passed them to the […]