May 2011
3 posts
Future Projects and Research
In my computer mediated communications class, we have been assigned the task of creating a final project/reading paper bout whichever topic we want that is related to CMC. For mine, I’ve chosen to dive into the topic of online video games and their relation to social interaction amongst its players. Here is the abstract for my ideas on the project:
For this project, I will be...
Last Minute Mother's Day
Yesterday, as I am sure you are all aware of, was Mother’s day. I’m not a huge fan of the holiday (I’m close to my mother but I don’t think I need I day to remind me that I should appreciate her, I can do that on my own), but of course I had to get my mom a card. I don’t personally think cards are that important, but it’s a little thing that I can do to make her...
WCG Discounted Items ~ Eat at your own risk
With the bi news coming out yesterday, I guess I should be talking about the death of a terrorist and the big media sensation, but it’s not something I really want to talk about, everyone else has covered it well enough and I don’t think I can add much to the conversation.
Instead, I shall talk about my experience with the discounted item box at West Coast Grocery (UWT’s...
April 2011
3 posts
The Return of Doctor Who!
Saturday night was the premiere of the new season of Doctor Who on the BBC(in the UK) and BBC America here in the states. This marks the first time the premiere has been broadcast on the same day in the two countries. The reason they moves to get the simultaneous broadcast this was was because the show had become so popular in the States that fans were pirating or streaming the episodes online...
Teaching Students Computer Science (and Calculus)
It’s about the time in my life where I need to start figuring out what exactly I want to do in life and how i want to go about doing it. This is a big question that everyone faces at one time or another in their life. The big roads to choose from are the working world as a software developer or to continue down the path of academia. I’m at the point where I just haven’t had...
Getting Started.....
This is my first blog post ever. I’ve had an account for awhile, but have never felt that I have had anything significantly interesting enough to blog about that wasn’t covered somewhere else. Hopefully this little experiment will turn out fun. At the very least it should get my creative juices flowing, at the very least it will be a way for me to share some of my favorite things.
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