This is a time when I really wish that my blog from the past couple of years were still up, because then I could point to the entries that I wrote last fall, for the required class on information behavior (though I wrote a little bit about it and linked to my class materials over [...]
Went to MSCUA this afternoon to work with my group on our final project for LIS559. The project is to work on some sort of digitizing project on campus, and we got assigned to work on a project to digitize art papers, mostly historical marbled book papers. (You know those pretty endpapers in some books? [...]
Just got home home from the ASIS&T National Conference in Long Beach, California. If you don't know where that is (hey, I didn't before), it's south of Los Angeles. What a weather change! It was lovely and sunny, and apparently I missed a pouring storm on Monday. (Jeff sat down in his philosophy class in [...]
I just realized that other than a very brief mention to note the fact that I was elected ASIS&T Web Deity for this year, I haven't said anything about one of the current major drains on my time. I should do something about that.
[This is my first reading-journal entry. Instead of writing another review for this book/trilogy, I figured I'd post the one I've already written. I'll keep posting these if I think they're interesting.] Title: The Amber Spyglass Author: Philip Pullman Genre: Chapter book Audience: 11 years and up
Back to school! Classes didn't start for me this quarter until the first of October, because I don't have class on Monday or Tuesday. I have Thursday free as well, which is nice because it means I can spend those three days working in Issaquah. Unfortunately I pay for that luxury by having class Wednesday [...]
The last pair programming assignment in CSE 142 was hellishly hard. It was the culmination of a three-week traffic-simulation project which got more and more complicated at every step. This week's assignment involved cars following directions to get to a destination and making turns, as well as obeying traffic lights and not running into other [...]
This week's comp sci was a pair-programming assignment. I was a bit unenthusiastic about the project, especially since I got assigned to a group of three rather than a real pair, but it worked out pretty well in the end. The most difficult part was finding a time when we could all meet; I ended [...]
Yesterday was a great day in comp sci class. The first great thing was that I switched quiz sections. (For those not in the loop, a quiz section is one hour per week of class, taught by a TA, with about 20 people rather than 150. It's a good time to ask questions and discuss [...]
There are lots of things in my comp sci class that are new to me. There are other things that are old. There are yet more things that are so old, they’ve come around to being new again.