Update on the recording of metal.

Hello everyone. I went home for a few days, but spent most of spring break here in Bemidji. Things are going well with the band, which means things are going well on the blog. The album is coming along, with only bass & vocals left to record. Some videos from a small gig are uploaded on YouTube and embedded within the blog, as well as a page featuring pics of my bandmates and I.

See you in class.

WeirdOfTheDay Blog

So far things are going well. Right now I have seventeen posts, but I’ll have made it up to twenty by the end of tomorrow.

I think I could have spent more time on the blog over spring break, but things sort of slowed down for me and I needed to take a breather from school stuff for a while. It’s kind of hard to find weird current events that are actually interesting enough to post and comment about, but I’ve been scouring around online, listening to the radio, and reading a few newspapers for materials (sometimes it takes quite a while to sort through all the crap to find something good). I’ve finally gotten around to putting a few videos on the blog, which should make it a bit more interesting. However, I think the blog could use some improvement, so I’m looking forward to meeting on Monday.

Dirty Blvd. Album Reviews Update

You know, I’m really considering changing that title; I’m not even a big Lou Reed fan, let alone a big fan of the song “Dirty Blvd.”

Anyway, things have been going quite well. I’ve got 20 detailed album reviews so far, and will have 22 by the time of class tomorrow. Just a matter of picking which drafts to publish; I have lots of near-finished drafts almost ready.

Surprisingly, my review on King Crimson’s debut album was put up on an official site dealing with King Crimson and their guitar wizard, Robert Fripp himself, who posts on that site. Talk about recognition! Because of that and a couple other hidden weapons of mine, I’ve been getting a lot of traffic in the past week.

Some other things…I’ve added a bit to my blogroll and I’ve added a tag cloud, as well as updated the “about” page. And of course there’s been plenty of posts besides album reviews. Oh, and either tonight or some other time in the near future, I’ll be adding posts that will serve as lists of the reviews ordered by date, artist, and rating. 

Anyway, check the place out if you want to see if I’ve reviewed any of your favorite albums. I’ve tried to do all sorts of things…from popular giants like The Beatles to indie artists like Neutral Milk Hotel…from bad and mediocre albums to absolute masterpieces. Just did a review on Boston’s ever-popular debut album earlier today. You know, that “guilty pleasure.”

What’s on the Shelf

Hi everyone!

So my blog is rather off to a slow start. I am behind in posts – but that was due to the fact that the week before spring break I was sick, and then during spring break I had some family problems.

But now that everything is calm again, I am starting to plow through the missing posts. If I follow my plan right now and I did the math right, I should be caught up in about two weeks or so.

I am really enjoying digging around and finding things to post about. This is actually a project that I may keep going for a while - who knows.

Feel free to drop me a line as to new music, books, and movies (they can be older too).

ANTM Cycle 12

I wasn’t able to work very much on my blog over spring break becuase the show started a week later than expected and I was in Florida.  However, I now have four show pages done and I am working on the judge and model pages.  I don’t have as many model pages done as planned because the judge pages weren’t in my original plan and I have been working on those.  Overall everything is going well.  This is the url for the most recent episode page: http://antm12.wetpaint.com/page/New+York%27s+Finest

Sign Language Upate

Hello

Well so far on my wiki I’ve put something in each section that I’ve created.  I must admit that I didn’t add much to my wiki over spring break, but now that the first week of school is over I’m back into the swing of things and can plan out my homework schedule better.

It’s been really interesting researching the history of sign language.  I found a lot of sites that explain how the language got started, and the sites also did an excellent job with explaining who helped bring the language along.

Now I’m going to focus on filling up the other sections before I start adding to the history section again because I have a good start on that section.  I’m also going to add a few videos of someone speaking sign language to a song or telling a story or something like to show people what a person looks like performing sign language.

The only problem I’m having is finding time during the week to sit down and actually do the researching for my project along with all of my other homework.  Other than that I think my project is coming along fine.

update on updates

It’s good to see people are posting updates before tomorrow’s – Monday’s – face to face meeting at 11:00, HS 109.

Please pass on the news that we meet on Monday, and that there’s an update post due. If everyone tells just 3 people they know, the news would get to Kevin Bacon by midnight tonight.

Veteran Dissent Update

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” ~Aeschylus

The posts are going smooth, and I’ve connected with a few like-minded vets. The comments on this post are good example of us hashing through some of what we see as problems with leaving military service. 

I’ve bounced around a bit more than I planned on, but there is still a consistent juxtaposition of existentialism and the experience of veterans. One of my blog posts morphed into a post on ivaw.org and was featured on this blog as well. 

I’m just having fun and exercising my free-speech rights.

The lazyczech update

The lazyczech playlist is going well so far. I’ve slowly been beefing it up as much a possible from a design standpoint. We are pretty limited in that way though. The post content, in terms of length is a little different than I predicted in my proposal. But it feels pretty natural. Otherwise my posts are looking, and reading, pretty much the way I would like them to. I do have at least one question that I’ve been saving for Professor Morgan.

My traffic been up and down, overall it seems to be growing. Just today my blog was added to KAXE Radio’s KLOG. That should help. The name is currently misspelled, but that will be fixed soon. They were very receptive to adding it to the list of blogs that is the KLOG. Still, I did wait until I had streamlined things a little, and had some content, before I approached KAXE.

Otherwise, I’m looking forward to carrying on with this project beyond this class. I’ve found it to be quite a bit of fun. Look for a rather in depth piece on funk force-of-nature Betty Davis before Monday.

Alpha’s Place update

I am doing good. I was able to spend lots of time working on my blog over spring break and so I had lots of fun keeping up to day and ended up pissing off Fedora contributor but more on that later.

My Project I think is doing well I have been able to keep up a constant flow of posts even though technology news has been rather lacking recently (mostly caused by recession) but I have found enough stuff to fill gaps. Some of those gap fillers caused me to get some interesting comments from a Fedora contributor you can read that post and its follow up. Oh yeah and my blog ended up on someones recommended list already.

Mandatory Update, For all Disinterested Parties

Hello, all!

For starters, I am doing just fine and dandy. Enjoying the warm sun and the slippery ice and lovely miniature lakes that that combination produces. I have almost killed myself only twice so far.

My project is coming along…I think it is going just fine. Something you might be interested in checking out is my story of my initial encounter with Shakespeare, which you may find by going here: http://shakeyoursphere.wordpress.com/about/saeras-shakespearian-surprise

I have nothing else of interest to report (or that I wish to report, at least!), so fare thee well, good lords and ladies.

Spring Thaw: Monday, 23 March

I trust everyone’s more or less back from break and that the projects are ticking along – and that basements are flooding.

As scheduled, we’ll meet again face to face next Monday – Mar 23. Usual time and place.

In anticipation of our meeting, post a brief up date to this blog for us for all to read – just to bring us up to date.

• How are you doing?
• How are things going with your project?
• What else is new?
• And link to something interesting on your project.

If your project isn’t going well, you can design and start a new one during the week of Mar 23. Post abut the problems here so we can all help out, or let me know.

On next Monday, I’ll assign StudioTour1. Feel free to get an early start on things.

Pass this information on, by the way. Not everybody is checking the Daybook.

Yoga Wiki

I didn’t see who was working on the YOGA wiki and for some weird reason my thread is being denied (go figure).

A good idea for you would be to go to the rec and talk to one of the yoga instructors to get some more insight, maybe even ask if you can take a photo or two during a class to put up for your project.  Think about it like someone has never heard of yoga and is going into it for the first time.   They used to tell us to do that when I worked at the women’s gym in Hibbing.  It may help with the history of it a little bit more, plus you’re getting a certified expert’s insight.

Doubt is Torture – Shawn Blanc’s Advice

Freelance publisher Shawn Blanc has an encouraging post about motivation for all writers: Doubt is Torture

He draws on Writing Down the Bones, by Natalie Goldberg, from 1986, and shows how her advice to poets applies to writing web posts and constructing wikis.  Shawn’s connection: The weblog gives you that extra push needed to overcome doubt.

I am amazed at how many people consider themselves a writer, or who hope to become one, and weblogs have done something that journals never did. They’ve given an extra push of motivation to those people who always wanted to write, but never did.

Unfortunately, it seems the same motivation which encourages us to publish, also feeds those voice of self-doubt that Natalie talks about. I don’t know how many posts I’ve started and deleted because I thought they weren’t relevant or exciting or interesting enough. Which is why I love this sentence so much: “Instead, have a tenderness and determination toward your writing, a sense of humor and a deep patience that you are doing the right thing. Avoid getting caught by that small gnawing mouse of doubt.”

Nice connection. The kind of writing is not relevant here.  Tech writers, article writers, journalists, grant writers, freelancers suffer the same self-doubt as poets and essayists, and the weblog gives them all a space to practice patience, to chase out the mouse.

Both the book and Shawn’s blog are worth a read.

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