So, straight to the point, I tried middlespot.com again today. I figured out how to get to the ’start’ page of it, it’s quite like the google one. You can attach things like music players and videos, webpages, pictures, stuff like that. It actually looks pretty useful, but it loads kind of slowly on my computer, so I’m not sure that I will use it all of the time. But, it is something that I would likely use in my daily life, to look up news stories, videos, stuff like that. Anyway, pretty boring post this week, maybe something exciting will happen in the near future.
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Now playing: NOFX – Stranger Than Fishing So I don’t really feel like doing those Hamlet activities today, but I figure I might as well get the easy ones out of the way, so I”ll just have the essay left to do for whenever it’s due. As with every blog post, I’m doing math, but this time it’s trig, the worst of the worst. If I could destroy triangles, I wouldn’t hesitate to in an instant. Anyway, for this week’s app I tried out middlespot.com, which is a site where you put urls and files and such on one page instead of having bookmarks all over the place. I thought this would be handy for me as I have 20832832 bookmarks all over the place, but I found that I didn’t really like it. Maybe it’s because I’m very tired and my brain isn’t all here, but I found it pretty annoying, and not very useful. My urls appeared at the bottom on a bar… now why would I want that when that’s what my bookmarks toolbar is for? Now, seeing as I only really messed around with this site for about 5 minutes max, I’ll have to write about this again this week and try to be more thorough about it, and maybe see if I can get it to work for me. I can indeed see the usefulness of this site, as it places all your favourite things all in one place, which is always a good thing. So I just finished the persuasive discourse test, and I now despise logical fallacies. I can see where they are, but can’t for the life of me identify them or make the syllogisms easily. Rhetorical devices are a lot easier. Anyway, website of the week will be once again, shmoop.com, and looking up Romeo and Juliet in hopes that I would find something that might alter my opinion of it..which is to say that I hated it and thought it was an overly melodramatic sap fest. Indeed, it made me rethink the play a little bit, and made me laugh at the elizabethan innuendoes in the play. As well, the moral of the play ‘You can’t buy the world a Coke, and you can’t blaze through your own life living only on love.’ that is a pretty good summing up of the play, and it makes me think of it in a slightly better light. So it’s 12am on Wednesday and I just finished my bio lab that’s due…today. So I’ll probably be really lazy with this and fix it tomorrow when I get home. From the November 10 Vancouver Sun: Liberals and NDP should get behind the mining industry 1. Mining has very high value in B.C (Last year had $6.6 billion) 2. Mining industry has tons of jobs, 28.000 of them in fact in B.C alone 3. No major mines of sufficient size have been opened to replace two major closing mines in the past 10 years. 4. The feds are dragging their feet on the issue, Conservatives are being wary, pretty much only need to stamp approval for the provincial gov. of B.C to look after the mining sector 5. Outside the urban area in Skeena there is a huge undeveloped copper/gold/silver deposits, also location of another big mine, and to the south there are even more mines 6. Mining industry is the largest private sector employer of first nations in BC Therefore 5. The NDP should take advantage of the Conservatives feet dragging and get behind these new mines which will provide highly paid and unionized jobs, gain more voters and 6. Liberals should also take advantage of this especially as many of their supporters depend on the mining industry, and thousands of jobs are dependent on the mining sector http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Liberals+should+behind+mining+industry/2204996/story.html So I finished my math journals early! And now I ‘m watching Dexter…pretty good show. Killer who kills killers… can’t get any better than that. Anyway, my website of the week was wolfram alpha, and I used it for said math journals, which involved reciprocal functions. I don’t really know what else to say about it, looked up names and such for statistics… not sure if I’ll use it again, but it can be handy sometimes. Well, since I keep forgetting to update this darn thing, it’ll have to be a double post again this week. For this double post, I used bestcollegesonline.com and looked at lectures. I watched part of Richard Dawkins’ lecture on the Queerness of the universe… I thought it was pretty interesting, as I like hearing about oddball science things, and I could see myself listening to some of these lectures while trying to do math or something, heh. The usefulness was probably pretty low, but on the interesting scale, it ranks pretty high. The other site I tried out was shmoop.com, a site that makes literature, poetry and other subjects more interesting. I looked up Hamlet… and apparently the steaminess rating is R, haha. I really liked this site, and wish I had found it years ago while doing other works by Shakespeare. Now playing: Tiger Army – In the Orchard Well I’m changing my website again as I was getting tired of saying what I had been reading on futurity.org. Just for fun I picked wordcount.com, which tracks how much a word has been used on the web that week. Obviously, ‘the’ was #1. For the hell of it, I put in my own name, and apparently ‘Laura’ is #3585! Beating out ‘Terry’ and ‘attract’! Woooo. Now I guess this could be useful if you are tracking a certain word day to day. For example, if you searched Kanye before his infamous “Sorry Taylor, I’mma let you continue but….” he would have a completely different number of hits than after the event. Anyway, still working on my outline zzz. It should be up by tomorrow, for sure, as I really have to get working on it. It won’t be hard once I actually get my reasons down, as there are a lot of block quotes I can use. For scapegoating, Wal-Mart is a scapegoat for all the wrongs of the American industry, as it is thought to be exploitive and low-class. However, Wal-Mart is in fact flexible and ever changing, it tailors to people who may not always have much money to spend. <- from daily finance Mimesis… well seeing as mimesis can be many different things, the Mona Lisa is an imitation of the person ‘Mona Lisa’, who was an imitation of the ‘ideal’ Mona Lisa. Now playing: Shakira – She Wolf So, making my post about 5 minutes before next week. Still using futurity.org, I learned this week how the brain links every object’s shape you see with a certain colour, hyenas are better than chimpanzees at group problem solving, and that the HIV virus continually morphs to escape antibodies seeking to destroy it. I really enjoy reading the articles on this website as there are a variety of topics to look at and there is always something that is sure to interest me. This website is great alongside digg.com, as they have continuously changing articles from around the web. Anyway, still trying to finish up my math and hopefully finish up the english project, haha. It’s pretty much done but I can’t help but feel it won’t be long enough >.> There is just so much stuff you can talk about in structuralism, but much of it is hard to understand and unnecessary to explain the main concept. To be quite honest, I don’t see how knowing what a morpheme/grapheme etc. would help you analyze language, but that’s just me. The actual idea of examining a plot using its structure to criticize it is useful though, and I can see how that would be used. Anyway… Seacrest OUT |
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