hopeevey is a good influence 🙂 I’m thankful for… sambear, who is so wonderful and marvelous and sexy and caring and… (sigh) I’ve got it bad, and it’s so good! shadowkatt, who is a wonderful blessing. curiousmay9, wordcandlemage, and other…
Galileo
The solar system’s greatest explorer will perish in a kamikaze dive into the solar system’s biggest planet late tomorrow. It detected a saltwater ocean under the ice of Europa…and an unexpected magnetic field around the largest [of Jupiter’s satellites], Ganymede.…
Basic Communication Skills
Is it really too much to ask that people who say they’re graduating at the end of the current semester with a degree in technical and professional communications be able to do the following? 1) Use standard English and speak…
Graphics Assignment
Eeep! Okay, I knew that the graphics class assignment that’s due a week from tonight involved doing a graph or chart, based on any data we choose. This is the second assignment that’ll go in the portfolio to determine the…
News from Fuddle River Schools
This was posted to TAGMAX with no attribution, but I’m fairly sure it originated at Learning Laffs:
Speed Reading?
What’s your reading speed—do you know? One of my professors posted a link to a site that sells speed reading training software today. I’ve wondered a few times if a speed reading course would be worthwhile. I took a test…
Pretty Pictures
I want a way to go through all the apod and epod archives and grab the high-resolution versions of the photos. I’ve been lured into the evil that is WebShots, and want those photos to put in with my others…
For RedCub
Hey redcub? One of my professors sent around a note this week asking if we wanted to take the Regent’s test online— – which means it wouldn’t have to be written out in longhand. Is your school doing that? You…
School Thoughts
Well, I did my medical terminology quiz today, and I think I aced it. We’ll see. My “foundations of TCOM” class was split up into three teams. Two debated the place of rhetoric in technical communications, while my team acted…
Learning PageMaker
Last semester, I wrote a four-page document for a report that I intended to turn into something of a brochure. It’s about fibromyalgia and how it affects college students, and is intended for college faculty and staff members. I never…