What's up kids? Another week,
another report, blah, blah, blah.
Well, what did we
have to do this week? Why, check out the Generation One Cybercommunity (with deeper
study and perspective, of course). Well now, to get this lovely task done I checked
out 3, count em' 3, students weekly reports. The 3 lucky winn
ers were Kyle Fujii,
Allison Asahina,
and
Cheryl Remata. You
might ask
how these lucky, lucky people
were so fortunate to be chosen, (or you might not) well, pure random chance. Fate
brought me to these reports (ok, I'll cut the melodrama).
Overall, the fact that everything was compiled in one long (long, long, long) file,
really sucked! To try and cut down the amount of lab time I would take to read the
reports, I converted them into word processing files and took them to my girlfriends
house to print up. I thought I was being slick and that I was so incredibly clever,
until I ended up printing up about 90 some odd pages of text (ha, ha, funny, funny).
I did manage to read all the reports and mark up some things. One thing that rea
lly
struck me is how important anchoring was for the Generation One reports due to the fact
that unlike our reports (which have separate files [making everything easier to pinpoint])
their reports were one long running column of text. It kind of took
a while to load up the reports and some of the links sort of led around in circles.
This week wasn't so much difficult as tedious. Going through all the files from last
generation and starting a topical index (all that anchoring) is quite a b
ear. I
enjoy reading but, I didn't really understand everything they
talked about in the
Generation One files. I did like the comments the 3
kids added in regards to dealing with
difficult spots though.
Ratings
I have been negative this week because
I am not looking forward to anchoring all of
my reports and linking it to a topical index. I'm also not looking forward to adding
links to my stinky, weekly reports (not my idea of a good time). If only there were
more hours in the day, I'd be even
more tired.
This week scored pretty high on the value scale due to the fact that I did learn something
from exploring the previous generation. Dealing with negativity and the emotional
high and the catharsis (big word huh) when it all ended g
ives me some comfort and something to look forward to.
I do think I'll be getting good at this junk, so I rated accordingly, I refuse to
go back to the stinking, spineless, cringing, cyberwimp I was before. Because I'm
good enough, I'm smart
enough and gosh darn it people like me =:).
My satisfaction has gone down considerably (at least somewhat in the last few weeks)
but mostly it's frustration talking. I change my mind (at least this week) I don't
want anything to do with thi
s computer stuff (Jane stop this crazy thing).
I did and still
am trying hard to get through this week's stuff. Tedious, boring,
repetitive, I don't have a thesaurus handy, sorry, ran out of
synonyms.
Conclusions
My fossilized
error is that I can
never remember whose turn it is to do our team reports,
Curtis or Cynthia (I do fortunately remember when it is my turn). I did solve this
by e-mailing both of them the information and they reciprocate so that problem has worked itself out.
No
t too lacunae (I knew I should have taken Latin, it's such a cool
language) this
week and no plans to be, I just plan on the minor
frustrations and setbacks and will
try not to lose it and go on any
sprees of widespread terror or destruction.
I guess that's it
for this week. Talk to you next week and remember, why do I do what I
do? For the credit? For the grade and the accolades of academia? No, I
do it because I care. Until next week kids.
talk to me