Tech week!!

Well this week, we have been in the computer lab. I have Windows Movie Maker and it is going pretty good so far. i have been taking small clips here and there and slowly combining it into a 5 min film. Hopefully it will work out perfectly planned, but life is not always perfect. I think one of the difficulties would have to be coming up with the script because i plan to narrate some of the time on the film with some important facts and linking it to our subjects in class. There is really nothing much to talk about this week though..

Only if I had another Arm?

WOW!!Clark's book is very interesting especially with the Sterlec guy who made a third arm. Something that we mentioned in our group about this is how expensive it is and that it is not worth the money for the outcome. Thinking about this, i really think we don't need another arm because with everything that is out there, it will be very difficult to get used to it and also since it is so different people will view me as opaque character and i don't think I'll ever be transparent. And how I think this relates to writing is the similarity of a person's idea of writing compare to another idea of technology or inventions. An example would be Sterlec coming up with the idea of his third arm and showing it to people during his shows would be similar to how people write like how Shakespeare's writing is weird to us today, but in the past, it may have been the writing is today. A good example would by how we text today and with all the slang that we use.

Here'e something really interesting. This is off topic, but look at this. This is only the music from Microsoft Xp..

iWho..iWhat..iPod

iPods these days are well known by everyone. This could be a saying that "you're not cool with out an iPod" which now and days everyone has one, even the little ones. Going back to one of the discussion how we go into our own world with the iPod headphones, I totally agree on some of the discussion about when we are around strangers, we put on our headphone and ignore the stranger. iPod has grown to be the most popular device out there especially when its also a phone now too, but I can sense that in the future something else will be introduced and iPod would be like a discman to all of us. Another interesting thing is about how to ignore the survey or other people who are trying to talk with you and how the fact that if you have your head phones on then it's more likely they're not going to bother you and just thinking about it, it is true. Another interesting thing is about listening to the same tune when you're doing the same thing or in a certain mood.

LONG LONG COLD WEEK!!!

Technology..Technology..Everything is base on Technology..Technology involves some science too since without science our technology will not improve and back to what we were talking in class, I think that there is not a real definition of what normal science is because there is so many scientist out there with their own specialty.
About the discussion in class, some of them were really interesting especially when Shue was talking about the gun, bullet and person and how it's really the bullet killing a person but we see it as a person killing a person and this is very interesting to me too. Also, about the football Superbowl touchdown too because not thinking about it that it's just a catch but it matters to everyone especially the bets that people made against it. Another example would be some of the laws in the US such as stop signs, we don't need to stop but we still follow what we we're taught to do for the safety of the people. A lot of things out there can be viewed in different angles and people can have different perspective on them too.

14 WEEKS TO GO!!!

Well the first week of classes was fabulous, especially with the cold. Other then that everything went well because I have started a whole new list of courses for a different major. Back on subject about English this week, blogging, I have never ever really knew what blogging was until now, especially with the minute YouTube video that was shown in class. Blogging seems interesting to me because I can write down my thoughts about class and other subjects. I never knew that Professors actually used blogs as a communication because I always thought of it as a youth thing similar to texting. it was interesting to be introduced to the Professors blog page and it also interesting that we are doing blogs in class so we can have a discussion on the side. Then, for this weeks topic of technologies of writing, I never really knew that Thoreau's family had a pencil manufacturing business which shocked me. Also, the pencil is actually a technology which is odd because the pencil does not seem like a technology because today, we see technology as electronics expensive things, but in reality every thing is technology to make humans have an easier life. With today's technology, I think that in the future we will have robots doing every thing for us and that we wont be doing any labor since we have the robots.

introducing you to a special person

this would be me and my name is Birt Thao.. I am attending UW-Madison at the moment and majoring in elementary education..i recently changed my major last semester so this spring semester would be my first semester taking my new major courses...another interesting about myself is that there is a documentary out there about my family and it is called The Split Horn, it is a 17 year filming project by the director Taggart Siegel and it is in a 56 min movie...odd but funny...The documentary is very good and emotional...Recommended for people to watch it..Hopefully i will have a good spring semester...see you next time..