A view from inside an RIT Men’s Bathroom Stall.
Did I mention how impressed I am with the resolution on my camera phone?
Or how jealous I am of those genetically blessed enough to grow a ‘stache?
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As promised, here are a few pictures I took yesterday:
Professor Lessig presenting in Ingle Auditorium.
This was taken during an animated Q&A session.
Ralph Nader in Web Auditorium.
Note how he towers over the interpreter:
Like I said, a very tall man.
Yes, I realize he’s slightly upstage.
Still, there’s a pretty big height difference —
especially considering that he’s sorta slouching.
Sorry for the pain. Much to the chagrin of all involved, I can never resist a pun. I spent most of my weekend at a Sportsman’s show. Not necessarily by choice, mind you. Rather I was helping Drea with an emergency involving the non-profit she volunteers at. Anyway, this display was directly opposite where we were presenting.
Countless deer heads with dead eyes now haunt my dreams.
This first week of school is going amazingly fast. Wednesdays are definitely going to be bears for the next ten weeks ??? two classes, adding up to about three and a half hours of lecture. That said, I???m feeling like I???m getting a bit ahead of things. Just a bit.
Revamping the syllabi was the right thing to do. That said, trying to do it in half a quarter was really pushing things. Especially since I had yet to really experience the classroom environment. Now, with three classes under my belt ??? and my first lab later this afternoon ??? I???m starting to get into the flow of things.
The key rule seems to be ~30 PowerPoint slides for every hour of class. This is similar to the general rule that you can recite (uninterrupted) 9 double-spaced pages of 12 point type in roughly 15 minutes.
In the meantime, the theme of my life is ???write, write, write???.??? I have to finish prepping for today???s lab, write my quiz for tomorrow, and polish the related lecture. Probably that???s why my desk has looked like this all week:
I thought the following was too funny to not be blogged about — while visiting the RIT library to pick up a couple XML books for the previously mentioned XML project, I came across the following:
OK folks, Sesame Street time. Hum along with me — “Which one of these things is not like the other….” I didn’t know that Jamie Oliver, the famed Naked Chef, was an XML expert and that Happy Days with the Naked Chef
I leave it up to you, gentle reader, to decide what this might say about the RIT Library’s filing system.