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Brian Bilbrey September 8, 2012

Myth

My first class this Fall session is a last GER class, this one about myths and (mostly) Mythology. Frankly, it's an agony for me, because my interpretation is that Myth is fiction that has outstayed its welcome. Sure, they're compelling stories and all that, and as such useful for modern novelists and filmmakers to retread such stories and distribute them as "content" (a word I despise) to the cattle of our consumer society. They're especially good for that because people aren't educated nearly as well anymore. But analysis of myth, and and the making up of whole cultures, a whole…

Brian Bilbrey September 2, 2012

Tired of School Brian is Tired...

There goes the weekend. I spent much of it trying to stub out the next 6 weeks of work for the Myth in the World class that I had to take. Why so much? Because the bibliography is due first! #WTF ??? Sigh. While this class is interesting, frankly it's a waste of my time. And now they want me to do my own plagiarism submissions? Can I give myself my own grades, too? I pay more, I get less, and I have to do their work for them. I *almost* wish I'd done more classes at a time, earlier,…

Brian Bilbrey July 29, 2012

Getting Things Done

But not GTD in the larger sense. But getting things done, lower case: I shaved the lawns yesterday, front and back. I did a bit of weeding in the garden, also. And today, I find that for the second summer session class, I ended up 1 point shy of an ace, out of 500. Yes, absolutely where I should have been for a class on UNIX and shell scripting. But now just two classes to go! Huzzah! * * * Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors: Staff Sgt. Brandon R. Pepper, 31, of York,…

Brian Bilbrey June 24, 2012

Too Early Hot

It's not July yet, and we nearly cracked 100°F this week. Yowza! Small amounts of yardwork this weekend (no mowing needed since it's so freaking hot), and shedloads of schoolwork going on. By CoB yesterday, I'd gotten all of this week's assignments submitted. Today I started on the Big Bad for the summer session, an "Authentic Assessment" for the database capstone course. It's going to be the equivalent of an entry page and 16 data display and/or modification programs (show, add, delete, or modify for four different tables in the database), and it's due in 2 weeks from today. I…

Brian Bilbrey May 15, 2012

Garden Progress

Moving right along, I managed to take a picture this evening as the clouds started rolling back in. Here's the state of the garden today: The potatoes are coming in nicely, as are all the other plants. The snow peas ... they're in production. I'm pulling a meal's worth out every two days, and they're barely started yet. * * * School is started too, and for grins, the first project in CMIS 485, the capstone course for databases, involves PHP and an Access database. Yeah, Access. Whatever. I've mostly completed the design of the required tables based upon the…