The Nine Star Story
My days have recently been slaved over a book or study notes. We just finished taking a test in Anthropology right after the Semester Paper was due. I studied for it all of last week and even taking the day off of work on Friday to try and pound it all into my head. The test was a bit difficult; I (unfortunately) neglected to fully memorize the theories which Franz Boas discredited as “armchair anthropology” I hope that I receive the same grade as before. We did receive our semester paper grades this week though. I received a 90 on it and Dee got a 95. She has always been the smart one in this relationship. The final is coming up pretty soon so I will be ignoring everyone after work again. Except for the band we have set a date earlier so something might happen (possibly).
Dee and her family are on a vaction to Chicago, Canada, New York, and beyond (I don’t know exactly.) I am missing her right now, and they won’t be back ’til next week. While she is gone I will most likely study and work on a project we’ve been planning.
I came upon an entry on lifehacker directing to a cavemonkey50 article on How to make Firefox for Mac more Mac like. It was recently published so there shouldn’t be any problems unless you are the type to never update programs. I haven’t really used Firefox casually only for testing reasons, and I have to say that the GUI does make me not want to use it as much. So now that It looks like Safari I can type out this entry just a little bit slower. I don’t understand why it is slower than Safari. I didn’t want to download the Deer Park beta because I have heard some problems with it on the Mac.
Uncool: Firefox doesn’t have built in spellcheck for its text fields. Probably because it isn’t Cocoa. Although Firefox 2 will have a spellchecker, maybe.
The updates to my site are in the queue for free time this week and I believe they will be completed by this Friday. A lot of the work that I have been doing at work look portfolio worthy and I still have a lot more to add. So some of the sites up now will most likely be removed. I will also be working on my journal by adding some more elements and try to clean up the code. I have been debating on weather not to add a side bar again. The single column seems much easier to read.
I plan on buying Art Forms in Nature: Prints by Ernst Haeckel and a Daivd Hockney book once I have the money.
Here is Amazon’s review on Art Forms in Nature:
Every biology student knows Ernst Haeckel as the originator of the “Biogenetic Law”: ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Haeckel was a passionate student of the evolutionary shaping of biological forms, and Art Forms in Nature captures both his artistic sensibility and the scientific rigor he applied to all his studies. First published in 1904, Art Forms in Nature is a glorification of function and form, a demonstration of organic symmetry that has nothing–and everything–to do with nature as it actually exists. Each plate exhibits organisms carefully arranged and exquisitely detailed, “a symbiosis between decorative sketches and descriptive observations of nature,” as Olaf Breidbach states in his fascinating introductory text. The radiolarians, medusae, rotifers, bryozoans, and even frogs and turtles lovingly recreated here are gorgeous and self-explanatory, rendered in delicate, filigreed lines, and colored gently with muted green, delicate pink, and sepia. Art students will appreciate the designs found in nature–scientists will love the evolutionary statement of form inherent in the beauty. –Therese Littleton
It was a very long week for me. My Anthropology paper was final an hour before it was due. Dee helped me by reading it over and giving me suggestions. I hope that I did a good job. It was also a depressing week because I found out that I did terrible on my History mid-term. To not feel more depressed I will just say that I have to now drop the class. I really don’t want to have a poor grade on my record; after-all I am just taking these classes to transfer. I don’t have the brains for History.
I ordered from Deep Elm and received a few CDs. I went for the 5 samplers for $5 deal, “No Matter Where We Go..!” by Latterman, and “Tossing a Friend” by MUCKAFURGASON for free. I think Latterman is a really good band. It’s a very energetic album and I wish I knew more bands with their kind of sound. They have been said to sound like Dillinger Four, who are one of my favorite punk rock bands.
This week is going to be busy/boring for Dee and I. We both have a Cultural Anthropology research paper to finish by the end of the week (Saturday). The “focus” of it is to find a controversial anthropological problem in contemporary society, explain, and why we choose the subject. I decided to choose the topic of abortion because it’s a popular issue and I need something somwhat easy to research. So I will be ignoring everyone this week to just concentrate on this paper. We will celebrate on Sunday.
Lara got into the fourth challenge of LiveJournal’s Next Top Model. I am happy that she won but I won’t be able to take photos for her this week. Lets hope she finds someone worthy enough of the progress so far. So if you are good with a camera and have time this week to take photos in Katy/Houston let me know and I’ll let her know.