Movie

Class was good. I'm feeling confident that I can finish my map and it will be awesome. Landon is giving me a hard time, says I need to get off the computer, so I guess I'd better go. The last movie I saw was Igor, it was fun, worth a dollar, but to be honest I was expecting a bit more.

Toughest part of next two weeks

Class was fun today. Taking the GPS points was fun.

Umm.... I have not one, but two mineralogy finals in that time, one of which is TODAY! I have the 230 presentation, a 411 presentation, and of course the map, the poster, and finishing the 230 paper. Anyway, madness has ensued.

Favorite web-site

Class was great today. We learned how to add color and labels to our polygons and there were no problems.

My favorite site right now is the website for the BBC show Top Gear. It's hilarious. I discovered it recently and just love it.

Thanksgiving

Class was good. Thanks for all the help with making shapes. Also the 3-D stuff was fun.

I'm going to my parent's house is Portland... today! So I need to go home and pack a bag.

Christmas Music

Okay.... so I finally figured out the georeference thing. The shapes was more or less straight forward. Class is good, even if AcrGIS isn't.

I've got a roommate who is very enthusiastic about Christmas, and it's been the cause of some strife. Not that I have anything against Christmas, but everything in its place. I don't like Christmas music before December 1st. My roommate made his daily countdown paper chain a month ago!

Good Book

Class was a little intense today. I was way in the back (only seat I could find) and it was hard to hear and see everything that was going on. I followed it alright, but it just took extra effort. This program (ARCGIS) is a little scary and confusing, but I'm sure I'll get it.

Endurance (I can't remember the author) is great. It's the story of Ernest Shackleton in Antarctica.

Favorite Restaurant

Class was good. ArcGIS is a little scary, but it should be okay. No problems today. I wish I new about all those maps earlier!

I've got a lot of favorite places.... but Burger Supreme is good. Half-price burgers and cheese-burgers after 8:30!

Joke Time

Class was good, thanks for the review!

I really can't think of a single joke.... sad, I know. Have a sympathy-laugh on me.

Power Point

Believe it or not I learned something new about Power Point today. For example, I didn't know that you could adjust the page layout. No problem today.

The presentation was... um... inspiring? Mostly, she wasn't very interesting to listen to, very informal speech, and complicated slides with too much fine print. Very good timing though.

Favorite Class

Today was good, I didn't have any problems following along and the help with getting started on the poster is much appreciated.

My favorite class has probably been BYU Jazz Voices. I sang with them for three years but the director recently left BYU (needed full-time work) and they've dropped the program... which makes me very sad. There are rumors about a new director... but we'll see what happens.

Places I've lived

Class was fun today... Getting better with Illustrator all the time. Other than that problem with coloring the gradient tool, I didn't have any problems.

I was born outside L.A. but only was there a very short time. I grew up in Portland, OR. We moved several times there, 6 homes that I can remember. Then I spent freshman year in DT.... rest in peace... spent two years in Australia (Melbourne!) then two years at University Villa and now I live just south of the Brick Oven.

Free-bee

Yeah... it was pretty obvious.

Um... class was good today, I think I should get an A just for making it to class! The exercise in Illustrator went well for me, I'm getting better with it all the time. No problems.

AH! The bell! I don't really have anything to say... Halloween went well. We didn't get a single trick-or-treater at our house... however we wouldn't have had anything to give them if they had showed up... so perhaps that's for the best.

Happy Halloween!

Class was fun. You're right, this is a much better way of making a strat-column than doing it on Excel. No difficulties today. I need more practice to get good with Illustrator, but I followed the work today without difficulty.

For Halloween I'm going to a very non-Halloween play, and possibly a party or two afterwards.

Hey... class was good. I'm going to try really hard to not sleep in on Friday and make the 9 O'clock class. I'm following along well in class but I need more practice with Illustrator. I'm still not that good with it. The most exciting thing was discovering the lithologic swatches.

The best costume I ever had was a suit that made my shoulders look a lot higher then they really are... just above my head in fact. That way it looked like I didn't have a head!

Future

Class was cool today.... even though we didn't do photo shop. I've never used Illustrator before, so this is all new to me, but I'm enjoying it so far and I think I'll be able to make very good use of it. No problems yet.

As for the future, one of the things that weighs on my mind is what kind of career I'll have after I'm finally finished with school. Feeling a little anxiety over that.

Mini-Assignment 4 and Superstitions

Here is my photo. I merged them, replaced the sky and cropped it... I also made it smaller because it was huge and blogger didn't like it. Class was great, I like the clone tool, it was fun. No problems.

I'm not very superstitious... however, I did pick up the habit of kissing my finger and hitting the ceiling of the car when going through a yellow light.

Mini-Assignment 3

Okay..... so I'll be the first to admit that this one didn't come out too well. The coloring was really weak on the original photo and I wanted to see if I could make it more vibrant. I used color levels, contrast, smudging, dodge and burn tools, and all kinds of things. It still doesn't look that good.

Sports fan

Okay, class was good. The color levels are very different between the 2nd and 3rd photos from class and I never did get it to look right. I tried using the dodge tool to make them match, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Otherwise, I didn't have a problem merging the photos. It's just really neat to be learning this program and find out all the things you can do with it.

As for the sports.... um.... not really a fan. I'm always happy when the Cougars to well and I certainly have an opinion about the game with Utah, but I really don't follow it closely. I'm something of a disgrace to my grandfather who asks me about the games knowing very well that I'll be totally clueless.

Fall Activity

Class was good. I'm sorry I missed out on the artsy-fartsy stuff on Friday, but Death Valley was just so cool! Sometimes I have a little difficulty with Photoshop, but that's only because I'm completely new to it. Overall I'm doing well and can follow class. I must say I didn't like the Gaussian blur effect, but it does make a HUGE difference if you're trying to use the paint bucket to fill out the color.

I haven't been excited about Halloween for a lot of years... sad, I know... but I still enjoy corn mazes. They're just so expensive! How can it be so costly to wonder around a corn field?

Mini-Assignment 2

Leaning no more! I corrected the tilt of the picture, cropped it, adjusted the color levels and also took out some shadow.