Final Blog

I was in Lefty's Right Hand, it was about Lefty Rosenthal
I feel that this class has gone beyond what I expected it to be. When I first started the class I thought that we would be typing a bunch of nonsense into word and get through the class in no time, but we actually did a lot more work than I expected. We not only used programs I was familiar with, we used programs that I had only ever heard about or seen in passing, so this will help my future experiences a lot.

Also the work load for the class itself was way more than I, or even most of the class, expected. While it seemed at first this would be a disadvantage because I believed that it would interfere with what I thought were more “important” classes, it actually in the long run will help me out later on in my school life and my career. It will help me be ready for the more advanced classes that will be coming along in my future.

The grade I expect from this class is at least an A-, if not an A.

“Lefty’s” Right Hand (Wo)Man Action Agenda

1. Exchange contact information.
2. Get mafia, dame costumes. (Nick and Coriandra)
3. Get police costume photo-shopped. (Freddie)
4. Take pictures of crime scene. (Coriandra, Freddie and Nick)
5. Get clip of car explosion from the movie “Casino”. (Freddie)
6. Obtain/create music for slideshow. (Nick)
7. Gather news articles and information about the crime, and insert them using Publisher. (Coriandra, Nick and Freddie)
8. Accumulate random pictures for “filler” during the slideshow. (Coriandra)
9. Insert Excel spreadsheet on crime scene data. (Coriandra, Freddie and Nick)
10. Assemble slideshow. (Coriandra, Freddie and Nick)

At first I was having some problems getting my account to work, but once I had the first part done I was able to get the account done and go shoot this quick video. As you can see I called it “Quick bs for the class” because I’m not that entertaining on camera, and I had to have something, so this is what you get. I was able to get this video up in a short time, and realizing that if I could get a video uploaded onto the net so fast, no wonder people are getting and acting stupider all the time, because they just have the option to put themselves and others out there at times when it wouldn’t normally be the best for them to be seen.

Comp viruses

My experience with computer viruses has not been extensive at all. Sure I have run into some of them, but most have been killed by my antivirus software. Some have made it by the software, but with a little bit of attention I was able to catch them and have the software isolate and destroy them. I have helped people whose computer has contracted a virus; some were so severely damaged by them that we had to do a complete system restart. That is why I try and keep my computer clean, and I think everyone else needs to learn how to do that also. All it takes is a little bit of diligence on the users part and they should be able to combat viruses that come along and keep their computers clean.

Picasa

I learned some interesting things about uploading images, like the fact that some programs require a lot of work to get working. Especially with the Picasa, there was a lot of fine-tuning that had to be done just to upload the files, but once it got working once, everything seemed to run smoothly after that. Also once I had gone through the process once, I was able to help other people set up their slide shows with ease. The only problem that I ran into that was technical was the fact that the servers are only running on one IP address, and Goggle was thinking that it was being spammed by the one IP, so it slowed down the computers.

Twitter, Its stupid.

I think twitter will stay with us as an internet community for a long while, though its popularity may die down. There will be a resolute group that will keep using it, but most people will stop after awhile, mainly because the celebs they are following will get bored with twitter. The celebs are the main reasons that twitter all the sudden became so popular, people got interested in what their favorite actors or musicians were doing, or supposedly doing. Some celebs were just posting random stuff on twitter to get a good laugh, like Ashton Cutchner. There really is no point to twitter for the mass public, its just the prissy celebs saying they went to Starbucks to get a flavored coffee. Now for other things a similar application might be useful for companies, like film makers.

Three Things

Fred, Fredrick(By mistake), Phoenix

Courtesy Clerk, Meat Clerk, Fuel station clerk

Las Vegas, Pahrump, Reno

Stargate SG-1, Star Trek, Lie To Me

Grand Canyon, Lake Mead, Colorado River

My Grandfather, Friend from a online game, The school

Pizza, Chinese Food, spaghetti

Camaro, Bronco, Buick

My Career, new games coming out this year, New software for game editing