Confessions of a Leisure Enthusiast

my logochip won’t work with my computer. i wasn’t worried about this as it was working w/the laptop up in C6. I can’t tell you how excited I am to troubleshoot.  I think it’s my serial cable, as I do not have those extra pieces soldered together.  Actually, I did it, but then I put the LogoChip in my backpack and didn’t have the heatshrink shrunk on yet, and the little wires broke off.  Now I have to wait to come back to class to finish it.  Which leads me to a point about this class.  When you get stuck, you’re just kind of screwed, because you can’t proceed until someone helps you, and it’s real easy to tell yourself to just wait until the next class period when you can ask someone for help.  I guess I could try to be a little smarter about it and figure it out myself, but I don’t know where to start.  I could just wait.  Or I could drive up to campus and work on it in c6, but I live about 20 minutes south of campus, so that sucks.  I feel good that I sat down and made a good effort for a couple hours solid.  I know I could do more today, but somehow I now have a headache.  I’m going to switch gears and work on English homework for a bit.  It’s nice and friendly.

See what I mean? About every half a page or so, I get something like “if you are using a Windows machine and COM1 is not available, you will need to edit the file called config.txt that is included with the LogoChip software.”  Right on top of that.

Thinking back on the comment John made in class about none of us having our stuff done, I am just going to lay it all out on the line.  What’s up with me is that I just spent $100 on crap for this LogoChip at Radio Shack.  I am wondering how much else I will end up spending before this class is over.  I don’t have anything done because I have been procrastinating everything, as the last thing I want to with my next hour of free time is stare at something that totally confuses me.  I feel like it is taken for granted that we will just “pick these things up as we go along”.  What has failed to have been realized here, is that John has random pieces of information lodged in his brain which help him to understand these “simple” concepts.  Like the fact that 440 means “a”.  How a circuit works, a doctorate, yada yada yada,  Who the hell else knows that?  No, you don’t have to understand things fully to make them work, but you must have a conception of it to attempt to articulate a plan of action with it.  On top of that, once I started getting behind, I just wanted to give up.  I don’t know what the hell he is talking about most of the time, and I will assume that is my fault for not reading and accessing all of the freaking files on the wiki.  There just seems to be so much external information and rather than just feel like an idiot I will distract myself by doing something else and before you know it I have fallen asleep and not gotten anything done.  Plus, all of these ridiculous messages I keep getting in my email box are driving me insane.  It’s not just the techartsound class, but I am a member of a few other groups, too, and I just keep getting all these messages.  It’s like a constant barrage of random sh*t.  Also, I don’t spend a lot of time trolling the Internet looking for random things to send to the message board, but I do have a couple I’ll post tonight.  My goal for this week is to get my sh%t together and get caught up.  I will document my experience in case anyone is going through the same thing.  If it’s too much for you then stop reading and do something else, as the info obviously is of no service to you.  Have a nice day, and if you don’t, it’s all your fault.  Andrea

This project is hard for me to explain, but I’ll do the best that I can, and hope that you all feel welcome to comment and make suggestions.  It will be representative of a womans mind, namely the things which encompass a womans mind on a day to day basis and from birth to death.  I plan to start with shards of broken mirror suspended from the cieling on fishing line (to make them as invisible as possible).  the mirror shards represent our vanity in our progression through life and the fishing line represents how we try to hide it.  also, i plan to have a womans figure hanging from the cieling, but not as literal as a hanging body.  the hanging piece will be represented by linking sheets of plastic together by chains to represent the body, then on the sheets corresponding to the body parts have the symbols and pictures drawn that represent how a surgeon would draw lines for incision and surgery on a plastic surgery patient.  the rest is hard to explain, i will be happy to elaborate further in class, or possibly show a diagram.  I just wanted to have something up here for people to see because I feel like i’m slacking….as far as making it interactive, i wanted maybe some kind of sensor to know when people are present and giving it attention and when there’s no one, it could go back to dark colors and such.  i feel that there could be far better ways to make this piece interactive, i’m still working on gathering materials for the construction.  feel free to comment….thanks, i’ll post more soon….

Apparently you can only post three links on wordpress, and two of them happen to have to be wordpress.com and wordpress.org, unless I’m doing something wrong.  Croiky!  This is a load..