Yesterday when I got home, there was a “Sorry we missed you” notice from the USPS on my door. A package. I left the house at about 12:45 and stopped by the package pick-up place on Lake Dam Road, where I was presented with a “birthday/care package” from my mom. Portuguese food! Yum! I had … Read more
I went into my (IBM) office today, and the traffic in was absolutely, incredibly ridiculous. I edited Mary Mahoney’s help panels from 9:00 until 11:00, then listened in on the 11:00 to noon “professional vitality” session for editors, with today’s presentation about “Remote Editing.” In the afternoon, I edited about 35 help panels from the … Read more
I got to my office in Clark Hall at about 12:30, and worked for four hours on the October edition of the STC newsletter that I’m putting together. Got it in a real nice place. Allysa, or is it Allisa, came into the office for a couple of hours, but otherwise it was deserted. Myra … Read more
What is ChatFolk? ChatFolk is an AJAX powered website where you can communicate anonymously. No screen names are used, so you can say whatever you want without fear of identification or labeling from one statement to the next. Are the people on there chatting right now? For the most part, yes. If there is a … Read more
In my ENG 525 Variety in Languages, a linguistics course, one of the things we’re studying is accents. Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need … Read more
PUBLIC SERVICE QIX: A Series of Interactive Media Events Today, Martin & Baily, Inc. announced their most ambitious interactive media event to date. In the spirit of celebrating Wonderville Public Services, they will host three mobile technology-based games to be held during the summer of 2007, the first in June, the second in July, and … Read more
I drove over to the Food Lion on Avent Ferry, and caught the bus to campus. I arrived at Clark Hall at about 10:30, where I started work on the October edition of the STC newsletter. After a while, a new person in the department, Elizabeth, arrived. Her task today was to transcribe a talk … Read more
I was up at 5:30 this morning to make it to McDonald’s for a “team” breakfast. The team consisted of the STC folks who volunteered to paint the Free Expression Tunnel at State today with advertisements for our upcoming Benefit Rock Concert. By 6:05, they still hadn’t opened the doors (they open at 6:00), so … Read more
This morning, I worked on my final paper proposal for COM598, which was quite difficult since my project partner and I haven’t decided on one of the three topics we’re still considering. I just wrote something up based on the project I’ve suggested, as it’s the only one I know enough about to write a … Read more
I worked from home today, and had a great, great work day. Wait a minute. Let me check this and make sure it’s me talking. I put in a good eight-and-a-half hours of editing a document for a colleague, friend, and fellow LJer, cpeel. I also finally used the Edit Tracking database, which I’ve been … Read more