I’m still a bit hazy on this whole final project thing we have to do for this class (I should really write down the stuff Prof. Groom says) but I’m writing out this manifesto outlining what my project is going to be. And it’s going to involve Radio DS106 and my own show. As I ...

My first experience with Audacity was during my senior year of high school when I was preparing my IB Music portfolio. Part of the portfolio was twenty minutes (more or less) of performing. My private clarinet teacher introduced me to Audacity as a means of recording my performances of two pieces for the portfolio. While ...

I’m going to say right off the bat I’m in desperate need of a nap. This whole going to sleep at midnight waking up at 8am just isn’t working for me. Anyway, if this entry comes across slightly incoherent blame it on the sleep deprivation. My immediate impression of this class after the first week ...

Last design assignment before we start what I think will be my favourite section of the class: audio.* It’s a mix of Tim Owen’s “The Big Caption” assignment and “The Big Hip Hop.” See, I did what I thought was “The Big Hip Hop” without reading through all the instructions. Instead of picking a song ...

From the following tweet my our prof: “What’s behnd the 106 in #ds106? Check out this article http://bit.ly/g0GVkh thank you @procsilas You are a maniac http://bit.ly/etQlWA” I went to the first website: 106 (number) I looked for any references to 42* and didn’t find any. Preceded to scroll to the bottom of the article and ...

I did this a few days ago, but have been away from my computer so here it is. My five card story. Fill in the details with your imagination (and by the way I imagine it’s set in Italy, but any country will do.) Five Card Story: A Day in the City a Five Card ...

Parts of the walls the define my room(s) have, for the past nine years have been lined with tickets and postcards documenting my life as I’ve made my way from high schooler to nearly post-collegiate.* Right now I have about 35 tickets, one bumper sticker, 8 postcards, one clay figurine of Ricky Wilson, 4 iron ...

So this week’s show was interesting on many levels, at least for me. The first level was just doing my show (which is always interesting). The second level was incorporating an assignment from this class to make the playlist for this week’s show. And the third level of interestingness was the fact that while I ...

My days, by and large a pretty busy. But today, as part of anagahama visual assignment, I brought a little “buddy” around with me to document my day. anagahama may have been thinking of something else, but I had fun taking pictures of Little Cthulhu* in the various places I live and work. And, as ...

Here is my playlist poem. There are some words that probably need to be inserted to have the poem actually make sense and admittely those last four songs don’t actually make sense in the morning light* but the neat thing is, is that because of this assignment I now have the playlist for this weeks ...

So this story isn’t strictly all ages, but I figure I’m 22 and the lovely ladies in the pictures just celebrated their 23rd birthdays* so it’s all good. The background: Feb. 1st were the twins’ birthday and so they both came back to Fredericksburg** to celebrate with all their not-graduate friends (and some who have ...

So this week’s show was basically last week’s show. Played and talked this week. And man was it fun. And a lot shorter than I was expecting, but I guess that’s the difference between one hour and two hours, eh? Playlist* Moneygrabber – Fitz and the Tantrums My Body – Young the Giant Internet Killed ...

(So the thing I was going to post last night has been moved to next week. Blame the snow.) The second part of this week’s assignment has proved difficult for me to finish. I’ve looked through all of Cog Dog Roo’s list of fifty and I’ve tried out several of them trying to create a ...

(This is going to act as a preface for something that will be posted later tonight, but which I’m actually working on right now because I like entering in the html myself and the thing that will be posted tonight is html intensive. Enjoy.) I didn’t originally want to go to Mary Washington. It took ...

I don’t have the best memory. I don’t remember when I first started using Google or Wikipedia. The only reason I remember why I started watching certain shows is because of my personal blog, where I can retrace the steps that got me to a certain point. When you’re 15 you don’t blog about using ...

As a resident of suburbia, I’m used to getting around by car. However for the past three summer that I have been volunteering/interning at WPFW I have to love the Metro. One of the things I miss the most about London is the Underground. And while I have a driver’s license I have never owned ...

As hinted at in my last entry, I am very slow to adapt. It took a few months after getting into college to actually get a facebook account and it took my sister wittering on about the funny things being said on Twitter for a few months to actually convince me that Twitter wasn’t completely ...

At some point in my pre-teen/adolescent past I had a website.  It was actually a geocity site, but what I remember is that it was complicated.  Very complicated.  I don’t remember how old I was or why I decided to register for a geocity site, but when I did I realized what I had gotten ...