On this last humid day of July, I'm happy to bring my LIS2600 work to a close and amalgamate the results into a portfolio. Here it is, ladies and gentlemen:
http://www.pitt.edu/~ell34/portfolio_livingston.html
And just in case anyone would like to see my index page (in a pretentious font that seems to say, "Braised Portobello Caps, 27-"):
http://www.pitt.edu/~ell34/
That's all for now; good night and good luck!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
No no wait, NOW I've got it!!!
Image via WikipediaOK, my previous post was a bit premature; I hadn't yet ironed out the kinks of CSS formatting or even, um, actually linked my style sheet to its document. Heh. But NOW I've got it figured out, and I invite the reader to visit my updated assignment sites, if said reader cares to do so (and unless said reader is a teaching assistant for this course, that's actually highly unlikely).The index:
www.pitt.edu/~ell34
The Thoreau document with css embedded:
http://www.pitt.edu/~ell34/thoreau_fragment_2.html
and the css sheet, such as it is (which still isn't perfect... a few little quirks... oh well, I'm still learning here):
http://www.pitt.edu/~ell34/livingstoncss.css
Now time to get back to work on my other class projects!
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Another HTML document is born
Image via WikipediaContinuing my tradition of putting off everything until the last minute, I've only just now managed to post my hypertext-linked version of the Thoreau document to my Pitt web page. I'm still fiddling around with CSS files and whatnot, and given that it's a Saturday night past 2 a.m., and given that I drank two glasses of wine earlier, and given that (I confess) I'm watching The Muppet Movie even as I write this, I'm a bit distracted and not entirely sure I've completed even this portion of the assignment satisfactorily. But what the hey, here's the link:http://www.pitt.edu/~ell34/index.html
and more directly:
http://www.pitt.edu/~ell34/thoreau_fragment_3.html
I'm a bit concerned that there's something I've failed to do... I'll have to look into it tomorrow, when I'm not fiendishly writing my paper for LIS2000. Phew, lots to do before the semester ends. Yeah, I should probably go to bed now.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
A bear can ride a bicycle.
A bear can ride a bicycle.
I once heard Daniel Dennett begin a philosophy lecture that way. It was a striking opening, but I would bastardize his subsequent point if I tried to summarize it. Now I'm only beginning my blog post this way in a transparent bid for Zemanta to find me a cool image of a bear on a bicycle with which to decorate this utterly fluffy and meaningless post. I mean, it's COOL that a bear can ride a bicycle... as long as people aren't, y'know, whipping bears into submission, or mistreating them, or forcing them to perform against their wills. But come to think of it, does a bear ever WANT to ride a bike? Who can say? Maybe animals should just be left alone.
The whole topic reminds me of a John Irving story embedded within his novel The World According to Garp, in which a bear rides a bicycle (if I recall correctly). That was an excellent novel. But, I'm sorry to say, after all of this writing about bears and bicycles, Zemanta has merely suggested some photos of bicycles (sans bears), and some images of teddy bears, but not a single photo of a bear on a bicycle. Aw well, it was an awfully specific request.
Ergo, I'm going to take matters into my own hands and Google image-search "bear" and "bicycle."
There ya go. You know, the more I think about it, the more *wrong* it somehow seems that anyone ever even tried to get a bear to ride a bicycle. I hope that the above-depicted bear had a good life, despite everything.
I once heard Daniel Dennett begin a philosophy lecture that way. It was a striking opening, but I would bastardize his subsequent point if I tried to summarize it. Now I'm only beginning my blog post this way in a transparent bid for Zemanta to find me a cool image of a bear on a bicycle with which to decorate this utterly fluffy and meaningless post. I mean, it's COOL that a bear can ride a bicycle... as long as people aren't, y'know, whipping bears into submission, or mistreating them, or forcing them to perform against their wills. But come to think of it, does a bear ever WANT to ride a bike? Who can say? Maybe animals should just be left alone.
The whole topic reminds me of a John Irving story embedded within his novel The World According to Garp, in which a bear rides a bicycle (if I recall correctly). That was an excellent novel. But, I'm sorry to say, after all of this writing about bears and bicycles, Zemanta has merely suggested some photos of bicycles (sans bears), and some images of teddy bears, but not a single photo of a bear on a bicycle. Aw well, it was an awfully specific request.
Ergo, I'm going to take matters into my own hands and Google image-search "bear" and "bicycle."
There ya go. You know, the more I think about it, the more *wrong* it somehow seems that anyone ever even tried to get a bear to ride a bicycle. I hope that the above-depicted bear had a good life, despite everything.
The dance between copyright enforcers and violators continues
Regarding my previous blog entry: the very morning after I posted the links to the YouTube versions of The Grey Album, the aforementioned blog-reader informed me that the music on YouTube had already been "removed due to terms of use violation." And no sooner had I confirmed this news than I discovered that someone else had posted yet another version of The Grey Album on YouTube a mere two hours earlier. Is this a daily pas-de-deux, with enforcers perennially erasing and renegades perennially reposting? I admit that I took the chance to download the music from YouTube while I could, but I won't post the files here, lest my MLIS2600 blog be forcibly removed from the Internet. (Hello, creeping paranoia... did I just admit to something that could get my computer seized?... Please don't seize my computer.) But anyway.
This week I'm just finishing up the semester's courses: doing lots and lots of reading about copyright law (it's a recurrent topic these days!), thinking about how to compose the final LIS2000 paper, and procrastinating completing Part 2 of the HTML assignment. I'll complete it soon enough, and post a link here. Meanwhile, maybe it's something about the summer heat, but all I feel like doing right now is zoning out and watching a movie or something.
But first, just to get Zemanta to suggest a cool picture, I'm going to add text about Klein bottles. That's right, Klein bottles, a bottle with a non-orientable surface, the Moebius Strip of bottle-making. Yeah, Klein bottles! Klein bottles! If I type that phrase enough, will Zemanta find me a picture of a Klein bottle? Aha! It worked!
Image via Wikipedia
This week I'm just finishing up the semester's courses: doing lots and lots of reading about copyright law (it's a recurrent topic these days!), thinking about how to compose the final LIS2000 paper, and procrastinating completing Part 2 of the HTML assignment. I'll complete it soon enough, and post a link here. Meanwhile, maybe it's something about the summer heat, but all I feel like doing right now is zoning out and watching a movie or something.
But first, just to get Zemanta to suggest a cool picture, I'm going to add text about Klein bottles. That's right, Klein bottles, a bottle with a non-orientable surface, the Moebius Strip of bottle-making. Yeah, Klein bottles! Klein bottles! If I type that phrase enough, will Zemanta find me a picture of a Klein bottle? Aha! It worked!
Image via WikipediaSunday, July 20, 2008
My first LIS2600 web page link, plus other details
It took me a while to figure out how to navigate among Pitt's servers, Filezilla, and Kompozer, but I finally got my web page with Thoreau's fragment up and running. However, its images only seem to appear when accessed through Internet Explorer, and not through Firefox. I have no idea why this would be the case. Text without images can be so dull.
http://www.pitt.edu/~ell34/
which links to
http://www.pitt.edu/~ell34/thoreau_fragment_1.html
I spent a good while fiddling around with Kompozer and Filezilla to try to get the images to show up via Firefox, with no luck. It makes me wonder whether I've been missing out on other sites' online images by using Firefox during these last few months. O technology!
In other news, someone reading this blog (I know... someone reads this blog??!!) suggested that my post on the Beatles, Jay-Z, and Danger Mouse should have provided links to the artists' songs. So, this video's for you, P.S.:
And to hear the entire album, you can use the following five YouTube links.
The Grey Album, Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp9u51yvTMQ
The Grey Album, Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamrTepOjTE
The Grey Album, Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gij3Awdipfw
The Grey Album, Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYc2d5NoIX4
The Grey Album, Part 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyZiArOM3bQ
http://www.pitt.edu/~ell34/
which links to
http://www.pitt.edu/~ell34/thoreau_fragment_1.html
I spent a good while fiddling around with Kompozer and Filezilla to try to get the images to show up via Firefox, with no luck. It makes me wonder whether I've been missing out on other sites' online images by using Firefox during these last few months. O technology!
In other news, someone reading this blog (I know... someone reads this blog??!!) suggested that my post on the Beatles, Jay-Z, and Danger Mouse should have provided links to the artists' songs. So, this video's for you, P.S.:
And to hear the entire album, you can use the following five YouTube links.
The Grey Album, Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp9u51yvTMQ
The Grey Album, Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamrTepOjTE
The Grey Album, Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gij3Awdipfw
The Grey Album, Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYc2d5NoIX4
The Grey Album, Part 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyZiArOM3bQ
Saturday, July 19, 2008
A few links
I only have a few minutes to blog right now; I'm about to turn off my computer for the evening (that always feels somewhat liberating after a day like I've had -- even if much of today's surfing was for enjoyment).
In my surfing, I came across a couple of articles whose content relates pretty well to some of the topics we've been talking about in this program. (As soon as I typed the word "surfing," Zemata suggested some photos of people on surfboards... I'll go ahead and include one, just to prove the point that computers don't always understand us so well.)
Image via Wikipedia
First link is to an L.A. Times story about how we're all "infovores":
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-biederman19-2008jul19,0,3327488.story?track=ntothtml
The next link is to a New Yorker article about the difficulty of conversing with computers:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_seabrook
And here's a Wired article about how human memory is being supplanted:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10/st_thompson
All right, that's enough info inflow for tonight... I gotta dance!
In my surfing, I came across a couple of articles whose content relates pretty well to some of the topics we've been talking about in this program. (As soon as I typed the word "surfing," Zemata suggested some photos of people on surfboards... I'll go ahead and include one, just to prove the point that computers don't always understand us so well.)
Image via WikipediaFirst link is to an L.A. Times story about how we're all "infovores":
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-biederman19-2008jul19,0,3327488.story?track=ntothtml
The next link is to a New Yorker article about the difficulty of conversing with computers:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_seabrook
And here's a Wired article about how human memory is being supplanted:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10/st_thompson
All right, that's enough info inflow for tonight... I gotta dance!
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