Thing #3 - Avatar, my sweet Avatar

Avatar...Avatar...where for art thou my Avatar? After much trial and error, I created my mini-me Avatar today. Creating the Avatar was a lot of fun and provoked much laughter from my office as I changed and adjusted the image...lots of choices and lots of possibilities. Through the laughter I realized that the Avatar itself represents much more than just an image, it mimics the overall entirety of the Internet - the choices and combinations of stuff that almost seem unlimited...or at least only as limited as the mind can configure the images, ideas, questions and code.

Speaking of code, I am constantly amazed by the "thing(s)" that make up the Internet...it reminds me of the movie series "The Matrix" and often makes me wonder how many layers there is to Internet onion...are we all just code and a long series of binary 1's and 0's??? Are we being harvested for our collective brainpower by an MCP (master control program)? OK...I'm sorry...I'm mixing my movie metaphors (Matrix vs Tron) in trying to describe the complexity of the "thing" that is the internet. All I know, it was super smart people at CAL that helped develop the darn thing...GO BEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!

When its all said and done, I just hope that the darn thing works when I turn it on and does the things I want it to do when I want it to do it.

Thing # 2

Hi! Happy Technological New Year!

While working on Thing #2, I found that you can't download the attachments (learning contract & 7 1/2 habits) while using a PC. Mildly frustrated, and in between dealing with girl drama which always tends to happen around school between 1:30 - 2:45, I kept trying to load the attachments...over and over and over again I tried...I even reloaded Adobe Flash Player and temporarily allowed access to restricted content...jeez, c'mon PC just load the _ _ _ _ attachments already! Anyway, after all that, Lisa was able to download the attachments for me...on a mac.

Maybe someday I'll be converted to the mac...until then...I'll keep being PC!