have you ever been so far gone, literally tired to the bones that the natural state of the eyes is crossed?

I have become so tired to see straight. Half the time when I’m looking at this screen I don’t see the need to focus on it, rather I’m looking at it in double vision starignt hrough the monitor.

today’s schudel was pretty haphazard. got off work at 7am got an hour of sleep, up and at school at 9 for a meeting to set up homeowrk for teaching writing with technology. out of that by 10 home and asleep by 11 and upa gain at 11L45 to get to school at 12. home at 2 asleep by 2:45, up at 5:30 to class until 9. stayed awake and am now at work.

shouldn’t have given up coffee for lent.

Ok, many of you may have been wandering the lower union on campus today and seen the many many placards about agreeing with suzanne, and I’ve come to several conclusions:

1. Whoever designed that website apparently doesn’t want people to agree with suzanne because it sucks.

2. they just got it up today, so obviously timing is a little hazy for the people who agree with her.

3. there are certain X-tians on campus that I do not want to have anything to do with. A group of us were in the lower union when one of these walked by. we asked him what the signs were all about, and extremely UNLIKE A GOOD PERSON(let alone christian), he would not tell us. he just said to visit the website. I am not going to refer to these people anymore as christians, as regular christians wouldn’t be quite so underhanded or SNEAKY. So, in wrapping up this point: sneaky christians aren’t that, they’re X-tians. You’d think the good news would(and should) be trumpeted on the mountain, but instead the X-tians seem to think that trying to sneak it in is the way to do it.

4. I’ll agree with what you’re trying to do, Ms. Suzanne, but not with how you’re doing it. You’re being sneaky and X-tian-like, by not posting what it is you’re doing on the front page.

5. I don’t agree with all you’re saying, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. I agree with the gist of it, and hey, if Jesus will accept someone like ME, I see no reason why he won’t accept a person on the side of fundamentalism like you.

6. this one is for gooseware: take a class in web design….PLEASE. my eyes are trying to escape my head.

on exorcising demons.

How ’bout a class for exorcising the demons of stupidity?

because I’d be enrolled in that one posthaste…I know plenty of possessed people.

according to this article, there’s a self help program out there for people addicted to online gaming.

This was set up by some lady whose son committed suicide. She says it was a direct result of Everquest.

I doubt that very much. Not to decrease the problems of suicides, but the only reason for anyone to kill themselves over everquest is because it sucks so much.

wikis? in big business? collaboration?

is it any wonder why the big news media is getting ripped daily by bloggers? They’re a tad bit beyond the expiration date on news.

but I still have certain qualms about calling wikis the next big thing, this is an ‘ownership society’ after all, and people will still want their own space, sacred from every one else.

wikis MAY be useful at some way for business, but the main issue is that there are troubles with more than one person editing at one time, as well there is the issue of who presents it. There is a lesser reward for true collaborative work among individuals than just a regular presentation. Suddenly you’ve only gotten one document, collaboratively written, which may or may not have the tracking of who adjusted it over a period of time. How do you reward one person like that?

I view wikis the same way I view group projects: distrustfully. Group projects have gained in approval in the last decade at college and in business, but if anything there ought to be a lesson learned about the tech bust: group projects CANNOT hold water unless each individual does his own work to bring to the group. Wikis take that out of the element, so there is little to no accountability.

I really have difficulty seeing them carrying the banner of happy hippy work into the future.

the Pioneer printed my letter, with very little to no editing that I noticed from the original.

hooray me! that must be about the 4th or 5th letter that they’ve published in the last couple of years.

this letter is also in the print version, but who reads that anyway?