Confusion
I really hate missing class. Because then I have this sinking feeling that I missed the most important information of the year and that now I am more behind than anyone on the arcades project (which has sacred me to death from the beginning), but I also didn’t want to drive in the horrible weather that we had had thursday (what can I say? I am deathly afraid of fog. I have no idea why- other than the fact that I drive down a highway that is a cliff on both sides). I felt pretty comfortable with the visual essay just because cutting and pasting images is pretty easy for me. I am super worried about creating a web page, though. I feel like there is this invisible barrier between me and the internet. I like to go on the internet and will use things that are user friendly and already created for me, but I cannot create anything myself. No matter how many times people try to reassure me that everything will be okay, I just automatically have this defeated mindset.
Trimbur
In reading Trimbur’s article I was very intrigued by the mention of the alphabet and the fact that we cannot speak in capital letters. I never have even thought of this before. Why is it that I never see the link between written and visual. Maybe because it is so intertwined to me that I do not even think about.
Which makes me think of the fact that when people send emails to me with things in all CAPS and I feel like they are YELLING at me. Even if they do not mean it that way, I still take it that way (which ties into the fact that emails/computers can be so easily misinterpreted)
Self Centered?
This was a response to Sarah’s blog
The idea of being a self centered race totally makes me think of ghosts and the SciFi channel. The Ghost Hunters (whom I love to watch- and who have nothing to do with the class, but that’s okay) always debunk ghost sightings in mirrors and the like by saying people often want to see ghosts in dust smudges, cracks, etc. I totally agree that we want to see something that is familiar to us, or something that we understand. I also don’t think that it is merely because we are so self centered, but that it is a way to help us to understand and view the world.
I really like the idea of human-centered that Sarah mentioned. It seems like such an obvious term, but I haven’t really thought about it as much, nor do I think that it is understood as much as the term self-centered (and doesn’t have such a negative connotation).
