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Introducing… Dr. Annalise Huddleston

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Annalise Huddleston was born on June 11th, 1988 in Seattle, Washington. She grew up with two older brothers and one younger sister. Her mom and dad always had their hands full, that’s for sure. She loved dolls and all the toys you would think all little girls love. She had plenty of toys, but she could never hold back the urge to ask her mom for a new Barbie when they went to the store.

One day, she was watching TV, and one of her favorite shows was on, Sesame Street, and one of the many characters was pretending to be a doctor. She loved watching how the character pretended to take the other character’s temperature, reflexes, and more. The next time she went to the toy store with her mom, she asked for a toy doctor’s bag. She finally found one, and inside were plastic doctor instruments such as a stethoscope, thermometer, reflex hammer, and syringe. For the next few months, Annalise would play doctor with her dolls, and then moved on to trying to give her brothers, sister, and parents a “check-up.” She loved it.

When Annalise went off to college, she knew that she wanted to study medicine and become a doctor of her own. She had started watching the new hit show, Grey’s Anatomy, and realized she wanted to be just like Meredith Grey.

Throughout college, she studied hard and kept her grades up. At moments, her dream of becoming a doctor wavered and she thought about giving up on her dream. However, after her summer break after her sophomore year, she knew this was still what she wanted. A few short years later, she graduated from medical school and began her life as a doctor, with a focus on oncology!

Anna is now almost thirty-years-old and has a husband and two kids, a boy and a girl. She continues to work as a doctor, and she loves her job. Of course, she has learned how to make time for her family because being a doctor takes a lotof time and work. She has saved lives, lost patients, and experienced the emotions for each of these things. Cancer sucks, and she has to deal with it everyday through her career. A few years ago, her mom had a cancer scare, but they luckily caught it early, and got rid of it! However, Annalise lives in fear of getting a call or looking at the door of the oncology center and seeing any of her loved ones walking through the door. Thankfully, however, this has not happened quite yet, with the exception of her mother. She hopes someday, though, that through the help of science and her colleagues that they will reach a cure for cancer, or at least a better treatment that chemo or radiation. She has a great passion for life and her family, and never wants to lose either of these!

Let’s see where the End takes her!

BEHIND THE SCENES OF THIS CHARACTER:

I chose Annalise’s name by going to a random name generator website, and hitting the refresh button until I saw a name that I really liked, Annalise Huddleston! I don’t know if there are any Annalise Huddlestons out there, but if you are one of them and reading this, then welcome! I then decided I wanted to give a long backstory for her to make her seem more human rather than someone who is completely made up, which she is, in my mind. When we had to come up with a character for the Archetype assignment, I knew I wanted to come up with a character who would be a nurse or a doctor, who would be able to possibly prevent or help out with the version of the apocalypse in which the world ends through a plague or other kind of disease. Also, when I was writing this, I went to a random city generator, and picked Seattle! However, even though I did know I wanted Annalise to be some kind of doctor/nurse, I totally didn’t think about the fact that Grey’s Anatomy (one of my favorite shows) takes place in Seattle! I think it all works out pretty great, though! So just to clarify, I did not purposefully put Annalise in Seattle so that it could be my own spin-off version of Grey’s Anatomy. However, after realizing this fact, I wanted to make sure that Annalise is known to watch this famous TV show. I also made her birthday be on June 11th because this was my mom’s birthday. Also, it is fitting that Annalise was “born” on this day and is now an oncologist because my mom actually passed away from cervical cancer back in 2009. Perfect, right? An oncologist, who will hopefully find the cure to cancer, born on my mom’s birthday. (However, my mom was not born in 1988. She was born in the late 50s.)

I’m very excited to continue writing about Annalise Huddleston, and I hope you will join me on the journey too!

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A Zombie Question

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The question was asked, “In the event of a zombie apocalypse, would you rather be turned into a zombie or have everyone you love turned into a zombie? Why?”

Neither, because I would want to be whatever my family and friends are. That way, I would not feel lonely, out of place, or scared of them or they of me.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE – BAD! THAT IS THE ZOMBIE QUESTION

The question was asked, “In the event of a zombie apocalypse, would you rather be turned into a zombie or have everyone you love turned into a zombie? Why?” My answer is neither because I would want to be whatever my family and friends are. That way, I would not feel lonely, out of place, or scared of them, or they of me. With that said, I encourage you to reflect upon the following.

Are zombies only bad? Is there such a thing as a good zombie? What makes a zombie anyway? Okay, so one must die first then be reanimated to live in such an auspicious manner. Who expects to awaken from the grave, anyway? Then suddenly, BAM! a zombie you are! Why not be reincarnated instead of reanimated? Apparently, the choice is not yours. But just because you may be reanimated as a zombie instead of being reincarnated as a loving pussycat, does that necessarily make you a bad being? Why are people always running away from zombies? Somewhere along the line, I personally think that zombies became and still are misunderstood. My philosophy is this…if a zombie is bad, then the person that died and was later reanimated must have been a bad person upon death. I mean, really. Think about it. Do you really think that a person who was loving, compassionate, helpful, and in possession of so many other attributes would be reanimated as a bad zombie? I think not! And, what about the zombies’ relatives like ghosts, vampires, mummies, etc.? All ghosts are not bad. Remember Casper? So why would one assume that are all zombies are bad? Shucks! They, along with their relatives, even have their own song and dance called the monster mash. Now, do you really think that any zombie who likes to party would be all that bad where fright should overtake you? Just something to make you go hmm.

Monster Mash Song and Dance

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INTE 5340: Week Seven

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Daily Create

TDC 1651: Introduce Yourself in a Language You Do Not Speak. Dedicated to my upcoming trip to Iceland, I present to you my introduction in native Icelandic.

DS106 Visual: Simplicité

Welcome to my third and final DS106 visual assignment, Back to Basics.

“Choose a photo of anything that you want to make a stencil out of using Photoshop or some other editing software. Using your software, remove the color and make the image appear to be a stencil instead of an actual photo. Take notice of how this changes the focus of the image.”

The Process

Step 1: Go to Paris.

Step 2: Go to Eiffel Tower.

Step 3: Take picture of Eiffel Tower.

Step 4: Edit picture of Eiffel Tower using PicMonkey. Today, I used a posterize effect, bringing the colors of my image down to just eight shades of grey (not a far cry from fifty, now, is it?!!?!) and quite a lot less detail than the original.

The Story

So you’ve probably heard it from everyone who has visited the city, now including myself. Paris is really, really gross. But the architecture is stunning, and somehow, this watercolor-style rendition of the Eiffel Tower reminds me of an older, simpler Paris. Actually, I’ve heard that Paris has always been gross, but whatever, it doesn’t look like it here. You can’t see any of the trash on the lawn, or smell the sewage from the street, or hear the famous French sirens as they change pitch with the Doppler effect. No, this picture in greyscale looks almost like a newspaper, or like those paperback books I used to read all the time as a kid before the famous Kindle for iPad app came out. And you have to admit, those books are like the rain—you won’t find a person who doesn’t like the smell of them. Now if only Paris could smell like that too!

Teacher Candidate | Math
University of Colorado Denver
INTE 5340 | Summer 2016

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INTE 5340: Week Five

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DS106 Mashup: Gears of Mario

ge01-gears-of-war-cover_copy (1) — Welcome to my DS106 mashup assignment, Video Game Cover Mashup.

“Take two existing video game covers and mash them up so that both can be identified but in a different style. Try to be creative in the title and artistic design.”

The Process

Wouldn’t this be an awesome game to play?! I know that this week’s DS106 assignment was supposed to explore our chosen theme, and video games are hardly related to photography, but I did have to manipulate photos! So in my opinion, it counts! First, I downloaded a picture of the Gear of War cover, featuring Marcus Fenix in the foreground, with Ben Carmine and Dom Santiago in the background. Using the retouch tool in the Photos app on my Macbook, I photoshopped them out, along with the “War” in the title. Then, I looked up some pictures of the Super Mario logo, along with Mario and Bowser, and overlaid them onto the new cover using PicMonkey! It didn’t take too long at all, and I was able to accomplish it without anything too fancy.

The Story

Super Mario 64 was my favorite video game as a child, and still totally my favorite now that I bought another Nintendo 64 after my parents so graciously “donated” my old one because I’d gotten “too old” or something. Anyway, Gears of War was also my favorite video game series as I got older and into high school and college, and both my Nintendo 64 and old-school XBOX 360 are sitting in my basement, ready to be played as soon as I’m done blogging about this. I haven’t been able to touch them for almost a year because I’ve either been out of town or too busy. Or too cold. Mostly that. Basements are chilly!

Anyway, I like video games, especially the simpler ones like Super Mario and Gears of War because they keep me thinking on my feet and help me adapt to lots of situations. I’ve always found that if I play video games regularly for a while, I get a little bit more street smart. Sometimes I’m prone to overthinking because I have too much of the book smart and not enough of the street smart, and then I just shut down because I never know what to do and it’s super not cool. Video games get a lot of flak from society because they’re supposedly bad for you, but recent studies have shown that they can actually be really beneficial for your cognitive development. Basically, they can help you improve your spatial perception, visual skills, hand-eye coordination, reaction time, ability to overcome challenges, and overall brain growth. Hear that, fellow gamers? Video games are good for you! No need to tell me twice. See you all later! I’ll be busy swinging Bowser by his tail and taking out Locusts with my chainsaw bayonet.

Teacher Candidate | Math
University of Colorado Denver
INTE 5340 | Summer 2016

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INTE 5340: Week Three

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Reading Response: The World, Transparent

DIY media is something that has come around in the last few decades and is important in shaping contemporary culture. First off, what is DIY media? Do-It-Yourself media? It seems pretty self-explanatory, but from what I got out of the reading, the definition is kind of two-fold. First off, the media itself is literally DIY, comprising of products made by the people, for the people. This means that people use resources once for “experts only” that are now widely available for everyone to use, like a transition from exclusivity to inclusivity. Did it remind you of new literacies too? That’s exactly what I thought! Second, the media promotes DIY culture, either through the resources used to make the media, or because it’s literally a tutorial or guide encouraging people to do things themselves.

DIY media is a powerful tool in modern culture. It’s made its way into social practice as a way of creating affinity spaces (Lankshear and Knobel, 2008), or communities of common interest, and it’s even made its way into education, like many other new literacy practices. In her blog post on Hack Education, Audrey Watters discusses open education and the controversy surrounding it. Things get hairy when she starts talking about open licensing and Creative Commons licenses, and where we draw the line when it comes to ownership of schoolwork and educational materials. Clearly, this is an item that’s still under hot debate. I think what Watters is trying to get at is that students should have the opportunity to engage in open education, which is a combination of easy access to materials and freedom of expression in learning. Allowing students to integrate their own identities into projects and lessons makes for a better educational experience, where students can see themselves as part of their own learning and not just receive someone else’s version of it (Watters, 2016). Appropriately, her blog post on Open Education is open-ended, raising questions on what it means for education to be open.

Where I hadn’t really thought of it before, these blog posts leave me thinking a lot about digital storytelling and how it manifests itself in the classroom. This week’s theme, which is shaping culture, identity, and education through DIY media, got me thinking about two things that matter to me most, which are photography and teaching. So I thought to fuse them together in my interest-driven scholarship to see how photography and education can manifest itself in a K-12 classroom. Bingo! Here’s a blog post from Dr. Jackie Gerstein that talks about photography as a way to enhance students’ social-emotional skills. Not only can students use photography to enhance their self-awareness, cultural awareness, and empathy, but they can also use it to enhance their understanding of the content (Gerstein, 2013). It seems that photography can bridge the gap between social and the academic because students have the opportunity to integrate their own identities into their educational experience. Sounds like what I was just reading about!

So in the end, it turns out that DIY media is just another way in which new literacies propagate, and it can enact powerful change not only in the classroom, but also across entire cultures. DIY media provides an opportunity for young people to express themselves and form identities, and we can look into their projects to gain a clearer understanding of their lives and how to better them.

Teacher Candidate | Math
University of Colorado Denver
INTE 5340 | Summer 2016

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Imaginings of a Space Hobo

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For this ds106 Assignment Bank project, I chose to tackle one titles Hobo Speech. The project description was to create a “bizarre, rambling speech” …

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BUT SCULLY–PINTEREST!

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Again, I like to sprinkle my assignment posts with details about my likes and dislikes, and one of my biggest likes EVER is The X-Files.

I first watched the X-Files when I was fourteen and home sick from school, and from then on, I was hooked to the mystery, the spookiness, the science, and the subtle but oh-so-fulfilling romance. Dana Scully is still one of my heroines today with her beauty and brains.

Therefore, when I had to choose a character for whom to create a Pinterest board, I knew I wanted it to be Scully!

One of my favorite things about Scully’s character is her depth. There are so many layers to her personality. On the surface, she’s a brilliant scientist dedicated to rationality and logic, but as the series progresses, you find that she is far more troubled by emotions, rash decisions, and doubts than originally expected. As her character grows and becomes more open-minded and comfortable with those closest to her–Mulder in particular–her layers are peeled back bit-by-bit!

By revealing her flaws and fears to the audience, I connected with Dana Scully and loved her more than ever. As someone who loves science herself and tries to be as Spock/Vulcan-like as possible in moments of extreme tension or trouble, watching one of my heroines become more vulnerable helped encourage me to become less guarded and uptight, as well.

This Pinterest board–for her eyes only and for those times when she just “needs a boost”–represents that softer, more human side of the character.

Now, I will take you through the pics one-by-one and explain each one’s significance to Dr. Scully!

SECRET board. Who knows what Mulder would pin if he got a hold of her password?

Scully Pinterest Part 1

Scully’s Pinterest Part 2

Moving from top left to right and starting with Part 1…(All captions/comments beneath the pins are written by me pretending to be/think like Scully!)

1) In Season 3, Episode 12, “War of the Coprophages,” while Mulder is off investigating killer cockroaches and flirting with entomologists named Bambi (this is not a joke, seriously), Scully is seen relaxing in her living room reading Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany‘s. Therefore, she’d totally re-pin a pic of Audrey Hepburn in the classic role, because she’s totally a fan.

Nice to see her RELAXING for once.

2) Scully’s a doctor, so she’s probably into healthy eating. She also likes sweets, as seen again in the above episode when she’s eating ice cream out of a carton (see why I love her?):

My heroine.

Sweets + healthy eating = frozen yogurt covered blueberries!

3 + 6) SPOILER ALERT: Mulder and Scully end up in a monogamous relationship together after years of battling horrifying creatures, government baddies, and aliens.

She would totally think of clever alien cakes and homemade gifts like the alien abduction lamp for his birthday!

4) She has gorgeous red hair and would totally read beauty tips for said color. (Red is not actually the actress, Gillian Anderson’s, natural hair color. Someone told her to dye it red after she got the role of Scully.)

5) Even when not sporting professional pantsuits and skirts as a F.B.I. Special Agent, Scully’s style is still classic and has a lot of blues and neutral colors. Therefore, she’d totally admire the pinned, navy blue, winter jacket.

6) See #3!

7) It’s made clear that Scully is particularly close with her father, who was in the navy. Therefore, I’m sure she’s been instilled with a love of the sea and would re-pin this gorgeous shot of the beach & sea shells.

8) Scully likes wine and totally collects sangria recipes.

9) Again, she has an attachment to the ocean because of her navy father and is drawn to lots of nautical shots!

10 + 11) Attending the University of Maryland, Scully majored in Physics and wrote her undergraduate thesis titled Einstein’s Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation. She would totally dig science nerd/physics humor and Einstein’s genius goofiness.

12) Mulder had this poster in his office. You can clearly see it here:

I’m sure seeing the print online would bring back some memories–both good and bad.

13) Scully enjoys taking bubble baths to relax.

This is also one of my favorite screen caps from The X-Files EVER. The third person in the bottom split-screen is their boss and the assistant director of the F.B.I., if you didn’t know. From one of the funniest episodes ever: “Hollywood A.D.,” written by Duchovny himself.

14 + 15 + 20) Again, as a doctor, Scully values logic and reasoning and would re-pin quotes reflecting this belief. Also, doctor jokes and cool pictures of heart anatomy, yay!

16) “You drive me nuts, but I love you, anyway.” How well does that fit Scully’s relationship with a certain someone?

17) Along with her sharp sense of clothing style, she also has cute hair styles, too!

18) More navy/family love.

19) While she also loves science, Scully’s Catholic faith is a huge part of her character and helps her get through some very rough health problems in mid-to-later seasons. She’s all about faith, and the show overall has a theme of faith: in each other, in trust, in the unseen, in logic, all depending on the situation.

20) See #14

21) To exercise, Scully runs and would absolutely re-pin inspirational running quotes! You find this out thanks to a killer stalker that is introduced in Season 6, so it’s an unfortunate way of discovering a character detail, but this is how she stays fit!

And that’s my version of Dr. Scully’s Pinterest! I just made a Pinterest account with a junk e-mail and deleted it after I was done searching, captioning, and screen capturing appropriate pins. Hope you enjoyed!

All screencaps from this great site!

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Social Media during the Russian Revolution?!

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I’ve mentioned in a previous post that I particularly love Russian history. My interest started when I was a wee little thing and first saw the movie from Fox Animation called Anastasia.

MAGICAL. (credit linked in .gif)

Of course, I didn’t know the true, tragic story of the Romanov family at this young age, but when I was old enough to handle such details, I was addicted to finding out all I could about this Russian grand duchess.

I’ve spent years studying this family and followed the mystery faithfully. I’ve cried many tears for their lost lives and the suffering of the Russian people as a whole during this turbulent time.

If I had to choose, this final years of Imperialist Russia would probably be my favorite period of history to study. I knew I wanted to create a social media post based on one of the people during this era.

Writing as a member of the imperial family or a Bolshevik just seemed too sad, so I decided to focus on one of the points that lead to the Revolution’s crescendo: the murder of the monk Grigory Rasputin.

Long story short, the monk–despite his drunkenness and habit of sleeping with and beating prostitutes–was considered a mystical, holy man by the Tsarina or Empress of Russia. She believed that he could heal her son, the Tsarevich or Crown Prince Alexei, when he had bouts of pain and near death experiences from his hemophilia.

Rasputin’s visits did help ease the Tsarevich’s pain, but his influence over the Empress (he often gave her advice–which she followed–on handling governmental dealings and decisions) and general nasty appearance and demeanor struck a sour chord with the Imperial Court.

The Prince Felix Yusupov lured Rasputin to his home one evening on the pretense of dinner and then killed him with a friend’s help. The monk survived poisoned food and gunshots to the chest, only finally dying after they dumped his body in the Neva River and he drowned–not even kidding. How creepy/eerie is that?

The death caused an uproar within the Imperial family. Prince Yusupov was exiled and the Tsarina was distraught. The family arguably never recovered from the dramatic consequences of the murder.

Now that you have a bit of history, take a look at my tweet:

Not such good company after all, huh?

I tried to use the Twister app provided by Alan, but the picture the generator spewed out for Prince Felix here was blurry and unattractive. I wanted to make a new, clearer tweet, so I used a different site that allowed me to upload my own pictures, screenshot the result, and then did some further editing in GIMP.

I hope you learned a bit about Imperialist Russia, and I hope all of your future dinner experiences are far more pleasant than Rasputin’s and Prince Felix’s!

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NOT 4 DOGS (Internet Storytelling)

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Okay, so, even though I’m really happy with my finished product for this assignment, getting to this point of satisfaction was NOT fun.

Homecoming weekend was this weekend, so after being awakened far too early on my Saturday morning by alums standing on Ball Circle singing jaunty tunes about beer (this was the actual song they were singing; I’m not even joking), decided I should get started on my biggest project of the week.

Gathering up all of my electronics and coziest jacket, I went and sat in the sunlight and began. The Mozilla Goggles thankfully weren’t hard to learn how to use (and I had no idea Mozilla offered so many awesome web design tools/apps!), so the hardest part for me was to decide what sort of site I wanted to re-design.

I’m a huge fan of IMDB and LOVE to browse message boards of movies I’ve just finished watching (especially if the films have deep, whacky, open-to-interpretation endings and I’m confused and emotionally distraught and have to have someone explain the details or plot elements before I drive myself insane), but I wanted to work on a site that wasn’t provided in the examples for this week, so I decided on Buzzfeed–particularly, their Life section.

Buzzfeed is a super popular website with 20-somethings, and I myself spend far too much time taking their quizzes instead of sleeping. Therefore, I knew the website would be familiar to my audience, and the layout is rich with fun colors, text, and pictures that I could easily edit.

The twist was: instead of being aimed at humans, this Buzzfeed Life page would be aimed at pets! Featuring articles such as “Best DIY Exercises for Those Days When Your Human Won’t Take You for a Walk” and “Top Fashion Trends from the Latest Westminster Kennel Show,” the page was going to be über popular with humankind’s favorite friends.

I had half the page coded when…boom.

Or, rather–no boom. Nothing at all, actually. My entire screen went dark, Mozilla WebMaker Goggles stopped functioning, and I lost all of my work. I mentally debated screaming and throwing my laptop across the field, but decided against that, because there was a lovely family playing Frisbee nearby that didn’t need to see such a tantrum.

Rather than moan and groan and try and figure out what happened (I still don’t know what happened; I was at 74% charge, other apps would work, and the Mozilla Goggles just went kaput), I went inside to have a snack and take a breather.

I was too frustrated to try and re-do my Buzzfeed page (R.I.P. Buzzfeed Life For Pets 2014-2014), so I tried to think of something a bit simpler but still fun. I was inspired by the amusing Amazon.com Wolf T-Shirt reviews and decided to keep with my dog/pet theme and write a critique of some online item. Instead of choosing an actual analog product, though, I searched pet apps.

One of the top results was DoggyDatez. I thought it was a cute, unique way for dogs to meet other dogs in the neighborhood/town/city while their humans got to socialize, too, but then I tried thinking from a dog’s point-of-view. Sure, meeting new animals is a blast–especially for canines–but I would be mad if my mom or dad’s attention was suddenly on another person or their smartphone instead of me during our walks!

Therefore, my altered DoggyDatez: REVIEWED BY ACTUAL DOGS page was born.

If you can’t read the text super well, I apologize. My screen was being troublesome, so I had to zoom out, but hopefully you can zoom in on the screencaps or check out the live version.

I began by re-writing the description. Each detail/perk that the app company described I re-described as an angry pooch! Therefore, traveling to all sorts of different territories overseas or in different states (NO PLANES PLEASE says every dog ever) or marking/labeling territory with the touch of a finger instead of pee became cause for concern and sometimes outrage. The dogs have spoken, and they clearly prefer dog parks where THEIR socialization is the main focus–not their human’s–or one-on-one play time and fetch with their favorite person in the world AKA their owner.

Then, I edited user reviews by giving each Internet savvy dog a personality and username to match.

The first was a handsome, smooth–or trying to be smooth–perhaps over-eager Rottweiler that liked to lay on the charm.

Username “rott weiler.” What a ham.

The next was a precious, overactive golden retriever who was just really upset that her momma wasn’t paying as much attention to her because of this app. We are the center of our pets’ worlds, after all, so we should give them as much love and care as possible, right? Fetch > smartphone apps.

This shot really speaks to username “GOLDY RETRIEVE”‘s personality.

The last user to review happened to be the very same poodle with whom username rott weiler was so smitten. Clearly, the feelings weren’t reciprocated, and she officially prefers meeting dogs in person to “online dating.”

So much sass from “LittleMissPerfectPoodle.”

I then fiddled with details like the title/subtitles of the app (that also act as the title and subtitle for this post) and Compatibility.

The actual editing took forever, because X-Ray Goggles kept crashing/messing up on me, again! I’m not sure if there’s something wrong with my computer or it was just the app, but some text segments appeared completely deleted/empty after I’d just added them while others were in the wrong place or duplicated for no apparent reason. Maybe I should write Mozilla and let them know the Goggles have bugs. Do those crash/error reports ever actually help IT services and coders, anyway? I’ve always wondered.
Frustrations and app crashing aside, I had a lot of fun with this project. I’m such a dog lover that looking for material for this edit and my short-lived Buzzfeed page was a blast. The voices I have in my head for each dog are pretty funny, too, but I’ll let your imaginations run wild with those details rather than provide them, this time. (;

Enjoy & thanks!

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The 95% Silent Meeting

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For the first day of Design Week in #DS106 I decided to try my first DS106 Assignment. I chose Design Assignment #1048, which was to ” Make an invitation for any event, whether it occur or not.”

I created an invitation to a meeting that I was trapped in last week. We were invited to join a colleague who was participating in a board meeting at a remote site via Video Conference, but there must have been a problem with the connection because we kept loosing the audio. During the two and a half hour meeting we only heard about 5% of what was said.

In keeping with the theme of Design I kept my invitation very simple, creating a mood with lines and my choice of font that contrasted with the details about the event itself. Fortunately there was a Wi-Fi connection so I was able to clear a lot of messages out of both of my inboxes; I just added that detail to add to the mood of the invitation.

The 95% Silent Meeting