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May. 3rd, 2011 01:31 pmI'm now registered through the end of the year, a series of math, chem and physics I call the Science Upgrade. The chem is a bit of a repeat, to bleach out the D I received last fall during the Great Reboot, when the spouse went ahead to the east coast and I was left camping out in my parent's attic with the kiddo for 10 weeks as we wrapped up the term.
The latest school is a tiny Connecticut community college, about the size of my old high school. As I've been gathering pre-reqs far and wide in my chronic and indefatigable college career, from sprawling metro CC, to big ten U, to urban med school/U, I find this new place couldn't be more adorable if it were made out of gingerbread. The counselor was unamused by my jaded enthusiasm for his tiny institution, but admired by intrepid pluck in scheduling the hard science beatdown.
I believe he may have crossed himself.
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For the last few years I've ceased upgrading any of my electronic devices until I could merge functions and hence ditch cargo weight, which I finally did by upgrading to a smartphone (which in my view is a really nice PDA with GPS that I can make calls with). Still looking for a music solution, though the Soviet iPod is still chugging along like a draft horse it's only 20G and I'd love something where I didn't have to shuffle music on and off. That said, I'm a huge fan of Rockbox open source firmware, and I'm loathe to move away from it for something shiny and annoying. I can get plenty of shiny annoying through Android apps now.
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Though my favorite source of phone wallpapers is non-app: Larry Jackson's fractals. Unlike many folks into fractals, he's got a great eye for color and shading, and instead of being strict about the mathematics he swings more toward expression and organic composition. There are some lovely pieces evocative of Persian carpets, luscious still lives and histological complexity. Current pick: Fires of Mobius.
The latest school is a tiny Connecticut community college, about the size of my old high school. As I've been gathering pre-reqs far and wide in my chronic and indefatigable college career, from sprawling metro CC, to big ten U, to urban med school/U, I find this new place couldn't be more adorable if it were made out of gingerbread. The counselor was unamused by my jaded enthusiasm for his tiny institution, but admired by intrepid pluck in scheduling the hard science beatdown.
I believe he may have crossed himself.
***
For the last few years I've ceased upgrading any of my electronic devices until I could merge functions and hence ditch cargo weight, which I finally did by upgrading to a smartphone (which in my view is a really nice PDA with GPS that I can make calls with). Still looking for a music solution, though the Soviet iPod is still chugging along like a draft horse it's only 20G and I'd love something where I didn't have to shuffle music on and off. That said, I'm a huge fan of Rockbox open source firmware, and I'm loathe to move away from it for something shiny and annoying. I can get plenty of shiny annoying through Android apps now.
***
Though my favorite source of phone wallpapers is non-app: Larry Jackson's fractals. Unlike many folks into fractals, he's got a great eye for color and shading, and instead of being strict about the mathematics he swings more toward expression and organic composition. There are some lovely pieces evocative of Persian carpets, luscious still lives and histological complexity. Current pick: Fires of Mobius.
