My photo was shown on the front page of Wikipedia on the Apr. 11 featured article! In other news, I spent a good chunk of Saturday painting eggs with Janine. We had a lot of fun, and when I got up to have breakfast on Sunday, I was shooed out of the kitchen so she [...]
I may have made a tactical error last night when I decided to take a nap instead of going to buy food for the weekend, as today is Good Friday and everything in Dessau is closed. I’m hoping Janine is right that the stores will be open tomorrow because I have a serious shortage of [...]
Well, the BBQ didn’t turn out as expected, because after an hour of playing frisbee and waiting for Patricia to come back with meat from the store, it turned out we had to pay the people whose grill it was to cook their meat. Since I’d already eaten and everyone else was armed with a [...]
Per the request of my teacher, I’ve signed up for Twitter under the username thosesocks. Beyond stuff for class, I don’t know how much I’ll use it — it strikes me that the internet doesn’t really need to know what I’m doing every moment. It’s a little strange to have class so infrequently. At RIT [...]
I’ve been in Germany for a week now! :D It’s very exciting. My peers have been quite nice and surprisingly friendly, and the weather has been pleasant and springy. Yesterday the weather was 70 and sunny. I’ve been enjoying learning to live in Europe, taking lots of pictures, and trying to communicate in German. Since [...]
Today was day two of classes, but it was much less intense than yesterday. Our teacher wasn’t there, we just had the system admin for our building come teach us XML and loading it into AS3. Pretty simple, so again, not much learning. The guy who is going to get us onto the network was [...]
My Kurzprojekt started today. It lasts from 9-4 or 5 with a short break for lunch. Which means it’s really long. Even the German students seem a little unclear what the assignment is, but the class is about Web 2.0/networking tools, Google Earth, and “mashups.” The mashups sound like a subset of what we were [...]
Today was enrollment day at Hochschule Anhalt. Tomorrow will be my first day of classes. After an afternoon of presentations from the teachers about what their projects will be, I battled with German students to sign up for my picks of the projects. Who on earth thought it would be a good idea to post [...]
