So (e:lilho) came to our house tonight with dog poop on her shoes. I think she should just throw them out. We were supposed to be recording new start up sounds for the site but I got sidetracked when (e:chris) came by with his new PPC-6700 mobile phone. I am going to buy one tomorrow - which is exciting. Because it has a keyboard, a working camera and a really fast Internet connection you can expect that I will be able to finally take my journal to the next level. I am not quite sure what to expect but it will be fantastic whatever it is.

So we got the mac set up in some sort of music studio with the giant Casio keyboard. Hopefully, this will inspire (e:terry) to write some magical new jingles for the site and finally put his music degree to some use.

We recorded (e:lilho)'s dog poop experience as music

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

I didn't finish hangman because I got too absorbed in the graphics. Maybe tomorrow.



--update I finished it but its only a beta and does not keep score.

It is so weird but comforting to have this home away from everyone. Some this little space on the web exists and it makes me feel happy. I relaly like it now that I can see the userpics under the b:war. I makes it feel like everyone is peeking out when you visit the site.

I can't understand why during the last week of school some of my students are grappling with the most basic features of web design. I can't believe that in Advanced Programming DMA 480, week 14 - I would have to teach anyone how to write basic HTML like a select list for a form. I can't even believe that I had to address such basic stuff at this point in their learning cycles. I would be embarassed to ask such trivial stuf at this point.

Have they not heard of google! Only a small handful of students ever looks anything up. No one buys books, and when they have a problem - such as a form not working - they simply wait a whole week until they see me instead of trying to figure it out.

I never got to any of the really cool stuff about advanced web deisgn because I spent the whole first half of the class dealing with fixing all the fossilized errors they learned in the past. It was the most disspointing teaching experience I ever had after tempreal. They basically came from a copy and paste mentality where they didn't really understand anything they were writing, just how to copy and paste stuff from other places. It led to all kinds of namespace errors and insanity. I still have students that are obsessed with procedural programming - they will never go anywhere with that.

I am glad I am moving on to a new place as I am so sick of living in the land of the remedial. Maybe I am just cranky in my old age but I worked a hell of a lot more as a student and a good half of my students don't try at all.

This one student Elizabeth is so great. So really knew almost nothing when she started and she tries very hard and learns very thoroughly. I think if she keeps practicing that she could really be good at it some day.

I couldn't sleep with the hangman game not being done and the idea of a new cell phone in my head. After finishing the PHP backend, I finished the javascript front end of the game, now I just need to come up with a scoring system and rip a couple thousand words from the journal entries. At least I can now say, (e:hangman) will soon be available for your chat game pleasure.

I think it will be really fun to implement other multiplayer games. I might need the help of (e:shawnr) for this.