So I got my dream phone today . It does everything I wanted it too accept flash right now. The pictures are great and the picture mode is so spytastic as you can turn off the sounds. There is a one button take picture and one button record audio button. It has a keyboard.

We went to sprint and (e:terry) and (e:matthew) got cell phones today too. We ended up with a family plan. With eLterry's government discount we pay about $70/month and we share 400 minutes, 100 text messages and I have really fast internet. They have free internet right now and have a month to decide if they want it. I hope they keep it because then they can use the site mobilly also.

Slowly the site is more and more a mobile entity as I always hoped for.

We started the day buying new cell phones.



I foudn these polish cookies that I would have sworn were Italian. Maybe Nonna learned hwo to make them in America.



Has anyone tried monkfish before. It looks really yummy but it is expensive.


We bought another shipload of $400 in groceries. They all taste so yummy.


We probably should not have watched Willy Wonky and the Chocolate Factory before going grocery shopping. There is about a pound of chocolate sponge candy under the groceries.



The one thing that weirds me out about the camera is that it came with this picture on it marked 8/1/2005 but the camera did not even get release untill just recently so what is up with that. Did a developer take it? It came new fatcory sealed fromt he factory.

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.