Thirty miles on the bike this morning and I feel fine.
I felt hungry by lunchtime, so barbecue was in order. Fairly certain that negated the last 18 of those miles.
Had my head in Dreamweaver all day today. Nothing like spending an exhilarating day in a piece of software that sometimes does brilliant things but otherwise generally manages to baffle itself. I’m still not sure that I’ve met a real person who likes this program. I want to like it, really I do, because it is just so much easier to gush than grouse. Fortunately shaking my head doesn’t require a lot of energy, though.
We’re using Dreamweaver in a class. Two or three of the students have really taken to it. The rest are trying their hardest. You have to have patience with this software, I’ve decided, and I’m proud of how much patience they’ve demonstrated. Their site designs, meanwhile, are coming along nicely. Some of them are incredibly sharp.
The rest of the afternoon was spent making recruiting calls. I’ve talked with about 100 people or voicemails. And then I spent a bit of time emailing some more people. We’ve got a lot of good things to brag about to prospective students. It takes more than a few seconds.
Tonight the student-journalists at the Crimson put together their next to last issue of the year. They were done early. We’ll find the typos together tomorrow. This editorial staff has done a very nice job. They’ve been solid and stable and handled a few delicate stories well. Proud of them too.
That point of the school year, then, where you tally things up and take stock of progress. You make mental notes, measure this against a previous year, project out against what might come next year. You celebrate those who are graduating and moving on to their next big adventure. It is an exciting time on a college campus. I’m thrilled to be here.
This is different:
That’s the courtyard of the University Center. It is all distorted and warped by a free panorama app I found recently called Photosynth. Oh, I am sorry. This isn’t a panorama. From their FAQ:
Panoramas are made stitching a set of photos taken from exactly the same spot and with exactly the same focal length. Synths are our invention, and use photos that were taken from different locations. Panoramas display seamlessly, synths display as a collection of individual photos.
Clearly, if you follow that link, I am doing something wrong. Maybe a cloudy, bright day is too dynamic. The good ones on the site — and there is some mind–boggling stuff on their site — This will take some experimenting. Or I could just call it the Dali app and let things slide and droop where they may.
It is amazing what you can do on this thing that has a phone attached to it.
