Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Flicking through the Flickr, AKA #6 More Flickr fun
So for this assignment I'm supposed to talk about my adventures with Flickr mashups. Well to be honest I didn't find them that interesting. Either I couldn't get some to work, or what they did just seemed too simple when compared to the required work put into it. I'm not saying that the mashups didn't require a good amount of skill to make, I just think that with some of them, the ends do not justify the means.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The "of little toy men" part AKA #5 Discovering Flckr
I thought it time to include something explaining the second part of this blog's title. (Also it fits nicely into this lesson of the library class :P)
I'm an avid war gamer. I specifically play a table top war game called Warhammer 40,000, which is a sci-fi game set in the distant future. (The 41st millennium to be exact)
This is pretty much my major hobby, next to playing my xbox 360, and interpreting the 1820's to visitors of Fort Atkinson State Historical Park.
Anyway, the picture above (or below? I'm new to this...) is of a diorama I made for a friend. It features an Imperial Guardsman, the straight average joe in the game, having to face the tough choice of whether to confront a mob of one of the Imperium's most prevalent enemies, the orks, or turn and run, only to be shot by his own regiment's commissar, who's job it is to ensure that not a single warrior of the Emperor shows cowardice.
Well that's a pretty good synopsis. I assembled and painted the models myself and I've always been quite proud of it.
I'm an avid war gamer. I specifically play a table top war game called Warhammer 40,000, which is a sci-fi game set in the distant future. (The 41st millennium to be exact)
This is pretty much my major hobby, next to playing my xbox 360, and interpreting the 1820's to visitors of Fort Atkinson State Historical Park.
Anyway, the picture above (or below? I'm new to this...) is of a diorama I made for a friend. It features an Imperial Guardsman, the straight average joe in the game, having to face the tough choice of whether to confront a mob of one of the Imperium's most prevalent enemies, the orks, or turn and run, only to be shot by his own regiment's commissar, who's job it is to ensure that not a single warrior of the Emperor shows cowardice.
Well that's a pretty good synopsis. I assembled and painted the models myself and I've always been quite proud of it.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Library Fun! AKA #3 Get blogging in 3 steps
Hello world.
Well that's a good first sentence. Let's start with that. Let's see, now what? Well I'm doing this blog as part of a library program so I guess I'll learn how to do most of this as I go.
I'm also supposed to talk about what life long learning means to me. Well, I'm currently in school to become a secondary education major. I plan to teach history while I pursue a doctorate in archaeology. That pretty much guarantees that I'll be continuing to learn new information throughout the rest of my natural life. I accepted this fact quite a long time ago, of maybe when I was seven. It's a very liberating fact to know something like that from that age on. Makes future choices much easier.
I think that's a good first post. Let's end it there.
Well that's a good first sentence. Let's start with that. Let's see, now what? Well I'm doing this blog as part of a library program so I guess I'll learn how to do most of this as I go.
I'm also supposed to talk about what life long learning means to me. Well, I'm currently in school to become a secondary education major. I plan to teach history while I pursue a doctorate in archaeology. That pretty much guarantees that I'll be continuing to learn new information throughout the rest of my natural life. I accepted this fact quite a long time ago, of maybe when I was seven. It's a very liberating fact to know something like that from that age on. Makes future choices much easier.
I think that's a good first post. Let's end it there.
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