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solarbirdMy chem study guide book is so far a complete waste of time and money. If the first couple of chapters are any indication, the only people who actually need this thing are those who aren't very good at reading the main text for content. So there's $30 I didn't need to spend. Still, I'm afraid to return it, because I might end up being wrong later.
The green light has been given for massive bookkeeping fraud in the name of national security. Watch your IRAs and 401Ks, people; this could get a couple of hundred kinds of ugly.
I had to return The Omnivore's Dilemma as it was due today; unfortunately, I hadn't started reading it until last weekend (bad library patron!) and then didn't read very quickly of because of distractions. But I still got most of the way through; the part I skipped was entirely at the end where I was already getting annoyed at the switch from information- and analysis- driven chapters to his personal thoughts on the nature and philosophy of food, and I didn't honestly feel that much like reading through him helping hunt a pig and him helping gather mushrooms and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. But I'd definitely consider the main parts worthwhile. I've already been kind of a local-foods person - note my excitement about the local farmer's market I can walk to - but now I'm kind of moreso, now that I know more about industrial organic food production. (picoreview: better than standard, but not as much as you think.) So I recommend the first two-thirds of the book, which are really solid; after that, it starts to decline; the last quarter of it you can read if you find it interesting rather than self-indulgent. It's pretty good despite that, though.
Before the library stop, Chem included fun tricks with liquid nitrogen. Recommended! Plus: bonus small accidental explosion. Yay! But we're already kind of falling behind the lesson plan. I also figured out that I'm going to have to be really careful with the clicker; one of today's in-class questions tapdanced all over my mild dyslexia and even after I noticed and adjusted for it I still had a really hard time keeping track of the right answer. The buttons are labelled alphabetically and sequentially; there were four statements given; you were supposed to figure out which were true and which weren't; the set of answers were noted as A, B, C, and D; the correct answer was that item nr. 3 was the correct one, but that option was response D; I pressed C at first, and it took me several seconds to realise that was wrong. Pleasantly, you have a 90-second window and can change your answer. But it was actually kinda difficult to figure out whether to press "3" (a.k.a. button "C," also labelled "3") or "D" (also labelled "4"), the correct button to push to record an answer of three. I hate that shit.
Hopefully that won't be a big factor, but I have a history of occasional left-right issues on multiple choice questions. I was failing econ briefly because of a/c and b/d swaps on multiple-choice tests until the teacher started making multiple choice tests optional and offering (theoretically more difficult) long-form tests as an alternative, which I aced routinely and thus salvaged my average in the class.
There WILL BE a Cultural Warfare Update tonight. Promise! Meanwhile, have a flower. It's a little fuzzy but I still like the picture.
Raspberry Red (*No Actual Raspberries In Product)
The green light has been given for massive bookkeeping fraud in the name of national security. Watch your IRAs and 401Ks, people; this could get a couple of hundred kinds of ugly.
I had to return The Omnivore's Dilemma as it was due today; unfortunately, I hadn't started reading it until last weekend (bad library patron!) and then didn't read very quickly of because of distractions. But I still got most of the way through; the part I skipped was entirely at the end where I was already getting annoyed at the switch from information- and analysis- driven chapters to his personal thoughts on the nature and philosophy of food, and I didn't honestly feel that much like reading through him helping hunt a pig and him helping gather mushrooms and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. But I'd definitely consider the main parts worthwhile. I've already been kind of a local-foods person - note my excitement about the local farmer's market I can walk to - but now I'm kind of moreso, now that I know more about industrial organic food production. (picoreview: better than standard, but not as much as you think.) So I recommend the first two-thirds of the book, which are really solid; after that, it starts to decline; the last quarter of it you can read if you find it interesting rather than self-indulgent. It's pretty good despite that, though.
Before the library stop, Chem included fun tricks with liquid nitrogen. Recommended! Plus: bonus small accidental explosion. Yay! But we're already kind of falling behind the lesson plan. I also figured out that I'm going to have to be really careful with the clicker; one of today's in-class questions tapdanced all over my mild dyslexia and even after I noticed and adjusted for it I still had a really hard time keeping track of the right answer. The buttons are labelled alphabetically and sequentially; there were four statements given; you were supposed to figure out which were true and which weren't; the set of answers were noted as A, B, C, and D; the correct answer was that item nr. 3 was the correct one, but that option was response D; I pressed C at first, and it took me several seconds to realise that was wrong. Pleasantly, you have a 90-second window and can change your answer. But it was actually kinda difficult to figure out whether to press "3" (a.k.a. button "C," also labelled "3") or "D" (also labelled "4"), the correct button to push to record an answer of three. I hate that shit.
Hopefully that won't be a big factor, but I have a history of occasional left-right issues on multiple choice questions. I was failing econ briefly because of a/c and b/d swaps on multiple-choice tests until the teacher started making multiple choice tests optional and offering (theoretically more difficult) long-form tests as an alternative, which I aced routinely and thus salvaged my average in the class.
There WILL BE a Cultural Warfare Update tonight. Promise! Meanwhile, have a flower. It's a little fuzzy but I still like the picture.
Raspberry Red (*No Actual Raspberries In Product)
