What Type Are You?

Here's another happy little, time waster found at How About Orange. Let yourself be psychoanalyzed by answering four short questions. The doctor will then diagnose your type and give you a brief analysis of the typeface. What type are you quiz?

My result was Marina Script. What's your result?

I'm A Crayon

Found this fun quiz on author, Georgiana Daniels' page. What Kind of Childhood Toy Are You? I don't put a lot of stock in these quizzes. They're just happy little time wasters, but the answer I got and the answer Georgiana got are dead on for our professions. I did spend a lot of my time as a kid drawing and coloring.

Coincidence? Why don't you take the quiz. Does your answer fit you?

You Are Crayons

You've always had a creative, artistic streak - even when you were a kid.
You were the type of child who could spend hours with a box of crayons or markers.

Even now as an adult, colors and design matter to you. You are probably very fashionable and stylish.
Maybe you even dabble in the arts from time to time. You certainly still have the talent.

The Friday Five

I am in love. I am just loving my new Samsung Omnia 2 smartphone. The five features that have sent me to cloud nine:

1. It has a touch screen. Touch a button, touch a screen. Sleek. Even though there's a screen protector, I do find myself wiping my greasy prints off the screen. I like that shiny, out of the box look.

2. Typing on the virtual keyboard can be a challenge with my sausage fingers. I don't know how the young people can make their fingers fly over the tiny keyboards to text. The phone comes with a stylus which is a godsend when adding appointments to the calendar.

3. Since the phone can be synched with a computer (it didn't like synching with Vista 64, but works well on the laptop with XP), I can use my own sound files for ringtones. Plus downloading old television theme songs from TelevisionTunes.com I've been having a blast picking out tunes for family members. The best one is the one I picked for my dad. He's 90 and we've been dealing with some problems/health issues for my 91 year old ma. Dad's been calling a lot lately. His ringtone is Johnny Weissmeuller's Tarzan yell. Cracks me up when I hear it and is a great stress buster.

4. The phone has a large screen. For someone who just got new glasses with lenses manufactured by the same company that made the Hubbell telescope lenses, this is a huge plus. The better to see you, my dear.

5. The best feature of the phone is the Call Recognition. Press a button and a female automated voice prompts you to say a command. Like Call Home. The downside is the automated voice must have been trained to respond to a flat, midWestern accent. You know the one. The one all the television news anchors have. So the phone has a hard time interpreting my Boston accent. Call Home has me having a conversation with the phone.

"Did you say 'Call Glow'?

Glow? Ok, glow might be considered an eye rhyme with home.

No.

"Did you say 'Call Pizza'?

Pizza? What ah ya? That one doesn't even come close.

I try to speak slower. I've heard that complaint from those outside of Boston. Seems we talk too fast (though I think some just can't keep up (-; )

"Call one mississippi, two mississipi, three mississipi Home

The screen lights up with Dialing... and the home phone number.

Add a sixth feature. I just love to customize my brains out to make my phone unique. The picture on the lock screen is Mr. Morton, the XO, of the submarine Seaview from the television show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. The XO keeps all areas running smoothly on the boat. Seemed a fitting mascot for the phone.

Do you have a phone or other gadget you love?

Three Item Snack

Steal...er...borrowing Erica's idea for Three Ingredient Thursday, is this idea for a three item snack.

You will need:

1. Crackers, bread, pound cake or something else to snack on that you can spread...

2. Nutella. If you have never heard of this you are missing out on an awesome, to die for, taste treat. Nutella is a hazelnut spread with skim milk and cocoa. See it's good for you! It's heaven in a jar. It's a bit pricey but worth every penny. My local Target carries it in the food area next to the peanut butter and jelly.

3. A knife or spoon.

Slather a good dollop onto your cracker, toast, pound cake and enjoy.

What do you think of Nutella?

A Letter A Week for 2010

From Australian calligrapher, Gemma Black

The aim is simply to:
· Write a letter a week
· Creating 52 letters
· Which must form 2 x alphabets
· By the end of 2010

The only real rule is that the letter must be presented on a piece measuring 7cm x 7cm

[For those of us that don't work in metric this would be approx 2 3/4 inches x 2 3/4 inches]

· We can use any medium, on any surface.
· We can use any hand or representation of a letter.
· The presentation of the final product is up to each of us – we could mat and frame the pieces as a work of art; we could make a stack of cards, we could bind them individually; we could bind them in a book; we could cover a box with them....
· We can also use any theme or approach we wish in the project – we may choose to do all our letter in black and white and red; we may choose not to repeat a combination of medium and surface; we may choose to be experimental; we may choose an animal theme; we may choose a letter linked to a poem....
· We may start at the beginning of the alphabet, the end of the alphabet, we may make two alphabets simultaneously or we may just decide that today feels like a “D” day and decide to write a “D”

We will also aim to do a monthly sharing – on the first Wednesday of a month, we will share photos of our letters from the previous month. How’s that for prescriptive!

Other than that, I think we just go do what we want to do. Feel free to invite other calligraphers to join and do a letter a week; or other artist types who might want to do a 7cm x 7cm piece a week... Depending on how we go, and where we are and what our final pieces look like; it might be nice to try and arrange a showing or mini-exhibition of the pieces once we have finished .

So...by Wednesday 3 February we will each need to have 4 x letters ready to show, and perhaps some words about our approach/theme or what we are hoping to achieve.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Perceptions

Himself teaches college chemistry and is home on the Winter semester break. (Actually, he's starting a sabbatical, but that's another story). I was watching him reading his mail and shaking his head. Mail from his students some of them questioning why they got a poor grade and wanting to drop his class. He read me some of their excuses. Some are amusing. Most are lame. The school gives the students the opportunity to drop the class up to a week before the final. Himself clearly lays out his grading how to in the syllabus. Coming to lecture does not guarantee a passing grade. Tests, homework assignments, and labs all count to the final grade as does the final exam. Himself offers office hours each day where he's available for help.

I'm getting old because when he told me all these things my first thought was, When I was in college, we only had a two week period to drop a class. We couldn't wait until the class was nearly finished to decide we didn't like it, or it interferred with the whist tournament. If you missed the drop period, tough.

Most of the comments the students listed were variations of the course was too hard. (Mind you, many of these students are planning on going to pharmacy school or nursing school so the chemistry classes are a requirement)

"You need to add something to your syllabus," I told him.

"What's that?"

"Chemistry is hard. It's rocket science!"

Happy New Year

I'm not in the habit of making resolutions. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. (-; I'm just going to hold on and try to enjoy the ride.

Do you make New Year resolutions?