These are the thoughts I have and share, take 'em, leave 'em...
go out and play.
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Saturday, August 16, 2003
Well, that was summer folks.
We disappeared and went over to Vernon, then to the Badlands and camped with my wife and kids in Dinosaur Provincial Park. After that we went up to the Royal Tyrrell Museum and saw some of the biggest and smallest things we have ever seen.
Upon returning home and resuming my work life, I took on a new role at work and am now getting my "sea legs" as it were. I was a Digital Media Consultant and now I am a Digital Media Development Coordinator.
I bought some new jeans today. I need to lose weight.
3:17 PM
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Okay. So today was bizarre. I am bleary from lack of sleep. Naomi (my daughter) was sick in the night and so I didn't get much in the way of sleep. Being that I am not the night-owl of my former life. I am getting used to uninterrupted sleep from about 11pm to 5:30am... Put a sick little kid in the mix and WHAMMO. Big fat bleary eyed Owen.
Tonight is the last night of the HTML level 1 class and the students are writing their quizzie-poo. I like to make the last class fun and non-threatening. There is alot to learn about all this stuff and it doesn't help if you finish a course feeling overwhelmed and deflated by the amount of work left to do. In 15 hours (5 X 3 hours) we covered everything from HTML to JavaScript to tools that help you do the work. I think we did some good work this time around.
Short courses for adults are tough to teach. I am getting to the point now where I am
8:57 PM
Friday, March 14, 2003
Okay. So just what the heck am I all about? I suppose some of you may wish to know. Funny how I don't see blogging as a diary entry activity more like a report to the audience... I guess those of you who know me will nod with understanding. Those who don't well...
I am involved in a little revolution. I am big into Learning Objects. A controversial subject in every way. I didn't realize how big a deal this was until I joined Alberta Learning on the Learning Technology Branch team to build a learning object repository and then populate it with learning objects. It's fun. Controversial. Fun.
5:12 PM
Gosh, I thought I would have made this a daily habit. I guess I need to "get into" the habit. Sort of like new shoes. Not real comfortable at first. Need time to break 'em in. So be it.
I finally watched "Moulin Rouge" for the first time last night. Baz Luhrmann (sp?) is clever. What are the ramifications of "updating" a piece to history to increase its pertinence to the current generation. I like to think the movie itself was as stunning to me and all my 2K media jaded sensibilities as perhaps the real Moulin Rouge was to the thrill-seekers of the previous century were. It was "high" opera set to pop music of my youth. Movies like this leave me with gasping the question, "What next?" We are on the brink of being Matrix-cized. Was this what it was like for the Romans? Were the spectacles in the Colesium simply the producers trying to keep an audience.
I am in the midst of planning and organizing the Alberta New Media Awards. I want this show to be "spectacular, spectacular" My colleagues need the boost. I love the new media industry. We have taken a beating and those still standing need to celebrate. It is bittersweet in some respects. Many have failed. Many have moved on to other things. Like the survivors of a war it is a relief that it is over. It is a time to celebrate the onward and upward. It is a time to mourn those no longer with us. I have some friends who have seen their dreams shattered.
Ya, ya, call me a softy... Call me Mr. Melodrama. We can use a little melodrama. We are getting too smart for our own good. I am surrounded by people who have lost a sense of wonderment with their world. I am glad that I still have some rosy-coloured glasses in my back pocket.
4:42 PM
Saturday, March 08, 2003
War is looming.
History romanticizes human experience by the very act of reflecting on what has happened and making it note-worthy. Heroes are simply people doing exraordinary things in extraordinary circumstances. They don't expect to be heroic. History makes them so. Perhaps this is why they have such trouble accepting the romantic version of their event.
Why are we doing this? Why are we about to see our world leaders begin an event that will result in the death of many (god knows how many) innocents? Not many I talk to can answer that question. It is sad. What is worse is that the reasons I have heard have little to do with care and concern of the innocents who will be most directly affected.
You can even go so far as to say that we are by-standers. Innocents ourselves. Do we REALLY understand what we are getting ourselves into? Time magazine just published a headline on its cover that said something like "Life after Saddam." That struck me as odd. We haven't even seen the Americans go to war and we are reading their proclamations of victory. Were the Romans this presumptuous as their empire crumbled around them?
I don't know why, but I have a feeling this is not going to be any ordinary war. SOMETHING is very different this time. I am sad. I am sorry. I am helpless. I am just like you.
2:52 PM
Wow, here is my foray into the world of blogging. Thankfully, I am not completely unaware of what this is or can be, like some other experiences I have had.
Those who know me will probably "get" what I am talking about. Those who don't and stumble upon this, well... give it some time and space and we'll find a common ground.
What's the plan? I always have a plan. I am going to share my stories and ideas. Most will be whacked and intensely personal. If you can glean something from them; great. If not, well hopefully you will chalk it up to a life experience thing.
Got thoughts, do I provoke you to take action? Here's hopin'.
2:33 PM
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