Fall Break!

My fall break was a good chance to visit home and see my family. I stayed in my old room, which is now an office to my mom. In the beginning of the week, I was very sick with a cold, but being home and actually getting a good nights rest helped me to get better. I didn't do much school work over the break, probably because I wasn't interested in anything having to do with school, seeing as I just got back and didn't want to think about having to do school work anytime soon. I ended up calling my old job, a pizza restaurant at a ski resort by my house. They put me on the schedule for four days, and eight hour shifts. Working this break took up most of my free time that I had during the days, which was fine because I would have much rather been working and making money than sleeping in until noon everyday. I had thanksgiving dinner at my aunt's house in Reno, which is about 40 minutes from my house. We had an early dinner and then went out to the movies afterwards. We saw the movie Blindside, which was really good, and was a good family movie to see on thanksgiving. I was planning the entire break to leave Monday morning, but found out a few days before that it was not a furlough day, so I ended up coming back to Monterey late Sunday night after work.

I think that being in school has changed my outlook on life, and has made me realize that I am now on my own and am making my own decisions, which is a good thing, and I am enjoying it! It's weird to think now that I live in Monterey, and I'm basically just visiting my hometown every time I go back for a weekend, or a break. Being able to go to college has changed me, just because I know now that I am doing something with my life, and I am able to have fun along the way!

Fahrenheit 451 Video Reviews!

Group #1:

Christine Moreno

Cassie Pauley

Johanna Stanley

Julia Matthews

• Meets assignment? (Are all members in the video?) Yes, all members appeared in the video. The group did meet the assignment in many different aspects. They did the interview, with six or more questions each, and it was in the display of a talk show, which met the criteria of the interview part.
• Viewer learns about F451/Characters? Each character was fully described by answering the questions. The characters were on point and I knew which people were which characters. They made it funny so it was nice to get information through having humor. I could tell very clearly which characters were which by the questions that were being asked, and the way that the person answered it in character.
• Entertaining? The video was entertaining, funny, and well put together and thought out so it made it fun to watch. It was also edited very well, which made it more fun to watch. At the end, the credits were like a real movie, with pictures of each person and their name. All of this made it very entertaining to watch, and more interesting.
• Compare/Contrast with own team video. My group’s video did not include a standard interview, like this one. Our group was all over the place, and also included a scene from the movie. I think that the talk show idea was very good, and they made it funny like Jerry Springer, and named it Julia Springer. However, all of the other groups did a talk show, and we did not. So it made our video a bit more unique than all of the others. 
• Anything you wish your team thought of? An interview show, more editing throughout the video. The editing made it more interesting to watch, and if we had done as much editing throughout our video it might have made it more interesting to watch.

Group #2:

Taylor Miller

Lindsey Molander

Lindsey Gatlin

Micheal Kwazney

• Meets assignment? (Are all members in the video?) Yes, all members and characters appeared in the video. The interviewer did not stay behind the camera the whole time, which was good. All of the people appeared in the video for the same amount of time. The also met the other criteria of doing an interview with six questions. This group may have even done more questions than asked for in the assignment.
• Viewer learns about F451/Characters? Each character was clearly displayed, and the information that was given made sense with the characters. This was because when the interviewer asked the questions, all of the questions were answered in character. The interviewer was also in character the whole time.
• Entertaining? It was a funny movie, and fun to watch. But sometimes hard to understand because there was a lot of laughing and goofiness, which made it fun to watch, but hard to understand. All of the characters played their parts well so it was entertaining to see them in character, and pretending to be people from the book.
• Compare/Contrast with own team video. My group’s video was all over the place, and there was a lot going on. This group’s video was in the same setting the whole time, which made it easier to follow along and understand. However with my video, it may have been a little bit more interesting because it was all over the place, instead of just in one setting the entire time.This group did not have a scene from the movie, like my group’s video did.
• Anything you wish your team thought of? An interview show, or a more formal interview. My group did not do a formal interview, whereas this group sat down and had an interview, which may have made it more interesting to the viewers.

Which Book Would I Save?

Twilight, without a doubt. This book is a great story about a world that is make believe, and interesting. The story of Twilight is one of true love, and can be enjoyed by many, even if they don't believe in vampires. I like this book because I think that it opens up one's mind to another world, and lets them escape reality while reading it. 

I think that in the world of Fahrenheit 451, Twilight would definitely be illegal because it gives people a false sense of another world. The authorities in Fahrenheit 451 do not want people to have to think about anything other than the world that they are living in. One thing that was said continuously throughout Fahrenheit 451 was that when reading books, it takes you away form reality. That is exactly what this book does, it gives the sense of another world, and a different reality. 

Based on what I know about Twilight, I think that this book is worth saving because it is a fantasy reading. Both adults and children can enjoy this book, and the love story that is within it.

I think that my choice of book would be good in a new society because it gives people a chance to imagine what other things and worlds are like. It may be a chance to get away form reality, but that is not necessarily a bad thing.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Juu0OwAACAAJ&dq=twilight

Mountain View Field Trip!

On Friday, my CST 104 class took a trip to Mountain View, a town that is home to the Computer History Museum, and the world famous Googleplex. When we arrived to the Computer History museum, we were immediately entertained with an explanation and visual display of The Babbage Engine. This was very interesting, and kept my attention while the employees of the museum shared their knowledge of the history of The Babbage Engine and cranked it a few times so that every student could see what it really did. After the Babbage Engine presentation, we were free to roam around the museum on our own. There were old computers, old video games, anything that you could think of that was technology prone was there. It was so interesting to see all of what old computers really used to look and function like. After the museum, we ate lunch and took off to the Googleplex. This place was amazing, and was it was so interesting to see how many people put work into making Google world-wide known. There were cafes everywhere and friendly people around every corner. What I found that was really cool about the Googleplex was that it seemed as though they were just trying to make the work place a fun and interesting, so that their employees actually wanted to go to work, and they can enjoy going to work. Overall, this field trip was awesome, and it really opened my mind to something I didn't know before.