Hey Jimmy!

I had to leave class to take care of some business, so I missed the all-important conclusion. The question now is: what did I miss?

Also, what's happening for next week, if anything was mentioned?

Tomorrow

Hi all,
Remember to wear stuff that you can sweat in (doesn't mean you will:).
Also, please bring a ruler and sketchpad (i.e., pad of paper).

See you at 1:30

cls.

Lost & Found

Somebody seems to have lost a clear-white plastic folder in the CDA Open Access Lab. "nacho" was written in a circle that was drawn on some paper. The class outline was also inside.

It's been put into the closet of the lab for safekeeping. Just ask a lab monitor to have it opened for you.

dual-core madness...

It's the dawn of the new computer season... with PCI-express, dual-channel memory, and dual-core systems...

Now, I've seen some P4's doing the dual-core thing and registering in our happy ctrl-alt-delete task manager as having effectively 2 processors...

The question now -- would that be the same effect for the dual-core Athlon 64 X2's? And if so... Does it need to have a motherboard specifically designed (or updated with a bios) to support taking advantage of both those cores?

It's been a long summer, with information difficult to find about these things. I'm starting to think about building a microATX system that I could easily carry around, so suggestions on motherboards would be good too. Of course, I would like dual-core or dual-processors, and dual-channel memory.

Maybe I should look into P4 systems instead...? At one point, it seemed cheaper to get a dual-xeon system rather than a dual-core Athlon.

*lost and confused in the sea of madness that is duality*
(ooo... it's getting related to the class...)

Readers are In

Hi All,

The readers are finished. You can start picking them up from Mich Sardella's office
today after 2:00 PM. The deal was last year that if you paid your lab fees, that would cover the cost of the readers. If you haven't or are from another program, then talk with Mich.

Her office is EV-6771

There are two readings listed in the reader (Kruger and Bergson) which are online.

Happy reading!

cls

ew... lameness

wow... i've just read half of this David Abram's stuff... and man, he's soooooooooooo lame!!

not like anybody's likely to read this before class tomorrow... meh.

admittedly, maybe he's not so bad now, after his views have been opened... but wow... such a western-washed boy before he went on that trip... incredible... just incredible...

i appreciate that he's got a better view of the world - and impressed that he's able to recount the experience in such an eloquent manner - but wow... he got paid to do this? where's my cut - just for having grown up with all that experience, damnit!? *bitterness*

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[addition - finished reading] okay... finished reading his article... and LAME!!! (at least, that's what it stands at after his first chapter) Why? maybe we'll find out in class. >_>

Phenomenology Overview

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology

Networked Performance

This is slightly jumping ahead, but here is a rich resource and ongoing project into "networked performance" practice,
partially involving the design of responsive spaces. www.turbulence.org/blog/index.html.

Test

this is just a post test

Immersive Spaces-Readings Week II

Hi All,
The blog is now up. I will be shortly sending you the first set of readings as PDF attachments. We've run into some copyright issues with the readers so rather than delaying things, I've scanned and PDF'ed the readings from David Abram and
Merleau-Ponty for next week. The readers should be completed by Wednesday next week.
The scans are not fantastic but they are legible. I'll soon be posting a couple of questions of my own as well...to help heat up the discussion. I'll also post tomorrow what materials you should bring to class on Wed.
Happy Reading!
cls