Just sat through the final class for Plate Tectonics. That was fun - I just love the whole continental collisions thing. Lots of neato stuff going on there. As for my near future plans, I will be taking a bit of time off to get things together and plan a course of action - maybe make some money, too. I will need it to fund my research - at least the field work part of it. I have already started printing out articles regarding the K-T transition along with material on the Deccans and the Cretaceous Normal Superchron. Yeah, I like to look at the really big picture. If I had remembered to bring the articles I have so far with me today I could have typed up the beginnings of the bibliography this evening - but I was more concerned with the class stuff to toss them into my backpack. That's alright, I have enough to get accomplished tonight anyway.
I did start that new newsletter style blog (gnewsletter.blogspot.com) - I am hoping to keep it a monthly thing only - but I can alter that plan if I wish - because it is mine to play with as I wish. Another thing I am hoping to do in the very near future is to do a freebie research project which I will post right here on this site. I want to do it to maximize what I have learned in the class I just took - and yes, it will be on my project topic - the Simplon Fault Zone. It will be much more detailed and extensive than my presentation was - just because I can continue with what I started. I get like this - I feel that my presentation was unfinished - that's me, my own worst critic. And for once, I'd just like to finish something I started to my own satisfaction. While it's on my mind, I will continue. Once I get into the reading and research of the K-T project - I'll want to focus all my study time on that topic - without the feeling of having unfinished business to deal with on a prior commitment.
As for the class project itself, I found the Powerpoint software that's currently available to be not as user friendly as it used to be. What is the point or purpose of having a blank slide? Why did they do away with the nicer backgrounds and the useful templates? I liked it better when you could choose various ways of placing images with captions. The latest version just does not do a damn thing for me. I do have an idea I want to try out to alleviate the problem. Put each slide together in Word then cut and paste it into Powerpoint. That way I can put the images and captions any way I want - before applying it all to the slides. Hopefully, it'll work.
As far as writing the research findings up with my own takes on various issues is concerned - I am quite good a research writing. As a matter of fact, the first time I ever took Introduction to Philosophy of Science, I got an A for the course. That was literally the first philosophy course I ever took. The instructor could tell that I was a scientist studying the geosciences due to my examples and my point of view was - as he called it, 'unique'. There are a few things I have never ever been accused of on any paper I have written for any college class - mostly because I would not do them because they are counterintuitive and counterproductive: cheating, plagiarism, and being off topic [the last I was accused of by one Peter Gildehuys, but he was the one off - since everyone I showed the paper to since his class said that it was absolutely on topic and that he must've been smoking something nasty to not realize it - so, I do not count anything he would ever say to be valid or of the real world - but he's an unethical and amoral ass, so no biggie there.]
One more little issue that I brought up in an earlier posting. I wanted to start posting my old papers online, possibly here on my blog. Well, I did find out something that I can do and I should be able to link them each to this site without any major problems. I have to look into them and see how to get them up and running and out there in cyberspace. As far as the Intelligent Design essays, I have every one of them saved and ready for uploading, as soon as I know what I am doing technology-wise. Each has a different title and they're each different since they were all from four different classes. But each earned an A - so they all go up. Stuff to do, stuff to do!
Hopefully, with a little luck, my next post will be something of an abstract for the Simplon Online Research Project. Hey, if artists can do freebies to get their stuff out there, then so can scientists! YES!!!
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