so the baltimore sun is reporting that a bronze bust of frank zappa is going to be put up in baltimore. neat! i wonder when/where it’ll be set up? hopefully it’ll coincide with a zappa plays zappa concert, since no tour date for baltimore has been set yet.
#5059 – well… um…
um. so that post i made yesterday? you know the one where i said “as much as i’d like to try to change [scarlett johansson’s] mind about [getting married] by giving her upcoming album a good review on radio krud…”? that one? … um… well, what should i see arrive on my blackberry while at work but an email from a publicist who regularly sends bruno_boy and myself stuff:
From: Randi Kraemer
Subject: Scartlett Johansson Falling Down Music Video
Date: May 7, 2008 12:36:42 PM EDT
To: glenn@radiokrud.com
Hi Glenn,
Check out the all new Scarlett Johansson music video for her first single “Falling Down” on her debut album Anywhere I Lay My Head in stores May 20th. Rhino Entertainment and Atco Records present Scarlett Johansson’s debut CD release, Anywhere I Lay My Head, on May 20. The album features 10 Tom Waits covers and one original track. I have the CD available for review (if you have not already requested), listening party streams below featuring six tracks from the album, and other assets (album art, photos, press release, and bio) below. Please let me know if you are interested in featuring Scarlett on Radio KRUD.
damn right i asked for that cd! and the assets zip file has a few hi-res images and other press-packet stuff. oh publicists, you are such enablers!
#5058 – one last bit before the end of the semester
so my grades so far for my ethics in information systems class:
100% (current event)
98% (journal entry)
100% (journal entry)
100% (journal entry)
88% (midterm)
100% (research paper)
100% (journal entry)
that last journal entry was waived since we didn’t have time to do it, so our instructor gave us all 100%. i’m especially pleased with the research paper — i did mine on privacy with social networks. i didn’t even think that i did a great job, but my instructor told the class today before our exam that the papers were well written and definitely impressed her (which doesn’t happen often). she said that there were two big issues that she noticed:
#1: people wrote what they thought, or talked about things in the first person, or said things like “we think” or something totally bizarre like “let us discuss blah-blah-blah”. big no-nos for research papers where you’re only supposed to write about the research that you did and aren’t expected to talk about what you feel.
#2: people didn’t include in-text citations except for maybe 2 or 3 people (out of a class of 18).
i knew i didn’t do the things she mentioned in #1, and i knew i did #2 correctly (i’m surprised that i was only one of 2 or 3 people to do so), so that made me feel pretty good about it. i just checked the grade now and i’m really pleased with it. 😀
we had our final exam today — the instructor let us take it outside to complete if we wanted since it was so nice out… i figured “why not, won’t get a chance like this again!”, so i did mine outside. there were a few multiple-choice questions and true/false problems that tripped me up a little, but i think i did well.
only have one last thing to do for the end of the semester: need to finish the last reports on my project management class and submit those online tomorrow. other than that, everything else is done.
actually, while i’m logged in, lemme see my project management grades so far:
100% (project part 1)
100% (quiz 1)
95% (quiz 2)
90% (midterm exam)
project parts 2 and 3 aren’t listed in my grades online, but i seem to remember getting those back. i’ll have to double-check and email my instructor tomorrow.
technical writing:
85% (audience analysis)
88% (technical planning proposal)
100% (progress report)
90% (technical report)
no word yet on the grades for my user manual or my final exam.
who’s got two thumbs and totally rocked this semester? THIS GUY.
#5057 – i don't really follow celebrity news, but this is LAME CITY
bigangry, we need to stage a protest. like, NOW. that damn ryan reynolds is foiling my plan!
as much as i’d like to try to change her mind about the whole thing by giving her upcoming album a good review on radio krud, that’d be hard to do after watching the music video. ouch!
if anybody needs me, i’m going to be out drinking with woody allen.
