blake » project http://animivirtus.com/blake my life recorded Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:58:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 DIY Lightbox http://animivirtus.com/blake/diy-lightbox/ http://animivirtus.com/blake/diy-lightbox/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 23:03:47 +0000 Runeshai http://animivirtus.com/blake/?p=378 I wish I had teachers do cool, simple stuff like then when I was in school. Not only is it cheap and gets the job done, but it’s something the teacher took the effort and initiative to do outside of the classroom in order to teach more adequately the material to their students. In general, I think creative, crafty teachers are some of the best kind, and maybe it’s overkill to applaud them, but after the last year of making fruitless tuition payments, I applaud them whole-heartedly. Way to go, bigtreehouse!

The goal was to make a light box for my students to use that didn’t cost me an arm and a leg. Went to the second-hand store and found a florescent light… ($4.99 with 50% off) then noticed a suitcase/briefcase ($3.99 with 50% off). I got them both and started thinking of ways to put them together.

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]]> http://animivirtus.com/blake/diy-lightbox/feed/ 0 Productivity Day #6 http://animivirtus.com/blake/productivity-day-6/ http://animivirtus.com/blake/productivity-day-6/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:30:10 +0000 Runeshai http://blakejohnson.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/productivity-day-6/ So….the plan?
Yes… the plan.  I’m going to bring my dad to work for something he has to do apparently (which he only told me about last night, anticipating I’d not have anything else to do on a day without school or work), and after however long we’re going to be there I’ll bring him back home, and then I’ll get to work on doing something.  I’ve started right now working on my sister’s Christmas present, and it’s going to take a while but it’s going to get done.  The good part about it is that it happens in chunks of time, so I’ll be working on it just a bit and then have to let it do its own thing, so I’m free to get updated on my email, RSS feeds, or another projects I’m working on.  Otherwise, it just takes time.

Next update
I don’t have much else to say, since the past few days have really not worked out in my favor.  It seems life’s changing right now and not really in a good way.  I’m not going to go into depth here, but it’s not all that much fun.  I will update today about the methods I’m using to  plan the day and see if they’re more or less helpful than what I had been doing.  But I know I don’t like the hour-by-hour method, and I do like the general project outline list method, so I can look at it and determine which ones need working on the most.  I’ll update tonight with some ideas for how to digitize the whole thing, if I can come up with any.  That’s really the only thing I need to manage now.  But we’ll see how it goes.

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