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Category: School
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Justice, Part 2
Continuing with my look at the Herbert Packer paper, Two Models of the Criminal Process, which I started yesterday. There are many problematic areas of the Justice System as it stands now. The pure Due Process model is ideal, but as I pointed out yesterday, reality is closer to a blend of the Crime Control…
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Justice, Part 1
Conflict Within the System I’m taking a criminal justice class this semester, and because I’m busy enough for the time that reading outside what I’m studying isn’t really happening (like the industry reading I usually do to find blog topics) you all get to follow along with what I’m learning for school. Since the two…
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Before the Black Death
There was Justinian’s Plague. Blamed for, among other things, the fall of Rome, it devastated Europe in a time most of us know little about. I wrote a short (very short) paper on it for class, which I am sharing. Also, in an endeavour to get to know Photoshop better, I created a bit of…
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Morning Cuppa
I will be back later – I think – to write something for the blog. But this morning I have to get laundry done, and homework, and all the other sundry things that pile up into the slot called ‘day off.’ Which is a silly name, because there’s no off about it. That, and I…
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Review: The New School
This book comes too late for me. But it might be in time for my kids, and I plan to present my eldest with a copy soon, as she heads into her sophmore year of high school. But as I enter my Junior year as a college student, pursuing a dual degree in Microbiology and…
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Bunny Trails
It’s a cool and rainy morning here in Ohio, and I’m contemplating my schedule for the day. Nothing terribly exciting, I’m afraid. Working on the freelance editing gig, doing more homework… I need to get the calculations for the titration curves down pat, he’s threatening us with a quiz on just them, and unlike the…
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Autodidact
Teaching oneself has never been easier in this day and age. Even for college-level work, there are more sites out there than I could name, youtube is chock-full of lessons, lectures, and useful hints for remembering chunks of necessary data. I’m up to my eyeballs in Chemistry as I have another exam today. Rushing through…
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Dirty Little Secret
We are capable of more than we are asked to do. I have discovered this over the years as I gained in experience, learned that I have a decidedly not-normal life, and have observed other, more normal, people. Recently I keep hearing how astonished people are that I can do what I do. I’ll let…
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A Brain for Art and Science
I think some of you know that I’m taking an intensive Chemistry class this summer, to finish up General Chem and prepare to take Organic Chemistry this fall. It’s nothing super complicated, the last chapter was boiling point elevation, freezing point depression, vapor pressure… this chapter we will finish tomorrow and then an exam for…
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Launch Day!
It’s official, Trickster Noir is available for purchase. Print, ebooks for kindle, nook, and more, all up and ready to buy. If you enjoyed Pixie Noir, you will enjoy this tale of what comes after that story closed. I feel a little awkward talking about my own book, so hopefully a few fans will make…
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Chemistry?
I like chemistry. But I’ve been sick for two days, and that means I’m scrambling to finish my homework for today’s class, and… have no time to post here. So, if you want to see an example: Warm objects emit electromagnetic radiation in the infrared region. Heat lamps employ this principle to generate infrared radiation.…
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‘Rithmatic
I’m really struggling with precalculus this semester. I don’t know how much of it is me, and how much is an instructor whose idea of teaching is to write things on the board as fast as he can, stopping occasionally to say ‘oops, I made a mistake,’ while never telling us what we’re supposed to…