week #3, thing #7, technology

Unbelievable! If I stop at thing #7, I would be content. I just can't imagine what things #8-#23 are going to make me. All giddy! Browsing Infodoodads, I came across digg lab, dipity, and whatbird.com. I just get lost in this black hole of information: it's just endless. I picked three. One for myself, for school and just for fun. I listed them in that order. I sandwiched school. You just have to even if it's forced. "Put the red pen down," often says the right to the left. Just think it's like the day. Home, school, home. Perhaps, I'll find a digg story before leaving the house. At school, I can incorportate dipity timelines when studying a particular era in lit, for an author bio, or have students chart/plot out the events from a selection. Back home, start up birding using whatbird.com...Technology rocks. Let's all give fist pounds.

week #3, thing #6, flickr, mashups...

Flickr was fun. Mashups I found to be challenging. Sooo, I took the path of the least resistance. I thought to myself it was a lame thing to do, but when you start thinking the challenge a crisis, then it's time to take that path. Then, I read how that particular path is not viewed to be all that negative. Here we go, my first trading card. I wonder what it will be worth in twenty years.

















Senlin once wrote:
"Water takes the path of least resistance as it is pulled downhill by gravity. No one would suggest that this is the 'wrong' path, it is just the path that is determined by the laws of nature. Because water always takes the same least resistant course, it carves out its path. You could say that the grand canyon is a result of eons of water traveling along the path of least resistance. Yet, when the concept is applied to human behaviour, it somehow connotes laziness or lack of ambition. The least resistant path does not have to be an easy one. Is there merit in struggling, just for the sake of the struggle? If two paths lead us to the same place, is it not wiser to take the least resistant way? I'm not sure, but I do think that we could all benefit from being more like water. We're mostly made of it, after all - maybe we shouldn't be fighting our basic essence."