Island Five

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It’s hard to believe that more than a year has gone by since all of us met in TIC.

After hearing Lloyd’s lecture this morning I really do thing he’s right about everything he said. The people who become our friends in that “classroom without walls” will probably stay with us for a long time or even the rest of our lives.

This year, our little group stuck together to take Building Next-Generation Web Applications, which was not an easy class at all. We were introduced to the challenges and frustrations of web programming… which we haven’t overcome yet, I think.

I know a large portion of why I chose to return this year was because of the friends I made here.

more later…

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I spend a lot of Saturday cooped up on some boat, visiting cousins that I only knew existed the day before. It was fun and all but I liked walking around the marina, watching the birds and stuff (I didn’t like the smell, though. :-( ) Anyways…. I saw this seagull with a mauled mussel, but it was already finished eating. What made me look twice, though, was that the seagull was repeatedly picking up and then dropping the shell. I mean… it’s not like it was even trying to pick at the remains. The seagull picked up the mussel, looked around, dropped it, and then picked it up again. Over and over and over until I threw a rock at it. Then it scrammed.

That bird wasn’t the only one, though. I saw a bunch more, doing that. Makes me wonder if this is some kind of weird OCD that these avian have developed… It’s actually quite amusing if you see it for the first time.

Hm…. ATDP is going relatively well… the Web 2.0 class is still off to a slow start, but we’ve started learning PHP and JavaScript. yay TIC is doing well. They learned floats and assigned the group projects today. I’m still happy to see everyone there, every time.

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