This book was probably my favourite out of the four. I’m not entirely sure if that’s due to it’s relation to my own life(trust me, we’re gonna get into that down the line of the blog), or rather that the author, Witt, is a rather good story teller. You can tell from his tone of […]
December 16, 2018
December 13, 2018
I’m not a big fan of biographies
I’m fairly certain that biographies are the hardest to quote. I believe that I get to0 wrapped up in the life story of another person. That is to say that if I quote from this book for the final paper, I feel as if it might be strained quotes to say the least. Claude Shannon […]
December 10, 2018
A Blog Dedicated to the Shallows
SO, my plan is to make a blog post for each corresponding book that you assigned to us as I reread them in an attempt to prepare for our final project. Within each blog, I shall be posting my notes regarding what specifically I am reading. These posts may be a little less informal due […]
November 29, 2018
A summarization of my feelings towards Copyright
So, much like the other day, my family had a very in depth and heavy conversation/debate regarding the topic of conspiracies. I’m a well-known conspiracy theorist in my family, I mean, what can I say, I like to stir the pot. That being said, I seriously have a problem with the apparent relation between Disney […]
October 30, 2018
Disco Music
FYI, I worked on this with Rebecca McLaughlin, so apologies if ours seem similar. First and foremost, Google’s Ngram Viewer is kind of useless when it comes to the word Disco. This is mostly due to the fact disco is apparently counts as a prefix, so the use of the ‘word’ can be traced easily […]
October 23, 2018
10/22/2018
Whew talked about a class with a strained discussion piece. Strained not in it’s relevance, but in its contents related and derived from the Civil War. I thought that overall the discussion of the Civil War was interesting, but it lead to a sort of static to cover the main point of Authoritarianism in information. […]
October 15, 2018
Another Series of dates
The Remainder of September mostly seemed to focus on the finalization of the Cold War. Along with this we seemed to talk quite a bit on Claude Shannon and his influence on the modern, technological world that we find ourselves in today. I’m glad that we spent a portion of time to discuss Claude Shannon, […]
September 19, 2018
Blog Entry for 09/10, 09/12, and 09/18
I want to apologize for forcing three dates into one blog, but, besides the fact that I was just off schedule for writing these blogs, I feel as if these last three classes were good to go together. 9/10 So, this whole class period was basically a review/discussion on the book The Shallows. I’m not […]
August 31, 2018
Class 2 8/29/2018
Well honestly I think I can say that A. my professor has revealed himself to be Irish(I feel like a moron for missing his name during the first class) and B. That apparently my generations taste for music has been highly impoverished due to the fact that we’ve compressed it to a felt-like non-existence. While […]
August 27, 2018
First Class, 8/27/2018
This course will explore the history of American music and music technology, focusing especially on digital technology as it developed after WWII. When I first heard this description of the class, at the start of the class of course, I of course took it as a joke, for that’s what I legitimately thought it was. […]