I'm a big note-taker. But not everything I write down or learn is strictly related to the course. Much of life-long learning comes from this, 'education in the margins.'
Physical Science:
Experiments on Youtube: "Don't try that at home. There are idiots who've done it for you."
Be careful with your hearing. It doesn't come back.
"Scriptures are like packets of light" -Richard G. Scott
"inasmuch" = proportionally. Alma 36:30
Powdered sugar is explosive: do with that what you will.
If you buy an older home, make sure it has copper, not aluminum wiring.
Work at your marriage--it takes work to fight the entropy of "increasing disorder."
The "When it rains, it pours" motto from Morton was coined just because they were the first company to figure out how to make salt that didn't stick together in humidity.
"God tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go." - Galileo
There are evidences of water on Mars, but no current water.
Skepticism doesn't kill science--it grows it.
Science does the almost impossible and gets a picture of a black hole. The press immediately responds with, "are you trying to make it higher resolution?" Typical.
We do need people who understand people.
ELANG 430:
The bigger the font, the closer you have to look (preventing errors)
Don't "false foreshadow" and have details that don't matter.
X-files: "There's another alien thing, there's another government thing. there's an alien government thing."
Be suspicious of everything.
That's the dream. Get paid to read books that you otherwise pay to read.
Learn to let go of commas and see big picture.
Be liberal with praise, even when you're in a hurry.
Jennifer Nielson: Psychology of Characters
A happy reader is an engaged reader
First lines and chapters. Get to extrordinary ASAP.
Twitter account: Brooding YA hero
Find what you like, become an expert, find a client
"I don't feel like being 'super Suzy' right now"
McKan's "Law": Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error.
McKan's "Law": Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error.
Book recommentations
Art History:
"Dante is bae. Dante is hell bae."
Italian Renaissance: women of the time period plucked their eyebrows and their hairlines. Who knew?
"Satan somehow turns into a woman in the Catholic narrative. So, you know. I hate that." -Prof. Hale
Oh to be a tourist in the 70s, before sites were popular.
Single candle= God's presence
The first-ever known painting of Michelangelo was a copy of a print.
"For me, the fact that archetypes pop up in other cultures and beliefs is actually proof that God exists." -Prof. Hale
They killed the two Venetian glass makers so NO ONE else could have the Palace of Mirrors.
"You know you'll have to ask him. Save it for the spirit world." -Prof. Hale
"Our brains are not as photogenic as we'd hope they could be." -Prof. Hale
Medieval History
"Oh, she's wearing pants? Feminist."-Prof. Wilcox
In chess, a pawn can become a queen, In Medieval times, a queen is merely a pawn.
We are so worried about bloodlines, but, anciently it wasn't strange for a king to marry the female slave of a conquered people.
"To what extent are you supposed to fight?"
Acting is 9/10 of action. Fake it til you make it.
Middle English becomes a big mash-up because of wars and politics.
A loved one, an "other < love one another
culture doesn't translate in the Bible
Victorian Periodical
Academic writing's basic purpose: to quote or be quoted.
Victorians did "Vinegar valentines" (anti-valentines)
Victorians were really in taxidermy.
You can't really know when people are telling the truth.
You torture the text long enough, it'll confess to anything
Middle class target why? "Poor people don't read, rich people don't care"-Joshua
Rubricated letters: Big fancy letters in Gothic text.
The ubiquity strategy.
If you torture the text long enough, it'll confess to anything.
Famous authors in their own "write"
"If you use one word when you could use ten, you're not really trying." -Prof. Horrocks
Prof. "Did you study any women?"
J: "Yes."
Prof.: "Who?"
J: "Um...letters from a homestead woman..."
Prof.: "Yep. That's the story of women in literature."
Prof.: "Yep. That's the story of women in literature."
Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel:
More than reading black words on a white page.
Know that you're loved.
My Musings:
Write in complete sentences. Write incomplete sentences.
Graduation= gradamnation (a life without student discounts, library access, etc.)
Macabre cards: Gothic Greetings, Bleak Birthdays, Horrid Holidays.
Recommendations/Favorites:
Do a fun interview with your kids every year and ask the same questions. You can make fun videos.
Hugh Nibley "Pride Cycle" talk.
Gunner glasses/ computer glasses: save your eyes from screens.
Halloween stuff, Joyce Carol Oats short story: "Where are you going, where have you been"
"You belong with Steve" hilarious music video.
"The Way of Joy" Greg Olsen
Tulip Magnolia trees
"These is My Words" Nancy Turner
Quotes:
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."-Albert Einstein
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