Tuesday, December 9, 2008

And Now An Education is Complete

Conversations in Project 5 follow the same premise as in PROJECT 4; they are made using an instant message, but for Project 5, I concentrate on mixing reality. And this time there are two conversations, one with the same person from PROJECT 4, Jin and one with my friend, Lanae. I tried to link as many conversation points as possible after later copy/pasting them to my blog.
I like how in the conversations, reality can actually be mixed up, as in the conversation with Lanae where one reference she made was too vague for Google to find matches other than things like Russian resistance, or with Jin when he uses Chinese symbols, which I link to translated Google sites containing the same symbols, only to find out later that they mean "hehe," "what are you doing," and "Snowy." Often in conversations with people, they bombard me with more links than I can handle. It's fortunate that I got to as many as I did with the dificulties I was having opening Jin's YouTube finds. I guess it would be futile to try for a perfect conversation.
These conversations are from real life, and they talk about world-wide realities, from the pictures and video of my dogs that I uploaded to the blog to the current crisis in Darfur. Again for this project, as for the previous one, the conversations are aimless, except to follow the interesting, and as you can tell a little more in this one, to produce an acceptable project.
The Lanae conversation has an edited out portion where she starts talking about her x-boyfriend, not so much in response to the world peace question, but despite of it. Then after talking about the dogs and starting to talk about her furniture rearanging, she's aparently done for the night. A perfectly real conversation.
I really like in the Jin conversation when he found a funny video that I hadn't seen that was inspired by a web site that I had seen and he hadn't, that is also one from English 303 sylabus. It was exciting. I learn so much from other people about what can be found on the Internet that I consider it a full-circle moment when I was able to access for someone else something related to what they brought to the conversation. I'd like to show off and end with my favorite homestarrunner Strong Bad email, Caper.

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