Helianthus

Citizens! We must rise up against the scourge that is Powerpoint abuse! Specifically, against the crippling Powerpoint addiction that grips some of my LIS profs! Because seriously, wtf summer cataloguing class instructor, you REALLY had to stick this week's "lecture" in 23 separate PP files instead of, like, a couple of Word documents? Or a handful of HTML files? Really, you can add chintzy clipart to a web page if it's that important to you.

I shit you not. Twenty-three. A couple of them may be redundant; it's a little hard to tell what with my HEAD EXPLODING. I do a lot of my work by diving straight into assignments and referring back to - well, in traditional classes, to the reading or the lecture notes. In online classes, to the lecture materials - which is why I prefer people who put their lecture materials in an easy-to-access format that I can search if I need to.

(Long travel post still to come. I just got sidetracked by this class's special brand of hell.)

....Star Trek replicators in an article about changing ideas on intellectual property and copyright. In the course of research for various classes this semester, I've also found a completely deadpan article about internet access for domestic animals with that "on the internet, no one knows you're a dog" cartoon as its epigraph, and another article casting the Microsoft Word paperclip in a remake of My Cousin Vinnie.

It's a lot more interesting than being an English major ever was.