Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Media I use regularly

Here is a list of the media I use on a regular basis. Actually I just found out that my previous post didn't go published. As you can see blogging is not in the list :p, but it will be from now on.
  • Music
    • Medium
      • Pandora
      • Grooveshark
      • Hard drive with tons of mp3
      • Radio
    • Content
      • Classic Rock
      • Latin music
      • Chill out
      • Some country since I arrived to TX
  • TV & Video
    • Medium
      • DirectTV HD DVR (That is what I used when I was in Colombia, don't have cable here)
      • InternetTV
      • DVD series
      • YouTube
      • Content
        • Comedy series (seinfield, 2.5 men, futurama, friends...)
        • Sci Fi (Firefly..)
        • Action (band of brothers, prision break, el cartel..)
    • Social Networking
      • Medium
        • Facebook
        • Google+
        • LinkedIn
        • Content
          • Procrastination Material
      • Reading
        • Medium
          • Paper Books
          • PDFs
        • Content
          • Fiction novels (Enders Game, Foundation Series, Lord of the rings...)
          • Design Books (Hamlet on the holodeck, Instructional Design...)
          • Academic Papers
      • Personal Communication
        • Medium
          • Email (Gmail, hotmail, facebook, tamu, yahoo)
          • Txt Messages
          • Facebook Messages
          • Local calls (verizon)
          • International calls (google voice, skype)
        • Content
          • None of your buisness
      • Videogames
        • Medium
          • Nintendo Wii
          • Xbox360
          • Internet flash games
          • Android Apps
          • PC games
        • Content
          • Medal of honor
          • Wii Sports
          • Angry Birds
          • Age of empires
          • Call of duty
          • Halo

        Thursday, January 26, 2012

        Welcome to CPSC 445/656: Computers and New Media

        I am taking this course because I have always been passionate about the ways new media can change the way we communicate and entertain. I took a class with the same name but given by the Arts department during my undergrad in Colombia. It was by far my favorite class outside of computer science.

        This is the third class I take with Dr Shipman. I am currently in the Sketch Recognition Lab, and I enjoy it very much. I plan to take some fresh and interesting ideas that hopefully I can apply to my research.