Editing

I am aware that it is now February, but January flew by so I still consider this to be the beginning of the year. Moving on.
As this semester moves along its way there has come a time for editing. Changing, altering, readjusting, anytime anyone starts something new this time period comes around, and this semester follows that rule. I had thought that with one semester under my belt I had a handle on college. However, this is one of those extremely rare occasions when I, Erin Hamson, am wrong. I know you are all furiously recording this moment in your calendars and journals, go ahead, I'll wait. Are we all back?

DU's Defense

The following is the email the sports editor for the Daily Universe sent in defense of the paper:

Dear Erin Hamson,

Thank you for reading The Daily Universe and for responding. It's always great to know we have readers out there who pay attention to what we're doing.

First, I want you to know right away that we at The Daily Universe have no intention of discriminating against women or treating them unfairly. But I think where your argument might be a little misguided is that you're taking a stand for women's rights, when really this is an issue about sports journalism and not sexism.

Thursday is now Tuesday

Apparently to The Universe Thursday is now Tuesday. Don't ask me why this is, it just is.

The Daily Universe: A Rant

A long, long time ago, (in a galaxy far, far away...) it was decided that men and women are equal. So why can't a very nice university, BYU for example, that has a fairly good paper, the Daily Universe, treat us as such?

Warning: Below is a rant about how amazing BYU's Womens basket ball team is and how they deserve more page space than Jimmer Fredette the day after they pound the Utes. No offense to Jimmer, but he can wait.

Family History

These are some wordles I made about family history.


　



Wordles are a great way to express ideas in a picture. Not to mention fun and exciting to look at! They are fairly easy to create.
1) Ascertain that your computer likes you and is willing to obey.
2) Go to www.wordle.net
3) Click on the tab or link labeled "create".
4) Type or paste a bunch of text. The key here is that the words that you want biggest need to be typed the most. However, you need at least 15-20 different words to make your wordle's look their best.
5) Click "go".
6) Then using the "edit", "language", "font", "layout", and "color" tabs you can adjust nearly every feature of you picture.
7) Click "save to public gallery", and fill in the appropriate information.
8) Remember to write down the URL for your project! There is no way to search for Wordles. So unless you wrote it down you get to spend hours sifting through millions of pictures looking for yours.
9) Good luck!

A Digital Revolution

Tonight was the live presentation of final projects for my digital civilizations class! It has been an amazing semester and I've been able to gain many skills and insights from this wonderful class! Here is the video of the live presentation!


Watch live video from Digital Civilization on Justin.tv

In other news BYU v. UVU 74-47, with Jen being her normal awesome self!

Peanut Butter: As made by Starving Students

This post has been a long time coming, seeing as we actually made the peanut butter sometime in October when the weather was actually tolerable.

The logic was simple: All homemade foods taste better than store bought. (Take any example, bread, root beer, brownies.) Peanut butter tastes amazing. Make homemade peanut butter and it will taste even more amazing.

The question: what does even more amazing taste like?

Melanie's plan: Make homemade peanut butter and find out.

The Answer: Indescribably fantastic, especially with chocolate while watching UP.

How it all worked out: