My goal for the month of July was to complete Eric Meyer’s course “CSS Web Site Design” on lynda.com. And today, I finally finished the 5.88 hour course.
If you don’t know already, lynda.com is an online educational site offering hundred of ‘courses’ in everything ‘digital’ and computer related. Even though the site is (for me) is a self education endeavor, most of the courses that I’ve taken so far are college level instruction. You could get an entire college education just by sitting in front of your computer (a Macintosh for me). In fact, some colleges use lynda.com content in their own course offerings. As a true believer in continuing education, lynda.com is a fantastic site to ‘keep up’ and ‘stay current’.
Click on the icon below and you can ‘verify’ the courses that I’ve already taken.
Since I’m paying for this education myself, I’ve made a goal of completing at least one course each month. The subscription is only $25 a month, so it’s not as heavy a financial load as ‘real’ college or university tuition, but it’s still money and the only way to justify the monthly expense is to set a monthly goal.
Next month, I believe that I’ll finish the Imovie 09 training.
Here’s a very fast paced video slideshow of our 658 photos taken during our vacation to Mackinaw Island, Munising and Sault Ste Marie, Michigan in July 2010.
If you look close, the pattern on this geocache map (each white square icon marks a geocache) indicates the precise location where the Mother Ship will soon land.
I watched a documentary on Stephen Hawking the other night. Although I’ve known about him and his work for a long time, I’ve never really ‘noticed’ that he did most of this cosmology work while partially paralyzed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). His theoretical work on black holes and the big bang is renowned. He’s a published author on top of this!
I realize that he had quite a bit of help accomplishing all of this. Maybe the kind of help that most of us don’t have access too. But, it’s more this drive and ambition to accomplish and achieve that I admire and hope that I could find a smidgeon of it in my own life.
If anyone has an interest … April is the birth month of Mary Ward. And in case you don’t know who Mary Ward is, well, she is the first person to die in an motor vehicle accident. But she was more than that.
Of course, I found this bit of information when I googled the keyword phrase “first person to be killed in an auto accident”. This wikipedia article was the ranked near the top.
The article relates Mary Ward was a scientist, astronomer, author and an artist.
Born in April 1827, she was an inquisitive child. She became known for her studies of insects and contributed drawings and sketches to many scientific books and articles. She documented by illustration the building of the 58 ft Leviathan Telescope at Birr Castle. Later, she self published a book titled ” Sketches with the Microscope”.
Her tragic death occurred on August 29, 1869 when he was thrown off the experimental steam power automobile built by her cousins. She fell underneath one of the steel wheels. It broke her neck as it ran over her.
Came across this web site that takes your raw geocaching data from GroundSpeak and processes the data into neat and tidy charts and graphs. Here’s my numbers as of 4/7/10.
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Total: 464 finds
Total days since first find: 463 – Overall find Rate: 1/day, 7.02/week
Total days with a find: 140 (Every 3.3 days or 30.3% of your total days) – Average finds per caching day: 3.31
Best day: 2/28/09 – 10 finds
Most consecutive days with a find: 9 from 3/28/09 to 4/05/09
Longest caching drought: 28 days from 7/11/09 to 8/07/09
Average total cache difficulty: 1.6 – Average total terrain rating: 1.67
Average physical cache difficulty: 1.6 – Average physical terrain rating: 1.67 (Traditional, Multi, Unknown, Project APE, Letterbox)
Approximate cache-to-cache distance: 4204.19 miles (6765.99 kilometres) (Excludes locationless and known traveling caches)
Active Caches: 424 of the caches you’ve found are still active (91.4%)
Average log size: 20.2 words - Biggest log: 179 words - Shortest log: 2 words – Number of one-word logs: 0
During our visit with Jim and Kim in Scottsville, KY, we drove over to Barren Lake State Park. There was a geocache hidden in the park that we hiked to. This was Jim and Kim’s first geocache. The cache was hidden at the base of the tree that Stevie is standing on.
I watched a documentary on 
If anyone has an interest … April is the birth month of Mary Ward. And in case you don’t know who Mary Ward is, well, she is the first person to die in an motor vehicle accident. But she was more than that.
