In my Writing for Extra Terrestrials class today, we utilized Glide Writing which is a way to use symbols which have mulitple meanings that one may also morph together and animate as well.

I wanted to share because it is neat and encourage everyone to give it a try.

Unfortunately, you can not create your own symbols for the Glide language but I wish you could. Also some other features I wanted in the program as well are the ability to rotate symbols and to morph horizontally rather than always vertically.

This would be a neat program to create your own screensaver with the morphing and animating of your own symbols.

Go to the Glide website
Select “Glide Language”, Select “Collabyrinth” and then launch it and well the rest is explained in text.

I made a version of the first stanza of William Blake’s “The Tyger” with Glide and captured the screen image. Of course I couldn’t capture the animations I did forming the glyphs for “burning bright” and “forests of the night” for example but if you go the website, you’ll be able to see what I mean. It is rather amusing.

No More Shakespeare Abstracts.

No More Shakespeare Movie Reivews.

Also, just realized that Office and Scrubs appear online nbc.com so I don’t have to worry about missing them. So I am watching them currently.

Then back to reading Shakespeare articles. 8D

OK. This has no relation at all to English but I guess in a sense everything could relate to literary theory anyways…

So I’m pretty stoked about new Office and new Scrubs.

Probably the only weird enough person to drive across town to secure an individual TV at school to watch new Office and Scrubs while on laptop….

I love Scrubs, my number One Show, and Office, my number Two Show.

J.D./Turk clip from the new episode!

Last night went to A Fine Frenzy with my friends Katie and Ashlee in Denver.

If you haven’t heard Alison Sudol, it is a must.

This is her first headliner tour. She is beautiful, so nice, talkative, has a sense of humor, and interacted with audience. Also, her dress fit her very well and she drank tea on stage.

She sang her entire album, I believe, and also sang cover songs of two of her favorite bands: “I will follow you into the dark” by Death Cab for Cutie and “Across the Universe” by The Beatles.

Katie, Ashlee, and I leaned on the stage the entire time.

Afterwards. the band came out to meet people who stayed around. We had actually seen one of the members at a coffee shop before the show and he remembered seeing us so that was neat.

All three of us purchased shirts of different designs and Alison said I looked cute in mine. I was a bit flattered.

Since we had arrived at The Bluebird early, we picked up free posters. She signed each of ours personally. Well actually I had mine signed for the assistant manger of Laramie Hastings – Jeremy since he loves A Fine Frenzy but was unable to attend. I knew he’d love it. And well although other workers may think I’m a kiss ass, I receive a purge of pure joy causing others moments of happiness. I know Jeremy will be excited and this will bring me a moment of happiness as well.

I did ask her to sign my favorite hat on the white strip inside that could be used to hang it on a hat rack possibly. And well she did personally as well on that small space. Oh man so awesome…Alison Sudol’s signature in my favorite hat addressed to Ashley with a small message as well…

Katie, Ashlee, Alison, and I had our picture taken all together and I’m holding onto Alison. Picture was taken with Ashlee’s camera and well here it is:

Also learned something awesome about the name “A Fine Frenzy”. One of the shirts – the one that Ashlee purchased – had a couple birds and a quote from Shakespeare with the band name inside the quote as well. I asked Alison where the quote came from and she said from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. I thought that was pretty awesome…so this blog did after all relate to English major material.