Blogcoven

When mid-June comes around, I will be the last Covenator in education. I was ecstatic to hear that Dr. Dixie has achieved the summit of her work, and I hope to plant my flag on the doctoral mountaintop with hers.

To put it in the vernacular, I hope you will join me in a “Woot! Gratz!”.

Life will be changing for me soon. This has been my mantra for the last few months as I work through the thesis and my job. It’s going slowly, and, yes, I am annoyed that I have not finished in a more timely fashion, but I will finish.

There’s a whole world of stuff I want to broaden my research into. We’re coming into an age where some of the stuff I have been interested in since my final year work in Engineering is coming to a head. We saw some of the applications of having GPS-equipped, always-online devices, and I can’t wait to see how it all pans out.

We’re still probably a year to three years from the full experience, but when it comes life should be improved.

When I watch an old movie, I am always struck by how things like mobile phones change the drama. It’s a lot harder to isolate people when they can just ring anyone, anywhere.

This spoof of 24 is a good example of where we are now: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1788161

I think that in the next generation of kids, getting lost will be like that – a truly exceptional state which happens only when you combine several unlikely events. Consider someone who, for their entire lives has been able to hit the maps button on a 3g phone and get their location and a route anywhere.

The Blair Witch will be an odd movie for the children of the 2010s.