Hmm...It smells like another ArcGIS day to me!

Today we learned how to complete our maps and make them look all professional and pretty. We trimmed our edges, added a grid, made a legend, north arrow, scale and added a title. You can either finish these features in ArcGIS, or you can just open it up in Illustrator. Whatever you feel most comfortable with.

I had a little trouble again figuring out my editor toolbar, but I think I got it now.

The last movie I saw was Stranger Then Fiction for FHE. Everyone talks about how funny it is and how it's one of their favorite movies, but I had never seen it, so it was good to see what all the hype was about. Funny movie, intriguing plot, interesting characters.

The last movie I saw in a theater was actually Twilight with my little brother. I hadn't read any of the books or anything, but my little brother had and he really wanted to see it, so we thought we'd go when we were done with our homework. It wasn't bad. It wasn't great, but it wasn't bad.

GPS Day

Today we learned about GPS, and that was super cool. Though I am familiar with running a GPS device, I didn't know a lot of the terminology, so that was very helpful. I'm looking forward to learning how to compile it with ArcGIS for 410, since I didn't really catch most of that this class period. Good times ahead, good times.

The hardest things I have to do in the next two weeks would probably be my Mineralogy final. I have some major ground to cover, it'll be intense.

ArcGIS

Today we learned more about ArcGIS. We made labels and colored our polygons.

I missed last class, so I'm a bit behind, but hopefully I'll be caught up soon.

One of my favorite websites to go to is imdb.com. It stands for the "internet movie database" and it's pretty much just a collection of filmographies and film facts. I go there just because I can't stand it when you're watching a movie and you recognize and actor/actress and you can't remember what you've seen them in. imdb will tell you. It's handy. I like it.

ARCGis Day 2 (or, arcgisday2 I should say...)

Wow, ARCGis is finniky! Sheesh. Today we learned about shapefiles, I'm still not sure what I'm anchoring all this information to, but I hope I'll be there someday soon.

I'm still not sure quite how to do georeferencing, I'll have to get more help on that on Monday.

I start listening to Christmas music whenever I so desire. Sometimes that means December, and sometimes that means June. Christmas spirit all year round!

ARCGis Day

Holy GeoRef Batman! That was pretty dense. I'm not sure I really caught all of that. I'm still not sure how to do the reference points. It seemed like a pretty cool program, but I couldn't really seem to make it work very well for me. I'll probably be coming in early tomorrow to get a few more pointers on it.

I think my favorite book I've been reading lately is the Book of Mormon. Definitely a thriller! Besides that I'm re-reading the Narnia series. I've been on a huge C.S. Lewis fix this last year or so. That man is the bomb! I think the Screwtape Letters is my favorite so far, but I am definitely loving the Christian symbology and subtle philosophies he puts in the Narnia books. Great stuff!

ArcGIS Day - It's all news to me!

Today we started learning about ArcGIS. We didn't get through too much information about it, it seems like a pretty complicated program, but I am excited to learn more.

Things I understand/learned about ArcGIS = little

Things I don't understand = most of it. But it's early yet.

Hmm, my favorite place to eat changes by the day. I'm a variety girl. Guru's is always good, I always gain like, 10lbs when I eat at the Lotus Garden, and I often eat at the Creamery. But none of these places come close to encroaching upon mother's kitchen. Whewee that's good!

Review Day

Today we reviewed for our test which was really good. I'm always better at learning things with repetition, so a lot more things made sense to me today.

I think I understood everything Nichole said, I don't believe I missed anything.

So today for joke time, I'll tell you one that my calculus teacher said this morning. Please note that it was my math teacher who told me this. "What do mathematicians use for birth control? Their personalities." Ha ha, I couldn't believe he told us that, and the funny thing is that his son is actually in that class. I don't know why we find self-deprecation so funny. It's an interesting thing about human nature.