Katie created the following video for one of her PhD courses. We have been looking for a good video hosting site to put this on, but all of them seem to distort it too much. The original is very clear, but here is the best we could get on Google Video:
It’s a great overview of the global HIV problem.
Nothing can get you in holiday mood like climbing around your roof on cold afternoon hanging cheap plastic light strands over the edge of your roof. Or maybe not, but it definitely reminds you that the big holiday is not too far away.
We decided to do something we usually don’t – put up some Christmas lights. Now, we’re not going to be winning and contests any time soon, but we are one of the few on our street. Now we just need to get some decorations on that live tree that we can’t get to stand up straight, and we’ll be in business.
For those who don’t know yet, I have passed the comprehensive exams for my degree program, and so I will truly be finished with my Master’s degree this month. Just a few more things to wrap up, and I am done. Done, done, done 🙂
Does anybody watch Heroes? That has got to be my favorite show on TV now. Well, we only really watch 3 three shows anyway, so I guess that might not be saying much. Last night’s cliffhanger (they don’t return until mid-January) was awesome. If you don’t watch Heroes, you can actually watch all episodes online here.
Well, not really. Just more of the same random babblings about life. Sorry that there haven’t been many updates recently. We have a little busy. I just took my comprehensive exams on Friday, so I have been studying like crazy since then. I think they went good, but we’ll find out on November 20th. Since I took the exams at UT Dallas, I got to hang out with my partners in crime from their business school’s Distance Education crew. We had a basic geek fest talking over cool technologies, virtual worlds, and looking at their sweet technology set-up. We need to start our own geek-con. Anyway, a good time (and Thai food) were had by all.
I’ve also been trying to get my Michael Knott tribute site ready for launch. I guess most of the people that read this don’t really even know who he is. But he’s one of my favorite musician/painters. He was once in a band with the legendary Dennis Dannell of Social Disctortion, before Dennis passed away. The band was called Strung Gurus, and they could have been great. Oh, well.
Also, as my semester winds down, I will try to get all of my grad school class projects here on this site. Speaking of this site, I am still tweaking on it. Soon, I hope to add some picture streams from Flickr and links to our Skype account. I will probably add some more security to this site before that, but it should be easy for most of you that know us to still get it 🙂
Also, I’m starting to max out my Google account, which gives me a free Blogger Beta account. So I decided to start the “Random Things I Think are Cool” blog… a place for me to geek out about technology, music, movies, or anything else I think is cool, without torturing my family and friends who read this but don’t care about my geek side.
Believe it or not, Katie is getting serious about posting her first blog entry here. Maybe she can write about the recent Pampered Chef party she hosted (which was a blast).
For those of you in Second Life, come say hello to me soon. Look for Tolkien Messlee.
I just finished another round of classes, so here is another class project:
https://mattcrosslin.com/archives/grad/EDTC6323/
This is a health site designed for the neighborhood that Katie works in.
I’ve always wondered if those HOV lanes really are worth it. But last week, we were going out to visit the site of our future house and decided to use the HOV. It was great zooming past all of the traffic clogging the highway. We were laughing, until we realized that this would be the mess WE would have to deal with if we moved to this city. So we decided to get a house somewhere else.
Now our counter tops actually match. We are a few hours away from a functional kitchen! Katie is getting ready for her new teaching position. She seems to be one of the few graduate assistants that has teaching experience. So that means she’ll be the best, right?
I was looking at different programs on the web yesterday and I came across this one: Master’s Degree in Ethnic Arts for Christians. What do you do for a job with that one? Sometimes don’t you wish you could just get a cool degree like that and not have to worry about whether or not you can be employed afterwards?