Problem Solving
A busy day of thinking through XML structures, solving student software problems, and getting nervous about an upcoming presentation. What is this all about?
Meet EMMA. EMMA is the Electronic Markup Management Application, a product of the UGA Department of English. She's a writing environment, a text editor, a display generator, a--well, she's a lot of things. And even though she's cranky at times, we like her.
I'm currently working with the lead EMMA designer on a project template for students doing poetry explications. The idea is that the student will markup various features of the poem they are explicating so that the different markup schemes appear alongside the text of their actual explication. I'll try to come up with a better, sexier, less-dull-as-dishwater explanation someday. This is just the problem that's tickling my brain today.
Knitting
Of course, there are knitting brain teasers as well. I hit the end of the first skein of Regia that I'm using to make Lizz's Socks, so I had to pick up skein two. That, of course, requires hunting through the skein for the right color to complete the pattern. Handy ball winder to the rescue!
The scarf is still going strong. I want to finish it...it's cold! But I've got other things to do, so it waits.
Guest Kitty
Say hello to Gazoo, intoxicated recipient of a catnip mouse.
And here he is in a calmer moment. I think he's greeting his new roomies.
Gazoo is the son of my schoolchum, Valerie, and she loves her baby!