The Incredible Edible Egg

The title is a little misleading: I did not eat the egg.

However, there are a number of things I could have done with this egg.  I will group them by stereotypes.

If I was:

• An Emo
• I could write poetry about the egg and how it is like me: hard on the outside, and squshy and gross on the inside.
• I could draw a dead face on it and sqush the yolk all over the table like brains.
• A Redneck
• I could see how many bottle rockets I could strap to it and send it into orbit.
• Less concerned with legality
• I could throw it at someone's house
• I could throw it at someone's car
• I could throw it at someone
• Less concerned with being original
• I could eat it (and defy death while doing it)
• I could give it to someone else
• I could draw a face on it and take a picture of it
• I could paint on it and take a picture of it
• I could take a picture of it

But in reality, I was:

• Trying to carry it while riding a motorcycle home
• I could try to hold it while piloting the motorcycle through traffic until my left hand cramped and I accidentally squished it against the clutch lever.  I could then spend half an hour after arriving home cleaning chicken egg off of the handlebars.

~TomBob

Class Recap: Day One

I didn't know what to expect from this class.  I'm still not exactly sure what to expect.  It reminds me of those college classes in cheesy movies where the professor dramatically throws apples or something.

I enjoy being creative.  Most people would say I'm pretty good at it, even.  But for me, creativity and art needs a purpose.  Creativity and art need to make the end product better.  Not just "different."

Case in point: the syllabus.  

On the one hand, there WAS a point to making it a "musical syllabus."  The idea was to get us thinking in new ways about old things.  On the other hand, it was different merely for the sake of being different.  The end result was much less effective than a traditional syllabus at doing what syllabi do: communicate information.  Does this make it a bad design choice?  Probably so.

I don't know if that makes me one of the "I'm just going to get an easy A in this class" students or not.  I look forward to the class regardless.  I know this class is about challenging the way we think.  I hope to be challenged, and I hope to challenge the way Beth thinks and the way my classmates think too; not only the other way around.

~TomBob

Written and posted while sitting in my pajamas in front of Stargate SG-1