Monday, 9 December 2013

HCI group cw links



Websites I have bookmarked regarding the use of HCI in Apps.
I know it's a little unorthodox, but I couldn't think of a neater way to link you to these.

"Designing Accessible Applications"
"What font should I use"
Those lecture things you've probably already seen
About text and background colours
Theo Mandel -Golden rules of HCI chapter5

Websites I have not really read yet, but intend to:
Someone's Thesis on UI
Report on Mobile Web accessibility 

~~~~~~~~~General links about Apps~~~~~~~~
Engaging Apps - I'm probably going to veer into 'apps in general' as well as 'apps in tourism' in my lit review bits. 
A look at what makes good apps great

Writing a literature reveiw

Saturday, 5 October 2013

Slipping

My eating habits are waay off, and this is not a good sign. I'm doing the thing again.
At the moment I'm still mostly eating, so that's good, but it's the start of a slippery slope of unstructured time-scales and disorganisation.

Yesterday I skipped breakfast and lunch, had rhubarb pie at about six, and some kind of savoury food at about maybe eleven. I am really going to need to get some more structure over here. I also need to do something. Like a thing that isn't necessary for my living (like going out to buy food), and maybe something not organised by someone else. I need to get off my butt and do something recreational out side, while being very aware that I am doing this to get out of the house and for no other reason. If I could get out the house early enough I would go running. I'm really craving some running sometimes. Maybe to some good old Radio Able.

Also my Brother is the most amazing because he just bought me FF7. He is the best.
I am torn between playing it, and not playing it because I'm supposed to be working really hard, so I think I might play it after I have done some really hard work. Now I just need to do some really hard work.

I think my state of unpacked is starting to get to me, and this may well be the cause of my unstructured routines and that feeling of something. Things are in boxes and bags and everything seems so disorganised. Everything is a mess, but more than that a mess of things that have never been put in the right place. Things have no place, places need to be found, things need to be moved but they just keep moving in circles.
Maybe if I fix this everything will go back to normal.

My new espresso thing makes good coffee (and satisfying bubbly noises.) I offered some to my hall mate, but I'm not sure he understood what I was saying. I would kind of like for there to be a higher proportion of native English speakers in the kitchen.
I would kind of like to be able to go for late night runs without people declaring it unsafe. I've got some creepy things to listen to, and I think it would be nice to listen to them while running through the night.
If it got too creepy I could always run a little faster ;)
Besides I like the night.

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Post- Time Skip arrival

Hey guys, guess who?
That's right: ME!
Or in terms of metaphorical-verse world thing: post-time-skip!Me ! (Because I'm counting last year as a time-skip. I think it serves the same purpose and fits in quite well that way.)

I'm back at LoBro, and getting ready to rock the scene with my awesome presence. I was a bit upset at first because the university messed up all the room bookings and now I'm not in the hall I was supposed to be, being instead further from my lecture halls and not with an en-suit (it also has much narrower hallways), and those of you who know me may know that I get a bit upset with last minute change of plans and expectations (amusing there actually were plans or expectations.) However as said by the great Sid the sloth 'you know me, I'm to lazy to hold a grudge.' I've got a room, internet connection and coffee, so things are fine. I can't really be upset for more than a day anyway. 
My hall mates seem nice from what I've seen so far. They're mostly international students, I guess from China as we seem to have some sort of 'third years from China' thing going on.
I'll probably talk more to them later.
I hope they don't think me weird, as I've spent a lot of time watching TMNT and as of today Sailor Moon, and now I'm listening to the levian polka pretty much on repeat.
If anyone recognises that just from audio, they've probably watched too much of the shows themselves anyway. Except maybe the levian polka. 

Well I seem to be running late again, you know how it is: Things to do, places to be.
Till next time, I leave you with this cool 'hands snapping things to the tune of the levian polka' because I rather like it. 

Friday, 12 July 2013

Three Months Later

Hey Guuuuuuuiz!
I'm not going to apologise for it being so long because really, is it ever not?
It's been a weird day, and I'm starting to regret the decision to have really stodgy cake and custard for dinner (it wasn't actually supposed to be that stodgy.)
I think at some point it was supposed to somehow symbolise the chaos of my life now that my family has seemingly abandoned me.
Now I'm just sick of stodgy rubbish tasting cake.

It's been three months since my last update. I still haven't finished any of my drawing projects, or my dissertation, but I have seen shawn of the dead, started portal 2 (Wheatly yay! OuO), came second in a pub dartz game (while only hitting the correct area of the darts board once) and caught up with Homestuck.

I also finished Mystery Incorporated. This is one of the many reasons I need my sister back: No one reacts the right way when I try to tell them about this. I've got lots of 'that doesn't sound like the scooby doo I used to watch' or 'Why were you even watching Scooby doo?', but what I really want is someone to talk through why time travel was even involved in this situation, and how I'm supposed to feel about a) literally everyone dying, and b) the universe being reset, and whether anything we saw actually happened any-more.  I know what I was sort of hoping for the last episode, and in a way it did all happen, it's just that the utter destruction of the entire Mystery Incorporated universe as I knew it sort of put a dampener on that for me.

I don't really have much cool to say, but if I find some I'll try and come back here and let you know.
In this sudden absence of family and like minded same show watching peeps, you never know, maybe I'll come back and start theorising over stuff here. It'll be just like the good old days of 3am Trock and fairy lights. Just with less 3am, trock or fairy lights.

Also I'm still sort of hoping that the Cravendale bar crew are going come back in an epic hero moment to vanquish the evil thumb-cats.