Continued with lecture #8 and watched another Stargate Epsiode

I continued with lecture #8 watching a half hour more of that lecture.

I also watched another episode this time #7 in the first season of Stargate. This episode was called Thor's Hammer. This is where there is a way (Thor's Hammer) of getting the Goa'uld worm out of the host. But Daniel must destroy the hammer device to save Tilk. And thus Daniel looses his first chance at saving his wife from the Goa'uld.

This paragraph above could be seen to be fan fiction on the Internet which I studied earlier today in David Bell's Introduction to Cyberculture

I have watched up to the break in lecture #19 now and other study tasks continue.

I have watched up to the break in lecture #19 now. This concerned judicial interpretation.

I also was able to complete the readings in the required sourcebook readings for lecture #14. I have about 11 lectures worth of required readings to go including two chapters in the first term source book. I have 8 chapters to read in the second term sourcebook.

I am off shift now in my volunteer work and will be doing my monthly back ups of computer files at midnight tonight. For now I can study for the next few hours.

I watched another episode of Stargate SG1. This was episode #7 called Cold Lazarus. I also started to explore on-line resources for the Stargate Sg 1 role playing game this afternoon.

I printed out last year's course outline for the intellectual property course given by professor Sheryl Hamilton. I started to search out the course reading list and found the first two week's worth of reading. I can borrow some of these readings from our library. I can use a course reserve for one reading. One reading is from Shift magazine which is no longer in existance. Another reading was from a journal available on-line and I downloaded it but did not print it yet.

I would also like to find in my messy office the readings I printed from last years policing and surveilance course so I can begin again the readings from that course. I should also look into borrowing or buying the professor George Rigakos's book which is a study of a private security company.

I also checked the school web site today for course schedules for statistics courses and outlines for legal studies courses.

I voted in the Association of Internet Researchers Executive elections.

I guess I have had the right to vote in the Canadian Mathematics Society elections for a few years now but have not voted yet there. This year one of my bosses at school was up for election in the mathematics society but I did not vote. I did just vote by email for the Association of Internet Researchers executive. I was not really too aware of who I was voting for and have never met any of these candidates in real life. I did read the grad student bios and then just voted on my perceived assessment of the other candidates activity on the email list for this organisation. I also based it on the participation that I am aware of in committees and other jobs that the candidates have done as volunteers. Well that is done back to the books.

Completed chapter 8 in David Bell's cyberculture book.

Chapter 8 in David Bell's book looks at subcultures. He divides for analysis sake the subcultures into subcultures using cyberspace and subcultures about cyberspace. The former include fan culture, and conspiracy culture and the neo-right. The later include MUDers, cyberpunks, hackers and neoluddites. These are just examples for all that are possible with much overlap and combinations possible. This is all interesting and something to think about especially when he ends suggesting we priorise our time spent on line so that we don't risk drowning in the data stream. This immense size of the Internet and time spent on-line are concerns of mine.

Completed watching lecture #7 last night and started lecture #8 for a second time.

I watched lecture #7 for a second time and have started to watch lecture #8 for a second time now.

Watching lecture #19 this morning.

I am watching lecture #19 this morning and will continue to watch it today.

Reading David Bell's book.

I managed to complete reading chapter 7 in David Bell's book introducing cyberculture. This chapter 7 was the bodies in cyberculture chapter and ended with a look at anatomy as digital representations of the human body. This is the so called virtual human or medical learning tools of digitising the appearance and anatomy of dead bodies.

Watching public law lectures this afternoon and this evening.

I am really reviewing the second quarter of my public law course now. I feel I have gone over the first quarter of the course enough now. I have seen the first six lectures once, or twice in the cases of the first four lectures. I have also read all the source book readings and many of the extra readings in the first six lectures. So now I start the next six and completed watching lecture #7 just now for a second time.

My legal studies in terrorism and coping continue.

I started reading this book today: Webel, Charles P. Terror, Terrorism, and the Human Condition (New York: Palgrave, 2004).

I feel confident that I have learned lectures #1-#6.

I now feel confident that I have learned lectures #1-#6 and am watching lectures #7 & #8 today and maybe lectures #9 and #10 today. These are my public law lectures at Carleton University.

I may be able to do my final review of the first term by the end of the weekend given that we have a long weekend in Canada.

I am keen to study today. I will start my public law lectures on the TV and attempt to study all day.

I have woken up on Saturday morning when I am usually just going to sleep. I will attempt to read books and watch lectures all day.

I continued to study community mental health and public law.

I continued to read Tom Burns yesterday and also to watch public law lectures.

Recorded lecture #19 yesterday and watched 3 hours of lectures this morning.

I recorded but did not watch lecture #19. This morning when I got in from some socialising I watched some of lecture #4, #15, #9, and #6. I spent about three hours watching these lectures and took more notes than usual. I am feeling that I am ok with watching the lectures and do not need as much of a review of past lectures that I thought I needed. If I really had to review everything in the course I had thought needed reviewing yesterday, this would amount to 40 hours of TV watching. I don't think I need that much. Watching many of the lectures this morning made me realise I had seen these lecture already. But it does help me deepen my notes.

My volunteer position has added responsiblity now.

I have been elected president of our peer to peer self help group. I have served on this board from 1999-2002 and again this past year. I have been vice-president before and treasurer. I was secretary this last year and this coming year I will be president. Hopefully in my term as presdient I can get us some more funding. I will continue to study mental health issues and keep providing knowledgable leadership to this group.

Reading about Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams.

I am reading Tom Burns' Community Mental Health Teams: A Guide to Current
Practices (Oxford, UK: Oxford, 2004).

Tom Burns spent 10 years managing a generic community treatment team then 10
years managing an ACT team. He is a professor at Oxford University.

I spent the last four hours reading a few books and got chapter one of Tom
Burns book read. Here are some facts from chapter one to share with you.

Beside meds contributing to deinstitutionalisation also the welfare state
(i.e money to live outside the hospital) and various other societal
developments such as human rights have contributed to community living. Also
professional developments and the therapeutic community movement played a
role. Unlocked wards were developed in Britian in the late 1940's although
some these days in the early 2000's are going back to locked wards.

Italy outlawed mental health hospitals in 1978. Replaced them with community
health care teams.

It really goes in waves and each time we think we have the ideal thing.
Victorian hospitals were great in their day. Unshackling the insane was a
big move way back when. ECT was great in its day.


He pokes open and deepens my understanding of mental illness.

Completed grading the mid-terms.

Well I completed grading the mid-term papers now. I will now rest and then go to school for the labs later today. I will give the mid-terms back and receive the student's 4th lab for marking this week. I am also working 20 hours this week in security. I have a fair amount of time off of work this week too. I need to step up my own studies both of public law and other topics.

I got Q5 marked by 11:30, and will be working on Q1 from 12 to 1 AM.

This marking I do gets done in increments. Thus these posts accounting my progress question by question were formerly written only in my private pen and ink journal. I have been keeping various pen and ink journals since high school. I have one agenda book from high school which was an Economist yearbook. I also have pen and ink journals these days back to about 1994 in some sort or another. Since about 2003 I have kept my pen and ink journal on notebook paper in a standard binder and store them in a binder now putting them out of the active binder every time they are three months old.

Well I have only one Q and that is Q1 a simple standard deviation, mean calculation, and a box plot drawing with calculations to grade. Once this has been graded I will total marks and record them and print the marks in hard copy. I will start on this final Q in about ten minutes and I think it won't take more than one hour.

Finished marking Q4 and maybe I will get Q5 done by 11 PM.

Well I completed marking the poisson problem by 10 PM. Now I will mark Q5 and maybe get that done by 11 PM then Q1 done by midnight. Then I can go back to my own studies until 4 am.

Watched another Star Gate SG1 episode, "Brief Candle".

I watched another Star Gate SG1 espisode from the first season. I have now watched about 5 or 6 episodes plus the pilot episode and the movie. I am watching them almost perfectly in the correct order except for some very recent episodes watched with friends. We will create our characters this week on Wednesday but won't start playing until four weeks from now.

Almost done marking Q4. Hope to finish marking the mid-term by tomorrow early morning.

I have almost completed marking Q4 on the mid-term. Q4 is a poisson problem. I will complete Q4 by midnight then Q5 by 1 AM then go back to complete Q1 by 3 AM then record the marks and sleep.

I also have to pick and solve some problems for the other statistics course I am TA in. Then present these problems in tomorrow's tutorial.