Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Blog 2: Response to the Kidd, Hickey and Weschler articles


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  In this article, the author focuses on some comparisons between existing concepts, like left to right, bottom to top and big and small. In my opinion, the author wants to tell us we should have more than one points of view but not just follow the inertial thinking when we consider things.
  I find this article is hard to read, I have no idea who the enemy is at the beginning of reading and I am still not sure what is the main idea of the article. In another word, I do not know if I understand his idea correctly. I think it is better for him to add a paragraph to explain his main  idea, which will help readers understand.


2
  I find this replay on youtube and watch it no less than ten times, it is so amazing and I think it is one of the most excited moment in basketball history. Thanks to the author to let me see such a good replay.
  For something I dislike in this article. I think the followed part of the history of basketball is boring. which makes the article look like wikipedia. Well, at least for me, I hate history, so I will fall into sleep reading so long a history of basketball without any personal ideas from the author.


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  I am interested in this one because it is about modern computer technology. Computing abilities of human are limited but wisdom of human is unlimited. By computer, human can make many of their unimaginable thoughts come true. And simulating a human face by software is like a magic, I hope I will see a real film with no real human actors but all digital "stars".
  "We ask ourselves that question every day," one of the guys at ILM acknowledged, laughing. "Fortunately, it's not our job to answer it." I am interested in this question but the author does not explain more on it in the followed parts. Can digital characters replace real human actors to the end?

Monday, March 26, 2012

Blog 1: Introduce myself

  I am Wenhan Cao. English name is Eric. I am from Qingdao, China. I am a nerd, so coming to class, taking class and going back home is whay I do everyday in school. I used to play tennis but I have not played that for half year. My interest out of school(at home) are 1.all eletronic products,2.Japanese animations and 3. metal music.
  For the first one, the news of eletronic products everyday make me feel there is still a connection between the world and me. And I feel I am developping with the world from getting more and more information of the products.
  For the second one, it is totally a different world between the animation world and our real world. There are no pretense, cheating or mammonism but just all beauty things.
  For the third one, I like almost all metal songs especially death metal. This is a part of my life and I think I will die if I live without these songs. Listenning music is the biggest part of my everyday life.
  Here is the top 5 of my favorite bands.
  1.Devourment
  2.Kalmah
  3.Sonic syndicate
  4.Suicide Silence
  5.Slipknot
So this is me and nice to meet you.