Daily Stuff--10/6/2012

Languages--Italian:

I did pronunciation, grammar, vocab, reading, and writing for level 1, unit 1, lesson 2.

Articles:

There was an interesting article in the LA Times about Apple Maps. Apple has put together a team of ten of it's retail employees to manually find flaws in the app and submit them to the company. So far, there have already been significant improvements but it seems logical that the team would have to be much bigger in order to fix Apple Maps in a timely fashion.

Philosophy:

I read about knowledge, which is the awareness and understanding of reality. Gaining knowledge is the result of reason being applied to reality. Man draws conclusions of his surroundings through reason and makes sense of those observations through reality. The end result is knowledge gained.

Internships:

I read about T9 on nuance.com. It allows users to text faster using the nine keys on a standard cell phone but since most people use qwerty keyboards, this seems a bit outdated.

To-Do:

• Wake-up: 9:30 am
• Pack remaining items like contacts and toothbrush (10 minutes)
• Watch Praat tutorial video (1/2 hour)
• Lunch (1/2 hour)
• Done
• Practice using Praat some more (2 hours)
• Segmenting sounds
• Done
• Creating sounds
• Done
• Pick three possible arguments for Muir 50 essay for Monday (1/2 hour)
• Done
• Skim through chapter 2 of Italian textbook for next week (1 hour)
• Done
• Dinner (1 hour)
• Done
• Rosetta Stone (1 hour)
• Done
• Read chapter 3 for Phonetics (2 hours)
• Done. 3 hours
• ebook (1 hour)
• Finished chapter 8
• News (15 minutes)
• Done
• Sleep: 12 am Actual: 2:30 am