Thursday, September 5, 2013

The question that is highlighted stuck out to me in particular because it made me think, what are all the different kinds of tools that we use in pursuit of the truth? We employ and utilize the aid of machines as simple as pencils to the most complex spacecraft. I feel that if it weren't for machines, such as electron microscopes and radiation detection systems that are so precise, truth would still be much more clouded than it is currently. This leads me to the realization that no matter what we use to get closer to the truth, be it an apparatus or fabrication of materials or whatever, the origin of these powerful ways to the truth is within us. So truth no matter how distant it may seem is not completely impossible to obtain. As long as we keep searching and making up new ways to conduct that search, we will find truth, or at least be closer to it. 

Friday, August 23, 2013

Becoming a Maker

Last Thursday in English 1103, we began to explore the idea of being a maker. Being presented with a couple of options I chose the mmm tssss activity due to it's sound editing properties and my affinity to musical things. at first the editor seemed promising. A program that could record clips of sound from any where and automatically arrange them together sounded like a good time. contrarily though, the more i messed with it the more frustrations arose as i tried to wrestle my way to a satisfying creation. It wasn't until the end of our making time that i realized all of the mediums we were given the opportunity to used had limitations just like mine. This realization led me to conclude that due to my intrinsically infinite capacity to create and make like all humans, I was really the only limit between me and the desired end result of my creation.