I finally got my laser etched moleskien today from Modfly!
I bought the Coffee Steam Large/Ruled for Jessica, and the Coffee Spill Small/Ruled for me. The artist Susan Rudat does some amazing artwork. The Coffee Steam is awesome, and definitly needs to be seen on the large one to appreciate all the details.
I know there is a huge moleskin following. I used to own a small/comic style one but I gave that to my cousin who is a much better artist. I decided to go with a Ruled version because I often want something to jot down notes with.
So far I only have a personal journal entry (which I'm debating on continuing) but I'm wondering I should turn it into a portable notepad...
California Students Rally Against Tuition Hikes
Video by Angel Luna Story by Felicia Vasquez
On April 21 st college students, professors, counselors throughout the state, started they're day before the sun rose. They loaded into buses, vans, and carpooled from they're campuses, headed for the state capital. All from different, schools, disciplines, backgrounds and class standings, they came together marching from Raley field to the state capitol, united by their concerns for the value of they're education. Or from Governor Schwarzenegger's perspective, the “devalue” of education. As of February the Governor sent out his 2008/2009 proposed budget for the state, cutting 4.8 billion from education.
As a recently transferred student from San Jose City College to San Francisco State University, this for me translates to less classes offered, an extended graduation date, possibly no financial aid(Cal-Grants will also be cut) and altogether a dim outlook on my future. Some of my peers are already experiencing the first wave of cuts. A friend of mine was explain that she may not get into the credential program she applied for, as a result of the cuts, the program will only be able to accept fifty applicants. This is a prime example of the trickle down effect, specifically in education. Less resources in higher education equals less qualified teachers which raises the teacher per student ratio.
As you can see, not only is higher education getting hit hard, but K-12 will be taking some extreme blows as well. Sports, music and various extra-curricular activities will be gone, schools will have to be shut down, class sizes will increase. Its bad enough that within the past three years districts have already reduced school days, I see more and more kids on the streets as early as noon. It seems that every year education becomes less of a right and more of a privilege. So my question is, what will happen to these kids, whose future has already been compromised? Where will they go, with nothing to do? Will college be attainable for them, or even be considered as an opportunity? How can we maintain an economical flow if there are less professionals in the work place, because they're two to five classes away from graduation but can't afford tuition? The cuts to education for the 2008/2009 fiscal year are much too sever and can cripple California's economy.
I've cleaned up my theme. I have no clue why I waited so long. I knew by looking at it that there was something funky about it. The font was not appropriate and it was too large. So I did some work with Firebug (http://www.getfirebug.com/), which I highly recommend if you're a webmaster, and found a few flaws in some of my code. I removed some ugly code and cleaned up a few other things. I removed a sidebar twitter plugin, and replaced it with one that requires a bit of PHP work, but it's much nicer IMO.
Also, I've added a few websites that I've worked on onto my portfolio page. I'm going to start working on getting full screen shots, and uploading examples of work that I've done but not published (i.e. templates that didn't go through). Also a few pieces of artwork that I've done through out my career.
I've got more free time at work so expect some more improvements.
I've joined Technorati. Not sure what that means yet, because I'm new to the site. I have noticed it around for a while, but I wasn't sure it's value. We will see...
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