the daily snivel
My iPod was delivered today!
And with my Evidence law exam in just about 24 hours, it's as sorely tempting a distraction as any you could imagine. I wrote my Tax law exam yesterday morning, and found it reasonably straightforward. That was the exam I was "looking forward to," if such a thing can be said, since it was (oddly enough) a law school exam I have a really good chance of getting an A on (or even an A+). It was mostly a matter of getting the formulas down right -- capital cost allowances, doubtful debt reserves, eligible capital property depreciation, and of course the dreaded half year rule. The only really worry about that exam is that pretty much everyone did well on it. The class average on the midterm was probably around 80%, so we're probably going to be curved pretty sharply. My sister was in a different tax section this term, and they had a much harder time of things, complete with an eight-hour take home exam. So you can be sure that the Dean will be shuffling us all together and curving out the abnormalities. Oh well. Maybe I'll still come out of it with an A-. Even that would be swell enough.
My iPod is beautiful. It really is small and elegant, and is fully worth every one of the $370 Canadian clams I paid for it. It's currently holding all 1,540 songs in my music library (with about three more gigabytes to spare for future ditties), as well as my contacts and calendar. It will even double as an external Firewire hard drive, but I'm obsessive enough with backing up my data that this is probably a handy feature that will probably go overlooked for now. The interface is mindlessly easy to use. All the controls are touch-sensitive with no moving parts, so you simply scroll your finger along the control wheel to move through menus or songs, and there's a "button" in the centre of the wheel for selecting. There are also a couple of buttons for It sorts music by artist, genre, song, and album, as well as importing all your iTunes playlists. It also comes with a couple of games, like solitaire, as well as being able to display text notes and the aforementioned contacts and calendar entries.
And, of course, I really want to play with the thing, but I've got studying to do. As a sort of appeasement to myself, I plugged it into my speakers, and it is currently rocking through my library o' songs as I slave to build a decent summary of hearsay, privilege, spousal competence to testify, cross-examination, the right to silence, and everything else you hear about on police and lawyer shows.
I'll have more after my exam tomorrow.
Comments:And with my Evidence law exam in just about 24 hours, it's as sorely tempting a distraction as any you could imagine. I wrote my Tax law exam yesterday morning, and found it reasonably straightforward. That was the exam I was "looking forward to," if such a thing can be said, since it was (oddly enough) a law school exam I have a really good chance of getting an A on (or even an A+). It was mostly a matter of getting the formulas down right -- capital cost allowances, doubtful debt reserves, eligible capital property depreciation, and of course the dreaded half year rule. The only really worry about that exam is that pretty much everyone did well on it. The class average on the midterm was probably around 80%, so we're probably going to be curved pretty sharply. My sister was in a different tax section this term, and they had a much harder time of things, complete with an eight-hour take home exam. So you can be sure that the Dean will be shuffling us all together and curving out the abnormalities. Oh well. Maybe I'll still come out of it with an A-. Even that would be swell enough.
My iPod is beautiful. It really is small and elegant, and is fully worth every one of the $370 Canadian clams I paid for it. It's currently holding all 1,540 songs in my music library (with about three more gigabytes to spare for future ditties), as well as my contacts and calendar. It will even double as an external Firewire hard drive, but I'm obsessive enough with backing up my data that this is probably a handy feature that will probably go overlooked for now. The interface is mindlessly easy to use. All the controls are touch-sensitive with no moving parts, so you simply scroll your finger along the control wheel to move through menus or songs, and there's a "button" in the centre of the wheel for selecting. There are also a couple of buttons for It sorts music by artist, genre, song, and album, as well as importing all your iTunes playlists. It also comes with a couple of games, like solitaire, as well as being able to display text notes and the aforementioned contacts and calendar entries.
And, of course, I really want to play with the thing, but I've got studying to do. As a sort of appeasement to myself, I plugged it into my speakers, and it is currently rocking through my library o' songs as I slave to build a decent summary of hearsay, privilege, spousal competence to testify, cross-examination, the right to silence, and everything else you hear about on police and lawyer shows.
I'll have more after my exam tomorrow.
