The UW Bookstore n' Us

OK, it appears the Book Store has messed up. To be honest, this is really frustrating for all of us. I have not heard if they are ordering another batch of our textbooks, but you might want to explore options with Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

As an alternative to the reading assignment for this week, if you do not have the book yet,  you can read and comment in your blog on the Vanity Fair article.

(http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/features/2007/06/wolcott200706) 

Or you can choose a streaming site that has an implementation of video media that you like or hate and can comment on that. I would reccomend that you do the reading once you get the book, because you will feel quite lost for the rest of the term if you do not have a basic foundation in the technology.

Again, I am sorry the bookstore did this to us. I ordered them two months ago, that should have been plenty of time. It makes me wonder if customers are just picking them up because the bok looks interesting. Or perhaps they bought them for Kathy's class by mistake. I think we share the same class number this term.

On a totally different note, a goofy video of Rube Goldberg-type inventions that appear as segment bumpers in the Japanese children's show "Pythagora Switch". This serves no purpose in class whatsoever, but I think they are cool. I dare you not to have the catch little jingle in your head for the rest of the day.