Electronic VS Hardcopy Blog Post

I kind of go both ways on the issue of whether to have hard copies or go all electronic.  Personally, I love the feel of a hardback book in my hands and I would never want to totally get rid of all books.  On the other hand, I can see where having electronic copies of everything would really help, but I think they should continue to make hardcopies as well.   There are tons of benefits to using each one, so it is not like one is so much better than the other.  With electronic copies, one can access them almost anywhere and it is usually much cheaper to access them than to go out and buy them from an expensive bookstore.  With that being said, I could go to a thrift store, a used bookstore, or a website like Amazon and get them just as cheap.

I would not ever give up my hardcopies though.  I cannot even describe what it is about a book, but I just love picking up an old book smelling them.  I love the smell of an old book.  I also love to look through them to see if I can find if the previous owners had left a little something in them.  It is always sad to get a book at the thrift store and see where someone has written a note to their mother, father, or child, and they get rid of it.  I would never get rid of the books my mother bought for me as I was growing up because they mean so much to me and an electronic copy could never do that.

Wikipedia Blog Post

I really enjoyed reading this article about Wikipedia.  I will be the first to admit that I use Wikipedia far too often to research things of interest.  I mean, I would never quote Wikipedia in an essay, but it is a great tool to go to when I know little to nothing about a subject.  That being said, I never take anything I read on Wikipedia as being the actual truth because anyone can edit it.

Had I not read this article, I would probably never have looked at the history of Wikipedia, although now I really want to search on Wikipedia for Wikipedia to see what it has to say for itself.  I never new that behind the scenes, Wikipedia is really complex and that the creators had actually designed it to be used by people with limited knowledge on a subject.  Or at least someone who was not an expert on it.

I found the terminology and names the users employ on Wikipedia to be fairly amusing.  I had no idea that some people were that addicted to Wikipedia and basically had their own terminology for it.  I am really glad I read this article because I have just never taken the time to learn anything about Wikipedia and how it operates.

Acts 3&4

After reading acts three and four of “Pygmalion,” there seems to be a difference between the way Higgins’ acts during the play and during the movie.  In the movie he does not seem like he is being that rude.  It just seems like he is very amused at her. In the play, however, he is just downright rude and I would not have expected that of him.  He seemed like a gentleman at the beginning, but I guess it was just because he was a professor of phonetics and knew how to conduct himself as a gentleman, but only chose to do so whenever he felt it was necessary. 

I was slightly confused at the end of act four because although Higgins seems very angry, it looks as though he is more angry at himself for acting the way he did toward Eliza.  I may be completely off base here, but that is the way I see it.  I also thought that Pickering was more of a gentleman at first as well, but he also took part in the bet with Higgins completely forgot about Eliza.