Things I have learnt today

[triskellian]

• Taking lecture notes on my eeeeee is better than taking pen-and-paper notes because:
  • My hand doesn't hurt afterwards
  • I take more notes
  • The notes I take are better
  • I'm more inclined to go through them and clean them up afterwards, because:
    • It is possible to clean them up without having to completely rewrite them
  • Cleaning them up means I reread them
  • Rereading them means I'm more likely to understand and remember them
  • I can be certain I'll be able to read them in the future

Also some stuff about Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill* and Sojourner Truth, and the political situation they were operating in.

*...of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Comments

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

Plato, they say, could stick it away. Half a crate of whisky every day...

[triskellian]

I'm afraid I will forever associate that song with you :-)

(Also, I actually wasn't earwormed with it until you posted that. Now I'm going between Mill and Descartes over and over again, damn you ;-)

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

There are vastly worse things to be associated with.

And I'm surprised you're not earworming "Aristotle, Aristotle" ;-)

[triskellian]

"Aristotle, Aristotle" is between Mill and Descartes. Mill, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Descartes. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

I get that earworm every time I shelve our Mill section...

[triskellian]

Does it work for the others too, or is Mill just particularly earwormy?

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

I think the Mill is specially earwormy, I have no idea why, though. Occasionally Descartes, but mainly Mill.

[white_hart]

Descartes is the one who triggers the earworm for me most often, I think. Or Kant.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Heidegger (Heidegger) and Nietzsche for me.

[uitlander]

Wittgenstein over here, although Heidegger will do at a pinch to start it all off.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

An alternative to the earworm:

John Stuart Mill,
By a mighty effort of will,
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote 'Principles of Political Economy'.
- EC Bentley

[triskellian]

But, but, it doesn't fit the rhyme scheme! (It's rather good, though :-)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Clerihews FTW.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

The one about Sir Humphry Davy has been occasionally useful in quizzes.

Well, okay, useful once. But still.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Taking lecture notes on my eeeeee is better than taking pen-and-paper notes because

Bleeee! Massive cognitive dissonance! Tech and lectures in the same place? No, no, no. That would be like Choppers and mobile phones. Or Corona and Kettle Chips.

[triskellian]

I know, it's strange, isn't it? But then, I'm feeling like that about most of my life at the moment. I'm a one-woman window into the mid-nineties!

[uitlander]

And herein lies the generation gap. My note taking shorthand is still faster than my typing :-)

[triskellian]

I think it's probably a subject gap as well - I did maths and philosophy first time around, and I don't recall having philosophy lectures (think it was taught in classes/seminars instead), and maths note-taking is already all symbols rather than words, so it's different; second time around the lectures mostly came with detailed handouts which just required annotating, so I never really needed a good paper note-taking system. And my handwriting gets terrible at speed, probably because it's quite twirly and the twirls get out of control ;-)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Eeee is pretty handy I've found, I've been using my eee to take notes from reading, since I can add the citations as I go along via endnote, and it's small enough to balance and type on my lap while simultaneously clutching a book.

It's slow, (summat I'm doing in my own time rather than in a lecture) but probably quicker in the long term when it comes to writing up and collating refs.

[triskellian]

I was delighted to notice yesterday an abundance of power points in the Radcliffe Camera (which will probably be one of my main libraries come dissertation time). I'm going to need to get me some referencing software soon, I think, and then I shall do the same :-)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Do you have access to Microsoft Office Word 2007? (Perhaps via remote access from the Uni?) that has Endnote built into it - and damn handy it is too!

[triskellian]

Yes, but not on the eee - it's running Linux. I expect there's an equivalent for Open Office, and if not, there are certainly online options, although that would mean setting up my wireless access, and I'd sort of rather not, to avoid the distraction ;-)

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Ah... the old eee on Linux! (I've bought a new tablet eee for drawing and study work and that arrived setup with XP. I gave my old eee to a Linux friendly person.)

A chum of mine did install XP on his old eee and it seemed to work ok, he was certainly happy with his setup, though that might be more trouble than it's worth!