BY THE WAY:

Woof woof! Anyone else hating signing up for spring classes?

When You See Someone Else's Project & You Think "OH SHIT THAT'S AWESOME"

I liked a lot of the more artistic websites-- it made me think about the use of flash player and different design and design layouts that I could've use or that were really just freaking awesome.

I really enjoyed Chris's use of layout on his website: http://www.unm.edu/~cfodge/, and it made me wish that we had some options or alternatives to using Dream Weaver (which turned out to be sort-of helpful, but not really) (haha).


Dan definitely had the most organized/professional website of the class, though I'm not much of the business-y looking websites, it was well done! (http://www.unm.edu/~dvance/)


I would have to say Marcus's website was probably my favorite, he used a sweet song on the homepage and the color, layout, and flash players all work really well together-- check it out: http://www.unm.edu/~mmarti25/.


And yeah :) so, everyone did awesome, as so the title goes. Have a great break all! CIAO CIAO<3








-M.

Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

I once believed that I was a dog person.

I also once believed that the equation to "happiness" was definable, achievable, stable, and practical. And I'm pretty sure that at some point in every one of our lives, we really, truly --with all of our heart and soul-- trust that society has built this concept of "happinesss" in order to protect us and teach us what is basic and important to live. And important in general.

(  +  +  =  Survival )

But what not all people understand is that, unlike the highlighted adjectives and small icons above, Happiness is not obvious and the future is uncertain. Kind of like how it would be incorrect to say,

All skies are blue,

All grass is green,

All dogs are good

& all cats, are mean.

Yet, what's possibly the most interesting idea in all this, is that people actually try to make sense of human emotion, they try to make the uncertain understandable ...which is utter nonsense. Below I have listed a few examples of the websites I came across in search of polls and surveys for Happiness. Yes, it is no surprise that most people after all do believe in my "happiness" equation-- "house, money, and education is survival."

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet

http://www.gallup.com/poll/106915/gallup-daily-us-mood.aspx

http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/14/world-happiest-countries-lifestyle-realestate-gallup-table.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Values_Survey


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/happiness_formula/4771908.stm

http://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=1860

I must let you know, Dear Reader, I do myself have a home (though very small) and money (though only to live) and I am also fairly educated (though never enough it seems). & of course I still do find these basic values important. I'm not as much of a savage as you are assuming, I hope. However, I'd like some one to prove to me how a home and money and education is fulfilling, truly bringing happiness at it's finest, without friendship, altruism, or love. As I feel, one of the greatest, most noticeably giving women of her time, Mother Teresa, once said:

"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty."

With that said, I leave you with a question I suppose-- what is your equation to happiness, or, what are the things that make you happy? And, if you were the writer of a dictionary, how would you define happiness for other people in a more universal way?








<3 M.