Outside Reading: Hog iPC

Recently, I have learning lighting and some intelligent lighting design. So I decided to read and do some research on the lighting board I use. I read the overview of the product, and the specifications etc. Each board has its own built in software, and the Hog iPC is the first to be able to run Wholehog 2 & 3. Previous models could only run the software it came installed with. The use of touch screens enables the user to quickly locate a cue or page. This becomes handy when you have to find a cue quickly during a live performance, so insterad of missing the cue, you can find it in style. Also included is a trackball mouse built in. A newer addition to lighting modules is use of writeable CD-ROM drives and USB connectors. Although this wasn't really an article, I thought it would be appropriate because lighting has now become a fairly significant aspect of my life.

http://www.highend.com/products/controllers/HogiPC_console.asp

Class Activity

In the class activity were we all had many traits, and were forced to throw them away, I ended up with the trait of "computer savvy". I kept this one until the end because technology is growing very quickly, and it is a growing business area. Along with providing a job, if the government was legitimately corrupt, and I had no money to support myself or family, I would use those computer skills to help either wire money to myself, lead a team in a heist, or hack into the governments security and missile computers, and use it as persuasion to fix the government.

In the class activity people chose many different things, but some people ended up with traits that realistically they wouldn't be left with. Just because they value this thing doesn't mean its what nature/the world is going to hold onto it. In some cases it may be their most valued trait, but the least useful. The activity conveyed a good message, but obviously one can't get accurate results without going through the situation that was presented to us in class.