Hi all,
This is just a quick post to share how I hooked my Cintiq to my Imac. I was going through some hiccups that I shared over at facebook but I want to post the solution here just in case anyone finds it helpful in future. I apologize in advance for the quality of the photos (quick phone shots).
So yes, very excited to get my Cintiq and thought it would be a case of simply taking it out of the box and plugging in. It turned out, however, that I needed an adapter.
Here is the layout of ports on the back of my Imac...
The far right port is the the DVI port which is used to connect with the Cintiq. In my manual it only shares what you will need if you are attaching to a mac mini. So I found an ehow article that takes you through the hook up step by step to an Imac. As it turned out, it wasn't the adapter I needed either. It said to get a "mini display port to dvi adapter" (which I purchased) but the only port I could get it to fit into was the firewire port.After some research, it turns out that I simply needed a "mini dvi to dvi adapter" which looks like this:
I got mine one from the Apple Accessories section at Best Buy for $16.00 (Dynex was the brand).
Phew, running like a charm. =O)
(Emily relieved that mom isn't stressing anymore)
BTW, isn't the desktop calendar cute? It is by teddy bear artist Jenny Lee, of Jenny Loves Benny.
I download her calendar every month. Her creations make me smile. =o)
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I read Beowulf in college, and I am a baby boomer. I would be suprised to see it on a junior high syllabus and not because I think junior high students are busy reading crappy YA novels. Depending on the version you're reading, it can be demanding. I also think it's rather an adult story, even without Grendel's mom seducing everyone in sight.
I've been trying to remember whether I read Beowulf in college or high school; either way, not Jr. High.
One of the reason this sentence is so fabulous is that there is just so much going on. Beowulf, in junior high, is one of them.
America literacy doesn't seem well served by force-feeding Hemingway on a bunch of unsuspecting kids.
In Middle School I was forced to read "Tom Sawyer Abroad" by Mark Twain and I have never recovered. Heningway, taken at that age, might have done me in completely.
I read Beowulf in college -- but I was an English major, and it was a choice. I think there should be some challenges you can choose, and others that are brought to you to meet and conquer. Some YA novels? Are challenging. If a kid meets a challenge and succeeds, won't that make him or her more willing to push further? YA novels have their place within classrooms and so does Beowulf; everything in its time.
Having said that maturely and with great constraint, that comment about 'crappy YA novels' DOES make me want to give the writer a right swift smack upside the head.
I read selections from ye olde Beowulf in 10th grade. Our teacher summarized the bits in between the bits we had to read.
And... I recall it being a really long poem about eating, drinking, killing, and fornicating.
I read that and had the same reaction, Liz. It's hard to take someone who would write that very seriously.