There are more than a few Negroponte's in this world. There is, for example, Nicholas Negroponte, and then there is John. Maybe they're related? Why don't you do some more excellent research and TELL US.
My brother ( confirmed Physics / Music geek ) sent me this:
This is a subject which I am very familiar with, having procured a couple of pounds of sodium from the lab in Argonne IL. As some of the discussions point out, the main thing that happens when you throw sodium into water is that it skips around on the surface, spewing out little fireballs. I decided to overcome this in two ways. The first, which you may have witnessed when we were in high school, was to put a small nugget of sodium into a puddle and then step on it, forcing it to mingle with the water, whereupon it would explode with a bang, spraying blobs of burning molten sodium everywhere (which luckily tended to go away from you as your foot was between you and the sodium).
I took this further and further until I was going out with my heavy old style hiking boots (as the blast was hurting the soles of my feet) and then holding my leg out in front of me and gingerly lowering my foot onto the sodium, in preparation for the blast, which would blow my foot upwards. Then in Argonne I developed the sodium cannon(tm), where I stuck a blob of sodium onto the bottom of a c-cell battery, and dropped that into a steel tube which had water in the bottom. The stupid thing is, I wasn't thinking about building a cannon, I just wanted the battery to force the sodium to mingle with the water and create a bang. What happened is that the sodium went off with a bang and launched the battery into low earth orbit! I swear the battery was up in the air for something like 8 to 10 seconds before it came down again, looking all weird and shrunken from being imploded by the pressure inside the tube as it was launched. Buwahaha!!!
Huh? You're making some big assumptions. Just because the guy says "we have had great success" doesn't mean they are successful. I bet these guys or girls have day jobs, don't have health insurance and have trouble keeping their van on the road.
I am making assumptions too, but you get my drift - successfully selling a bunch of CD's may well not be 'successful enough'. Being successful does not have to mean 'mainstream' (by which I assume you mean selling out and playing lame music).
Look at Wilco, Dave Alvin, Phish, Dr Didg, etc. - these bands are all at different levels of the commercial musical food chain and most of them (I guess I would exclude Phish from this statement!) are still in a tenuous economic situation. They all have to strive to be 'more successful' commercially just to have a future being full-time musicians.
Working at a bagel shop in the morning gets old when you play gigs at night, believe me.
Good points, plus the diabetic issue is real - these drinks are quite useful for a t1 diabetic, I am sure.
What I am getting at is that people (many of whom are badly obese) drink these drinks and perhaps justify NOT cutting calories in other area because they are drinking a 'diet' soda.
Or more subtly, perhaps fooling your tastebuds with huge amounts of aspartame could spoil your palate, leading the person craving more sweet things.
I am not saying that drinking diet soda makes you fat (and something like 70% of soda consumed is sugar laden), but it is interesting that the massive growth in diet soda consumption has come in the same years as the massive growth in obesity in America.
I wonder just what role diet soda has played in this? It seems that every year I see more really obese people drinking ever larger tubs of aspartame-laden drinks?
Could it be that diet sodas give people a false sense that they are 'cutting calories' so they can justigy the super size meal?
Or is there something more subtle at work?
My ten year old is getting way into MUD's (retromud being the current leader) Once he saw Everquest he wanted it, not surprisingly.
So the question is: What is the 'best' roleplaying internet game (appropriate for young people of course) that DOESN'T COST MONEY and is perhaps even open to developers, etc.?
This whole issue of parental involvement is a tough one - I like to think I am on top of things, but once my son has spent a few days on something like Retromud, he is so far ahead of me that I have very little idea of what is really going on. So trust and good judgement have to be involved.
I couldn't help noticing that nobody seems to have mentioned the amazing coincidence of the words 'procreation' and 'North Pole'.
Somehow http://www.peternorth.com/ just comes to mind. Speaking of the Oscars, shouldn't North be honored for his wooden delivery and amazing facial expressions?
This is sad. My first slashdot post. Embarrassing.
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There are more than a few Negroponte's in this world. There is, for example, Nicholas Negroponte, and then there is John. Maybe they're related? Why don't you do some more excellent research and TELL US.
It's a computer, not a 'puter. That is the lamest 'abbreviation'. Get with it!
My brother ( confirmed Physics / Music geek ) sent me this: This is a subject which I am very familiar with, having procured a couple of pounds of sodium from the lab in Argonne IL. As some of the discussions point out, the main thing that happens when you throw sodium into water is that it skips around on the surface, spewing out little fireballs. I decided to overcome this in two ways. The first, which you may have witnessed when we were in high school, was to put a small nugget of sodium into a puddle and then step on it, forcing it to mingle with the water, whereupon it would explode with a bang, spraying blobs of burning molten sodium everywhere (which luckily tended to go away from you as your foot was between you and the sodium).
I took this further and further until I was going out with my heavy old style hiking boots (as the blast was hurting the soles of my feet) and then holding my leg out in front of me and gingerly lowering my foot onto the sodium, in preparation for the blast, which would blow my foot upwards. Then in Argonne I developed the sodium cannon(tm), where I stuck a blob of sodium onto the bottom of a c-cell battery, and dropped that into a steel tube which had water in the bottom. The stupid thing is, I wasn't thinking about building a cannon, I just wanted the battery to force the sodium to mingle with the water and create a bang. What happened is that the sodium went off with a bang and launched the battery into low earth orbit! I swear the battery was up in the air for something like 8 to 10 seconds before it came down again, looking all weird and shrunken from being imploded by the pressure inside the tube as it was launched. Buwahaha!!!
Huh? You're making some big assumptions. Just because the guy says "we have had great success" doesn't mean they are successful. I bet these guys or girls have day jobs, don't have health insurance and have trouble keeping their van on the road. I am making assumptions too, but you get my drift - successfully selling a bunch of CD's may well not be 'successful enough'. Being successful does not have to mean 'mainstream' (by which I assume you mean selling out and playing lame music). Look at Wilco, Dave Alvin, Phish, Dr Didg, etc. - these bands are all at different levels of the commercial musical food chain and most of them (I guess I would exclude Phish from this statement!) are still in a tenuous economic situation. They all have to strive to be 'more successful' commercially just to have a future being full-time musicians. Working at a bagel shop in the morning gets old when you play gigs at night, believe me.
How do you think I feel? A quick Google of my name produces: "Jim Wiggins - the Last Hippie in America".
Good points, plus the diabetic issue is real - these drinks are quite useful for a t1 diabetic, I am sure.
What I am getting at is that people (many of whom are badly obese) drink these drinks and perhaps justify NOT cutting calories in other area because they are drinking a 'diet' soda.
Or more subtly, perhaps fooling your tastebuds with huge amounts of aspartame could spoil your palate, leading the person craving more sweet things.
I am not saying that drinking diet soda makes you fat (and something like 70% of soda consumed is sugar laden), but it is interesting that the massive growth in diet soda consumption has come in the same years as the massive growth in obesity in America.
I wonder just what role diet soda has played in this? It seems that every year I see more really obese people drinking ever larger tubs of aspartame-laden drinks? Could it be that diet sodas give people a false sense that they are 'cutting calories' so they can justigy the super size meal? Or is there something more subtle at work?
This is great - many more poor people own CD players than own PC's. Why shouldn't they get to copy their CD's too?
My ten year old is getting way into MUD's (retromud being the current leader) Once he saw Everquest he wanted it, not surprisingly. So the question is: What is the 'best' roleplaying internet game (appropriate for young people of course) that DOESN'T COST MONEY and is perhaps even open to developers, etc.? This whole issue of parental involvement is a tough one - I like to think I am on top of things, but once my son has spent a few days on something like Retromud, he is so far ahead of me that I have very little idea of what is really going on. So trust and good judgement have to be involved.
I couldn't help noticing that nobody seems to have mentioned the amazing coincidence of the words 'procreation' and 'North Pole'. Somehow http://www.peternorth.com/ just comes to mind. Speaking of the Oscars, shouldn't North be honored for his wooden delivery and amazing facial expressions? This is sad. My first slashdot post. Embarrassing.