Grandparent: Bullshit. A red cross sign doesn't mean "the red cross corporation (tm)" to anybody, it means:
a)This guy patches people up
b)He doesn't carry a weapon
c)Don't shoot him.
Parent: But why does a red cross sign mean that to you?
The only reason I know it is because I figured it out from playing so many videogames.
I wonder if advertisers will eventually chase people out of all media and into the real world. Maybe then everyone will blink, look at each other, and realize that there's plenty of storylines, challenges, and problems to solve in the real world to keep everyone busy/entertained for a lifetime.
Have you ever been to the real world? Do you have any idea how many ads are out here?
When I was working 12 hour shifts... I'd come home on Friday night, turn on the TV, and there were Baywatch and the Dukes of Hazzard and suchlike.... Predictable, tolerably pleasant, just enough plot to pretend something actually happens -- and exactly right to relax and unwind by, put my feet up and have a beer and let my brain drift off to sleep.
Now, I wouldn't pay money for any of those shows on DVD, but they serve their purpose. They're massage therapy for the brain -- you relax and let them do their thing.
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains.
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenation; the mind is like a car battery -- it recharges by running. --Bill Watterson.
That being said, I tend to liquefy my brain with the internet when I come home from work : \
Flicker's CC material [flickr.com] has over 8 million pictures now, all CC categories summarized.
But it can be very hard to find quality images in that pile. I would kill to be able to do a creative commons search on flickr and sort by interestingness.
While I do understand the reason for UK only use, can anyone explain to me why the need for a 'No Endorsement and No derogatory use' clause? And who's going to determine what is derogatory anyway?
While I do love Feynman -- and he is a major reason I stuck with my physics degree -- he is by no means famous. If you've done any physics or engineering in college Feynman is presented as this God-like figure and it's hard to remember a time when you didn't know him. A genius? Yes. The best teacher ever? Yes. A great character? Yes. Famous to the general public? No.
When Feynman get portrayed on shows like the Simpsons and Family Guy (as both Einstein and Hawking have) then I'll consider him famous.
P.S. As a physics teacher now I'm working to change that -- I mention Feynman at every chance I get. Though teaching at an all-girls school I neglect to mention how much of a skirt chaser he was, a fact that made him very popular when I worked at an all boys school.
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Oh boy, I can't wait until the day I'm trying to get some work done in my local library when some idiot sets off his alarm by accident.
wa-Oh wa-Oh wa-Oh
dooooooooot dooooooooot
Mah Mah Mah
Doo-Yee Do-Yee
-Grey
The team that carried out the work say close examination of the teeth shows the tool was "surprisingly effective" at removing rotting dental tissue.
Surprisingly effective compared to what? The Tom Hanks method of dentistry?
-Grey
They weren't exactly grunting fools 8,000-10,000 years ago.
So the human race has de-evolved then?
-Grey
Grandparent: Bullshit. A red cross sign doesn't mean "the red cross corporation (tm)" to anybody, it means: a)This guy patches people up b)He doesn't carry a weapon c)Don't shoot him.
Parent: But why does a red cross sign mean that to you?
The only reason I know it is because I figured it out from playing so many videogames.
-Grey
I wonder if advertisers will eventually chase people out of all media and into the real world. Maybe then everyone will blink, look at each other, and realize that there's plenty of storylines, challenges, and problems to solve in the real world to keep everyone busy/entertained for a lifetime.
Have you ever been to the real world? Do you have any idea how many ads are out here?
-Grey
I'm going to post this anonymously even though I didn't give out any information that was secret (or even all that interesting).
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Chilling Effect in action.
-Grey
When I was working 12 hour shifts ... I'd come home on Friday night, turn on the TV, and there were Baywatch and the Dukes of Hazzard and suchlike.... Predictable, tolerably pleasant, just enough plot to pretend something actually happens -- and exactly right to relax and unwind by, put my feet up and have a beer and let my brain drift off to sleep.
Now, I wouldn't pay money for any of those shows on DVD, but they serve their purpose. They're massage therapy for the brain -- you relax and let them do their thing.
We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenation; the mind is like a car battery -- it recharges by running. --Bill Watterson.
That being said, I tend to liquefy my brain with the internet when I come home from work : \
-Grey
Flicker's CC material [flickr.com] has over 8 million pictures now, all CC categories summarized.
But it can be very hard to find quality images in that pile. I would kill to be able to do a creative commons search on flickr and sort by interestingness.
-Grey
reports teenagers value the role of science in society, but feel scientists are "brainy people not like them."
Well duh. You haven't spent much time around the average teenager, have you?
-Grey
Who brings their dictionary with them to a place they need to spell correctly?
No kidding, I bring my wifi laptop and google the word.
-Grey
If I live in the UK, but I don't have a TV (and thus don't pay the TV license fee) am I still allowed to use the clips?
-Grey
While I do understand the reason for UK only use, can anyone explain to me why the need for a 'No Endorsement and No derogatory use' clause? And who's going to determine what is derogatory anyway?
-Grey
While I do love Feynman -- and he is a major reason I stuck with my physics degree -- he is by no means famous. If you've done any physics or engineering in college Feynman is presented as this God-like figure and it's hard to remember a time when you didn't know him. A genius? Yes. The best teacher ever? Yes. A great character? Yes. Famous to the general public? No.
When Feynman get portrayed on shows like the Simpsons and Family Guy (as both Einstein and Hawking have) then I'll consider him famous.
-Grey
P.S. As a physics teacher now I'm working to change that -- I mention Feynman at every chance I get. Though teaching at an all-girls school I neglect to mention how much of a skirt chaser he was, a fact that made him very popular when I worked at an all boys school.