Ravenkallen, I affected to agreeably disagree with them, while carefully hearing out all of their racist arguments and nodding cogently as I did so. I even got them to sign my service paperwork while I was there
·I consider intelligence one of the greatest gifts we have. I thoroughly enjoy things like blue skies, ice cream and intelligence. I like intelligence in whatever form it takes. I'd·love to listen to a monologue by Philo Farnsworth but not while a Yankee game is on. There is talent on that team which I consider one form of intelligence. Consider what Mozart could do with twelve pitches.
··We cannot survive on the abilities of geniuses alone. We cannot collect acorns and call it a day. We cannot drink from random puddles. I may wake up early and stay up late learning everything I can about programming but someone has to make my shirts, grow my food and·treat the water that I flush. Somebody has to run the generators so I can use my computer. I have no idea how to make a shirt. My clothes ultimately come from...dirt.·None of us can do everything·we need to do without a large community of people with a large·variety of abilities.
·· I'm not a genius but I'm smart enough to know that I don't want to follow the herd.·I get a charge from being in this forum where geniuses gather. I'm a student here.·Because I am literate I can learn in a few days what may have taken the author·of a book an entire lifetime to learn. I'm fine with that.
···"Everybody Loves Raymond" is not for me. Screenwriters are students of their audience.·For those who spend their days watching TV·their brain doesn't even have to get out of bed. TV creates the images for you. At least with a book you·have to imagine. You sit there observing an interaction·that you are not part of. You are part of a herd. The screenwriter who has thought up·the fantasy is the leader. Yeah, I watch TV sometimes but I get a bigger thrill when I do my own thinking. I know me best and I really enjoy when the light goes on in my head.
localroger said...
she recently told me she hated TV shows like Caprica and Stargate: Universe
I love those 2 shows!
Remember that in a few hours the 2hr season finale of
Stargate Universe will air. (I have to wait till tomorrow morning to download it here)
I also enjoy "Everyone loves Raymond"
My favorite episode is the one where his Mom makes the embarrassing
sculpture and puts it in his living room
I also like "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" UK
But I have only found 3 episodes so far :-(
I'm also a huge fan of anything Sherlock Holmes, I like it
because Holmes is such a quirky genius. I just last week
finished downloading 2 different UK Sherlock Holmes TV series.
Watched this episode yesterday.
12 The Case of the Shoeless Engineer.avi
Very good and VERY old! (ancient!)
I download most of the TV I watch, TV here is just awful.
Unless you like stuff like live TV from the Knesset..lol
I'm curious to know what other people here enjoy watching.
Post Edited (HollyMinkowski) : 6/4/2010 7:36:17 PM GMT
HollyMinkowski said...
I'm curious to know what other people here enjoy watching.
In alphabetical order;
Arrested Development
BSG
Caprica
Cosmos
Dead Like Me
Dexter
DS9
Enterprise
Firefly
From the Earth to the Moon
Futurama
Get Smart
Huff
Northern Exposure
The Prisoner
The Tudors
Voyager
The Tudors is a current show on Showtime, From the Earth to the Moon is an HBO series about the landing on the Moon made several years ago and The Prisoner is a late '60s British series.
After my fourth grade year my parents moved from the back-woods to a city. I took the fancy tests and got shoe-horned into a "gifted" class. I've never been more miserable. On the science final there was a theme question. It was: What keeps an automobile engine running? I went into great detail describing the thermal, chemical, and mechanical processes involved including Newton's laws of motion and the polar moment of inertia for the rotating crankshaft assembly. I got a zero on the question. The correct answer was.........................wait for it...................... the flywheel. So much for the public education system.
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MOORE'S LAW: The capabilities of electronics shall double every 18 months.
cloyd's corollary: Hardware is easy, software is hard.
I would have said that money is what keeps an automobile engine running.
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The 19th episode of Stargate Universe was really good!
The first five minutes was almost too intense to watch though.
I thought it was to be the last episode this season but it was
part 1 of 2 parts.
I'm really struggling with Universe. I enjoy the Stargate productions. The story is good, writers have a great sense of humor, and the characters are clear, respectable, all of it themed with nice ideas.
Universe seems dark to me, I don't really respect the characters, and so it all seems just futile right now. I know it takes a while to build the elements of drama, but I'm not encouraged by this one... hoping I'm wrong though. It's just not ok to not have new Stargate material to watch. The gate is an excellent story device. One of the best ever, IMHO. Universe doesn't exploit it very well right now, and I think that's part of the problem. The other missing element was the very clever re-purposing of popular history elements. That was genius in the original series, and nicely expanded with Atlantis. So far, it's all gone missing in Universe.
I like the characters in Universe, almost every one of them is flawed in some way.
The only snow-white hero so far is the Old Senator that gave his life to shut that
shuttle craft's door.
I like the Prof Rush character a lot! Now he is one really messed up genius.
Eli is the nicest character, a fat math geek with all that angst from his unrequited
love for Chloe.
The incident in this last episode where the guy trying to break through the door
just dissolved...I just bet you that was caused by the guy that vanished
2 episodes back while sitting in that weird electric chair gizmo. We will see if I'm
guessing right in a week.
I like SG:U precisely because all the characters are flawed. And Caprica partly because I know their world is doomed. There is a kind of freedom in that moment when you know you're about to die, or when your whole world has been destroyed in some other less fatal but just as complete way, because the whole web of social obligation that seems so important in other times simply ceases to matter. As the SAW films suggest (rather crudely) it is only in such a moment that you really find out what kind of person you are.
I think it is this kind of thing SG:U is exploring, and the Senator's sacrifice is a good example.
My mother's objection to Caprica and SG:U is that the robot/girl and communication stones, respectively, make her think too much. Both series put a lot of effort in (both film all scenes twice, with the alternate actors or CGI as appropriate) but Mom says that the effort required to figure out whether she is watching Telford or Rush using Telford's body via the stones makes the series unenjoyable for her.
I also endured something I probably wouldn't have normally heard. I was in the bathroom and being absent, P and M set about their usual rituals one of which apparently is Mom reading the news to Dad. And she's barely literate. She's nearly 70 years old, her husband taught college physics, she's MY MOTHER, and she can barely read.
Mom: meeting their f-f-f F I D U -
Dad: fiduciary
Mom: OK, obligations...
And she has referred to a certain large reatail discount chain as WALMARKS since they opened. Even though she now lives within literal walking distance (they actually really walk to it sometimes) of a Walmart.
But I've also met my extended relatives from my Dad's side of the tree, and they aren't any smarter. Some clever, a few a little too much so and therefore in jail. All of which makes me think the idea that intelligence has any genetic basis at all is pure BP splooge.
I love Firefly, its like the best show ever. I also like 24, Prison Break, Smallville, Supernatural, 21 Jump Street, House, How I Met Your Mother and a few others
I sure hope that Caprica starts back up soon!!
I have to have something to look forward to, TV wise I mean.
I miss Battlestar Galactica :-(
Why did it finally have to end?
I found an old version of BG and downloaded the episodes.
OMG.. are they ever corny!
@localroger
Your Mom sounds very sweet.
Makes me think of my Grandparents, Grandpa was intellectually vastly superior
to Grandma. Oh how he adored her! Almost 60 years together, He from Poland
and she from Germany. What harrowing tales they had of the WW2 years as
young people in love. I sure miss them.
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··We cannot survive on the abilities of geniuses alone. We cannot collect acorns and call it a day. We cannot drink from random puddles. I may wake up early and stay up late learning everything I can about programming but someone has to make my shirts, grow my food and·treat the water that I flush. Somebody has to run the generators so I can use my computer. I have no idea how to make a shirt. My clothes ultimately come from...dirt.·None of us can do everything·we need to do without a large community of people with a large·variety of abilities.
·· I'm not a genius but I'm smart enough to know that I don't want to follow the herd.·I get a charge from being in this forum where geniuses gather. I'm a student here.·Because I am literate I can learn in a few days what may have taken the author·of a book an entire lifetime to learn. I'm fine with that.
···"Everybody Loves Raymond" is not for me. Screenwriters are students of their audience.·For those who spend their days watching TV·their brain doesn't even have to get out of bed. TV creates the images for you. At least with a book you·have to imagine. You sit there observing an interaction·that you are not part of. You are part of a herd. The screenwriter who has thought up·the fantasy is the leader. Yeah, I watch TV sometimes but I get a bigger thrill when I do my own thinking. I know me best and I really enjoy when the light goes on in my head.
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I love those 2 shows!
Remember that in a few hours the 2hr season finale of
Stargate Universe will air. (I have to wait till tomorrow morning to download it here)
I also enjoy "Everyone loves Raymond"
My favorite episode is the one where his Mom makes the embarrassing
sculpture and puts it in his living room
I also like "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" UK
But I have only found 3 episodes so far :-(
I'm also a huge fan of anything Sherlock Holmes, I like it
because Holmes is such a quirky genius. I just last week
finished downloading 2 different UK Sherlock Holmes TV series.
Watched this episode yesterday.
12 The Case of the Shoeless Engineer.avi
Very good and VERY old! (ancient!)
I download most of the TV I watch, TV here is just awful.
Unless you like stuff like live TV from the Knesset..lol
I'm curious to know what other people here enjoy watching.
Post Edited (HollyMinkowski) : 6/4/2010 7:36:17 PM GMT
In alphabetical order;
Arrested Development
BSG
Caprica
Cosmos
Dead Like Me
Dexter
DS9
Enterprise
Firefly
From the Earth to the Moon
Futurama
Get Smart
Huff
Northern Exposure
The Prisoner
The Tudors
Voyager
Rich H
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The Simple Servo Tester, a kit from Gadget Gangster.
I just love Firefly!
Nathan Fillion is hot
It was interesting that they portrayed everyone
in the future as knowing both English and Chinese.
Never heard of
The Tudors
The Prisoner
From the Earth To The Moon
I guess they are older shows, I will have to see if I
can download a few and see if I like them.
I also love House MD, the character is based on Sherlock Holmes.
Just google holmes house md
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk1IAT9nA84&feature=related
Post Edited (HollyMinkowski) : 6/5/2010 1:56:05 AM GMT
The Tudors is a current show on Showtime, From the Earth to the Moon is an HBO series about the landing on the Moon made several years ago and The Prisoner is a late '60s British series.
Rich H
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The Simple Servo Tester, a kit from Gadget Gangster.
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MOORE'S LAW: The capabilities of electronics shall double every 18 months.
cloyd's corollary: Hardware is easy, software is hard.
I would have said that money is what keeps an automobile engine running.
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The 19th episode of Stargate Universe was really good!
The first five minutes was almost too intense to watch though.
I thought it was to be the last episode this season but it was
part 1 of 2 parts.
Universe seems dark to me, I don't really respect the characters, and so it all seems just futile right now. I know it takes a while to build the elements of drama, but I'm not encouraged by this one... hoping I'm wrong though. It's just not ok to not have new Stargate material to watch. The gate is an excellent story device. One of the best ever, IMHO. Universe doesn't exploit it very well right now, and I think that's part of the problem. The other missing element was the very clever re-purposing of popular history elements. That was genius in the original series, and nicely expanded with Atlantis. So far, it's all gone missing in Universe.
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The only snow-white hero so far is the Old Senator that gave his life to shut that
shuttle craft's door.
I like the Prof Rush character a lot! Now he is one really messed up genius.
Eli is the nicest character, a fat math geek with all that angst from his unrequited
love for Chloe.
The incident in this last episode where the guy trying to break through the door
just dissolved...I just bet you that was caused by the guy that vanished
2 episodes back while sitting in that weird electric chair gizmo. We will see if I'm
guessing right in a week.
I think it is this kind of thing SG:U is exploring, and the Senator's sacrifice is a good example.
My mother's objection to Caprica and SG:U is that the robot/girl and communication stones, respectively, make her think too much. Both series put a lot of effort in (both film all scenes twice, with the alternate actors or CGI as appropriate) but Mom says that the effort required to figure out whether she is watching Telford or Rush using Telford's body via the stones makes the series unenjoyable for her.
I also endured something I probably wouldn't have normally heard. I was in the bathroom and being absent, P and M set about their usual rituals one of which apparently is Mom reading the news to Dad. And she's barely literate. She's nearly 70 years old, her husband taught college physics, she's MY MOTHER, and she can barely read.
Mom: meeting their f-f-f F I D U -
Dad: fiduciary
Mom: OK, obligations...
And she has referred to a certain large reatail discount chain as WALMARKS since they opened. Even though she now lives within literal walking distance (they actually really walk to it sometimes) of a Walmart.
But I've also met my extended relatives from my Dad's side of the tree, and they aren't any smarter. Some clever, a few a little too much so and therefore in jail. All of which makes me think the idea that intelligence has any genetic basis at all is pure BP splooge.
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8x8 color 80 Column NTSC Text Object
Wondering how to set tile colors in the graphics_demo.spin?
Safety Tip: Life is as good as YOU think it is!
I have to have something to look forward to, TV wise I mean.
I miss Battlestar Galactica :-(
Why did it finally have to end?
I found an old version of BG and downloaded the episodes.
OMG.. are they ever corny!
@localroger
Your Mom sounds very sweet.
Makes me think of my Grandparents, Grandpa was intellectually vastly superior
to Grandma. Oh how he adored her! Almost 60 years together, He from Poland
and she from Germany. What harrowing tales they had of the WW2 years as
young people in love. I sure miss them.