For those of you who miss the old days on other boards, a Friday troll from Jamie Goode.
Are sunsets less pretty if you understand refraction? I don't think so.
Are sunsets less pretty if you understand refraction? I don't think so.
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Nostalgia
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originally posted by SFJoe:
NostalgiaFor those of you who miss the old days on other boards, a Friday troll from Jamie Goode.
Are sunsets less pretty if you understand refraction? I don't think so.
Good grief! If a scientific understanding of cooking lessened our enjoyment of food, I'd have withered away to nothing decades ago (and think what would have befallen poor Harold McGee).
Mark Lipton
Tom Glasgow
Thomas W Glasgow
Must be a mid-life crisis or something.
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
originally posted by SFJoe:
NostalgiaFor those of you who miss the old days on other boards, a Friday troll from Jamie Goode.
Are sunsets less pretty if you understand refraction? I don't think so.
My students say this about doing the work it takes to interpret and understand a poem. I think it's silly. If you need to be ignorant to appreciate, you aren't appreciating the thing you think you are because you are ignorant about it.
A distinguished Victorianist wrote relatively recently a very good book on the enchantments of science called Darwin Loves You.
Saina Nieminen
Saina Nieminen
Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ha!
John McIlwain
John McIlwain
That's ego's job.
Drink something nice with people you love.
Best, John
Drink something nice with people you love.
Best, John
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
What the heck is an "anorak"?
Jeff Connell
Jeff Connell
This is a type of heavy jacket with a hood. Good for kayaking in a squall.originally posted by Chris Coad:
What the heck is an "anorak"?
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Also someone with a geeky interest in some subject.
nigel groundwater
nigel groundwater
And in case that accurate response still gets a 'que?' .....because for said geeks the 'anorak' is considered a 'uniform'.originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Also someone with a geeky interest in some subject.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
I've long wondered. Thanks for clearing it up.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
It comes from trainspotters.
Ian Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
No shit.
Man, I hated that movie (Trainspotting). The baby crawling across the ceiling freaked me out for months.
Sorry, non sequitor.
Man, I hated that movie (Trainspotting). The baby crawling across the ceiling freaked me out for months.
Sorry, non sequitor.
Have you watched it recently? I saw it a few months ago and the graphics/special effects look much more dated than when it was released.
But, as a parent, the whole scene with the baby dying in the crib still got to me. Even if I didn't relate to their whole heroin addiction thing!
But, as a parent, the whole scene with the baby dying in the crib still got to me. Even if I didn't relate to their whole heroin addiction thing!
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
I dug the movie, but maybe I'm twisted.
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
I dug the movie, but maybe I'm twisted.
The novel was quite a bit better. Irvine Welsh managed to capture the dialect in his writing in a way that was quite vivid.
Mark Lipton