Cancer Posted January 15, 2021 Report Share Posted January 15, 2021 I live with three other humans and three cats in a house. Cats, of course, sleep all the time anyway, but none of the humans are what I would call "morning people", and generally sleep until at least ten AM, and often rather later. During the pandemic, I lecture from my workstation in the basement, but the house is such that you can't really escape hearing me just about everywhere in the house. More than half of my classes are morning classes. So in effect, what the pandemic is doing is teaching my family -- and hence presumably many other families of college instructors -- is to sleep through lectures. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 Someday, someone is going to send me an email asking me if I know how to write a short email. My reply will be 3000 words, and boil down to "No." Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 Well, I've got your email address now, so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 HAH! Though I walk in the Valley of the Shadow of Depths (or something), I shall fear no email! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 Premise: Carl Sagan was a Time Lord. The Spaceship of the Imagination was his TARDIS. And Neil deGrasse Tyson is his most recent regeneration. Discuss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 I have to think about who his earlier manifestations were. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 And how many previous regenerations there is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 Well, 130 years back, at absolute minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 Band name idea: propaganda doppelgänger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 prepend "Jailbait" to that and you've got a good start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Today is the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st Century Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 21, 2021 Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Zoops (n): The act you've committed when you realize you've been picking your nose with the video on in a Zoom meeting. Pariah and Lawnmower Boy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 24, 2021 Report Share Posted January 24, 2021 Just seen the new trailer for Godzilla vs Kong. Whoa ! When the cinemas open you gotta see this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 28, 2021 Report Share Posted January 28, 2021 Bad experiment, Sinister scientist groans, Cat devours planet - Caroline (12) Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cancer Posted January 30, 2021 Report Share Posted January 30, 2021 Deeply amusing to get invited to a physics study group channel (created by & for students who are in my classes) on Discord. I wonder how many sphincter-clench reactions there'll be when they see that I've popped in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted January 30, 2021 Report Share Posted January 30, 2021 Some people have become so addicted to bingeing television content that they get upset when a new streaming show is released weekly instead of all at once. I feel that most of this is just First World Problems whinging. However, there's a case to be made that the weekly release format is incompatible with the actual narrative structure of many shows, especially if they are serial rather than episodic in nature. Back in the old days, before the streaming era, tv shows were released weekly (or daily in the case of soap operas and game shows) regardless of the narrative structure of the show. Most of the time this wasn't a problem since serialized stories weren't the norm. It didn't matter if you remembered what happened in the previous weeks' episodes because little to none of it was going to be relevant to the new episode anyway. But I feel that as serialized storytelling becomes more prevalent, weekly releases become harder to justify. Here's what I think is a good rule of thumb: If your show needs to have a "Previously on..." segment at the beginning of every episode, just to help people remember what they saw in previous weeks, then it should probably be a Netflix-style all-at-once show. If your show doesn't need that, then weekly release is perfectly fine since chances are it isn't employing a serialized narrative that audiences need to keep up with. Lastly, for those who feel Disney/Marvel should have released WandaVision all at once (I'm looking at you, Grace Randolf), well, had they chosen to do that you'd still be waiting for it since the visual fx aren't all done yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 31, 2021 Report Share Posted January 31, 2021 I would argue that it is entirely appropriate for WandaVision to be released weekly, if for no other reason than to give viewers a week to process what happened before the next one comes along. On 1/29/2021 at 1:19 PM, Logan.1179 said: Dolly came in third, as I recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 31, 2021 Report Share Posted January 31, 2021 Disney is releasing the D+ shows weekly, is because of Game of Thrones. Yes & no. It is to allow each show to build an audience, and that happens when you discuss it over the “water cooler” with friends, work colleagues, social media, etc. The more people talk about the show, the longer future it has, and more successful it becomes. To maximise this mean to air episodes weekly, regardless if it a episodic or a serial storytelling structure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 2, 2021 Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 You winsome you lose some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 2, 2021 Report Share Posted February 2, 2021 Use the command line, Luke! (from Nature) (Cue up the canned diatribes about the intrinsic inferiority of GUI's for most data handling, let alone mass data handling; my decades-old holding-forth about having a mastery of one's tools rather than let them be the master of you; embittered snarls that Excel was written for brain-dead business types and intentionally impedes progress in quantitative understanding; a litany of war stories about data handling, unknowingly-induced artifacts installed into data by brains diminished by infestations of the GUI worms; etc. etc.) And I am dismayed that this sort of thing is even necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 3, 2021 Report Share Posted February 3, 2021 I don't know what my deal is, but I keep bumping into things today--doors, desks, chairs, etc. This, combined with the fact that we're having our first real snowstorm of the season, makes me a little nervous about driving home this afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 8, 2021 Report Share Posted February 8, 2021 Man, is it cold - 15 degrees - and only going to get colder for the rest of the week. Ouch! So I am 51 years old and my tolerance for cold has REALLY dropped in the last few years. 25 years ago I was stationed in ND for a few years and had absolutely no problem with temperatures like this for months straight. Now, the minute I step outside and it is below freezing I just fall apart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 18, 2021 Report Share Posted February 18, 2021 My predictions for who would play in the women's championship match in the Australian Open were totally off. There will be an American in the championship, just not the one I was expecting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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