Hallo thar
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3rdragonI do still exist, yes. But posting to lj is more procrastination than I generally feel that I can justify on work time (yes, I know that I did it all the time at Smith, but I was usually being paid to sit there, not to do actual work unless it happened to come up). However, the video is rendering right now (probably a fruitless effort, but since no-one bothered to leave a note as to the status, it's what I've got . . . oh, the joys of video-editing by committee).
I do have a question for y'all: if you were taking a class titled The Digital Native (a digital native is either anyone born after 1982 or anyone who grew up surrounded by computers/technology/etc and is comfortable with it), a class which so far is basically Teh Internets and Technology: The Course, what would you expect to learn?/What do you think would be covered?/What's the most awesome piece of awesome that you've seen lately that should totally be in the course?
Speaking of awesome, this morning I got to play with a Dell Latitude XT2, which is a netbook/tablet pc. It was pretty neat (mind you, for that much money, I could definitely wait a few versions until they iron out the kinks). And last week my supervisor handed me a video camera smaller than many digital cameras. The shiny technology in this job is shiny (don't worry, my heart still belongs to the Smith computer labs; there would need to be a Whole Lot More Shiny before I would parcel any of my loyalties over to a Windows school).
When I started this post, I was going to talk about the dream I had last night.
I dreamed that Shapenote was being repressed or forbidden or something, so I and a bunch of shapenote singers barricaded ourselves in a cathedral (only it was sometimes a library, and also had a bit of town hall thrown in). We had just figured out a good way to bar the main door and were taking stock of the situation when we heard the sound of one of the side doors, and realized that that door hadn't been locked. So much for our holdout. I and a few of the other ringleaders quickly rushed into one of the inner rooms (this library/cathedral was a veritable fortress, if you ignored all the extra doors). We locked the door from the inside, and heard noise outside, but not much after someone tried our door and discovered it locked. A few hours passed. At the end of this time, the other ringleaders weren't there anymore (dream, go figure), and I realized that this standoff or whatever it was was getting pretty pointless. Slowly, carefully, I turned the knob, but the click of unlocking sounded loud in the silence. I opened the door. The mayor of the town was standing on the other side of the door, waiting. He was holding a crowbar and a large hammer, but casually, like he didn't want to have to use them; there hadn't been any indication that doors had been forced at any time. He nodded, as though he had been expecting me, and said, "I don't know much about Shapenote singing - would you tell me?"
I generally don't try to interpret my dreams. I have them, and they're usually rollicking good fun, and that's enough for me. But I'm almost certain that this one is about the fact that the state of Pennsylvania is talking about cutting their support of public libraries by 50%. The dream was an attack by governmental power on something sacred (which was sometimes sort-of a library). In my book, libraries are about as close to sacred as any secular institution gets. While we're analyzing this dream, I guess that I still have hopes for a favorable resolution.
I do have a question for y'all: if you were taking a class titled The Digital Native (a digital native is either anyone born after 1982 or anyone who grew up surrounded by computers/technology/etc and is comfortable with it), a class which so far is basically Teh Internets and Technology: The Course, what would you expect to learn?/What do you think would be covered?/What's the most awesome piece of awesome that you've seen lately that should totally be in the course?
Speaking of awesome, this morning I got to play with a Dell Latitude XT2, which is a netbook/tablet pc. It was pretty neat (mind you, for that much money, I could definitely wait a few versions until they iron out the kinks). And last week my supervisor handed me a video camera smaller than many digital cameras. The shiny technology in this job is shiny (don't worry, my heart still belongs to the Smith computer labs; there would need to be a Whole Lot More Shiny before I would parcel any of my loyalties over to a Windows school).
When I started this post, I was going to talk about the dream I had last night.
I dreamed that Shapenote was being repressed or forbidden or something, so I and a bunch of shapenote singers barricaded ourselves in a cathedral (only it was sometimes a library, and also had a bit of town hall thrown in). We had just figured out a good way to bar the main door and were taking stock of the situation when we heard the sound of one of the side doors, and realized that that door hadn't been locked. So much for our holdout. I and a few of the other ringleaders quickly rushed into one of the inner rooms (this library/cathedral was a veritable fortress, if you ignored all the extra doors). We locked the door from the inside, and heard noise outside, but not much after someone tried our door and discovered it locked. A few hours passed. At the end of this time, the other ringleaders weren't there anymore (dream, go figure), and I realized that this standoff or whatever it was was getting pretty pointless. Slowly, carefully, I turned the knob, but the click of unlocking sounded loud in the silence. I opened the door. The mayor of the town was standing on the other side of the door, waiting. He was holding a crowbar and a large hammer, but casually, like he didn't want to have to use them; there hadn't been any indication that doors had been forced at any time. He nodded, as though he had been expecting me, and said, "I don't know much about Shapenote singing - would you tell me?"
I generally don't try to interpret my dreams. I have them, and they're usually rollicking good fun, and that's enough for me. But I'm almost certain that this one is about the fact that the state of Pennsylvania is talking about cutting their support of public libraries by 50%. The dream was an attack by governmental power on something sacred (which was sometimes sort-of a library). In my book, libraries are about as close to sacred as any secular institution gets. While we're analyzing this dream, I guess that I still have hopes for a favorable resolution.
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Date: 17 Jun 2009 06:06 am (UTC)*squints* That is, assuming that rather long example holds true for the generation gap in general, not just my immediate family.
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Date: 18 Jun 2009 05:15 pm (UTC)I don't have a scientific explanation, but I think that it's all about what you're trained for. For example, someone trained to play the violin since age three would probably be better at learning to play the cello than someone who's grown up learning martial arts - even if the martial arts person has had a few rudimentary lessons in cello and music in general.