What's the View Like From My New Place?

[Evo]

I'm thinking that pumpkin is feeling no pain.

 

[turbo]

Can she travel? If I need surgery, a cute and pragmatic anesthesiologist would be a plus! Especially if she'd spin some tunes by Muddy Waters, , Jimi, or early Fleetwood Mac while I was getting cut.

 

[belliott4488]

Can she travel? If I need surgery, a cute and pragmatic anesthesiologist would be a plus! Especially if she'd spin some tunes by Muddy Waters, , Jimi, or early Fleetwood Mac while I was getting cut.

Oh ... are you a Peter Green fan? Hardly anyone seems to remember him any more! He was amazing.

My sister is in band that plays covers, and they do one of the songs from the megapop version of FM, but I had to tell her that they also did another FM song - Black Magic Woman, which, of course, they thought was a Santana song.

 

[Moonbear]

I'm thinking that pumpkin is feeling no pain.

When I was that age, I'd have never let my mother get ahold of such pictures. Now I'm sure I made the right choice, seeing as how they get so rapidly spread all over the internet.

 

[Evo]

When I was that age, I'd have never let my mother get ahold of such pictures. Now I'm sure I made the right choice, seeing as how they get so rapidly spread all over the internet.

These came off of her facebook page.

It's probably good that the internet was not around when I was young.

 

[Moonbear]

These came off of her facebook page.

It's probably good that the internet was not around when I was young.

And people wondered why I wasn't too keen on Facebook.

It's way too easy for parents to check up on kids anymore, between the internet and cell phones. I'm not sure it's always for the best either. I think there was some value in moving away from home and NOT being able to reach our parents immediately to solve problems for us, or to have them constantly checking in.

Then again, when we were off at a boyfriend's dorm room when our parents called, they KNEW we weren't in our own room. With cell phones, they don't have a clue where you are when you answer, and you don't have to count on roommates providing good cover stories.

 

[turbo]

Oh ... are you a Peter Green fan? Hardly anyone seems to remember him any more! He was amazing.

My sister is in band that plays covers, and they do one of the songs from the megapop version of FM, but I had to tell her that they also did another FM song - Black Magic Woman, which, of course, they thought was a Santana song.

Peter was killer. When he agreed to come over to Apple records, the Beatles released "Here Comes the Sun King" to seal the deal. Peter had a tone so sweet that BB King said his music made him break out in a cold sweat. I glommed onto PG in the 1960's and followed him every step of the way since, through his apprenticeship with John Mayall, through Fleetwood Mac (which he named to honor Mick Fleetwood and John MacVie) ande he was stunning.

I spent a lot of time trying to copy his tone (including modifying my guitars) and trying to replicate his music. I hope I did well enough. People seemed happy enough with my versions of Black Magic Woman and especially Jumping at Shadows.

 

[Evo]

And people wondered why I wasn't too keen on Facebook.

It's way too easy for parents to check up on kids anymore, between the internet and cell phones. I'm not sure it's always for the best either. I think there was some value in moving away from home and NOT being able to reach our parents immediately to solve problems for us, or to have them constantly checking in.

Then again, when we were off at a boyfriend's dorm room when our parents called, they KNEW we weren't in our own room. With cell phones, they don't have a clue where you are when you answer, and you don't have to count on roommates providing good cover stories.

Actually, I don't post on facebook or My Space because it is for teens and young 20's mainly. I can see professors posting on facebook to try to keep in touch with students. My Space, I feel, is just for teenagers. I don't think even my kids post there, but maybe so. Yes, I know older people post there, which IMO, is creepy. It's a kid thing, old geezers need to back off. Get a life, you're not 16 anymore, mkay?

 

[Cyrus]

My younger daughter, The Child of Evo, was just here. I took a picture of her with the fruitbat.

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She wants to go into medicine, would you trust her with your life?

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Ok, one time I was at an award ceremony for pilots, and there was this BIMBO woman, who acted like 'barbie pilot'. This woman actually flew a 767, but dressed and talked like she was 16 (she was in her 40's). Yes, she was blonde. Everyone looked at each other like, how the hell does this woman fly an airplane, because I sure as hell don't want to be on that plane! Total moron that woman was. She looked exactly like barbie derssing up to play pilot. When she got her award, she said: 'hehehe thanks for this award, hehehe' ...

 

[Evo]

Ok, one time I was at an award ceremony for pilots, and there was this BIMBO woman, who acted like 'barbie pilot'. This woman actually flew a 767, but dressed and talked like she was 16 (she was in her 40's). Yes, she was blonde. Everyone looked at each other like, how the hell does this woman fly an airplane, because I sure as hell don't want to be on that plane! Total moron that woman was. She looked exactly like barbie derssing up to play pilot. When she got her award, she said: 'hehehe thanks for this award, hehehe' ...

What does that have to do with my 3.9GPA daughter that has won National Honors in Chemistry, Biology, Math and English? In high school she took all AP and honors classes. Are you saying my daughter is dumb?

 

[Cyrus]

What does that have to do with my 3.9GPA daughter that has won National Honors in Chemistry, Biology, Math and English? In high school she took all AP and honors classes. Are you saying my daughter is dumb?

No! Relax mama bear. I don't want to get eaten.

Im just saying that woman was dumb as bricks and was trusted with a multi million dollar airplane and hundreds of peoples lives. If she can do that, anything is possible.

 

[Moonbear]

Actually, I don't post on facebook or My Space because it is for teens and young 20's mainly. I can see professors posting on facebook to try to keep in touch with students. My Space, I feel, is just for teenagers. I don't think even my kids post there, but maybe so. Yes, I know older people post there, which IMO, is creepy. It's a kid thing, old geezers need to back off. Get a life, you're not 16 anymore, mkay?

I don't think that's true. I have a myspace page, and everyone that I have as "friends" on it is well over 20 (over 30 even). It seems that most of my students have pages on both sites. You should check out Tom's myspace thread. The "kids" are all over at Facebook. I think Myspace has more adults on it.

 

[Cyrus]

I don't think that's true. I have a myspace page, and everyone that I have as "friends" on it is well over 20 (over 30 even). It seems that most of my students have pages on both sites. You should check out Tom's myspace thread. The "kids" are all over at Facebook. I think Myspace has more adults on it.

Thats because facebook was originally made for only people with a .edu school account. Its a great way to send out/receive mass invites to parties and events.

 

[Evo]

No! Relax mama bear. I don't want to get eaten.

And you would get eaten. I finished High School when I was 14. I was one of those bizarre
children that the schools didn't know what to do with. Or with what to do. I fell off the scales. Downside, I was self educated because the public school system couldn't keep up with me and I refused to go to a school for the "Academically Able".

You are lucky that school has not tried to confine you to a lower level of achievement, which was the case back when I was in school. As one teacher told me "I cannot teach two classes, and since the other kids can't keep up with you, you will have to slow down."

 

[Cyrus]

Are you kidding me. I got my A's in high school by doing the minimal amount of work. My high school was HORRIBLE. Boy, college sure did slap me in the face hard first semester. What do you mean I have to do WORK?

I got a big fat D- in calculus 2. I mean, I took AP calclus in high school, so its the same thing right? Errrrrrrrrr, wrong.

I had no study habbits my first semester of college. I went out and rode my bike instead of studying. Mmmm, yeah. Not so smart.

 

[Evo]

Are you kidding me. I got my A's in high school by doing the minimal amount of work. My high school was HORRIBLE. Boy, college sure did slap me in the face hard first semester. What do you mean I have to do WORK?

Cyrus, I think you're phenomenal, and hopefully your teachers didn't start taking your schoolbooks away from you when you were in 3rd grade.

Yep, the decision was made to take my schoolbooks away when they discovered that I had completed the 3rd grade on my own in 3 weeks. From then on, I was only allowed to have my books when I needed to do an assignment.

My 9th grade Algebra teacher refused to pass me, I had missed 102 days of school and only showed up for tests and had a 110 average (with bonus questions). She told me that it made her look like she wasn't teaching me anything (she wasn't). She tried to get other teachers to mark me as "incomplete", a grade of "I", although I had straight A's. No other teachers agreed.

 

[Cyrus]

You should have been in one of those universities in paris that has the smart little children. I knew a guy who came from africa. Him and his friend were the top two students at his school. There they learned french, english, calclus I,II,III, diff equations, linear algebra, etc. All, with basic scientific calculators. Really smart guy. He said his friend was number one, and got into a good school in Paris. When he got there, his friend told him some of the classes had 12 year olds doing math at a higher level than he was.

Another friend of mine in Tunisia also said his school (also french based) was as hard as college in America.

American public schools are a sad joke. I graduted from high school learning next to nothing, and I was bitter about it. I wanted to leave and start college at 16 because I knew I was wasting my time by staying in school.

In hind sight, I wasnt ready for college, I just had to be in a better school. With actual teachers and students that cared.

Right now, Id put myself way low on the list of smart people. I just work hard, but I am not smart. I've seen smart people, I am not one of them.

 

[belliott4488]

Actually, I don't post on facebook or My Space because it is for teens and young 20's mainly. I can see professors posting on facebook to try to keep in touch with students. My Space, I feel, is just for teenagers. I don't think even my kids post there, but maybe so. Yes, I know older people post there, which IMO, is creepy. It's a kid thing, old geezers need to back off. Get a life, you're not 16 anymore, mkay?

I agree, but I have nieces who are teenaged and early twenties, and they all insist on my getting ids on these sites. I feel very out of place most of the time, especially on Facebook, which I usually try to avoid - it's like visiting them in their dorm rooms.
I find more adults on MySpace, but I have to admit I'm kind of slumming there, since I mainly tend to go to the Physics forum to try and chase away the kooks.

 

[Evo]

Naw, being self-taught I did not feel I deserved any of that. Although my friends at NASA wanted me to participate in courses at Rice (to which I had won a scholorship).

I want people to learn from what happened to me. I lived in a backwards community (scholastically). It wasn't until I was 11 that special interest was taken in me and the school told my parents that they had nothing to offer me, so they should put me in a private school for children with a minimum 140 IQ. A boarding school hundreds of miles away. I refused.

 

[binzing]

First round of first grade for me, I was in a reading program. The second time, I was put in gifted.

 

[Evo]

First round of first grade for me, I was in a reading program. The second time, I was put in gifted.

That's good.

I was told to stop getting ahead. Then my books were taken away.

 

[binzing]

As soon as I'm a junior I plan to kick it into high gear with all AP classes (AP classes are only provided to upperclassmen here). My senior year I plan on taking like AP Chem and as an elective to retake it, AP Biology.

 

[Ouabache]

...It wasn't until I was 11 that special interest was taken in me and the school told my parents that they had nothing to offer me, so they should put me in a private school for children with a minimum 140 IQ.

Do you think your long-term visual memory affected your rate of learning?
Btw, great view through your house windows .. Sure wish i'd seen that notagoshawk!

 

[Evo]

...It wasn't until I was 11 that special interest was taken in me and the school told my parents that they had nothing to offer me, so they should put me in a private school for children with a minimum 140 IQ.

Do you think your long-term visual memory affected your rate of learning?

I think my memory played a significant role.

Btw, great view through your house windows .. Sure wish i'd seen that notagoshawk!

I hope he shows up here again.

 

[binzing]

I think I have semi-photographic memory, because when I compete in Geography bees/ knowledge bowls/ etc. often things will come to me as a picture in my memory, especially with geography

 

[Evo]

I think I have semi-photographic memory, because when I compete in Geography bees/ knowledge bowls/ etc. often things will come to me as a picture in my memory, especially with geography

Yes, that's how it works for me, anything that required memorization I aced. Anything that required creative thinking, not so hot. I guess my dad ws right when he made me take business in college.

 

[binzing]

I hate how they do class ranking. It goes back to 7th grade (I failed algebra the first semester then, and went back to prealgebra, then then next year I barely squeaked by in algebra) so I currently have a rank of 189 out of 390.

 

[SticksandStones]

Naw, being self-taught I did not feel I deserved any of that. Although my friends at NASA wanted me to participate in courses at Rice (to which I had won a scholorship).

I want people to learn from what happened to me. I lived in a backwards community (scholastically). It wasn't until I was 11 that special interest was taken in me and the school told my parents that they had nothing to offer me, so they should put me in a private school for children with a minimum 140 IQ. A boarding school hundreds of miles away. I refused.

I remember in 2nd grade being asked if a certain set of spelling words were hard. Reading at a high school level at that point, I answered truthfully that they were not hard. I was given detention...

I always thought that teachers would want to encourage bright students. Apparently not. My senior year in High School I had three homework assignments the entire year. All from the same class. I passed calculus with 116% average and missed one point the entire year (on the last quiz at that, talk about lame).

It seems like High School exists to be a day care and nothing more. It's really sad :(

 

[turbo]

When I was 10, my parents bought a house across the road from where they had rented for years. The owner was a widower with an adult daughter, and he gave my folks a killer deal. He also (Thank you! Thank you, Welman!) left a large library of books, mostly from a subscription service that sent you a classic novel or collection of stories/poems every month. The books were plain-bound and printed on lousy paper, but they were a treasure to me. At 10, I was reading Dickens, Twain, Hawthorn, Verne, and on and on every single night and my parents had to tell me to shut off the light and go to sleep.

I'd pick a book and plow through it from front to back. Later, when I entered college in Engineering, my mentor in the Honors program (Cecil Rhodes - a professor emeritus) noticed my interest in literature and (gently) steered me into a major in English Lit, which I supplemented with a double-major in Philosophy. I gravitated toward poetry of the English Romantic period - though I knew ahead of time that I'd love it due to my childhood exposures to Keats, Byron, Shelly, Coleridge, and Burns.

 

[binzing]

Yeah, as I said before I was in a reading program my first time in 1st grade. By second grade I was reading at a level of 12.9 (twelth grade, ninth month).