Not going to lie, the single most used app on my phone is a graphing calculator app.
Now if only some people could learn that texting =! email. Texting is for things like "could you get milk on your way home" or "what time are you getting home tonight".
Some people, however, will try to schedule family gatherings through texts.
Now if only some people could learn that texting =! email. Texting is for things like "could you get milk on your way home" or "what time are you getting home tonight".
Some people, however, will try to schedule family gatherings through texts.
@wiseold "I threw a Christmas party one year, invited a bunch of people over. One guest brought his nephew along, a 20 year old. At one point, in the dining room, he asked me what that "thing was"..."
Sounds to me like he was curious. What an opportunity to "jump the gap" with someone of the younger generation. Yes, earbuds and MP3s are all he knew, as that was his only reality. Could have said "Well, this was all we had when I was your age".
You could have shown him how the tubes glow or how the needle fits into the groove or the record into the jacket. Who knows? Maybe that few minutes would have changed a life.
I have these white elephants sitting in the living room [see pic] and you know what our 14 year old / his friends say about them? Absolutely nothing - face in the ipad screen the whole time... No "what's that?" Mr Jasniewski or - God forbid - "why are there two?"
Sounds to me like he was curious. What an opportunity to "jump the gap" with someone of the younger generation. Yes, earbuds and MP3s are all he knew, as that was his only reality. Could have said "Well, this was all we had when I was your age".
You could have shown him how the tubes glow or how the needle fits into the groove or the record into the jacket. Who knows? Maybe that few minutes would have changed a life.
I have these white elephants sitting in the living room [see pic] and you know what our 14 year old / his friends say about them? Absolutely nothing - face in the ipad screen the whole time... No "what's that?" Mr Jasniewski or - God forbid - "why are there two?"
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Does anyone else see the irony in a days long exchange between geezers on an internet forum bemoaning the addiction of youth to technology? Are you able to post these messages here using your Etch-a-Sketch??
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Late reply, but here Irn-Bru is used as a mixer for vodka and whisky.
I like it with vodka but, personally, would not consider putting anything into my whisky apart from more whisky!
Irn-Bru is lauded as a hangover cure and has rescued generations of foolish young Scots from the sufferings of the morning after the night before!
Truth be told, "Irn-Bru Gets You Through": YouTube
I've always been quick to point out and criticize "Orwellian" police state type stuff, however I unabashedly applaud the Australian authorities for that. "Good on yas".
(You're welcome, scottjoplin)
Anyone around here found adding irn-bru to a malt would be banished to the Plains of Albion... 🙂
That kid was only curious about the music coming from the console.
As for the mechanicals/internals, history of,... he couldn't care less, and stated that it was much more convenient to use a pair of earwax-laden earbuds and an MP3 player tucked into his jean pocket.
He was clearly "bought" by modern technology, and typical of the vapid masses we see today.
Speaking of the glowing small screen, I still remember what a friend
of mine in collage said back in 1977. "Television, why do you think that they call it programing?"
He was a math major, a heroin addict, and more than a bit paranoid.
of mine in collage said back in 1977. "Television, why do you think that they call it programing?"
He was a math major, a heroin addict, and more than a bit paranoid.
Remembering the early 70s when I was in 10-12?grade (15-18yrs)I and a couple of friends regularly went to our local chemist to buy powdered carbon, saltpetre, and flowers of sulphur, + various other chemicals which would give our home made fireworks (aka potential pipebombs) more fizz. Today I reckon if you and asked for just ONE of those chemicals you'ld be surrounded by armed police in seconds 🙁 we did have fun dropping bangers into the street drains 🙂
Are the masses more vapid today than they were in the past? Or is it the same old, same old?
@Wiseold "That kid was only curious about the music coming from the console"
Ok, I get it he only cared about the content - that which can be seen, watched or listened to - and the device rendering such only whatever is most convenient. Hmmm, that one's not going to end up anywhere on these pages...
I would say you have to reach the place of abject boredom many times in your formative years, in order to cultivate and exercise the ability to imagine your way out of a paper bag. To where it comes about naturally.
The sheer volume of available means to sink time via visual computer renderings is making imagination unnecessary - merely to be entertained at any time and for as long as you want. Why bother? Its so convenient -
I wonder what the modern day equivalent to John Fogerty's - a fairly creative person - lyric would be;
Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch
Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singin'
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door
Ok, I get it he only cared about the content - that which can be seen, watched or listened to - and the device rendering such only whatever is most convenient. Hmmm, that one's not going to end up anywhere on these pages...
I would say you have to reach the place of abject boredom many times in your formative years, in order to cultivate and exercise the ability to imagine your way out of a paper bag. To where it comes about naturally.
The sheer volume of available means to sink time via visual computer renderings is making imagination unnecessary - merely to be entertained at any time and for as long as you want. Why bother? Its so convenient -
I wonder what the modern day equivalent to John Fogerty's - a fairly creative person - lyric would be;
Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch
Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singin'
Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door
I have a 5 year old granddaughter with a genetically attached tablet.
But she also has enormous imagination, and will sit for hours with things like Legos, Little People, little Brio train set. She likes to read books, color, and learn.
A little person, just like us, living in the world she's been given.
But she also has enormous imagination, and will sit for hours with things like Legos, Little People, little Brio train set. She likes to read books, color, and learn.
A little person, just like us, living in the world she's been given.
Hi,
there was recently a survey among young people asking what they would like to become.
The majority answered they´d like to become influencers
But wait ... isn´t influencar a disease? 😛
jauu
Calvin
... who doesn´t want to be a kid nowadays
there was recently a survey among young people asking what they would like to become.
The majority answered they´d like to become influencers
But wait ... isn´t influencar a disease? 😛
jauu
Calvin
... who doesn´t want to be a kid nowadays
I like your turn of phrase, as well as your insightful posts.
I've thought the same thing - not only is there less drive to be imaginative, there's also less free time in which to imagine.
I remember reading that Einstein spent many hours imagining things like himself riding on a beam of light, or a lightning-strike to a wire fence giving a shock to all the cows in contact with it, in timed sequence; from thinking and dreaming about such things, and putting it together with the discoveries that nothing travelled faster than light, and that light always travelled at the same speed in vacuum, he came up with his special theory of relativity, surely one of the greatest achievements of the human species.
Would Einstein have dreamed those dreams, and come up with his theories of special and general relativity, if he'd been given an iPad at age three, as so many children are now? Or would he have spent his childhood and youth giggling as he watched video clips of cats falling off tables and idiots swallowing detergent-pods?
And another thing I've wondered about: I think a child needs a certain amount of alone-time growing up, simply in order to become comfortable with herself / himself, find out who she/ he is, what she/he believes, and eventually form a durable sense of individual personal identity.
So what happens when you never get to spend those many hours of time alone with yourself?
Perhaps what happens is that you get anxious fifteen minutes after being disconnected from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, like those college students who volunteered to put away their phones for that study I mentioned? Perhaps you can't even be alone with yourself for fifteen minutes without feeling acutely uncomfortable and inadequate?
I think that would be a pretty miserable way to live; to be so uncomfortable in one's own skin as to find it increasingly unbearable after just a few minutes. How sad to have so little sense of comfort with your own self!
-Gnobuddy
That's the thing that lends gravitas to this thread. What sort of world have we inadvertently created for our young people, and what is it doing to them?
I have hope for the smartest ones; I hope they'll find all the idiocy on Facebook, etc, too stupid to be interesting, so they'll go off and find something more interesting to think about and do.
But what about the ones who aren't geniuses? What about more typical children? Instead of being exposed to, say, the ideas and works of inspiring people like Shakespeare, Jane Goodall, Mark Twain, Rosa Parks, Einstein, Marie Curie, Darwin, or Mahatma Gandhi, they are instead going to be exposed to photos of the latest Kardashian butt-implant, and genius tweets like these: Dumb Tweets That Will Make You Dumber
Gilligans Island was bad enough for those who grew up with it, but even that wasn't as mind-numbingly idiotic as much of the drivel that so many people are exposed to for most of their waking lives now. If you're young and this is your world, how are you even going to know that all this is idiotic, that there actually are lots of people capable of so much more, that there are higher and more worthwhile standards for you to aim for?
-Gnobuddy
You misspelled college....LOL.
As for the programming thing, that's a part of college, schooling in general today....
Aptly named as "indoctrination". 😱
Again, part of the problem in today's world.