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 Posted: 05/26/05 - 12:45 Post subject: i think my generation is going to suck as grandparents...
i had a conversation with a friend at school about this yesterday. our resident east-indian marketing instructor, old guy, hard to understand, but really smart when you listen to him, amazes me. (this all actually spun from a conversation about plagarism, and reading material straight from an article without trying to understand it and make our own opinions)
we did projects in international marketing, and he's telling us all about different kinds of bananas (there are red ones you know) and sugar cane and pinneapples and the history of this that and the other thing, and knows soooo much stuff about so many things.
and i was thinking about how sometimes i look at the clouds and i'm like "dammit i learnt what those were called, why don't i remember?" and all kinds of other things.
and we thought - why don't we know anything about stuff?
we have the internet, it's supposed to be easy for us to get the info. we should be smarter as a result.
somehow - i think having access to the info has only made us dumber. we don't need to do research - we can look it up in like 5 minutes...
i just think i'm going to fail my grandchildren unless i start learning about more stuff. it's sad that i know who Britney Spears is dating and i can't tell you anything about cumulus clouds. 
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 12:49 Post subject:
Well... since you're a generation behind me I think you're right. My generation however, is gonna be the coolest grandparents evah! I look forward to grandchildren... in like 10 yrs or so....
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 12:50 Post subject:
that's why you need science 
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 12:52 Post subject:
business is fun and all...
but i need to start learning about more things.
maybe i'll have back when i was a kid working at tim hortons stories...
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 12:52 Post subject:
Why bother to learn it, when you can look it up within 5 minutes.
That basically explains tons of people I know both personally and professionally.
My answer: I saved 5 minutes b/c I already knew it. 
Besides, it's fun kicking ass in trivia at the bar.
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 12:56 Post subject:
| MastrBrewr wrote: | Why bother to learn it, when you can look it up within 5 minutes.
That basically explains tons of people I know both personally and professionally.
My answer: I saved 5 minutes b/c I already knew it.
Besides, it's fun kicking ass in trivia at the bar. |
maybe if the learning channel spent more time talking about interesting things instead of renovating houses...
and i need to work on my story telling skills 
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 12:59 Post subject:
| blue wrote: |
maybe if the learning channel spent more time talking about interesting things instead of renovating houses...
and i need to work on my story telling skills |
I've fully supplanted TLC with the History Channel
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 13:01 Post subject:
i could take in the imax too... they have fun learning things there.
pbs at 3am is pretty good. all kiiiiinds of random stuff.
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 13:20 Post subject:
| blue wrote: | i could take in the imax too... they have fun learning things there.
pbs at 3am is pretty good. all kiiiiinds of random stuff. |
Books are good too - you actually stimulate more brain activity by reading than watching TV. Its good to exercise your imagination, even educational TV doesn't allow too much of that.
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 13:25 Post subject:
yeah, i'm gonna read my star wars books again (not that those really count - but i know reading is good). i have a few other non-fiction ones that i'm gonna look into kinda like Fast Food Nation but not.
maybe i'll get some fun books about fish with pictures! 
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 14:14 Post subject:
| blue wrote: | yeah, i'm gonna read my star wars books again (not that those really count - but i know reading is good). i have a few other non-fiction ones that i'm gonna look into kinda like Fast Food Nation but not.
maybe i'll get some fun books about fish with pictures! |
Maybe you could read something new. Along the sci-fi theme, if you've never Orwell's 1984 it's a classic and very, very good.
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 14:19 Post subject:
| Sahara wrote: |
Maybe you could read something new. Along the sci-fi theme, if you've never Orwell's 1984 it's a classic and very, very good. |
double plus good
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 14:42 Post subject:
I don't know about you, but I don't associate my grandparents with knowledgeable. My grandfather is, mostly because he was an engineer and therefore wants to know how everything works. But as far as the rest of them go, I can't say they knew a lot about everything. That's just not how I identify my grandparents. Knowledge isn't a prerequisite.
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 14:47 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | I don't know about you, but I don't associate my grandparents with knowledgeable. My grandfather is, mostly because he was an engineer and therefore wants to know how everything works. But as far as the rest of them go, I can't say they knew a lot about everything. That's just not how I identify my grandparents. Knowledge isn't a prerequisite. |
 Wise with advice and how to approach life, but not so much always the tedious meaningless details. Mine were all very smart, but that wasn't the defining factor for me.
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 14:48 Post subject:
An awesome read. This should help ya in the knowledge dept to. 
Sheldon
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