The only way I'm going to find my finishing sander is to buy a new one, isn't it?
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Oct 05, 2013 4:17:53 pm PDT #8058 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
-t - Oct 05, 2013 4:22:09 pm PDT #8059 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm not saying it's not a useful pedagogical tool, it's a nice demonstration of relative size, just - my mind is not blown. I keep seeing links to that with great expressions of amazement and I feel left out.
Amy - Oct 05, 2013 4:26:25 pm PDT #8060 of 30000
Because books.
I knew Africa was huge, but seeing what else fits into it, for lack of a better explanation, gives me a much better idea of the actual size. I do much better with side-by-side comparisons.
-t - Oct 05, 2013 4:34:59 pm PDT #8061 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Maybe it's just that I'm not super visual so seeing it doesn't particularly trip my eureka switch. Or maybe I spent too much time playing with a globe as a kid.
Steph L. - Oct 05, 2013 4:36:19 pm PDT #8062 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The only way I'm going to find my finishing sander is to buy a new one, isn't it?
It's probably in our attic.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2013 4:40:30 pm PDT #8063 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not saying it's not a useful pedagogical tool, it's a nice demonstration of relative size, just - my mind is not blown
If you already know that Africa is bigger than all those countries combined, then it has little surprise value for it. If you don't reel at how many different ways there are to take the information from the surface of a sphere and fail to replicate it in 2D, similarly unimpressive. I don't think any one thing every blew everyone's mind, and it's not a cool kid club to be blown or unblown. So you knew. Or you don't care. Is that surprising?
meara - Oct 05, 2013 4:41:10 pm PDT #8064 of 30000
It did surprise me because I thought China was bigger than that and Japan smaller. But it didn't super surprise me how big Africa was, if that makes sense? Sort of?
sarameg - Oct 05, 2013 4:45:43 pm PDT #8065 of 30000
Very often the ___ I thought I owned? I do not in fact own. My dad does, I just was so familiar with it being around that I assume I simply must have it here!
Aveda product in hair + Loki = [link]
He got a lot wilder right after I stopped filming, which is why I stopped filming, so I could remove him from my head, which takes two hands.
Washed out now.
-t - Oct 05, 2013 5:06:40 pm PDT #8066 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Is that surprising?
Apparently. In that I am surprised.
If you don't reel at how many different ways there are to take the information from the surface of a sphere and fail to replicate it in 3D
I don't think I get what you are saying here. If I had to actually read the thing rather than just look at the illustration, I didn't do that.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2013 5:37:38 pm PDT #8067 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm asking if the premise of not everyone being surprised by the same thing is surprising--it is, you're saying?
I don't think I get what you are saying here. If I had to actually read the thing rather than just look at the illustration, I didn't do that.
I meant 2D where I said 3D.
The science of projections blows my mind. If it doesn't yours, enh, it doesn't. It doesn't surprise me that there are people who don't care about that, who already know how big the land masses are (or don't care), and don't spend much time thinking about the politics of mapmaking.
There are enough things that blow other people's minds that I don't give a damn about that I have no reason to assume it wouldn't go both ways.