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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

The abstract idea that not everyone is surprised by the same thing is not surprising. The particular instance where I am the one that is not surprised and many of my friends and acquaintances are is. To me.

In terms of the chickpea/cauliflower/Ricotta - how about leeks for a little green color? Even though already adding fresh garlic and fresh chopped onion?

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?

Makes sense to me. I thought both India and China were bigger than shown. The rest didn't surprise me.