#ThingsIThinkAbout
#DeepThougts
What is the difference between "nostalgia" and just having a long shelf life? If I buy tickets to see #TheRollingStones, am I being nostalgic for their glory days or are they "still going strong"?
From another angle: #StarTrek #PIC was clearly based on nostalgia for #TNG, but was #DSC based on nostalgia for Trek as a whole?
At what point does a long-lived entertainer, franchise, or whatever become nostalgic rather than long-lived?
@nuintari yep, and think of all the code under that. xterm, wayland, Linux vs the ROM that used to run the VT100.
Let's learn how to type at 60 to 100 words per minute.
Here (hands student a book). Read this book that has zero skill builder content. Just a story of typing.
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Wrong way to learn a skill.
Well deserved side-eye 😜
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Skills are application of knowledge.
Tough to learn a skill without knowledge. It can be done - that's trial & error. We all do some of that. It is not usually the cost effective method: both time & $$
Just realized I misspelled tow with toe. However, it did make me wonder if someone did need a toe truck, what that would look like?
Imagine if adults behaved as babies & cried whenever we were too hot, too cold, tired, hungry, had to go to the bathroom or were just in a crappy mood.
The constant din would be deafening & nothing would ever be accomplished.