AI6YR BenI don't think any of my class today was familiar with what a "Vulcan Mind Meld" is. 🤔
I'm going to have to work on more contemporary references. 🤔
Michael BuschI have lately had to explain to the undergraduate research students who Carl Sagan was.
The students have lately still known about Frank Drake, if only because of his equation.
And they can meet Jill Tarter directly.
Few of them have seen "Contact", though.
@michael_w_busch Well, it's definitely an interesting moving target for me on what references students do or do not get! Surprised "Contact" is already not within their experience!!
@michael_w_busch Students don't get references/popular culture that my kids (just a few years out of college) get now...
Over the last decade, "Contact" has been largely replaced in the cultural reference space by "Three Body".
MsMerope🤦
kinda like when we teach disaster prep and pull out the manual can opener and the younglings have no idea what it is.
[maybe we should also be teaching them how to use it 🤷♀️ ]
@MsMerope @michael_w_busch Oooooooh, good point. None of my students know how to use a map and compass, but wouldn't expect that with this generation. (smartphones destroy skills, lol)
Desert Square Gardener@MsMerope
That's interesting. Where I live, I don't think most people, young or old, have ever used an electric can opener. My inlaws live in Santa Fe (where the economically privileged live) and have an electric one. I don't know what I did, but I broke it trying to open can of beans. Oops.
@michael_w_busch @ai6yr
That's interesting. Where I live, I don't think most people, young or old, have ever used an electric can opener. My inlaws live in Santa Fe (where the economically privileged live) and have an electric one. I don't know what I did, but I broke it trying to open can of beans. Oops.
@michael_w_busch @ai6yr
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@desertsquare @MsMerope @michael_w_busch @ai6yr Cruel fate: a young person in an apocalyptic famine finds a lifetime's worth of canned goods...
... and a P38.
@msbellows
Humanity has strayed too far from "survival of the fittest." In the end, nature will make everything wright.
@MsMerope @michael_w_busch @ai6yr
Humanity has strayed too far from "survival of the fittest." In the end, nature will make everything wright.
@MsMerope @michael_w_busch @ai6yr
@msbellows @desertsquare @MsMerope @michael_w_busch lol. Those work, but don't put them in your pocket as a Keychain (even in a cover). Eventually they catch and rip a giant hole in your pocket lol. Ask me how I know!
@ai6yr @desertsquare @MsMerope @michael_w_busch You'll also keep discovering painful little papercuts on your fingers and not know where they came from for like three months before you finally realize that the P38 on your keychain sometimes flips open a little, and then you'll feel stupid. Ask me how I know.
KnowAttitude
virgilpierce@knowattitude @msbellows @desertsquare @MsMerope @michael_w_busch @ai6yr We learned in the boyscouts (1980s) a couple of non-opener techniques to opening cans that are safter and with practice faster than trying to pierce the lid: You can rub the seam with a spoon and wear it down to the point you can pry the top open; and you can rub the top of the can on concrete until the seam gives way - this technique does require experience to avoid dumping the contents.
Do a few of these and the P38 feels like a good investment to put into the kit.
@virgilpierce @knowattitude @desertsquare @MsMerope @michael_w_busch @ai6yr You also can use a hatchet or hunting knife, but yeah, the P38 is easier (and doesn't need resharpening).
@jacquiharper@msbellows
I bought about 2 dozen of these; set for life 🙌
Paul_IPv6@msbellows @desertsquare @MsMerope @michael_w_busch @ai6yr
LOL.
be better off with a ball point pen. ;)
Muro deGrizecoAt the thrift store recently, I was so tempted to buy an old still-in-box can opener.
Just think, I could start opening the can food cans with it, and soon our cats would begin to respond to the rrr-rrr-rrr sound...
@murodegrizeco Wait hang on is that canned AVOCADO???
Where, where?
I see "Sacramento Tomato Juice", some "Flos/ed, a sterilized Melloream product, Chocolate", a smaller can of "...W, ...Fruit, ...syrup", and that big can of "...RN, ...RDART"
babblingi think it is just a sticker that was convenient to cover something else up.
@babblingaboutstuff @murodegrizeco Whew. As someone born and reared in California, I would have been upset if canned avocado had existed without me knowing.
well i wouldn't go that far.
it may very well exist.
just not displayed on that box (if i am correct)
edit:
i found some frozen avocado and i found some freeze dried and then canned avocado but i didn't wanna follow the links...
The appliance color is "avocado". It was a thing in the 1970s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_chartreuse#Avocado
You know, now I am going to have to go buy that can opener, if it's still there.
Or, alternately, I am going to have to print up stickers that say "As Seen On Mastodon!", and sneak one onto that box in the thrift store.
@murodegrizeco I'm sorry to say I have direct memories of avocado green and harvest gold appliances in the Seventies. Now I'm waiting for leisure suits to come back.
Level 98 🇺🇦@msbellows @desertsquare @MsMerope @michael_w_busch @ai6yr I was pretty good / fast with one of those back in the day.
@michael_w_busch @MsMerope Staying Alive worked with this group, I think there is some 70's revival still going on. There are some more recent songs which have the same cadence
Songs to do CPR to: Golden IB:@guko.bored
lol while looking for that ⬆️
I found this one. At first I was thinking "dude, HORRIBLE COMPRESSIONS!!!" but then came the punch line...
The best song for CPR!
Ash-Miw-Re@ai6yr @michael_w_busch @MsMerope Ultimate CPR Playlist | CPR Songs | 100 - 120 bpm | Updated 7/24/24 🫀👐 - playlist by Purple Health and Safety | Spotify https://share.google/9ADcWyXrFUSaluKKh
Still very few songs I actually like at all that work, apparently it's a very annoying rhythm. But there are a few. And certainly most of the list is much younger than I am.
Jim Hubbell@MsMerope @michael_w_busch @ai6yr
You mean this thing that has been riding on my keyring for decades?
You mean this thing that has been riding on my keyring for decades?
@ai6yr @MsMerope @michael_w_busch
I have to repair pockets from time to time. Sewing is a useful skill.
I have to repair pockets from time to time. Sewing is a useful skill.
@MsMerope @michael_w_busch @ai6yr Oddly enough, I couldn't find an electric can opener when I went looking recently. But the manual can openers I do have are bit bulky for carrying in a pocket. P38 is annoying to use but extremely portable.
Ah, "Billions and Billions" of people oughta know who Carl Sagan was!
Carl Sagan is why what will be a couple of the last relics of our civilization are now sailing silently outward into the darkness, a lightday from us!
Eventually, the tectonic plates will grind along and subduct all our traces on the landscape, the rain will wear all mountains down, and not even crows will speak of our memory...
But our golden records will continue their cold journey into the future.
Humphrey Archer
SilvertipGrizz@michael_w_busch @ai6yr ……….. do they know who Kepler is?
The relevant factor seems to be someone having something named after them.
@michael_w_busch @ai6yr When my wife ran a crew for the Hillary Clinton campaign, none of the twenty-somethings knew who Paul Newman was.
@ai6yr @michael_w_busch Correction: one person knew the salad dressing. Same ignominious fate as the singer Jimmy Dean.