Plurib.us Entry Comments

AT said, of post by Peter

Word. I posted this to FB on Sunday. Apparently it's part of a graduation speech.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/03/a-different-kind-of-freedom.html

Chris said, of post by Brian

Chris

Very nice display. Much more intuitive than the music samples (and the split visualization helps, too).

GN said, of post by Brian

Very Nice

Brian said, of post by MarkG

Brian

Har, har.

Chris said, of post by Brian

Chris

My childhood plans to tunnel straight through the earth seem even more foolish now...

Brian said, of post by MarkG

Brian

I played outside (inevitably on our own), but I remember having to be coaxed into it. (Preferred it indoors.) It was helpful that we had friends a few doors down the road.

Relating to unmonitored play, and its social acceptability, I was hanging out with child outside a mall store today (in Guam - we happen to be in Guam right now), waiting for Lisa to shop. The employee there, apparently seeing the child and not me, asked Lisa if that was her daughter out there. Then she asked, "who is watching her?" (Still not sure how we were supposed to take that, but I think it speaks to that allowing unmonitored play is going to be an uphill battle.)

AT said, of post by MarkG

Thanks for that great article, Mark. I've often wondered similar things, as my childhood was filled with wilderness (and even non-wilderness: the cornfield from which to harass the golf course, the golf course itself, even nighttime streets filled with neighborhood children playing vaguely perilous games). The time I broke through the ice of a hidden winter stream to be rescued by my brother: wilderness, as vast as my young mind could conjure. The following winter when I returned the favor as he fell through in a different place: wilderness. The woods where ominous older kids did drugs, and we dared venture only during the day: wilderness.

Can we still create experiences of wilderness for children, or would our efforts irrevocably alter it anyway? Or am I just being overly romantic?

DaveR said, of post by Peter

DaveR

Now I feel dirty inside.

Peter said, of post by MarkG

Peter

I have grown to love this site, largely because of its minute parsing of ridiculous questions.

http://www99.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mass+of+the+sun+of+bacon

Elizabeth said, of post by MarkG

Elizabeth

Fun things to ask:
Hello, how are you?
What are you?
Are you Skynet?
What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?
A hospital? what is it?
How many roads must a man walk down?
Where are my keys?

Chris said, of post by Brian

Chris

Yeah, that second one was pure genius.

AT said, of post by Brian

Indeed, my mind is definitively blown.

t smith said, of post by Peter

t smith

[Government Employee] Drinks [Large Glass of Fermented Grape Beverage] to Celebrate [Long-Awaited New Blog Post].

Can't sleep.

Brian said, of post by Eric

Brian

Lisa and I are going to watch How Is Babby Formed on repeat until we hear more.

Brian said, of post by Eric

Brian

Congratulations! We are very excited, all the way out here in Atsugi, Japan.

Chris said, of post by Peter

Chris

Absolutely amazing.

Peter said, of post by Chris

Peter

I anxiously await Belligerent Chimp's future scientific discoveries. He should probably have his own website. Belligerentchimpproves.com?

Possible entries:
"Belligerent Chimp Proves Riemann Hypothesis"
"Belligerent Chimp Proves String Theory"
"Belligerent Chimp Proves Poincaré Conjecture"

Ideally, he would always be wearing a mortarboard.

Peter said, of post by Amanda

Peter

These are awesome.

Also, from our archives:

Bad Spock Drawings:
http://badspock.blogspot.com/

Law and Order: Artistic Intent
http://www.brandonbird.com/artisticintent.html
(The guy who started this also made http://www.brandonbird.com/sega_ford.html , which is just about perfect.)

Brian said, of post by -sh

Brian

Wow. That brings back the memories...

http://web.archive.org/web/19980111024845/ussubs.com/Luxury_folder/luxury.main.html

Brian said, of post by Boyd

Brian

That's great. I used to live on the other side of the block from there.