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1. i aim to achieve that healthy balance between caring and not-caring (what others think). i think i'm really getting close, and it's a great feeling.
of course, you've got to keep the self-respect of Number One in-tact/order and at the top of the importance ladder, bc i don't think it's v good or healthy for anyone to compleeetely discard what others think..
(and most of the time, anyway, those who say that they strictly 'don't care what anyone thinks at all' are the ones who are most self-conscious. i find that really sad - the fact that certain people feel that they have to be so transparent and go to such defensive (wrong word, help me out ?) lengths just to reassure themselves..)
tame the shame and win the game !
and i've seen far too clearly - and ish even at times felt it myself, personally, - how damaging it can be to live your life by the idea/l/s of others only and of ~ society in general. some people are really really far too flexible, and live these fragile little breakable lives bc they strain for its entirety in trying to crack the barrier of the super high expectations of others..
i mean, come on..it's so far from worth it.
2. i'm really starting to appreciate this/the? mutual understanding of similar humour and general life views that offspring/s of teachers just seem to somehow collectively share. im beginning to become more observant toward a little unspoken bond via an unofficial Humour Appreciation Society or something similar that appears to be in awesome existance..its kind of like one of the rare good-qwol facebook groups that are stumbled upon every so often (but instead, of course, in person)..and i bloody love it, haha. i'm becoming more and more pro-teacher parents as the days pass..somewhat secretly. and i think that (secretly) my fellow teacher-kids/z out there are aswell. hellz YEAH edu.
3. lately i've been trying to get my head around how people can think that intelligence can be so easily measured..whether it be through a state-wide set QCS-like test or even just from conversation with someone - over time, or at initial acquaintance.
i don't know if you're born with 'intelligence' or if its a skin that can be grown into. i don't know how to measure or to really even understand this thing, and i try not to judge others at all on things like school grades or the vocab that they choose to use - it stretches so far beyond that, i think.
what i also do think, sortofmaybz, is that reading is one of the best things that can be done to uppen (?) this so-called knowledge.
a really good friend of my family that i got to know pretty fantastically well in the last couple of years had made it past what i have gathered to be his 80s or 90s. i found out after he left us that he had always wanted to be a doctor but didn't have the funds for that sort of job when he was younger. it broke my heart to find that out, because i thought he would have been perfect for the job - personality/intelligence-wise. i don't think that he had had as lengthy/in-depth an edu as most of us these days, and mainly just due to circumstance and general society/wealth back in his prime. bc of this, it had always surprised me that he seemed to always know so much about the world, and was just super observant/knowledgable.
i guess where i'm going with this is, that i think that reading as much as possible is what gives you the obvious broader vocab and that sort of thing, which in turn seems to also provide such a massive/huge-r/greater understanding of the world than that of someone who does not read much/at all.
this man-friend read on an emulate-able level. he was old and his sight was fading, or had indeed faded a fair chunk as it was, and even though he required something like a magnifying glass at one point, he still read. he did sudoku and puzzles similar to keep his mind whirring. when he grew too tired after reading for even fairly short spans of time, and/or had lost his sight even further, he listened to audio books. i find that so fantastic. a lot of people reach that age and sort of give up on learning. they sit and don't want to accept that the world is going to, and is, changing so much around them. they don't want to learn or to expand their knowledge - but he did. he kept going and going and going, and i loved him for it.
one set of audios that he particularly referenced to a lot was a set that a relative or close friend had told him about. it was a collection of semi-life philosophies involving a whole heap of different people who were of different ages and lifestyles. for eg., one person believed in barbecues. they believed that life should always involve them..because of the social side of things; they bring people together, they're places of happiness and of optimism - and often even celebration.
another believed in high-heels..because they accentuate a woman's feminine form, boost the self-esteem and empower the wearer.
you've really got to take in little lessons like this from other people around you when given the chance - emulate the ones you love !
i just love everything about reading - even the v idea of it. it makes you less naive, and more open-minded to the ideas of others and of the way that other people live their lives. and i think that's so so important - especially in today's society. its not even a matter of interest anymore; its just that you will not survive if you sit around and do not absorb what is going on around you/us.
i guess, mostly, literature and even news is so great bc it puts your feet on the ground. it makes you aware that you are a tiny speck in a giant's eye in the whole scheme of things. i'm not even sure if that's intimidating or scary, or a good thing.
there's a quote by eva mendes, of all people, that i really like. i can't rememeber it directly, i have it saved in my ipod upstairs..but it goes something like the following:
'the most sexual organ is the brain.. you don't have to be a scholar, just curious about the world.'
i really like the end part, especially. its something i mentally refer to often, i think its an important point to think about.
4. artificial intelligence is amazing. i don't know so much about it, but i think paul dempsey initally spurred my thoughts toward the topic. in qcs, the theme for our unseen written task turned out to be time, and one of the snippets of stimulus involved the turning back of time - and the sort of skin/physical rejuvanation that's getting around more and more as the years tick by. i had wanted to some how tie in artificial intell into that, but struggled and ended up sadly changing tact a little/lot.
in an interview, paul was talking about his song Ramona Was a Waitress - which speaks about artie intie a fair bit..a little cryptically if youre not entirely switched on to its topic or aware of his referencing.:
in his own words:
'it's about a guy arguing with an artificial-intelligent robot waitress about mortality..artificial intelligence and conscious robots arguing about the meaning of life.'
the name Ramona comes from a man by the name Ray Kurtzweil who is one of the foremost thinkers on artificial intelligence and what the future holds for technology. he has created a program called Ramona that's like an interactive person, and, as technology progresses, he's trying to build her up so she becomes more and more sophisticated in the hope that one day she will be essentially conscious.
'that's the point he's trying to make, that at some point in the future technology will be arguably conscious.
this guy Ray Kurzweil also goes on about how with the use of emerging technologies like nanotechnologies and stuff like that, human beings will be able to augment themselves and improve themselves to reverse the aging process. we will essentially merge with machines and will be able to prolong our life spans almost indefinitely. so the Ramona character in the song is sort of this trans-human woman who lives almost indefinitely. i thought it would be kind of funny if you were in that position but you were a waitress. i just wanted to make it something banal. this fascinating amazing idea of this potentially immortal artificial intelligence that can augment itself and improve itself and exist for however long..' but she's still just a waitress, you know ? like youre this super-human and yes you have endless life..but youre only a waitress. i found that such a funny little situation..really interesting.
'But life is still life and you still have to do something with life.'
some of my more favoured lyrics from the above:
she circles past, she fills your glass, but she don't recognise the song.
and once in a life time, she says..the waking life stitched together in your head.
and i don't need these arms anymore, i dont need this heart now to love.
i don't need this skin and bone at all.
and eyes like crystal balls that just won't shut up about the future of the future.
ramona was a waitress; all but made of information.
in a bar under the third bridge, she says she's looking forward to living forever.
(okay so that's actually most of the song, but but but..)
a funny little tweet that pd had sent during the making of the film clip for that song:
shooting video for ramona....size 13 dancing shoes on....understandably there is a lot of fear in the room.
;)
5. just when you think there are no new stories to be told, a new one manages to come along.
6. well i am the shape of a lonely soldier, oh, I am the shape of a single structure.
but even the bravest Lions, they need a sidekick.
i know that even the tallest kings, they need a sidekick.
everyone needs a Robin, no ?
7. a fair while ago now, there was an epic storyline for a dance on So You Think You Can Dance.
the moves and costumes etc on their own were pretty ordinary, but it was all about a man who was the last left on earth and an alien had come down to impregnate itself/or actually, maybe to do so to the human?. on 2nd thoughts, im not even sure who was doing what in that sitch haha but i thought it was so awesomely original. as if you'd even come up with that, ever. haha.
8. the Stromatolites in WA, i just rememebered them after having a dream the other night that they got all flooded over and lost forever. i was actually really really sad about that - theyre one of the oldest living things..on the whole earth.
my fam visited them in i think about 2000. even then i was amazed.
google them, theyre really ugly :).
again = length/uber punctuated. of course.
1. i aim to achieve that healthy balance between caring and not-caring (what others think). i think i'm really getting close, and it's a great feeling.
of course, you've got to keep the self-respect of Number One in-tact/order and at the top of the importance ladder, bc i don't think it's v good or healthy for anyone to compleeetely discard what others think..
(and most of the time, anyway, those who say that they strictly 'don't care what anyone thinks at all' are the ones who are most self-conscious. i find that really sad - the fact that certain people feel that they have to be so transparent and go to such defensive (wrong word, help me out ?) lengths just to reassure themselves..)
tame the shame and win the game !
and i've seen far too clearly - and ish even at times felt it myself, personally, - how damaging it can be to live your life by the idea/l/s of others only and of ~ society in general. some people are really really far too flexible, and live these fragile little breakable lives bc they strain for its entirety in trying to crack the barrier of the super high expectations of others..
i mean, come on..it's so far from worth it.
2. i'm really starting to appreciate this/the? mutual understanding of similar humour and general life views that offspring/s of teachers just seem to somehow collectively share. im beginning to become more observant toward a little unspoken bond via an unofficial Humour Appreciation Society or something similar that appears to be in awesome existance..its kind of like one of the rare good-qwol facebook groups that are stumbled upon every so often (but instead, of course, in person)..and i bloody love it, haha. i'm becoming more and more pro-teacher parents as the days pass..somewhat secretly. and i think that (secretly) my fellow teacher-kids/z out there are aswell. hellz YEAH edu.
3. lately i've been trying to get my head around how people can think that intelligence can be so easily measured..whether it be through a state-wide set QCS-like test or even just from conversation with someone - over time, or at initial acquaintance.
i don't know if you're born with 'intelligence' or if its a skin that can be grown into. i don't know how to measure or to really even understand this thing, and i try not to judge others at all on things like school grades or the vocab that they choose to use - it stretches so far beyond that, i think.
what i also do think, sortofmaybz, is that reading is one of the best things that can be done to uppen (?) this so-called knowledge.
a really good friend of my family that i got to know pretty fantastically well in the last couple of years had made it past what i have gathered to be his 80s or 90s. i found out after he left us that he had always wanted to be a doctor but didn't have the funds for that sort of job when he was younger. it broke my heart to find that out, because i thought he would have been perfect for the job - personality/intelligence-wise. i don't think that he had had as lengthy/in-depth an edu as most of us these days, and mainly just due to circumstance and general society/wealth back in his prime. bc of this, it had always surprised me that he seemed to always know so much about the world, and was just super observant/knowledgable.
i guess where i'm going with this is, that i think that reading as much as possible is what gives you the obvious broader vocab and that sort of thing, which in turn seems to also provide such a massive/huge-r/greater understanding of the world than that of someone who does not read much/at all.
this man-friend read on an emulate-able level. he was old and his sight was fading, or had indeed faded a fair chunk as it was, and even though he required something like a magnifying glass at one point, he still read. he did sudoku and puzzles similar to keep his mind whirring. when he grew too tired after reading for even fairly short spans of time, and/or had lost his sight even further, he listened to audio books. i find that so fantastic. a lot of people reach that age and sort of give up on learning. they sit and don't want to accept that the world is going to, and is, changing so much around them. they don't want to learn or to expand their knowledge - but he did. he kept going and going and going, and i loved him for it.
one set of audios that he particularly referenced to a lot was a set that a relative or close friend had told him about. it was a collection of semi-life philosophies involving a whole heap of different people who were of different ages and lifestyles. for eg., one person believed in barbecues. they believed that life should always involve them..because of the social side of things; they bring people together, they're places of happiness and of optimism - and often even celebration.
another believed in high-heels..because they accentuate a woman's feminine form, boost the self-esteem and empower the wearer.
you've really got to take in little lessons like this from other people around you when given the chance - emulate the ones you love !
i just love everything about reading - even the v idea of it. it makes you less naive, and more open-minded to the ideas of others and of the way that other people live their lives. and i think that's so so important - especially in today's society. its not even a matter of interest anymore; its just that you will not survive if you sit around and do not absorb what is going on around you/us.
i guess, mostly, literature and even news is so great bc it puts your feet on the ground. it makes you aware that you are a tiny speck in a giant's eye in the whole scheme of things. i'm not even sure if that's intimidating or scary, or a good thing.
there's a quote by eva mendes, of all people, that i really like. i can't rememeber it directly, i have it saved in my ipod upstairs..but it goes something like the following:
'the most sexual organ is the brain.. you don't have to be a scholar, just curious about the world.'
i really like the end part, especially. its something i mentally refer to often, i think its an important point to think about.
4. artificial intelligence is amazing. i don't know so much about it, but i think paul dempsey initally spurred my thoughts toward the topic. in qcs, the theme for our unseen written task turned out to be time, and one of the snippets of stimulus involved the turning back of time - and the sort of skin/physical rejuvanation that's getting around more and more as the years tick by. i had wanted to some how tie in artificial intell into that, but struggled and ended up sadly changing tact a little/lot.
in an interview, paul was talking about his song Ramona Was a Waitress - which speaks about artie intie a fair bit..a little cryptically if youre not entirely switched on to its topic or aware of his referencing.:
in his own words:
'it's about a guy arguing with an artificial-intelligent robot waitress about mortality..artificial intelligence and conscious robots arguing about the meaning of life.'
the name Ramona comes from a man by the name Ray Kurtzweil who is one of the foremost thinkers on artificial intelligence and what the future holds for technology. he has created a program called Ramona that's like an interactive person, and, as technology progresses, he's trying to build her up so she becomes more and more sophisticated in the hope that one day she will be essentially conscious.
'that's the point he's trying to make, that at some point in the future technology will be arguably conscious.
this guy Ray Kurzweil also goes on about how with the use of emerging technologies like nanotechnologies and stuff like that, human beings will be able to augment themselves and improve themselves to reverse the aging process. we will essentially merge with machines and will be able to prolong our life spans almost indefinitely. so the Ramona character in the song is sort of this trans-human woman who lives almost indefinitely. i thought it would be kind of funny if you were in that position but you were a waitress. i just wanted to make it something banal. this fascinating amazing idea of this potentially immortal artificial intelligence that can augment itself and improve itself and exist for however long..' but she's still just a waitress, you know ? like youre this super-human and yes you have endless life..but youre only a waitress. i found that such a funny little situation..really interesting.
'But life is still life and you still have to do something with life.'
some of my more favoured lyrics from the above:
she circles past, she fills your glass, but she don't recognise the song.
and once in a life time, she says..the waking life stitched together in your head.
and i don't need these arms anymore, i dont need this heart now to love.
i don't need this skin and bone at all.
and eyes like crystal balls that just won't shut up about the future of the future.
ramona was a waitress; all but made of information.
in a bar under the third bridge, she says she's looking forward to living forever.
(okay so that's actually most of the song, but but but..)
a funny little tweet that pd had sent during the making of the film clip for that song:
shooting video for ramona....size 13 dancing shoes on....understandably there is a lot of fear in the room.
;)
5. just when you think there are no new stories to be told, a new one manages to come along.
6. well i am the shape of a lonely soldier, oh, I am the shape of a single structure.
but even the bravest Lions, they need a sidekick.
i know that even the tallest kings, they need a sidekick.
everyone needs a Robin, no ?
7. a fair while ago now, there was an epic storyline for a dance on So You Think You Can Dance.
the moves and costumes etc on their own were pretty ordinary, but it was all about a man who was the last left on earth and an alien had come down to impregnate itself/or actually, maybe to do so to the human?. on 2nd thoughts, im not even sure who was doing what in that sitch haha but i thought it was so awesomely original. as if you'd even come up with that, ever. haha.
8. the Stromatolites in WA, i just rememebered them after having a dream the other night that they got all flooded over and lost forever. i was actually really really sad about that - theyre one of the oldest living things..on the whole earth.
my fam visited them in i think about 2000. even then i was amazed.
google them, theyre really ugly :).
again = length/uber punctuated. of course.
Awesome blog Dach - 'made me think' x 10; also agreed x 10. Love you from Ali (not so anonymous but I didn't really understand the options, hee hee) xx
ReplyDeletei understood from dach who you were, mehe. miss you and the vallie sooshee train long time !
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