In my telling of the story, it's the economics. When my brother tells the story, it's the design. (Specifically knowing to lock up the orange-red-yellow corridor.) When I told him the story, he would grin and refuse to comment.
I'm taken by the difference between grayscale and greyscale.
I remember doing a similar thing with a cassette recorder. I kind of wish I knew where those tapes are now, just to hear my grandparents' voices again. But for the content? No thanks...
My kneejerk reaction, on those two games, is that it may have to do with their interminable length plus the fact that some players may (will) be stuck in a hopeless position for hours. I wonder if selecting for players who'll sign up for that creates some perverse incentives toward bad behavior.
My dad was amazingly good at teaching us all kinds of sports and games. Always trying to help us develop and remember that the point was to be doing something together as a family.
Except Monopoly. HIs lesson from Monopoly was "life's tough; get a helmet." 😆
Suggesting someone play Monopoly or Diplomacy strikes me as an insult one step from "up a long ladder and down a short rope."
(I know both games have their adherents, and may God bless and keep them... far away from me.)
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Always easy to dunk on this stuff, but what I also try to consider is... imagine this existed at precisely the loneliest moment of your 20s. How confident are you that you wouldn't use it? Like, this almost co-existed with COVID quarantine.
A splash of white vinegar right in the bottom of the machine before starting the load worked pretty well for me, when I was living with hard water.
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Robert Hackerman still at it, I see.
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PS: some of my colleagues have made it abundantly clear to me that two-factor authentication was invented by and for a demographic who usually wears pants with pockets...
I'm a fan of two-factor authentication as a rule, but the whole "update your password/enter your code/answer a security question/update your backup email/oh if you want THAT feature enter your password again" tango is for the birds.
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Bruce Hardy, J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology, will give a talk titled "A Twist on Ancient Technology: Fiber, String, and More" for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Human Origins Today series on September 18, 2025. SUMMARY The…
I happen to be listening to David Yeager's "10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People" right now and it seems relevant to this kind of challenge. The difference between "welcome to the club" and "didn't anybody teach you this" is the difference between success and failure...
‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.
‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
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Wow. I'm glad I was tall enough to go on that ride. Brilliant thread.
But the choice is not "spend the money or set the money on fire". It's most likely "spend the money with Vendor A or with Vendor B"... who also desperately needs it.
Or give the money to charity... who desperately needs it.
Or leave it in the bank, who lends it out to someone who needs it.
Present company excluded but I wish more people realized that good teachers are the product of *years* of training and education and professional development and mentorship and practice, not magicians who go into the classroom and just wing it on Charisma.
There's a #HigherEd trope/meme that I've always hated, that I often see circulated this time time of year: that of the "joke" about how many students' grandparents were killed by your 8am class this term. My son and his cousins lost their grandfather in June, my father-in-law, after a very long battle with cancer and a gut-wrenching hospice journey. Those same cousins have a second grandfather who is now on hospice as well. Odds are my nieces will bury two grandfathers within 4 months during their senior year of high school. Some of my frustration with this meme/"joke" is that I grew up in a family of undertakers: my grandfather and my uncle, so I have a more direct relationship with death than a lot of people. It's an inevitable part of life. It is ever-present if we open our eyes and hearts to it. My analytic brain also doesn't get the joke. At what age do you think 18-24 year old's grandparents die? It's simple math. My son now has three remaining grandparents over the age of 80 as he approaches his college years, so yeah, I hope we have them with us for as long as possible, but realistically, that might not be the case. The past several months have been so hard for our family, and my heart breaks for my nieces, my sister and brother in law, facing this again so soon after the loss of our dear Vô. I can't imagine contending with educators charged with supporting their students making fun of these types of losses. Teachers and professors are teaching through impossible circumstances. And, our students are not the enemy. I hope this lands where it needs to today. Just an invitation for some awareness, basic math, and compassion. May it be of benefit. ✌🏻
Been stewing on this one for a minute. No more dead grandparents jokes, please #HigherEd?
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you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration