fatheadfred

I have an extra ticket, front row center, for the Tweedy show on 30 March. Ticket is $35. I can meet them at the Will call window. If interested they can e-mail at TFleener@Hotmail.com.

pets

Mr. Dylan's Hard Rain- Ryan Bingham

When I Die - Alice N Chains

it's good from here

Seriously considering going to Kansas City to see them at The Crossroads. Any opinions about KC or the venue would be greatly appreciated.

I am planning to go to the KC show. Got some passes. woohoo. Venue is rad. Seen Wilco there twice. Outdoors, easy street parking since there isn't much else around the area. Good brew choices, restaurant has some good grub. Dig the Black Keys, never seen 'em, yet.

I've also gone many months without Facebook, as I've never had it. I definitely hear the "God, stop writing on cave walls" type comments, but you know, I just despise Facebook. There's a whole level of interpersonality that is forever lost with Facebook. People no longer call a friend to say hi, instead they just post some dumb shit on their "wall". There are a lot of people that have gotten really into Facebook that have actually forgotten how to talk to another person altogether. Their conversation goes stale quickly, and they revert to showing you a video of a bunny chasing a snake. Because that's all they know anymore. They sit around and talk about the things that are on their Facebook page. It really is just terrible.

 

Also, people can't any longer take a picture just for the sake of capturing the memory for a lifetime, instead they take it just to post it on Facebook later that night.

 

Oh, and it also encourages stalkerish behavior.

Great stuff. I can dig it.

Laminated Cat

When You Wake Up Feeling Old

Forget The Flowers

War on War

that sequence woulda been great to hear, luckies

Went to Royals game yesterday. They're a damn good team for 6 innings then they are abismal. We were able to heckle Johnny Damon and the 3rd baseman who left the game in the 7th. We like to think he had enough of us.

You may have something here. (And not because my therapist said anything to me that makes me think this, but...) Maybe the mood someone perceive Jeff Tweedy to be in says more about them, than about The Jeff's actual mood.

 

I do love reading all about his "lectures" here on VC though. It's all part of his rockstar mystique.

I believe they call that projection. With the range of emotions his writing evokes it is easy for a fan to get mixed up.

Jesus Christ Superstar show? Or is that Glenn?

For the note copiers, please, try notecards to reduce your time copying filler words. Use keywords and brief hints. Process it in your head instead of laborious factory work. Take 'em along with you and study in the 5 minutes here and there throughout the day. It'll work after some practice. You learned the copying notes method, you can learn other methods.

Indiana

too friggin' funny

The Jayhawks' expectations for 2009/2010 just went way up. Sherron Collins and Cole Aldrich both announced they'll be back.

 

 

Also, Kansas, Duke, Kentucky and Carolina are all in the mix for a handful of top high-school players. I expect all those teams to be in the top 10 when the season kicks back up in November.

 

 

What other teams might be in the top 10 heading into next year?

3 out of 4 ain't bad. Carolina blew this year.

Again, pardon my ignorance, but is it not common knowledge that persons without computers have the ability to multitask?

overrated, leads to anxiety, not productive, see 'chicken with head cut off'

the absolute best way for me to learn is to write notes and then recopy them later, by hand.

As someone who feels like they were born with only the ability to have short bursts of thought here and there, I think that the technology and the internet has actually given me the ability to help string my thoughts together. The ability to actually have windows and tabs allows me to pick up where I left off, mid-thought, which is something I wasn't always able to do.

 

I still think that saying technology is some how responsible for decreasing depth of thought is shortsighted. The internet in particular is basically a very large social hall/library, and people are going to tend to seek out that which they would seek out without technology anyway. People started using abbreviations long before texting and IMing were so prevalent

 

And for as much as I love how technology is a useful tool for my education, the absolute best way for me to learn is to write notes and then recopy them later, by hand. I personally HATE when my teachers and professors insert unnecessary technology into a project or assignment: too often, the objective gets fucked up in a Rube Goldberg-style clusterfuck. I think often educators mistake students' leisure activities for a new trend in learning when that simply isn't the case. Again, I guess I could have had a teacher who tried to help us learn by sending us the lesson in notes passed clandestinely around the classroom, but they didn't - because they were activities with different purposes.

 

As for it being "next to impossible" to perform traditional coursework while working full-time, people have been doing that since forever. My father went to law school while working full-time; I have a friend who's married with kids in a mathematics program - isn't that why part-time programs were developed? I think that online programs are great for people who thrive in them, but I wouldn't say that traditional coursework is impossible to complete with families and jobs.

 

So much of the "technology makes us think more dumb" argument is the modern version of "kids these days," which again, is old as dirt.

It appears you've succumbed to rote learning instead of internalizing the information in a way it can be applied.

Yes, I'm aware traditional grad programs can be completed with kids in tow and working full time, however, it is much easier via the internet.

Using Windows as a schematic for your brain. Hmmm. What if you are trying to communicate with a Mac brained person? Or, even, someone who does not use a computer?

Ultimately we are responsible, the computer is simply a tool.

Not sure why the debate on technology. It's a great tool and can have a vast amount of educational value. I'm in the last class of an M.A. ed.program done all on-line and never once meeting a peer, teacher, advisor, etc. face-to-face. I'm ok with this.

 

Texting/passing notes? Kids still pass notes and cell pohones are confiscated if they are caught being used during classroom time. Not a big deal, really.

 

Kids aren't less functional because of technology. If anything, they are more prone to adapt to the technology world than any generation prior to them as the'y are now born into it. Technology is not making them lazy or stupid, it's just changing the way they learn. I'm ok with this, too.

 

My take is that schools are not adjusting to what works in education fast enough. On top, I feel there's less burden/expectation/"accountability" placed on parents to assume responsibilities for the learning of their own kids. In most Title I schools, kids enter kindergarten unprepared, meaning the parents have failed them from the start in terms of their education. Yet, the schools and teachers take the rap under NCLB when the kid is reading at a 3rd grade level in 5th or 6th grade because he's been playing "catch up" from the start.

My beef with technology is its propensity to decrease the depth of thought. Adults have fallen prey to this as well. We have short bursts of thought. It seems we scurry day to day trying to warehouse tiny bits of knowledge instead of using the model of extensive thought into one track, e.g. reading a book. Our ability to create imagery in communication is dwindling. Our ability to create new thought is becoming extinct. We appear to be in a race to compare prior knowledge instead of striking out on our own.

And the other beef. I've used online course tools and kids really do not like it. I thought I was doing them a favor. It appears they like certain types of technology. Educational tools creators believe simply using technology is the key to a student's motivation. Hey, I requested my students read a book and present it. To my surprise, many of them actually liked it. Really, I was surprised. Most said they hated reading when I mentioned the assignment. One kid even left a frat beer party to read his book due to his interest in it. Yeah, I began to worry about him at that point.

Now, grad students, with jobs, kids, etc. are all over online education. I can't argue with that. It is next to impossible knocking out traditional coursework in a timely fashion for graduate degrees while you work full time, have kids, etc.

No, I thought it was a phrase implying that you're saying what you want with little interest in whether facts back them up. Oddly enough, not at all meta-what thinking.

 

 

 

You totally missed what I was getting at, but that's okay, I probably phrased it poorly. I was insinuating that you disagree with what a lot of people think, and therefore devalue their ability to meta-what think.

I have quite a bit of interest in the subject. Your request for facts when we are faced with an overload of superficial knowledge blanketing our ability to create for ourselves has proven the point.

Talk about generality..."i disagree with what a lot of people think". Geez.

That's a pretty sweeping generalization, and I that doesn't mean it's not a part of the education system. That you suggest adults are "losing this ability as well" implies that there's something more than the 18-and-under education system at work.

 

Just because people have the ability to think for themselves doesn't mean they will (or even should) exercise it, nor does it mean that their conclusions will be the "right" ones.

Sweeping generalization is a dirty phrase for a macro level perspective, is it not? Yes, it is difficult to single out one societal component as the root.

That second statement. Kinda makes it sound like thinking is difficult to do, arduous. Placing value judgements upon people's thoughts isn't productive either. Who is ever right? Looking back on your life you will see a large body of learning, whether your thoughts at the time are right or wrong doesn't change the concept that you've learned. Does the dogma of right or wrong prevent experiential learning? You bet it does.

College students are struggling with metacognitive thinking. I guess you could say many adults are losing this ability as well.

Too much survey of material, too little depth of understanding. Teach them how to learn, not what to learn.

Ravitch is a dope. One of the founders of No Child Left Behind acting like she was unaware of the impacts this philosophy would have....k. Trying to save face and sell a book.

They Dept. of Ed. mentioned they are gutting No Child Left Behind, as well as the stupid name of the campaign.

Choice is bad? Hmmm. I'll have to listen to the broadcast. Choice should be the centerpiece of an empowering educational philosophy.

Oh geez, now 'underrated' is subjective 'round here.

The Nick Cage weiner question....they must've edited it later, or someone's wishful thinking, cuz the copy I watched a month or so ago didn't show any sausage.

Red Rock West

Hopper, Cage, L.F. Boyle, & Dwight Yoakum cameo