Cesium (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cesium55) wrote,@ 2006-03-26 15:07:00 |
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Recent irksome obliviousness
As Fenyman has been quoted as saying, "Don't you have time to think?"
1. Middle-aged woman at a recent talk on mindfulness and eating. She volunteers with great delight that since attending a recent conference on women and body image sponsored by her church, she now realizes that issues of body image in women and girls are practically universal and not just her own neuroses.
*facepalm* Welcome to oh, I dunno, the world I realized existed when I was in puberty.
2. Bob Stein, director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, announces delightedly in a lecture I attended the other week that a colleague is now blogging as he is drafting a book, and has found that he's getting helpful and substantive comments. The blogger's publisher feared that no one would buy the book if there was a blog, but instead has found that a significant audience is looking forward to its release.
*facepalm* Welcome to, hey, 5 years ago (or if you substitute 'discussion list' for 'blog,' 10 or 15).
(Amusing side ancedote. Apparently the IFB folks got some seed money from Microsoft to start developing multimedia book authoring software for teachers etc., and when they presented MS w/ the cross-platform alpha, they said they wouldn't continue to support the project unless they dropped the Mac version. They wouldn't, and the whole project got abandoned.)
As Fenyman has been quoted as saying, "Don't you have time to think?"
1. Middle-aged woman at a recent talk on mindfulness and eating. She volunteers with great delight that since attending a recent conference on women and body image sponsored by her church, she now realizes that issues of body image in women and girls are practically universal and not just her own neuroses.
*facepalm* Welcome to oh, I dunno, the world I realized existed when I was in puberty.
2. Bob Stein, director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, announces delightedly in a lecture I attended the other week that a colleague is now blogging as he is drafting a book, and has found that he's getting helpful and substantive comments. The blogger's publisher feared that no one would buy the book if there was a blog, but instead has found that a significant audience is looking forward to its release.
*facepalm* Welcome to, hey, 5 years ago (or if you substitute 'discussion list' for 'blog,' 10 or 15).
(Amusing side ancedote. Apparently the IFB folks got some seed money from Microsoft to start developing multimedia book authoring software for teachers etc., and when they presented MS w/ the cross-platform alpha, they said they wouldn't continue to support the project unless they dropped the Mac version. They wouldn't, and the whole project got abandoned.)
