Comments on: Cold blooded old times

By: Knox

Knox — Sat, 07 May 2011 23:15:49 +0000

So YES to that Friends thing – i was watching an episode the other day, and couldn’t believe how old it looked – almost looked as though they were from the 80s…

I have finally had to admit defeat and offer up my VCR to Freecycle for parts/as a prop. I’ve had it since I was about 16, but it has now started either not playing, or chewing up tapes if it does.

My parents actually bought us the ‘World Book’ encyclopedias when we were kids – this sketch was actually us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HgrhlSb7FQ

The toilet paper Vs water thing – does everyone not already do that? No? I guess it’s just an African/Asian thing then. (feel i should point out here, I am African…)

And that link to the ‘youtube closed’ thing is classic!

As for TYSIC update – I have done quite well on the sensible eating front – yesterday I made a carrot cake, and managed to eat only a little bit, today I resisted the man in the café’s attempts to make me double chocolate fudge cake (*groan*) and I’ve generally been eating proper meals. I have started taking the stairs down at all tube stations (very dizzy making!), but still haven’t done any proper exercise yet. Need to get on it!

By: Kat

Kat — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:43:35 +0000

Toilet paper will be replaced with the three sea shells…

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:08:08 +0000

A year 7 student (australian, so he was 12) asked me the other day why i bothered teaching them anything, as the answers were all on the Internet, so why couldn’t they just look them up. And this is the way that education is changing, i have to teach the kids how to learn not what to learn. I suppose that’s good, though not many of them want to learn things i think could challenge them or make them think. So if anything is going to become outdated it’s knowledge as something we have not something we can go find.

A couple of years ago they released wet-wipe toilet paper stuff here, it didn’t take off. We still have toilet paper.

And i love my interactive whiteboard. i have to give a seminar to 30 student teachers in a couple of days time about how it works and what it can do.

I love owning stuff too. I like having tangible objects like photos, and music and movies that i can access and not have to worry about things crashing or corrupting. I’ll miss that when it goes i think, miss that more than having tangible money or a passport.

By: max

max — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:36:28 +0000

Hey Catherine (and anyone else with spanish as some sort of TYSIC goal). Give me a shout if you need help or just want to practice with a native speaker. Granted, my spanish is probably awful by “textbook” standards but I can try
Maybe you could start something of the sort on the fan forum? Just an idea.

By: Lisa Brunders

Lisa Brunders — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:32:55 +0000

hi again,
(glad I’m not the only one who piles up the post on the breakfast bar!)
I was struck by how far away 2023 sounds.
I’m not up with today’s technology, but I try. I can’t imagine what changes are ahead, which is probably a good thing!
You’re right about money being virtual I reckon. They’re phasing out cheques, lots of shops don’t take them any more.
Tysic doing ok. Slowly, but surely I hope.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:55:16 +0000

Hi Mark and all:

I got back my first big Spanish exam. Only made an 81.5%. That’s a B-. Not good enough. Still, it was a wake up call I needed. This week is Spring Break. Normally I would have gone to Florida to see my kids and never touched a textbook. I have stayed home and have been studying some. Word for the day: postergar, to procrastinate.

House cleaning and taxes are still goals, but so far haven’t done anything towards achieving them. Got my passport ordered finally. Spain is only 9 weeks away.

Broke down and bought new glasses on Saturday. Now the dog needs dental work. Always something.

I downloaded the first series of Mark Watson Makes the World Significantly Better. On show number three. Figured out how to put on my nano so I can listen to it in my car. Yea!

I love new technology, but it is happening at a pace that is faster than my income and brain. I’m trying to figure out twitter. BTW, I still have two VHS players. While I have and use DVD players, I can’t stand throwing anything away. Feel guilty about filling up the landfill with pieces parts that won’t decay back into dust before the second coming.

Tomorrow is the vet, the gym, going through the mail that piles up on the breakfast bar in the kitchen.

Thanks, Cathy

By: Olga

Olga — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:14:50 +0000

love the blog!
at my school we dont use black boards almost at all, mainly white boards and smart boards..

i miss the good old blackboards though..

on TYSIC.. well, im updating my blog reguraly, which is part of my TYSIC, and i do talk about my goals there. I’m not doing that well, but I’ve been going through some rough time, and I will get better. Knowing that theres like 300 other people doing this really helps haha take care xx

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:59:42 +0000

this cracked me up today! may be funnier for those who remember the days when TV wasn’t on for 24 hours a day…
http://www.robertpopper.com/2010/03/08/youtube-closes-down-for-the-night/

By: Heather Jones

Heather Jones — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:24:32 +0000

Will these stll be around in 10 or 20 years?
- Television as we currently know it (including, in the UK, the BBC)?
- Petrol/diesel- fueled cars?
- Cheap flights?
- Rainforests?
- Bees?

May be our children (and/or their children) will be appalled at our profligate ways, our casual consumption of energy, our massive carbon footprints.

Maybe they won’t countenance things like disposable nappies any more? (Lucky me – I didn’t even know enough to feel guilty about using them 17 years ago!)

It’s unforgiveably pessimistic I know, but occasionally I find myself worrying that some time in the future long-term studies will discover that all our casual use of wireless networks and mobile phones (etc etc) have been frying our brains or giving us cancer or something….maybe the next generation will boggle as much at our taking of these (to them) ‘crazy health-risks’ as we do at the casual handling of asbestos in the past.

By: amycool

amycool — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:54:37 +0000

I’m trying to embrace the new technology at the library I work at, but unfortunately it’s a bit rubbish. In theory it’s great, but it fails at the not breaking every 5 minutes stage. I guess it’s like the early spectrums and trying to get online with AOL in the beginning.

TYSIC-wise. I have tried a new food and read a book from my list. I have tickets for a gig too, and I’m not going to get anxious about it (at least not for a while anyway). I love TYSIC. It’s possibly the best idea ever for someone with such a love of goals and lists. Thank you Mr Watson. xxx