On Lawn's Journal: The Hideout

Gone are the old-bold days. Rosebud.

I wonder if Cheezeburger Brown saw The Meep was a wolf in sheep's clothing villain in the throwback 10th Doctor.

Heh, villAIn...

Moo

[Chacham]

That's the first Slashdot email i've gotten in a little while...

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[On Lawn]

I hope you are doing well, friend.

I was remembering all the fun we had in the book of Genesis as I'm pondering making a YT video with this premise .... Is Genesis 1 useful for teaching kindergarteners about the big bang? Kindergarteners being a good modern approximation of stone / bronze age people and what they would have thought if they had a view of the history of the universe.

The answer is surprising, it is more useful in giving a picture of the early universe up through the Eocene than it was when I wa

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[Marxist Hacker 42]

Fr Spitzer just came out with a book on that subject, though I think it's aimed at high school students. Given that today's high school students seem to have an understanding of science roughly equivalent to what kindergarteners did in the 1970s, I think that is fitting.

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[On Lawn]

Hopefully I can get away with making it an exercise in appreciating beauty, and not get high centered trying to push the cart one way or the other. Not that Spitzer is, but it is something I'm personally worried about.

It is good to see you too. I wasn't expecting anyone to be around.

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Some are here, even from Duckpins days. ;-)

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[On Lawn]

If you had said Bits and Chips, or maybe BoredAtWork I think I would have understood. I'm afraid I don't understand Duckpins...

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[On Lawn]

Belay that, I do know. Some memories are quicker than others.

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[Chacham]

I don't remember Duckpins. I remember dips and chips, but not sure if i was reading then.,

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Chips and Dips, along with early Slashdot, had a bunch of Malda's personal links. Duckpins was an animation he made as an undergrad. He also linked a personal site for a couple of Windowmaker plugins that he'd written. I can't remember what the plugins were! I do remember that most plugins were mail notifiers or clocks.

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[Chacham]

Ah, then i wasn't there. I just remember being in slashdot before logins existed.

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[Chacham]

I was remembering all the fun we had

Yeah, i remember the discussions. None of the details though.

Thanks for commenting. It is good to hear from you again.

Same. :)