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I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens

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Re: I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens

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Post by aidenn0 »

salamanderman wrote: post #321
aidenn0 wrote: post #295

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My son went to one of those chrombook-intensive public schools (though at least at the time they didn't start using them until 3rd grade; they start younger now). Any time he had the chromebook out, he just played webgames. Not an exaggeration, he would go back on task when the teacher corrected then switch tabs the moment the teacher was not looking over his shoulder. I told the teacher to take the chromebook away i…

I've heard parents say they "got a 504 and then had to pay a lawyer to enforce it" so many times. I just hate the idea of being forced into such an adversarial relationship with the school. In my life, any time we start talking about needing a 504 I think "we might as well just say screw it, because what good will come of this?" Like, in your story, I assume that while they complied, the way they interacted with your…

If it weren't so detrimental to his learning, we probably would have not pushed so hard. The good news is that it was his last year of primary school when this was a problem. The next year was junior high and he had 6 different teachers.

5 of these teachers had zero issues keeping him off of the device (now an iPad). The sixth was (from what we could tell) just not particularly gifted at classroom management in general. Anyway missing out on some unknown fraction of 1/6th of his education was much less of an issue than missing out on 90% of the classroom time (thankfully there were no chromebooks in PE or Music class yet; surely they'll find a way to do that too at some point).

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Post by ghaff »

graemep wrote: post #341
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Go to a big city art museum and they're swarming with school groups.

School groups vary. Some kids are interested, some are not. I have had some bad experiences with school groups who did not know how to behave in a theatre - mostly Shakespeare plays because of where I lived. Some were enjoying them but were not used to keeping quiet. Some just did not want to be there.

And, even in the UK, I've seen school groups that are as well-behaved as you can reasonably expect a bunch of kids to be and I've seen groups making a lot of noise and running around with their teachers (or whoever) vainly trying to maintain some semblance of control.

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Post by ghaff »

bluGill wrote: post #353
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You're completely misunderstanding the purpose of a tech convention. The sport you need to play is "spot the customer".

You could be right, though I didn't spot very many I couldn't identify, it could be just what I was looking for. The company is selling to tech people in the company as a tech conference, but that doesn't mean that is really the point. (though I would expect the majority of our customers are not technical people, and thus I don't see how there is value in bringing customers in)

The customers are often not in the breakouts or even on the show floor much. When I was involved in my former company's event, there was a big customer briefing center that was back to back meetings with (typically) customer management at some level and a separate day track for executives.

Even as an analyst--as I've been off and on--I didn't necessarily do a ton of breakouts. I'd watch the keynotes, whether in-person or streaming, and then it was hallway track, meetings, and usually some sort of separate analyst/media activity.

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Post by moi2388 »

fxtentacle wrote: post #311
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Nothing funnier than tricking teens into liking math

Show them Red Faction (the video game) and then explain that all the destruction is calculated using binary space partitioning and that all they need for making similar games is to accurately calculate the intersection of planes, lines and points. Add a few linear forces and numerical integration and there you have your Trojan horse for getting kids hooked.

Oh, I absolutely love that you referenced that game. What a wonderful experience that was as a kid

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Post by Der_Einzige »

dml2135 wrote: post #347
skirmish wrote: post #237

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Recent experience: called a HVAC contractor to fix a heating furnace, they spent 1 hour convincing us to scrap the current furnace and install a new one; once we told him "no" at least 10 times, he spent 30 minutes "diagnosing" the problem while on the phone with somebody with technical knowledge; then he quoted $250 to replace a part that I could buy on Ebay for $15. Finally, I bought the part and replaced it myself…

I understand being annoyed at a sales pitch, but this sounds like about 3-4 hours of work for the contractor, which comes out to about $80/hour. That doesn’t sound so unreasonable to me.

Even trying to sympathize with the contractor is ontologically evil.

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Post by BeFlatXIII »

parpfish wrote: post #244
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Art museums are even worse. "Portrait of Duke von Duke (London, 1841). Oils." Who is this guy in the painting?! How did he merit a painting? What's unique about the style/composition/whatever? Conversely, I went to an exhibit of Napoleonic Art and they had a whole breakdown of the symbolism. For example, Napolean liked bees as a symbol of hard work and order, apparently, and they were snuck into most depictions of hi…

Then there are the “artist statement” ladies on some exhibits where artist get to describe their work on self-aggrandizing terms that only make sense to people with a graduate degree in the field

The longer the artist statement, the worse the art.

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Post by bee_rider »

moi2388 wrote: post #364
fxtentacle wrote: post #311

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Show them Red Faction (the video game) and then explain that all the destruction is calculated using binary space partitioning and that all they need for making similar games is to accurately calculate the intersection of planes, lines and points. Add a few linear forces and numerical integration and there you have your Trojan horse for getting kids hooked.

Oh, I absolutely love that you referenced that game. What a wonderful experience that was as a kid

Was that the one where you could blow up almost every wall (or at least the main type of terrain, which seemed to be some sort of dirt or rock).

No idea if the game was actually fun to play “competitively.” But as a tech demo it rocked.

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Post by rkozik1989 »

Aunche wrote: post #183
lotsofpulp wrote: post #127

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>You're mostly paying real estate and a professional waiting for business. Are these optional? If not, I don't see how this makes sense: >It doesn't really have to cost that much.

Gallerists always act like having a professional framer is given, but maybe their typical clientele are rich enough to just treat that as a mandatory tax. I framed my art with a diy LevelFrames kit for 10x cheaper which took less than an hour. The frame itself isn't particularly good quality, so for now, boutique framers have a strictly superior product, but this advantage could easily be commoditized away.

Bro, you're not a museum who's invested thousands or more into a single piece. Paying $2000 for the framing service to be done right is worth it when you're protecting a big investment.
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