The Life Experience ~ Summer '12

[bloodyrosemccoy]

What I Learned Since The Summer Solstice

• Neil Armstrong was, in fact, mortal.
• Whorf was half-right on his hypothesis that language affects perception. It seems that once you have a word for a color, you can recognize it faster because the left hemisphere of your brain takes over the perception duties.
• Leafminers are gross little bugs whose larvae like to live in bubbles on spinach, chard, and beet leaves. Bastards.
• Nail polish is good if you want to make your arts'n'crafts project look shiny and enameled. And if you can stand the smell.
• Malaria is believed to be responsible for the death of HALF OF ALL HUMANS since the Stone Age. NOT ME, THOUGH, SUCKA!
• The name "Starbuck," which I have always liked for the sound, is an English surname most likely deriving from a Norse phrase for "from the great river."
• Sometimes the supposed Great Unwashed Masses can be persuaded with actual facts and math!
• Those swinging orange things on Yoshi's sprite in Super Mario World, which I always thought were stirrups or decorations for his saddle, are his ARMS. I can't unsee them now.
• Those SOS buttons for old or at-risk people living alone are only useful if they actually HAVE them when they fall and can't get up.
• Tress MacNeille did the voice of Chip in Chip an' Dale: Rescue Rangers. I always thought he was done by Russi Taylor.
• Radish seeds come in nifty little pods!
• According to a statement released by the Mormon Church, Mormons are TOTALLY allowed to drink caffeinated products like Coke and Mountain Dew. The real ban is against "hot drinks" like tea and coffee, but not hot cocoa, which is totally cool for some reason. Thanks for clearing that up, church!
• Tiny laptops are extraordinarily useful to be able to carry around.
• Ron Perlman continues to forge new frontiers in awesome.
• The best way to fix Doctors! is to pretty much rewrite it.
• Jeans shopping is still my enemy.
• Statistics show that group projects lower productivity pretty much across the board, even with those extroverts who seem to like them so much.
• Jumpsuits are not that difficult to sew, though practice is called for to get particularly good.
• When hooking up a new plastic toilet pump, it is perfectly okay to use one of the previous metal nuts to secure it, as long as you make sure there is no leakage.
• Apparently I've been growing feverfew in my garden and had no idea.
• Honor Harrington is THE SHIT.
• I still have a chestburster. Bring me more purple stuff!

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Ah, but the key in the first one is that you already trusted and understood each other, and it was a natural thing. The groups in Group Projects usually don't have that bond (I even had teachers who would forcibly remove any bond by telling us we couldn't work with the same group we'd worked with last time), and it's impossible to fake it.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's basically what I took away: group projects that give me a random group aren't going to work unless I am very clear about my role in the group, which had better be last-touch writing. I will do the rest as well, but if I don't trust my group, I am not going to work well with them.