Thursday, February 5, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Hmm
Walking through a patch of pristine snow is as satisfying as going out of your way to step on a really crunchy leaf. Also, satisfying? Jumping into a pile of leaves that Dad has just raked. Next on my list of things to do is:
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Update
January ended with a lot of snow. And February began with..a lot of snow.
I still love the snow. It fell all day today and was still falling when i decided to walk home. Good times.
I started a new course this week and it has proven to be heaps more exciting than statistics ever was. Not that linear regression and null hyphothesis are boring. Okay okay they are. I did however manage to get a B+ in the class though!
I still love the snow. It fell all day today and was still falling when i decided to walk home. Good times.
I started a new course this week and it has proven to be heaps more exciting than statistics ever was. Not that linear regression and null hyphothesis are boring. Okay okay they are. I did however manage to get a B+ in the class though!
Monday, February 2, 2009
Gorillas
I started a new class today.
We were made to watch a video. Before the video started the professor explained that we would be watching 2 teams of kids passing basketballs back and forth. One team would be dressed in white. The other in black. And they would be weaving in and out of each other while passing the ball back and forth to members of their own teams. Our objective was to pay attention to the team dressed in white and count how many times they passed the ball. Thats it.
So the tape played. I counted the ball being passed 19 times.
The professor polled the class on how many times the ball was passed.
Answers varied.
And then he asked us who had seen the gorilla.
What?
There was no gorilla in that video! I didn't see a gorilla in a small game of kids passing a ball!
The professor played the tape again and told us to watch.
The kids were passing the ball for a few minutes...and THEN A DUDE DRESSED AS A GORILLA walked on camera, strutted through the game, stopped in the middle of the group and pounded his chest, and then sauntered out of the group and off camera.
WTF?! lol
Perception is an interesting beast. We were so concerned wih counting the balls being passed that we did not notice the slow moving GORILLA.
And so it is the same with our lives. We get concerned with the day to day details and the workings of whatever is going on..that we can miss these huge other things ( LIKE GORILLAS) that just appear out of nowhere.
We were made to watch a video. Before the video started the professor explained that we would be watching 2 teams of kids passing basketballs back and forth. One team would be dressed in white. The other in black. And they would be weaving in and out of each other while passing the ball back and forth to members of their own teams. Our objective was to pay attention to the team dressed in white and count how many times they passed the ball. Thats it.
So the tape played. I counted the ball being passed 19 times.
The professor polled the class on how many times the ball was passed.
Answers varied.
And then he asked us who had seen the gorilla.
What?
There was no gorilla in that video! I didn't see a gorilla in a small game of kids passing a ball!
The professor played the tape again and told us to watch.
The kids were passing the ball for a few minutes...and THEN A DUDE DRESSED AS A GORILLA walked on camera, strutted through the game, stopped in the middle of the group and pounded his chest, and then sauntered out of the group and off camera.
WTF?! lol
Perception is an interesting beast. We were so concerned wih counting the balls being passed that we did not notice the slow moving GORILLA.
And so it is the same with our lives. We get concerned with the day to day details and the workings of whatever is going on..that we can miss these huge other things ( LIKE GORILLAS) that just appear out of nowhere.
Groundhog Day
The groundhog saw his shadow.
6 more weeks of winter!
I don't want it to be cold anymore!
But i still like the snow.
6 more weeks of winter!
I don't want it to be cold anymore!
But i still like the snow.
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