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Good morning, threades *yawn*

The History Channel has over the past 10 years or so really degenerated into just another basic cable pablum dispenser, much like the SciFi channel has turned into the cheap big lizard kills everyone channel.

I'm old school I guess, I liked THC when they showed real documantaries, like Our Century, classic movies and such. Now it's nothing but ModernMarvels, and their version of Reality TV, Ice Truckers and the lumberjack thingie. When they do have something of interest, it is done in the typical "I can't pay attention for more than 5 minutes style" that has permeated television.

So other than taking Leonard's name in vain, i agree with you 100%

I'll take the bacon and sausage, put it on the biscuit and wrap it up with the potatoes. You can keep the eggs.

Amara, I do bookkeeping now lol. Isn't that an odd twist of fate? Taught it to myself, when I got THIS job, 20 years ago.

And, wound up being quite a wiz with investing too. Somehow I understand things about the stock market, interest, banking, etc. way better. Money means more to me I suppose than abstract information. It's concrete.

Strange how you can figure out the numbers when they mean something to you.

Oh you must have been watching SciFi yesterday- it was Big Lizard Day- and i think we are coming up on Dragon Day as well-
I miss that old show- Connections- that was a great one- but jsut a sec- no one even think of getting rid of Mike Rowe-mmm yummy

I think I saw a commercial for "Unicorn Day" too, maybe it was next Tuesday

Sci Fi Buzz. Best show they had, especially when Harlan Ellison was on.

*I saw a bit of the Big Lizard vs Space Marines movie.*

Yeah, we rarely watch it anymore. No history left on it.

So did I, but to be fair, I took trig in the eighth grade (got a B), then went to a high school that didn't have eighth grade in HS but required trig, so I had to take it over again as a senior. As much as I liked math, taking trig twice is cruel and unusual punishment for anyone. Hell would be told in the afterlife that I was going to teach trig every semester to high school students.

Fortunately, by the time I took business stats in college, I had forgotten most of my trig, so as much as they were alike at times, it wasn't like taking it all over.

OMG- Harlan Ellison is just awesome- I do so wish Babylon was back- and oooh the guy that played the Techno Mage on Crusade ..

My scholastic story is a woeful one. I was NOT intellectually inclined until well into my 40s ... in fact, in youth I was convinced school was all but useless save for the piece of paper you got at the end. I was a straight C student all the way to graduation.

My saving grace was that I was an avid science fiction reader. I started Issac Asimov's Foundation series at age 13 and didn't stop. If I had read any other kind of fiction in my youth, I don't believe I would have had any interest in intellectual pursuits at all. :/

The History Channel ticks me off. Now I only watch band of brothers reruns and such on it. The rest is useless.

As far as math goes. I'm one of those geeks that is quick on the uptake about stuff. Math has been fairly easy for me throughout. Then again, I stopped with integrals.

that was my savior as well- discovering reading at an early age. When I was in the fourth grade i ate the sixth grade library - i remember distinctly, I started with fairy tales and moved into mythology and then scifi- never looked back but for a brief stint in those bosom baring bodice tearing romances in high school.

QFT ... it's gotten horrible. Even PBS has gone downhill in past decades. I'd give anything for a show concerning the mating ritual of the adult male tse-tse fly, as the joke goes. Only occasionally does something come on these so-called learning channels that's worth picking up the remote for anymore.

Yea, but you made up for it big time. You are certainly way smarter than the average bear

PBS has turned into 10 minutes of programming in between 30 minutes of "fundraising".

Oooh, every alabaster breast was full and heaving, eh?

Same here, but not with fantasy. I started with Peter Cottentail of all things; read all 25 books by age 9, and all of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew (eww) by age 12. Them straight into Asimov. In fact, I didn't start reading mythology until my junior year of high school, and that was because I was an avid D&D player and I wanted to understand what all those "Deities & Demigods" were about.

Uhm- it's cause he's a llama...

That's only reflected in my taste in women.

Funny thing is, all the mythology reading- Bulfinch's in particular- seeing all the Greeks believed this, and Romans that and the Norse ones, etc.. made me look at my own religious upbringing in a whole new light - one that eventually led me to eschew religion altogether.

OMG, isn't that the truth. I think it's almost a 50-50 bet their going to ask for money when I tune in now, and they show the same level of crap as everyone else.

Flattery will get you everywhere

Just the opposite for me. I developed a great interest in religion intellectually by the time I reached my 20s, but I considered all of these religions as simply "mythology" as I had had Christianity drummed into my head from a very young age. I was an atheist for decades because I found no answers in it. It wasn't until I started investigating Eastern religions in my late 30s that I started to glean sense of concepts like God or the soul, and likely that because of the notion that intellectual pursuit should not conflict with spiritual advancement. I think that was the hook for me.

Hmm- see what i got out of it was - if they thought they were right and the others thought they were right..etc. Not that I don't find somethings that are some how odd enough to make you think twice- then again, i am sure there are equally possible explanations and then Occam shaves it down.

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