I forgot to mention yesterday about what I think "Pursuit of Happyness" did not capture enough. It's sustained self-discipline. It is very difficult to do. The film did capture it somewhat by showing Will Smith reading while standing because his room does not have a light, the black lines under his eyes when he is in the office, and Smith did mention in one of his narrations "away from my self-discipline thing".
But I thought it should have captured it more. Yesterday I saw monetary difficulty dominates pretty much enerything else.
Anyway, here are things I found from Reddit today.
First is Iran photos: http://www.pbase.com/k_amj/throughout_iran&page=all
Shoot me, but I never know that Iran has ski resort(s). Sure photos tend to show only the good side of a place, but at least they revealed new things to me. There is a marching band on the streets of Aashura, there is that seemingly tranquil Valasht Lake, and there is a scenic spot in Tehran.
And a little reading on Spartan culture: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=441339&in_page_id=1879
The cause is, of course, the film 300. In my opinion, this only confirms my belief that pop art is powerful. Who in Singapore cares about how Spartan lives? Well, now there are quite a few, thanks to a film.
Somebody should do the same to computer science so that people know that computer science students do *NOT* fix computers.
XD It's the same line every one of us gets apparently! I always use cell-phones as an example to explain my research field (embedded systems) so I got told some cell-phone problems.. to which I answered that a research student like me would just tell them to be understanding of the problems since, you know, there're all these things going on behind the operation and all the tradeoff we had to consider etc etc..
ReplyDeleteNot to say I don't enjoy teasing our Engineering fellows with the same jokes about fixing lamps and such.. to which they also answered back that they didn't go thru uni to do those stuff, which they'd delegate to their technicians.. heh.