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Nothing on TV tonight that isn't a rerun, although my next group of netflix discs came. So I could always watch Dead Like Me. May do that after finish writing this.
Watched Gilmore Girls tonight, had class last night - so didn't get to really watch GG until tonight. Was slightly disappointed. Lorelia, her parents, the inn, and Luke were interesting. Also adored Paris. Could have used less of the zanny bordering on annoying town folk and Rory/Logan friends. The Rory/Logan party was a tad dull. Although Logan remains oddly interesting. Not really tempted to switch to Bones in the least, from what I've read of it - it sounds like another procedureal, just with some nice banter. But without the focus on character that Moonlighting and Remington Steel had going for them, or for that matter the actors. The Closer as well. Even Monk. House has the same problem, too much focus on the medical mystery, not enough on the characters. Only reason I keep flipping to it is Hugh Laurie. But each time I find myself flipping through a magazine or taking a phone call half way through, bored.
Class was interesting. Discussed conformity, groupthink, and how people deal with deviant behavior. I like the teacher. Even if she is incredibly young. Odd to have a teacher who has to be ten years younger than you are.
Sort of discomboblating at times. Especially when she discusses the Challenger tragedy as if it were ancient history and something most people were too young to remember. Uh, okay, it was in 1986. Not that long ago.
I still remember it quite vividly. Makes me feel old.
What was interesting was how much of what she said made complete sense to me. At one point she asked the class if anyone had ever heard of Occam's Razor, and I'm thinking, yes, numerous times. Almost raised my hand to define it, but I'd said enough already and was beginning to feel a bit like Hermoine in Harry Potter. Prior to that she'd described an experiment - in which five or six people in a class 20 were put in three groups. One was a modal (the person assigned to take the temperature of the group and push for consensus, always for moderation, the voice of consensus), one a deviant (who was more or less the devil's advocate, who voice the opposite of what the group felt), the rest were sliders (the people who went from one end to the other, somewhat wishy-washy). The teacher asked the class which person was the most popular in the study. The modal, the deviant, or the sliders. The people in the class chose the deviant or the sliders. I chose the modal. And the modal was correct. (I chose the modal, because anyone who has spent any amount of time on a public discussion board knows that people hate the deviant voice, despise the sliders, and love the leader or the safe voice. I have yet to see a group of people not follow the consensus. People in class chose the deviant, because they tended to think oh the person who stands out from the crowd is cool. Yes, but do people like and follow them always? ) Answers to both questions came to me because of my experiences on a discussion board. Still trying to remember what the historical background of "Occam's Razor" is. I know Sophist on ATPO told us, but for the life of me all I remember is the definition - "sometimes the simplest answer is true." or "a cigar is just a cigar." Anyone know?
Anywho...thinking about deviant behavior, made me come up with a little meme - how I am deviant from my flist.
Here are six possibly seven ways I am deviant or walk to a different drummer. (And some of them amusingly enough break the rules of creating a successful blog, which may explain why I don't have a 100 people on my flist, not that I'm complaining.)
( ways I'm deviant from flist )
So, how do you deviate from your flist?
Watched Gilmore Girls tonight, had class last night - so didn't get to really watch GG until tonight. Was slightly disappointed. Lorelia, her parents, the inn, and Luke were interesting. Also adored Paris. Could have used less of the zanny bordering on annoying town folk and Rory/Logan friends. The Rory/Logan party was a tad dull. Although Logan remains oddly interesting. Not really tempted to switch to Bones in the least, from what I've read of it - it sounds like another procedureal, just with some nice banter. But without the focus on character that Moonlighting and Remington Steel had going for them, or for that matter the actors. The Closer as well. Even Monk. House has the same problem, too much focus on the medical mystery, not enough on the characters. Only reason I keep flipping to it is Hugh Laurie. But each time I find myself flipping through a magazine or taking a phone call half way through, bored.
Class was interesting. Discussed conformity, groupthink, and how people deal with deviant behavior. I like the teacher. Even if she is incredibly young. Odd to have a teacher who has to be ten years younger than you are.
Sort of discomboblating at times. Especially when she discusses the Challenger tragedy as if it were ancient history and something most people were too young to remember. Uh, okay, it was in 1986. Not that long ago.
I still remember it quite vividly. Makes me feel old.
What was interesting was how much of what she said made complete sense to me. At one point she asked the class if anyone had ever heard of Occam's Razor, and I'm thinking, yes, numerous times. Almost raised my hand to define it, but I'd said enough already and was beginning to feel a bit like Hermoine in Harry Potter. Prior to that she'd described an experiment - in which five or six people in a class 20 were put in three groups. One was a modal (the person assigned to take the temperature of the group and push for consensus, always for moderation, the voice of consensus), one a deviant (who was more or less the devil's advocate, who voice the opposite of what the group felt), the rest were sliders (the people who went from one end to the other, somewhat wishy-washy). The teacher asked the class which person was the most popular in the study. The modal, the deviant, or the sliders. The people in the class chose the deviant or the sliders. I chose the modal. And the modal was correct. (I chose the modal, because anyone who has spent any amount of time on a public discussion board knows that people hate the deviant voice, despise the sliders, and love the leader or the safe voice. I have yet to see a group of people not follow the consensus. People in class chose the deviant, because they tended to think oh the person who stands out from the crowd is cool. Yes, but do people like and follow them always? ) Answers to both questions came to me because of my experiences on a discussion board. Still trying to remember what the historical background of "Occam's Razor" is. I know Sophist on ATPO told us, but for the life of me all I remember is the definition - "sometimes the simplest answer is true." or "a cigar is just a cigar." Anyone know?
Anywho...thinking about deviant behavior, made me come up with a little meme - how I am deviant from my flist.
Here are six possibly seven ways I am deviant or walk to a different drummer. (And some of them amusingly enough break the rules of creating a successful blog, which may explain why I don't have a 100 people on my flist, not that I'm complaining.)
( ways I'm deviant from flist )
So, how do you deviate from your flist?