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What’s the frequency, Kenneth? (or, The medium really IS the message)

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    • Avatar of Zee TanZee Tan
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        C’mon Marc, 35 ain’t that old. We still think you’re cool.

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        @marc your blog posts are always interesting. I’d read them even if there was no CFA reference.

        I also like using the whole self-depreciating humor of being old.
        I also don’t understand twitter and facebook is in the same ballpark just marginally better. At least there are full sentences but apparently facebook will be integrating with twitter.

        Actually what I find funny is that there are no spaces in hashtags (for obvious reasons) and it reminds me of how books were way back in the day. Can you believe it, that spaces and lowercase letters are innovations. BEFOREBOOKSWEREWRITTENLIKETHISANDIIMAGINEITWOULDBEHELLISHTOREADAWHOLEBOOKWRITTENLIKETHIS.
        (Before books were written like this and I imagine it would be hellish to read a whole book written like this.)

        I have a lot of problems with kids these days, they don’t teach them how to whole a pencil anymore or grammar actually the school system had whisked away more of the challenging grammatical points while I was in school and has picked away at what remains. I was luck and went to an British private school for a year and had grammar beaten into me and I still suffer from comma splicing.

        Since your title read, “The medium really is the message” I thought of the book Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. I think you’d like him. I also recommend his other books they are delightful reads! The first thing I want to do after June 1 is sit down with some of Noam Chomsky’s books.

        I sound older than you…
        I can’t seem to not mention a book.

        George Orwell had it all wrong the future sees more like the Brave New World. Please give me some soma.

        As for your prep providers…I’ve been thinking of a solution for sub-par material provided by prep-providers. I can’t really think of a way to get them to change and the alternate would be to create our own material but that requires time and money we collectively don’t have to fund a project at that scale.

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        It’s all about being young at heart. Age is just a number 🙂

        Whenever people say “Age is just a number” I start humming this song

      • Avatar of Zee TanZee Tan
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          He is Canadian so we should support him!

          I just recently learnt that this guy is Canadian too.

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          It’s all about being young at heart. Age is just a number 🙂

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          I do like the radio as well. But precisely why I like radio makes audio lectures a terrible tool – I can tune in and out as necessary.

          For the radio – it makes idle moments really great, because I can pay attention to the radio whenever I have a spare moment and have a pleasant experience. With audio lectures, if I zone out for a bit I’ve lost the plot and need to rewind (there’s a dated term,eh?) back to where my mind started to wander.

          I feel like I need to pay as much attention to an audio lecture as I do to a video lecture or a full study session.

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            I just came across the following quote from Michael Stipe about writing “What’s the frequency, Kenneth? ”

            Caution: Salty language below.

            “I wrote that protagonist as a guy who’s desperately trying to understand what motivates the younger generation, who has gone to great lengths to try and figure them out, and at the end of the song it’s completely fucking bogus. He got nowhere.”

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            @marc Eh you mean the song concluded nothing? (Did you expect different O.o)

            Well I been meaning to read Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by McLuhan after reading Postman’s book. They tend to give you more to ponder on.

            He is Canadian so we should support him!

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            There are a lot of awesome Canadians!

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