Re: Axiom High School??
|
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,467
connoisseur
|
connoisseur
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,467 |
In high school, I learned what good music was.
In college, I learned what good speakers are.
M22s|VP100|QS4s|HSU STF2
|
|
|
Re: Axiom High School??
|
Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 16,441
shareholder in the making
|
shareholder in the making
Joined: Apr 2003
Posts: 16,441 |
In high school, I learned what I wanted to be when I grew up. In college, I learned I was wrong.
|
|
|
Re: Axiom High School??
|
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 18,044
shareholder in the making
|
shareholder in the making
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 18,044 |
In high school, I learned a lot of stuff. In college, I learned how to drink.
I am the Doctor, and THIS... is my SPOON!
|
|
|
Re: Axiom High School??
|
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,467
connoisseur
|
connoisseur
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,467 |
My first high school "music" social experience:
I'm a freshman in high school -- a nerdy computer geek sitting in Graphics Arts class. I loved that class, mostly because the teachers just let us do whatever we wanted on a computer all day. (Yeah, our school was special, we had iMac computer labs)
I had just learned about the song "Free Bird", and how it was an epic, nine-minute long rock song. One of the first "cool" facts I learned about music. I was eager to share this knowledge.
So, there's a goth kid sitting next to me, jamming out to music on his computer, twirling his black studded armbands, long hair flailing about, whatever.
I think: "Man, you know some cool music facts now! You should talk to him!"
2 minutes pass...
"Hey man, you should play 'Free Bird' next, that song is awesome, it's NINE minutes long!"
He looked at me, my glasses, then paused for a while.
*blink*
"Dude, I'm playing it now ... this is Freebird."
Yeah. High school was rough.
M22s|VP100|QS4s|HSU STF2
|
|
|
Re: Axiom High School??
|
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 3,596 Likes: 1
connoisseur
|
OP
connoisseur
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 3,596 Likes: 1 |
IMEO, no one here writes at a high school level, so no one should be concerned. You shoulda seen some of the stuff I got handed by undergrads as a t.a. in a very $notty univer$ity. It wouldn't have earned even a 'C' in my highschool.
In general, there is a high level of clear thinking here (clearly misguided at times, too, but clear). Concise thinking is nothing without the ability to articualate it and that exisits here on a higher plane than anyone should expect from a non-academic forum.
Academic forums are are big yawn, except when two hotheads start pounding each other during something arcane, like a "Sign vs. Symbol" argument. Then a 3rd person calls them both out because she says it's a "Signifier" and neither of the other two.
Ultimately these days, it usually devolves into a debate over contemporary French philosphy----and no one wants that. Ewwww!
Next come the academic insults and everyone's scholarship is questioned then maligned.
I really think it gets as heady here as possible without sliding into dogma wars. Otherwise, it's just a tiny pond full of finless barracuda----they know they can still bite everything, but they just can't swim to it.
I only wanna play polker with people I know can beat me. If I didn't feel the same about this "place," I wouldn't keep coming back.
Like I've said, I came for the information, but stuck around for the bad attitudes.
Always call the place you live a house. When you're old, everyone else will call it a home.
|
|
|
Re: Axiom High School??
|
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 6,015
axiomite
|
axiomite
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 6,015 |
|
|
|
Re: Axiom High School??
|
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 10,420
shareholder in the making
|
shareholder in the making
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 10,420 |
And here I thought we were playing Crazy 8's.
Jason M80 v2 VP160 v3 QS8 v2 PB13 Ultra Denon 3808 Samsung 85" Q70
|
|
|
Re: Axiom High School??
|
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 7,463 Likes: 1
axiomite
|
axiomite
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 7,463 Likes: 1 |
Barracuda have perma-slime. You can't wash that crud off if you touch one.
That reminds me the first time I took my then girlfriend out fishing on the ocean with my two friends. In the middle of a wide open barracuda bite, Kevin decides his Denny's Super Bird sandwich is not sitting too well and strips down to his undies and jumps in the water, looking not unlike a giant gawky Irish manatee, swims about twenty feet away from the boat and promptly floats one, which, floats right back towards the boat. Good times.
That was the last time she went fishing with us.
Thanks, Kevin.
*********** "Nothin' up my sleeve. . ." --Bullwinkle J. Moose
|
|
|
Re: Axiom High School??
|
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 185
veteran
|
veteran
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 185 |
--- Kevin --- swims about twenty feet away from the boat and promptly floats one, which, floats right back towards the boat. Good times.
Not classy but "classic".
|
|
|
Re: Axiom High School??
|
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 6,471
axiomite
|
axiomite
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 6,471 |
Would she have believed it was a Baby Ruth bar?
Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics24,967
Posts442,615
Members15,632
|
Most Online2,699 Aug 8th, 2024
|
|
2 members (ThoFred, MichaelF),
977
guests, and
3
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|