friday five

Aug 05, 2006 11:07

hey all!  long time no see.

There's a list thingy on LJ called "the Friday Five."  Link available on request.  Even though for me it is not really Friday until Saturday rolls around (don't ask -- work schedule) I'll answer them this time.  I've been on with the thing for a while, but just haven't answered yet.  I have been Extremely Busy and Such ( Read more... )

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okapi_4evr August 5 2006, 19:27:28 UTC
Hi, you answered my post on greatpoets. I came over and read some interesting things and I wanted to say hi! I thought I was the only person on the internet that knew of ancient times. I don't talk much on my account, I just save things and I spend time here on poetry sites. But if you ever want to talk of things past, I can relate. Glad to hear Shakespeare is worth the work!

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anamacha August 5 2006, 19:38:03 UTC
excellent! glad to have you around, then. Please feel free to respond/comment on anything here that strikes your fancy -- I promise to not judge :)

What's your area of interest and/or specialty?

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okapi_4evr August 5 2006, 20:07:32 UTC
oh I'm a jack-of-all-trades. I knew punchcards before they had "chads.", just little paper tags hanging onto the backside. I've seen rooms of computers and the design age of "pizza boxes" luggables,portables, and binary math and Reverse Polish calcs. The only thing that remains the same is change, you know what I'm saying?

But deep down it is the same flowchart....it is all a yes or no question.

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anamacha August 5 2006, 20:51:05 UTC
heh. you sound a lot like I am. And yeah, I know what you're saying, even though some of us fact it whilst kicking and screaming.

Anyway, I was wondering what your area of interest was in the aforementioned ancient times. Of course, we're talking about two levels of that right now: computer ancient times (10-20 years ago) and ancient ancient times i.e., those of Shakespeare. I'd assumed the latter. :)

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okapi_4evr August 5 2006, 23:39:37 UTC
Yes, ancient is subjetive. I like both types. I find the poetry of a few hundred years ago covering broader scopes then what is written today. Everything is more specific today. Every job title and anthology have blinders. Hope I'm not being too rough.

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anamacha August 6 2006, 16:43:15 UTC
back then, people had to wear more hats. There were less of them, they had to do more things. They couldn't afford to be more specialised. You get what I'm saying?

Today there are more people to fulfill more roles, and as such you don't have to have an engineer that's also a mason, that's also a bricklayer, that's also a plumber.

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Preaching to the choir okapi_4evr August 6 2006, 23:33:36 UTC
Yes, more people, but not necessarily more creativity? What do yo say to that? More and more newspapers and news stations and internet news, but repeating the same old.

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Re: Preaching to the choir anamacha August 8 2006, 00:01:52 UTC
creativity is not a skill valued today so much as engineering or physics or whatever -- the applied sciences, so to speak.

Still, those that are creative, are. Either you have it, or you don't. Pity that those that have it have to struggle with it, though, and that people's tastes are so capricious.

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