Old Dame Dob

[shkrobius]

My journal enters the 2011 season, which is likely to be its last season. By tradition, the first post of the season is on a nursery rhyme.

Jack and Jill went up the hill

Comments

[nagunak]

Why last season??? What happened??

[laiska]

+1

[shkrobius]

http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/276662.html?thread=2182838#t2182838

[shkrobius]

http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/276662.html?thread=2182838#t2182838

[vdinets]

Come on, your pro-Republican rants make me cringe sometimes, but other than that you have one of the most interesting blogs I've ever been able to find. Don't make the blogosphere more boring than it already is. I know writing long posts takes a long time, but please don't quit completely.

[shkrobius]

Thank you for your kind words. It was a good ride, but nothing lasts forever. We all need to move on.

In a year or two, I will start turning this blog into a book, and it will take much effort on my part. There is an academic publisher interested in this project, but the material needs be re-written and re-organized. There will be proprietary concerns, too. I will not be able to continue.

I am saying this with regret, because I like the feedback and I am genuinely interested in criticism. I've learned a lot. LJ is a place where people do not hold their opinions, and this is both challenging and stimulating. At the outset I had a naive idea: I will be writing a loosely organized journal and, as I write it, it will spring alive - a "live journal"! Little did I expect that it will be arguing non-stop for five years.

I hope we all had good time. And - as there will be another year - I still have a chance to bore pants off you...

[vdinets]

OK, that's a good reason. Let us know when the book comes out.

[laiska]

Well, that's good news;0)

[poltorazhyda]

Well, I, for one, look forward to reading your book. However, there are many published authors who maintain blogs.

One in particular, Nicholas Nasseem Taleb, reminds me of you with his notes, published here http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm. I would be very interested in reading your thoughts on his thoughts.

[kobak]

Good luck with the book!

[shkrobius]

Thank you.

[poltorazhyda]

Here's a question I came up with: why are children picky eaters compared to adults?

[shkrobius]

When and where I was a kid, there were no picky eaters.

[poltorazhyda]

Yeah, when I was a kid, we had to walk 5 miles to school and back, uphill both ways. Still, in a non-scarcity environment, kids are more picky than adults.

[shkrobius]

Why do you say that? I mean, suppose you are a picky adult. As an adult, you can eat whatever you want: you can live on chocolate bars, alfa-alfa, whatever. But if you are a picky child, then everyone will be telling you that you are picky, you will be denied chocolate bars, etc. I do not think kids are any more picky in their food than the adults, but they are constantly being corrected while the adults are not. Another difference is that the kids would not hide their food preferences.