Lots of links!

[made_of_paradox]

Mixed bag o' links today. I've been collecting interesting bits intending to share Any Minute Now. :)

"Helicopter Parents" aren't really that helpful:

Why Good Kids Are Getting Hooked On Heroin

Are Parents Killing Their Kids' Careers?

And a bit off the topic, for those of you Gen-Xers trying to figure out how the hell it happened, this

Comments

[templar569]

Helicopter parents do their children far more harm than good in my opinion, even if I can understand the motivations behind it.

it's like in Dr. Brin's Uplift universe: We've become such a "low k" society versus how our grandparents were pretty "high k" (my apologies if I'm getting it backwards). It's like the difference between Hoon and Qheuen. Or have I just reached a singularity of nerdiness here? :-p

[made_of_paradox]

We're actually getting more K, less r.

This ought to be helpful.

I first met the concept when I was 14, so I've had more time than I'd care to mention today to wrap my mind around it.

[lihan161051]

I do not recommend opening all 3 pages with sound at once. YMMV, though. If you liked that time on ST:TNG when Data was playing 5 or 6 different pieces of music at once, and you were OK when it was down to 3, you might be OK here.

I'll keep that in mind. :) I can sometimes follow two people talking at the same time, but that's about the limit, and it uses up *all* my I/O, so to speak, so I can't talk if I'm doing it. More than two at a time pretty much means I can only pick out one and the rest becomes noise, and it makes for high noise levels which has unpleasant effects on my behavior ..

[made_of_paradox]

It might (might) be fun to do both the Jonathan Coulton links at once, they don't start quite together so you get this little echo effect.

But, YMMV.

[lihan161051]

What's weird is when both TV's are on in the house, and the roughly 10-millisecond delay between the broadcast signal and the output from the DVD recorder comes into play. It's extremely disorienting when standing in certain areas of the house, because it sounds like a reflection echo from a distant wall and jacks around with my spatial perception. Knowing exactly how it's happening doesn't help the disorientation any.

(And somehow, it's not as bad if the two tracks are coming from the same set of speakers. I can duplicate the effect almost exactly in Audacity, and it only muddles the sound..)

[made_of_paradox]

My Burning Man spirit?

Never been.

And I'm pyrophobic, remember? :D

If they were all coming from different speakers, it would be different.

(And, dammit, I never got to eat any of the brownies!)