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Ahh, good old F* George W.

Yeah, I had that one committed to memory in highschool.

Re:Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education (2011) [pdf] on Thursday February 14, 2019 @09:52AM (#19162242)
Same.

I remember having to be pulled out of my 'special needs' class to go to the auditorium for a small celebration recognizing the students who has scored highest on the standardized reading comprehension exams.

I won a pizza party for my english class because I had the highest score of any student in the entire middle school.

The two eighth grade honors classes had been competing to see which of them would get it.

They were pissed to loose it to the sixth grade remedial english class.

That was about the time I started to lose respect for the US school system.

Re:Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube on Friday January 25, 2019 @12:16PM (#19000024)
Yep. I like to watch some videos of varying view points and political leanings to avoid falling into an echo chamber.

But more than. One or two conservative videos, especially about European current events, and you are sucked in to the Nazi Propaganda hole.

Another inescapable pit of content is electronic music production.

I was doing a bit of research on the teenage engineering pocket operators as a possible gift for my younger brother. Now Im almost exclusively recommend music production videos.

Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages on Friday January 25, 2019 @10:55AM (#18998996)
Had a coworker land there this morning after flying out of New York. Said atl was a total shit-show.
And if they repeat it frequently enough, you will begin to believe it!
Re:Scans of early RFCs on Thursday January 24, 2019 @12:41PM (#18990892)
Ha, I'm reading 'Where Wizards stay up late' and just got to the section where they first mention RFC 1.

Odd coincidence. I might have to join in on reading an RFC a day.

I've always thought that this was the case.

I have a very good memory for places. But I am terrible at remembering where places like relative to each other.

I grew up on a coastal town, where essentially every 'area' lay on a single highway. And after living there for ~15 years on and off, I could name almost every business in three towns, which ones had shut down and re-opened as something different, what had been swamp a few years before.

Everything.

But if I got in my car, and tried to drive to a specific location, I was completely useless.

I could tell you what the building looked like, what was accross the street, what was next to it on either side.

But I woukd be completely unable to tell you if it was north or south of me.

I often had to navigate by mentally walking from building to building.