Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: OGB Update, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ben, if you did go to the lecture you'd still get down the the Civic in time for the Cut Collective show.
I'll be doing that. I will be able to report exactly how fast a motivated man can ride his bike from Owen Glenn to the Civic, with MyTracks to prove it. My guess at this point, sub 5 minutes. Gravity is on my side, and a massive spinless particle like me has a lot of energy for a short time. Of course at this point it's only theory, but I'm quietly confident. I'm afraid I can't control the font on MyTracks though, so only serious cyclists will be allowed to look at it.
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Hard News: OGB Update, in reply to richard,
Oh fuck, they clash (my first for the semester :-). How long is the lecture likely to be?
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I'll probably be there. I couldn't identify a font to save my life.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to richard,
Just seeing the Higgs does not solve these riddles, but it does make cosmologists feel much better about building theories with spinless fields in them,
Thanks richard. Who knows where such theories might lead? The picture could change, phenomena could be discovered. Sounds like it's opening possibilities up, rather than closing them down - that sounds exciting.
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Any problems with gang colours (even in Kohimaramara)?
None that I was aware of. But it wasn't really a fighty kind of school, and was in a wealthy area. Which is why I doubt anyone was much put out of pocket either way - uniforms weren't really expensive, and kids had massive wardrobes anyway, if they wanted them.
I think it may have become a rougher school in the 90s, the younger kids I knew said so, that there were race rivalry fights.
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richard, is there any implication for cosmology in this confirmation that could be understood by anyone with only high school physics, and no interest whatsoever in fonts? Did the universe get older, or bigger, or darker, or curvier, or something? Or, being a confirmation, does it actually lead to nothing at all that isn't already mostly believed to be the case (by physicists), other than a reduction of discussion of the alternatives? A discussion point time saver, in effect? Trying to get a feel for how huge this is.
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Selwyn went mufti while I was there, so I got to see first hand the effect of the change. I preferred having no uniform, because it was less of a hassle, and more comfortable, and you weren't instantly identified as a schoolkid in public. The teachers liked it because enforcing uniform was totally not what the hippies teaching there were about. Fashion conscious kids certainly preferred it.
Was it cheaper or more expensive? I couldn't say, not ever having spent one cent on my clothes until about the age of 20. My own wardrobe didn't change at all, and I don't believe that anyone else's did either - it's not like they didn't have mufti clothes which they instantly changed into every evening, which they went out to parties and hung out with their friends in, and wore on the weekends.
So probably the only real downside left to consider was whether a class marker had been created, that rich kids could be identified by their clothes. But I don't honestly think it worked out like that. Rich kids who wanted to be identified simply invited people to their mansions and the word got out. Those who wanted to hide it managed to do. Poor kids who felt self conscious took time with their appearance and looked good anyway. In the end, the quality of clothing seemed to me to come down to whether or not they cared, and cliques formed around that, far more than around actual wealth. Rich nerds were still nerds, poor trendy kids were still trendy.
All of that said, I am the perfect example of someone not attuned to the differences because I didn't need to be, being both wealthy and nerdy. The poor trendy kids might have felt very keenly their impoverished clothing compared to the rich trendy kids. But none of them said they wanted to go back to uniform, ever.
I can't comment on whether parents paid more or less after mufti came in, on an annual basis. Gut feeling is that it didn't change at all.
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Lilith __,
Most people have more than one talent or aptitude.
Also, it is possible to just get bored using only one.
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Russell Brown,
the kids from the liberal high school with a great pastoral culture and no uniforms (or even a really a discernable dress code) did very well in comparisons.
Most of the guys and gals who went to Seddon, that I know, have done just fine. I was in zone, but went to Selwyn instead. Not really sure it was worth all those bus trips, but sticking with mates counted for a lot. Still my bffs.
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Not even a Clayton's version of it.
What exactly does everyone have against that campus at Monash?
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