Comments on Puzzle #13398: Vacation tip
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)
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#1: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 16, 2011 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#2: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Apr 16, 2011
Nice puzzle Brian.#3: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Apr 16, 2011
truism#4: annalivia (annalivia) on Apr 16, 2011 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#5: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 16, 2011 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#6: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Apr 17, 2011 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#7: Teresa K (fasstar) on Apr 17, 2011
Fun puzzle, Brian. I hope there's more of these.#8: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on Apr 17, 2011 [SPOILER]
Joe, very interesting about cultural literacy. How many in this generation have actually "rolled" down a car window?
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#9: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 17, 2011
I'm old enough to remember when all phones had dials. And my family didn't get a color tv 'til I was around 12. My 25 yr old daughter might remember when you *could* buy a b&w (portable) tv. Now you can't even find a crt tv.#10: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 17, 2011 [SPOILER]
However, when she was eight, we went to an art gallery and she stared for a long time at a b&w photo of a skyscraper against a wispy-cloudy sky. She thought it was neat, but couldn't make out what it was.
All her books had had color pictures -- she'd never learned to translate between b&w and color.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#11: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on Apr 17, 2011 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#12: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Apr 17, 2011
wow...i just got back to the world...we had a bad tornado yesterday...several houses have trees on their roofs, i lost elect, phone & isp for 24 hours :( ...lots of dead peeps in raleigh, how sad#13: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 17, 2011
I read about it in the paper. I hope you and yours are all well.#14: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on Apr 17, 2011
ditto #13.#15: Teresa K (fasstar) on Apr 17, 2011
first time our weather scanner sounded an alarm. only had a big storm here. Sorry you had to go through that, Tom.
I'm glad you are okay, Tom. Welcome back.#16: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Apr 18, 2011
Glad you're safe, Tom#17: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 18, 2011
Joe, that's disturbing that your daughter couldn't interpret a b&w photograph. I'll have to test that out on my 9-yr-old son (of course, he's seen me paint monochromatic images)
To be fair, the photo was very abstract. It was taken pointing upwards from one corner and had strong vertical lines and no "store front" bottom floor.
But to me the sky was definitely "sky", even though the clouds weren't the stereotypical fluffy clouds. To her, the sky was not recognizable as "sky" until I pointed it out.
On a similar tack, I think b&w photos (and films) remove some of the immediacy of the images. Horrifying images are not as horrifying when not in color. Watching (lots of) WWII and old "horror" movies on saturday afternoons, the b&w brought home to me that they were not "real".
In high school, we were shown horrible movies that the liberating troops took in the concentration camps. I doubt they would've been shown if they were in color.
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