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It's all about image...

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

• Kilos lost to date: 1kg - the riding kilo is persisting!
• Book of the week: Only Forward, Michael Marshall Smith. Ok, so it's a very very old favourite from year 9 but it's important to rediscover old books during a move!
• Carbon Footprint Initiatives: Did not turn on the air conditioner last night during Melbourne's 3rd hottest night ever! I do NOT want to be the person that forces them to build a new power station in peak times.

Everything is about image these days... When I searched for answers to my very difficult physics problem on google, I was dazzled with 'about 17,900' answers... Eagerly I started trawling through results in the hope that I wouldn't actually have to think about the answer in order to solve the question... Unfortunately when I was only up to result 169 google gave up. It claimed the other 17,731 results were all duplicates and it would be a waste of my time to read them. I was sorely disappointed. Not only did I have to start turning the cogs of my dusty old brain which had previously relied on google for well, everything from directions to condolence letters, to jokes, to snippets of code... I had been mislead about the number of people dedicated to making websites about my particular problem. Now I assume google isn't to blame - who wouldn't feel cosy and comforted by thousands or millions of results about their question... No one will ever feel isolated or different again! But I wonder how many people actually trawl to the end of the results as I do? In one my uni classes I was told the majority of people never get past the first 2 or 3 results, let alone on to a second page... They trust in google's claim, feel comforted and explore no further.

Not me, however, pioneer of cyberspace that I am (ha ha)... I have been conditioned to think that everything has already been done before and somewhere out there someone will have made a website about it... Unfortunately for me this is quite often not the case... People tend not to post answers to higher level physics problems on the internet... too much fiddling with equations and characters I guess... but it has made me seriously lazy. It's much easier to absently mindedly click through millions of results than be forced to think myself...

So I came to the realisation in the middle of my physics issue... that instead of trying to look for what's been done I should attempt to forge into the unknown... for even if it has been done by others, it hasn't been done by me and those neural pathways might come in handy one day!

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posted by genloz at 8:45 PM