On 6/6/20 8:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Steve, > > > > When I was on sabbatical in England and feeling Very homesick, I set > about to draw a memory map of the United States. I was really pleased > with the result, and showed off with pride to my family. One of my > children pointed out to me that I had only 49 states. > I was VERY impressed when I saw Al Franken do his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-FYyuvrRk&list=PL0UW7LoJRk9fFIEVBUq_mX94CYioFkdOL&index=273
the one I saw myself was one he narrated and it took a lot longer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XtczOvT6c I'd probably remember them all and maybe even in the right location, but with only a few regions reflecting accurate scales and boundaries. New England and the northern Atlantic Seaboard would suck... the West and Midwest would probably be fine... I think I could *nail* the 4 corners states though! > Can you guess which one I left out? > I'm not good at these guessing games, and without reference to your age/era when you were in England, I'd be winging a tail at a donkey here. Seems like a "trick question", which becomes my best angle for guessing: * Switzerland? (doh! not a state!) * NM? (though a hard one to leave out geometrically). * AK/HI ? (too obvious) * MA (nahhhhh...) * Idaho? OK... yah got me! > > > N > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith > *Sent:* Saturday, June 6, 2020 6:29 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] word of the day: "Eschatology" > > > > Nick - > > One day, during geography, I raised my hand and said, “How come > north/south America and Europe/Africa sort of /fit together?” > /General merriment on all sides, including the teacher’s. > > > > Did she do that to YOU, also? > > Nah, but my 4th grade teacher drew her own maps on mimeograph. When > we were studying Europe, she left out Switzerland. When she handed > out the unmarked maps as homework and asked us to fill in the country > names and place/identify their capitals, I noticed she had left out > Switzerland! I raised my hand, waited for her to call on me, then > politely (or possibly too eagerly) asked "Where is Switzerland?". I > don't remember what happened next... but she basically told me to > "shut up". I did. But I did not do *any more* Geography homework > (or at least her hand-drawn map) assignments for the rest of the year. > > When I flunked (who gets an F in a class in 4th grade?) the class, my > parents intervened and made the deal with her that she would pass me > if/when I did all the homework that summer. It grated the hell out > of me, but I remember whipping out the whole year of assignments in > the first week (or so) because we didn't not do what our parents told > us to, even if we sometimes didn't do what our teachers told us to > do. I had, after all, paid attention in class and *read the book* as > I was as fascinated with geography as anything else... I held the > line on the Europe-sans-Switzerland assignment and my parents > acquiesced. I *LIKE* to think that Ms. McCarty was more careful with > her maps after I (innocently) asked her about "Switzerland?". > > Later she told me to shut up when she was teaching "weather" and my > father had just shown me (he took daily meteorological readings at the > USFS offices) about wet-bulb temperature and even alcohol > thermometers (which are preferred over mercury ones for very low > temperature use)... the "shut up" came when I raised my hand and > asked if the thermometer she was showing us was mercury or alcohol. > I think she said "there is no such thing" before she told me to shut > up. I don't know why she ever called on me, but then one could ask > why I ever bothered to raise my hand. I think I did cut way back on > that as the year progressed. > > Did your first grade teacher break a ruler on your knuckles for having > bad penmanship (age 6) ? And I didn't even go to Catholic School! > Her name was Mrs. Hay and *should have been* a Nun... > > - Steve > > > - .... . -..-. . ...- --- .-.. ..- - .. --- -. -..-. .-- .. .-.. .-.. -..-. > -... . -..-. .-.. .. ...- . -..-. ... - .-. . .- -- . -.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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