Thu, 25 June 2009
The Show Notes The way people clap Red Rue David Carradine Oh my Kiev The end of Kodachrome film Eyes like dirt 10 things about the moon landing These flowers won’t wilt Disaronno on the rocks An Unforgettable Waltz The International My Gypsy Ads in the Smithsonian Sway 2001 Farewell Shoes off in the house Ash Trees Woody Allen’s Voice I Love to Camp Bruce Wayne’s Accountant Female Empowerment Rainbow More Ash Trees Book: Charlatan Such Caring Eyes Cake Trumps All. Volinyanochka Pummeled by the waiting The Gypsy Night Enchants ..................................... Sign up for the mailing list: Write to Geo! Score more data from the Geologic Universe! Get George's music at CD Baby and iTunes, and Non-Coloring Book at Lulu, both as download and print editions. Have a comment on the show, a Religious Moron tip, or a question for Ask George? Drop George a line and write to Geo's Mom, too! Ms. Information says "Chudovo." Comments[27]
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I was raised in a house where removing shoes was the norm. My mister was not. As such, I\'ve gotten more lax about it in my daily routine, but still do it 90%+ of the time.
But I do not impose this requirement on my guests. unless it\'s the dead of winter and the snow is banked up outside. Even then, there\'s not much that can be done to avoid tracking slush through the house.
Not to get too terribly OCD, but regarding germs on shoes (and anywhere else for that matter), it\'s not the person, it\'s the environment.
Even the cleanest person is walking around where thousands of others have before. No way to avoid it.
On the other hand, I\'ve never traced any pathogenic illness I\'ve gotten to not taking off my shoes, or walking around barefoot.
But I do not impose this requirement on my guests. unless it\'s the dead of winter and the snow is banked up outside. Even then, there\'s not much that can be done to avoid tracking slush through the house.
Not to get too terribly OCD, but regarding germs on shoes (and anywhere else for that matter), it\'s not the person, it\'s the environment.
Even the cleanest person is walking around where thousands of others have before. No way to avoid it.
On the other hand, I\'ve never traced any pathogenic illness I\'ve gotten to not taking off my shoes, or walking around barefoot.
I LOVE the song Sway and have several versions of it... now I have another... thank you.
I tend to not wear shoes as much as I possibly can, often spending days barefoot. If I am going to track anything into your house it will be off my feet and not my shoes... would you make me put on shoes to enter your house in these cases?
I tend to not wear shoes as much as I possibly can, often spending days barefoot. If I am going to track anything into your house it will be off my feet and not my shoes... would you make me put on shoes to enter your house in these cases?
In Canada, removing your shoes when entering a house (your own or someone else\'s) is standard -- shoes indoors is not an \"in the West\" thing. Up here, you\'re far more likely to hear, \"Oh, don\'t worry about taking your shoes off, it\'s ok\" than \"Oh, could you please take your shoes off?\"
Apparently US expats up here find this strange and discomfiting when they first encounter it. A former Manhattanite friend of mine blogged about it at http://wmtc.blogspot.com/2006/02/feet.html
Apparently US expats up here find this strange and discomfiting when they first encounter it. A former Manhattanite friend of mine blogged about it at http://wmtc.blogspot.com/2006/02/feet.html
This was a cool change of pace. If you re-recorded Tempo's songs yourself, which is what it sounds like, I'd love to hear about the process in some future podcast.
Regarding Batman's finances -- I've been thinking for a while now that Bruce Wayne could do a lot more good for Gotham city if he spent his crime-fighting budget on improving education, providing daycare, fighting poverty, and so on. The movies would suck, though. Batman: The Well-Organized Philanthropist probably won't sell many tickets.
Regarding Batman's finances -- I've been thinking for a while now that Bruce Wayne could do a lot more good for Gotham city if he spent his crime-fighting budget on improving education, providing daycare, fighting poverty, and so on. The movies would suck, though. Batman: The Well-Organized Philanthropist probably won't sell many tickets.
I’ve done it…..I have heard every show, I’ve followed the ups and downs and all the emotions. Considering I just started a couple months ago, I think I’ve done well.
Have a great time at TAM. I’ll be sitting with my Drinking Skeptically Meetup buddies July 9th wishing I were there. I’ll definitely be there next year though. But, if not for podcasts like this and Daniel Loxton’s projects telling me to off my ass and get active, I probably wouldn’t have even been doing this much.
Thank you Geo and keep up the award winning work,
Brian Sperger
Have a great time at TAM. I’ll be sitting with my Drinking Skeptically Meetup buddies July 9th wishing I were there. I’ll definitely be there next year though. But, if not for podcasts like this and Daniel Loxton’s projects telling me to off my ass and get active, I probably wouldn’t have even been doing this much.
Thank you Geo and keep up the award winning work,
Brian Sperger
Hi. My laptop is dead so I am sitting at a computer at my public library with a set of ear buds. I was laughing, and sobbing, sometimes at the same time!! If I needed to explain this podcast to someone, I don\'t think I\'d know where to begin.
This is a bravura performance. Thank you for transporting me to the Vovcha Tropa and Soyuzivka
of my youth!
This is a bravura performance. Thank you for transporting me to the Vovcha Tropa and Soyuzivka
of my youth!
Lesia and Uki:
I just spent the weekend at Vovcha Tropa (Chornomortsi rada) and listened to this all over again on the way there/back. A while back, I was invited to give a guest set of lectures on astronomy (using a mobile planetarium and real telescopes) to all four camps the weekend of TAM - maybe I\'ll be able to help a few of the kids take their first important steps away from the religion they\'re being indoctrinated with, and I\'ll be using many of the techniques Geo has taught me. I may even use this podcast in my attempt, to show them that there is a Ukrainian musician who\'s also into science. And you can bet that FAR will be played many times by me that weekend!
I just spent the weekend at Vovcha Tropa (Chornomortsi rada) and listened to this all over again on the way there/back. A while back, I was invited to give a guest set of lectures on astronomy (using a mobile planetarium and real telescopes) to all four camps the weekend of TAM - maybe I\'ll be able to help a few of the kids take their first important steps away from the religion they\'re being indoctrinated with, and I\'ll be using many of the techniques Geo has taught me. I may even use this podcast in my attempt, to show them that there is a Ukrainian musician who\'s also into science. And you can bet that FAR will be played many times by me that weekend!
@podblack -- I suppose we could ding Penn in turn for being speciesist -- 'What's all this "human pride" crap?' :-/
The problem I see is that he has half, or maybe a quarter, of a real point, but he doesn't seem to acknowledge the massive sliding scale between his "citizen of the world" ideal and ethnic supremacy. One of the nice things about atheism as a worldview is that it allows anybody (IMO) to be a cultural Jew or a cultural Scot or a cultural Okinawan, if you're willing to put the effort into learning about the culture in question. What atheism doesn't do, alas, is allow people to erase history and make it as though their parents and grandparents never existed.
(Why Penn has a part of a point -- well, there's no shortage in history of ethnic preservation and pride movements going terribly awry. But he needs to substantiate any claim of wrongness with, you know, evidence. Not slippery-slope fearmongering.)
The problem I see is that he has half, or maybe a quarter, of a real point, but he doesn't seem to acknowledge the massive sliding scale between his "citizen of the world" ideal and ethnic supremacy. One of the nice things about atheism as a worldview is that it allows anybody (IMO) to be a cultural Jew or a cultural Scot or a cultural Okinawan, if you're willing to put the effort into learning about the culture in question. What atheism doesn't do, alas, is allow people to erase history and make it as though their parents and grandparents never existed.
(Why Penn has a part of a point -- well, there's no shortage in history of ethnic preservation and pride movements going terribly awry. But he needs to substantiate any claim of wrongness with, you know, evidence. Not slippery-slope fearmongering.)
*snorfle* - good points, Marvin. :) I also had visions of every sporting event that involves nations suddenly packing up the flags and slinking off home... :p Mind, maybe the demise of Eurovision wouldn\'t be _so awful_... but I think the point of Eurovision is that it _is_ awful...
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