Josh Play Gay Not Quite a motss.con xiii (via Zoom)

On Saturday, March 4, 2023, the soc.motss.con bunch had another Zoom call.

I was late for Reasons so only saw eight other people over the 1½ or so hours I was there. I had fun catching up, and it seemed like others did too. Discussion topics (as I wrote them down, but not necessarily in chronological order) included:
  • Screen shots
  • Bowling
  • Thrift and reuse stores
  • Sculpture and other decorative structures
  • Whether happy people are, by definition, idiots (or at least lacking depth of life experience)
  • Programming, and weird comments in the kernel
  • Teaching C# programming to high school students
  • Programming languages
  • Syntactics and pragmatics
  • Teaching and learning
  • Mathematics
  • Customer support and technical support, lack of explanations, and sexism
  • Customers replaing their operating systems
  • Teaching about art
  • Getting students to do their homework
  • Distributed systems, services, MIT Athena
  • Teaching poorly and half-assedly for twice the money despite lousy evaluations
  • Operating systems
  • Retaking tests you've failed
  • Cultural structure (or the lack thereof) in daily operations of schools (high schools, colleges, etc.)
  • Proverbs and their meaning... especially when you don't know the proverbs being referenced:
    • If wishes were horses...
    • If wishes were fishes...
    • See a penny pick it up...
    • Ring around the rosie...
    • Eeny meeny miney moe... (and the racist versions)
    • One potato, two potato...
    • Engine Engine number nine...
    • Step on a crack...
    • All that glisters...
  • Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (and its original titles)
  • Aesop's Fables
  • Childhood learning
  • Traveling by bus and by car
  • Surprise vacations
  • Having weekly Zooms to improve parent-child relationships
  • Prison, isolation (AKA administrative segregation), and the skills and abilities to survive that trauma
  • Whether people would believe the story of your life if it were made into a book or movie
  • Differences between prison and mundane cultures
  • Appropriateness of people as gifts
  • Gender nonbinary, appropriate pronouns, sexual orientation, and driver's license markers
  • Zoom oddities
  • Conversations with people on the street
  • Tchotchkes and antiques
 No pictures this time
Last update Mar29/23 by Josh Simon (<jss@clock.org>).