Invitation - Sin City

[jack]

To celebrate not having exams a couple of us are going to see Sin City tomorrow. Does anyone else want to come?

We'll probably have food first, and then go to the 9.10 showing.

Comments

[mair_in_grenderich]

I read it all through my final exams. Er, I mean, in my breaks from revising. But I don't get it either :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Er, I mean, in my breaks from revising.

LOL.

It's funny how many of us *have* seized on that book.

[mair_in_grenderich]

well, I didn't want to give the impression I sat through the actual exams reading Elton :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

LOL. It'd beat my infamous walking with a book. And even the girl I saw walking along an Underground platform reading.

OTOH, if, hypothetically, one was in an exam easy enough you finished before the end and weren't allowed to read it would actually make sense.

[mair_in_grenderich]

I was brought up to re-check if I finished before the end. And then check again. And again...

My sister used to read books and play the piano at the same time.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I did say hypothetically, I don't think I've ever actually stopped more than 30 sec before the end. In fact, I remember feeling inadequate insome school exams because I was writing furiously up until the end whereas some people finished half an hour before. But then I got 98% and they got 60, so my frantic rechecking obviously works after all.

But if an exam is simple *enough*[1] it becomes counterproductive because you start getting too clever and outguessing yourself.

[]1 I'm reminded of the urban legend of a $foo engineer who was a foremost expert but now beurocratically required for have $bar qualification, and before the exam asked "Are you related to the $foo who weote the textbook we're using" and he replied "I *am* that $foo."

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

My sister used to read books and play the piano at the same time.

Mwa? How??

[mair_in_grenderich]

She put the book on the music-standy bit.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

After a minute of thinking I figured out that that would be possible physically. I'm still confounded that anyone can manage it coordinationwise.

[mair_in_grenderich]

she was playing tunes she knew?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Well, I would hope so! But not being a musician I assumed even a simple tune would require enough coordination to rule it out.

I suppose you can *talk* while playing, and if you can play blind and fix your eyes on the book it should be ok, but it just sounded 'umglehowhow?' :)

[fluffle.livejournal.com]

it was only awkward when I wanted to turn pages. There are some songs I can play blindfold, literally, I've played them so much...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. I'm still amazed, though I've never tried so I don't know how hard it really is.

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

I used to try that, but it was never particularly successful and my mother used to go mental when she caught me.

Cello finger exercises and reading worked better :)