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 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 :)