Interesting that I can't comment on a comment on a post. But anyway, the last comment brings up an interesting subject.
For one, I've always thought just the opposite about repeat vernacular buildings. I mean, it is boring, I agree on that. However I don't think our ancestors would have built the same thing over and over again if it didn't work. I thought the same thing in Eastern Europe. "Gee, I wonder why they built everything exactly the same." And then I decided there must be a reason. People don't do things for no reason, at least not serial buildings. At the very least it's out of cheapness, or low cost like in the cookie cutter homes out of Sears catalogs or whatever. Just because I don't know what the reasons are doesn't mean they aren't there! I believe historically humans had a lot more intelligence than we give them credit for. Just look at the Incas and the Mayans...
Some things I've been thinking about lately have to do with the way modernity has royally screwed up everything. I heard last night that the size of dinner plates went from 9 inches in the 60s to 12 inches now. They're right! Dinner plates are HUGE now. Even the dishwasher in my house doesn't fit the new dinner plates we just received as wedding gifts! No wonder Americans are so fat. Honestly! The picture of two eggs and two strips of bacon on a 9 inch plate versus a 12 inch plate says it all. On a 9 inch plate it looks like a meal. On a 12 inch plate, well you can fit a lot more on there. How about 500 calories extra?
That brings me to these new school chairs I was reading about. I love new products and technologies, but these new fancy chairs for high school students are really depressing. They made a point to make it strong enough for a 300 pound kid to plop himself down in! They're bigger and have wheels. Pretty soon we're all going to look like those blobs in that space ship in the movie Wall-E. I think if anything we should make a point to keep the old chairs, or one-arm-bandits as they were called in the article. Make it more difficult for kids to squeeze in and move their chairs around. They need the exercise. And they need a reason to not engorge themselves on a full 12 inch plate of whatever fatty badness they can get their lazy hands on. Ok, maybe I'm a bit harsh. But I don't think that making chairs for high school kids that can withstand 3,000 lbs of force is a good thing.
Use the smaller plates, please! They started out that size for a very good reason, and they became bigger for no good reason whatsoever.
For one, I've always thought just the opposite about repeat vernacular buildings. I mean, it is boring, I agree on that. However I don't think our ancestors would have built the same thing over and over again if it didn't work. I thought the same thing in Eastern Europe. "Gee, I wonder why they built everything exactly the same." And then I decided there must be a reason. People don't do things for no reason, at least not serial buildings. At the very least it's out of cheapness, or low cost like in the cookie cutter homes out of Sears catalogs or whatever. Just because I don't know what the reasons are doesn't mean they aren't there! I believe historically humans had a lot more intelligence than we give them credit for. Just look at the Incas and the Mayans...
Some things I've been thinking about lately have to do with the way modernity has royally screwed up everything. I heard last night that the size of dinner plates went from 9 inches in the 60s to 12 inches now. They're right! Dinner plates are HUGE now. Even the dishwasher in my house doesn't fit the new dinner plates we just received as wedding gifts! No wonder Americans are so fat. Honestly! The picture of two eggs and two strips of bacon on a 9 inch plate versus a 12 inch plate says it all. On a 9 inch plate it looks like a meal. On a 12 inch plate, well you can fit a lot more on there. How about 500 calories extra?
That brings me to these new school chairs I was reading about. I love new products and technologies, but these new fancy chairs for high school students are really depressing. They made a point to make it strong enough for a 300 pound kid to plop himself down in! They're bigger and have wheels. Pretty soon we're all going to look like those blobs in that space ship in the movie Wall-E. I think if anything we should make a point to keep the old chairs, or one-arm-bandits as they were called in the article. Make it more difficult for kids to squeeze in and move their chairs around. They need the exercise. And they need a reason to not engorge themselves on a full 12 inch plate of whatever fatty badness they can get their lazy hands on. Ok, maybe I'm a bit harsh. But I don't think that making chairs for high school kids that can withstand 3,000 lbs of force is a good thing.
Use the smaller plates, please! They started out that size for a very good reason, and they became bigger for no good reason whatsoever.
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