[AGL] X-box?

[Wayne Johnson]

If you haven't seen it, don't knock it.

wgJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at hotpop.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [AGL] X-box?


> Standing in line for Harry Potter?
>
> Talk about decorticating the brain.
>
> Mike
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh at shentel.net>
> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [AGL] X-box?
>
>
>> Honor and I talked with a local teacher whilst standing in line the other 
>> night for Harry Potter.  Part of this (sad) conversation was the 
>> revelation that his (high school level) kids....can not take notes, can 
>> not follow an "oral" argument and can only take notes if they are 
>> "bulletized" a la Power Point.  He assigns this horrid situation to a 
>> (young) lifetime of ......game playing.
>>
>> I would argue that the Japanese are re-fighting WW2 and they are winning. 
>> What could be more subtle than undermining American education by 
>> gradually de-corticating our children?  Ok. It  IS a really good thing 
>> for the Military that there are kids who are truly skilled at "computer 
>> warfare."
>>
>> What a great century to look forward to, eh?  Mindless, GOP robot-kids, 
>> endlessly acquiring and killing "targets" (read: Iranians, Iraqi, 
>> Russians, Bulgarians, Canadians, whatever) while they sip methadrine 
>> laced Jolt and consume endless mountains of cheap pizza.   Even Orwell 
>> never conjured up a fantasy as totally dismal as this.
>>
>> Oh, I have a great idea:  Let us raise taxes, encourage truly smart 
>> people to enter the teaching profession, make Education the number One 
>> Priority, raise our "standards" to those as high as, say, Nigeria or 
>> Kenya and NOT become the Argentina/Guatamala of the 21st Century.  Er. 
>> Outside of bunkers in West VA and Colorado, that is.
>>
>> cheers.
>>
>> wgJ
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at hotpop.com>
>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
>> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 12:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AGL] X-box?
>>
>>
>>> Wayne wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is an X-box and why do people "have" to have one?
>>>
>>> It is a kind of computer optimized for playing games,
>>> using a handheld device to direct the action. Like
>>> the lost teenagers in a game arcade feeding quarters
>>> into the games except you do it at home, saving lots
>>> of quarters. But you have to buy the box and the
>>> software for the various games.
>>>
>>> I am doing a version of this at home with Flight
>>> Simulation. I assembled a computer for this. Pricey!
>>> Luckily the software was only $10. The difference is less
>>> noise, unless I turn up the audio which supplies engine
>>> noise and instructions over the "radio" from the control
>>> tower. More realism than fighting ogres. About the same
>>> degree of virtual realism as playing pimps and 'ho's in
>>> the 'hood.
>>>
>>> At this point I am flying and crashing the Cessna. It
>>> will take years to learn how to fly an airliner.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: Wayne Johnson
>>> To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s
>>> Cc: Remembrances of Austin Ghetto
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:46 AM
>>> Subject: [AGL] X-box?
>>>
>>>
>>> What is an X-box and why do people "have" to have one?
>>>
>>> wgJ
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