Comments on: Are you a gazelle or a glider?

By: ArmyMom

ArmyMom — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 01:08:20 +0000

Gazelle here.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:18:40 +0000

Chuck, I fast forwarded it at about 3 points.

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:27:43 +0000

We Badgers sort of trundle along. The Badger’s strong suit is cuddliness, not speed.

By: chuck

chuck — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:20:32 +0000

@Yamarsakar It was certainly thought provoking. I had lots of time to wonder why the hell he was running the video backwards in endless slow motion while repeating himself. Then I pondered his inability to use a pointer to actually point at anything. And his affectless monotone was a marvel.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 05:51:31 +0000

In recent times, people like to talk about the newer generations having AD and D, or having low 5 second attention spans. But my theory is that in the structured slave ring of school lectures, the recent generations have a higher tolerance for low presentation values, if the subject itself is interesting across all media forms.

Whereas the older generations can’t watch a 10 minute youtube video if the first 2 minutes don’t make sense.

Of course if a recent gen can’t understand 8 minutes of a 10 minute lecture, then it produces the same result.

This is behind the whole tl;dr trend, in which I made the line between how much tolerance different generations truly have for this. And it’s not the newer generations with the lower tolerance.

By: chuck

chuck — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:09:53 +0000

after the 1975 mark

Definitely pre 😉 I wondered a bit if I might be missing the cognitive training imparted by music videos, Saturday morning cartoons, and texting, but decided that boring was boring.

By: Yancey Ward

Yancey Ward — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 19:26:19 +0000

Chuck is correct, the video is worthless. There are much better demonstrations of running techniques available on many forums, including youtube.

By: Mr. Frank

Mr. Frank — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 18:23:06 +0000

Neo,

You define eclectic.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:44:05 +0000

Chuck, model:

Born before or after the 1975 mark?

By: model_1066

model_1066 — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 05:34:27 +0000

chuck Says:
July 12th, 2014 at 11:24 pm
My takeaway, even the most interesting things can be made annoying and dull by poor presentation.

My thoughts exactly. I only made it to about the two minute mark, which is about when it would end if it was done right.