East Meets West – Podcast

I like the previous album art, with the 3 keyboard keys each denoting "E", "M", and "W". Simple, eye catchy, and it almost looks like funny stick figures :)

--Kevin C.

ARGH! After weeks of unclipped casts, I just caught this ep. Please guys, run low & normalize. A bit of noise is better to clipping. (JMO). Your content is always compelling, but it's a bit like getting burned Kobe beef. :P
Sorry to whine, but it's like nails on chalkboard.
One comment on content - my experience suggests that all of life is an extension of highschool just more subtle. ;)
Joe in Boston

finally some inspiring play on part of our American National Team. valiant effort on both sides and the best match i've seen thus far in the World Cup. still a glimmer of hope for moving on to the next round and a return of some American football pride.

-Udayan

the iweb website is quite alright. much cleaner and better than the blogger fare. still like EMW27 artwork the best, sans differentiated font.

I decided to start using iWeb '06 and I made a webpage using it - if anyone has a few moments would you visit http://www.iweb.udayantripathi.com & compare with http://www.udayantripathi.com?

The real reason I'm posting here is below;

East Meets West artwork 28 - Option 1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59528665@N00/168824745/

East Meets West artwork 28 - Option 2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/59528665@N00/168824746/

Hey guys, just wanted to weigh in on the high school discussions, from a different perspective.

Half way through grade 11, my family moved from Winnipeg, MB, to Ottawa, ON. So I got to experience not just two different school systems, year over year, but in some cases, actually in the middle of the course (non-semestered schools). My school in Winnipeg offered a succesful athletics program, extensive programs in the performing and visual arts, shops/vocational classes galore (including automotive repair, metal work, wood working, electronics, graphic design, fashion, and more), and the academics actually came in up to 4 levels: Basic (for those planning to enter the workforce straight out of high school), General (for those geared towards college, which is differentiated from universities here in Canada, usually a 1-3 year program leading to a diploma), Specialized (for those headed towards university), and Advanced (for those looking for more of a challenge). In my time there, I took a lot of the advanced classes, which moved quicker, covered more, and were also more free in the teaching styles in some cases. For example, in math, our units were much more like they were in university, based on going through examples, then giving us problems to try on our own, and basically, provided we were showing the results on tests and exams, they didn't really care if we did our homework or not. Now, this varied from subject to subject, but I found that many of the A-level classes were structured this way. In addition to the basic classes, the school also offered interesting subjects not usually found in many schools, such as psychology, et cetera.

Contrasting this to the second school, which while being a good school, took a slightly different route. They did offer some advanced level classes, but these were all linked to the International Baccalaureate program, which while all well and good, you had to enter from Grade 9, and if not, then too bad. So it was then classes that were far more structured, had regular assignments, and as such, were less challenging from a mental standpoint, and somewhat more tedious and boring. In addition, arts weren't as large or varied, and the shops/vocational classes were pretty much all replaced by computer classes.

Even the way cliques were formed was different. I found that when there was more to do, more cliques formed, but they interacted more. For example, the band geeks and other artsies (and I speak as one) would usually also be involved in the school's plays and musicals, which would have sets built by the wood working classes, advertising done by the graphic arts and photography people, and lighting and sound done by people in electronics and other facets of the school. People could belong to more than one group, and move between them depending on the situation. I found that when there were fewer options, the cliques changed, became more general, and at the same time, more rigid.

It seems to be that if schools give students a chance to excel, then many of them will take it, and will strive to be a success. When options are more limited, we seem to fall back into more of a "the nail that sticks up gets hammered down" mentality.

And in response to Timothy's comment, there's EmW listeners from the Great White North as well!

Cheers! (And sorry for the long comment!)

But Roger seems as cool as Maynard and probably doesn't have the aversion to work issue. Forgot to add that.

Just listened to the episode at work where we are using old Pentium III PC's with windows 2000 on them (pieces of crud). Anyway, when you mentioned Program Manager, I thought I would try to see if it was still there. It's still there. I wouldn't have been surprised if you had said that it was still in XP. I may still try when I get home, anyway. Speaking of trying things, thank you Andy Melton for mentioning nLite OS. I never knew something like that was available (well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at it). I will have to try that on my wife's old 233MHz and an old laptop i've been asked to clean up.

Oh, on the Maynard G. Krebs, thing. I had only seen Dobie Gillis once or twice on TV Land, so I was going off of that. I came across this about the character of Maynard and Bob Denver's portrayal of him. It's an interesting read. Not quite Roger, though.

Well, they say you learn something everyday...I tonight learned what "ponies" referred to. It all makes sense now.

Hey, Rodger, you should pull that 233 MHz processor out of the closet and put Windows XP Pro SP2 onto it, well, of course you'll have to use nLite OS to strip it down some. SADLY (and don't you tell anyone I said this, lol) Windows XP actually ran faster on it than Linux on there currently does. It could probably run faster if I recompiled the kernel, but, I don't wanna screw it up. Anyways, XP Pro has also ran successfully on my laptop, 200 MHz & 32 MB RAM.

thanks for the notebook advice everyone. hopefully i can temper myself to wait for Rev B. i'll be honest, my choice of going for Apple is primarily aesthetics. this time, form has won over function. hmm, WoW on a MBP does sound very intriguing though.

as for NFL linemen, actually there's been quite a few that have come out of the Ive League the last few years.

as for finals conflict, all of the universities here in Oregon go by the trimester system. just turned in my last essay this afternoon. fini and that's all folks with my college career.

as for football, i think our "pretty please we beg you, don't tread on us boys" won't be making it out of the group. i've finally calmed down since this morning's debacle. we obviously didn't belong on the same pitch as the Czechs and after that "performance," it's hard to make a case that we should be there in Germany at all. i guess i'll be rooting for England in the Round of 16, although their performance was also nothing to be happy about either.

aside from the U.S. and UK, any other nation-states represented here at EMW?

to Udayan that me to a tee.

World of Warcraft runs really great on the MacBook Pro :) But that's probably the most popular Mac game anyway.

France won in '98 because they had incredible players. I'm in London so football is huge here, unike the US where baseball and basketball appear to share the limelight with NFL, there is only 1 sport here and that's football. Cricket/Rugby are fairly popular but nothing in comparison.

As for professional parents, I agree entirely with Roger with the slight alteration that there are those who are children of affluent very successful people who are laid back, nonchalent (spelling?) and somewhat perezoso (lazy), a few of my friends fit that description.

In world cup im am pulling for Trinidad to represent the us carribean island. i know its a long shot but if france can win then why not trinidad. the US also had a lot of playes not from the US and even MLB does the samething and about what roger was saying about parent being profession both mine are and i didnt strive for that but then again i was and still am lazy hope they can find a cure for my lazyness soon.