Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's amazing what music can do. I spring cleaned my kitchen yesterday to Rudimental.

Nikksters garden looks ace! NP BBQ FTW! LOL!

I'm planning to not have a dining room in either of the reception rooms. Most people have a lovely set of dining room furniture that is a dumping ground that might get used at christmas if they don't get invited anywhere else. I plan to have a tv room, & a music room. Gotta put them 5000 cd's somewhere!:eek:

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

In the night garden has a gravity defying train called the ninky nonk which can go upside down along the underside of tree branches. That may help here.

I mentioned ages ago that a good read might be "the Annotated Alice" by Martin Gardner. He puts Lewis Carroll's works in context and explains the Victorians obsessions with tunnels.

In one of his other books "Sylvie and Bruno" Lewis describes the gravity train that takes 42 minutes to fall through the Earth to anywhere in the world. Before they knew about the mantle and tectonic plates of course!

lemonjelly wrote: »

Nikksters garden looks ace! NP BBQ FTW! LOL!

I'm planning to not have a dining room in either of the reception rooms. Most people have a lovely set of dining room furniture that is a dumping ground that might get used at christmas if they don't get invited anywhere else. I plan to have a tv room, & a music room. Gotta put them 5000 cd's somewhere!:eek:

5000CDs!:eek: Have you got them catalogued?

vivatifosi

Hi Jelly, I've started the pre-read. There's two New York Times articles that break you in gently to the academic articles. One is a bit of a background to behavioural economics, the other is a paper on the most effective ways of learning. Some of the academic papers are long. One of them is by Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast and Slow. I'm looking forward to reading that.

neverdespairgirl

tomterm8 wrote: »

My advice is to keep Isaac away from schrodingers cat, wave-partical duality, any quantum physics experiment with a slit in it, any book written by Stephen Hawking, and /or black holes and / or time dialation.

Science fiction is also dodgy, particularly new wave science fiction but for other reasons...

What's wrong with all those things? Will they make my brain ache more?

lemonjelly

zagubov wrote: »

5000CDs!:eek: Have you got them catalogued?

Alphabetical. Kinda split into some poorly defined sub-groups too (world music, soundtracks, dj mixes, classical etc). Artists are then chronological.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Hi Jelly, I've started the pre-read. There's two New York Times articles that break you in gently to the academic articles. One is a bit of a background to behavioural economics, the other is a paper on the most effective ways of learning. Some of the academic papers are long. One of them is by Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast and Slow. I'm looking forward to reading that.

I really ought to get onto that then!:eek:
Got to scan & post all the solicitor paperwork tomorrow too.
Oh, & the mortgage offer got withdrawn & a new rate that is 0.2% higher. That said the fees are only 200 I think.

bugslet

lemonjelly wrote: »

Nikksters garden looks ace! NP BBQ FTW! LOL!

I'm planning to not have a dining room in either of the reception rooms. Most people have a lovely set of dining room furniture that is a dumping ground that might get used at christmas if they don't get invited anywhere else. I plan to have a tv room, & a music room. Gotta put them 5000 cd's somewhere!:eek:

Nah mine gets used all the time, I love having people round for meals/coffee/ tea parties:D. The table is not so lovely any more, but it has a lot of happy memories in the mug rings and unexplained splodges.

lostinrates

bugslet wrote: »

Nah mine gets used all the time, I love having people round for meals/coffee/ tea parties:D. The table is not so lovely any more, but it has a lot of happy memories in the mug rings and unexplained splodges.

My parents on their small cottage used to have a book lined dining room. So sort of dual purpose dining library. It worked brilliantly, as it was also a good place to sit and read or study.


My new heating units have arrived. They look like fridge freezers really.

GDB2222

https://class.coursera.org/behavioralecon-002

Having just watched the pain threshold experiment, I can't help thinking that there's an enormous hole in it, and the conclusions drawn may be wholly erroneous. I won't say anything now, but perhaps other people have drawn the same conclusion?

Doozergirl

lemonjelly wrote: »

Nikksters garden looks ace! NP BBQ FTW! LOL!

I'm planning to not have a dining room in either of the reception rooms. Most people have a lovely set of dining room furniture that is a dumping ground that might get used at christmas if they don't get invited anywhere else. I plan to have a tv room, & a music room. Gotta put them 5000 cd's somewhere!:eek:

You might find, once you've lined the walls of those rooms that there is a dining table shaped space in the middle of one of them

I love the idea of sofas that sit forward of a wall of books, a proper reading library.

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

https://class.coursera.org/behavioralecon-002

Having just watched the pain threshold experiment, I can't help thinking that there's an enormous hole in it, and the conclusions drawn may be wholly erroneous. I won't say anything now, but perhaps other people have drawn the same conclusion?

I just signed up to this. It's fascinating so far.