Too bad the show is on Fridays! Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
quote: All of which goes to show that math is a heck of a lot hipper than most people remember from their high school algebra days.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
It's a good show. Can you set the VCR to tape it and watch it Sat. or Sun.? I've watched a couple of episodes (it's at the same time as Medical Investigation, ), and I really enjoyed it. (I'm watching a lot more tv since my husband is away so late so many nights. )
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Setting the VCR [addit: to record on Shabbos] is generally considered to be not in the spirit of the law (and possibly not in the letter).
Maybe it'll get moved to another night. Otherwise, I'll just have to wait till it hits DVD -- or Rick lends a copy to my dad.
[ February 10, 2005, 01:39 AM: Message edited by: rivka ]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
What about borrowing a tape from someone who does tape it?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
If they are taping it for themselves, that should be ok.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Maybe you should ask around then, especially among people who work a late shift on Fri.s or something. At least once, to see if the DVDs are worth renting or buying.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*grin* Likely the DVDs won't be out for a couple years . . . so I have time. Anyway, I wouldn't buy 'em -- I'd Netflix 'em! Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
Rivka, is there any difference between taping a show and using Tivo, out of curiosity? How is it different from setting a timer to run the lights (or do you not believe in that?)
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Firstly, when the timers first became available, there was much dispute over whether they should be able to be used. However, having lights enhances Shabbos, and is certainly in keeping with its spirit. Most people will indeed use timers (although the acceptability of types and ways they are used will vary).
TV is seen (depending who you ask) as either evil, not preferred, or perhaps neutral. The themes that permeate most TV shows are FAR from the spirit of holiness and peace that should infuse the day.
When lights go on via timer, one might smile and have their Shabbos enjoyment increased. When the VCR (or Tivo) goes on (often audibly), it is a distraction and worry (did I set it right? did I remember to put in the right tape?), jarring one out of the peace and holiness of Shabbos.
(Wow, talk about thread drift!)
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote: When the VCR (or Tivo) goes on (often audibly), it is a distraction and worry (did I set it right? did I remember to put in the right tape?), jarring one out of the peace and holiness of Shabbos.
Wow. I submit that someone experiencing this kind of anxiety and doubt regarding Tivo operation needs to acquire some skillz. I mean, VCRs I can see, but anybody who can set a light timer can set up a Tivo unit.
[ February 10, 2005, 08:34 PM: Message edited by: TomDavidson ]
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I don't own a Tivo, so I was thinking VCR. I could see the argument that the Tivo might be less intrusive. Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I have seen the show, and I really liked it a lot. So did Jenni, and the funny part of that is that while we are both pretty bright about most things, neither of us is any good at higher mathmatics.
I would look into it if you could figure out a way to do it.
Kwea
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
It's not a question of "figuring out a way." It's a question of appropriateness. I don't feel that it is, and I don't live my life looking for loopholes.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
That's 'cause you're awesome, Rivka.
(((hugs Rivka in a fit of mushiness)))
(You'll notice I'm thinking of you as a real person, not an internet person, right now, Rivka. <-- points to capitalization )
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Aw. I'm not sure how you feel about being addressed by your RL name here or I'd return the favor. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Doesn't bother me at all. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Cool. Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
quote: PASADENA, Calif. — There's something kind of surprising about the Caltech team whose members serve as math consultants to CBS' new crime drama Numb3rs.
The mathematicians look as much like the cast of a hip new TV series as the actors do.
There's Gary Lordon, the avuncular head of the math department at the California Institute of Technology.
Add Dinakar Ramakrishnan, the voluble Indian who does numbers theory; Hobbit-like Rick Wilson, the combinatorics guy; and hip Nathan Dunfield, a topologist, and you don't need to call central casting.
Top it off with two brilliant — and attractive — graduate students, and who needs Hollywood? Especially when they're the intense David Grynkiewicz and Jennifer Johnson, a chemist turned mathematician.
All of which goes to show that math is a heck of a lot hipper than most people remember from their high school algebra days. And that's just what its science-loving creators want.
Is this good news or bad news? I can't decide. God forbid the mathematical intelligentsia not keep current with the $@#$! fashions or be ugly, because then our incredibly vapid, stupid, shallow youth might not pick up math. Or is the article saying that contrary to expectations, intelligent people really can look--can you believe it?--just like the rest of us, and the creators are trying to fight the idea that math(being smart) makes you ugly?!?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*snort* Um, Storm, their assessment of Rick Wilson as "hobbit-like" is spot on. (Although since when is he just a "combinatorics guy"?!) Dr. Lordon is probably best described as "distinguished" (or was the last time I met him, several years back), and you'll notice that the only ones who are described specifically as attractive are the grad students (who I do not know).
There's a reason for that . . . not that the others (and I haven't met all of them, I think) are UNattractive, really.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
???
I just posted to this thread. It shows the correct timestamp -- but failed to get bumped up!?
Odd.
[But this time it did. Curiouser and curiouser.]
[ February 11, 2005, 10:45 AM: Message edited by: rivka ]
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
Rivka, if the show is popular enough, seasons will be released on DVD a few months after they are complete. (Witness: 24, CSI, Smallville, and HBO's Deadwood, to name a few). However, putting the show on Friday night does not bode well.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Too true. Although Providence did well on Fridays, and it sounds like Joan of Arcadia is as well.
*shrug* I'll see it eventually, one way or another -- or I won't, and life will likely go on.
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I'm not sure how you feel about being addressed by your RL name here or I'd return the favor.