{"id":281,"date":"2012-03-07T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edsoftfilms.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2012-03-07T07:55:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T15:55:57","slug":"butterfly-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edsoftfilms.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sleep<\/a>
Sleep report for March 6-7, 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Had a dream last night that somehow wrapped itself up. Isn’t it always fun when your dreams do that? It’s almost like they’re planned out.<\/p>\n

I dreamt I was hired by some kind of graphic design company. They had a fancy new office and everything. So I get hired, and literally the second I sit down to work I get a call from a bank or something that wants to hire me too (for more money, etc., or something). So I close the one file I opened, some bad looking graphic that needed work, and leave to do this other thing.<\/p>\n

Bunch of other stuff happens, but just before I wake up, I’m driving down the road and I see a billboard with that graphic I didn’t have time to work on. And it’s a super ugly billboard. And this woke me up because I thought, ‘I could have made that billboard good, but I quit on them.’<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what it all means…<\/p>\n

Anyway, talking about Arrietty yesterday, and how I didn’t really read books when I was a kid, brings up something I’d like to discuss.<\/p>\n

I follow LeVar Burton on twitter<\/a>, I’m not 100% sure why. Maybe it’s an effort to follow as many cast members of Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> as I can. But there’s only like 2 left, I even unfollowed Wil Wheaton<\/a>, ‘cuz that guy got on my nerves. So it’s really down to LeVar and Brent Spinner<\/a>, or Geordi and Data. However, Geordi is not who I associate LeVar Burton with primarily. For some people, Geordi is first and foremost Kunta Kinte.<\/p>\n

\"Kunta<\/a>
I'm Rich, Bitch!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But not me. I haven’t even seen Roots. I know him primarily from Reading Rainbow.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/youtu.be\/c6j8EiWIVZs<\/p>\n

As a kid, even though we had illegal cable, I still found myself watching a lot of stuff on PBS. I watched Jack Horkheimer – Stargazer, I watched Bill Nye, I watched Carmen Sandiego, and I watched Mr. Rogers. Interestingly, I didn’t watch Sesame Street, it was just never my show. But I did watch Reading Rainbow.<\/p>\n

The Reading Rainbow wiki page<\/a> says that the show ‘encouraged reading among children.’ It did not have that effect on me. I liked the show for the portions where LeVar would go places and show things. I used to hate it when he would say “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because that means 5 minutes of stupid kids talking about stupid books. They’re always crappy kids books, which might be a redundant phrase. Of course, even if it was interesting, after listening to these kids talk about the books they read, I had no reason to actually read those books myself. So while the show was designed to promote reading and literacy, it had the opposite effect for me.<\/p>\n

When I think back on it, though, I can’t remember reading one good book in my whole childhood. Not until like 10th grade did they assign a book that was actually entertaining, and even then half the books were still total shit.<\/p>\n

Reading Rainbow likes to make it sound like reading helps the imagination, but for me it always seems to hinder the imagination. I mean, they’re telling you what to imagine, writing it out in detail. A real good imagination flourishes with no guidance. TV isn’t any better, but at least TV has pictures and music and a set length of time.<\/p>\n

So now, Reading Rainbow is coming back. This time as an app. I’m glad Reading Rainbow is back in some form, even if reading totally sucks ass<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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