by Tdarcos » Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:57 am
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:(That said, In Cold Blood is amazing.)
It wasn't until the incident of the Clutter family, who were just a relatively modest farm family in very rural Kansas, that the idea of a home invasion robbery became part of the public consciousness. Most people are decent, normal folks who would have no idea of the kind of sociopathic, nihilistic behavior some crooks could and do engage in, especially those who live in otherwise innocent communities in the middle of nowhere, like the Clutters did.
In fact, I saw a show from the 1950s about a guy who used someone else's name to set himself up as a professional engineer and scam people. Even that far back we had cases of what we now call
identity theft but it was so rare we didn't have a name for it then.
I've left my own answer longer here than the normal 12-line limit because I wanted to point out - originally unintentionally - how short attention span can cause things like diverting from the main point.
So let me return back to the main point to ask anyone here who wants to answer, I am wondering if this problem of attention span applies to other cerebral-type things beyond reading, I mean, if you do non-computer games like playing cards, or historic games like chess and checkers, and newer board games like Life®, Monopoly®, Sorry®, or Scrabble®, do you have problems paying attention, or do you even play them anymore? And do board games provide as much satisfaction to play as some of the really complicated video games?
I can point Pinback at this one, because he and I played correspondence chess for a while, Ben, how does that compare with something like StarCraft? Do you even play chess any more (or is it just there's nobody really around to do so?) Does Kathy play chess?
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"](That said, In Cold Blood is amazing.)[/quote]
It wasn't until the incident of the Clutter family, who were just a relatively modest farm family in very rural Kansas, that the idea of a home invasion robbery became part of the public consciousness. Most people are decent, normal folks who would have no idea of the kind of sociopathic, nihilistic behavior some crooks could and do engage in, especially those who live in otherwise innocent communities in the middle of nowhere, like the Clutters did.
In fact, I saw a show from the 1950s about a guy who used someone else's name to set himself up as a professional engineer and scam people. Even that far back we had cases of what we now call [i]identity theft[/i] but it was so rare we didn't have a name for it then.
I've left my own answer longer here than the normal 12-line limit because I wanted to point out - originally unintentionally - how short attention span can cause things like diverting from the main point.
So let me return back to the main point to ask anyone here who wants to answer, I am wondering if this problem of attention span applies to other cerebral-type things beyond reading, I mean, if you do non-computer games like playing cards, or historic games like chess and checkers, and newer board games like Life®, Monopoly®, Sorry®, or Scrabble®, do you have problems paying attention, or do you even play them anymore? And do board games provide as much satisfaction to play as some of the really complicated video games?
I can point Pinback at this one, because he and I played correspondence chess for a while, Ben, how does that compare with something like StarCraft? Do you even play chess any more (or is it just there's nobody really around to do so?) Does Kathy play chess?