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I have rediscovered the joys of learning last weekend when I taught myself how to do php.

Do you love learning? What do you want to learn?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Next thing I want to learn:

- a new (human) language
- mySQL
- backgammon

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

I had to learn php/MySQL when I started this job in April. It was fun. I also am constantly learning new knitting things.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Cooking Ethiopian food is my next goal. But not, perhaps, when it is quite so hot.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

I want to learn:

-How to play drums
-Tai Chi

I want to learn physical things that get me back in touch with my body instead of treating it like a tired soccer mom that ferries my mind around in a station wagon.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

This weekend I was sort of thrown into learning a little bit of MAMBO for the first time. Very very fun. I really miss dancing, and so does my crappy out of shape body.

haha nice xpost, soccer mom analogy is great, totally feel that

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

- whatever they will teach me in nursing school
- possibly a musical instrument (most likely guitar, because it's more practical and portable than, say, the cello)
- re-learn Japanese
- how to fix my own damn knitting

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I recently learned ASP.NET and C# for programming these barcode scanner thingies, and it was good. I'm also learning about smoking meats and pickling various things, also good because you have to eat them to know if it worked or not. Next (when it cools off), I want to learn to make hard cheeses.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've been on a neuroscience/cogsci kick for the last year and a half, but it's an occasional thing in between other reading. I've been thinking of re-learning Italian, which I never learned well or much of, but learning languages is so much harder than when I was a kid that it's disheartening.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost

dig up the ILX Knitting thread Sara!

I'm doing a bag with intarsia right now. tangly!

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

God, don't learn how to program. It ruined my life.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

But what would you have rather learned instead?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

it's pretty sad that i assumed nickalicious was talking about Mambo the online content management system. :(

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 17 July 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

NOTHING! I am so over learning at the moment.
Maybe how to change a nappy.

I will teach you backgammon ken.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

stevem, you are not alone :( Too much computer on the brane.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Illustrator.

― I will commence to drop a knowledge bomb. (Rock Hardy), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

yes please archel! next sinister picnic i'm bringing a set.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

i'd rather be a librarian

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

then go back to school, you're still young!

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I am trying to learn:
*how to sit and read fiction again (for more than 10 minutes at a time)
*how to make/loop drum beats without just sampling from songs that begin with a measure of drums
*how to make roasted lemonade and pickled garlic (thanks, tep!)
*how to spend less money
*how to write a PhD chapter, all over again

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

i'd rather be a librarian

There's pros and cons...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I want to learn physical things that get me back in touch with my body instead of treating it like a tired soccer mom that ferries my mind around in a station wagon.

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― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Right now I am mostly concentrating on learning to cook and learning how to ride a bike in the city without getting dead. I am a total nerd for school though.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I have rediscovered the joys of learning last weekend when I taught myself how to do php.

i'm doing this right now!

― sleep (sleep), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm debugging php right now. :/ which is supposed to be part of the fun but it's just irritating me at the moment.

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, you are not clear. What can you mean?

So is php relatively easy, then? My web programming is nil beyond basic but serviceable HTML but perhaps one day I'll start futzing around with my old site again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

God, biking really is like some kind of cult? I've explained hundreds of times why bicycle riding is not for me.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

yes but when you say it you LIE! you LIE FROUGH HIM TEEF! i have SEEN you ride a bike!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I really, really loved bicycling until those FOUR times I got hit by cars.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk, I will ride a bike again the day that you get up onstage with us, perform a song, and dance in front of hundreds of people. Are you up for it? What do you mean, you aren't? But it's GRATE!!! it's FUN!!!! If you don't enjoy it, YOU LIKE FROUGH HIM TEEEF!

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

you have never seen me do that, i have seen you ride a bike! i will get onstage in front of millions of people if i'm not being myself, that's no problem.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I really, really loved bicycling until those FOUR times I got hit by cars.

It might have helped had you not insisted on playing chicken with everyone of them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen you get onstage, Emsk! Dressed as a muthafucking BEAR!

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

i am taking an online accounting class right now, and while it's not a particularly interesting subject to me, i'm very excited about the stimulation my mind gets from wrapping itself around entirely new concepts. i think after this course i may take some more, just for fun!

― tehresa needs more out of this relationship than she's willing to put in (tehres, Monday, 17 July 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I really, really loved bicycling until those FOUR times I got hit by cars.
-- the doaple gonger (advanced.warnin...), July 17th, 2006 11:34 AM. (nickalicious) (later) (link)

SUPER EXTREME BIKING.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

i'm learning all kinds of shit right now.

LET'S TALK HYDRONIUM DISSOCIATION, DUDES.

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

touche

xpost

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I need to learn to "pop wheelies" so when a car is driving at me all oblivious-like I can just pop a wheel up on their hood and ride over their car. EXTREME!

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen you get onstage, Emsk! Dressed as a muthafucking BEAR!

YES EXACTLY I WAS NOT BEING MYSELF I WAS BEING A MUTHAFUCKING BEAR! and there was that other time i was a muthafucking DOLPHIN! (4 days before justin timberlake in the same suit on totp, phew)

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Korean Kodo drumming
How to use a music programme like Cubase
How to drive

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

things I always think I would like to learn but have no immediate plans to:
arabic, sign language, drawing

things I want to learn and am trying to:
french, spanish, history

in october I might try and take an evening class in economics. but I have become aware, especially recently, that there are some things it is very difficult for me to learn however hard I try, perhaps because of the way my brain is ordered. economics, science, maths, technology etc all seem to cause me massive problems. the only one of these that really bothers me though is economics. it's so frustrating to be very interested in something you have absolutely no aptitude for learning whatsoever.

on the bus the other day, I watched a guy play with a rubik's cube. he must have messed it up and solved it about thirty times in the space of ten minutes. it was incredible. I would really like to be able to do that, but I'm not going to learn if it involves memorising long sequences of numbers which I expect it probably does.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

i'd really like to learn spanish, because i feel so hideously embarrassed by those english-only dickwads that i want to start speaking spanish just to piss them the hell off.

― celebrity mole: hawaii (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't kodo drumming by definition not korean?

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I want to learn physical things that get me back in touch with my body instead of treating it like a tired soccer mom that ferries my mind around in a station wagon.

i'm sure this is v similar to a line in microserfs that i began re-reading last night. just saying like...

i might do a management course if work pays (and i don't get the sweet new job i applied for last week), but having spent all last years doing MATHS i am a bit off formal learning at the mo...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I've never read Microserfs. But I didn't invent the phrase, I just picked it up from a friend who is a bit of a Coupland obsessive, so it's entirely possible.

― Kaet (kate), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

German, after my shaming experience in Vienna.

I'd like to learn how to yodel properly (this is true).

Emsk, have you ever ridden round Richmond Park? It's probably a bit vanilla for you but I was very proud of myself yesterday - two laps (about 15 and a half miles) in 63 minutes, on the gravel paths not on the roads! Go me!

― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Did you really learn php, though? I understand it, but I always have to open a book to copy the code because I haven't really committed the specifics to memory.

I know what you mean, though, because I feel this way about recently grasping Actionscript, finally. For me, Actionscript seems like it will come a lot quicker than php.

― IPSISSIMUS (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think I've learnt it pretty much as in i understand the structure and syntax, i mean, i don't have photographic knowledge of every single function that is there and every extension/package there are available - but i know exactly where to go to look for the manual on the web etc.

knowing C++/java before helps a lot though.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

yay, go you! i have ridden around richmond park - not around the edge, but on last year's oxford invasion attempt there was a bit at the beginning in richmond park, and i got lost, so i saw a bit more of it than i otherwise would have. someone was talking about getting a bike recently but they were a bit scared of riding in london until they were confident riding in general, and i suggested we go to richmond park and ride around. deer!

i'd still like to learn guitar, spanish, proper cooking, about the birds i see and about fish and the weird shit at the bottom of the sea, how to be an sub, drive a boat, drive a car.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Did you really learn php, though? I understand it, but I always have to open a book to copy the code because I haven't really committed the specifics to memory.

after three months of building php/mysql web apps everyday, I no longer need to look at book just for scripting. If I need a function I don't know I use php.net.

I've found myself lately thought being frustrated by the limitations of php. and I'm not sure there's anything else to use given my environment right now.

Last night I'm pretty sure I dreamed about how to work out the knitting pattern I'm designing in PHP. worlds collide!

― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I do php development nearly all the time now and I've gotten a lot out of the Symfony framework for php.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I just ordered PHP/MySQL for Dipshits because it actually has real applications on CD you can install and pick apart. My other 3 php books fall short of actually teaching a full shopping cart solution and CMS. Hopefully, this book will be different!

― IPSISSIMUS (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Intensive Latin this summer -- first year Latin in 9 weeks. I'm a third of the way through, and doing well. It's a total learning adrenaline rush.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

What is php? I am learning about the 1)history of the book and 2)media services in school, and in my spare time I am learning all about soccer.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

> -How to play drums
-Tai Chi

Two of my favorite kinds of hitting things!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Monday, 17 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

to do archaeology and learn to sail a tall ship! i am hoping to do the first next summer and the second in january, but this depends on getting lots of help and money from my school and other people, so we'll see. right now i am just reading lots of books about maritime history and novels about exciting sailing adventures.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Arrrr!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 July 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Maria, Maria, did you already read Swallows and Amazons?? It's the most charming thing I've seen in ages and CHOCK FULL of sophisticated sailing terms -- the boats themselves are in the hands of a bunch of children whose greatest ambition is never to be mistaken for a "duffer." Other kids build treehouses, these ones sail...and don't I love 'em.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

i want to learn how to sail BIGTIME.

i'm also tempted to pluge myself further in debt by spending my gap year between remedial school and doctor school by going here: http://www.thelandingschool.org/

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't, I'll check it out! Thanks!

that school looks awesome. i am thinking of spending my year between college & grad school (if i only take a year) at the new bedford whaling museum if i can.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

In September I go back to school and learn how to be a teacher!

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Learning to do 4 ball mills mess just had the magical "omg I can do this moment" - when the skill suddenly just snaps in, stops being a conscious struggle and starts being a natural motion. Had completely forgotten about that feeling!

― ledge, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 15:45 (sixteen years ago)

4 ball mills is impressive!

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:15 (sixteen years ago)

only took me about 15 years :D

― ledge, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

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