The term, “cup of tea” is an idiom here. An idiom is an expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from the literal sense or meaning. In this case, “cup of tea” means: something one enjoys or is good at. If an activity is not “your cup of tea,” then that means you do not like it.
We use lots of idioms in language that could be easily misunderstood without the right interpretation of meaning, this is why, if we do not understand what something means, it is good to find out. Don't be afraid to ask questions, especially if you think something to be odd or simply do not understand what something is or does.
If you don’t, you might find yourself “barking up the wrong tree.” (Another idiom meaning that you believe the wrong explanation or definition for something.)
Other interesting idioms:
Put your money where your mouth is.
Please, don't beat around the bush.
She has a bee in her bonnet.
It will be a barrel of laughs.
That will cost an arm and a leg.
Think outside the box.
Be careful not to spill the beans!
Don't get all bent out of shape.
If you are late for work, you might get fired.
It's time to hit the hay.
Let's shoot the breeze a while.
It's raining cats and dogs outside.
I'll be there with bells on.
You are making a mountain our of a molehill.
Could you lend me a hand?
This will be a crash course.
I better hit the books!...
Okay, that's all I will do.
Drop me a line sometime....
Now That's a Box of Crayons...
Here is another interesting tidbit of information; this about something in computer lingo... pixels. I read somewhere that pixels are square in computers and rectangular in video which for whatever odd reason , I thought was interesting. I think it's interesting that the words “picture” and “element” are combined to make the word and concept, “pixel.”
A pixel is a tiny dot of light, a unit of measurement used when talking about the size of an image on your screen, TV or Computer. A pixel is basically the smallest measure of a digitized or Digital Image. The number of pixels describes the measurement of image size and resolution. Sometimes they are measured PPI... that is pixels per inch.
But wait, there's more...
If you have a 24 bit display, each pixel can display over sixteen million colors.
(and I thought 64 Crayola crayons in a rectangular box was pretty cool when I was a kid!)
Pixels are comprised of even smaller elements...each pixels has three dots in it, a red a blue and a green, which converge at the same point.
To see human pixels preform, see Samsung's July 2007 Human Pixel performance in Korea on You Tube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Jo0BRdbO4
There are other human pixel performances to view on You Tube. This one, a Ukranian TV ad is quite interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx6KaBo8wiY
If you are an ancient computer game junkie, be sure to check out Human Tetris, http://video.yahoo.com/watch/1595198/5389271 Space Invaders, http://www.notsonoisy.com/spaceinvaders/and Pong... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWY0Q_lMFfw
videos by Guillaume Reymond.
And just for fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH8gZYH3vrU
FYI...
Human pixeling is not new. Though captured, not in color, but in black and white, consider the work of Arthur Mole by visiting this site of interest:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/07/people-as-pixels-in-monumental-art.html
A pixel is a tiny dot of light, a unit of measurement used when talking about the size of an image on your screen, TV or Computer. A pixel is basically the smallest measure of a digitized or Digital Image. The number of pixels describes the measurement of image size and resolution. Sometimes they are measured PPI... that is pixels per inch.
But wait, there's more...
If you have a 24 bit display, each pixel can display over sixteen million colors.
(and I thought 64 Crayola crayons in a rectangular box was pretty cool when I was a kid!)
Pixels are comprised of even smaller elements...each pixels has three dots in it, a red a blue and a green, which converge at the same point.
To see human pixels preform, see Samsung's July 2007 Human Pixel performance in Korea on You Tube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Jo0BRdbO4
There are other human pixel performances to view on You Tube. This one, a Ukranian TV ad is quite interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx6KaBo8wiY
If you are an ancient computer game junkie, be sure to check out Human Tetris, http://video.yahoo.com/watch/1595198/5389271 Space Invaders, http://www.notsonoisy.com/spaceinvaders/and Pong... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWY0Q_lMFfw
videos by Guillaume Reymond.
And just for fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH8gZYH3vrU
FYI...
Human pixeling is not new. Though captured, not in color, but in black and white, consider the work of Arthur Mole by visiting this site of interest:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/07/people-as-pixels-in-monumental-art.html
The Wheel in the Sky Keeps on Turning
This is interesting....
This chronometer stands in Heroes Square, City Park, Budapest Hungary. It’s a landmark commemorating the admission of Hungary to the European Union and it's really really big. It stands eight meters high. (I like this photo because you can see how tall in is next to the people in the photograph.)
Designed by Istvan Janaki, and erected in 2004, this 60-ton hourglass-like timepiece is specially designed to flow the sands of time’s passing for exactly one year, it's designed so that the last grains of sand flows out exactly at midnight. Not sure if that happens "on time," but that's the design. It has to be turned over by shear brute force to begin keeping time another year.
Sprach Zarathustra
Sprach Zarathustra is a musical piece written by Richard Strauss in 1896. It's a very recognizable piece of music with it's distinct crescendo of horns and a timpani climax. It's a classic, one I know mostly because it was used in a salad dressing commercial in the 1970's. It was also the theme song for a popular1968 science fiction movie by Stanley Kubrick, called
2001 A Space Odyssey.
2001 is an interesting film, one that I think really worked to promote the idea of man's evolutionary origins and his future as a being leaving earth to go beyond... into space! Space travel was relatively new, and computer technology a thing of the future when the movie was produced.
2001, was a movie that lasted 139 minutes, but it only had 40 minutes of dialog. I watched a you-tube video by Rob Ager who likes to critique films. He says the film 2001 is filled with symbolism, and that it was intended to speak into the subconscious mind of the viewers through the various symbols, which is probably why there was not so much dialogue; it was supposed to affect your psyche and make the viewer think. People are still thinking about the film and it's contents today.
You can watch Ager's video to see what kinds of symbolism he thinks it contains and what it means @: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P95NWAHWLrc&feature=related
I think it's interesting that the piece by Strauss, as well as the film, 2001 A Space Odyssey, was inspired by a book written by the German philosopher, poet, and scholar, Friedrich Nietzsche, titled, Thus Spake Zarathustra, (subtitled, A Book for All and None.
Thus Spake Zarathustra is a philosophical work, and it speaks to the reader the athiet philosophy of it's author.. Nietzsche. Through Zarathustra, (a philosopher of life, Sge and guru sort of teacher, Nietzsche taught his readers that old religious ideas (moralistic religion) no longer had power over humanity. He promoted the notion that is was time for people to become what he called "overman," and believed the time had come for humans to step out intellectually from all the previous understandings of God and become the essence of divinity themselves.
Zarathustra informs the reader... "Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing"
(125).
"'The earth,' [Zarathustra] said, 'has a skin, and this skin has a disease. One of these diseases, for example, is called man'" (242).
Nietzsche believed that instead of being concerned with thoughts of G0d, mankind should be concerned with people and ecology. He also advocated that they give thought to the notion that time is not linear, but rather, circular... and the events of life simply happen over and over again, something he called "eternal reccurance." Eternal reccurence is not a belief in reincarnation, butmore like the concept of a fractal, or a repeated pattern, it's a belief that beings return to the same bodies, and situations then happen over... and over again. Dismissing belief in God, rejecting moral commandments and the dismissing the concept of a place called hell, Nietzsche called himself an "immoralist" and believed men should be ruled by their own instincts and intelligence without the fear of God.
The movie 2001 begins somewhere on the continent of Africa we watch as some apes have an encounter with a monolith, a rock sticking out of the ground, and from this rock they gain something they did not have before... knowledge of somekind, intelligence perhaps. Then we see evolution of ham as the apes over time, become human.
The human then creates a computer with a personality, named HAL who can talk and think. We learn about morality as a man named Dave Bowman wrestles with what does and does not constitute life, in particular, regarding the computer named HAL who basically pleads with him not to pull the plug, but Dave eventually terminates the program that gave "life" to the machine. He has killed his own creation.
Then Dave is last seen reaching out for a monolith, and then he is transformed into a fetus-like being, “the Star Child.” a He is last seen floating in space trapped in a transparent orb of light gazing at Earth.
"da..... da..... da....... da-da..." (Sprach Zarathustra plays)
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w)
He is Bowman, Davb Bowman... a starchild. We see him "brooding" over the earth in space, hovering, wondering what he will do next...
The eternal return of man. Deja Vu. No death, no meaning to existence. Life, can simply be unplugged.
What is man?
Who is God?
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6umxthz1Ys&feature=related
2001 A Space Odyssey.
2001 is an interesting film, one that I think really worked to promote the idea of man's evolutionary origins and his future as a being leaving earth to go beyond... into space! Space travel was relatively new, and computer technology a thing of the future when the movie was produced.
2001, was a movie that lasted 139 minutes, but it only had 40 minutes of dialog. I watched a you-tube video by Rob Ager who likes to critique films. He says the film 2001 is filled with symbolism, and that it was intended to speak into the subconscious mind of the viewers through the various symbols, which is probably why there was not so much dialogue; it was supposed to affect your psyche and make the viewer think. People are still thinking about the film and it's contents today.
You can watch Ager's video to see what kinds of symbolism he thinks it contains and what it means @: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P95NWAHWLrc&feature=related
I think it's interesting that the piece by Strauss, as well as the film, 2001 A Space Odyssey, was inspired by a book written by the German philosopher, poet, and scholar, Friedrich Nietzsche, titled, Thus Spake Zarathustra, (subtitled, A Book for All and None.
Thus Spake Zarathustra is a philosophical work, and it speaks to the reader the athiet philosophy of it's author.. Nietzsche. Through Zarathustra, (a philosopher of life, Sge and guru sort of teacher, Nietzsche taught his readers that old religious ideas (moralistic religion) no longer had power over humanity. He promoted the notion that is was time for people to become what he called "overman," and believed the time had come for humans to step out intellectually from all the previous understandings of God and become the essence of divinity themselves.
Zarathustra informs the reader... "Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died and these sinners died with him. To sin against the earth is now the most dreadful thing"
(125).
"'The earth,' [Zarathustra] said, 'has a skin, and this skin has a disease. One of these diseases, for example, is called man'" (242).
Nietzsche believed that instead of being concerned with thoughts of G0d, mankind should be concerned with people and ecology. He also advocated that they give thought to the notion that time is not linear, but rather, circular... and the events of life simply happen over and over again, something he called "eternal reccurance." Eternal reccurence is not a belief in reincarnation, butmore like the concept of a fractal, or a repeated pattern, it's a belief that beings return to the same bodies, and situations then happen over... and over again. Dismissing belief in God, rejecting moral commandments and the dismissing the concept of a place called hell, Nietzsche called himself an "immoralist" and believed men should be ruled by their own instincts and intelligence without the fear of God.
The movie 2001 begins somewhere on the continent of Africa we watch as some apes have an encounter with a monolith, a rock sticking out of the ground, and from this rock they gain something they did not have before... knowledge of somekind, intelligence perhaps. Then we see evolution of ham as the apes over time, become human.
The human then creates a computer with a personality, named HAL who can talk and think. We learn about morality as a man named Dave Bowman wrestles with what does and does not constitute life, in particular, regarding the computer named HAL who basically pleads with him not to pull the plug, but Dave eventually terminates the program that gave "life" to the machine. He has killed his own creation.
Then Dave is last seen reaching out for a monolith, and then he is transformed into a fetus-like being, “the Star Child.” a He is last seen floating in space trapped in a transparent orb of light gazing at Earth.
"da..... da..... da....... da-da..." (Sprach Zarathustra plays)
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w)
He is Bowman, Davb Bowman... a starchild. We see him "brooding" over the earth in space, hovering, wondering what he will do next...
The eternal return of man. Deja Vu. No death, no meaning to existence. Life, can simply be unplugged.
What is man?
Who is God?
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6umxthz1Ys&feature=related
“Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom."
There's a song I remember from my childhood. I learned it when I was about eleven. My cousin Christopher played it on the guitar, and the rest of us sang along. It's a catchy chorus and you may even know this tune, especially if you are older than I am, for it was popular a little before "my time,: in the 60's. It' s called, Those Were the Days.
The chorus to the song is, “Those were the day’s my friends, we thought they’d never end, we’d sing and dance, forever and a day… We lived the life we choose we’ d fight and never loose; those were the days-- oh yes, those were the days! La-la-la-la-la-la…”
This song was originally a Lithuanian folk tune called Long Journeys that had been rewritten and sung by a young woman named Mary Hopkins. It was so popular in it's day that that it remained the number two US favorite on the pop music charts for four weeks! The song began, “Once upon a time there was a tavern…where we used to have a drink or two…” It's considered a folk song, because it tells a story.
The story of the folksong is told from the perspective of one of the youths, which has now aged. The years have passed. Friends have gone their separate ways and now the old person telling the song is at a loss for the days of youth, when life was more fun and exciting. She reminisces how they used to dance, fight, drink alcohol and do whatever they pleased, and it was a joy to their hearts, and she laments that the years have sadly passed. Her friends have all left her and have gone their separate ways, and the now grown youth finds herself revisiting the tavern.
As she laments her now tragic and lonely life and for a brief sobering moment, she sees a reflection in her drinking glass. Lo and behold! It’s the face of an old and lonely person, someone who now thinks that life has passed them by, and she would hate to admit it, but the person she sees is herself.
In her moment of despair, and to her pleasant surprise, a familiar voice calls her name, and she happily discovers that it’s her old friend. She and her old friend indulge in more drunkenness together, and the song wistfully ends as she joyfully and with great gusto sings, “Oh my friend, we're older but no wiser…for in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
La-la-la-la,lala, La-la-la-la,lala., those were the days, oh yes those were the days.”
It’s the kind of song that makes Proverbs 18:2, ring true when it says, “A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.”
And then there's Proverbs 15:21: “Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom."
The chorus to the song is, “Those were the day’s my friends, we thought they’d never end, we’d sing and dance, forever and a day… We lived the life we choose we’ d fight and never loose; those were the days-- oh yes, those were the days! La-la-la-la-la-la…”
This song was originally a Lithuanian folk tune called Long Journeys that had been rewritten and sung by a young woman named Mary Hopkins. It was so popular in it's day that that it remained the number two US favorite on the pop music charts for four weeks! The song began, “Once upon a time there was a tavern…where we used to have a drink or two…” It's considered a folk song, because it tells a story.
The story of the folksong is told from the perspective of one of the youths, which has now aged. The years have passed. Friends have gone their separate ways and now the old person telling the song is at a loss for the days of youth, when life was more fun and exciting. She reminisces how they used to dance, fight, drink alcohol and do whatever they pleased, and it was a joy to their hearts, and she laments that the years have sadly passed. Her friends have all left her and have gone their separate ways, and the now grown youth finds herself revisiting the tavern.
As she laments her now tragic and lonely life and for a brief sobering moment, she sees a reflection in her drinking glass. Lo and behold! It’s the face of an old and lonely person, someone who now thinks that life has passed them by, and she would hate to admit it, but the person she sees is herself.
In her moment of despair, and to her pleasant surprise, a familiar voice calls her name, and she happily discovers that it’s her old friend. She and her old friend indulge in more drunkenness together, and the song wistfully ends as she joyfully and with great gusto sings, “Oh my friend, we're older but no wiser…for in our hearts the dreams are still the same.
La-la-la-la,lala, La-la-la-la,lala., those were the days, oh yes those were the days.”
It’s the kind of song that makes Proverbs 18:2, ring true when it says, “A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.”
And then there's Proverbs 15:21: “Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom."
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