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Mmm, nerdgasm...
Feb. 22nd, 2007 09:29 pmOkay, so Bathtub Debates = the most awesome thing ever held at Swat.
It was packed like a motherfucker. I got in Scheuer about 7:15, and there was 4 people there. Place was about half-full by 7:30--at least half the chairs were full. The room was about half-full at 7:45, at which point it was standing-room only. Event started on time(!) with a slightly-befuddled Bob Gross explaining the premise to the room.
It pretty much went uphill from there. Bruce was the most entertaining; Prof. Burke made the most interesting argument which won the day and the stuffed penguin. It was wholly enjoyable and encompassed everything I still love about Swat and none of the drawbacks. (the audience actually *booed* students who went on too long as is wont in such debates) A palpable aura of consciousness and control surrounded the event from start to finish, as if the individual innocence of every audience member combined to make everything move like a neon-painted clockwork. Spontaneity without random self-centered digressions, and ordered thought without stagnation. It's been so long since I've seen anything of the like on such a scale; maybe I never had before.
Sometimes I wonder if I've lost the ability to comprehend the world without humor; other times, I don't care.
It was packed like a motherfucker. I got in Scheuer about 7:15, and there was 4 people there. Place was about half-full by 7:30--at least half the chairs were full. The room was about half-full at 7:45, at which point it was standing-room only. Event started on time(!) with a slightly-befuddled Bob Gross explaining the premise to the room.
It pretty much went uphill from there. Bruce was the most entertaining; Prof. Burke made the most interesting argument which won the day and the stuffed penguin. It was wholly enjoyable and encompassed everything I still love about Swat and none of the drawbacks. (the audience actually *booed* students who went on too long as is wont in such debates) A palpable aura of consciousness and control surrounded the event from start to finish, as if the individual innocence of every audience member combined to make everything move like a neon-painted clockwork. Spontaneity without random self-centered digressions, and ordered thought without stagnation. It's been so long since I've seen anything of the like on such a scale; maybe I never had before.
Sometimes I wonder if I've lost the ability to comprehend the world without humor; other times, I don't care.
