You're given the opportunity take one class from a nearby University on any topic you want for free. You won't be required to take any tests and you don't have to change your career or anything like that. You just are given a free opportunity to learn about one new topic. Which topic would you pick?
Me: Either marine biology or something astronomy-related.
Great question.
Something involving the culinary arts. It's great to be able to know how to cook. Being able to buy, prep and create your own meals is fantastic. But I wouldn't mind getting up to Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver level.
It seems to me you'd need some schooling to become that good.
Oooh, great answer! I would enjoy that, too. I've taken a few one-off cooking classes over the years and really enjoyed them.
shareThanks.
Yeah, you know - once you have the basics (I learned watching my Grandparents) - so they say, if you can read, you can cook. Well, true to an extent. To get to that Chef level though - I think you'd have to have some schooling.
I'm curious - I'm assuming you know how to cook. Was there value in taking classes? Did it help you get to another level of skill?
The classes I took were just one day long to learn to make one specific recipe. I wouldn't say I gained any great new skills but I learned to make some more gourmet dishes than I would normally know how to cook on my own. A semester-long class would probably be a different story, though.
I'll tell you how I learned more about cooking. For a couple of years we did one of those meal kit deals where you are shipped the ingredients with a recipe card and you cook the meals at your house. It was called Plated. They're out of business now but there are still plenty still in business. I did learn some new skills from that.
Interesting.
Thanks for the info.
Hhmm, Plated? Never heard of it.
Just out of curiosity - have you ever taken recipes off the internet? That's how I do it. First time, always precisely as the recipe indicates. Then, next time, add some flair to it to make it my own.
Some of the recipes I took off the internet, actually the best ones, were crockpot soup recipes. The chicken soup and beef stew recipes were so good, I didn't change anything.
EDIT - Actually, one was speaking of Chicken Noodle SOup - and I did make a change. The recipe suggested to cook the noodles in with the soup (as a finisher). Turns out it was better cooking the noodles separately. However the soup itself, the recipe is fine as it is.
Oh yes, these days 90% of the recipes at least that I use are ones off the internet, including some great Crock-Pot recipes.
shareOutstanding -we're on the same page. Just quickly adding, I love doing soups in my crockpot - the overnight 10-12 hours of slow cooking - I've never been able to get that kind of flavor doing soups any other way.
Ok my friend, nice chatting with you as always.
Till next time.......
And cooking things in the Crock-Pot makes the whole house smell good, too.
Have a good rest of your day!
I enjoy watching Beat Bobby Flay. He usually wins, beating the challenging chefs with their own signature dishes.
I've worked in a lot of restaurants and once toyed with the idea of going to culinary school myself.
Yeah, he's great. Batali, Jamie Oliver, the late Michael Chiarello. All of the Iron Chefs.
Outstanding cooks.
Food Network was great, too, until it became the Guy Fieri network, LOL
I am happy to know Bobby Flay is still getting airtime. These days, seems like every time I flip to FN - it's always some Guy Fieri program.
True, but I do like watching Fieri's Diners,Drive Ins and Dives.
shareYeah, I liked that one too. But Fieri, for me anyway, you get to a point you've had enough of him.
But, yeah I can catch you on Triple D - I was a fan for a little while there.
I used to drive all over the country so the appeal for me is that lifestyle of traveling and discovering all those great restaurants.
shareI’m down with art history. I’ve read about The Medieval period and the Renaissance. I like the French impressionists a lot too.
I’m not a very good painter but I can sketch real well.
I quite like astronomy but I’m between binocs and a good telescope is a bit pricy right now.
Great choice! Of course now you have me wanting to see one of your sketches. 😊 No pressure of course, but if you ever decide you're comfortable with it and want to upload a picture of one of your sketches that would be a treat!
shareActually Sister Wendy had some pretty entertaining anecdotes.
One thing that never occurred to me was the amount of tact some painters had to use when painting portraits of families.
I forget the artist, but he was painting a noble family around the 17thcentury.
Sister Wendy said that they were “not an attractive group” to put it mildly. The artist still had to paint them how they looked, but sort of “pretty them up” on canvas.
I am so mean. I thought, that’s how they looked when he made them attractive!🤪 Yikes, in real life they must have been a family of bow wows!
When you are a photographer you can retouch photos, have the person pose on their good side, etc. But when an artist had to do whole families, boy, he had to use tact and fix them up on canvas.😂
She seems like she was a humorous lady. I don’t know much about her.
shareI would really love to learn how to write better.
I enjoy writing short stories but my grammar is terrible.
Another great choice!
When my boys were little I used to love to tell them funny stories, and after telling them one that made them laugh especially hard once, I did my best eventually to write it down. I don't know how great of a writer I am but I was glad to have captured that one for posterity. 😊
Programming for quantum computers.
But just like I had to learn programming on my own some 40 years ago because there was no school, let alone university teaching it, I guess by the time one could learn this in universities the good jobs in that field will all be taken already, just like I was one of those early day coders making good money before anyone else knew what it is.
Coding seems a bit beyond my brain's capacity but that's what one of my sons does for a living and I think he loves it.
shareGetting started is hard, understanding the basics is basically against human logic, but once you got how how it works it's just math in the code and the logic of the sequence in what order it shall do things.
But then I'm an old school coder, one who still does the entire code from the bottom up, while nowadays coding isn't much about math anymore, it's more like learning vocables of a language, because the modern programming languages come with such vast amounts of prewritten code that you only have to learn the keywords to know which word triggers which action.
Good question. Art History would be a choice. I have the PBS series The History of Painting by Sister Wendy. But it is on VHS and I don’t have a VCR anymore. That technology came and went so fast.
Sister Wendy explains cave paintings, all the great masters, all the way up to Andy Warhol.
It was interesting to learn how the wealthy hired artists to do all their family portraits.
My niece just graduated from college and she studied art. She has sold some paintings already. She mostly does wildlife scenes. So I bug her a lot😁
I ask her questions. I just like to know WHY artists choose the colors they do, what is the meaning of different objects in paintings, etc. What she thinks of abstract art ( she loathes it as much as I do!)
Hundreds of years ago the painting told a whole story. Most people could not read, so you “read” the painting.
I think art history sounds fascinating, especially the way you tell it. 😊 I don't have any artistic talent but learning about it would still be quite interesting!
A little off topic but not completely, I used to love to watch The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross. So relaxing. 🙂
I would like to make a movie.. I think I'd learn by doing it and improving. The school would provide equipment and students to participate (kinda like UCLA in the 60s)
shareCool idea! I was wondering if someone would choose something film related with this being a movie chat site. 😃
shareOr like UCLA as well as many other film schools today? If anything, you'd have even better access to equipment and resources.
shareI haven't been to college yet LOL but anything In the psychology field
I really like learning psych rn during junior year of high school and will definitely love to take it (even maybe making a career out of it) in college
Those who study psychology and help others through counseling are a great asset to our world. Great choice!
shareNothing from a university - I think you can learn most of that on your own if you're dedicated enough.
I'd love to apprentice with a mechanic for a year though, so that'd be my answer.
I'll accept your answer as long as for the following year after that you apprentice with a plumber. We don't want to get a bad reputation amongst the other message boards for having an unskilled Utilities Director.
shareWell, if we carry out our main election promise of obliterating humanity from the face of the Earth, it won't be a problem.
I'm just thinking it'd be nice to be able fix myself in case I break down when I'm strolling about the rubble.
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I think you were busy shoving pickled eggs in your mouth when promises were being made. You talkin' loony.
shareWhile you were in rehab, I mean, the hospital, I really mean rehab, I was busy finalizing our campaign platform and here's our manifesto, I mean, election promises, I really mean manifesto:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/unabom-manifesto-1.html
If you take the time to read it, it clearly states the following as our main political objectives:
1. Increase picked egg consumption by 428%.
2. Get a third season of Flight of the Conchords made.
3. Obliterate humanity.
Now while there is some wiggle room with the first two, the third is non-negotiable.
Don't you know you're not supposed to make someone with healing innards giggle all over?
shareThe delight you take in the destruction of your species does not compute.
shareYou got someone standing near you right now? Lean over and ask them to tickle you silly for me because I just can't reach that far.
shareThis guy is standing closest to me:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c0/cc/fe/c0ccfec7d2c4be97a1d51c5e4c22257f.jpg
Not sure I want him tickling me.
Where did you find THAT mechanic?
shareI found him working on this car:
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You know, it has just occurred to me... Why would a computer need to study anything? Don't you have everything you need to know programmed into your motherboard already? I don't actually think you're a bot at all.
Is MovieChat's Utilities Director a fibbing fibber?
I know that your recent detour on the White Line Highway has probably made you a little groggy but even computers have limitations you know.
For your enlightenment:
https://www.holisticseo.digital/ai/machine-learning/limitation/
Personally, my limitation is that my breakdancing skills are only excellent, not most excellent.
Wow that article had a lot of words. Have I ever told you that I have a short attention sp
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