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aleatoriusхех, нашел подходящий отрывок из "автостопом по галактике", который описывает и проблему поиска лего-детальки - когда деталька находится легче всего, если не сильно тщательно ее ищешь
"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] suggests, and try it.
The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt.
That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.
Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
One problem is that you have to miss the ground accidentally. It's no good deliberately intending to miss the ground because you won't. You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else when you're halfway there, so that you are no longer thinking about falling, or about the ground, or about how much it's going to hurt if you fail to miss it.
It is notoriously difficult to prize your attention away from these three things during the split second you have at your disposal. Hence most people's failure, and their eventual disillusionment with this exhilarating and spectacular sport."
http://www.extremelysmart.com/humor/howtofly.php
"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Pick a nice day, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] suggests, and try it.
The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt.
That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.
Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties.
One problem is that you have to miss the ground accidentally. It's no good deliberately intending to miss the ground because you won't. You have to have your attention suddenly distracted by something else when you're halfway there, so that you are no longer thinking about falling, or about the ground, or about how much it's going to hurt if you fail to miss it.
It is notoriously difficult to prize your attention away from these three things during the split second you have at your disposal. Hence most people's failure, and their eventual disillusionment with this exhilarating and spectacular sport."
http://www.extremelysmart.com/humor/howtofly.php
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Date: 2012-09-20 03:17 am (UTC)У нас на факультете были всякие нестроения, ну, я иногда писал под замком (не у себя :-) И вот один толковый сотрудник взял и глядя на это всё уволился сам. Типа, нефиг в этом маразме участвовать, достало. Он очень неплохой учёный, совершенно настоящий. По молодости лет участвовал в международных олимпиадах по математике, о чём у него висел сертификат в рамочке.
И вот его на пьянке по поводу его ухода спросили, а куда он всё-таки уходит.
-- А никуда, в свободное падение.
-- ???
-- Ну, знаете, это прекрасно, ветер свищет, волосы развевает, может, что по дороге подвернётся интересного.
А сегодня пришёл е-мейл, что он устроился там, где его соавторы, место сравнимое с нашим примерно в плане крутизны, т.е. человек ничего не потерял.
Теперь понятно, что его реплика про свободное падение была аллюзией на этот отрывок!
Тут важно добавить, что про него ходили упорные слухи, что он миллионер, причём этот миллион у него далеко не один.
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Date: 2012-09-20 07:26 am (UTC)типа какие нужны fuckoff money
ну типа не быть связанным с какой работой, и запросто с нее свалить,
ну и оценки какие то типа на полгода.