| Preface: Hominidade (Great Apes) Have been around for ~14 million (earth)years. The “modern” version called Homo Sapien Sapien – that’s you and I – have also been around for 20-50 thousand years.2 In that time, both species have successfully reproduced. Until very recently, we all know how that that immense task was accomplished. I don’t want to talk about sex here so, I ask you instead, what do a sixteen year old boy together with a sixteen year old girl possibly think about when they find themselves locked in a very small and very dark room? |
| A lot of religiously oriented people might tell you that God created Adam and Eve as our first humans. Modern scientists will concur that this event cannot be proved as inaccurate. Scientists will also inform you that humans’ DNA does result in your reproducing ability that occurs naturally at about ten to twelve years old. |
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Let me examine further ideas that were associated, in some way, to these two theories. Along came Shakespeare who invented a play staring Romeo and Juliet who met when Juliet was thirteen. Well, laws have probably changed since ~1595 but, have those same ideas changed in our modern high schools? |
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| Rich Innnocent (Sophomore)Text1 |
Kathy P (Sophomore) I took that picture and wrote that (published) caption. Come-On Look at that face!Text1 |
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Everyone knows how old I am. Allow me to illuminate a few facts about our education process that occurred in my historic teen-aged generation. For what I call a long time, schools were “out” for the summer. Eventually that idea disappeared probably due to educational or budget needs. In my era, kids that sometimes flunked or were just plainly bad ones spent time in unavoidable imperative "summer school". I wasn’t in summer school for those reasons although I have probably always been a disobeying student. (Inappropriate behavior). |
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Instead my “summer school” attendance was fun. We did pretty much anything we wanted to learn anything. Among other trips, we traveled all over the state for free. I was already a newspaper editor and our yearbook photographer. Imagine living in this time period. Among other things, we took black and white pictures on real film that had to be developed and printed in a lab which we called a darkroom. |
This is now one of my "older" cameras. Canon 40-D. |
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This was the camera that I was using in '74 The only advance:You could attach a light that you could use for than once. |
Eugene F. Lally(1961) and Steven Sasson(1975) had the original ideas of a digital camera for the Universe and the military. In the 1990’s, these digital camera types were THE thing for cool people. Smartphones got them in ~2005.[3] |
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I worked that summer with someone to write a "yearbook" for our school.
In order to do that, I thought that we should work together in a very small dark room that had to be locked. You can actually see the following small room where you moved around a lot.
Isn’t that the place for a teenager to meet someone new? Are you understanding me so far? |
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| Is this a garage where someone can develop film? | This is not a garage on the new moon night. This is really a room that any cat can not see in.
| You're temporarily stunned when you turn on these "printing" lights. | If you have to go to the bathroom, now you can. |
| If you are blind then you can understand what it was like to really develop film in a very small very dark room. As you can see in that photograph most people are either agitated, uncomfortable, unassured or terrified. In those days the only way to deal with processing camera film was accomplished with only your hands. I was an expert because I had already ruined two or three film editions. For this reason, this other girl wanted to learn how to do this. As mean as that girl looks, there was only one way. She asked me to reach around her with both hands and guide hers. |
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There is no reason to walk around running into other things in that dark room.
Anyone can develop film while sitting in a chair.
But she walked around anyway. Did we ever run into anything else? Yes. Sometimes at exactly the same time and then we said,"Oh darn. Sorry..."
That’s about enough for this story’s communication. |
Refs:
[1] ©~1974 the M.G.M Summer Leadership Academy&jbsp; [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human; Andrew Hill & Steven Ward (1988). "Origin of the Hominidae: The Record of African Large Hominoid Evolution Between 14 My and 4 My". Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 31 (59): 49–83. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330310505. [3] filmless camera (US patent 4,057,830) in 1972, the technology had yet to catch up with the concept.; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_camera#References
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