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On Wed, 12 May 2010 09:08:47 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> In a recent interview, Mario Batali was quoted as saying:
>>
>> "On any level to watch someone else do something they're good at is
>> entertaining, whether it's playing violin, cooking or playing
>> baseball."
>>
>> (This in the context of watching cooking shows). I think it could
>> apply here as well.
>
> Well, I don't know. Watching somebody staring at a piece of paper and
> thinking really hard doesn't sound entertaining to me, but then again I
> haven't tried it with somebody who's really awesome at thinking...
When you get to the level of a Hawking or similar, it's not necessarily
staring at a piece of paper, it's working through things on the
whiteboard. That can be fun to watch - people at that level tend to
think out loud.
Jim
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