The Dyad Invasion
My Social Experimental Psychology class did our first “social experiment” Tuesday night, on “Dyad Invasions”. A dyad invasion being a person walking in between two people obviously talking to each other. Basically we stood on a New York City street in pairs, two-to-three feet apart, and spoke to each other for five minutes at a time, to see if people walking by would walk in between us or around us. Every five minutes we’d try a new spot. We had three spots outside on the street and three spots inside the university.
We had another girl sit a bit away to take count of the number of invasions. I was surprised by how many invasions we ended up having… the average was probably around four, but we had one instance outside of thirteen and an instance inside (when some classes had just ended) of twenty-three.
We may not have discovered anything too exciting, but at least trying to make small talk with a partner for 45 minutes helped pass the time in my four-hour class.
Psych Season Two DVD
My favorite line of the season is courtesy of the old lady dancing with Gus in The Old and the Restless…
Old Lady: Now, spin me…
Gus stands still with a strange look on his face.
Old Lady: Marvelous!There has never been a show that has made me so happy. Ever. Its a little weird.
Shawn mentions to the detectives he got a 100 on the detective’s exam when he was 15 years old. That should really be a huge clue that he is not a psychic, but actually just an extremely good detective.
Has anyone else noticed that Shawn and Gus on the front cover of the DVD are so photoshopped that they’re barely recognizable (especially Shawn)? However they’re not photoshopped on the back cover or on the DVD menus. Odd.
The audio commentaries on the DVD are actually pretty entertaining.
The deleted scenes, however, are pretty disappointing. In the commentaries they mention how much great extra footage they had gotten for a couple of episodes, and those episodes had hardly any deleted scenes.
A highly enjoyable DVD set.
