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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:28 am Post subject: |
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speaking of fucks, whenever i read someone's livejournal and the word meme pops up, i want to punch them in the face, forever. _________________
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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For the record, I know a lot about this stuff but I really do not buy into any of it.
You might have heard of the "blogosphere". What you may not realize is that when "bloggers" talk about "the blogosphere" they aren't talking about everyone's mom and cat who have a livejournal, blogger or wordpress.com account (no offense), they're talking about an inner circle referred to as "the a-list" that you will never be able to join. Basically sometime in the last few years, "bloggers" turned their social circles inward until they've become basically one giant echo chamber instead of any sort of real discussion. People on "the a-list" are considered worthy of worship by anyone striving to be a part of the circle jerk (most of the comments on the entry I linked to a while ago, and all the trackbacks).
Anyway, so all the people involved in this thing are "A-list" bloggers. That you've never heard of any of them means "you probably wouldn't get it" because they are the celebrities or something.
Okay, I think I need to go take a cold shower after typing all of that out.
Also, you'd probably hate techmeme then. _________________ resetbutton.net: videogames for unattractive people |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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backstory: i got really heavily into this sort of stuff back in 95/96, in terms of the whole rushkoff/hypermedia/process/type shit. dawkins' work seemed to fit very well into how these processes moved. it just aggravates me that "catchphrase" or "in-joke" is used interchangingly with wikipedia three feet away. it's still a genuinely useful conceptual filter, however, but only for a small slice of the population that's interested in things like "conceptual filters" etc.
and i guess it comes down to "you could actually fill your head with knowledge instead of jerking off over how can butcher english, you fucking retards" but such is the way of the world.
ultimately, all the folks i know and read use blogosphere laughingly to describe anyone. i mean, an a-list blogger is still somewhat isolated, depending on their actual interests (i.e. the difference between a daily kos type thing and a more personalized approach). i'm not sure what that has to do with memetics, unless you were roundaboutly saying "these people are fuckfaces" in which case, amen sister.
edit: pet peeves are difficult to explain sometimes. like my professor who called e-zines "ee - ZYNES" _________________
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extrabastardformula .
Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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May I please dump that text into my livejournal to explain the hate I have for people using meme like that too?
It messes my mood with a quickness. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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sure! _________________
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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Err my last post was more in response to your question of who those people were (on the last page) but they are all fuckfaces who can die in a fire (oh noes, I am threatening people on the internets). _________________ resetbutton.net: videogames for unattractive people |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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elitism sucks but death threats aren't really cool either. _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: |
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perhaps the problem is too little elitism? after all, an aristocrat of the soul wouldn't be bothered with something as mundane and shamelessly performative as blogging, now would they?
man, i gotta stop reading julius evola before bedtime.
anyway, that was a weird little thing, though she was kind of overreacting. LOL INTERNETS does have some truth in it, as "YOU NEVER KNOW" isn't an answer so much as a spiritual complaint about the transient nature of existence.
there was a blog fight a while back (political) where the team red guy's childrens names and elementary schools were posted on the team blue blog by some commenter, which were taken down after some time. which then turned into some other shit and all sorts of gobbledygook because the team blue guy was posting pseudonymously and someone found out he was a community college professor upstate and posted his office hours (no shit) but by this time i kinda fell asleep reading it (i was kicking some choice early eno). the only real interesting point of interest is the dude whose children were basically broadcasted in a vaguely threatening way was less chuffed than the dude whose job came to light. the comments were by and large the general tribal nonsense that makes political blogs so terribly terrible but it struck me that so long as everyone stayed at an emotional peak, the frisson between the two blogs were something of a success as an ad hoc community.
it's sort of like two people who hate each other but can't stop popping in every three months to have ridiculously acrobatic sex that leaves the neighbors hating them with the bright passion of a thousand shining suns. they are no good for each other in terms of being emotionally whole, but sometimes the needs of the monkey outweigh the needs of man, as it were. who are we to judge their actions, unless we are their neighbors, in which case i recommend putting speakers up against the wall and cue up unsexy-mix.mp3. (not really sure what would be on that but i should consider making one sometime) _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:43 am Post subject: |
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man chicago is a terrible fucking town
interesting (read: god fucking damn it) story in the comments:
Quote: | Lamar | March 29, 2007, 10:58am | #
I was in a club outside of Chicago in 1999. Four or five Chicago cops got this, "you lookin' at me" routine going on, and slugged one of my friends. The place erupted, and the Chicago cops roughed about 10 to 15 people up before being wisked out the back door by club staff. What exactly did the Schererville Police do about it? They protected the Chicago cops. We went to the station the next day, and the "line up" of photos was made of 12 pictures that looked exactly like each other.
I'm not surprised that some low class Chicago cop beat the shit out of a lady, or that Chicago cops are basically a gang with badges. The whole town lacks class. There, I said it. |
the sean bell case continues to sizzle here - next up the cops are gonna leak something about a cat who saw the 4th shooter but can only respond in meows that a police interpreter understands.
the utter lack of recourse against cops - sans giant media shitstorm via the magic of professional bottomfeeder al sharpton - is the most frustrating part. ugh. _________________
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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Just wanted to let you know that the blogfight was the top headline on today's SF Chronicle. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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what?
that's intensely lame. she has friends in the media i presume? this smells like that kind of story. _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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dear god this thing is really small:
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Possibly? It's also possible that the Chron has decided that the "blogosphere" is something that's actually important given the importance of the tech industry in the Bay Area, they could be competing with the San Jose Mercury News in this department as the Merc has been extremely tech-heavy recently.
Or she knows somebody at the paper. |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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hey why didn't someone tell me the grand theft auto 4 trailer is actually interesting? they're doing some kinda crazy koyanisquatti (not going to bother looking up the spelling) montage in the middle. that's neat.
i really liked that movie, btw, but i didn't think it was sad or "bad humans, bad!" at all. i thought "shit, look at the continual imposition of order and the continual escalation of chaos. hail, she whut done it all." _________________
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dhex Breeder
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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after i'm done torturing myself making diagrams, i'm going to make myself a garlicky dinner.
CHILI-GARLIC CHICKEN
ingredients:
boneless chicken, cubed or shredded
chili paste
oil
garlic
sherry
peanuts (handful)
water chestnuts
string beans
1) cut chicken. mix two tablespoons (or more) of chili paste with a small amount of oil, just enough to wet it. mix thoroughly. then cover with sherry and mix thoroughly again, and pour over chicken. cover and refrigerate (at least 2 hours, but more is better)
2) cut tips from string beans and sautee in a bit of oil and chili paste until the desired softening is achieved. remove and drain in separate bow.
3) cook water chestnuts in another prep (tiny bit of oil and chili paste, all of which you can mix beforehand). drain and remove when well cooked (should be slightly softer, but still crispy)
4) cook peanuts in the runoff until they seem a bit soft. shouldn't take too long, and they can burn so beware (burned peanuts suck)
5) add remainder of oil and past. drain off any liquid from the chicken and cook on high heat (put the chicken in when the oil and past are sizzling). put in garlic cloves, which you can leave whole, slice lengthwise or dice completely, depending on how much zing you want. when chicken is cooked add all other vegetables and a tablespoon or two of sherry. stir until everything seems to look cool, then remove from heat.
6) serve over rice. best with peanut oil, but that's high in calories. you can stir fry with olive oil, but you do have to watch your temps. a little bit of oil goes a long way. _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:08 am Post subject: |
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it was delicious, btw.
unrelated to anything: i find the puffery about "public art" (aka graffiti aka egoistic vandalism) pretty gross, but it's no more or less difficult to ignore than any other kind of advertising. the smug factor aside, some of it is actually cool. _________________
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helicopterp .
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:12 am Post subject: |
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I am going to make that and eat it someday. _________________ Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:37 am Post subject: |
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you should! it's fucking great. tofu works too for those of us who wish to remain alienated from our animal nature.
unlike this gal!
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dhex Breeder
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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Worth reading though. That's a good piece.
Then again, I usually find the commodification of sex to be a fascinating topic. There was a Portland-area sex worker's blog that I used to read all the time and an unfortunately-taken-down blog written by a guy who graduated from Santa Cruz around the same time I did about his job as a porn producer, specifcally, his job producing interracial web porn and the social interactions involved. |
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dhex Breeder
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, it's a proud day in St. Louis.
Just think of all the children who move from their baking soda and vinegar sciecne projects right into a $200 a day crack habit. _________________ resetbutton.net: videogames for unattractive people |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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that's just how they roll. (kids, government, same thing)
unrelated:
when i get into arguments with "national greatness" college conservative types i tend to get both flowery and angry. (i can understand their very roughly frustration, as college leftists are retarded and all the hot to trot conservative girls who don't have their brains shitted up with religion are probably too cool for your school) broadcasting for posterity:
Quote: | which is why the whole "buncha pussies" narrative - and at this point it is most certainly widespread enough to be considered one - confuses the everloving fuck out of me. (maybe because all of the toughest, most scary people i've ever met didn't really have much political drive so much as a i'm a scary fucking bastard thing going on?) it's invoked over a number of issues, not all of which have any direct connection to bravery unless you want to get all poetic about it (perhaps a national greatness connection to immigration and "protecting the national character" or some such, uh, wank)
protectionism is the first act of a pussy, if some are going to insist on being tuff guys (tm) about it.
so let us not break this narrative:
think about this shit for a second - why would people in iowa be more freaked out by 9/11, by and large, than many new yorkers? why do people from 'merica come here, six years later, to take photographs of what is now a construction site? or better yet, why do they take snapshots of their family standing in front of the perimeter fence? i used to just call them "death tourists" (i told one guy who asked me to take his and his families picture to fuck off before i beat the shit out of him, i was so utterly blown away at the idea of having family fun day at a mass grave. i don't hate those poor deluded bastards anymore...) and leave it at that, but i think now that it's a way to ground the fear of the unknown and how the war on some terror have combined into some kinda awful worship of the state. shit, you see a similar thing from the 9/11 truthers too...except in the opposite direction.
why? because the truth - that the government is a giant beast of many hands and not the most efficient, and that if people really want to they will blow up buildings and subways and all sorts of stuff filled with people and babies and pets - is not nearly as interesting or safe as a world where order exists and is real. Order - with a capital O - is a lie, as we all know, but the dream of order, even an evil order that's run by reptilians or the new world order and international bankers or a shadowy conspiracy of muslims is preferable to the idea that chaos is real and alive and very much true. (hakim bey is a far better guide to these regions than most, i think...)
the government can't save you. the government is fucked. what's the solution to that? burn everything and hope things turn out ok 50 years from now? that's not much of a choice.
so we pick our narratives and hope for the best.
so this is mine:
there is no bigger puss move than the patriot act, or any case where people laying down for government power is held up as a common good.
remember that fucking piece of shit clinton and his fucking wiretapping and his fucking "we must stop them thar meeelitias" and all that shit? remember who stood for and against on the cultural stage? partisanship - tribalism - is probably even more important than fear when it comes to understanding politics.
i'll take therapy culture (again, wtf is that?) over people who think colonialism was some kind of inter-cultural headcold rather than a centuries-long crime spree. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:59 am Post subject: |
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what?
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 10:17 am Post subject: |
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i love the cultural current over at hit and run that turns every thread into haiku-laden insanity because dealing with team red (or less often, team blue) types is fucking impossible:
Quote: | Timothy | April 9, 2007, 12:04pm | #
Extracted fetus
You had it coming, jerk face
Teach you to implant. |
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dhex Breeder
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:32 am Post subject: |
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do tell! i'm not so hot on those jackanapes either (crying victim in EVERY SINGLE CASE is lame, and there are worse things than being yelled at by a professor) but they do seem provide a counterbalance to the prevailing speech code jerkoffery. _________________
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ryan .
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I'm glad I went to a smaller college. I'm way too grumpy to have either sort around. _________________ Come to me, Mordel. We shall depart. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:10 am Post subject: |
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we had all sorts of wackadoodles at the hof, but as a newspaper editor i was only ever threatened by...actually, i was threatened by a lot of people. but it was a broad array of people so i feel better about that. a benetton kind of love.
speech codes are a good example of good intentions and the road to hell.
edit: and i don't rightly know what the score is these days other than to say my team and your team will always be a stronger draw than principles. i was somewhat surprised at the (vastly delayed and orchestrated) response to the whole danish cartoon kerfluffle, but that was muted by my incomprehension towards the utter lack of response to the theo van gogh murder in america, outside of people (i.e. fucktards) who were already convinced that an "islamo-fascist third wave" was getting ready to take over america and burkacize the shit out of everyone.
the key, of course, is my team and your team, enemy of enemy is friend. hence we get evangelicals who have fallen in love with israel and queers for palestine and all other kinds of assaults on surface-reading "reason." given some time and digging, these configurations make perfect sense.
politics is the study of strange bedfellows. _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:48 am Post subject: |
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in a short-term sense, it is entirely rational for people to make coalitions in politics. even if those ultimate coalitions are detrimentally opposed or even entirely hostile. you get plenty of examples throughout history that seem entirely insane - zionists and nazis, for example - but at the time seemed perfectly reasonable. the zionists wanted to leave germany for a new homeland, and the nazis wanted the zionists to leave. everyone's happy...
similarly, you see a newfound respect - or even passion - for israel among some american christians, particularly tribulationists who think we're at the end days. (hell, there's a farm in the midwest that's trying to breed the right kind of red heifer)
the list goes on and on (the satanic panic in the 1980s, the american bund during the pre-war years, etc) _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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that's awesome!
fucking retards. _________________
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Dammit I want superpowers from my cloned milk. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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well, that's what happens when you let 75% of the country get its mechanical education from science fiction novels.
superpowers! _________________
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ryan .
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That kids way too sad to be having a green milk mustache. _________________ Come to me, Mordel. We shall depart. |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Wait, are people seriously up in arms about using cloned animals for food and what not?
Really? _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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matt: yes. for many years.
Quote: | That kids way too sad to be having a green milk mustache. |
you'd think, right?
his parents are probably a super pain in the ass, though. _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: |
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the whole imus thing is hilarious (he's the scariest looking bastard on earth, man!) but it's mostly sad when [jerkass]sports fans try to act like adults about anything[/jerkass] _________________
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Swimmy .
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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dhex, I thought you might appreciate these two blog entries tearing apart a lengthy dissertation called "Quantum Feminist Mnemotechnics: The Archival Text, Digital Narrative and the Limits of Memory."
The author defends her work here, sort of.
Academia! _________________
"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: |
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huh.
i call bananas on "cyber-" anything. it's a shorthand way of saying "i am old and/or have spent so much time in the tower i can't keep up with modern terms." norbert weiner was a neat guy, but his time was a long time ago.
Quote: | In Why Truth Matters, Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom quote David Lehman’s Signs of the Times, a lamentation on the state of English departments, in which he recounts being told, “If you want to make it in the criticism racket, you have to be a deconstructionist or a Marxist, otherwise you’re not taken seriously. It doesn’t matter what you know. What counts is your theoretical approach. And this means knowing jargon.” |
this does, sadly, appear to be largely true - very unfortunate in certain fields, like media studies, where genuine quantitative methods can be employed. my wife brings home a lot of stuff that i skim now and then, and some of it is entertaining or at least interesting. but most of it would be best understood in the category of pamphleteering, in the 18th century sense, but rather than reaching for a wide audience they're deliberately narrowed to a very fine sliver. again, this is unfortunate, because as complicated as some things are - and some things are very complicated - a lot of things aren't that complicated. henry jenkins is good at explaining otherwise convoluted ideas on media theory to relatively general audiences. with a bit of preparation, anyone could easily explain what appears to be an obtuse communication theory like memetics to a high school audience.
in some quarters the application side of things is frowned upon. and there's also a kind of pride in density, which seems silly to me but "getting theory" is a code word for "you're one of our own." (though the fixation on freud is very confusing in lit circles, outside of the utility of being able to claim any attempt at deflecting an argument or countering it is some sort of psychosexual disorder. it's good to be the priest-king.)
i was considering a short essay in another class on a phenomenon of group attachment in online groups, mostly spurred by an interesting exchange i saw on a feminist blog, where an older woman (or at least that's what she identified as) was taken to task regularly by other younger posters over what would seem to be relatively minor differences of opinion, to the point where the ultimate (dis)qualifier was pronounced - "you must be a man."
social sanctioning exists in all circles, and necessarily so - praise the Cop Within - but i was struck by what an interesting juxtaposition of terms that was, yet entirely within a standard narrative of "you're not one of our own." switch around the terms, but the battles remain the same.
edit: i feel badly for anyone who would get into a public fight with someone like richard dawkins, regardless of the rightness of their cause. he's a bear (read: dick). _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:03 am Post subject: |
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man, this is awesome stuff:
Quote: | The privileging of solid over fluid mechanics, and indeed the inability of science to deal with turbulent flow at all, she attributes to the association of fluidity with femininity. Whereas men have sex organs that protrude and become rigid, women have openings that leak menstrual blood and vaginal fluids. . . From this perspective it is no wonder that science has not been able to arrive at a successful model for turbulence. The problem of turbulent flow cannot be solved because the conceptions of fluids (and of women) have been formulated so as necessarily to leave unarticulated remainders. |
thank you, swimmy, for making my day a bit brighter. _________________
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Swimmy .
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dhex wrote: | (though the fixation on freud is very confusing in lit circles, outside of the utility of being able to claim any attempt at deflecting an argument or countering it is some sort of psychosexual disorder. it's good to be the priest-king.) |
I've always loved Rothbard's essay, though I'm not particularly Szaszian myself. I find the fascination with Freud anywhere that's not psychology kind of weird, all things considered. _________________
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i will have to peep that later.
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