i prefer a cafe, constant coffee, flirty baristas
― D-40, Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
there were never enough seats at my college library
― three megabytes of hot RAM (abanana), Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i write in cafes; libraries are too quiet or something.
as a history major i spent/spend a lot of time with the microfiche. which was GREAT. because nobody else is ever using the microfiche, even during finals week. and the microfiche machines were next to these huge windows looking out over the girls' soccer field.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
microfilm i mean. not fiche. i don't even know what fiche is.
microfiche are like large slides with a bunch of pages on them, that you move from side to side and up and down. it can give you a serious headache if you spend a lot of time w/it.
― sarahel, Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, ok, not those. the rolls. with the little trigger you press and it goes vvvvvvvVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE and then you KU-CHUNK it still and try to read 17th-century cyrillic.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
that would be microfilm. for both of those i'd just print out the portions i needed and read them at home.
― sarahel, Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.finchhaven.com/vhs/f07vhs/Girls_Soccer_practice_082907/tn/0217_VHS_Girls_Soccer_practice_082907.med.jpg
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
our microfilm printer cost money and was sort of weird and finicky so i just frantically copied stuff into a notebook. except once when i discovered a totally undocumented room on a totally different floor of the library marked "MICROFILM SCANNING ROOM" and when i opened the door and found the light switch and plugged various things in it turned out to be a closet with a microfilm machine connected to a computer, so that you could dump stuff to PDF. but it didn't work very well, and the whole thing felt wrong anyway, so i went back to the windows.
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty badass ball, there
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgbbz2AaJ31qgllp5o1_500.jpg
― B0hn J. (Lamp), Thursday, 17 March 2011 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/conde-nast-launches-the-new-yorker-for-black-peopl,19708/
― three megabytes of hot RAM (abanana), Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i like how the racist girl has an "epiphany" midway through the video that maybe these people are trying to get in touch with family affected by the tsunami, and then she has to awkwardly navigate around the fact that she just undercut her own argument.
― accredited butter grader and dairy technologist (reddening), Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
our library was gross--a disastrous monument to 60s concrete architecture and a place without a single soft surface--so in general i just got in and out asap.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 17 March 2011 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i just found out that a couple of local music people i know (one of whom is a white rapper who released an album with 'wigger' in the title) have a podcast called "Is This Racist?"
― some dude, Thursday, 17 March 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently the girl is quitting UCLA.
― sarahel, Saturday, 19 March 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought it was supposed to be fake/ironic/parody... She's real?!
― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
haha doesnt seem that unbelievable to me tbh
― D-40, Saturday, 19 March 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
thats a sad 'haha'
why would this be unbelievable in any fashion?
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
we're talking about a country where a professional LPGA golfer once asked the LPGA to limit the number of Asian golfers allowed on tour once because she "they had a lack of emotion and didn't attempt to speak English". not surprising at all.
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
white people at the UCs are pretty horrible
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
― sometimes magic sounds like tape (San Te), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
at the uc I went to a shitload of white ppl in the engineering dept would refer to asians as changers
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
like if something needed to be done, they were like "lets just get a changer to do it"
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
she'd fit in better at usc anyway
― iatee, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link
xp hilarious obv but I mean
uh oh - what uc has a shitload of white ppl in the engineering department??
― iatee, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
lol I actually had a post clarifying that point
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
by shitload of white ppl in the engineering dept I meant a shitload OF the white ppl in the engineering dept
I wonder if wallace was a transfer student
― iatee, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
as in did her GE at community college rather than entered as a freshman?
― sarahel, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
right
― iatee, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
what makes you wonder that?
― sarahel, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
not used to a high number of asians in a library?
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
there are a lot of Asians at CA community colleges. Library facilities aren't as good, though.
― sarahel, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
cause she is an idiot and it's a bit easier for an idiot to transfer to UCLA than get in from hs.
(not saying everyone who transfers is an idiot!)
― iatee, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
is UCLA hard to get into?
― sarahel, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
goofy but made me laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zulEMWj3sVA
― hipster bluppies (symsymsym), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
huh - there were quite a few idiots from my hs who went there.
― sarahel, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly i have no idea if ucla is hard to get into -- i always assumed it was tho, at least second hardest after berkley
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe they've changed their requirements significantly, but i don't remember any UC school's undergrad admission requirements being really challenging.
― sarahel, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
from hs it's pretty hard in-state. uc admissions are weird tho, I know a girl who got into barnard, columbia, brown, forgot what else, but she didn't get into UCLA. (she was hispanic fwiw, and UCs don't do affirmative action, at least not de facto)
it's very, very hard out of state / nearing elite private school selective if you're trying from out of state.
more students apply to it than any other school in the country.
but it also has the most transfers of the UCs and there's even a guaranteed transfer agreement with...santa monica cc iirc?
― iatee, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
and UCs don't do affirmative action, at least not de facto
oh yeah, that was because of some other dumb ballot measure we passed.
― sarahel, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
eventually that's gonna hurt white ppl tho, so lol
― blingee cummings (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
never underestimate the stupidity of Californians when it comes to state ballot measures.
― sarahel, Saturday, 19 March 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I literally know multiple white girls who got into berkeley's engineering program because they were white girls. I mentioned this upthread but at lots of schools (not just the UCs) there really is affirmative action for white people at this point in that they'll be picked over a similarly qualified asian kid.
― iatee, Saturday, 19 March 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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this was an Australian btw
so was the one who made homophobic comments: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/sport/rawson-rattles-a-few-cages/1427445.aspx
― gr8080, Saturday, 19 March 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
California is probably due for yet another racist ballot measure, trying to remember the last one.
― sarahel, Saturday, 19 March 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link