And we all get free parking on his birthday every January.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 03:13 (ten years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
carl agatha is the only person I've know who can recount dreams in an interesting way. I can't figure out her trick. Probably she's a witch.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
I'm definitely a witch.
Also thank you.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
Here's one: I had a dream I was changing a baby (not Ivy, thank god) and instead of legs, it had catfish whiskers.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
What's your trick? Let's workshop my dreams.
Xp I hate you
― Je55e, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
It was really hard to get a diaper to stay on!
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Maybe she tells the interesting dreams to you only.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
The Xfinity One commercial featuring Abrams Spock and Abrams Chekov talking about how they must be in the future because of this awesome cable OS makes me fly into screaming rages
― sent as gassed to onto rt dominance (DJP), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
― Jeff, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:27 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Maybe I'm more interesting than you give me credit for!
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
oooooo
― j., Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
We've got a drop-down menu list of photographers on one of our internal sites. This is what I see when I'm trying to search for an item by that category:
Fred AllenJim BakerArnold CoolidgeKim DavisKevin EffingtonZack FarnerNell GarlandPhyllis Hathaway
THAT IS NOT A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
― pplains, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/dead-poets-society-is-a-terrible-defense-of-the-humanities/283853/
this is a shit article
shit
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
you really think so? I totally get where he is coming from. The brand of "reading" endorsed by Dead Poets Society seems ready-made for feel-goody high-concept advertisements.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
did someone think high school english as portrayed in a movie was the same as grad school critical theory? i bet they feel dumb now
― bnw, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
The brand of "reading" endorsed by Dead Poets Society seems ready-made for feel-goody high-concept advertisements.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, February 19, 2014 6:00 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
totally, i just feel like
- he didn't need 3500 words to make his sort of obvious point about a 20 year old movie- putting 'appreciation' in opposition to close reading is fucking nonsense
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
"everyone says english departments overanalyze things well thats stupid you have to analyze things instead of just having feelings about them"
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
its a spirited defense of bloodlessness
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:14 (ten years ago) link
- putting 'appreciation' in opposition to close reading is fucking nonsense
^^^ a million times this
And it's what I think when people get het up about analyzing jokes. For me, picking apart a joke doesn't "kill it," it gives it a second life.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Otherwise entertaining podcasts where they can't be bothered to edit out the boring 20 mins at the start where set up and complain about Skype glitches, etc etc
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:12 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link
How Windows 7 likes to display every new folder window with the following 'details':
#TitleContributing ArtistsAlbum
So instead of just me clicking a button or two so I can see file size and date, I have to unclick all these mp3-centric options and then click all the stuff 'on'. Thanks, MS.
Also, I have received multiple used printers that 100% work in other versions of Windows but REFUSE to do so in Windows 7. Ease of use w peripherals should be the fucking FOUNDATION of your OS. Otherwise this is just DOS in drag.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
the literary equivalent of fandom
god forbid people would be fans of literature
― j., Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
Huge 2500 page print job, diligently replenish paper as I go so printer doesn't stop .... 10 sheets shy of finishing it's completely out of paper RAGH FUCK YOU
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:25 (ten years ago) link
also the printer trays hold -just shy- of a ream
hate that so much
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
ok that is ludicrous also i am so tired right now that i had to type ludacris next to that to see if i spelled ludicrous right, to make sure a red underline would appear if i didn't
― sent from my butt (harbl), Thursday, 20 February 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
sad commentary on ludacris' fortunes
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 01:01 (ten years ago) link
people who are not a) e.e. cummings and b) i GUESS bell hooks but who c) foist their special snowflake requirement of only printing their name in lowercase on everyone who surrounds them
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
uncapitalization of a person's name actually has the opposite effect of what it purports to be for
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
there was someone like this at my last job—decidedly NOT an iconic anything—who did this and i never even met her just read her emails and the promotional materials put out by her office but STILL when i think about her i just wanna yell and capitalize things
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
there's basically no falser act of false humility, although I'm not sure people who do it now even recognize its origins in false humility
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
do they think of themselves as like orthographic bodhisattvas
what would they do if everyone else suddenly capitulated and de-capitalized themselves too
would the world become a better place
― j., Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
mAkEs YoU tHiNk . . .
― nickn, Thursday, 20 February 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
BELL HOOS
― his eye is on the sbarro (unregistered), Thursday, 20 February 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
Hmmm, j.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
i GUESS bell hooks
haha
― i have the new brutal HOOS if you want it (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 20 February 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
Frankly, even e.e. cummings can go fuck himself on this one.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 20 February 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
i kind of figure he gets 'first!!!!!!!!!' rights, kind of like in the modern era people put up with prince's naming shenanigans just for the sheer audacity of it but would not have cottoned to anyone else replicating it
― j., Friday, 21 February 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
There's this trendy rhetorical argument device that I see a lot lately where people say "___ has only really been the norm for the past 5,000 years or so, which is pretty short in terms of human history" -- it's this very TED Talky/NYTimesy kind of thing.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 21 February 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
It's so maddening. It's like "I have the other 45,000 years of modern human history backing ME up" - as though you actually have any fucking clue what the context of human life was in, say, 32,000 BCE.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 21 February 2014 02:46 (ten years ago) link
- when a blog does a "link round up" and instead of linking to the source of something, link to another blog that links to the source. Example - "edible spoons" link does not go to the person who came up with the technique, but to another blog that links to the blog of the person who came up with the technique.- recipe blogs with chatty copy about the recipes interspersed with photos when I just want to look at the damn recipe to see how big a pain in the ass it is going to be. Most recent annoyance, but I blame the Pioneer Woman for starting the trend. (I'm totally making those wings, though.)
― carl agatha, Friday, 21 February 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
that last one drives me crazy. love Pioneer Woman but fffffuuu with the photo catalog of cutting vegetables and how lovely your mixing bowls are
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 February 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
I have mixed feelings about PW. If she stopped making self-deprecatory comments about her weight or wink-wink asides about how things are "low calorie," her website would be about half as big. But her recipes are okay sometimes.
― carl agatha, Friday, 21 February 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
I've had great success with quite a few of her recipes, i don't really read much of the commentary/blogifying anymore
her chicken & DUMPLINGS! recipe was holyyum
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 21 February 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
See also the motherfucking "Paleo diet." Hey, caveman, part of the paleo era was foraging and hunting, so hop to it.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Friday, 21 February 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
also p. suspicious argumentative move in light of say recency of universal suffrage, women's property ownership, abolition of human ownership, universal literacy, shitting indoors
― j., Friday, 21 February 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
Un-capitalized names are pretty annoying, but really I think I'm more annoyed with the NYT and Chicago Manual of Style. But then I guess I go back to being annoyed with E.E. CUMDUMPSTER for making it a question in the first place.
As to that Cummings question, according to paragraph 8.6 of the manual, it is fine to capitalize his name, in part because “one of his publishers, not he himself, lowercased his name.” (The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage also calls for the capitalization.) But the Chicago Manual says it is not all right to capitalize the name of the writer bell hooks because she insists that it be lower case. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/books/28chic.html
― Je55e, Friday, 21 February 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
We actually went through a period at our publication where headlines used the word IPad.
― pplains, Friday, 21 February 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
I woke up after a bad nights sleep and came into the room where the computer was. I set up a torrent download but instead of it asking me where I wanted to put the torrent contents as it has done right up to last night it just adds the torrent to the torrent engine. So I now can't work out where the control for setting things up so it gets a prompt is. Or why it would change like that overnight. Can't think of anything I did last night. Did run c-cleaner 2 days ago which meant that some settings on other things were lost and I had to re-set up but torrent thing was set up last night i.e. since that. So am wondering if its because I'm half asleep or what the f*** is going on with this computer that would mean that changed.
Oh yeah this is on u-torrent so maybe somebody else will have found something similar happening and a fix for it. Don't want to have to direct everything fully manually as in set destination once the torrent is flowing which is the only thing I could find that worked earlier.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 27 February 2014 09:41 (ten years ago) link
Soundtrack albums that include dialogue snippets from the film in the middle of tracks, so you can't avoid them
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 27 February 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link