Hot-footing across the deadline lava pool
Nov. 29th, 2006 01:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptCalling it a night again, not because all the work is done (Oh, heavens no.), but because I have to get up in the morning and go to class. Maybe tomorrow, significant denting in the workload. Maybe not. Either way, it needs to basically be all finished before I get to the weekend. I wasn’t really helping my cause much by sitting out on one of the campus locales, people-watching and thinking about things other than my schoolwork. But I think spending that time out there helped me in some immeasurable way. Maybe I rebalanced my chi sitting out there eating chips, drinking soda, and watching people go by as music played in my ears.
Tomorrow I’ll do more work.
It has come to this: TV Land will air the 100 most memorable catchphrases of television. What’s more sad is that I recognize most of them. Still, pretty bad when it’s TV catchphrases that are getting their own show. I might recommend playing with a video game system over that. Just be careful around your expensive TV, as Wii straps don't take abuse kindly. And it probably took quite the abuse to get these to break.
Taking a silly thing out to a logical nth degree, the Indescribable Institute insists that schools across the nation begin teaching the controversy over sexual reproduction theories.
An interesting thought, perhaps to come pre-loaded with the $100 laptops - a selection of Wikipedia is being distributed over BitTorrent, most likely with eventual aim of being burnt to CD/DVD and used in an educational manner. Assuming that everything in the articles has been fact-checked, this is a pretty good idea, specially for those on slow to nonexistent connections, assuming someone with a good connection and some writable media starts the process.
An advertisement best left to rot, as it purports to teach the thumb-twitching text-messaging crowd how to improve their speed. Most likely at the sacrifice of their grammar. Or maybe it’s so they can download more cell phone porn, one of the big things that people are spending cash on, faster. Although one would hope they’re of age to do such things.
In a fairly surprising move, the guy who demonstrated how to make fake boarding passes is going free, apparently because the federal government couldn’t find any criminal intent. In this day and age, it’s rather surprising to see that decision appear.
An allegation of a mother microwaving her child. Hopefully it’s not something deliberate, but something that may be explainable as an extreme action from postpartum depression. Not that it necessarily excuses the action, but at least makes it understandable why something like that would happen.
Living at the mall, all the time of your life. Well, at least with these “lifestyle centers” that take the idea of the mega mall and transform it into small-appearing shops (like the Disney ones). The atmosphere is apparently sufficiently changed to lure in more people to them. Apparently, the appearance of town life (or suburbia) is sufficient - the actual content is immaterial. Do we really want to live in a Disney-style illusion over reality? (Which is, I guess, highly overrated.)
London: A Life in Maps. Detailing the progression of the city of London since it was Saxon to the present day. Very interesting, and may be worth a read for people on both sides of the pond.
Liberal Eagle reminds us that war is hell; hell is other people in decrying the spectator-sport atmosphere that surrounds the current war in Iraq, but Democrats and Liberals suggest that Bush may be on his last gasps of F.U.D. That won’t stop other people, like Nancy Levant, from taking up the mantle and accusing us all of being complicit in an Illuminati scheme, currently under the guise of the Council on Foreign Relations.
This following sequence has a running thread through it, but I can’t quite figure out how to make it all work together. So bear with me as I start with the willingness of someone to talk about Muslim domestic violence, hop across to what the Quran has to say, at times, about women's status , take two hops and a skip over to the 16 days of activism against gender violence, and landing with Ratzinger's wish to have "authentic dialogue" with other religious leaders. There’s got to be a thread somewhere in there. I just can’t find it.
Anyway, bedtime. Must catch the bus to the Ford tomorrow for class, which means my morning schedule gets just a bit compressed.
Tomorrow I’ll do more work.
It has come to this: TV Land will air the 100 most memorable catchphrases of television. What’s more sad is that I recognize most of them. Still, pretty bad when it’s TV catchphrases that are getting their own show. I might recommend playing with a video game system over that. Just be careful around your expensive TV, as Wii straps don't take abuse kindly. And it probably took quite the abuse to get these to break.
Taking a silly thing out to a logical nth degree, the Indescribable Institute insists that schools across the nation begin teaching the controversy over sexual reproduction theories.
An interesting thought, perhaps to come pre-loaded with the $100 laptops - a selection of Wikipedia is being distributed over BitTorrent, most likely with eventual aim of being burnt to CD/DVD and used in an educational manner. Assuming that everything in the articles has been fact-checked, this is a pretty good idea, specially for those on slow to nonexistent connections, assuming someone with a good connection and some writable media starts the process.
An advertisement best left to rot, as it purports to teach the thumb-twitching text-messaging crowd how to improve their speed. Most likely at the sacrifice of their grammar. Or maybe it’s so they can download more cell phone porn, one of the big things that people are spending cash on, faster. Although one would hope they’re of age to do such things.
In a fairly surprising move, the guy who demonstrated how to make fake boarding passes is going free, apparently because the federal government couldn’t find any criminal intent. In this day and age, it’s rather surprising to see that decision appear.
An allegation of a mother microwaving her child. Hopefully it’s not something deliberate, but something that may be explainable as an extreme action from postpartum depression. Not that it necessarily excuses the action, but at least makes it understandable why something like that would happen.
Living at the mall, all the time of your life. Well, at least with these “lifestyle centers” that take the idea of the mega mall and transform it into small-appearing shops (like the Disney ones). The atmosphere is apparently sufficiently changed to lure in more people to them. Apparently, the appearance of town life (or suburbia) is sufficient - the actual content is immaterial. Do we really want to live in a Disney-style illusion over reality? (Which is, I guess, highly overrated.)
London: A Life in Maps. Detailing the progression of the city of London since it was Saxon to the present day. Very interesting, and may be worth a read for people on both sides of the pond.
Liberal Eagle reminds us that war is hell; hell is other people in decrying the spectator-sport atmosphere that surrounds the current war in Iraq, but Democrats and Liberals suggest that Bush may be on his last gasps of F.U.D. That won’t stop other people, like Nancy Levant, from taking up the mantle and accusing us all of being complicit in an Illuminati scheme, currently under the guise of the Council on Foreign Relations.
This following sequence has a running thread through it, but I can’t quite figure out how to make it all work together. So bear with me as I start with the willingness of someone to talk about Muslim domestic violence, hop across to what the Quran has to say, at times, about women's status , take two hops and a skip over to the 16 days of activism against gender violence, and landing with Ratzinger's wish to have "authentic dialogue" with other religious leaders. There’s got to be a thread somewhere in there. I just can’t find it.
Anyway, bedtime. Must catch the bus to the Ford tomorrow for class, which means my morning schedule gets just a bit compressed.
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Date: 2006-12-10 07:30 pm (UTC)The word 'reasonable', though: this quickly heads down a new path, looking at those who change others' actions through force or sufficient economic incentives... it gets complicated very quickly, particularly as the 'economic incentives' route seems peaceful. Try to outline the entire status of the entire situation in entirely unambiguous language, and...
...you find you've got two minutes to go and your teeth still unbrushed. I'll assume that you can piece together my trail of thought from what I've written already and leave the concept of entirely unambiguous communication of worldview for a later date. (And if I'm suddenly seized by an urge to come back and rewrite this bit for greater clarification, as it's certainly gotten flaws in conveying my thoughts on this meta-matter, I must not do it...! *resolute, posts and attempts not to post more until a response is received to respond to*)