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I saw a bird today, and said "you don't know it, but you're the word". I looked up at the sun and said "today's your day".
I am in an incredibly good mood.
that is all.
I am in an incredibly good mood.
that is all.
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UGH WORK ON SUNDAY WAS FUCKING ROUGH.
Someone's whole Point of Sale system sort of died on them, and I spent all day working on it, instead of doing what I needed to do today.
I did get a bonus out of it though, so fuck it.
Someone's whole Point of Sale system sort of died on them, and I spent all day working on it, instead of doing what I needed to do today.
I did get a bonus out of it though, so fuck it.
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"What it comes down to, I think, is the difference between standing up for yourself and being a bully. What I am about to say is maybe not the most popular or welcome thing to hear in discussions like this, but: sometimes you need to stand up for yourself. Sometimes something is so big and so bad that you just have to call it out, because you think making the fucked-upness of a situation or statement or wacky cinematic date rape leading to true love will help other people, maybe even the person that you are calling out. But – ah, BUT! – it actually is possible to be a total jerk about this. You can belittle people and attack them personally and fail to listen to them and score points off them. And it doesn’t actually help anyone. It just makes the cause you are presenting look like something that crazy mean people use to boost their self-esteem and justify their cruelty."
- Sady of Tiger Beatdown
I like her more and more, the more I read.
- Sady of Tiger Beatdown
I like her more and more, the more I read.
Science vs "Science"
The reason why physics is a pretty solid discipline is not because physicists are particularly smarter than anyone else, they just have a much better set of mechanisms for checking their stupidity than most fields do.
The thing that makes science ... well, scientific, is the position of maximum possible scepticism that it takes toward all knowledge. If scientists start losing that scepticism, they become less and less scientific.
(Socio-biologists, for example, seem to be particularly prone to making claims way beyond what the evidence would allow)
The thing that makes science ... well, scientific, is the position of maximum possible scepticism that it takes toward all knowledge. If scientists start losing that scepticism, they become less and less scientific.
(Socio-biologists, for example, seem to be particularly prone to making claims way beyond what the evidence would allow)
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Happy Monday!
I feel so joyous tonight!
Squirrel Girl, Milla Jovovich, Robert Pollard and Anne Clark have all played their parts.
Squirrel Girl, Milla Jovovich, Robert Pollard and Anne Clark have all played their parts.
When the sun comes up, I will win.
This may be the greatest vocal piece ever composed. Very few women attempt it seriously (because the note range is for a tenor). She pulls it off big time.
It is humanity's objection to the world as it exists, and love overcoming terrible odds.
The last lyric translates to "at daybreak, victory, victory!"
It is humanity's objection to the world as it exists, and love overcoming terrible odds.
The last lyric translates to "at daybreak, victory, victory!"
15 books game
Directions:
"Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. "
1. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
2. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
3. Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Nausea - JP Sartre
5. UBIK - PK Dick
6. The Divine Invasion - PK Dick
7. The Dao De Jing - Lao Tzu
8. Illuminatus! Trilogy (cheating maybe but they were published together) - RA Wilson
9. Manalive - GK Chesterton
10. The Reprieve - JP Sartre
11. Neuromancer - William Gibson
12. Cosmic Trigger - RA Wilson
13. Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
14. Dune - Frank Herbert
15. Albanian Assignment - David Smiley
"Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. "
1. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
2. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
3. Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Nausea - JP Sartre
5. UBIK - PK Dick
6. The Divine Invasion - PK Dick
7. The Dao De Jing - Lao Tzu
8. Illuminatus! Trilogy (cheating maybe but they were published together) - RA Wilson
9. Manalive - GK Chesterton
10. The Reprieve - JP Sartre
11. Neuromancer - William Gibson
12. Cosmic Trigger - RA Wilson
13. Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
14. Dune - Frank Herbert
15. Albanian Assignment - David Smiley
"first bring me 10 chocobo eggs, then I will show you how to compile the source module"
there are days when work feels like the Worst.RPG.Evar.
On a hopefully not related note, if you're ever in the mood for something truly depressing, you can play the second half of Pink Floyd's The Wall first, and the first half second. Such that it starts with "Hey You" and ends with "Goodbye Cruel World".
It tells a very different, but equally coherent and much more disheartening story.
On a hopefully not related note, if you're ever in the mood for something truly depressing, you can play the second half of Pink Floyd's The Wall first, and the first half second. Such that it starts with "Hey You" and ends with "Goodbye Cruel World".
It tells a very different, but equally coherent and much more disheartening story.