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I can actually think of four members who are grad students or, were, or will be very soon, off the top of my head.  Most of the rest have either gone to University, are still attending or have the equivalent level of intelligence to have gone, other circumstances permitting.

I didn't say it was wrong -- I've spent my time in rooms of grad students.  Just funny.

You seem to be reading something into my post that wasn't there.  I wasn't commenting on your response, I was commenting on the general turn of subject in the thread.

Ah, my apologies.

I can actually think of four members who are grad students or, were, or will be very soon, off the top of my head.  Most of the rest have either gone to University, are still attending or have the equivalent level of intelligence to have gone, other circumstances permitting.

I didn't say it was wrong -- I've spent my time in rooms of grad students.  Just funny.

I enjoyed the writing, and of course the dystopian revolutionary is a sympathetic character.

But I'm not sure the irony of the story was intentional.  Here you have a hero: a liberal academic taking a stand for truth and freedom.  He is a Good Guy.  And a villain: the impersonal totalitarian State.  They are Bad Guys.  The Good Guy lives his life under the lies of the Bad Guys and as abandons their corrupt ideology as soon as an opportunity presents itself, upon which they destroy him with no remorse or explanation.  What makes this ironic is that within the story the hero condemns black-and-white storytelling, yet himself is living one out.

Now, don't get me wrong -- I actually like this about the story.  It makes it very Discordian.  What I would like a little more is for the story to be exaggerated to the point where the irony becomes more apparent to the casual reader.

I'm not gone for good, just not drunk thread-making anymore.

Not... drunk?

I think you may be missing the point of the Internet.

Hahahaha!  I hadn't realized I forgot the link until I saw your post.  I feel kind of dumb now.

Thanks, B_R|S.

I'm enjoying the great rock, but I thought I'd try sharing something a little different.

SoCalled - You Are Never Alone



SoCalled does klezmer hip-hop (yes, he's a Jewish rapper).  However, he doesn't actually sing in this song, and it's more hip-hop than klezmer.  The artists singing are C-Rayz Walz, Doris Glaspie and Katie Moore.  It's a pretty unusual piece, but it feels very strong to me.  The first time I saw this video, I had ordered the album before it was done playing.

While I like the song by itself, the video is definitely worth watching.

Hehehe.  That'd be a good newsfeed:

PD.com: Equivalent to a room full of grad students!

Its dada for the most part but some of it sounds like pretty genuine bullshit that the newage crowd come out with. Not everyones cup of tea.

I definitely laughed at "Am in pursuit and loving every minute of it!  My love is universal, not particular!  Reflecting my desire to kiss the eager upturned faces of all who-".

As it goes on, though, the high noise ratio kind of wears me down.

That is awesome.  More personally inspiring than the Tiananmen Square pic.

Source?

Damascus steel is a huge let down.  It doesn't even cut through rocks, like they said it did. 

Still better than the Wapanese katana obsession though, by far.

Wootz steel: For when you need your sword to say "woot."

Just as we were all getting used to watching movies on Blu-Ray, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia has developed a DVD that holds 1.6 terabytes of data — or about 2,000 movies.

Sure, now.  But just wait till the guys who add "special features" get wind of this.

Err, hmm.  I wonder if

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<meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> is related to why PD might not be showing up on some search engines as "the worst forum ever"?

Have the db managers added "worst forum", "worst forum on the Internet", "worst forum ever", etc to meta tags yet?

what's "endcapped"? I looked it up on google but all I find is stuff related to dentistry and industrial chemistry.

Ah, here's something I really am an expert on.  Unfortunately.

It's a retail term.  Endcaps are those displays at the ends of aisles in a store.  Products are placed there, often with bright/elaborate signs, to catch customers' eyes and get them to buy whatever is being so displayed.

drop the knowitall schtick and just be a mensch.

Ok, I'll give it a shot.  I'm more comfortable when I'm contributing information, but there's no need for me to be a dick about it.  No one benefits.