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Apple Zone / The Poet of Bad Advice

« on: May 21, 2013, 08:21:27 pm »

http://badadvicepoet.tumblr.com/

Unwanted Attention

Sent by brynndragon:

    Guys who are obviously incompatible with me keep messaging me on OKC. How do I make them stop?

If you keep on getting poked
by matches made in Hades
Jocks and bros of middle age
who can’t relate to ladies
Take the one who messaged last
Save his profile photo
Set it as your profile pic
and ask whose place to go to.

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Apple Zone / Hyperbole and a Half: motherfucking UPDATE

« on: May 09, 2013, 03:42:41 pm »

You're damn right this gets its own thread: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-part-two.html

It's a follow-up about depression, and it's just as relevant as the previous one.

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Apple Zone / Hey, YOU!

« on: May 03, 2013, 02:45:18 am »

What in the name of "Bob's" salty orifices do you think you're doing?

You think this is a joke or something?

Cut that shit out. You'll get us all in trouble.

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Apple Zone / Hey Nigel, you're taking a Statistics class too, right?

« on: April 22, 2013, 06:57:15 pm »

Assume the standard deviation is 12 fucks given, and I want a 95% confidence interval with E = 4,

then how many FUCKING TIMES, on average, do I need to answer the same goddamn question on the online homework system?

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Apple Zone / Thing Listen To: Welcome to Night Vale

« on: April 12, 2013, 05:09:43 pm »

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/welcome-to-night-vale/id536258179

Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events. Turn on your radio and hide. Welcome to Night Vale.

First episode is at the bottom of the list. Please to enjoy.

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Discordian Recipes / Pot Roast

« on: December 23, 2012, 05:07:52 pm »

http://deadspin.com/5970682/how-to-cook-a-pot-roast-a-guide-for-people-who-want-to-live-dammit

I can't say that I know enough about making pot roast to speak to the culinary correctness of this article, but the recipe is written in proper PeeDee Recipe format:

Somewhere along the way, it got common to treat Christmas dinner like Thanksgiving II: This Time Without Turkey—like a big showpiece meal for which amateur cooks are meant to serve up some impressive exotic culinary masterpiece far outside the bounds of their humble repertoire of comfort foods. Take a walk through the butcher section of your local supermarket during the week before the holiday, and you can see the evidence of this phenomenon: geese, ducks, whole beef tenderloins, sea scallops the size of your fist, 15-pound prime rib roasts, entire goddamn wild Alaskan halibuts with their friggin' heads sawed off—all of this where there used to be Jumbo Family Packs of ground chuck, chicken thighs, and meatloaf mix.

Fuck all that. It's a busy goddamn day, what with visiting relations and opening gifts and getting transported to an alternate dimension in which you followed your dreams or whatever; if your idea of a swell way to wind it down is to spend the evening in white-knuckle terror over the fate of your $300 prime rib, that's your business, but I'll be over here with the sane people, being sane, eating pot roast, and doing other sane things you wouldn't understand. (Prolly scratch myself some, too.)

And so on.

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Apple Zone / A glimmer of hope

« on: December 22, 2012, 08:47:31 pm »

http://io9.com/5970587/new-orleans-schools-ban-creationist-curriculum-shun-texas-revisionist-textbooks

New Orleans schools ban creationist curriculum, shun Texas revisionist textbooks
Robert T. Gonzalez

Sanity wins this round — at least for six schools in New Orleans. By a unanimous vote, N.O.'s Orleans Parish School Board voted on Tuesday to keep creationism out of its classrooms. Hallelujah.

"No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach any aspect of religious faith as science or in a science class," reads a measure released by the School Board earlier this week. "No teacher of any discipline of science shall teach creationism or intelligent design in classes designated as science classes."

The new policy also takes a deliberate stand against Texas's conservative revisionist curricula:

    No history textbook shall be approved which has been adjusted in accordance with the state of Texas revisionist guidelines nor shall any science textbook be approved which presents creationism or intelligent design as science or scientific theories.

"The conservative elements in the state have gotten stronger and stronger and more and more religious and farther to the right. I think it behooves us to take these steps to protect our kids' educational futures," said School Board Presdient Thomas Robichaux.

"To teach anything but scientific theory in a science class is just wrong for our kids. The Louisiana Science Education Act [enacted in 2008, the law has been described as "anti-science" by a veritable truck load of scientific organizations, and is responsible for shit like this being taught in science classes] is a direct attack on our children's future and this is a direct defense to that."

It's like Bill Nye says: creationism is not appropriate for children.

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Apple Zone / Prepositions are precisely what you should end your sentences with.

« on: December 14, 2012, 06:39:53 pm »

(Okay, the title of this thread is an atrocious sentence; bad example)


http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/grammar-myths-prepositions/

Stranded prepositions are nothing to fret about

There are numerous myths relating to grammatical dos and don’ts, many of which were drummed into us at school. The one that stubbornly refuses to budge from my mind is the diktat ‘never begin a sentence with a conjunction such as and or but’. And why not, pray?*

Some of these groundless rules (termed ‘fetishes’ by Henry Fowler in 1926) have a long history. Back in the 17th and 18th centuries, some notable writers (aka Latin-obsessed 17th century introverts) tried to make English grammar conform to that of Latin – hence the veto on split infinitives and also the ruling against the ending of a sentence with a preposition (also called stranding or deferring a preposition).

These and other language myths are amazingly persistent, though, so who you gonna call? Oxford’s Myth Debunkers, of course! To kick off this occasional series, let’s try to zap the one about stranded prepositions and lay it to rest once and for all.

Basically, this "rule" about prepositions was invented by a bunch of twerps who were more interested in fighting over who had the biggest Latin-penis than in effective communication.

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RPG Ghetto / Numenera (New tabletop RPG from Monte Cook)

« on: December 07, 2012, 06:41:15 pm »

http://www.numenera.com/

So Monte decided to produce something that doesn't use d20 core rules (still uses a 20-sided die, though). This resulted in an explosively successful Kickstarter: $517,000 of $20,000 goal.

Overview:

Numenera is a science fantasy roleplaying game set in the far distant future. Humanity lives amid the remnants of eight great civilizations that have risen and fallen on Earth. These are the people of the Ninth World. This new world is filled with remnants of all the former worlds: bits of nanotechnology, the dataweb threaded among still-orbiting satellites,  bio-engineered creatures, and myriad strange and wondrous devices. These remnants have become known as the numenera.

Player characters explore this world of mystery and danger to find these leftover artifacts of the past, not to dwell upon the old ways, but to help forge their new destinies, utilizing the so-called “magic” of the past to create a promising future.

I'm excited. I just need to find me some other tabletop players that are available, since all my friends have moved away.

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Apple Zone / Art Is A Flaccid Penis (nsfw)

« on: December 07, 2012, 05:14:09 pm »

http://brindlebrothers.blogspot.com/2012/02/art-is-flaccid-penis-alternatively.html (link Not Safe For Work, obviously)

In order to find out if video games can qualify as art, we must understand what art is. Jimmy Brindle answers that question once and for all.

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Apple Zone / Just in case anyone forgot...

« on: March 29, 2012, 05:04:52 am »

Forum archeology can sometimes be the best thing EVER.


I found this little gem while delving old forgotten crypts within the bowels of PD.com: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/putin/

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Apple Zone / Political, but more suited for Apple Talk...

« on: March 23, 2012, 04:25:17 pm »

Birthers want proof that Mitt Romney was born in America

It's only a soundbite news article, and the whole incident is no doubt a blip in the radar, but I got a chuckle.

another link: http://www.newser.com/story/142458/birthers-sue-california-to-verify-romney.html

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Apple Zone / Or Kill Me, eh, Dok?

« on: March 23, 2012, 04:15:49 am »

I've done far worse than kill you.

I've bored you. And I wish to go on, boring you.

I shall leave you as you left me: marooned for all eternity, in the center of a dead forum.

Bored out of your mind.

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Apple Zone / VOTE FOR VERMIN SUPREME YOU FUCKHATS

« on: January 13, 2012, 05:26:58 am »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFXXAuDK1Ao

I don't have anything to say here, except to click and watch this video OR YOU COULD DIE.

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Apple Zone / I'm extremely disappointed in your recent behavior

« on: January 09, 2012, 04:11:14 am »

But really, I'm just too tired right now to be angry. So here's your chance.


What's your excuse?