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Cain

Oh. I frequently tell them to fuck off in bureaucratese.  Besides, there's already a surplus of backstabbing in this place.

The Wizard Joseph

Quote from: Cain on February 15, 2017, 04:00:34 PM
Oh. I frequently tell them to fuck off in bureaucratese.  Besides, there's already a surplus of backstabbing in this place.

Could you lead a Monty Python style coup?

HOLY FUCK I'm glad I went looking for a clip! This is fuckin' amazing and you can dance to it!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrShn8PeTz8
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Freeky

Quote from: The Wizard Joseph on February 15, 2017, 04:34:31 PM
Quote from: Cain on February 15, 2017, 04:00:34 PM
Oh. I frequently tell them to fuck off in bureaucratese.  Besides, there's already a surplus of backstabbing in this place.

Could you lead a Monty Python style coup?

HOLY FUCK I'm glad I went looking for a clip! This is fuckin' amazing and you can dance to it!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrShn8PeTz8

:O This is fantastic!

Also congrats, Cain!

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Cain on February 15, 2017, 02:47:32 PM
Quote from: Cain on February 12, 2017, 06:57:31 PM
I recommend scotch and loathing.  Light on the scotch, heavy on the loathing.

In other news, currently talking with a law firm about a possible consultancy position.  Nothing is guaranteed yet, but they followed me on Twitter out of the blue, and responded quickly to my speculative inquiry.  It probably wouldn't be enough to get out of here, but it would bolster the CV and profile, which never hurts.  And money, of course.

Looks like I'm consulting.  Just got to negotiate renumeration, but so far the terms look good.

That is damn awesome!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Trivial

Annoyed that medievalpoc gets paid for their blog, but I guess I support it if they're getting classes to accurately identify a tudor painting.

I like the blog idea, just didn't like the blog person.
Sexy Octopus of the Next Noosphere Horde

There are more nipples in the world than people.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Another faculty hopeful is doing the presentation-lunch-tour thing today. This one's an expert on sepsis, which is frankly way less sexy than an expert on telomerase, but it should be interesting.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Salty

The world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.

Trivial

Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 16, 2017, 04:34:24 PM
Another faculty hopeful is doing the presentation-lunch-tour thing today. This one's an expert on sepsis, which is frankly way less sexy than an expert on telomerase, but it should be interesting.

Um, talking about sepsis during lunch? 
Sexy Octopus of the Next Noosphere Horde

There are more nipples in the world than people.

Don Coyote

Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on February 16, 2017, 03:56:54 PM
Annoyed that medievalpoc gets paid for their blog, but I guess I support it if they're getting classes to accurately identify a tudor painting.

I like the blog idea, just didn't like the blog person.

Why and also why?

Trivial

Quote from: Don Coyote on February 16, 2017, 05:25:08 PM
Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on February 16, 2017, 03:56:54 PM
Annoyed that medievalpoc gets paid for their blog, but I guess I support it if they're getting classes to accurately identify a tudor painting.

I like the blog idea, just didn't like the blog person.

Why and also why?

The blog is about art history and depictions of people of color, which is a neat thing to learn about.  I didn't like her because tumblr drama and general inaccuracies about the paintings she posted and the shut downs of people pointing out she was wrong. Things like the definition of medieval and saying things were from England when they're from France. 

Old drama involved her and an account called racismschool doxxing chaotically-neutral, just stupid crap.  There was a thread here about about tumblr a while back that followed that thing.

She's getting money to be an authority on something she's wrong on plus the general being a jerk, that was my annoyance.  I can be less annoyed over old drama and inaccuracies if she's accurate now.

I mean the topic is interesting and it's good to be covered, I just want it to be accurate.
Sexy Octopus of the Next Noosphere Horde

There are more nipples in the world than people.

Freeky

Apparently, she also outright fabricates things.  As an example, she photoshopped something to make King David darker and said he was black instead of Jewish.

Trivial

Quote from: Freeky on February 16, 2017, 05:56:07 PM
Apparently, she also outright fabricates things.  As an example, she photoshopped something to make King David darker and said he was black instead of Jewish.

Ah I remember something similar about her arguing about the whiteness of Jewish people, which is actually interesting because that involves a location, a time period, and who you are talking to.  Instead it was two camps with one arguing yes and the other arguing no.  Maybe it was the same item, can't recall. 

I know the results of people posting when she's wrong or screenshotting nasty comments from her was her claiming to be oppressed and they want the blog silenced.
Sexy Octopus of the Next Noosphere Horde

There are more nipples in the world than people.

Freeky

That was a different thing, I believe. I only heard of her yesterday, but it was a great long thread of a bunch of people saying shit she'd done.

Junkenstein

Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on February 16, 2017, 05:39:59 PM
Quote from: Don Coyote on February 16, 2017, 05:25:08 PM
Quote from: Trivial <insert joke> on February 16, 2017, 03:56:54 PM
Annoyed that medievalpoc gets paid for their blog, but I guess I support it if they're getting classes to accurately identify a tudor painting.

I like the blog idea, just didn't like the blog person.

Why and also why?

The blog is about art history and depictions of people of color, which is a neat thing to learn about.  I didn't like her because tumblr drama and general inaccuracies about the paintings she posted and the shut downs of people pointing out she was wrong. Things like the definition of medieval and saying things were from England when they're from France. 

Old drama involved her and an account called racismschool doxxing chaotically-neutral, just stupid crap.  There was a thread here about about tumblr a while back that followed that thing.

She's getting money to be an authority on something she's wrong on plus the general being a jerk, that was my annoyance.  I can be less annoyed over old drama and inaccuracies if she's accurate now.

I mean the topic is interesting and it's good to be covered, I just want it to be accurate.

Wrong is the new right.

Or it could just be alternative history.
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