This new pill is either not working out well at all, or is working so fucking well that I'll never need to shave my head ever again. It is impossible to make the call yet.
Up the revolution, Assmonkeys!
TGRR
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg)
This shit is wasted on the United Nations. WASTED, I tell you! They should hang it up over every military recruiter's door.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 07:38:52 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg)
This shit is wasted on the United Nations. WASTED, I tell you! They should hang it up over every military recruiter's door.
Indeed. :horrormirth: :lulz: :sad: :lulz: :horrormirth:
I'm telling you, I've got obsidian-edged clubs flying out of the South, and the sky is black with chickens.
Well, not really, but I feel it SHOULD be.
Now I know how Marcel Duchamp must have felt. (Interesting note: He died 29 days before I was born.) He said something about the spectator being part of the artistic process, once:
QuoteThe creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Which SOUNDS like Yoko Ono bullshit until you think about it...Art is the act of changing peoples' emotional state in some way, and if nobody GETS you, then your art is not actually art. It's some kind of whacking off, hipster-style.
But what if it only changes one person's emotional state?
What if it only changes the artists'?
Is it still art? Does art have a critical mass needed?
So, putting Guernica in front of a gigantic building full of brainless, passive-aggressive nationalists is kind of like jamming your junk in the mayonaise. You may FEEL like you've accomplished something, but nobody ELSE benefits or KNOWS they benefit, even if they go make themselves a ham sammich.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 07:38:52 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg)
This shit is wasted on the United Nations. WASTED, I tell you! They should hang it up over every military recruiter's door.
What IS that? Besides terrifying?
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 29, 2013, 07:48:10 PM
But what if it only changes one person's emotional state?
Then it's art. But in this case, it's retail art, and war is wholesale.
QuoteWhat if it only changes the artists'?
I think we call that a "sigil", and that is in fact wankery.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 07:50:10 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 07:38:52 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg)
This shit is wasted on the United Nations. WASTED, I tell you! They should hang it up over every military recruiter's door.
What IS that? Besides terrifying?
That is
Guernica, Pablo Picasso's take on war, specifically the bombing of a Spanish village by Nazis, during the Spanish civil war (immediately preceding WWII).
It's the best depiction of warfare I've ever seen (if you look at it while you have lice and "concert ears", you pretty much get the full effect), and it is absolutely wasted in its current place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(painting)
The story of Guernica is at the link. It's what Americans cheer for when they FUCK YEAH bombsight footage on CNN, down at the tavern.
Think I hit the speed of WALL. Got all these bastards in the other building hanging on my leg, jabbering about shit that doesn't matter to a maintenance chief that doesn't care (which would be me). They move like lightning, but speak only gibberish. It's like working with a pack of severely retarded cocaine addicts. What ARE these people doing anywhere NEAR a chemical refinery? That's the only question I have. Other than that, I ignore them, the way Ron Jeremy ignores huge crab lice that would kill a lesser man. They are full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
It's sort of like working as a page in congress, I think, only without the constant threat of sodomy.
Holy Thought of the Day™: SMILE THROUGH THE PAIN WEIRD SHIT.
This Goddamn "lunch" of mine isn't food; it's what you feed to food. How fucked up is that? Your tastes finally change to healthier food, but at a slower rate than that which your body demands your diet change. I like Indian food instead of Big Macs now, but most Indian cuisine is now a "sometimes" food.
Getting old is BULLSHIT, and not for sissies.
My lunch: Leafy greens and seeds. Fuckers.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 29, 2013, 08:37:06 PM
My lunch: Leafy greens and seeds. Fuckers.
You get seeds? I get some rabbit food and a mocking note from my daughter, who took goulash to school for lunch today.
QuoteHey, Baldy: Enjoy your weeds. I'm eating meatballs and noodles and gravy today.
Her attitude seems to descend from her mother's side. She certainly didn't get that impudence from me.
It also occurs to me that we've become a pack of middle aged people griping about shit like this.
We've become the Church of the Subgenius while we weren't paying attention. :horrormirth:
What's really amazing is that the NEW pills are ALMOST chemically identical to the OLD pills. One teensy change in the way the molecules are built and/or arranged, and suddenly it's HR Goddamn Puffinstuff, all day long.
The one thing that scares me is, I'll probably get used to this stuff, and then it's back to the same old routine as the old stuff.
And that would be a damn shame.
On the plus side, I only need a half a mg of this stuff, whereas the old stuff took 2 or even 4 mg to make the nut. And the bad thing about benzos is that after 5 mg, you start ploughing furrows in your brain.
Okay, suddenly this turned into blogging.
:vom:
I'm gonna fuck off for a while, and maybe torment the safety geek.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 08:55:58 PM
Okay, suddenly this turned into blogging.
:vom:
I'm gonna fuck off for a while, and maybe torment the safety geek.
only good and holiness can result.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 08:47:41 PM
What's really amazing is that the NEW pills are ALMOST chemically identical to the OLD pills. One teensy change in the way the molecules are built and/or arranged, and suddenly it's HR Goddamn Puffinstuff, all day long.
The one thing that scares me is, I'll probably get used to this stuff, and then it's back to the same old routine as the old stuff.
And that would be a damn shame.
Change a molecule, suddenly you're looking at a whole new ball of wax, only it's not wax, and it's not a ball, and it's alive.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 07:52:59 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 07:50:10 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 07:38:52 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg)
This shit is wasted on the United Nations. WASTED, I tell you! They should hang it up over every military recruiter's door.
What IS that? Besides terrifying?
That is Guernica, Pablo Picasso's take on war, specifically the bombing of a Spanish village by Nazis, during the Spanish civil war (immediately preceding WWII).
It's the best depiction of warfare I've ever seen (if you look at it while you have lice and "concert ears", you pretty much get the full effect), and it is absolutely wasted in its current place.
It's fucking gruesome. I'm looking at this tiny 8" depiction on a screen and it's freaking me right the fuck out. I can't even imagine what it's like in person; I would probably shit myself and then curl up in a ball waiting to die.
I have four papers on neuroplasticity and melodic intonation therapy in treatment of Broca's aphasia that I need to turn into one cited five-page explanation sometime before six o clock.
I super don't even fucking care anynore.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 09:12:10 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 08:47:41 PM
What's really amazing is that the NEW pills are ALMOST chemically identical to the OLD pills. One teensy change in the way the molecules are built and/or arranged, and suddenly it's HR Goddamn Puffinstuff, all day long.
The one thing that scares me is, I'll probably get used to this stuff, and then it's back to the same old routine as the old stuff.
And that would be a damn shame.
Change a molecule, suddenly you're looking at a whole new ball of wax, only it's not wax, and it's not a ball, and it's alive.
And it's better than reality TV or reality work or damn near anything other than reality sex or maybe reality Palak chicken.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 09:14:54 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 07:52:59 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 07:50:10 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 07:38:52 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg)
This shit is wasted on the United Nations. WASTED, I tell you! They should hang it up over every military recruiter's door.
What IS that? Besides terrifying?
That is Guernica, Pablo Picasso's take on war, specifically the bombing of a Spanish village by Nazis, during the Spanish civil war (immediately preceding WWII).
It's the best depiction of warfare I've ever seen (if you look at it while you have lice and "concert ears", you pretty much get the full effect), and it is absolutely wasted in its current place.
It's fucking gruesome. I'm looking at this tiny 8" depiction on a screen and it's freaking me right the fuck out. I can't even imagine what it's like in person; I would probably shit myself and then curl up in a ball waiting to die.
People don't really remember what a fucking GENIUS. He didn't even SEE the bombing...This was done based off of a survivor's account.
As far as the effect, it's on a huge tapestry at the UN. You can see that there haven't been any wars since.
Bastards just walk right by it in their proper little gray suits and gray corpse-accountant minds.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 09:16:46 PM
I have four papers on neuroplasticity and melodic intonation therapy in treatment of Broca's aphasia that I need to turn into one cited five-page explanation sometime before six o clock.
I super don't even fucking care anynore.
Well, you DID say you were gonna overdo it this term.
You know, it's really hard to articulate how much I hate the very existence of the UN. Not for any teabagger conspiracy bullshit reasons, but because it's WORSE THAN USELESS. It's something leaders can point to, to deflect blame from their bloodthirsty ambitions...While the UN beats the ever-loving shit out of the peasants at zero cost to the leader.
Example: Slapping sanctions on a "rogue nation". You think that means El Presidente is gonna starve? Fuck no, he's still eating filet mignon off of gold plates while the peasants learn to eat dirt.
Prior to 1945, when there was a problem, bastards in pricey uniforms got strung up. Now if that's done at all (Saddam), it's done as cheap theater, reality TV snuff. Usually, though, the common folk take it in the shorts and everyone pretends that it made a BIG DIFFERENCE, while fuckers at places like Halliburton lick their lips and chuckle.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 09:23:47 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 09:16:46 PM
I have four papers on neuroplasticity and melodic intonation therapy in treatment of Broca's aphasia that I need to turn into one cited five-page explanation sometime before six o clock.
I super don't even fucking care anynore.
Well, you DID say you were gonna overdo it this term.
Another reason to punch my past self in the face. STUPID OVERACHEIVER, KNOCK IT OFF!
Also it occurred to me that I'm stressing the citations and getting everything just right, and FFS there is no way my instructor is going to look up these articles and read the cited page to make sure my paraphrase captures the original meaning. Not when each one is 20 pages of this:
QuoteModulation of excitability in the dominant motor cortex significantly affected performance for the contra-lateral and ipsi-lateral hands, whereas modulating excitability in the non- dominant motor cortex only had a significant impact for the contra-lateral hand (83).
Fuck, I can probably say just about anything I want and as long as it's comprehensible, it'll be fine.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 09:39:17 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 09:23:47 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 09:16:46 PM
I have four papers on neuroplasticity and melodic intonation therapy in treatment of Broca's aphasia that I need to turn into one cited five-page explanation sometime before six o clock.
I super don't even fucking care anynore.
Well, you DID say you were gonna overdo it this term.
Another reason to punch my past self in the face. STUPID OVERACHEIVER, KNOCK IT OFF!
Also it occurred to me that I'm stressing the citations and getting everything just right, and FFS there is no way my instructor is going to look up these articles and read the cited page to make sure my paraphrase captures the original meaning. Not when each one is 20 pages of this:
QuoteModulation of excitability in the dominant motor cortex significantly affected performance for the contra-lateral and ipsi-lateral hands, whereas modulating excitability in the non- dominant motor cortex only had a significant impact for the contra-lateral hand (83).
Fuck, I can probably say just about anything I want and as long as it's comprehensible, it'll be fine.
That paragraph made my eyes look away.
If the instructor DOES read it, give him the fucking android test right away.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 09:44:48 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 09:39:17 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 09:23:47 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 09:16:46 PM
I have four papers on neuroplasticity and melodic intonation therapy in treatment of Broca's aphasia that I need to turn into one cited five-page explanation sometime before six o clock.
I super don't even fucking care anynore.
Well, you DID say you were gonna overdo it this term.
Another reason to punch my past self in the face. STUPID OVERACHEIVER, KNOCK IT OFF!
Also it occurred to me that I'm stressing the citations and getting everything just right, and FFS there is no way my instructor is going to look up these articles and read the cited page to make sure my paraphrase captures the original meaning. Not when each one is 20 pages of this:
QuoteModulation of excitability in the dominant motor cortex significantly affected performance for the contra-lateral and ipsi-lateral hands, whereas modulating excitability in the non- dominant motor cortex only had a significant impact for the contra-lateral hand (83).
Fuck, I can probably say just about anything I want and as long as it's comprehensible, it'll be fine.
That paragraph made my eyes look away.
If the instructor DOES read it, give him the fucking android test right away.
:lulz:
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 09:39:17 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 29, 2013, 09:23:47 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 29, 2013, 09:16:46 PM
I have four papers on neuroplasticity and melodic intonation therapy in treatment of Broca's aphasia that I need to turn into one cited five-page explanation sometime before six o clock.
I super don't even fucking care anynore.
Well, you DID say you were gonna overdo it this term.
Another reason to punch my past self in the face. STUPID OVERACHEIVER, KNOCK IT OFF!
Also it occurred to me that I'm stressing the citations and getting everything just right, and FFS there is no way my instructor is going to look up these articles and read the cited page to make sure my paraphrase captures the original meaning. Not when each one is 20 pages of this:
QuoteModulation of excitability in the dominant motor cortex significantly affected performance for the contra-lateral and ipsi-lateral hands, whereas modulating excitability in the non- dominant motor cortex only had a significant impact for the contra-lateral hand (83).
Fuck, I can probably say just about anything I want and as long as it's comprehensible, it'll be fine.
The one side benefit of having the job I have now is not proofreading that sort of thing and making sure that it is grammatically correct.
Would it be possible to cite the Post Modern Essay Generator?
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 30, 2013, 04:33:25 PM
Would it be possible to cite the Post Modern Essay Generator?
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
:lulz: That was awesome!
I finished my paper & I was tempted to post it here, and then I realized that it's a bit of a dick move to ask you guys to read a paper entitled "A Brief Exploration Into Neuroplasticity: Melodic Intonation Therapy For Broca's Aphasia" no matter how interesting I tried to make it. :lol:
Even though I did quote the Bible at the end. :lulz:
Well played!
I would try to read it.
Cool... I'll post it tomorrow after I turn it in.
New-style pills had some side effects. Took the day off, on account of PILLZ HERE1. No LOBB today, sorry, will try to get 2 chapters out tomorrow. Going back to old pills for the time being.
1 Well, it's either the pills, or I really AM being harrassed by Aztec Gods. Which seems unlikely...If I WAS, I think I'd KNOW it.
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 30, 2013, 09:55:37 PM
Cool... I'll post it tomorrow after I turn it in.
Use caution with that. There may end up being some sort of FUBAR in which yoi are accused of plagiarizing your paper.
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on January 31, 2013, 01:44:37 AM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on January 30, 2013, 09:55:37 PM
Cool... I'll post it tomorrow after I turn it in.
Use caution with that. There may end up being some sort of FUBAR in which yoi are accused of plagiarizing your paper.
Unlikely if I post it after I turn it in. Time date stamp.