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tazfrog and I just finished watching Krull And it made me realize what's wrong with marriage in America. There is a complete lack of matrimonial flamethrowers. I think that this is just what we need to save marriage.
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amusedYou know, sometimes this is exactly how I feel:
amusedI got this from svairini. I've never really felt comfortable with the whole of "live each day as if it were your last" homily. This person has a much better idea:
Live as if Today was a Quantum Superposition of the the Rest of your Life
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contemplativeA conversation with my friend TemporalG in which the concept of a 'semantic jinx' is introduced:
amusedThe World Health Organization wants people to stop calling it "the swine flu" citing the fact that middle easterner's feel that swine is unclean. I suspect the real reason is the pork industry, but...
Stephen Colbert is famous for a number of things. And largely I think he's an excellent comedian. I really appreciated his George Bush impersonation a few years ago.
But I do think he should be ashamed of a few things. First he should be ashamed of having his audience attack Wikipedia, and I think he should be ashamed of asking people to stuff a NASA poll to ask that an ISS module be named after him. In both instances he encouraged people to abuse a public resource to make a comic point, and I don't think either instance is OK.
But, as payback, I think we should all start calling "the swine flu" "the Colbert flu". I picked this idea up from a Slashdot article. I want this partly because I can't see how this flu is any more deadly than any other flu that's been spreading around and consequently can't see the reaction of governments world-wide as anything but panic and/or asserting their dominance and giving themselves an apparent reason to exert power. Naming the flu after a comedian is, I think, the appropriate response. Secondly, he deserves it. If he wants an ISS component named after himself as a joke, he can certainly take a joke and have a flu virus named after him.
amusedIt's Mandlebrot, the fractal teddy-bear!
A little scary, very amusing, geeky and silly all at the same time.
amusedThis xkcd cartoon has the perfect analogy!
amusedWell, maybe not a Chick Tract, but in the same spirit and much, much more useful.
Via mysticalforest in this entry.
amusedrosencrantz319, Shakespeare in the Bush It is thought by some that Shakespeare's plays have themes so universal that they can cross any cultural lines. After reading Shakespeare in the Bush I'm not so sure.
amusedI do not like it when people use LJ's embedding feature so I will not do it myself. Here is a nice link: I Will Derive!
amusedI think of these periodically. I should collect them together someplace... :-)
This one is: "Oh, baby, you make me wanna collapse your state vector.".
It's quite possible that someone has thought of this before.
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creativeGrad school is basically my only hope at this point, really. I'm working on a Japanese Linguistics / Psychology double-major. Like a transuranium element in a particle collider, this bizarre conglomeration can only exist in academia.
I was highly impressed and amused at the same time. :-)
amusedrosencrantz319 Doing up SCOs most recent doings as lines from Shakespeare plays: It's Shakespeare (almost).
Sadly, this is likely only really funny to people who've been follow the many-years long SCO stupidity. It's like reality TV, except with giant ponderous corporations and lots of lawsuits!
amusedAnd it took me quite awhile to find it. So I'm saving the link for posterity...
How various disciplines rank against eachother.
amusedmle292 brings us this shocking tale!
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worriedIt can figure out how to get from anywhere to anywhere!
amusedbutterflydrming, this comic is for you. :-)
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