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2007.06.29 19.29
HEY MY BROWSER'S POSTING SKILLS WORK AGAIN
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2006.11.08 18.24
holy shit rumsfeld is outtie 5000!
make it 6000
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2006.09.28 23.27
i'd like to start an internet database where you can (anonymously) submit a handwriting sample and be matched with someone whose handwriting is very like yours (using anomaly-detection algorithms or something -- it would be really simple) and find out if they're exactly like you! oh it would be so exciting! you heard it here first!
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2006.09.26 14.22
THE INTERNET IS DOWN
THE INTERNET IS DOWN
google, amazon, blogspot, youtube
wtf?
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2006.08.21 20.35
It probably shouldn't surprise us that JonBenet, like Roderick Usher's sister, won't stay buried. It's the return of the repressed all over again, here before us, strutting its stuff and doing its cultural work because we so badly need it. Where else can we find forbidden material served up to us in ways we can both enjoy and disown? We have to deal with a most uncomfortable heritage: an "innocent" child who is also deeply eroticized. That's an unthinkable idea, but JonBenet is one of those stories that allows us to think it.
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For kids really do not fare very well in our culture: Millions of children are, in fact, abused in unspeakable ways. Five hundred thousand kids every year are classified as "throwaways" (children whose parents or guardians will not let them live at home, as distinguished from "runaways"). As many as 800,000 are beaten horribly. Even more are subject to emotional abuse and neglect. How much attention do they get? Instead, we focus our attention, almost all of it, on stranger-danger: things like abductions, of which there are between 100 and 200 annually. Our carefully controlled outrage is generated for our own purposes, certainly not to protect the children.
http://www.slate.com/id/2148089?nav=wp
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2006.03.16 23.03
my only involvement with rollerderby was one practice last august, but driving blank-minded tonight i realized that my rollerderby name, were i still involved, would definitely be
MAULY HATCHET
and also julia's roommate susan is a derby dyke (is that a phrase? it is now) (empoweringly meant, obviously), and i met her tonight, after i had this awesome thought, which was a weird coincidence.
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2006.03.15 23.35
it seems to me that "i wish i could quit you" is the new "i don't want: your lahf."
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2006.02.27 17.38
i want to send out love and good wishes to all of my lj friends. i'm thinking of each one of you right NOW. i hope that whatever you have to do in the next two days is fulfilling and makes you happy.
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2006.02.23 21.23
roman has endorsed the wikipedia bagel bites talk page as the best comedy page on the internet.
roman's official reply: "i only endorse cookin and eatin them"
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2006.02.22 18.26
1. yachtrock
2. khitbash: i don't like this at all....at all
3. get some peer mediation training
4. that's it
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2006.02.11 19.33
party recap for everyone who left at midnight:
1. clyde and i played a few hilarious songs, including "does love really hurt this much" (a metal composition by moi), "pony" (an old coffeehouse favorite), and that "must be the money" song (clyde loves to play this because his wallet is CHUBBY).
hahhahahhahha
2. we went to the frat-like party next door and tried to recruit partygoers after the hopkins cops busted it. none of them was having it. they were not horribly rude about it though...except when they kept replying to our overtures by turning and yelling, "SO WE'RE MEETING AT WAWA AIGHT"
wawa is a convenience store
3. at about 1:30 there were like 9 people left, all of whom were immortalized by abba in the song "SUPER TROOPERS." these 9 people all hung out in my kitchen till like 4:30, at which point we all went to valentino's for a hearty meal. it was swell. i'll post a picture in the next couple of days. vacant apartment, and kitchen full like a decaying molar.
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2006.02.01 18.06
this is a picture of my cat "just hanging around" for ragnartheviking:
and here's the fuzz doing as i requested:
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2006.01.31 21.58
in recognition of the sexist origin of the word "affiliation," i suggest the word "ammatriation" be used instead.
quiz: am i being wry?
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2006.01.21 20.15
livejarble update for: CARA
by the way i now live at my own apartment all the time and i'm taking a winter semester class called "AESTHETICS." it's philosophy. i'm lovin it! also a couple of days ago i started to use the word jabroni/jabronified. i'm not sure if you know this word but the rock of wwf fame used to call people this when he wanted to denigrate them, and i believe the word fully deserves a comeback. jabronified is a modifier of my own invention.
miss you so much it doesn't bear speaking of. honest to god damn god.
also i really love it when people write goddamn as two words and also when they both capitalize and quotationize a thing.
also our #1 fan is a male and a briton.
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2006.01.14 15.29
benjiesque and i do a podcast. it's currently five episodes old. updated most tuesdays. located here:
www.diggcounty.com
my humble suggestion is that you try it out. but it's not for everyone (e.g., losers).
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2005.12.19 16.13
 Dear Santa...
Dear Santa,
This year I've been busy!
In March I committed genocide... Sorry about that, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) blondeponytail (-5000 points). Last Friday I bought porn for vinaceous (-10 points). Last Saturday I put gum in eyeblueday's hair (-12 points). Last week I farted in an elevator (-6 points). In January I gave glottalstop a wet willie, then I took it back (-5 points).
Overall, I've been naughty (-5033 points). For Christmas I deserve a spanking!
Sincerely,
rogator |
most of this is true. i did commit genocide. on elizabeth.
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2005.07.08 18.42
a few months ago or something, robin made me one of her five people for some chain quiz, but i didn't do it, so by way of apology & up-for-it-making i'll post a long quotation in response to something she ljed recently.
badly excerpted from "The Royal We," by Steve Olson, originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, May 2002, and reprinted in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003, ed. Richard Dawkins, pp. 176-180.
"Humphrys began to notice something odd. Whenever a reliable family tree was available, almost anyone of European ancestry turned out to be descended from English royalty -- even such unlikely people as Hermann Goering and Daniel Boone. Humphrys began to think that such descent was the rule rather than the exception in the Western world, even if relatively few people had the documents to demonstrate it.
"The idea that virutally anyone with a European ancestor descends from English royalty seems bizarre, but it accords perfectly with some recent research done by Joseph Chang, a statistician at Yale University. The mathematics of our ancestry is exceedingly complex, because the number of our ancestors increases exponentially, not linearly. These numbers are manageable in the first few generations -- two parents...sixteen great-great-grandparents -- but they quickly spiral out of control. Go back forty generations, or about a thousand years, and each of us theoretically has more than a trillion direct ancestors -- a figure that far exceeds the total number of human beings who have ever lived.
"In a 1999 paper titled "Recent Common Ancestors of All Present-Day Individuals," Chang showed how to reconcile the potentially huge number of our ancestors with the quantities of people who actually lived in the past...
"Even the world's most isolated peoples -- Pacific islanders, for example -- continually exchange potential mates with neighboring groups. This constant churning of people makes it possible to apply Chang's analysis to the world as a whole. For example, almost everyone in the New World [except recent immigrants from non-Western countries, I would think -- c.s.] must be descended from English royalty -- even people of predominantly African or Native American ancestry, because of the long history of intermarriage in the Americas. Similarly, everyone of European ancestry must descend from Muhammad. The line of descent for which records exist is through the daughter of the emir of Seville, who is reported to have converted from Islam to Catholicism in about 1200. But many other, unrecorded descents must also exist.
"Chang's model has even more dramatic implications. Because people are always migrating from continent to continent, networks of descent quickly interconnect. This means that the most recent common ancestor of all 6 billion people on Earth today probably lived just a couple of thousand years ago. And not long before that, the majority of the people on the planet were the direct ancestors of everyone alive today. Confucius, Nefertiti, and just about any other ancient historical figure who was even moderately prolific must today be counted among everyone's ancestors."
I have a lot of other apologies to make, too, hopefully not by lj.
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2005.05.15 23.30
to clyde went the enviable task of supporting wilfred's porky bum as it rode on the shoulders of two yeomen, leading a parade that rollicked around the stage once -- nay, twice -- nay, ELEVENCE! o, how we practiced that scene. our practicing was as serious and thorough as wilfred's bum is jolly and ample. and round. a delicately balanced bum, it was, atop dual atlases. you really should have seen clyde, each hand gladly cupping a buttcheek as though the cheek were a gluttonous beanbag or perhaps a tiny spherical waterbed. yes indeed, clyde really was the right person to bring up the rear! HAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!
muchly unheard statement from wilfred when the atlases ever so slowly began to differ in their routes: "ok, i'm splitting a little."
in other news, i'm mortified to report that i forgot to leave money for the pint of warm bass ale that i enjoyed at dougherty's on saturday, on account of i was so distracted by the prospect of having tracy walk me to my car and then aid me in accosting VERGIL BUSHNELL at ELECTROSCHOCK DANCE PARTY at the gay bar GRAND CENTRAL and then driving tracy back to dougherty's!
part of my mortification is due to the fact that there's really no possible way for me to make amends,
UNLESS
someone put in $5 specifically for me when they saw that i had peaced out prematurely. (if good timing is measured by degree of bill settlement.) please someone let me know if i owe you $5. i feel like a big horse's ass!
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2005.05.10 12.25
it's well worth your while to read the whole article, "Defining Deviancy Down," by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, often described as "the late, great senator from New York." but here are some good parts:
"In one of the founding texts of sociology, The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Emile Durkheim set it down that "crime is normal."...By defining what is deviant, we are enabled to know what is not, and hence to live by shared standards.
"In 1965, Kai T. Erikson published Wayward Puritans, a study of "crime rates" in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The plan behind the hook, as Erikson put it, was "to test [Durkheim's] notion that the number of deviant offenders a community can afford to recognize is likely to remain stable over time." The notion proved out very well indeed.
"The amount of men, money, and material assigned by society to "do something" about deviant behavior does not vary appreciably over time, and the implicit logic which governs the community's efforts to man a police force or maintain suitable facilities for the mentally ill seems to be that there is a fairly stable quota of trouble which should be anticipated. In this sense, the agencies of control often seem to define their job as that of keeping deviance within bounds rather than that of obliterating it altogether.
"I proffer the thesis that, over the past generation, since the time Erikson wrote, the amount of deviant behavior in American society has increased beyond the levels the community can "afford to recognize" and that, accordingly, we have been re-defining deviancy so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized, and also quietly raising the "normal" level in categories where behavior is now abnormal by any earlier standard. This redefining has evoked fierce resistance from defenders of "old" standards, and accounts for much of the present "cultural war" such as proclaimed by many at the 1992 Republican National Convention.
"Professor Fred Siegel of Cooper Union observes: "In the great wave of moral deregulation that began in the mid-1960s, the poor and the insane were freed from the fetters of middle-class mores." They might henceforth sleep in doorways as often as they chose. The problem of the homeless then appeared, characteristically defined as persons who lacked "affordable housing.""
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2005.04.14 20.14
regional dialect hour
gitmeappin! gitmeappin!
first person to decipher gets a mixed seedy
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