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Sometimes, I do M-x troll-mode before I write. You should probably know this about me. No offense to persons who may feel referenced is intended.

Know also this. I am never insincere about the point I am trying to make when in troll-mode. Any offense to ideas referenced is definitely intended.

Oh my God am I ever sick of self-satisfied techies propagating their own brand of mythology about the lumpenproletariat* -- (you know, the class of people who they don't identify as techies) -- getting dumber in every generation. None of it is ever backed up with as much as anecdata let alone fact. It's as false today as it was for Hesiod. It's as ( Read more... )

Dark Star, 1974

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who wants to send me a dreamwidth invite?

i only belatedly found out there was an lj-admin incident completely separate from but contemporaneous with and creepier than the twitter/facebook thing. more motivationally, peeps are posting on dreamwidth.

Yesterday’s seminar was comically interrupted by a fire alarm just before the punchline, and we are left wondering whether awake mice demonstrate the ability to discriminate at a precision of ~10ms the onset asynchrony of a channelrhodopsin-mediated burst of blue light applied to the optic bulb relative to inhalation onset, or not.

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Some names for features not important enough for the Board of Geographic Names to keep track of.

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An awesome trip, at least until it fell apart on the last leg.

First part:


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Was karaoke-ing some well known country and western song by a female vocalist when I noticed you could just as easily substitute the lyrics to Cake's "Going the Distance."

Wish I could remember what the first song was.