Friday Ephemera
Careful, children. It smells like human. // Tweet of note. (h/t, Damian) // Nosulus Rift. // HDR rocket test. // He wants all the oranges. // Puny Godzilla. // Keep very still. Their vision is based on movement. // A Firing Line compilation. // Kings Road punks, 1978. // Kings Road punks and New Romantics, 1981. // Classical mash-up. // At last, a rotating house. // Jihad interrupted. // The effects of Aliens. // Arrival. // His charcoal drawings are better than yours. // Hardcore victimology: “The idea of health is ableist.” (h/t, Julia) // Face for the paranoid. // And finally, uncannily, a stroboscopic picture frame of note.
“Keep very still. Their vision is based on movement.”
Phew, thanks the Lord they have no sense of smell.
First link (youtube) is now private.
Re Firing Line: many episodes are on Amazon Video, free if you have Prime.
There’s one very funny spot somewhere in the debate about “separation of church and state” (I don’t know exactly where, but I’ll be watching it soon).
Alan Dershowitz: “If Abraham today had gone out to sacrifice Isaac, I would indict him for attempted murder.”
Lino Graglia: “Would you defend him?”
AD: “I would defend him.”
“Phew, thanks the Lord they have no sense of smell.”
Hopefully that guy doesn’t eventually end up like Timothy Treadwell.
Piper, thank you for that link. I did read almost all of it. A couple of excerpts….
“Willy then takes off and flies over the campsite 15 to 20 times in an attempt to chase the bear away, and sees what appears to be the same bear feeding from a human rib cage, but each time he flies over the camp the bear begins to feed even faster. (Fulton 2003, 2004)”
Now, I feel awful saying this but I couldn’t suppress an urge to laugh at this…The imagery in my head….
And this,
“Investigators combing the nearby area around the campsite discover what was left of Timothy Treadwell. “His head connected to a small piece of (spine}”, and what has been described as a frozen grimace on his face. “His right arm and hand laying nearby with his wrist watch still attached”. (Fulton 2004, Ellis 2003, pg 5)”
The motive wasn’t robbery then……..
Careful, children. It smells like human. . . .
. . . First link (youtube) is now private.
Given a bit of Googlemancy, I suspect this should do.
HDR rocket test.
Hmmm. The imagery is lovely, but for some reason the sound just doesn’t come through.
He wants all the oranges.
Now that’s having your hands full.
Finally a sensible otherkin:
Beautiful thought 🙂
Classical mash-up.
Um. Nice, albeit has been done, before.
The effects of Aliens.
Ah, scuzzi? . . . a film that is widely considered not just one of the best films of the sci-fi genre, . . . ?!?!?!!?!!!!!!!!!!!
Very well done, yes. However . . . . .
Oh, dear. First there was The Coat, and now there is Playing Tennis and Weightlifting . . .
She’s trying to figure it out.
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/763839369576939520
Hal,
Very well done, yes. However . . . . .
“This year marks the 30th anniversary of James Cameron’s landmark sci-fi movie, ALIENS; a film that is widely considered not just one of the best films of the sci-fi genre, but often mentioned as one of the best films of the 1980’s…”
It’s as if Ridley Scott’s Alien had never happened.
Or Blade Runner…
Hardcore victimology: “The idea of health is ableist.”
I think she needs to change her meds.
I think she needs to change her meds.
I denounce your ableism, you fiend.
Ms, um, “IsaJennie” is a “20-something creator, activist, and writer,” because of course she is. And an “inclusive feminist,” obviously. Albeit one who spends an awful lot of time and energy denouncing various out-groups and scolding other people on the flimsiest of pretexts. And given the tone and content of her Twitter feed, I think the term “self-dramatizing nightmare” would also be appropriate.
Re: Jihad Interrupted:
And they said we’d never have flying cars!
I think she needs to change her meds.
Extending the logic, such as it is, just about anything that implies a preference for one state of being over another is also heinous and oppressive – something to be tutted at by people who like tutting. And by the same kind of thinking, if a person is born with some disagreeable condition that they have to overcome or learn to live with – say, Treacher Collins Syndrome – and if that person occasionally wishes they didn’t have it, or hopes their child doesn’t inherit it, then this is also ableist and something to be reprimanded in a self-satisfied manner.
As a supposedly moral position, aired ostentatiously, it’s more than a little perverse.
For your reading pleasure: Gender in the Substance of Chemistry, Part 1: The Ideal Gas
Cutting to the chase:
Doubt it. Math is hard, and even harder for feminists.
Thereby rendering the whole thing satire proof.
a scientific project which I cannot pursue here
Heh.
Alien: behind the scenes.
https://youtu.be/SYJXaEN8F4Q
First link (youtube) is now private.
Fixed. Thanks.
Alien: behind the scenes.
Ooh. I’ll have to make time for that. Thanks, John.
Re: Treadwell
The problem is that way too many people have been conditioned by Disney movies and whatnot to have an anthropomorphic view of nature which causes all manner of havoc. Treadwell was one of those and it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. He was of the same mold as those who try to feed wildlife or take selfies on the trail.
Re Timothy Treadwell, the Werner Herzog documentary on the subject, Grizzly Man is highly recommended.
I see your Kings Road and raise you two Spring Break Ft. Lauderdale 1985 and 1987
A Firing Line compilation.
Thank you. It will be some time before we see another like him.
Not irrelevant to a topic often addressed in these pages.
Re Gender in the Substance of Chemistry and other enterprises of the kind: we are going to need a network of monasteries all over what still passes as the developed world in order to safeguard science from the obscurantism that is currently en vogue so that after the coming Dark Ages future generations will be able to build anew on what humanity has discovered and established.
Gender in the Substance of Chemistry
…after the coming Dark Ages future generations will be able to build anew on what humanity has discovered and established.
See my remarks above about those who wish to anthropomorphize Nature. Whether it’s Bambi or Intro to Grievance Studies 101, it’s two sides of the same damn coin.
Making of The Thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUbclpxMyYs
Hedgehog,
Were you thinking of Neal Stephenson’s Anathem?
two sides of the same damn coin.
Agreed, but I fear there are more sides to it than just two. It’s more like a die that always comes up snake eyes. Tribalism (Black Lives Matter?), faith-based “science” (Global Warming?), Gaia cults, stifling of dissension, the pillorying and public shaming of people who espouse “wrong” views, and on and on.
You may have noticed that I am a pessimist.
Were you thinking of Neal Stephenson’s Anathem?
No. Never even heard of it. But thank you for the link. Looks like I should invest in a copy. What I was thinking of is the historical parallel with the monasteries who safeguarded the products of the Greco-Roman civilization during a period in which these products would most likely have been destroyed by mobs, thus providing the material that eventually allowed the Renaissance to flourish.
@Hedgehog
You are, of course, correct. There does seem to be a persistent denial of reality which never bodes well. I wonder how long it will be before we’re back to throwing virgins into a volcano to appease the various gods of this age.
(Aside: Can one role “snake eyes” with only one die? Asking for a friend. [Insert smiley thing here])
You are, of course, correct.
Thank you. To quote, again, W.F.Buckley, Jr.:
About the snake eyes: I thought the same as I wrote it. But the imagery was just too compelling. I admit to sometimes letting myself get carried away by a nicely worded phrase.
RE: Timothy Treadwell
He should have taken a page out of Troy’s Book
Hedgehog,
we are going to need a network of monasteries all over what still passes as the developed world in order to safeguard science from the obscurantism that is currently en vogue…
Iowahawk’s “Physics envy cargo cult” taken to the next level. {o_O}
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/761642049254793216
so that after the coming Dark Ages future generations will be able to build anew on what humanity has discovered and established.
Walter Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is clever and beautifully written, but depressing as hell. I really hope it never comes to that.
David,
if a person is born with some disagreeable condition that they have to overcome or learn to live with … and if that person occasionally wishes they didn’t have it, or hopes their child doesn’t inherit it, then this is also ableist and something to be reprimanded in a self-satisfied manner.
As a supposedly moral position, aired ostentatiously, it’s more than a little perverse.
The furious spitting OUTRAGE expressed by advocates for the deaf when potential cures for the condition are developed, despite the absolute joy and wonder expressed by children born deaf who hear for the first time, is not just perverse, it’s diabolical.
http://archive.is/443Rg
22 year old has “finished university” and her “experiences have educated [her] about feminism and sexism” so she gets to re-educate her family on the way the world works.
To me she sounds rather like a 12 year old who’s just become an evangelical vegetarian, but we’re supposed to nod along to the idea that the young are clever and the old stupid these days.
The furious spitting OUTRAGE expressed by advocates for the deaf when potential cures for the condition are developed, despite the absolute joy and wonder expressed by children born deaf who hear for the first time, is not just perverse, it’s diabolical.
Just in case it’s been forgotten:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1916462.stm
The furious spitting OUTRAGE expressed by advocates for the deaf when potential cures for the condition are developed, despite the absolute joy and wonder expressed by children born deaf who hear for the first time, is not just perverse, it’s diabolical.
The unfortunate, and extremely diabolical, conclusion, of the above and the, “The idea of health is ableist.” crap.
“Professionals in the mental health field” my shiny metal ass, it takes an especially perverse person to have a child born with a handicap. Even money says they are office assistants in a clinic.
That is swell that they can communicate fully with other signers, unfortunately it cuts them off from over 90% of the rest of the population, but, hey, their culture is preserved.
Walter Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz
Another one I need to add to my list of must-reads. That’s what I like about this place. Once you manage to sneak past the henchlesbians it’s a surprisingly convivial hangout. David, you’re a good host.
[ Flips cloth over shoulder, slides bowl of trail mix along bar. ]
we’re supposed to nod along to the idea that the young are clever and the old stupid these days.
To be fair, that’s not an entirely new conceit. See Mark Twain: “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” Although of course the growing-up has been postponed, since it is now the 22-year-olds who act like Mark Twain’s 14-year-olds.
The furious spitting OUTRAGE… is not just perverse, it’s diabolical.
There’s very little that a Marxoid mindset can’t turn into a stinking shitheap, morally and psychologically.
Re A Canticle for Leibowitz, the review reminded me of Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker, which I unambiguously recommend. There are not a lot of writers who manage to create their own language in the service of their craft.
Oh, and about the “Professionals in the mental health field”: the inmates are running the asylum and have been for some time.
Peter Ness: Man about town.
Oh, and about the “Professionals in the mental health field”: the inmates are running the asylum and have been for some time.
Indeed, I have witnessed the DSM change into a political tool form a diagnostic one, but if these two were card carrying psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, or even some brand of “counselor”, they would have been so listed as to lend their warped notions even more gravitas than some vague, “professional in the mental health field” was supposed to give.
“Two county mental health clinic assistants” just doesn’t have the same ring to it – the office nurse for a neurosurgeon is a “professional in the neurosurgical field”, but you you probably wouldn’t want her advice about your brain tumor.
Indeed, I have witnessed the DSM change into a political tool…
When I started dealing with psychiatric and psychological professionals–professionally, not personally I hasten to add– we were dealing with the DSM III. We’re now on the fifth iteration since the mid-eighties. Each new volume provides more ways to evade responsibility for one’s conduct.
Say it ain’t so, Milo!
http://www.mediaite.com/online/breitbarts-milo-yiannopoulos-raised-100k-for-charity-deposits-it-in-his-bank-account/