Friday Ephemeraren’t
As I was pushed for time this week, you’ll have to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. However, I’ll set the ball rolling with a demonstration of stealth, how to deal with lawn pimples, a life lesson, some marble and acrylic furniture of note, and the ball that didn’t fall.
Oh, and if this isn’t serendipity, I don’t know what is.
For the most part, it just sort of drifts by, albeit handsomely.
William Gibson has said that while he was writing Neuromancer he went to see Blade Runner and came home despondent and ready to quit because everything he’d been trying to evoke in prose was right there, on screen.
I think the thing with Blade Runner is that like so many “classic” SF movies it’s Big Idea SF. We appreciate the fact that someone raised the idea without being too critical of the execution. (cf. also Run, Logan’s)
She better choose her “Africa” carefully; I’ve read that the click languages are impossible to learn as an adult.
If you want to hear a sample of click language, track down Miriam Makeba’s recording of “Pata Pata.” She’s not making those clicks for rhythm, they’re in the words she’s singing.
Thalia’s clickless Spanish version is good too.
Loving black Labradors is racist because Guy Gibson.
Has this been here before?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n8fn7k9NiE
It’s Friday. Time to relax.
Has this been here before?
“>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n8fn7k9NiE
Back in May, second line.
It’s Friday. Time to relax.
Heh.
Is loving dogs still racist if I love black labradors? Or is that even worse?
Ask Guy Gibson…
Higher indoctrination.
What’s interesting isn’t so much the professor’s political idiocy, which I kind of assume these days, but her impropriety and presumption. She evidently doesn’t think that anyone in her class will dare to disagree, or will dare to point out that what she’s doing is unprofessional.
She evidently doesn’t think that anyone in her class will dare to disagree, or will dare to point out that what she’s doing is unprofessional.
Students need to start standing up to this crap. Record it and complain.
Students need to start standing up to this crap. Record it and complain.
Yes, record it, absolutely. Though complaining, at least in class, is easier said than done. If your teacher feels entitled to use class time to mouth her adolescent politics, at length, as if they were facts, then what else does she feel entitled to do – say, regarding grades? It isn’t fanciful to suspect that her disapproval of being challenged, either on facts or unprofessional conduct, might be reflected in grading or some other leverage. Clearly, there’s an assumption of impunity.
But when students feel that they can only object to a teacher’s inappropriate political ramblings when out of earshot, anonymously, then I’d say that’s a problem. And that this problem is, as we’ve seen, hardly uncommon, suggests an institutional dysfunction.
“Is loving dogs still racist if I love black labradors? Or is that even worse?”
Hey, hey! Black labs matter!
However bad your day has been, spare a thought for those who really suffer.
“spare a thought for those who really suffer.”
Time to re-post the link to the video of of eco-nuts weeping hysterically for trees slaughtered by the eevil logging industry?
This one?
Daniel,
Replace “despondent and ready to quit” with “stunned and thrilled” and that was Philip K Dick’s reaction. The film he saw was nowhere near finished, and he died before the film was completed*, so never saw the final product.
(*Considering how much time Ridley Scott has spent messing with it over the years, I’d say it has never actually been completed.)
Leave Brittany alone!
spare a thought for those who really suffer
Point: The ‘tears of joy’ emoji is the worst of all – it’s used to gloat about human suffering.
CounterPoint.
Considering how much time Ridley Scott has spent messing with it over the years, I’d say it has never actually been completed.
That would explain a lot.
This one?
Yes, that’s it. One would have to have a heart of stone to not laugh at those people.
I went to the Emoji article, and was delighted to find that at the comment thread there is a “Guardian Pick” comment by staff member Martin Belam, that reads:
followed by
Can almost… reach… self-awareness…
Can almost… reach… self-awareness…
The Guardian has an extensive emoji section. Yes, a whole section. Six pages (to date) of emoji-related commentary.
Can almost… reach… self-awareness…
What’s also eye-catching is the number of comments that get deleted over there. At the moment it’s close to 30%. A new Guardian record, surely?
However bad your day has been, spare a thought for those who really suffer . . . Can almost… reach… self-awareness…
Arson, anyone?
Perhaps we should hose these fantasist parasites into the sea . . . Until they starve or die from pestilence.
Gee, David, you seem to have gotten rather more relaxed over the years.
The everclear martinis must have been helping.
On a more bitter-sweet note, 90,000 Gator fans sing tribute to Gainesville’s hometown music hero, Tom Petty. May he rest in peace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNmf_zHIGQE