Friday Ephemeraren’t
Yes, another chance to throw together your own pile of links and oddities in the comments. But on the upside, you’re getting quite good at it. I’ll set the ball rolling with a chap who does this better than you do; an archive of poltergeist clattering and other “occult” recordings; a “desk companion” of note; two ladies, some silver paper and a dash of Dunning-Kruger; and a heartwarming illustration of overdue consequences.
Oh man – the programming one is right on!!
And I thought that was mainly because I’ve never formally learned how to code, and I’m not a computer scientist. But my friend who is tells me that no, even he is on Google and Stack Overflow looking for how to do stuff he runs up against.
We covered eviction, demons (pay the exorcist or you’ll be repossessed) and darn near everything in between!
On you kids with your “gogle”. Weak-ass stuff. In my day we had to actually go down the hall and risk the wrath of the Guru face to face.
In my day we had to actually go down the hall and risk the wrath of the Guru face to face.
eeeeeek! The stuff of nightmares! I am very glad I have the impersonal, anonymous interwebs for all my stupid coding question needs.
Reminiscing about the days before the TSA. [sigh] Ahh, those were the days.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/how-air-travel-has-changed-in-the-last-100-years/ss-BBJIjta?ocid=spartanntp#image=4
As expected, the performance art here at David’s site is Chicago class. Yes, it’s that good.
Ahh, those were the days.
My dad was an engineer for what was then McDonnell Aircraft Company. When I was little (the ’60s), we’d go for fun to the St. Louis Airport and walk onto an observation platform which jutted into the tarmac. Dad would point out the DC-6s and 7s, Lockheed Constellations, as well as the odd Boeing 707 and DC-8. I remember it was very loud and smelly, but it was very cool seeing all the aircraft.
Bugger. HTML fail. Sorry, David.
Why do the cops bring their wives when they make an arrest?
Tags?
Class war.
Via https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz
https://twitter.com/Tent101/status/969276460459577344
“the programming one is right on”
I took a Java course last year. I don’t want to do that. Ever.
It’s back to project engineering for me.
Oh man – the programming one is right on!!
Recent, very elementary, JavaScript homework:
// Set testGrade to get the loop started
var testGrade = 101;
// Start the loop
while (testGrade >= 101) {
// Collect the score to be translated into a grade
testGrade = prompt(“What is your grade?”);
// Test for 90 to 100 and an A.
if (testGrade >= 90 && testGrade <= 100) { letterGrade = "A"; alert("Your grade is " + letterGrade); } // Test for 80 to 89 and a B. else if (testGrade >= 80 && testGrade <= 89) { letterGrade = "B"; alert("Your grade is " + letterGrade); } // Test for 70 to 79 and a C. else if (testGrade >= 70 && testGrade <= 79) { letterGrade = "C"; alert("Your grade is " + letterGrade); } // Test for 70 to 79 and a D. else if (testGrade >= 60 && testGrade <= 69) { letterGrade = "D"; alert("Your grade is " + letterGrade); } // Test for 60 and below and an F. else if (testGrade < 60) { letterGrade = "F"; alert("Your grade is " + letterGrade); } // Test for over 100 and not a grade else { alert("That is not a grade") } }
“Seven drones flew down the runway, each carrying a jewel-encrusted handbag”
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/26/17052896/dolce-gabbana-drones-handbags
Morning, all.
Today’s terms to memorise are “Gender Studies” and “male feminist.”
No, please, don’t thank me.
Today’s terms to memorise are “Gender Studies” and “male feminist.”
These people need some serious medication.
even he is on Google and Stack Overflow looking for how to do stuff he runs up against.
In my experience, all that’s doing is increasing the amount of copypasta and cargo cult programming going on.
These people need some serious medication.
By the sounds of it, a visit to a urologist wouldn’t be amiss.
the lie of the male erection, which is necessary only for the penis to be used as a weapon in rape,
Setting aside the practitioners who are merely dishonest or incompetent, Gender Studies – and Angry Studies more generally – attracts a high concentration of people who appear to have mental health issues of varying severity. As above, there’s at the very least a tendency to extrapolate grandly, and in a manner that’s absurd, from what I assume is some personal hang-up or dysfunction.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/28/hate-body-odour-youre-more-likely-to-have-rightwing-views
Well…lefties, immigrants and the ‘poor’ do have a tendency to be smelly…
Hate body odour? You’re more likely to have rightwing views
And if you’re oddly fond of body odour, you’re more likely to be involved in performance art.
Meanwhile, in South Africa,
Tim Newman, here.
Further to the above, note the slogan “healthcare is a human right.”
Don’t the Angry Studies types EVER get bored with their “sexuality”? I don’t think I’d devote that much thought to the subject if I were a gynecologist, hooker, or scientist studying the mating habits of wombats.
And if you’re oddly fond of body odour, you’re more likely to be involved in performance art.
It seems plausible that people with a disgusting lack of hygiene might eagerly embrace an ideology that validates their defects.
Hey, what about the culinary blowtorch? Did it ever get a try-out? If so, what were the results?
Hey, what about the culinary blowtorch?
Ha. It’s still sitting there, untouched. I’ll have to dust the damn thing soon.
Re the “male feminist” and the blather about woody lies and tense rigidity, etc. If the original tweet is correct, that was spewed from the brain of one John Stoltenberg. This is not the product of some recent manifestation of the clown quarter. If I have it correct, original piece was written back in 1984. Stoltenberg wiki excerpt:
And people give me the crazy look when I say AARP is a left wing organization.
“a tendency to extrapolate grandly, and in a manner that’s absurd”
Someone mentioned all the traditional, “real” subjects being already explored and the Clown Quarter is anxious to prove their worth by new, edgy, pop-culturally fashionable “research”.
They think they’re “doing science”, because, well, just look at the stack of
sophistryliterature!I’m not usually a fan of Noam Chomsky, but…
“We’re just like the physicists. They talk incomprehensively? We can talk incomprehensively! They have big words? We’ll have big words! They draw far-reaching conclusions? We’ll draw far-reaching conclusions! We’re just as prestigious as they are.
Now if [the physicists] say, “Well, look — we’re doing real science and you guys aren’t”, then that’s white male/sexist/bourgeois/whatever the answer is.”
two ladies, some silver paper and a demonstration of the mechanics behind differential followed by a bunch of verbal garbage.
a demonstration of the mechanics behind differential followed by a bunch of verbal garbage.
It’s not, I fear, their greatest work. But then, what could compete with this?
It’s not, I fear, their greatest work.
Yes, the bar is set quite high.
the programming one is right on
The front half of that, that is what you normal people think we really do? Damn. I got married way too soon.
Also, JavaScript, like all non-typed languages, is the tongue of the Devil.
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/03/trans-species-woman-returning-to-original-reptilian-form/
Stoltenberg was life partner to Andrea Dworkin for thirty-one years …
That alone would explain quite a lot about his lack of understanding of male reproductive physiology.
That alone would explain quite a lot about his lack of understanding of male reproductive physiology.
I believe they were married, if only in name, for reasons of health insurance. (Ms Dworkin’s chronic and morbid obesity took its toll.) But still, you have to wonder what kind of man would choose to associate submissively with a demented misandrist, volunteering to be exposed to her malign, unhappy presence, and why anyone should take seriously a man who made that choice. As if he might somehow be sane – and somehow an expert on more conventional, heterosexual relationships.
“Oh man – the programming one is right on!!”
You’re doing it wrong.
“I’ve never formally learned how to code”
I’m always slightly suspicious of anyone who did. (‘Course, they’re all better than me, but that’s not the point. I’m not sure what is, but it’s not that.)
“experientially, hard erections are neither comfortable nor pleasurable”
I can’t find the clip to do a pithy link, but what comes to mind is the scene in the Tony Hancock film The Rebel when his landlady (the incomparable Irene Handl) comes across the giant sculpture he’s been working on.
“I call it ‘woman’. It’s not figurative, of course. That is how I see ‘woman’”.
[perfectly-timed pause]
“Oh, you poor man.”
Tech Support Cheat Sheet:
“Ne” has now entered the lexicon of university sacred words.

No word yet as to whether they’ll require a shrubbery.
Gads!
s/b “whether ney’ll require…”
(>_<) [ shuffles off to the correction booth ]
trans-species-woman-returning-to-original-reptilian-form
Sssssss
“the lexicon of university sacred words”:
“Correct pronoun use is an easy step toward showing respect for people of every gender.”
No. Insisting that the rest of the world use your special “pronouns” (quotes because they ain’t) is an act of supreme arrogance and dis-respect.
I still say all this started when people took foreign governments’ protestations about what English speakers call their cities seriously. You don’t get to decide what we call stuff. That’s not how it works. We’ll keep saying “Peking” and “Bombay” because it’s our damn language, not yours. And if you want to call my home town your equivalent of “Shithole City”, knock yourselves out. Not my problem.
Hitting Hollywood where it hurts.
Send that man some cake.
“Tech Support Cheat Sheet”
I’m Culturally Appropriating that. It will come in handy.
Also, JavaScript, like all non-typed languages, is the tongue of the Devil.
At one point the other week, one of the instructors cheerfully typed up a function for generating other functions . . .
—More or less translation, a coding function is a contained bit of code for tossing in some variable or two or something to get some generated result based on what is put in.
—and supposedly handing back particular results is all that a function is supposed to be able to do . . . In languages other than JavaScript, when one attempts to write a function to generate a function, the language spits all over the screen . . . !
Sam Duncan: Hear, hear! Also those crazy new Romanizations of Chinese. I know “Beijing” is Peking, but other than that I never know what region in China a news story is talking about.
That alone would explain quite a lot about his lack of understanding of male reproductive physiology.
Dr Ben Eltham, a media studies lecturer at Monash University, rushes to the defence of our male feminist, Mr Stoltenberg, and his “lie of the male erection.” If you find Mr Stoltenberg’s blathering absurd, then apparently you’re “wilfully ignorant.”
Inevitably, Dr Eltham also writes for the Guardian.
To what variant of gender/sexuality/whatever do Ne, Ve and Ey refer? I’m sure it’s helpful to know that Ne, Ve and Ey like nem-ver-emself. Surely a more pertinent observation is: does anyone else?
Also from New Real Peer Review
The goal of women’s studies is to train students to become human viruses that infect and disrupt other fields.
Dr Ben Eltham, a media studies lecturer at Monash University…
…and his Deep Thoughts™ regarding feminism…
“Several centuries”. Right-o. As they say down under: yeah, no.
“the lexicon of university sacred words”
Wouldn’t Ze and Xe be pronounced the same, like ZEnith and XEnon ? If so, how would I know if I was using the wrong one ?