| Isn't it interesting... |
[Nov. 17th, 2004|02:49 pm] |
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| |  amused | ] |
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| | Foetus - Mandelay | ] |
That people automatically assume the other party is the one at fault? That slays me every time I read it, and is why I tend to close any initial stabs at understanding somebody's point of view with the admission that I may be mistaken in my interpretation.
That's what language is, after all - one enormous opportunity for misunderstandings.
And to be called on it is fair - I am the one who said first I may be wrong. The amusing part is that coextensive to this is the statement that I have "decided" that this person is/is not this, that, or the other thing when in fact I said nothing of the sort and on the contrary said what I think they are *not*.
I suppose that's the expected rejoinder from someone in a defensive position, but I always hold out the hope that something productive will arise from a difference in opinion: sometimes it does.
We'll see what happens! |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 1st, 2004|09:42 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | Amor Real - las novelas de mamí, ¡ay! | ] |
whyyyyyyyyyyyy
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| Ross Millers of the World, Unite! |
[Sep. 29th, 2004|12:27 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | I'm in the @)#(%*@ library | ] |
Ok, so I'm a little freaky about googling people's names. It's the way I find out about professors I'll be instructed by in school, the way I keep an eye on where my name is floating around at on the web, and - yes, on occasion - the way I keep tabs on my boyfriend's name. Not that I'm nosy, but...ok, I'm just nosy.
So today I'd like to let all 3 of you readers out there take the journey with me and see what the devious fellow has been up to overseas!
 - He's disguised himself as Wolfman Von Alopecia and taken a job with the Colgate ITS dept. Thats...Colgate University. Not the toothpaste company. Please, people, he hasn't lost ALL his senses.
 - When he's not working for Colgate, Ross is carefully shaved, girdled, and safely caged in the snow where he is known as a "public artist" and "project director" of the Ancient Fishweir Project.
 - Of course, what he really wants to do is get a master's degree from Virginia Tech and share his teaching philosophy with you.
There's more, but I think I'd better quit while he's still got the tiniest shred of dignity left. Damn you, Google!
/transmission end |
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| (h)i ate us |
[Sep. 12th, 2004|12:09 pm] |
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| |  groggy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | nothing yet | ] |
it's apparent i've let this lj go again, but not to worry: im here to punctuate the silence with a series of quizzes in order that the absence of writing will be appreciated all the more.
Later, though I might write about whether or not criticism can be authoritative - we'll see.
looks like my school's on the brink of bankruptcy; they've hired the loner goth kid to be the lunch lady!
the only way anyone could repopulate the earth with michael moore is if they dressed up as a cheeseburger
some people might say that gives me only half a personality; i prefer to think of it as appealing to 50% of the population - the good 50%.
the good news is that at some point in my life i can apparently look forward to actually being athletic. the bad news is that ill be 75 and suffering from delusions that make me think i can hike anywhere. the horrible stench coming from my adult diaper is probably what'll have attracted the wild animal. osnap i deserved to die!
well, that ends another exciting installment. back to studying.
/transmission end |
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| NHIV! |
[Aug. 27th, 2004|03:00 pm] |
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| |  lazy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Cure - Us or Them | ] |
New NHIV video!
NHIV are New Horizons In Violence, an amusing antiwar collective in Australia. Apparently they're kicking off the "I Need War" mini-tour in Victoria with a brand new video!
They've made a couple of interesting videos about the 'war on terror' - my favorite is The World's Worst Leaders. Not only do I like the clever use of soundbytes but the song rox0rs my box0r, too. The new one War President is also nice, but the tune's less catchy.
See the videos and make up your own minds here. Or, if you're afraid of these awesome tunes, just poke around the site. Some of the satire is pretty good. |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 21st, 2004|11:20 am] |
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| |  sleepy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | does food network count | ] |
Shame on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) danihana for taking and posting these tests!
You are an.. OUTCAST! Nobody hates you,
you just hate them. Or vice versa.
You really don't like being around people,
being by yourself is much better company.
You are not accepted by the norm and are
deemed "weird" or "freaky". You appreciate
things that others don't, and you dwell in your
indifference.
The Subculture Label Quiz
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Now to find food, son! If I can drag my alienated, existentialist ass to the kitchen before work. |
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| AHA |
[Aug. 21st, 2004|02:43 am] |
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| |  awake | ] |
| [ | music |
| | looking for what to listen to. probably dimmu again. | ] |
I'm on the suckiest, crappiest reality show ever. At least I remembered to bring porn. |
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| The cure for your insomnia |
[Aug. 20th, 2004|09:12 am] |
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| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Dimmu Borgir - Raabjarn Speiler Draugheimens Skodde | ] |
Here's the thing you need to know about Heidegger.
Heidegger is a big, fat, Nazi clown.
He was in the Nazi party for about a year and then dropped out because he felt underappreciated. This is the attitude one must approach his work from. Now, it's not to say that he's a complete waste - the major modes of philosophy of the 20th century (briefly and incompletely described here) may be directly ascribed (either in a positive or negative sense) to his phenomenological works:
Existentialism (Sartre, Camus, Beckett, Kafka, &c) draws on the 'lifeness' of phenomenology and continues to consider the lived experience. Its concreteness comes about as an extension of the thinking Heidegger did on 'experience'.
Poststructuralism (Foucault, Saussure) began the monumental task of considering a text a work, and explored ways to undermine it in direct negation of the claims of Kant (primarily his claims that space, time, and "categories" are ahistorical).
Deconstructionism (Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray) continues this work and argues the 'differance' - following the lines of power in a work, examining how modes of authority are asserted through the work, and then looking for linguistic ways to subvert this. Deconstructionism and poststructuralism flow back and forth through one another in a lot of ways - the 'uncovering' nature in both can be connected to Heidegger's ideas on world (disclosure) and earth (concealment).
Sleepy yet? Good. I got stuff to do. |
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| Numpty bollocks indeed! |
[Aug. 12th, 2004|07:04 pm] |
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| |  restless | ] |
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| | Still the Cure, losers. what did you expect!? | ] |
Don't blame me for this, all this crap comes from mixing lines with my FRIENDS. BLAME THEM!
Hi-larious! |
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| okay |
[Aug. 12th, 2004|06:22 pm] |
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| |  depressed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Cure's new album | ] |
the cure's new album isn't bad. surprisingly. or a rehash of older material. surprisingly x2. im one of those anxious losers who hates when a band i love makes anything new, because the potential is there for them to create something i absolutely can't stand and thus, they fall from grace.
this album isn't as good as earlier ones, true, but its not awful. at all. so im wanting free stuff. to that end, im going to post some links in exchange for free stuff. here goes:
The Cure makes me feel almost as giddy as Aleister Crowley does. My apologies.
Cure Site |
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| (no subject) |
[Aug. 10th, 2004|05:01 am] |
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| |  hyper | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Full house mini-marathon, boyee! | ] |
Category XI - The
Quidnunc
Though you don't fit in, and your social graces are
sometimes lacking, people like you because you
have all the information. Now, who won the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1952?
What Type of Social Entity are You?
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| Ugh |
[Aug. 5th, 2004|04:43 pm] |
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| |  apathetic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The sound of students complaining the printer doesn't work | ] |
Yeah, so like -
there's this 10 year high school reunion coming up apparently in Gville on the 14th of August. Which wouldn't be utterly horrible except that the planners want 71 dollars a person for a cash bar (CASH bar) and buffet. what in the gay will they be serving that'd cost $71 dollars?!
anyway, they can go screw themselves. i wouldnt pay 71 bucks to see a bunch of strangers I just happened to suffer 4 years with. bleh |
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| otakon 2004 |
[Aug. 2nd, 2004|03:06 pm] |
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| |  tired | ] |
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| | lawn mower's goin' outside | ] |
so i went to the convention, and had mixed feelings about it. some things were good, some weren't. i guess that's to be expected!
good things:
-fan parodies were good, for the most part
-some good AMVs
-howard was funny
-saw fagface = fina
-watching the look on fina's face when 'her' balloon exploded
-didnt lose anything and didnt waste money on frivolity
-we all had enough money to pay for the necessities
-im home now
-have dvds to watch waiting for me
-got an A in the course i took this summer (wholly unexpected!
-got pictures of fagface=fina
-nothing really blew up
bad things:
-the endless solo driving
-some bad AMVs
-a couple of people that had seemed keen on coming with the group ditched us as soon as i went as rep. for 'the group' to get the registration stuff. why? not sure, in favor of "better things", it seems. a shame they didnt let me know in the first place that they were just looking for a cheap room and a chauffeur, o well. i can do that, too.
-i didnt get my late birthday present (though there are worse things that could have happened, like losing my legs. NO LEGS)
-no Ning, though i hope he had fun in china ;)
-did i mention endless solo driving?
now im beat, but look - the good outweighs the bad. so all in all, a good trip. id make some major modifications to the plan if i ever went again, but that's far enough off that i dont have to worry about it just yet. i could write more but thats pretty much the general way things went.
pa |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 25th, 2004|09:37 pm] |
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| |  devious | ] |
| [ | music |
| | taptaptaptaptaptaptaptap | ] |
whoa, this is HOT |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 25th, 2004|06:35 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  drunk | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Finntroll - Jakktens | ] |
im drunk, you know. A rare enough occasion that i'll punctuate it with a horribly inefficient livejournal entry (not that any of them have any utility).
short, and to the point. lets go play some videogames! |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 24th, 2004|01:46 am] |
my friend fluffyface will be gone all weekend. :(
that sucks |
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| more haikus |
[Jul. 24th, 2004|01:24 am] |
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| | restless | ] |
| [ | music |
| | TV | ] |
amazing how much crap ive written about nothing, and how much better a mechanized program can do with the same raw material...
also: the dancing old man that advertises six flags creeps me out
on to the haikus:
misinformation
would be interested in
reading seventeen
values that built the
american dream ugh now
it doesn't matter
star story complete
psone 30 myst pc/saturn/psone/dvd
31 nights into dreams
excellent they serve
you bowls of ramen not from
a packet whoa har
alundra psx 108
jumping flash nes im home lets
take some gayass quizzes
what next you're a speak
spell you nerd you just because
you were disguised
***
i could do this all night, but i wont |
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