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    Saturday, July 19th, 2008
    8:05 pm
    Comedy
    This cauliflower gratin is pretty good!
    12:25 pm
    Tragedy
    Completely ruined a twenty dollar pot roast. It's so bad, it actually gave me a headache.
    Friday, July 18th, 2008
    3:13 am
    This Has Gone Too Far
    St. Rev. Dr. Rev says "so al sharpton and pat robertson want me to join them to save the earth"

    St. Rev. Dr. Rev says "...yyyeeeeeeeah"

    St. Rev. Dr. Rev says "whatever team they're on, I'm on the other"
    Monday, July 7th, 2008
    6:21 pm
    Utterly Unfounded, Therefore Unquestionable
    There may be an Ultimate Consciousness, but not a living one. Life is an emergent phenomenon of turbulent entropy flows. Any Universal Being would have no need for: homeostasis, metabolism, growth, response to stimuli, reproduction.

    This does not preclude a hierarchy of levels of existence, each unknowable by the previous, but it's a huge jump to decide that the Creator of this universe is anything like God. It's just a writer.
    Sunday, July 6th, 2008
    9:27 pm
    Apostasy
    I completely forgot that yesterday was X-Day.
    Friday, July 4th, 2008
    11:26 pm
    alt.sex.history
    How would the history of the 20th century have been different if Sigmund Freud had built a theory around some other fetish instead of incest?

    Discuss.
    2:09 pm
    How to Tell if a Cat Likes You, II
    How to Tell if a Cat Likes You #2: It rubs its face (or tail) on you. Cats have scent glands in their face, particularly in the sparsely-furred areas in front of their ears. Each cat has a slightly different scent mixture, which they use to mark their territory. Humans can't smell the mark, but it's very clear to a cat. When a cat rubs the side of its face against you, or headbutts you, it is literally saying "mine!". The diligence with which the cat marks you is a pretty good indicator of the degree of affection expressed; a brief cheek-swipe is a polite greeting, while repeated rubbing with both sides of the face and head-butting is closer to "OMG I LUVS YOO SOO MUCH".

    You can actually mollify a mildly sulky or irritated cat by politely offering a hand for it to rub; the rub here translates to "OK, I forgive you." Don't try this one if you aren't already quite good at reading a cat's mood, though.

    Cats also have scent glands of a different (and incredibly vile) kind next to the anus. Some of this scent gets into the fur of the tail via grooming, and the walking tail-swipe seems is also used to mark territory, but it seems to be less of a primary indicator of affection.
    Monday, June 30th, 2008
    4:22 pm
    Final Statement on Politics
    The difference between left and right, statist and libertarian, etc., boils down to weighting coefficients in our utility functions. All of which are mostly made up, or clung to for dumb reasons. -- some random commenter on some random blog
    Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
    2:50 am
    AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW


    Via [info]stoat.
    Monday, June 23rd, 2008
    11:21 pm
    How to Tell If a Cat Likes You, I
    Cats have a reputation among many of being inscrutable, unfriendly or even hateful. I believe this is in large part because feline affect is cryptic compared to canine affect1. Cats can be as friendly and affectionate as dogs, but if one doesn't recognize the terms in which this affection is expressed, it can seem bizarre and offputting. Thus, I would like to describe How to Tell If a Cat Likes You.

    How to Tell If a Cat Likes You, #1: Making eye contact and slowly and deliberately closing and opening its eyes. Narrowed eyes often express hostility for dogs and humans. For a cat, however, this gesture can be interpreted as saying "I can drop my guard around you", or more simply "you make me feel safe".


    1: This probably has something to do with basic similarities in human and canine social structure, and something to do with a much longer period of coevolution.
    Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
    8:32 pm
    Saturday, June 21st, 2008
    10:47 pm
    Agency
    Can someone explain the concept of "agency" to me? Is it just basically a Marxist term for "free will"? Because I don't understand what free will is, either.
    7:15 pm
    Thursday, June 19th, 2008
    11:14 pm
    6:35 pm
    ...
    Family reported to authorities, sexual abuse investigation opened on word of a professional psychic.

    Only in America...er
    4:14 pm
    And Central Planning is a Religion
    "Science and innovation are chaotic, stochastic processes that cannot be governed and controlled by desk-bound planners and politicians, whatever their intentions. Good scientists are by definition anarchists..."
    1:35 pm
    Modern Problems
    I keep confusing John Yoo with John Woo.
    Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
    11:02 pm
    This Looks Pretty Danged Awesome
    Ong Bak was freaking amazing. The sequel, Tom Yung Goong, was a big letdown. Ong Bak 2 (confusingly, the second sequel) ( looks freaking amazing... )
    4:21 pm
    Monday, June 16th, 2008
    10:15 pm
    What I Think About Things
    I have a sort of running internal myth-filter in which there are two sentient species on this planet: humans, and demons/gods/spooks. The second sentient1 species exists in networks of human cognition--between groups of brains--and the cognitive style of that race is alien to us but hauntingly familiar. Also largely malign, since they need us collectively but not individually.

    Under this filter, God (for instance) indeed exists, or actually thousands of JHVHs exist, melting into each other in ways that are very hard for us to comprehend. None of them created the world, they're just the animating collective intelligences of different faith communities.

    This isn't an original theory, just my personal mashup of Grant Morrison and Richard Dawkins.



    (Thanks to [info]richardthinks for reminding me of this discussion, which I am mainly copying from.)

    1: Sentience is slippery in this context. Spook intelligence is alien, but since they live in networks of human brains they are capable of using human sentience as if they possessed it, which in some sense they do, literally. Creepy, isn't it?
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