Oct 23, 2004 11:51 pm Very cool Forty!
Or at least the second link. Amazin what a dish-0-rat brains can do! Of course the male planes will always want to dog fight and the female ones won't leave the hanger until their tires are painted.
two links
Posted on Oct 23, 2004 10:39 pm
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
sorry i just have to share these.
www.theonion.com
note the jaques derrida thing, on the lower right sidebar. i find that to be the perfect joke. anyone get that? lol
and look at this craziness.
www.sciencedaily.com/rele...41022104658.htm
they've got rat neurons piloting flight simulators now? not even rat brains, just swaths of neurons? now that's spooky!
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Oct 23, 2004 11:51 pm Very cool Forty!
Or at least the second link. Amazin what a dish-0-rat brains can do! Of course the male planes will always want to dog fight and the female ones won't leave the hanger until their tires are painted.
Oct 24, 2004 09:22 am a brain that flies a plane? mad...
Oct 24, 2004 02:54 pm haha walt
if no one gets the jaques derrida thing, i shall have to explain, so as not to appear hebephrenic.
derrida was the father of "deconstructionism" which is a way of analyzing texts (literature, mostly). in deconstructionism, "words" don't really have any objective "meaning" anymore, because, derrida claims, throughout their "historical lifetimes," they've accumulated multiple "layers of meaning." through the lens of a deconstructionist, an author is not considered to be the sole author of the meaning of his text; instead, the historical connotations encoded there, subconsciously or not, are.
consequently, in a deconstructionist analysis, you see people using quotation marks a lot, to signify that they're only going to treat a word using its "common definition" just "for the purpose of discussion." just scanning one of these scholarly papers you can get the impression that everyone is just being very "sarcastic" with all these quotation marks...
at lesast, that's what i "gather."
consquently the news story:
Jacques Derrida "dies."
it's ok you dont have to laugh. it cracked me up every time i thought of it yesterday though. i tried to explain it to my friend at a bar last night and it took 5 minutes to get partway through the definition then we got separated by drunks while she was buying shots and i was hollering over them trying to finish the set up. at that point i realized this is the most difficult, unrewarding joke to tell in the world. and its only 3 words long.
Oct 24, 2004 03:39 pm Aye...that seems fair enough Forty.
For some "reason" it makes little sense to this dude but then thats just "me" ! hehehe.
I see the logic tho. Seriosuly, tho it does seem like an odd thing to be analysing - sodd being a "deconstructionist" - think you'd get a lot of sare "heids aka heads" doing that!
Coco.
Oct 24, 2004 04:39 pm Oh my,
Caveman saz "ug"
"cute", "cool"
Now I'm in trouble.
Oct 24, 2004 08:41 pm wassa matter. dont you guys like The Onion?
that joke is a perfect slap at postmodernism, using its own ammo against it, IMHO lol
Oct 24, 2004 09:32 pm Personally, I love the Onion.
One of the best headlines I ever saw there was "John Kerry's face droops with joy at the last polls" :-D
Oct 24, 2004 10:08 pm i saw that one; that was great!
another great sidebar item was one where slobodan milosevich was insulting the tribunals by eating a large samdwich in court. it was a photo, and there's no way to describe how perfect it was.
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