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[Good Intentions]

I find that having a really physical hobby (I have a few I do on and off) really helps for such unproductive days. When you feel like that, put on your running shoes and go for a jog (substitute physical hobby as appropriate - I'm not sure that sex would work here, sorry guys).

[Good Intentions]

No, pollo, I don't feel smarter, but I do feel like there was a point to me enrolling into that modal logic course.

[elpollodiablo]

Honestly dude I spent about ten minutes trying to formulate some kind of zinger and failed. So kudos to you, sir.

[Good Intentions]

If it helps you out, I know a guy whose catch-all zinger is 'clever people explain things to simple people', a sneer for the ages.

Anyway, I was just glad someone replied. Threads with 0 replies are very sad, lonely threads made out of fail.

[elpollodiablo]

Well I mean I figured you probably felt smarter because I most assuredly felt dumber and these things tend to work in ways inversely proportional

[Good Intentions]

It was the part between the qualifications in square brackets? The formal modal logic, part, right? I mean, things got a bit mysterious in there, and I feel like I could have done better. The 'model K tau-rho' stuff, I mean. The term means 'a normal modal logic where possibility relations are reflexive and transitive'. The first six weeks of the course went into explaining what that means, and the Aristotle argument came out of week 7, so there's a lot of stuff I vaguely gestured at, and I feel bad at the 'you're too ignorant to understand all this' part.

I'm praying for some of my philosophy/logic homeboys to come along and participate, so it'll appear that I didn't think all of that up to increase my words-per-posts average.

[milesofsparks]

so today is World Malaria Day.  malaria is getting resistant to the only relatively cheap drug to supress it (there is no cure and no vaccine).  

everyone raise a glass of tonic water to the drug companies!

[Good Intentions]

malaria is getting resistant to the only relatively cheap drug to supress it (there is no cure and no vaccine).

Thank god there's a treatment.

edit: Actually, wtf am I saying? Except for quinine and its more expensive counterparts, treatment is symptomatic, ie keeping the patient as comfortable, well-fed and clean as possible, ie hoping the disease wont kill him.

[Doctor Bob]

I thought you might approve of the topic! Have you ever read anything by Linda Dalrymple Henderson?

Haha, I found it now. A shame I didn't spot it in the original context.

Aye- it made far more sense in the original location (= conservatism).  For what it's worth, I have a funny relationship with that photo.  I think it's both highly embarrassing and absolutely hilarious, but the humour value seems to outweigh the embarrassment (<< oh look, chiasmus!), which is why you got to see what I'd look like if I were an accountant in my 40s (my sister's description of it).  It was taken for the website in work 2 years ago, but they've yet to find a reason to use it.

I've never heard of Ms Henderson, or rather I hadn't.  This has changed today, as has my list of books to be acquired.  Thankfully MIT Press seems to be reissuing her main one, given the ridiculous prices being sought on Amazon.  Thanks for the tip.

[girl]

I just realized I've been reading the boards all morning and I haven't said anything at all. So, hello. I'm thinking about going to see The Visitor later today. I don't know much about it, but it's by the guy who did The Station Agent, so that's promising.

[alex]

Robert: Yes, it was quite skillfullly placed in the original context, and I feel silly for not noticing it there first time around. And it's too hilarious to be embarrassed about, I think.

I've never heard of Ms Henderson, or rather I hadn't.  This has changed today, as has my list of books to be acquired.  Thankfully MIT Press seems to be reissuing her main one, given the ridiculous prices being sought on Amazon.  Thanks for the tip.

Oh wow, I had no idea it was so saught after! I just have a library copy in my shelf at work, which I never quite get around to reading. One of these days, one of these days. But it comes with highest recommendations from my two favourite historians of science* (both of whom also have a healthy interest in art history, or at least the intersection of history of art and science), so I feel fairly confident that you and I will not be disappointed.

* by that I mean my two favourite historians of science that I interact with on a regular basis, who are also the only historians of science I interact with on a regular basis, come to think of it. I don't know what my two favourite historians of science 'in writing' think of Henderson.

[Andrew_TSKS]

I just realized I've been reading the boards all morning and I haven't said anything at all. So, hello. I'm thinking about going to see The Visitor later today. I don't know much about it, but it's by the guy who did The Station Agent, so that's promising.

ooh, i really liked that movie. i just saw it a day or two ago. and i also just realized i didn't post about it. without whit around to bump the movie thread, i tend to forget to post my movies.

[FreddyKnuckles]

the station agent bored the living shit out of me, which probably says more aboot me than aboot the station agent

[peacocks]

the station agent bored the living shit out of me, which probably says more aboot me than aboot the station agent

I can see where one would be bored but it is a really good movie and I actually thought it was hilarious, the whole relationship between the agent guy and the coffee guy.  My step dad is really into trains like that, too, so it was cool to have his world acknowledged in a solid quality film.

[Wally]

the station agent bored the living shit out of me, which probably says more aboot me than aboot the station agent

it certainly does.

[Andrew_TSKS]

the station agent bored the living shit out of me, which probably says more aboot me than aboot the station agent

I can see where one would be bored but it is a really good movie and I actually thought it was hilarious, the whole relationship between the agent guy and the coffee guy.  My step dad is really into trains like that, too, so it was cool to have his world acknowledged in a solid quality film.

i agree completely with your contention that the relationship between finn and joe was hilarious. i also was kind of blown away at the way finn was just like "hi, i'm this quiet guy who likes trains. also, i'm really short", and all the girls he met were like "swoon". it almost made me wish i was a taciturn dwarf.

[C of heartbreak]

Ordering food online has made me extremely wary about ordering by phone. I just ordered a pizza and I'm nervous about whether it'll ever get here.

[Andrew_TSKS]

weird. i am nervous about ordering food online because i'm used to ordering by phone and i'm afraid that if i place an online order it'll never show up.

[C of heartbreak]

I mean I know it should all take a back seat to worrying that someone will spit/jizz in my pizza pie, but still.

[sassymcassface]

this is my image of heaven.

[Good Intentions]

I'm sure this is old hat to a lot of you, but Super Curveball is a real danger to my academic achievement.

[elpollodiablo]

This place has basically become a ghost town on weekends

And most weekdays, it seems like

[Babar]

you know what i love? tetris, that's what i love.

[Good Intentions]

Somewhere else on the internet I'm basically telling someone to shut up since he's stupid, and I feel really bad about it, but what a load of nonsense he rambles on about.

[G.C.R]

I dont know how you have time to keep up with any other forums. This one takes up almost all my internet time as it is.