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Stuff I found from the history on the computer I'm on in the computer lab:
Google searches:
how+to+teach+intertexuality
intertexuality+games
Clay+County+Florida
Clay+County+Florida+Juvenile+Justice
the+beatles+i+am+the+walrus+meaning
Yes, I was in fact, excited by intertexuality. And disappointed when I realized what it was. *snort* How to teach intersexuality. It's sexuality we can all share!
Random websites:
myspace.com
tabney.com
usmassd.edu/cas/polisci/bushjudges.pdf
Random Page Titles from History:
From Orpheus to Dylan, from VTO to WTO, Salman Rushdie's musical odyssey. (Does this mean there's gonna be like Satanic Verses: The Musical?)
....
What do you think the following terms/words/sounds mean?
1) meta
2) PWND
3) frell
4) teratogen
5) &viz.
6) E
7) guh
....
Brief thoughts on stuff like:
Kids in Public -
Kids eventually have to go out into public to learn to act human and social acceptable. And they're gonna muff it 'til they learn. People have to tolerate them. To a point.
I kinda draw a line, especially at movies. If I'm in a family, animated, or kid's movie I *KNOW* I have no right to bitch about the kids crying and babies wailing and stuff. I went to their turf. That movie was targeted towards them. They need a movie that's for them where they can learn to sit for two hours and be quiet and not talk (something that some ADULTS never learn, btw).
However, if I'm at a 10 o'clock pm showing of a rated R movie, it's a whole different ballgame. Because that's an *adult* movie, not meant for children, and if it starts at ten, chances are you won't get out of there 'til midnight. Thus, not convenient time for a child to be there. Forcing your kid to be there for your own enjoyment: not a good thing. Pisses me off. Bad Parent. No biscuit. I will complain to a manager.
Same with restaurants. Denny's, Waffle House, McDonalds, fast food joints, etc - it's kid central. It should be. It's a family restaurant, meant for families.
Somewhere nicer like Outback, Appleby's, and places even nicer than that (say...Bonefish or Carrabba's). Not kid central. I think my delineation is "do they serve alcohol or anything fancier than beer". Places with alcohol and a bar are more grownup. Not places for children, especially younger ones.
I try to be tolerant at grocery stores, Wal Mart, malls, etc. Because those are vastly public places where anyone is free to come in and indulge in a little consolidated capitalism. They are places where you will eventually HAVE to take a kid. To get clothes, food, etc. You can't avoid it.
That said: it's not right for parents to make people suffer through their children's misbehavior. I think that's what a lot of childfree folks are angry about, that some parents think everyone should be endlessly tolerant of whatever their kids choose to do, even when it entails injury to people, animals, or property.
I believe that your right to impinge on society via your kids does have limits. Limits you need to respect.
Especially when said impingements could have be prevented or the kid shouldn't have been there in the first place. We all have to share the Earth, and sharing doesn't work if only *some* people do it.
I will look kindly on your kids getting underfoot constantly at WalMart and screaming like banshees outside my window (because they gotta scream *somewhere*) if you look kindly on my rights to exist in a somewhat peaceful, scream-free environment.
No, you can't hide them like monks, but you can take them to the bathroom and have a little *talk* about "how we behave in public". You can also realize that a three-year-old has a fifteen minute fuse and will not behave after four hours of shopping. Also? Try working around *them* for a change instead of making them work around you.
Gleeposts -
Gleeposts are totally the best thing ever and *why* did I not do this before? I now find myself tagging things to put in my gleepost even if I don't make one.
They help me discard the bad things of my day. They give me a good mental balance. I feel healthier when I make one. I feel like my life is better, if only because I can now say everyday is good even if it wasn't spectacular.
It evens out the valleys and the peaks.
Everyone should do gleeposts. See how it changes your life.
Poetry -
I keep getting criticism for having complete sentences in my poetry (from poetry professor of craziness). She keeps spouting this witty (she thinks) phrase: "Poetry resists the intelligence almost successfully". She keeps saying that my poetry could be converted perfectly into prose, and therefore is not poetry.
I say: bah! It's not about how obscure and strange you can be. It's about how you can take someone somewhere.
Poetry is entirely about intelligence. Now, poetry may make your intelligence stretch and strain and twist itself into understand, but always, always it's about the mind. You don't do poetry with your digestive system or your reflexes. You do it with your MIND.
You can express non-intellectual things through poetry. You can pour out your heart in poetry. But always it is mediated by your intelligence.
So telling me to be *less* clear in my poetry is rediculous. Telling me to resist intelligence? Is like telling me that poetry almost successfully resists the urge to use WORDS.
The best poetry is the clearest, the one where I get. Where I get the point that you're trying to make. When I feel like your poem is focused on something. A big something, a little something. A silly something. A sad something. But there is a little kernel of *a point* somewhere in there that you lead me to with your words. Now, you may get me there on a long winding path, a pithy line, a couple of verse, an epic, a haiku, any way you like. But the point is there's somewhere to get. Thus: a journey
I like my prosey little poetry, thanks much.
....
Things you should tell me:
Give me song lyrics and see if I can identify them. I promise not to google.
Your vote for Most Evil Person Ever and Most Good Person Ever. Anyone dead or alive counts. Dieties not included.
Can you name the capitals of these countries without googling?: Sweden, Zimbabwe, Australia, Luxembourg, Tibet, Slovakia, Argentina, Indonesia, United States of America, The Ivory Coast, Sudan, and Egypt.
There's a million dollars up for grabs and you can gamble it all on a fifty-fifty chance that you'll win 100 million or lose it all. OR you can give half to charity and walk away with half.
- Meg
Google searches:
how+to+teach+intertexuality
intertexuality+games
Clay+County+Florida
Clay+County+Florida+Juvenile+Justice
the+beatles+i+am+the+walrus+meaning
Yes, I was in fact, excited by intertexuality. And disappointed when I realized what it was. *snort* How to teach intersexuality. It's sexuality we can all share!
Random websites:
myspace.com
tabney.com
usmassd.edu/cas/polisci/bushjudges.pdf
Random Page Titles from History:
From Orpheus to Dylan, from VTO to WTO, Salman Rushdie's musical odyssey. (Does this mean there's gonna be like Satanic Verses: The Musical?)
....
What do you think the following terms/words/sounds mean?
1) meta
2) PWND
3) frell
4) teratogen
5) &viz.
6) E
7) guh
....
Brief thoughts on stuff like:
Kids in Public -
Kids eventually have to go out into public to learn to act human and social acceptable. And they're gonna muff it 'til they learn. People have to tolerate them. To a point.
I kinda draw a line, especially at movies. If I'm in a family, animated, or kid's movie I *KNOW* I have no right to bitch about the kids crying and babies wailing and stuff. I went to their turf. That movie was targeted towards them. They need a movie that's for them where they can learn to sit for two hours and be quiet and not talk (something that some ADULTS never learn, btw).
However, if I'm at a 10 o'clock pm showing of a rated R movie, it's a whole different ballgame. Because that's an *adult* movie, not meant for children, and if it starts at ten, chances are you won't get out of there 'til midnight. Thus, not convenient time for a child to be there. Forcing your kid to be there for your own enjoyment: not a good thing. Pisses me off. Bad Parent. No biscuit. I will complain to a manager.
Same with restaurants. Denny's, Waffle House, McDonalds, fast food joints, etc - it's kid central. It should be. It's a family restaurant, meant for families.
Somewhere nicer like Outback, Appleby's, and places even nicer than that (say...Bonefish or Carrabba's). Not kid central. I think my delineation is "do they serve alcohol or anything fancier than beer". Places with alcohol and a bar are more grownup. Not places for children, especially younger ones.
I try to be tolerant at grocery stores, Wal Mart, malls, etc. Because those are vastly public places where anyone is free to come in and indulge in a little consolidated capitalism. They are places where you will eventually HAVE to take a kid. To get clothes, food, etc. You can't avoid it.
That said: it's not right for parents to make people suffer through their children's misbehavior. I think that's what a lot of childfree folks are angry about, that some parents think everyone should be endlessly tolerant of whatever their kids choose to do, even when it entails injury to people, animals, or property.
I believe that your right to impinge on society via your kids does have limits. Limits you need to respect.
Especially when said impingements could have be prevented or the kid shouldn't have been there in the first place. We all have to share the Earth, and sharing doesn't work if only *some* people do it.
I will look kindly on your kids getting underfoot constantly at WalMart and screaming like banshees outside my window (because they gotta scream *somewhere*) if you look kindly on my rights to exist in a somewhat peaceful, scream-free environment.
No, you can't hide them like monks, but you can take them to the bathroom and have a little *talk* about "how we behave in public". You can also realize that a three-year-old has a fifteen minute fuse and will not behave after four hours of shopping. Also? Try working around *them* for a change instead of making them work around you.
Gleeposts -
Gleeposts are totally the best thing ever and *why* did I not do this before? I now find myself tagging things to put in my gleepost even if I don't make one.
They help me discard the bad things of my day. They give me a good mental balance. I feel healthier when I make one. I feel like my life is better, if only because I can now say everyday is good even if it wasn't spectacular.
It evens out the valleys and the peaks.
Everyone should do gleeposts. See how it changes your life.
Poetry -
I keep getting criticism for having complete sentences in my poetry (from poetry professor of craziness). She keeps spouting this witty (she thinks) phrase: "Poetry resists the intelligence almost successfully". She keeps saying that my poetry could be converted perfectly into prose, and therefore is not poetry.
I say: bah! It's not about how obscure and strange you can be. It's about how you can take someone somewhere.
Poetry is entirely about intelligence. Now, poetry may make your intelligence stretch and strain and twist itself into understand, but always, always it's about the mind. You don't do poetry with your digestive system or your reflexes. You do it with your MIND.
You can express non-intellectual things through poetry. You can pour out your heart in poetry. But always it is mediated by your intelligence.
So telling me to be *less* clear in my poetry is rediculous. Telling me to resist intelligence? Is like telling me that poetry almost successfully resists the urge to use WORDS.
The best poetry is the clearest, the one where I get. Where I get the point that you're trying to make. When I feel like your poem is focused on something. A big something, a little something. A silly something. A sad something. But there is a little kernel of *a point* somewhere in there that you lead me to with your words. Now, you may get me there on a long winding path, a pithy line, a couple of verse, an epic, a haiku, any way you like. But the point is there's somewhere to get. Thus: a journey
I like my prosey little poetry, thanks much.
....
Things you should tell me:
Give me song lyrics and see if I can identify them. I promise not to google.
Your vote for Most Evil Person Ever and Most Good Person Ever. Anyone dead or alive counts. Dieties not included.
Can you name the capitals of these countries without googling?: Sweden, Zimbabwe, Australia, Luxembourg, Tibet, Slovakia, Argentina, Indonesia, United States of America, The Ivory Coast, Sudan, and Egypt.
There's a million dollars up for grabs and you can gamble it all on a fifty-fifty chance that you'll win 100 million or lose it all. OR you can give half to charity and walk away with half.
- Meg
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Date: 20 Oct 2005 23:04 (UTC)Most Evil: Hitler. Most Good: Um... I abstain.
No.
I'll give half to charity and walk away with the other half.
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Date: 22 Oct 2005 20:13 (UTC)Tommy Page, I think. Or an obscure BSB tune. Can't decide.
Most Evil: Hitler. Most Good: Um... I abstain.
I think if this poll was given widely, Hitler would probably win the dubious honor of being Most Evil Person to Ever Exist.
I dunno if I'd pick Hitler. Not because he wasn't overwhelmingly evil and well, evil. But because he had a whole lot of help perpetrating that much Evilness on the world. A lot of people around him had to be equally as twisted and evil, and a whole lot more people had to look the other way.
I think I might pick Stalin. Or possibly any person who's ever tortured an animal for fun.
No.
You can't even name *one* capital for fun?
I'll give half to charity and walk away with the other half.
Hmm. 500,000 is a pretty nice amount to walk away with.
- Meg
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Date: 22 Oct 2005 22:11 (UTC)*nods* Dude, no mortgage with that much money! ;)
And you're right on the lyrics, it's Tommy Page. (Why would I quote Backstreet Boys when I have Japanese Tommy Page to quote? :)
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Date: 20 Oct 2005 23:39 (UTC)2) PWND: Past tense of "to pwn." To win/excell/rock utterly, esp. in gaming.
3) frell: Sebacian for "fuck."
7) guh: Interjection. "Wow, that really really just WOW. Killed me ded."
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Date: 22 Oct 2005 20:15 (UTC)I knew my girl Ari would know exactly how to define that word.
I can probably use all of the words you defined in a sentence:
Guh! That meta about the Jossverse PWND the frell out of me!
Hehehe.
- Meg
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Date: 21 Oct 2005 11:40 (UTC)6) E - Um....Fifth letter of the alphabet, used in words Elephant, Empty, and Eerie to name a few. Also common slang term for the drug Ecstasy (methylene-dioxy-methamphetamine aka MDMA)
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Date: 22 Oct 2005 20:16 (UTC)Also - your noodly appendage looks wrongly phallic. I love it. I have the urge to make such jokes as "you can touch *me* with your noodly appendage". Probably much to the disgust of anyone who reads the comments.
But I live for that sort of thing.
- Meg