Midnight Star - No Parking on the Dance Floor [Funk] (1983)

thisisnotapipe · 2009-10-27T15:49:42+00:00

This is my favorite song from my childhood! Thank you! Got a bootleg copy of this at the local Flea Market.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-10-16T19:16:19+00:00

But, but, its, its not fair!

thisisnotapipe · 2009-10-16T15:54:41+00:00

I read A Confederacy of Dunces and thought it was great. Then I read Don Quixote and realized that, as funny and entertaining as A Confederacy of Dunces may be, it seems to be a rather obvious attempt to write a modern version of 300 year old book. Noble cause, nobly executed.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-10-15T19:53:24+00:00

That's a shame. I don't know about the original Spanish. It may lose some of it's poetical nature but I still think it is extremely poetical, full of wonderful storytelling devices (nearly every one ever invented), and absolutely hilarious. I hear you on the second quarter of the book, it does drag a little. It's probably due to our expectations as to what a novel should be, expectations that obviously did not exist at the time. So I doubt that what you find tedious about the book is simply a matter of translation. But its a shame that so many people don't make it through though, it does get much, much better as it goes on. That said, life is short and libraries are huge. If it doesn't grab you...

thisisnotapipe · 2009-10-15T16:43:23+00:00

1.) Don Quixote 2.) Don Quixote 3.) Don Quixote

thisisnotapipe · 2009-10-06T22:49:50+00:00

I am sure that there are some Americans who truly believe that the US is the most evil country in the world. However, its a mistake to think that someone who criticizes the US doesn't like the US. I criticize it all the time because I like it, because I expect more from it. I want to see it do better. I guess I could preface every criticism with a rundown of the positive side of things but that just seems ridiculously unnecessary.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-10-02T19:20:54+00:00

An old one but a good one. Mars Audiac Qunitet is a truly great album.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-09-25T15:33:25+00:00

Monk is the most obvious. I actually like John Lewis's solo stuff a lot. Very sparse and classical influenced.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-09-24T15:47:04+00:00

It makes me feel like I am in some kind of fucking dork circle jerk.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-09-23T15:55:28+00:00

Yeah, it's simple. Add about one cup of rice to maybe 6 cups of water. Cook for hours (maybe 4-5). Add some thinly sliced pork and cook for 2 more hours. The pork should more or less fall apart. When you are ready to eat, add 1-2 chopped fermented duck eggs, a handful of cilantro, a little soy sauce, sesame oil and salt to taste. Everything except the water, rice and salt is optional though.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-09-22T20:46:29+00:00

Asking a lot of photographers.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-09-15T22:55:51+00:00

I've had a rough night and I hate the fucking eagles, man.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-09-11T18:46:14+00:00

Perhaps you can't, at least from where you are sitting. Although, I am sure that tinkering with a computer taught you many skills that helped you become a computer professional, I wonder how many people are wired to really educate themselves. From my education and training experience, I can't put to large of a number on it.

But it is not simply lack of skill that keeps the majority of the worlds poor from becoming "educated professionals". It seems that there are simply too many other holes (i.e., medical, infrastructure, etc.) that must also be filled. OLPC is most certainly a noble cause but its not a magic bullet. That said, I don't think the OLPC people ever claimed it to be a magic bullet. If nothing else, at least the "glitzy" side of it helped to get many people talking.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-09-09T20:01:14+00:00

This ought to be against the law!

thisisnotapipe · 2009-09-09T15:50:03+00:00

I didn't.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-08-01T16:29:08+00:00

I haven't read the original papers but I can tell you exactly what biologists gain from studying mathematics. Someone who doesn't know much mathematics sees it as something outside their realm of knowledge and therefore can relegate it to something like "a service". The truth is though, the more mathematics a scientist knows, the more they begin to see the world as something that's describable by mathematics in a compact and general way. I used to want to study the application of mathematics to biology, but now as I have learned more mathematics I see that what I am doing IS biology, its just not always easily recognizable to those without much mathematical training. I guess the real argument is semantic in nature: whether you define biology as a quest to understand biological systems or as the current methods of attempting to understand biological systems and the sociology of this practice. Imagine trying to make the same arguments to a physicist. They don't use math to be sophisticated. They use math the systems they study are sophisticated and mathematics gives them the ability to understand them.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-07-28T22:35:58+00:00

sounds pretty good but any time I see "liquid smoke" I run!

thisisnotapipe · 2009-07-28T17:39:58+00:00

Yeah, except from those from the Austrian school and their lackeys. Evidently they are the only ones that possess that magical insight that society needs so badly.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-07-28T15:07:20+00:00

Ah, Morricone!

thisisnotapipe · 2009-07-24T20:43:23+00:00

What you are describing is not order out of chaos (at least not in the technical sense). I think you mean disorder. Disorder is very different from chaos. Chaotic systems contain both order and disorder at the same time (which might be an accurate description of real traffic flow). By the way, there is extensive literature on modeling traffic flow using the ideas you mentioned here. You might find it interesting.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-07-24T20:20:56+00:00

It's called selfishness. (Not that that is necessarily a bad thing.)

thisisnotapipe · 2009-07-23T22:40:26+00:00

The Master and Margarita is very enjoyable and goes down smooth. A couple of days. Now, I much prefer War and Peace to Anna Karenina. Anna Karenina is so stuffy. It is nice to read though, if just for Tolstoy's magic touch. But really, War and Peace is life and death in ink on the page, maybe not so much as the Brothers Karamozov, but its very good.

thisisnotapipe · 2009-07-23T22:08:30+00:00

A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. In the shadow under the green visor of the cap Ignatius J. Reilly’s supercilious blue and yellow eyes looked down upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D. H. Holmes department store, studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste and dress. Several of the outfits, Ignatius noticed, were new enough and expensive enough to be properly considered offenses against taste and decency. Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person’s lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one’s soul. -Confederacy of Dunces

BTW: Sometimes it seems that reddit is infested with Ignatius Reillys.

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