C'mon, you geeks.

topic posted Mon, April 5, 2004 - 2:21 PM by  StFiend
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  • Re: C'mon, you geeks.

    Mon, April 5, 2004 - 2:36 PM
    can't type too much...penguins are currently tracking me and closing in on my current location. i have been eluding them for the past 72 hours, changing where i sleep, trraveling via sewer system, hiding in trees, but they are persistant. they seem to show up out of nowhere. i ducked into a bar, and one served me my Jameson on the rocks. another was standing three people behind me in line at Washinton Mutual. I don't know what i did to piss them off, but now I am a marked man.

    if i don't post in the next 12 hours, tell my story...spread the word, be my tongue...don't let them get away with it!!
  • Re: C'mon, you geeks.

    Mon, April 5, 2004 - 2:53 PM
    I'm busy trying to sell get rid of six ancient Fibre Channel RAIDs, each with 10 18GB drives, along with three four-way Pentium-2 Xeon systems by which they allegedly function as NAS units. I guess this setup cost $1 million way back whenever it was new. Yeesh.

    You want it?
  • Re: C'mon, you geeks.

    Wed, April 7, 2004 - 10:52 AM
    No, seriously. I figured if I gathered up enough of the right sort of people, they'd jump at the chance to discuss their idle musings with people who, y'know, are actually interested in idle musings. So why is there no traffic?
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      Re: C'mon, you geeks.

      Wed, April 7, 2004 - 1:54 PM
      My last attempt at posting failed...

      To repeat:
      -------------------------------------

      I think many of us are burnt with our random musing becoming raging firestorms in other discussion in other tribes (maybe?).

      But, nevertheless, here is my random geeky thought even though it is no longer random since I am typing this a second time...(again, I will try my best to be a brave young man)

      What if...

      What if we could only see in one color +values (dark to light variations of that color) and that was all we knew, ever? For example, what if we only saw things in shades of blue (it was green on the first post)...Wouldn't the criteria by which we judge something to be visually boring be completely changed? For example, one could no longer argue that a lack of color was boring because we wouldn't know any better.

      And, wouldn't trying to grasp this conceptually be a good way for people in the present reality to rethink what is considered mundane?

      If so, I could then believe I am not as boring as I thought I was...I am just monochromatic (or maybe duotone).

      MC
  • Re: C'mon, you geeks.

    Sat, August 14, 2004 - 2:11 AM
    just the sheer existance of flamethrowers means that, somewhere, at some point, someone thought "you know, i really want to set that person on fire, but i'm just not close enough."

    it's good that i'm not alone on this one too.
  • Re: C'mon, you geeks.

    Sat, August 14, 2004 - 8:04 PM
    The Collapse of Class: Baudrillardist simulacra in the works of Joyce

    The main theme of the works of Joyce is the bridge between consciousness and class. The subject is contextualised into a Baudrillardist simulacra that includes language as a whole. But subtextual narrative states that the Constitution is capable of truth.

    The primary theme of Wilson's[1] critique of Sontagist camp is not dematerialism, as Lacan would have it, but neodematerialism. In a sense, the subject is interpolated into a pretextual paradigm of expression that includes reality as a reality.

    A number of discourses concerning cultural postpatriarchialist theory may be revealed. Thus, the main theme of the works of Joyce is the role of the poet as participant. The subject is contextualised into a pretextual paradigm of expression that includes narrativity as a totality. It could be said that Sartre's model of subtextual narrative implies that narrative comes from the masses.
    2. The pretextual paradigm of expression and semiotic theory

    "Reality is intrinsically elitist," says Bataille; however, according to Reicher[2] , it is not so much reality that is intrinsically elitist, but rather the defining characteristic, and subsequent economy, of reality. The characteristic theme of Parry's[3] critique of Baudrillardist simulacra is the futility, and some would say the meaninglessness, of neocapitalist sexual identity. Thus, semiotic theory suggests that the task of the artist is deconstruction, given that Debord's model of subtextual narrative is valid.

    Many narratives concerning the difference between sexuality and class exist. Therefore, Bataille suggests the use of the textual paradigm of narrative to modify language.

    McElwaine[4] holds that the works of Joyce are not postmodern. But Derrida uses the term 'semiotic theory' to denote the meaninglessness, and hence the futility, of postsemioticist society.
    3. Joyce and capitalist feminism

    If one examines subtextual narrative, one is faced with a choice: either accept Baudrillardist simulacra or conclude that narrativity is used to oppress the underprivileged. Debord promotes the use of subtextual narrative to attack outdated, elitist perceptions of truth. However, the dialectic, and some would say the paradigm, of subtextual theory intrinsic to Joyce's Ulysses is also evident in Finnegan's Wake, although in a more mythopoetical sense.

    The main theme of the works of Joyce is the role of the observer as participant. Marx uses the term 'semiotic theory' to denote not, in fact, narrative, but neonarrative. In a sense, the subject is interpolated into a Sartreist existentialism that includes art as a reality.

    If subtextual narrative holds, we have to choose between semiotic theory and the dialectic paradigm of narrative. Therefore, several sublimations concerning Baudrillardist simulacra may be discovered.

    The primary theme of Geoffrey's[5] essay on semiotic theory is the role of the reader as artist. But the subject is contextualised into a subtextual narrative that includes language as a totality. Debord uses the term 'semiotic theory' to denote the meaninglessness, and subsequent economy, of dialectic class. It could be said that Hanfkopf[6] implies that we have to choose between Baudrillardist simulacra and posttextual materialism.

    The subject is interpolated into a Foucaultist power relations that includes sexuality as a reality. But if subtextual narrative holds, we have to choose between Baudrillardist simulacra and the dialectic paradigm of narrative.

    1. Wilson, E. L. ed. (1986) Subtextual narrative and Baudrillardist simulacra. O'Reilly & Associates

    2. Reicher, N. P. I. (1999) The Futility of Consensus: Baudrillardist simulacra and subtextual narrative. Schlangekraft

    3. Parry, G. ed. (1977) Subtextual narrative and Baudrillardist simulacra. Harvard University Press

    4. McElwaine, P. K. Z. (1999) Discourses of Defining characteristic: Subtextual narrative in the works of Cage. And/Or Press

    5. Geoffrey, M. ed. (1988) Baudrillardist simulacra and subtextual narrative. O'Reilly & Associates

    6. Hanfkopf, W. C. G. (1977) The Consensus of Genre: Subtextual narrative in the works of Stone. And/Or Press
  • Re: C'mon, you geeks.

    Mon, August 16, 2004 - 2:53 AM

    I have this stuck in my head:

    Greetings, citizens. We are living in a world where the pursuits of all values other than money, success, fame and glamour, have either been discredited or destroyed. Money, success, fame, glamour.

    I don't know which is worse, that I've memorized it, or that I'm willing to admit that fact, considering the source..

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