Spam – Dirty Vikings

The use of the word Spam for unwanted emails has definitely hurt the canned ham company. No longer do people view this word as something you eat but more so as a waste of time. While we are on the topic of ham how did food dishes using the word Deviled come into play example Deviled Ham? Was it a bad thing to have your food Deviled?? :twisted: Great job on all of your lessons I really enjoy them.

MMMMMM!!! Fried Spam sandwiches! :smile:
MMMMMM!!! Frying Spammers until they quit! :twisted:

dude?

don’t you just hate it how people don’t fucking answer after telling them what kind of crap they posted?

Yea, makes my ass twitch.

I think we can post here without always replying to a reply. more space or something. too bad we can’t really talk bad about … things, as the posts show up in the “recent comments” column. damn. oh well.

waddayathank?

Maybe I should create a special place where the comments don’t show up in the most recent comments thingy :-) Let me see if I can do that…

yeah. call it nobodygetthefuckinhere. ;D

I actually made it so that these comments on this post (Dirty Vikings) don’t show up on the most recent comments thing on the right… check it out :-) A secret place for you guys to vent :-)

I mean.. sort of secret.. people can still find these comments if they come here.. and they might show up if the person logs into the backend thing.. but most people aren’t going to know about that.

I think you can change that in the wp-login.php. there should be some redirect_to thing. target shouldn’t be wp-admin but the frontpage.

How appropriate is this?

no, not that… this.

I don’t like socrates. I think plato was his invention and there was never a real plato. haha. fuck philosophy.

no, wait. the other way around. socrates was plato’s invention.

alright, so I went rhough afew articles by helen fisher. she explains many things with evolutionary factors. now, shouldn’t some of those factors be obsolete? like, the offspring thing. there’s a lot of men and women out there that don’t want children. but the factor that they choose a partner because he’s be a good choice for mating (unconsciously) remains? plus, medical science evolved in such a way that they don’t really have to worry about the health of their children.
I understand that there’s many factors guiding such a choice. but this seems to be a strong one. but shouldn’t there be some sort of shift in their preferences?

errr … “through”.

These evolutionary factors change at the rate of gene flow. It is a very slow process. The traits she describes will be with us for generations. Because these traits are still very successful and have very little negative affect on reproduction. There is variation among individuals. Some may have stronger or weaker drives. This accounts for some variability. However for many factors that seem obsolete or nonfunctioning, it is likely that the individual’s behavior as been altered by cultural forces.

For the most part it really is a question of nature or nurture. For the majority of human evolution these drives have functioned to benefit humans. It would take a significant change in the environment, a lot of death and/or reproductive failures and generations to alter these drives. But cultural adaptations allow humans to quickly cope with immediate changes in the environment. Individuals can override them without the species loosing something genetic that has worked for millennium.

The people that do not feel a need to have children because of a genetic factor do not pass that gene on, so that trait will not become common. I would expect that couples that do not want to have children nonetheless have a recognizable reaction to a mother cradling a dead child, a child’s casket, children’s grave markers.

As for children and medicine. Why did medical science evolve, why does it continue to do so? Science can now easily save enough children to ensure the survival of the species. Does society stop investing in children’s medicine? No, because humans want to protect their offspring as much as possible.

But how about those scenarios when parents neglect children, kill them. Often these are times of severe stress, real or imagined. The children are not yet independent, they are a stressors and may be perceived as a threat to survival. The children cannot reproduce, the adults can, once a secure environment can be established the adults can replace them.

Studies in developing countries show that the most common time that a man begins to beat his wife is during pregnancy. The studies further show that these households are the most economically stressed. How much more stressful with another mouth to feed. These behaviors all have a genetic component influencing motivation.

now, another thing I don’t really understand is this one.
let’s say two humans made their choice. woman and man, both in love and so on. that means the female has approved of the male being a potential father and all.let’s say they’re together for one, two, or three years. whatever. male doesn’t want to break up, female does. they break up.
now there’s two questions. one, where has the love gone?
(some kind of joke I made once in while: the human brain has about 180,000 billion neurons. one neuron is able to connect to about 2000 other neurons. connections between neurons change. thus, the structure of a certain neuronal network at a certain point of time is pretty unique and will change, and most likely never come back in this specific constellation. love, as everything else, is something happening on a neuronal level. when you fall in love, at that moment, you got a certain neuronal network constellation. so … if you believe, or put hope in eternal or permanent love, you should be hoping that your neurons are pretty fucking slow when it comes to connecting to other neurons.)
two, shouldn’t you expect a scenario where the male constantly tries to break out of the relationship in order to spread his genes or something, and that the female would try to do the opposite? after all, isn’t it some sort of evolutionary or genetic disposition to try and raise an offspring in pairs.

oh well …

argh. no. 180 billion. or 180,000 million. damnit.

and, what the hell is a fucking belly shirt?

first question, the romantic love has gone, both have had a seemingly successful mating experience, they’ve tried all the positions, the candles are burning low and the sheets need changed. The mind clears. The guy realizes that this arrangement is more beneficial in the long run, sharing responsibilities, resources. This girl could increase this idiot’s chances of long term survival. Girl realizes that his preoccupation with her breasts may be more infantile than erotic and he lasts longer in bed than on a job. In some cultures it is beneficial to maintain love over a long period of time to benefit both partners. If two people meet and they realize the have some long term benefits in staying together then they will construct ways to map the constellations and navigate by them. (that was bad)

Second question, yes. As common as cheating and divorce is among married couples that is exactly what is occurring. As long as this society tolerates it. I would argue that it is a genetic predisposition to securely raise offspring. This can be achieved in a variety of social structures and kinship systems. article

There are some relatively extreme variations on human sexual relationships and family structures. Consider the Sambia. The Sambia culture always shocks fresh anthropology student’s concepts of gender and sexuality. At least its not difficult to get a head in Sambia society.

belly shirt

Marina, check out this reading is sexy t-shirt.

ah, I see, thought so. over here we call it belly-free shirt. belly shirt leaves the imression that it is a shirt for bellies, doesn’t it?

I contemplated this too long. I think that because the shirt emphasizes the belly it is called a belly shirt. The same way that a t-shirt without sleeves is a muscle shirt because it shows off the muscles. If it emphasizes a specific part of the anatomy that part of the anatomy determines the type of shirt. At least I think that may be the logic at work. I know there are many exceptions, assless pants are exactly that pants without an ass. They aren’t called ass pants.

ass pants?

muscle shirt?

I hope the guy who buys the ass pants and muscle shirt does not successfully reproduce.

monkey sex
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZiTzxL3Nh4
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/09grandin.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4949445

ah, because it just fits.

try this if you got too much time.

meanwhile, I’ll get the collar and take jd for a walk.

marina,

disregarding the look — what did you change in the backend?

so, what is with the capitol L, aLx?

It was a major upgrade in WordPress.. to version 2.5 which changes the entire backend experience.. it also adds things like search to static pages that wasn’t there before…. and a bunch of other stuff.. but the upgrade seems to have been painless.

I’ve always written it aLx, since I use that name on sites (well, mostly I don’t bother anymore, but I’ll register nicks with a capital L anyway). actually, I don’t like capitals. not because I’m e.e. cummings, but for aesthetic reasons. and for efficiency. capital letters don’t add any information to a phrase, nor does the absence of them subtract information. the meaning of a phrase does not depend on capitalization. german is a language with a lot of capitalizations. like, nouns are capitalized. every single one of them. there are endless discussions in forums etc. about this. there was a spelling reform in 2006 over here. it started in 1996, one suggestion was “moderate use of small letters”. that, however, didn’t get through. sometimes I feel like a fucking warrior, fighting against the capital-letter fascists or something.

the capitalization of the L comes with leet speak, actually. in this case, it’s wrong, cause it should be alX to indicate that it is pronounced al-x (like, “this is where a new word / morpheme / sound starts”, most people do that in javascript, too (I never did) — the event-handler “on mouse over” is mostly written as “OnMouseOver”, not as “onmouseover”, doesn’t make any difference, though). but I like it this way. “alx” is fine with leet speak, too. and it’s one letter less I got to type. and it’s transparent. no one is gonna ask themselves what “alx” stands for.

I know I’m not being consequent as I use “I”, not “i” … I don’t know why I never changed that one. thought about it a lot, though. maybe I’m self-centered? hehe. nah. I got used to it, I guess.

That was entertaining, and now I don’t have any time.

Your a complex guy aLx, don’t discuss this on a first date, there will never be a second one. Unless she’s a geek. I came across another bazar website by wyo550 posting a comment on spitting image answer. Life must be so exciting and lonely for these guys.

my tactical approach to a “date” is this one:
a) say as little as possible,
b) focus on your breathing,
c) smile (important),
d) look her in the eyes.
e) do that eyebrow thing, preferrably when smiling,
f) don’t smile all the time, that’ll make you look stupid.

this has several advantages:
one, she’ll think that I’m a great “listener”.
two, I don’t have to think about funny stuff.
three, I’m not her fucking personal entertainer.
four, I’ll appear to be relaxed. “cool.”
five, I always feel uncomfortable if someone knows more about me than I know about them.
six, I’ll only talk about things I know.
seven, I’ll appear to be truely interested in her (personality).

my actual approach to a date is this one:
a) enjoy your coffees and cigarettes,
b) hope she’ll make some sense out of what I’m saying,
c) unless inevitable, use “possibly / maybe / most likely / I guess …” instead of “yes / that’s true / you’re absolutely right …”,
d) same goes for negations,

yeah, yet another enlightened one. hehe, see, this is what I mean. always the crappiest web sites.

I should try and invent some sort of church. I’ll probably get rich. and I’ll probably get all the women, too.

sometimes it doesn’t matter what you say anyway.

Oh fuck. I give up, I can’t live here anymore.

hm. wanna move to europe?

I think the best part in that clip is when the host says, “thank you very much, south carolina”.

Hah! I found one! A stupid German nonetheless!

have you ever thought about checing out google mail? no dinging there. plus, it organizes your emails. it kinda threads them, so that there’s only one line per conversation. I use gmail as my secondary email address also for those reasons.

lol. alright, alright … we usually hide them in our basements, you know. :/ either that or we allow them to make stupid music with stupid lyrics.

I can just turn the dinging off. It can also thread them like you described, I use apple.

let’s let bygones be bygones and be friends!

no, you can’t, damnit! that was a google invention! pah! :((

Afraid?

I should post this on the balls lesson.

damn. people will think you’re german or something. think twice. hehe.

in the upgrade announcement:

[...] your twin sister’s two main admirers posts (alx & Buzzword)

what’s he talking about? is this some sort of april fools’ shit?

marina,

links within comments open in a new tab / window. glad you changed that back again. but if the poster’s name is linked to a site it opens up in the same tab. :/

uh. what’s with those icon-thingies?

Called a gravatar… add one! Go here for instructions

so, what’s the difference between an avatar and a gravatar?

uh. the colums on the right moved down below the comments. is that normal?

never mind …

no, wait. not never mind. lol. that was supposed to be a reply to my avatar/gravatar question.

mh. it works with the internet explorer but it doesn’t work with firefox. this is weird. :/

gravatars are globally recognized avatars.. ie: they work on every wordpress site.

what doesn’t work?

I’ll send you a mail …

Oh wow aLx, that video was DEPRESSING! :shock:

alright … I emailed you to word_love…etc.

it looks all screwed up, somehow. :(

Should be cool now, right? Normally things are screwed up on IE not Firefox! But I think I fixed it :?:

yes. thx. :)

I think I fixed those open in new windows deals… let me know if you encounter any external links that don’t open in new windows.

the links posted by derfasthirnlosenick on “butterfly” don’t mopen in a new window. they do in here, on “spam”, though. oO

Wow! That drove me crazy.. he forgot the close /a thing.. messed me up!

yeah, I don’t know why browers interpret it as a link when there’s no close a. this is how the internet gets fucked up. ;))
I still don’t get it, though. why would it open in the same window if wp / the browser recognizes it as a link? I guess I should read up on x(h)tml, php, and wp. I’m used to html and css. yay. old school. \o/

I need a fucking air-raid shelter.

I remember nuclear bomb drills in school. Nuclear war, those were the days. How cold was the cold war paranoia over there aLx? How old are you anyway?

I’m gonna be 30 at the end of september. damn. 30. THIRTY!

I remember having roll calls, I think that’s what you’d call it, at school. that wasn’t really cold war stuff.
I didn’t have a bad childhood. in fact, I had a pretty good one. didn’t mis anything. we had oranges and bananas, too. ;)
of course, there were marxism/leninism classes at school but that would have been in 11th grade or so. wasn’t old enough to experience that. I remember the school system changing all of a sudden. that was weird. went to five different schools. I don’t recall any paranioa.
after the so called unification, though, that’s when things got pretty bad for a lot of people over here. my parents lost their jobs, for example. a lot of well educated people lost their jobs. you know, all those politicians have always been complaining about having not enough academics, especially engineers. my dad’s an engineer. in fact, he’s got like three academic degrees. now, did he find a job back then that would’ve been related to what he did before, to what he studied? no. so … many people were really, really frustrated. and this generation still is.
it was always called “reunification”, but you shouldn’t call it that. reunification implies that the countries, the negotiating partners, doing that are more or less negotiating on some sort of equal level. it should’ve been called accession or attachment, not reunification.
most people from the former west germany don’t understand that. they still think that they were like a god’s gift or something.
don’t get me wrong, there were a lot of good things happening, but also a lot of bad things. you wouldn’t find those things in the press, and that means they went down the memory hole.
my family and their friends get together occasionally, like every other family. and there’s a lot of stories they can tell. my uncle once said: “back then we had certain problems, now we got other problems. and they’re not easier problems”. I think that’s a great sentence and it sums it all up, kinda.
today’s problems are different ones, like, fear of losing one’s job, fear of one’s (job-related) existence.
and, like I mentioned in an earlier post, there’s a lot of depression, fear, stress-related anxieties and all that. maybe those things just come with capitalism, “democracy”, and “freedom”.
believe me, people are not repressing the “bad” things or something.
funny thing is … some things that were normal in the gdr just vanished in 1989/90. now, all of a sudden, they come back. of course, it’s the great politicians now who came up with the idea. yeah. the educational system. you know the pisa thing? they survey? number one was finland. they got their educational system from the gdr. lol.

sorry, sometimes I feel like I have to defend the country I was born in. but it’s actually the people I’m trying to defend, you know. trying to make other people understand why there’s such a great frustration among a lot of people over here. people between the age of, let’s say, 55 — 80 or something. for a lot of people of this generation things did not change for the better, they changed for the worse.
of course, there’s a lot of other examples, yes. but … you can’t just forget about the other ones, you know.
I remember going on vacation to czechoslovakia, bulgaria, hungary, and romania. those were great vacations in great cities (you’ve got to see praque, budapest, bucarest!).

marina,

since some people know about certain linguistic termini, but a lot of others don’t — maybe you would consider doing a glossary? like, what is a morpheme and the like. I think that’d help some people to understand what other people are talking about and then even engage in conversations? like, some time ago I was involved in a conversation about morphemes, I think. some guy asked what morphemes are, I tried to explain it and then he understood the whole thing, or he got an idea of what other people were talking about.
just an idea.

I’d probably need help with that glossary.. any interesting online resources I can use to get started?

huh? online? yeah, I guess. but those are probably very technical definitions. you’ll find explanations in every introduction to (generative) linguistics. shouldn’t be that hard.
hey! you’re a philologist! you ought to know that stuff. ;P

you shouldn’t get too complicated anyway. just basic stuff. easy stuff. morphemes, phonemes, syntax. you know, like, just touching the basic disciplines of linguistics — morphology, phonology/phonetics, syntax, semantics. very broad stuff.
I’m not talking x-bar theory, binary branching, move alpha, raising, control, do-insertion, cp/ip, ecm, minimalism, non-linear morphology, or universals here.

I only mentioned online as I am so busy with my lessons.. writing something up from scratch would be too time consuming that it would never end up getting done.

buzzword’s gonna do it!

no, wait … he’s not riding a white horse … damn.

I’ve been reading the debate on slang. The appeals to Marina are an effort to have her further popularize their own norms. To censor or not to censor? The arguments get repetitive. Many of the conservative opinions are from the U.S. Many of her audience are not.

The rest of the world seems to have coped very well with vulgarity, nakedness and sex. Marina’s site is a global forum. That global quality is the force that is improving U.S. society and the world. Marina is a playful academic and is not just introducing people to words, she is introducing people to a healthy and fun exploration of human meaning.

Like my son exploring the garden and forests he is going to get dirty, hurt and scared. In doing so, all the more human. From my backyard to the world, if my son and the rest of the humanity can survive it I am quite sure that the conservatives in the U.S. can as well.

Now to share my thoughts on the slang thread.

maybe this is a place to start.

I would honored to help the fair lady Marina in her distress. If only for the pleasure stealing the delight of her attention from her many other noble suitors. Fuck that, I’m busy. I’ve got family, three kids, school, work… although the glossary wouldn’t have to be that extensive, and the definitions short and simple. Hmm I’d consider collaboration perhaps. Even if what’s her name doesn’t help.

Hey, don’t you have a TA lacky to do that shit!

Hey, doesn’t Marina have a T.A. lacky to do that shit?

ha, see how busy I am. Just repeated myself.

I propose that buzzword be appointed ta. ehehehehe.

Yeah… I’ve been so busy I haven’t even chosen a TA yet! Too busy to pick an assistant! :shock:

maybe I should register another nickname. something like, wth-fu-wtf-stfu-omfg-mofo. and then I’ll post thousands of word requests and she just has to take one of them. yeah, I like that idea.

ok, here’s another link.

so, marina,

if I registered that nickname would you do a word request then? haha. that’d be so funny. ;D

why do so many people asocciate profanities / slang /whatever with nakedness, sexuality? is this where the “dirty” notion comes from?

like, telling her not to use slang words, and if she did she could as well strip or do porn. that’s just strange.

I wish it were strange, just common here.

Was reading up on emergence theory and came across this… art

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pZpcGwWfRBE

http://blog.orbswarm.com/

those robots reminded me of the attack of the killer tomatoes.

I don’t think they would have got funding if they had described it as you did.

If you use slang words… then that leads to profanity… next thing you know.. you’re naked and that, we all know, leads to a starring role in a porn film. Makes sense. :shock:

right. so I’m gonna be a porn star sometime. that’s good to know in advance.

I had a chance to see springsteen doing the seeger sessions in concert for free and chose to go home a spend the evening with my then pregnant wife because she couldn’t go. Later she says, I would’ve gone. aargh!

does using dirty words lead to mud wrestling?

lol.

me too.

on the slang thread. So, I says to bob, “for the sake of liberty everyone better be prepared to be offended.” To which he compares the Amritsa Massacre of 1919 in which women and children are gunned down. Then asks, “How does a child prepare to be offended? What the fuck!

artlover is pissing me off as well, fucking hypocrisy of these opinions. How can he use the word, “jagoff” and cater to pornographers and criticize my language and marina’s videos. “You should avoid touching your breasts while dancing in the videos.” This guy has some issues! Why are all these opinions from the U.S.? Never mind, where is my passport.

yeah, well, this is pretty weird shit. to me anyway.
I had to read this massacre crap twice cause I didn’t believe he really wrote that. wtf.
never thought this debate would get so … well … how it is. kinda irritating. people are surrounded by “dirty” words everyday. even springsteen, not kown for “ganxta” shit, sings “the early bird catches the fucking worm” and “all the rest of that shit”.

and, how can you be an art lover anyway if you don’t know one of the most famous american writers?
war and peace? yeah right. bet he hasn’t even seen this book.

and this other dude … 9.999 = 10?
what the hell is that? they tought him that in hs? his math teacher must have sucked.

I remember my math teacher in 11th and 12th grade asking me what a point is. first thing he said that morning. before saying anything else. just looked at me and asked that question.
and I was explaining and explaining … you know … talking about co-ordinate systems, precise, unique allocation … three-dimensional co-ordinate systems, x-plane, y-plane, plane in general. must’ve talked for about 10 minutes. and I thought: damn! that was fucking great! I suck in math but this explanation right there fucking rocks!
and he looked at me, didn’t say shit. his expression didn’t change a bit. after about 30 seconds he’s like: “a point is an angle that has its legs ripped out. a point is not defined.”
and what I thought was, WARGH! I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU SOME DAY, YOU MOTHERFUCKING, COCKSUCKING SON OF A BITCH! WTF!

hopefully.

hehe, just couldn’t resist.

Weird how people who portend to be “pure” notice things like that. I didn’t even notice. Makes you wonder what’s really going on in people’s minds sometimes.

dude. damn. they’re right about the 0.999999etc = 10 thing.

I just asked someone who studied computer sciences. now there’s a REAL geek.

he used the same argument, more or less:

6/9 = .66666666 etc.
7/9 = .77777777 etc.
8/9 = .88888888 etc.
9/9 = well … yeah, it’s not .999999 etc. it’s 1.

fuck math. suckers. :/

no, wait, edit. it is .99999etc but per definitonem x/x = 1, so 9/9 = 1.

so, .99999etc = 1.

so it’s kinda both. or something.

yea, but if 9.999=10 shouldn’t 10/9.999∞=1 it doesn’t it is 10/9.999∞=1.000∞1 I forget, can I have a decimal in a fraction? I’m just dividing a fraction by a fraction… This is all remember about 9.

uh. let’s talk about something else. ;)

O.K. but I just found my big ass calculator and put new batteries in it. I found it shoved between some lousy sketches and bad poetry. Want to talk about art and literature?

so, what does the calculator say?

art and literature. difficult subject. art is kind of suspect to me. there’s only two people that I consider as artists. dalí and escher.

I got a grammatical question.

I used to know this, that is, kinda intuitive back when I was an exchange student. now it’s confusing me.
the problem is, I don’t really know when to use simple past, present perfect or past perfect.
I understand that there’s some sort of time line when using the perfect tense. but sometimes there doesn’t seem to be a difference. In german nowadays, there is no real distinction between simple past and present perfect.
I always get confused now. :/

this is the good part about russian, by the way. they got only three tenses. past, present, future. (the rest is complicated, though.)

you asked about the cold war in an earlier posting.

I’m a subscriber to both thew new york times and the moscow times.
top story in today’s moscow times: Putin Tries Surprise NATO Offensive. this is about the plans of the u.s. to set up some missile defense system in the czech republic.
it wasn’t even mentioned in the politics section of the nyt.

so, where are we at? the whole world is talking about the cold war being over.

Moscow says that missile-defense system could threaten Russia’s security and tip the strategic nuclear balance in favor of the United States.

“War, goes a Russian joke, is a means by which Americans learn geography.”

lol!

As soon as you reminded me of the rule I began getting confused. Increasingly it seems, (u.s.) people are freely switching the part that specifies the immediacy of the past event. Which generally determines present perfect or simple past. Grammatical example: I have seen three movies this week. (present perfect) I saw three movies last week. (simple past) Ungrammatical example: I saw three movies this week or Grammatical example: I have seen that movie already (present perfect) I saw that movie on Thursday. (simple past) Ungrammatical example: I saw that movie on Thursday. Grammar Link

That last ungrammatical example should read; I saw that movie already.

Art has always been suspect to me and I’m an artist. I read somewhere that the part of the brain which interprets art is the same part that lies. Which admittedly is a creative process as well. The more I get into evolutionary psychology and neurology the less impressed with the fine arts or f.arts I am. Science explains it without all the bullshit. Well, actually I am impressed by art but for entirely different reasons. My descent/ascent actually began with cultural anthropology and studying the arts of other cultures. I began to reevaluate western high art within a context of western culture and then warhol started making more sense. Art instructors hated it when I used the word gimmick to describe a style. I dig escher, but we are getting back to math again. I appreciate dalí but I quickly get mentally fatigued or overexposed viewing it. A critique of my own limitations instead of dalí. I like a lot of different art, but the motivation is how art manipulates my moods and mental processing or just plain pleases me. I like what certain pieces do to my head and then considering why. Sometimes the why turns out to be pretty fucking simple. I recall saying how I liked some of rockwell’s stuff among some my terminally avant-garde friends and the rallied responses were, “sentimental, romantic, patriotic, illustrator…” Fuck em’. I like what I like. Some of my friends are/were heavy into the goth scene. But for me, I was in school, elbows deep in a cadaver’s gut and taking some forensics classes. So the exposures didn’t really come together for me, I appreciate the shit but just doesn’t function for me. Another time, another place maybe. Same for us all. I like bukowski, I like alot of the beats, but I don’t get ginsberg. Now I’m getting into literature. Better stop now. Hey, I recall Marina paints.

funny and fucking true.

just downloaded that safari browser. lol. apple feeling on vista or something.

people in the u.s. have progressed beyond walking upright and are now able to walk with their head up their asses. Although now able to further protect their heads from harm their brains are full of shit. It remains to be seen if this increases their chances of survival. Notice my lack of using the word “we”.

so, buzzword, planning a trip to california?

you saw that link coming, right? well, I just had to post it. one of the best songs anyway, in my opinion. plus, it’s a great version.

no, wait. “you’ve seen it coming”, right?

I’m surrounded by artists. a friend of mine is a photographer, she also wrote a novel (some crime novel for teens), her boyfriend is a puppet player. a few friends of mine are into music. and I … well … as for now I’m the web dude, doing all the technical stuff on the website … I got to learn how to read. I mean, really read, as in reading text to other people, or for recording respectively. that’s hard.

so, what kind of artist are you?

so, in the battle of the sexes we all play dirty?

Generally bad and unproductive.

I’ve done pencils, sculpture and some photography. I doubled majored, anthropology and comparative studies. Comp. Stds. being conveniently vague. During the Comp. Stds. major I got into performance studies or theater, music studies and art history. My b.a. took 7-8 years. I’ll always be pissed because I thought I was graduating with two b.a.’s but my advisor fucked up. So I got a single b.a. with two majors. Musically I’ve never really played anything, but when hanging out during band practices I end up banging on metal. test department style.

yeah, you go to ca. cause I’m going to miami. yay. hotel and flight booked today. :DD

kinda excited. not because it’s a long trip or something. just because I’ll set foot on u.s. soil again after more than ten years. \o/

Some fun in the sun!! :smile: It’s “you saw that link coming”.. you had it right the first time :-)

thinking isn’t always that good, I guess. it’s like syntax. the longer you look at a sentence and the more often you repeat it, the better it gets. damn.

Make sure you take a break from all that thinking while on vacation. How long is the break? I don’t imagine you as the disneyland type, south beach is popular. Hope you enjoy yourself!

I’ve never seen this one before. Beautifully done. My wife is a big eagles fan.

17 days, starting june 25.

naw, back in 96 we went on a trip to fl. orlando, clearwater. disneyland, and the other thing … I was there twice though. the other time on my own, visiting a girl in tampa. hehe. yeah, I like fl.

hotel is in miami beach.

dude … all those fuckers slobbering and most likely jerking off all over the place. what the fuck.

What in the hell are you ranting about?

Ha! I got one for the mathholes!

haha i just stumbled upon this page. reading all your guy’s posts was entertaining

ah, you know. the horse riders. not just that they’re riding, you know, from time to time they get off their fucking horses to … just talk crap. I don’t know. I’ll find some examples …

alright, here we go …

“La femme aux pommes…”

“If Eve were like you, is it any wonder that Adam took a bite of that apple?”

“If Eve looked liked Marina, it wouldn’t be an apple he’d want to taste…it would be those luscious lips.”

“However, if there was any evidence for God that I’ve seen lately, it is Marina. She surely is divinely inspired.”

“I don’t know about bikini, but Marina’s breasts do strange things being set so widely apart. It’s mesmerizing.”

“I was on :cloud nine: watching your video.”

and it goes on and on … an it gets worse … yeah, I know, maybe yesterday’s posting was some kind of overreaction, especially because I’m not her. it just gets annoying reading this.
I don’t even bother reading the comments on youtube anymore.

by the way, this is why I like the “are you still with me?” part in one or more of her earlier videos. that was funny! she should do that again in one of her upcoming videos.

looks interesting. but, to be honest, I don’t think I can follow. math was … well … a long time ago. I had to do a class (course?) on formal logic. syntax, morphology, and semantics are pretty formal, too. one of my profs (the best one in the whole fucking world, I swear) at the university of saarbrücken told me to try computational linguistics. that involved computer sciences / programming and a lot of math. she was like, well, I don’t think it’s that different from syntax etc. binary systems. but I told her that I think that syntax etc. and math are two not-so-closely related subjects. I could be wrong. well. I think she thought that was a weird thought of mine. I spent a great deal of time in her office (hours) asking her all kinds of syntactical stuff. stuff that she didn’t really teach. not because she didn’t want to. anyway, she even lend me books and articles. chomsky, pollock (ever read his famous article from ’89? great stuff.).
I’d better stop now, drifting too far away from the subject.

Yea, I soon as I read a post and that shit starts I skip to point in which they stop thinking with their hypothalamus. What they are really doing is turning each other on by talking to each other. They are causing little amounts of dopamine to be released in their brains. They are rewarding themselves and each other, a reward usually released for having sex among other things. So although they may be motivated by marina they are really satisfying each other. Which for me is liking encountering ugly people making out. I’m happy for them but, uck! look away, look away! Their actions remind me a lot of bonobo behavior in which when something good happens they jump around stimulating each other. Also reminds me of an rat experiment. Rats that had become addicted to getting the stimulation they desired from hitting a switch and getting direct stimulation to the brain… run on sentence The researchers stopped giving them as much. The rats coped with the stress in three ways. They would run over and gnaw on a piece of wood like fiends, forget what the second was, maybe wank off, and third they would find another rat a beat the shit out of them. Being a lab rat sucks. hrm… have to go.

At least the comments are on the positive side…. over at YouTube it’s of the same order of magnitude.. but on the negative side.. so it helps to balance out my aura in the universe.. ifyouknowwhatImean? :-)

now I remember. the researchers turned off the switch and the second rat response was repeatedly hitting the switch like a gutter punk junkie on heroine.

Oh, delightful marina! Your aura is a pure and guiding light, all pixie dust and sparkles that illuminates with gentle wisdom… Blah, I don’t know how those guys come up with that stuff. And then the insulting stuff on youtube, its like reading the stalls in public toilets. I’d hate to have to read though all the stuff you do. Some of it has to sink in and bother you. I’d be walking around punching random guys in the nose. Well, I do but I’m working through some personal issues. ha.

Oh, I suck at math. Barely got out of high school because of flunking that and bad test scores in others. But I enjoy beating my head up against the wall the separates us and plato’s transcendental reality. Once I was studying for a trigonometry exam. Getting late and I was exhausted and completely broken. I dropped my head to the table and felt a sharp pain. I lifted my head slightly and the prong in my notebook was stuck in my head. It fell out and blood started running down into my eye. I thought, “great, I’ve just damaged my frontal lobe, responsible for decision making.” So, yea, math is… not my favorite. Aspects of linguistics definitely seem mathematical to me though. I’ll look up the pollock article, I like some of his paintings.

you’d be looking for jean-yves pollock. the article is “Verb Movement, Universal Grammar, and the Structure of IP”. he compares french and english in certain aspects and proposes to split iP into AgrP and TP.

can’t find that article anywhere on the web. it’s cited a lot, though.

I used to be able to access most academic articles on the internet because of university access. Its aggravating that I can’t access them anymore, and to purchase them or subscribe to the journals is too damn expensive. I was kidding about pollock.

“the only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.”

hehe. you into movies, buzzword? if so, you might know the quote above. from one of the best movies. when I took that picture I thought it was funny to connect the toilet and the movie. it’s a weird restroom anyway. kinda big. only that one toilet in there.

Move junkie. Falling a little behind, busy life. I remember that quote from the trailer, revolver. That was a good movie. I had to watch it several times, could watch it a couple more. Reminded me a little of, the usual suspects and fight club. But it stands on its own. Recommending movies based on quotes sounds like fun. Better than math.

an easy one

I’ve just spent 120 quid on me hair, if you think I’m puttin a stockin over me head you’re very much mistaken.

and a difficult one from the u.s.

You gotta look mean or people won’t respect you. White people will run all over you if you don’t look mean. You gotta look like a warrior! You gotta look like you just came back from killing a buffalo!

But our tribe never hunted buffalo – we were fishermen.

clips of both available on youtube, of course.

That picture was of an actual toilet?!

man, trailers suck. :/

the weird thing about jason statham is, he never seems to play in bad movies, only good ones. the transporter, crank, war, lock, stock, and a barrel (that was your first quote — yeah, great movie).

the second one, I don’t know. sounds like a native american thing. only thing that comes to mind is mel gibson’s apocalypto, but that’s not it.

#1:
“she convinced me this would lead to the holy grail. harvard. a place where I would finally be surrounded by people I had something in common with. I’m not gonna ask for much, they don’t have to be a springsteen fan.” (–> imdb entry.)

#2 (I guess everyone would know that one):
“we can’t stop here, this is bat country.” (–> imdb.)

yeah?!

it’s in that more or less small theater. well, not exactly that small. hm. they do a lot of readings in there.

hrm… that link for the second movie quote I posted didn’t work. It is Smoke Signals Not exactly an edgy movie but distinct in its representation of contemporary native american life and the involvement of so many n.a.’s in the film making process. It’s a good movie if you can find it.

The first quote sounded really familiar but I couldn’t identify the movie. I expect I’ve heard somebody else quote it. I have never seen this movie, but wanted to and completely forgot about it. I hear that ricci’s acting is very good. She’s playing in a new movie about a pig faced girl.

The second quote I did get. I really enjoyed that movie, lots of good quotes. You won’t find that kind of journalism anymore. But I would hardly say that he was doing journalism as much as journaling. My favorite quote is, “There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”

Now let me think of a quote something german maybe…

Got one, but I had to look up the qoute for this movie. The movie is german.

Yeah, to be able, once in a while, to enthuse for evil. To draw all the demons of the earth from passers-by and to chase them out into the world. To be a savage.

Or at last to feel how it is to take off shoes under a table and wriggle your toes barefoot, like that.

I don’t know the guy and would never date him. Please! Give me a little more credit!

lol. he’ll be glad to read this.
so, pauly, if you read this … if you ever get to meet julia bond … tell her she’s a great actress, I’m a big fan. har!

dude, I’m really bad at lying to other people, you know. so, that rules out the cult thing.

well, if someone got a name linked to a website and you clicked on it, he could find out where you live (won’t take too long if their website is a really small and not well known one, will take forever if you got a site like hotforwords with I don’t know how many hits/views/sessions per day.). well, at least the city.
actually, reading ip logs can be interesting. to see where all those people that viewed your website come from. also, how they found it. like, if they did a google search for your website, or if they googled something else and just accidentally got to your site. or if they clicked on your nickname on here or some other website you put your link on.
they won’t know your name or anything but your ip address, your internet service provider, your operating system, your browser, the time at which your ip accessed which page/file of your website. that can be helpful for statistics.

don’t get all paranoid now. ; )

err… what happened? is something missing in here? looks kinda different?

alright, delete this …

Hey, what are doing? I didn’t ask you to watch the damn movie just guess the title. It’s a relatively old movie and they did a remake in the u.s. starring nicolas cage that really sucked. Now give me an answer and some popcorn, lightly buttered, that shit will kill ya.

starring nicolas cage? I ought to know that movie then, I guess. damn. I don’t think it’s ghost rider, huh?

btw, I like nicolas cage. I liked “leaving las vegas”, lynch’s “wild at heart”, and “lord of war”.

Ghost Rider! It was originally a german movie. The movie is Wings of Desire. Relatively older movie 87′, maybe before your time young man. Although I didn’t see it until a few years ago. Has Nick Cave singing in it. Familiar with Cave? Hey, I’m taking a psych. test, I don’t have time for this! Haven’t seen Ghost Rider.

another quote:

“better dead and cool, than alive and uncool.”
–> link.

young man! I’ll be fucking thirty in a few months! this sucks. this number just sucks. you know, right now I still can say, “I’m in the late twenties” or something. won’t be able to do that anymore. crap. what am I gonna say? “I’m old”? thirty. there are no euphemisms for that, are there?

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. I seem to remember movies with nudity within the first five minutes of the intro. That was a fun movie, I ought to wear my cowboy boots more often. You know you stop being cool after thirty.

sure, haven’t you heard of, “Young at heart.” Does that make you feel better?

I don’t know, man.
someone once told me, getting 30 sucks, getting 31 is cool. well, hopefully.

It’s the attitude, being young doesn’t make you a bad ass. Being a bad ass makes you a bad ass. Be a bad ass thirty year old. I was sitting in a theatre with my wife watching… legend of sleepy hollow. Johnny Depp. These two young shits yelled out, “rape em” during a scene. Most of the “old” scowled and squirmed in their seats. The young smiled and giggled. I got up walked down the aisle put my hands on their shoulders, lowered my head between theirs and said to both of them, “Shut the fuck up or you will be choking on your own balls.” And then I sat back down. The two kids didn’t move the entire movie and nervously left at the end of the movie. The old respected me, didn’t want to fuck with me either. I am not young nor old I am trouble. I’m guessing that if you stay true to who you are, regardless of age, you will make any age a damn fucking great time to be. Always be true to the rebellious nature of the intellect, love, spirit and all that shit. Ignore thirty, piss on thirty, fuck thirty, to hell with thirty, life is the thing.

I’ll have to come up with quotes that are not so easy, I guess. I’ll think of something.

meanwhile, another easy one.

quote:

“why do you say it’s an 18 speed bike when it has only nine gears?”
“huh? what?”
“ya. ya. six right here, three at the other end of the chain. six plus three equals nine. it’s a nine speed bike.”
[...]
“wait. wait. now I count eight. six here, and then two in the front, that makes eight.”
“what do you think happened to the missing gears?”
“think? I know. they were probably working on it, these gypsy grifters, with improper tools, no technical knowledge, no understanding of reverse engineering, and when they attempted to reassemble it they panicked, they got scared, and they left nine orphan gears there just laying on the floor, they’re probably still there on the floor …”
“let’s just go rescue the orphan gears!”

oh, yeah. –> link.

I have no idea.

I had no idea what that quote was from, then I hit the link. I just got that movie out from the library and have been planning on watching it. Sitting on the receiver now. Any good? Have you seen Sin City?

testing

a scanner darkly.

this is a must see. keanu reeves, woody harrelson, robert downey jr … great movie. it’s done in this weird comic style. like, you recognize the actors, and it’s real acting but it looks a little bit like a cartoon or an animated movie.

yes, I have. great. mickey rourke, bruce willis … yeah …

Speaking of comics, “Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.” Alan Moore is cool.

I guessed 300 but haven’t seen it yet. I’m a little behind.

Have you seen matchstick men?

v for vendetta, yes. seen it twice.

never heard of matchstick men. unfortunately there are a lot of great u.s. movies that no one over here has never heard of. that’s weird because we usually get those, too. especially when there’s actors like nicolas cage in it.
here’s a quote of another movie no one seems to know about over here, and that I stumbled upon coincidentally.

“I walked in the bathroom one day and my mother was standing there, kneeling down. the dog had a litter, about eight, and my mother was bending over and she was killing each one of these little puppies in the bathtub. and I remember, I said, ‘why?’ she said, ‘I’m just killing what I can’t take care of.’ then my mama said to me, she looked at me, she said, ‘I wish I could do that to you.’ maybe she should’ve. yeah.”
–> link.

yeah, I like that movie mainly because of its pictures, images.

man … what the hell is up with this errinf dude?

No shit, is militant hippie an oxymoron? I’ve seen the website he’s referring to and the funny thing is, they have a McCain add as well. I dislike O’Reilly, and FOX, and Rupert Murdock. Hey, you view FOX don’t you? I’m going to tell errinf! But errinf is nucking futs! I read his comment a couple times, he is being ridiculous.

I really doubt his threats have much weight. I don’t think the guys from daily kos would even bother. Marian could just send them his post and they would anticipate his monkey wrenching. Daily Kos isn’t some type of militant liberal progressive terrorist group, they would probably appreciate the heads up. Even if they bothered, I think the content of this site is actually rather liberal anyway. Liberals appear on FOX all the time. His argument… lacks credibility, substance and rationality. If he can’t find the conspiracy he’ll make one. I think he might be smoking too much pot, you know those hippies are.

I just read his comment again. I really don’t grasp his point. I could reply to his comment, explaining why I think he is over reacting, but that would be fucking stupid, wouldn’t go anywhere. No insult intended marina. But what would be the point. These are the types of relationships he probably thrives on. This is what happens after you turn thirty.

I didn’t know this quote haven’t seen the movie. That quote is fucked up. I like several of the actors though in other things. I’ll look for it. This is fun, I like trying out new movies. The quote made me think of another film, running with scissors. The relationship being the ways in which parents screw their kids up. Running with scissors is a true story too.

damn, ever since errinf posted his crap I was waiting for the knights to arrive, armor all shining, pulling out their swords. I was wondering who’d be first. yay. and there he comes, sire prospero. all hail the knights from the order of the holy virgin of words. all bow to their infinite glory for they are truly our maiden’s sheperds.

lol.

well, if you like fear and loathing, harley davidson & the marlboro man, and the like, you’ll like spun, too. mickey rourke is one of my favorite actors.

that quote … well, yeah, it’s fucked up. it probably sounds weird if you only hear that one quote, not knowing the movie.

so, did you watch a scanner darkly yet?

besides, I’ve never seen a mccain ad on here.
why is it that I always get the “lesbian t-shirts” / “secret love letters” / “meet women from russia/ korea/ germany/ malaysia…” ones?

something’s wrong with that last sentence. probably the fucking tense. maybe it would be right without “yet”? hm.

I think they tailor the ads with some algorithm to the person viewing the website.. that’s why you are getting those lesbians/meet women from Russia ads :-) Just kidding!

I’d prefer only one ad then: “send t-shirts and love letters to russian lesbians.”

I’ve got just the thing for you aLx.

yay. tatu. I like them. they were big a while ago. but, it turned out they were not really lesbian. :)

Yea, I did like it. Great cast of characters. Woody Harrelson is a cartoon character already. He’s fucking funny. The guy that is burned out, seeing the bugs, he was great to watch. He was moving around like a bird or reptile, funny. The animation was really different I’m going to look around to see how they did it, neat stuff. I liked the scene when the three of them are in the car and the breaks stop working. Lots of good scenes and quotes. Haven’t located spun yet.

OK this whole arrangement is making my ass twitch. I’m going to have to vote, yuck, on the layout. I keep getting lost. Oh, by the way I left you a post/link on the most recent crusade of the white nights of the word table.

Did you see Requiem for a Dream buzzword or aLx? It’s by the guy that did Pi.. which I loved.. but I can’t seem to bring myself to see a movie that I know is about people all cracked out on speed or whatever it is about.

A Scanner Darkly was cool.. but the book was so much better .. as is always the case :-)

Evolution explains it simply, you have a female. Who is valued by a the males in her group. A dominate male enters and threatens the valued female. The males defend her. Having defended the female they celebrate. The female has maximized her chances of survival by attracting a group of males that will defend her and her interests. However there are always rogue chimps that marginally participate, and observe from the fringe. They benefit from the defenses of the group and the attention of the valued female.

I recall seeing requiem for a dream though I don’t remember much of it. pi was great!

well, sometimes you should watch a movie just because of how it is done, the pictures, the characters, or because it’s funny, or it’s a hilarious idea behind the movie. like fear & loathing, crank, spun, pulp fiction, no country for old men, big lebowski. great characters, great dialogues.
mickey rourke is always worth watching. so are a lot of other actors. e.g. christina ricci. <3

yes! seen the post! that was one funny movie. I watched it once with german subtitles because I’m not used to british english. damn, dude, this is a whole different movie. that was shocking, man.

I voted for get rid of it. never touch a running system, or never change a winning horse, or whatever it was. I get lost, too.

that was funny!

Er, that was british english. Maybe your german is getting worse.

yes, exactly. it was british english. be is kinda hard to understand if you’re not used to it.

I was thinking of quoting pi but it was math related. I thought it was great as well. Agree with many of the movies you listed. mmm yes christina ricci, what is your favorite christina ricci flick, photo, quote, whatever?

Damn it, errinf just posted above me on bar-b-q!

You guys see this? Pretty funny:

Yeah.. I think they both got pregnant and people were like.. how can that be?

there are a lot of great pictures of her. it’s weird how one person can look so different.

what’s with the page thing? sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. :/

I noticed that too, page thing also makes it hard to find discussions.

That mathmaticious video was fun, my wife and really enjoyed that. Smart and creative kid!

especially when there’s, like, the first page but no page thing you can click on.
maybe it’s a browser thing? you got safari, too, right?

and, can someone rephrase billyb’s comment for me? I don’t get it. what do those boobs have to do w/ the $7mman?

Hope your weekend went well. Mine was busy. I am doing a historical documentary on a local church and am bored out of my mind. Although learning the technical stuff and editing is fun. I record my audio on a separate devise. Getting great sound but syncing the video and audio could be easier. Setting up the shots is good fun in an artistic sort of way but shooting the interviews is tedious. I’m getting a memory card for my camera so it will have a longer recording time. I’m still figuring out my video editing software, iMovie HD.

I think he is implying that $7million was spent to make a man look like a woman to be marina’s t.a. That is as close as I can come to figuring it out. I think its just lame excuse to share the video.

Yea, safari

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I saw Pi and Requiem but Pi was my favorite. Considering the issue of drugs, I liked the way Transpotting explored the issue more than Requiem’s approach.

sorry, multitasking while reading multiple comments. comment was meant for marina. Now we are all heading out catch you later.

huh? who’s heading where? what?

We as in me and the family, we were going out to get some lunch. I shouldn’t post comments unless I can really sit down a give it some time. Like now, I’m in for a few minutes, but now I’ve got to run an errand. I was going to ask marina if she mikes straight into her laptop or if she uses a separate device. If she uses a separate device how does she sync her audio with the video. I spend a lot of time looking at people’s mouths and shifting the audio around, getting it just right. I’m sure there is an easier way. I’ve looked it up on the apple site without success, I must not be asking the right question. Sorry for the confusion, I’m going in several directions at the same time.

I’m confused anyway. since thursday I’ve been cursing more than anything else. I need a passport. miami, you know. now, I’ll have to pay about €56 for this thing. that’s about $84. fuck this. this is a complete rip-off. it’s a double rip-off. like, we have to have an id. that’s the law. id means, a unique id, not a driver’s license. you HAVE to have it and you still got to pay for it. this sucks. an id is about $10 or something. and when you got it, it’s not even yours! it’s property of the state. this is so fucked up. €56! goddamnit.

plus, it’s that biometric thing. I don’t even know what exactly they want. my fingerprints?

uh huh …

dude, once your in miami your not even going to remember it and if you do your not having enough fun. That is until you loose it.

The u.s. has made getting a passport so much easier.

The u.s. government now requires a passport check when basketball players travel with the ball.

That is funny, pathetic and sad. My mail order bride was made in the u.s.a, plus I saved a lot on shipping.

Hey, the new bauhaus is out. You listen to bauhaus?

alx, this means you.

Thought this might amuse you aLx.

no, I don’t. my first association with “bauhaus” was the architecture and design school.

now, how does the band relate to the other thing?

I was introduced to the music then the architecture and design movement. Which I like more than the band now. I understand that the design movement and the band’s music are supposed to share some type of aesthetics. Which could mean anything. Bauhaus was very influential in the development of goth rock. Development, like there was a team of mad scientist scheming to create music that would undermine wholesome values. Progression would probably be a better word. Anyway there you go.

oops, try thisaLx.

that was funny!
and, today, munich was playing st. petersburg. soccer. european championship. 1:1, but they were playing in munich, so st. petersburg’s goal counts twice, so we’re down by one. that fits in with the movie clip. (we’ll kick their asses in the rematch.)

somehow reminded me of ween. you know how there’s music that sounds like stuff you’d play or listen to while you’re on drugs or something.

I always miss out on these conversations because I don’t use them, drugs. Well just twice with no great effect. Once I smoked pot with a cute girl named Charlie who was waiting tables at an all night diner in Alaska. She looked like Gwyneth Paltrow… What was I, oh yea. I avoid drugs and have been stoned by listening to music more often than listening to music stoned. I don’t like shit that messes with my mental processes. My mental processes are fucked up enough as it is.

by the way, I’m amused by the idea that your flipping off so many people around the world. Oh yea, right back at you!

Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

I never tried pot. I don’t even drink. so I’m not exactly an expert on intoxication.
but, since you mentioned mental processes, let me ask you this. if you took something that made you see everything inverted — i.e. black is now white and so forth, shapes stay the same, just like clicking on “invert colors” in photoshop –, would you call that messing with your mental processes?
I don’t really believe in colors. I think it is possible that part of our brain just does what it wants to without asking. maybe “colors” or “seeing colors” is just a way by which the brain structurs our environment. so we won’t constantly bump into things or see things better or something. now, this is not really a “theory” of mine, you can easily argue against it.
the reason I don’t believe in colors is this one. how do you learn that something is red? how do you teach someone that a certain object is red? you show them red things and they’ll learn to refer to those kind of things as “red”. but that does not mean, nor prove, that their perception is like yours. maybe my “dark red” looks like your “light red” or “green” or whatever. you can not go beyond perception. this is where it all stops. no metaphysics, no nothing. man, dog, horse, and bee will perceive a tree very differently (maybe this sentence sounded great to me just because it could’ve been a line in a rap song). but which one is the “right” one?
yeah, I know. this is fucked up. don’t be looking at my post like that, man. sometimes I’m weird.

lol, buzzword, have you listened to the radio show? dude, no one went with the vikings’ horns.

That was funny, also amusing is listening to these guys as their brains shut down. Do we all start sounding like that in front of women we find attractive? I hope not.

yeah, why don’t you do a video request for “vikings”? hehe. people are asking about vikings all the time anyway.

I agree with you on colors. For a couple reasons. First physics, matter doesn’t actually have color. Color is just reflected light. So an object that is green is absorbing all the colors except green which is reflected and gets to your eyes. But matter does not “have” color.

Different cultures categorize color differently. I’m recalling this because I have too many texts on my desk and I’m not getting a dusty one out to be accurate. Tribal cultures, in the Amazon for instance frequently have a few categories for all colors. Commonly black and white are the first color categories. So a green is called black or white depending on it’s shade. The next color interestingly enough to be identified or isolated from the rest is red. Many argue that it is because of blood. Then comes blue or green, sky, vegetation and from there other colors become identified. A color becomes individually identified only when it becomes important, otherwise it is just black or white.

And finally specifically to your reasoning, yea I think you are dead on. You cannot go beyond perception. As to which is the right one? It may be rather pragmatic of me but each is correct. As each represents a series of events that are consistent with physical laws even though they may result in varied perceptions, none of them contradict the nature of the whole. Arguing which one is correct is pointless though.

You are not weird. I know weird first hand, its why I rely on science so much, personal subjective experiences have provided me enough weirdness. Thats the reason I usually don’t mess with my mental processes. I cannot go beyond my own perception, I need to keep it simple.

My black is darker than yours.

No, you are weird. It’s alright with me.

Have you ever seen Eric the Viking?

boo!

dude. how did this end up down here? and how the hell did they film this thing? did they feed it before?

damn it, I just posted a movie quote on the golf lesson. Here is the quote and link… ,a
href=”http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2CFxCfQM4″>Everything around us seems to be changing, huh, Louie? You can fucking say that again.

Oh fuck me! http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=6q2CFxCfQM4

ghost dog! great movie. black elk … moooooooooooooooooooooh.

I love that scene, the look on that guys face as he’s making that noise. The mob bosses are absolutely comical.

marina,

I don’t get it. is the pagination thing active? like, sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. and I’m not talking about different lessons. maybe it’s my browser?

jesus, don’t talk me to death.

Dear Marina: For some strange reason, the state of Hawaii eats more spam than any other. (I think it’s just because the Portuguese and the Japanese like it with rice).
At any rate, its use there has only gone up in recent years, so in Hawaii, at least, the more modern use of the word has NOT hurt the sales of the meat product.
I hope that sheds some light on the conundrum you proposed.
Thank you again for proving that intelligence IS sexy. You rock!

– RReppy

Apologies aLx, busy week. Exams, many exams. I’m really competitive in class and I study hardcore. I was also busy during the weekends doing this documentary for a local church. That and fundraising for this little museum. And family…

Marina has posted a few videos, going to check them out and the comments. Maybe find something to get annoyed with so I can relax a little. ha. Vacation is getting closer, getting itchy?

no need to apologize.

yeah, I went to tell them I need a passport the other day. took my fingerprints. jesus fucking christ, you almost feel like a future criminal or something. they’ll be saved on a chip that’s inside the passport, they’re not actually on it.
I’m thinking about what to take with me. I guess I won’t take that much, maybe I’ll get something over there, too. things will most likely be cheaper over there. like, pants for instance.

yeah, check out the comments. there’s a new lividemerald. wordlover. heh. and people complaining about not being the teacher’s pet. same old, same old.

I still have the old passport, no micro chip. Makes me paranoid though to think about it. I rather enjoy my anonymity. That probably makes me guilty of something.

Good idea about shopping. I would recommend wearing pants on the flight over here though. You might give the authorities good reason to check your passport. Airport security profile muslims in turbans and germans without pants.

Yea, I stopped reading the comments after the “cat out of the bag” question. This is how I picture the competition to gain the attention of marina as teacher’s pet or as I call them, male dominance posting displays.

How far along are you in school?

Just of note, actually a rant, regarding word usage and the u.s. government

Got Milk?

To simplify, milk that is hormone free should not be described as such because it implies that a great big pharmaceutical company’s synthetic hormone is unhealthy for you.

This is why I eat organic food and not much meat. Farmers don’t raise u.s. food pharmaceutical companies do.

Jim Jarmusch always makes excellent films

Going to Las Vegas to find the average American is akin to going to New York to find a great Mexican restaurant :!:

I am a Las Vegan,, this is not your typical American city :arrow:

I always heard the origin of the word Spam was a shortened version of the phrase “Supposed to be Ham”. I never noticed it tasting particularly spicy. although I did hear that Geordy Hormel refers to it as his father’s “Heart attack in a Can” invention :shock: It is being revitalized as a new gourmet meat. I have not a clue as to why or how :?: :?: :?:

Further…

My wife drinks goats milk, she used to raise goats, but now purchases it from a local farmer. We try and support local growers. The u.s. gov’t says it is illegal for the farmer to sell the milk without getting licensing, inspections and lots of expensive equipment. Stuff only corporate farms are rich enough to do. So she and many others write on the milk containers, “pet food, not for human consumption.” and sells it to us anyway. Land of the free.

aLx, I think you started me on this tangent when you mentioned the gov’t required micro chip passport. Thanks! This is great therapy and prevents me from going all domestic terrorist.

what the fuck is it with those people?

“meet military singles today! usmilitarysingles.com”

what the fuck?

this pagination shit drives me crazy. I can’t read comments because links in the recent comment column won’t take me to that certain comment. most of the time the pagination is just not there so I can’t look for comments on the second page cause I just can’t get on it. wtf.

buzzword, I question your maleness!

I’ve noticed them disappear as well. I can’t keep track of what is on which page. There ought to be a search function.

You found me out! I am Marina, well actually Marina is an attractive russian actress in need of employment, but I’m the brains. I’m also Uucking Fgly and nobody would watch my videos if I did them myself.

Ha, is that for real? How’d you run across that, that post is like ancient history, or biblical history.

there is a search function.. I guess I can turn off the pagination thing.. but with 400 comments on the last video.. I don’t know.. hmmm…

400 comments!? This has got to amuse your friends and family. Keep the pagination thing then, things are only going to get busier. What’s this search function you speak of?

yeah, it is for real. I stumbled across it when I was trying to find out what the hell I posted in the birthmark game. man, that was weird. actually, this was the only instance of buzzword-posting/marina-gravatar correlation. I checked your other posts on that particular page, all good there.

the search function lets you search for her lessons, and the words she put underneath them, respectively. it does not let you search for particular comments.

Upper right corner you can search by anything now (except I disabled search by commenter as I didn’t want people to be able to find you guys!)

so, marina, you never thought of getting some sort of forum? 400+ posts on one lesson …

thanks. that’s very thoughtful of you. :)

Forums become this free for all thing.. and.. I don’t know.. for some reason I feel that forums are so 90′s… I like the “converse around the latest topic” that these blogs offer.. it gives people a place to go to that is always changing… always fresh in a way…

yeah, I guess everything has its advantages.

oh, I know! get some little chatroom for … uh … those special dudes … errr … the more you chat, the less you post or something … don’t tell me I’m evil, k? ;)

Ha! That is fucking cool! Thanks. I’m going to look up the word, “fuck” now. Yea and nods for the cover.

ha! just before I read your posting I did a “fuck” search!

man, did I really write it that often? I’ll change my name to “cuzzword”!

I think we were having a fucking arms race!

fucking right. from now on, I should put a “fuck” in every comment. no matter if it fits.

wait a sec. did you say actress? in need of employment?
hey, pauly! get over here, pauly! :X

evidently, there are worse things than those ads. what the hell.

I made it so that the ads will NEVER show up if you are logged in, which everyone who makes comments is logged in.. so it will not show for you guys.. only new people and only once per hour.

That might allow me to make a little money from people who never sign up.

We’ll see how it goes.

yeah, you don’t really have to mind the ads. it’s not like I get all worked up about them. if it’s once in five hours … fine. I’ll live. ;)

I’d still vote for a forum. this is getting so messy. people will continue commenting the lessons on the lessons’ pages anyway.

schadenfreude I am preparing for a psych. exam. The chapter is on emotion. I ran across this, it states, “There is no English word for certain emotions found elsewhere; the German word schadenfreude refers to pleasurable feelings one person derives from another’s misfortune.” How correct is this aLx?

it’s very correct.

schaden = damage, harm, disadvantage, mischief.
freude = fun, pleasure.

“das ist schade” = “that’s too bad”.

by the way, I had to read one of your quoted sentences twice. first time I read:

]There is no English word for] [certain emotions found elsewhere]

instead of

[There is no English word for certain emotions] [found elsewhere].

that was confusing.

]There is no English word for] [certain emotions found elsewhere]

should read

[There is no English word] [for certain emotions found elsewhere].

oh no, it’s paged again. :/

the bad thing is … if I click on a comment in the recent comments column, and that particular comment has been made (tense?) on a page other than number one, it won’t take me to that comment. it just takes me to the lesson, that’s it.

I’ve never known so many positively giddy men talking to each other so happily so frequently on one site. It’s just plain silly, their like giggling schoolboys sometimes. Interesting the difference from this site and the trash on the youtube site. Wonder what the reason is?

that is an ass pain. I don’t like to complain about these details, marina is doing a nice job. But… finding a comment is an ass pain.

I know it’s a pain.. but right now my site is excruciatingly slow due to the fact that it has to load 600+ comments every time someone makes a comment. I had to page it. I’ll email the guy who wrote the paged thing to see if he can fix that recent comment thing. Worst case is you can go into the account area and get to the comment that way. I’m working on solving all these issues.

600+ comments

that is why I propo.. ah, never mind.

yeah, buzzword, sometimes like giggling schoolboys, sometimes like … ah, never mind.
you still read the youtube comments? impressive.
anyway, I don’t even read the third and fourth page anymore. rarely the second. I don’t know. I don’t want to scroll up and down for like 30 minutes to see if anyone had something interesting to say, which is rather seldom the … ah, never mind.
I ought to be working on my own site anyway cause I need to make some … ah, never mind.

I was checking out her youtube to compare participation and comments. More comments than youtube! I don’t have time to read the comments, I scan the first page of the newest video and check in here. The comments drift off… way off.

I noticed a wilco comment I had made didn’t receive any comments for a while until bob or billy or prospero added one then comments collected at a significantly increased rate.

There was a study on how long it took someone to stare up into the sky and collect a crowd and at what rate and how big. If you can get two or three to stare into the sky the crowd begins increasing faster.

hmmm… gives me an idea.

Anyway got to finish this cursed church documentary I am making for the museum. What up with your site, maybe get marina to make an appearance. Prepare for the comments! 600+ How does she walk away from this? The fun/work ratio. Mine is way out of balance.

Hey check out a comment I’m going to make on the roger wilco lesson.

aLx, before I forget. I wanted you to hear this song by peggy lee. video sucks. Lyrics based on book by German, Thomas Mann, Disillusionment. Funny, before knowing the origin I always wanted to hear this in German.

You know the problem with posting, “Wha… What was that?” on the Roger lesson is that we are both notorious for being trouble. Everyone suspects we are guilty of something. That really gratifies me.

sometimes I’m dumb. for some weird reason I was looking for your wilco comment on the gird game and gird answer lessons. dude! I tried to use the search function on the top of the page but it returned like three or four results for “wilco”. so I wanted to go through the lessons. needless to say, the pagination thing didn’t work. it just wasn’t there, I hateithateithateit. what the fuck. so I even started firefox. it took me like half an hour to finally find your comment. shit.

anyway. I liked the song. but … why did you want to hear this in german?
and, I don’t like thomas mann. he’s way overrated. for real. no one can read this shit. it’s like reading kant or habermas. he needs like three pages to finish one sentence. but since everybode says that one should have read thomas mann, everybody else says, yeah, great thing. they’re just saying that because everybody else says that and if they don’t agree they’re like … cultural outsiders or something.
plus, german is a sov language, at least concerning subordinate clauses which is the “real” sentence structure for german sentences — simple declaration sentences are generated by moving shit around. the finite verb is the structural center of a sentence. so, if you got a really long sentence, and you got the finite verb at the very end of that sentence you’ll have to read that sentence twice because there’s not enough memory to keep the beginning of that sentence in mind. this has nothing to do with being oblivious, thats just how it is.
I heard or read somewhere that he wrote ten pages a day. yeah, that’s a lot for a day (if you ever wrote something other than depressing poems you’ll know what I mean.), but … this is how it reads. he should’ve taken more time.
this is why I like wittgenstein, djian, or houellebecq … simple, clear sentences.
a quote from the preface of wittgenstein’s tractatus logico-philosophicus:

What can be said at all can be said clearly

hahaha. ya. I kinda like that.

lol, funny. they’re all like, what? where? come on, tell me, I wanna see that too, what did i miss? I don’t wanna be missing out on something marina did.

like that? one of my favorites. I was actually surprised to find a lot of agonoize songs on youtube. that kinda fits in with the comment below. somehow.

maybe get marina to make an appearance.

well, I put a link to one of her youtube videos on a profile I got in a chat community. hm. can’t check if there’s an increase in views, though.
there’s actually no connection between her site and mine, so I didn’t know where to put it, but I’ll think of something.

I listened to marlene dietrich and when I heard the peggy lee song it sounded like something that she would sing. Sometimes I have a craving for cabaret. Check out ute lemper.

dude, I really dig agonize. I was introduced to them by a stray anonymous mix tape I found. Took me forever to identify them.

This is so fucked up. I’ve been doing all this video editing on imovie HD before sleeping. Last night I had a dream and I began editing it on imovie HD. I zoom out of the dream and it’s on my desktop and I’m moving audio samples around and video clips, bitching about it in my dream. I can’t wait for this project to be done.

uh. yeah. this IS fucked up. a dream. jesus.

I remember dreaming waking up, looking at my cell phone, thinking: crap, missed syntax.
which I didn’t. that would’ve been the day after.
dreaming of waking up is weird.

Have you ever played a game like tetris a lot and then dreamed about it? I recall that one theory is that your brain is running simulations of regularly experienced activities to prepare you for the next day.

I dreamed that I was being chased by these guys with a spike for a hand. They caught me and began torturing me. I realized that the only way to kill them was to wake up from the dream so I grabbed his wrist and shoved the spike into my eye. Woke up, thinking, what the hell is wrong with me!

I have some strange dreams, like I said I don’t like messing with my head, it’s already fucked up. Ever tell you about the time I saw into the future? Yea, sounds dumb I don’t know what to make of it either. I’m like OK mr. scientist don’t bring this up in class.

last dream I remember was being somehow on top or beside starbuck which is weird, too, because I didn’t watch battlestar galactica for months.

I rarely dream, that is, I rarely remember my dreams. that actually reminds me of a line from a song by springsteen: “I slept the sleep of the dead, I didn’t dream”.

so … what’s up with the future?

so… here’s the story. I was working in a warehouse in a cereal factory. I was sitting down taking a break when um… It was like I was seeing in two directions at once. In front of me and then through the side of my head. So I says to myself, this is interesting. Keeping calm, taking some mental notes, what is it that I am seeing I asks. Well I see machinery, conveyor belts, warehouse equipment overhead and around. Then someone starts talking to me and I’m trying to concentrate. A few seconds later I close those other eyes. I dismiss it and get some food. Months later, I get back to that part of the warehouse and they have built all that shit that I saw. So I’m walking around exploring it and I find where I was sitting and turn to see the same view. And then I think, whoa, is my past self looking through my eyes now?

This is the kind of shit that messes with being professional and scientific and shit. Sometimes functioning in academics and science I feel like I’m posing, like we are all posing. Everyone has stuff they want to say the way they really say it but never do because of display rules and norms and peer pressure. Then I run into some crystal loving reincarnated witchy poo ovarian goddess and I’m really thankful to identify with something more grounded.

by the way I catch battlestar every now and again on dvd, starbuck… yea. Nice pic

Oh and springsteen, that was nice. I listen to a lot of music, and bruce always brings it home again. Tender and brutal all at the same time. Thanks

remember that math kid on youtube marina linked. dig weird al gangsta ha, weird all is funny.

you know j-roc from trailer park boys?

yea, I pass by two house trailer sale lots on the highway to class. Lots of trailer parks in germany? I got to move. This part of ohio ain’t doing so good. The main lyric has a double meaning.

I don’t know if you like this as much as I do. a friend of mine just sent that to me thinking it may be of interest to me. needless to say, he was right about that one.

when I went back to germany back in 96, I had a two-hour layover in amsterdam. I went to get some coffee and a donut. everything works in english over there at the airport, of course. there was this dude sitting there and he’s like, “hey, you’re american too, I’m american”. I was like, “no, I’m not, sorry, I’m german”. he goes, “come on, yes you are, you sound like you’re from kentucky or georgia”. I’m like, “dude, I’m german, just getting back from my exchange year” and all.
I was kinda impressed how he could tell the region I stayed in. I picked up the lingo, I guess, yeah, but I’m still german.
something else comes to mind in this context. when someone starts learning a foreign language — what do they focus on? my theory is: you can either focus on pronunciation, or on vocabulary. and the next question is, do you consciously choose which one out of those two you focus on? I don’t remember. what I do remember is this. I like accents. americans like accents. what I don’t like is having an accent myself. when I went to florida to meet this girl, well, she picked me up at the airport, I put a springsteen tape into her car stereo, and she goes: “you talk like him”. she’d always make fun of me because of how I talked. anyway, that’s kinda weird because springsteen’s from nj. freehold. so I don’t see the connection.
lol, when I went back to school in germany, I didn’t have to do much in english class. actually, I didn’t do anything. the teacher didn’t ask me anything. just sometimes to read a text out loud, which she only did two or three times, cause “no one understands your wild west english”. haha.
oh yeah. she was hot!

oh well, just thought I’d share the link.

no, we don’t really have trailer parks over here. houses, big apartments, small apartments … I don’t know about the rents, that is, if rents over here are higher or something. depends on the region, anyway.

marina,

how did they come up with that last name?
–> link.

also, I got a technical question.
when you’re the owner / admin of a website / domain, you can download log files. like, which ip with which operating system accessed what page at what time and all.
there’s also the referrer in there, i.e. from which website they come from (if you put a link on a website or when someone gets to your page via google).
when someone clicks on my name, which is linked to my site, it looks like that:

anon-[my IP].primacom.net – - [08/May/2008:08:43:42 +0200] “GET /lager/hfw05.jpg HTTP/1.1″ 200 37511 “http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/09/17/spam-dirty-vikings/” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de-DE) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.17″

okay, now, I got a hit from:

anon-[IP].[ISP] – - [10/May/2008:17:39:55 +0200] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 803 “http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-admin/” [...]

what the hell is that? that’s impossible. I tried to do that. I logged out, logged in again, went to the dashboard, that’s still wp-admin area. but, my name there is not linked. plus, if you put “hfw.com/wp-admin/” in the type-bar-thing-whatever-it’s-called-in-english, you’ll get redirected.
how does that work?

OK, I have so much respect for you marina, learning all of this video editing, DVD burning bullshit. I’m just using imovie HD and iDVD. But I’m working with multiple audio, eight hours of video interviews and shots and stills. To create an hour long documentary. Argh! One board member asked me if I new anything about creating a Youtube channel. Oh well, need to find some way to increase my GB’s, iDVD has crashed twice already.

Fuck you too, aLx!

dude, I’m trying to learn to do stuff with photoshop. you know, not just randomly put a picture through some filters and then look what result I get. I mean, really learn it. it’s hard. I mean HARD.
there’s this awesome little series on youtube, “you suck at photoshop“. this is so great.

what are GBs?

Cool, I’ve got photoshop elements. That link may help. I play around with photography but never got into messing with the finished product. Did you notice the several pics of assorted guns the guy had, in addition to several shitty vans?

GB’s… Gig, I need more gigs. Because of a really dumb joke involving punk rock, computers and CBGB’s I typed gigs as GB’s. The really dumb thing is that I can’t even remember the joke anymore. It was one of those funny things that become part of friend speak. Shit that nobody else gets, and when you use it without any of your friends around everyone just stares at you.

Example: My best friend and a car load of friends passed a buddy and his girlfriend in their car. Nobody liked the girlfriend. She really didn’t like his friends (us). She had good reason, we were arrogant bastards.

As the cars passed my friend threw a butt plug (he worked at a store which sold adult sex toys) across traffic at the other dude. The dude (imagine this in slow motion) is smiling and waving, sees the butt plug gracefully arching over traffic and toward his window. He covers his head and takes cover.

Butt plug smacks the girlfriend in the face. She, confused, looks down, horror spreads across her face. Cars pass out of sight of each other. Later that day, couple argues, couple breaks up, aggravating girlfriend goes away, with a welt on her forehead. After that every time we met a friend’s new girlfriend that we didn’t like we would shout, “butt plug!”

Marina,

So my documentary is like 120 gigs, what dvd-r did you use to record on? Apple said to use monster hd dvd, which has 150 gigs. Which I’m trying to locate now. I started out with eight interviews each around 3 gigs but with extra audio, stills, effects and so on I end up with a 120 gig video. How long are your dvd’s and how many gigs? I’ve posted my question on apple without any responses. argh!

uh. dude? 120 gb? every movie has 9 gb at the most (double layer dvd), sometimes not even 4,7 (single layer). a dvd with 150 gb? what on earth are you talking about?

hm. best thing I could find was TDK Blu-Ray BD-R Dual Layer – 2x speed – 50 GB – Jewel Case.

but this is blu-ray shit. 120 gbs? dude, man …

OK… that’s weird. aLx’s replies are gone. When the girl told me to get a 150 gig dvd-r I was like er…um…ok. But then I got my senses back and was thinking, “what kind of movie needs 150 gigs?! I started looking at the size of the audio, video and effects and it still didn’t add up. So I called apple again and spoke with the imovie expert.

Anyway, problem theoretically solved. My movie is 120 gigs because, “Nondestructive editing references original video to prevent alteration of source footage” So, although it seems as if I am adding a clip I am actually adding the whole fucking video I am clipping to my main movie. I guess if I have ten clips from eight different videos I have eighty videos in my movie. When I move the movie to iDVD or quicktime or whatever, the movie sheds all of the unwanted source footage.

My plan is to either save my videos as quicktime and burn them to a cd-r thus giving me more disk space which would make editing a pain in the ass or… I can save the unfinished movie as a quicktime movie then reopen it and begin editing it again. Either way I am loosing some quality. But I think that’s my only option. Any opinions?

Holy Shit, all the replies are gone!

haha, I just knew nobody but p811 would reply to my “inva…” comment. let sleeping dogs lie but while we’re at it … turdlover disappeared.

so, how’s the editing and burning coming along? you good or just cursing?
well, as I mentioned, I’m trying to do shit with photoshop. like, changing eye colors, trying to come to grips with liquify and other filters, erasing a necklace. basically just trying to work on a face, changing some features and trying to let it look natural. doesn’t sound like much but I have to be really thorough and do it over and over again to really learn it. I just want to get to the point where you can wake me up in the middle of the night, bark “change my eye color!” or something at me, and I’ll be able to do it. btw, that one starbuck picture, and one of those christina ricci pictures are great pictures to work on and try to do stuff cause they’re like big and really detailed.

anyway, what’s gonna happen to your documentary when it’s done? are they gonna sell it at that church or something?

It’s a program to engage the community more. So that hopefully the community supports the museum. The museum wants to preserve local history. So the museum offers this service, we interview people, collect images and document the history and produce a historical package that they keep. The museum retains all the collected material and archives it. The museum intention is to target local institutions, organizations and industry and market our goals. They come to value the service and the goals of the museum and possibly contribute cash money!

From the archives we further develop exhibits exploring how local history and culture relates to broader contexts. We recently hosted an exhibit from the Smithsonian which tested the approach. People were able to identify with local culture and history and then place that into a larger context. I got school children to visit, arranged speakers, laid out the exhibit, handled the paperwork. It was stressful, but ultimately a success. The museum is struggling so a lot depends on these programs. I’m coming up with a bunch of stuff though, some of it fun.

I’m responsible for the development of the programming and lots of other shit which the grant money does not cover. But the experience is worth it if I am to stay involved in anthropology. Although the emphasis is historical the skills are applicable to most cultural institutions, not to mention an edge compared to academics who spend all their time in the college.

Hey, you have been working on your site since last I visited.

aLx, you have been working on your site, I noticed marina’s been toying around with hers as well. But she all ready gets enough attention, so this comment was for you. What prompted the changes?

Oh yea, getting better at editing and burning. Everything is going smooth. Hard part is that the people in the interviews get sidetracked which makes editing difficult. Little old ladies trying to remember details about someone who lived somewhere when someone was married to someone before they moved somewhere because… oh, yes my name is Erma.

Hey, you should send some of your stuff. I sent you a pic I took at the church. I like the shot, nothing was staged, didn’t move anything. Just found the pic while exploring the angles in the room.

aLx, I was listening to motorhead and I thought this song would be appropriate for your forthcoming U.S. vacation.

thanks for the picture, I like the shot. when I was in louisville, I went to church with my host parents like two or three times. that was a big one. it holds like 4000 people or something. it’s like a theater or an opera or something. they got like speakers, and a big silver screen. they also had this little basin to the side of the stage where people got baptized. it was a modern church, you know, a modern building and all. I remember my host brother, so to speak, paul. one of the coolest dudes I’ve ever met, actually. he was some kind of punk or something. unfortunately I met him only like three or four times that year cause he was here and there. he went to alaska before. hitchhiked all the way up there to visit and stay with a friend or something.
anyway, paul, his girlfriend and I were to pick up this other dude from the church. so we were waiting in the parking lot outside. when the service was over all those people came out of the building, a LOT of people. eventually the dude we were supposed to pick up as well, he was standing there with his mom and some other relatives. and paul, well, he opened the driver’s door, got up, and yelled across the whole fucking parking lot, “DUSTIN! get the FUCK in the car!”. lol. and they were all looking at us like, uuuh, wtf? who is that? how can he dare to use profanity right here? needless to say, dustin was pissed as hell. I was laughing so hard, that was so fucking funny.

changes on my website? I hope you’re mistaken and discovered an area that you haven’t noticed before cause I didn’t do any changes. dude, don’t be scaring me.
but, I do have to do some changes. we’re like three people, a puppet player, a photographer / writer and I. the goal is to sell shit, like, t-shirts and mugs and what not. I’m the owner of the site, and as of now the technics dude or whatever. you know, coding and shit. html, css. the site is not up-to-date cause anna got a novel published and all, so this has to go in the news thing. also, I wanted to add some pictures of us doing “art” stuff, like, the construction, the buildup of voom’s puppet show. so, there’s like three sections, three homepages if you will. voom’s, anna’s, and mine. mine consists of texts I wrote long ago. got to update this, too. anna and I also want to do some project, a cd where we read texts and there’s music that accompanies the texts, you know, underlying music. we’ve been thinking about this, it’s all done in the head, you know, theoretically. we were thinking of a name for it. after like an hour or so, I was like, look, let’s just call it “lyrikscheiß” which roughly translates as “lyric poetry crap”. so that is gonna be the title. the name of the website is “kunstscheiss” — “art crap”. I also had the idea of doing some sort of comic with real photos. not drawings. but that will be … more than difficult. so, there’s a lot of ideas floating around. but the main purpose is to set up a shop and eventually sell shit. problem is, we don’t have the money right now. printing t-shirts and all is expensive.

here’s some photoshop stuff.

starbuck:
original.
edit 1.
edit 2.
edit 3.

christina ricci:
original.
edit.

doesn’t look like much, though, but for starters like me this is not done in like two minutes. especially shit like trying to make a necklace disappear.

ah, the vernacular discussion on the bad grammar lesson reminded me of something.

I had been in louisville for about … eight or nine months … and my host mother (this is really an awkward word) actually told me to improve my english because I talk too much black english, and what are people supposed to think about that when I get back home.
every exchange student had an “international exchange coordinator”. every coordinator took care of about 10 students or so. one of them was ray. cool dude. around 50, I think. he had a student staying with him in bowling green or something that I visited once. you could curse all day long, that was fine with ray. lol. when we went on that trip to florida he told me I’d use a lot of black english. but in his case it wasn’t a judgement, just a statement. I don’t know. maybe he was a bit surprised at that. in school I mostly talked with non-white people.
well, if you pick up a lingo you can’t really tell if this is “black” or “white” or whatever english. actually, I don’t care.

what the hell? the replies are gone again.

nice work, you did something to her hair, more blonde? I’ve watched people work on photoshop. One of the reasons I’ve avoided it. They zoom in all the way, work and work, and then zoom out and they have maybe changed a micron or two. Not patient enough.

Cool that you met so many… well, cool people. What do you think made your relationships with blacks successful?

I worked in this warehouse, only white guy on my crew. We had these temporary workers come in. This one white kid was trying to tell us, me and another dude, that a girl on one of the machines needed something. And so we asked which one? And he pointed. But there is like dozens of girls. Which one? And he says, “um… that one with the black hair.” Okay, that’s like a dozen. I then realize his problem and I say, “You mean the black chick!?” And the kid says relieved, “yes.” And my friend busts out laughing. There was only one black girl in the whole group but he didn’t know if he could identify her that way.

thanks, yeah, more blond, lighter, more saturated, tried to change some her facial features, like her nose, eyes, eyebrows …

a lot of posts and replies today, eh?

yea, wrapping things up on the video, and not studying.

WARGH! HELP!

dude, are my comments so hard to understand? don’t I make myself clear enough? am I using weird expressions? am I using ambiguous phrases? what is it?

You sound like a black dude.

huh? for real? sometimes I don’t get peoples’ jokes. that’s why I’m asking.

I thought of something the other day… you know how Americans say “African American” now instead of black.. well.. what do you call a black English person? African British? Or a black German? African German?

that’s funny, I’ve been wondering about exactly the same. people always laugh at first when I say that, I mean they’re not making fun of me or anything, they just think it’s funny.
the german media says “afro-amerikaner”, “afro-american”. and it should be … african european or “afro-europäer” for that matter
and, I don’t know why “african american” is more politically correct than “black”. I’m white and I ain’t got no problem with someone calling me white. what the hell.
there are a lot of things germans /europeans / the german media just absorb from the u.s. sometimes it’s funny.
oh, and there’s other funny creations. what in english is called a cell phone, we call “handy” over here. that’s an english word. who the fuck came up with that? there is no german word for that thing other than “handy”.

Well aLx.. handy actually makes more “common” sense than cell phone… meaning that cell phones were called cell phones when the radio towers had cells.. which I don’t think they even have any more.. whereas a handy means it’s a phone you can carry in your hand… so it turns out to have been a better choice as people will always have hands.. but handies stopped using cells a long time ago.. and now we’re stuck with an outdated name!

No, no… just kidding. I think he is entrenched in his perspective. People prefer to exist in a reality that have clearly defined concepts of right and wrong, normal and abnormal. He just not willing to admit the relative nature of his perspective. It seems odd to me, since he is an atheist and has discussed the relative nature of people’s religious beliefs and that you can’t really determine or prove any of them to be the superior one. I may be making a leap here but I think he has the ability to use the same rational thinking and apply it to language. Since he doesn’t, he must be really invested in this right and wrong judgment of grammars. I conceded to him that this judgment of grammar and normative grammar does exist, it is very real, but it is a relative cultural construct that is not based on linguistic principals. He is holding on to this with a tight grip. Don’t know why, when I’m wrong, I let go. Chance to elevate, fly a little higher. Don’t see it as loosing or going down. I thinking holding on to this concept of right and wrong grammar really gets in the way of enjoying language.

when I went to florida to visit this girl, I was wearing this rodman t-shirt. like, his head on the back, face in grayscale, hair orange. I dyed my hair orange, too which freaked my host parents out. oh well. so I was sitting in that plane from chicago (imagine the route: louisville — chicago — tampa) to tampa, and this dude next to me, he was like, hey, you’re going to see the game? chicago vs. orlando? nah, I said, just visiting someone and all. and he’s like, alright, I own a few restaurants down there, he pulled out his business card, wrote something on the back and said, here you go, take her out, it’s for free.
so I got there and after she picked me up we went to that mall. we were walking down that corridor and that black dude was walking towards us, when he passed me, he was like, ” ‘sup, g.”. and she was like, you got to get rid of that hair color, this is weird, whites don’t get called “g.”

I made a comment on the lesbian answer. I was amused with all the lesbian jokes and the fascination with lesbian sexuality. So, this comment I made seems to take the recognizable form of a joke, “Two lesbians walk into a bar… ” I guess I’m being a smug pain in the ass. But the point of my comment is that for the most part gay and lesbian lifestyle is pretty much boring relationship, daily activity shit. All of these heterosexual males are expecting to have their erotic expectations satisfied by the comment, scenario, me. But the bartender says, “Oh” and gives them their beers. Which is funny as hell to me, because of the contradiction of expectations and resulting confusion by readers. So in a sense the common heterosexual response of dissatisfaction to the reality of the lesbian lifestyle is the joke. I also wanted to see if anyone would post lesbian jokes to provide that which is lacking in mine. You know how long awkward explanations crush the humor of a joke? CRUNCH! That’s why I’m posting it here. Of course I’m doing this all for my own satisfaction and amusement, which makes me the sick one.

I do that too once in a while.
I can’t laugh about the most jokes. I don’t know. most of them just ain’t funny to me. I liked the one posted by … I don’t know … raggaefucksoon or whatever his name is.
this s one of the reasons friends keep telling me I got to get more social, you know, publicly spirited or whatever.
a friend of mine, this (gay) dude he knows, and me … we were sitting in that pub. and once in a while there’s girls trying to sell shit to people, you know, promotion. so, this girl came up to where we were sitting and she was like, I see you’re smoking, may I introduce you to these small cigars? try one, and if you like it, the whole pack is just €2 (which is about $3), and that friend of mine, he goes, well you got to tell us your name first. and looked at us like, wtf? she eventually told us, friend was smoking that small cigar. she had this lighter with her. I’m like, this lighter is like a womens’ lighter. she’s like, no, it’s not. and that gay dude goes, yeah, he’s right, either for women or for gays. and she’s like, no, it’s retro. I showed her my zippo and I’m like, no, THIS is retro, she goes, no, that’s a zippo. that friend of mine started laughing and I’m like, I wouldn’t buy your cigars in the first place because your lighter sucks. oh well. she didn’t really like us. tough job, though.

uh, dude? does the dog video work on youtube? it doesn’t work for me. this is so weird. it works on this site, everything works fine with internet explorer, I can watch all other videos with safari — except that one. wtf.

I know.. it’s really annoying. I can’t watch it either! If you click on the low quality then high quality then low quality it works.. but I seem to ONLY have problems these days! Arggghh! :mad:

yeah, okay, it works. maybe it didn’t work because I set the video options on youtube to high quality? I don’t know.

here’s another question, though.
what’s with the replies? I mean do they just randomly disappear? or are you working on the site at those times?

who is this errin dude, his posts are really long and arrogant. I keep mistaking him for the errinf dude. That and the name and the tie dye pattern on his gravatar doesn’t help.

yeah, thought about that, too. that errinf used to write long posts too, right?

fuck. we’re in the “most commented” section.

Reading the comments to marina on the, “Teacher’s Pet” lesson, I keep hearing Iggy Pop’s, I wanna be your dog. I’m surprised that no one has linked it. No punk rock fans maybe.

aLx, speaking of dogs have you seen the skinny puppy, pro-test video?

1:40 — 1:50 sounds like “marihuana wanna be your dog”.

Huh… Oh yea, but does anybody bother? Hrm… But with continued comments this may end being top of the list. Damn, we correspond too much!

you dope fiend.

yeah, that reminded me of that movie, you got served.

yea! check out these two fatboy slim videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WW8flwpH-Q
Christopher Walken is demonic.

no, we don’t. shut up!

ah, that reminds me. a few days ago, a friend of mine and I were having a little argument. somehow I brought up eminem in some discussion. then we were arguing with which song he became popular. he said it’s “slim shady”. I just youtubed around and I found “the real slim shady”. but I remember another song. not the same, a different one, not by eminem that had “slim shady” in it. damn. can’t find it. don’t remember.

umm … don’t I get an e-mail anymore when someone replied to one of my comments?

before slim shady I thought he was with a group called, bad and evil. I think slim shady was his first big release. let me know what you find on the alternative slim shady.

I’m getting them. Didja get this?

I wonder if they’d all get pissed to know that we had this back alley to do business in.

even if they do get pissed, they ain’t gonna say a fucking word as marina seems cool with it.

restarted the mail client. got them now.

Yo, aLx catch eminem shooting some hoops with jimmy kimmel.

no… they might say an f-ing word though.

wow Teach, You have really come along way in a year. In the day, spam was great, lasts with out refrigeration and could be eaten cold, uncooked. Good as Earth quake supply. Rice, dryed beans and spam. Put that in a 55gal barrel with a container of clean water , Seal it up.

test, eins, zwo.

okay, it’s working again. weird things have been happening.

anybody alive out there?

are you there?

“This video is not available in your country.”

bastards! no one be telling me about globalization no more!

are you there, by josh wink

having visions of the future?

no visions.
when I got on yesterday, it said, server not found. after a while it worked again. then I got your mail, and soon after that it didn’t work anymore again. I asked a friend of mine if he was able to get on this site, he said no, so it wasn’t just me. and, not many comments were written yesterday. well, maybe her domain hoster had some problems. I don’t know.

so, have you finished the documentary? how big is it now? should fit on a double layer dvd?

btw, we climbed up. “spam” ranks #7 now in the “most commented” section. the ranking is weird anyway, cause “teacher’s pet” ranks #2 although it got “only” 373 comments.

oh yeah, I forgot to mention the random disappearance of all the replies.

No fair makin’ fun o’ my accent… :wink:

The documentary is a little over an hour long. I wanted to include interviews with some academics to comment on the history of religion in the u.s., religion and rural america, deepen the analysis a bit. But all they wanted was oral histories. Pretty straight forward, learned a lot though. Editing is the most tedious process, I have to watch footage over and over again to make sure some old guy doesn’t shift in his seat and complain about his balls aching or something. I like the documentary form though. There is this one bit in which an old woman is asked, “Now your parents weren’t presbyterian, how did you get to be a presbyterian?” And she says, “We walked.”

Wow you guys kinda hijacked this forum lol. :lol: :lol:

It wouldn’t make any difference if I said, “Get a room, you two!” would it? Foregone conclusion, ex post facto?

But breaking into the light by clearing the ‘most comments’ hurdle was truly a subtle entrance for which you are to be lauded! Brilliant stuff!! My hat is off.

does the recent comments thing work?

test ….

man, this is … argh … ya, I know, I’m complaining a lot lately …

no, it’s probably “I’ve complained” or “I’ve been complaining”. fuck tenses. why can’t germanic languages just simplify their fucking tense system and do it like the russians. three tenses are enough. damn.

aLx, what in the hell is your gravatar? dude, if that’s a part of your anatomy your should really have that checked out by a doctor.

Oh hey, the, “most commented” list is gone.

nah, just playing around with photoshop. took one of those fiery big-ass bomb explosions and warped and distorted it into, well, some sort of lip shape.

dude, you’re right. didn’t notice. we got the cocomment stuff now, though. their site is confusing and I didn’t really want to spent a lot of time over there to figure their site out, with the discussions and comments and whatever. I don’t need a second website to keep track of what I posted on the first one.

aLx, a recent response to one of your replies caused me to look this word up. An inferiority complex, in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, is a feeling that one is inferior to others in some way. Such feelings can arise from an imagined or actual inferiority in the afflicted person. It is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme antisocial behavior, or both. Unlike a normal feeling of inferiority, which can act as an incentive for achievement, an inferiority complex is an advanced state of discouragement, often resulting in a retreat from difficulties. From wikipedia. For example if one does not feel smart enough, one may emphasize economic superiority instead.

Yea, site is confusing. Never a good sign when their intent is to, “simplify”. And now I’m having difficulty submitting comments. Cocoment keeps telling me to always accept cookies. Which I have from the get go. Doesn’t happen until I’ve replied once or twice. Happening right now damn it. Three times… four…

Oh, I get it. There are two submit comment buttons now. Bottom one seems to be the functioning one.

It always pisses me off that people in the u.s. think of themselves as commoners yet what they mean is consumers.

I got rid of the most comment list as it was showing your thread here and I have no idea how to hide it. buzzword you have 2 submit buttons?

Hrm… well I was. Now there is only one.

Hey, and marina made an HTMhell area for people to practice on, cool idea! I want credit.

yeah, I got the same problem regarding the cookies thing. weird.

thanks for keeping cave.

yeah, the HTMswell area is a good thing.

but … the code tag is not for fancy things. it’s for showing (html) code so your code won’t be automatically transformed into a link, and it also displays it in a different font.
so it basically says: this right here is html / jacascript / css / whatever code.

marina, are you updating stuff?

what’s with the warnings?

never mind. it’s back to normal.

hey, what happened to the ringtones thing?

test …

in the “my comments” section:

“Your Daily Lesbian Moment!: Her milkshake brings all boys to words”

what is it with those lesbian things? and why does it say “my comments”?

i followed it, it’s part of cocomment labyrinth. someone on some site is listed because of a comment made by someone on another site is commenting on a site that is… i still don’t get it, but i’m slow. i am also paranoid, don’t like the idea of people following my comments everywhere. people start bringing up shit from other comments other sites, wouldn’t know who was talking about what when.

i so enjoy fucking with prospero, i don’t care if i end up being wrong, it’s just damn fun.

hey, marina. i don’t know how to freeze this screen but i’m seeing two submit buttons again. one rectangular one that reads, “submit comment” and then the html practice link and under that is a gray capsule shaped button that reads, “submit”. and then the little floating notice that i got to change my preferences to accept all cookies. it’s happened a couple times actually. if i click submit does that mean i have to do what ever you tell me to do, cause i ain’t nobodies lackey. i don’t give a damn what kind of cheese you eat.

i had to hit the little grey submit button, the other doesn’t work. could the rectangular submit comment button be part of the cocomment thing and the grey capsule button be a hfw thing? now that i notice it, it’s located under the click cancel to reply. if that makes any difference.

that happens to me too, sometimes. it happens when the normal submit button won’t let me post my comment (saying to turn on cookies), then the second one shows up below. when I click on that one to submit a comment, it works. weird.

I’m waiting on him to ask about how this is not a spelling issue. de saussure may be dead a long time but he’ll still beat the 8-less one.

well, is there an option, like, “don’t fucking let my comments appear on other sites” or something? this sucks.

cheese dipped in tea is probably pretty close to pig testicles, huh?

alright, the cocomment-I-can’t-post-shit-error thing appeared again. here’s screen shot.
right below “click to cancel reply” there’s a button “senden”, that’s german for “submit”. now, when I clock that button it’s gonna post the comment, when I keep trying to post it by clicking the normal one, it won’t post it, instead that error message keeps appearing.

oh, damn.

“here’s a …”
“when I click …”

dude, dipping cheese in one’s tea is disgusting, a vegan muslim would eat pig testicles before dipping cheese into tea! i’m surprised that youtube allowed the video. marina’s into some really twisted shit. just wrong man, cheese in your tea, ack! just ain’t natural.

ha! you keep a loaded gun ready. thats smooth. the problem is that your shooting while he’s fencing. you shoot him between the eyes and he’ll still argue that it doesn’t count according to the rules of fencing.

I’m not a tea person anyway. more like coffee and water. and dr. pepper. I keep away from the healthy stuff.

dude … lol …

buzzword,

did you read this?

no, haven’t seen it, interesting article. the electronic and neurological interface is the most fascinating part. the monkey’s abilities are examples of operant conditioning. early experiments had monkeys, animals making a response to produce a change in the environment. like the first step in educating the monkey with the joystick. but this is pretty cool, that they have skipped the whole hand arm part of the chain of events and gone directly to the central nervous system. you know those surgeries when they stimulate a part of the brain and the hand twitches? this is like the reverse. that seven million dollar man could really be getting a bionic leg or arm someday. i guess its also a little strange, monkey brains and robot arms. robomonkey, sounds like a roger corman movie.

why won’t this homepage thing update? :/

paranoid?

They are equipping billboards with tiny cameras that gather details about passers-by — their gender, approximate age and how long they looked at the billboard. These details are transmitted to a central database.

–> full article.
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this posting is also here.

so in our vanity we gave the monster eyes.

digging around your blog, got some intriguing shit, don’t understand it all, but fascinated. cool.

thanks. yeah, when I read this dude’s blog marina pointed out to us, I had this “okay, I’m gonna get my own fucking blog now” feeling thing. I guess I’ll use it as some sort of notebook for random thoughts or something.
I read your reply over there as well. did you register at blogspot or do you have a google account?

shit, those grammar discussions get exhausting.

yea, at this point i would just like anyone to say, “yea i can understand that reasoning”. some of the chatter has absolutely nothing to do with linguistics. i can’t even respond because that just opens up another can of trash. i mean how do i respond to the comment, “individuals who vary too far from the norm (outliers) will be considered grammatically-incorrect…and must learn the old axiom: adapt or die” or “a poet has not only the right but even the obligation of disobedience of grammar. is timbaland a poet? no.” the one dude that made the language is like biology remark is a biology teacher. its no wonder our kids are morons. we are both coming from different approaches but the results are the same. it has always seemed to be the way you approach language or culture. i was explaining to my wife that i don’t think i would’ve been able to teach introductory classes in colleges because i wouldn’t have the patience for this shit. how many different ways can you explain it? by changing their concept of rules their tongues won’t drop out of their mouths, children won’t start barking like dogs. everything is the same, just the approach changes. i don’t have the character for working in academics anyway, kinda glad i’m out of it. well that reply went on longer than expected… oops.

i have a google account for some reason. i just was informed by my museum board that they want me to set up a website and do all that computer internet stuff. thinking to myself… “i don’t know shit about that.” its because i’m at least 20 years younger than everyone, so they assume i either know this shit or i can learn better than anyone else. well that and there isn’t anyone else, other than me and the board. i think i’ll model our site after those paranoid conspiracy goof’s sites. i can see it now, “history, it’s sneaking up behind you!”

well, I did set up a few sites. you already seen them, I guess.
I don’t know what content they want you to put up, but I guess the best way is to use three frames without borders. one of them being the menu bar on the left. you can try and do this wordpress stuff but that’s more or less for blogging, wouldn’t do that.
keep it simple. keep it clean. not too much graphics because people look for text, not for graphics. in most cases, less is … well … less. but in web design, less is more.

yo, marina, why don’t you do a live chat?. hehe. ;P

is it “there is times when …” or “there are times …”? non-count item / group noun? you can’t count time.

in fact, why don’t you implant a little chat on here? this could be funny. people could insult and talk to each other in real time.

i give up. i mean people don’t even seem to be able to understand the reasoning. fuck it, what’s the point, i don’t give a damn. i’m solid with it. hey, when are you going on vacation? i guess i’ll have to scroll down, na to lazy.

marina, so this cocomments thing, i’m trying this out. but some of the comments you make i can’t find after i click on them in your cocoments list. i get to the site, but it no you. for instance the violent video games comment on healthline, can’t find your comment. not that i’m trying to hunt you down and disagree with you everywhere. just interested in opinions. besides if you choose to be wrong that’s okay with me. har har

hmmm, i’ve always said, “there are times” as in times equated with incidents, occurrences. as in, “do you remember that time when i was right, not those times when i was wrong?”

that is exactly what I was talking about in my postings on “commenting is sexy”. sometimes you don’t see any replies on the site where the article actually has been posted.

yeah, I was about to respond to him but then I though … man, this is pointless. either he doesn’t understand or he’s not willing to understand. either way, you can’t argue on this basis. he still wants to impose his notion of grammar and its rules on me, while I’m talking about something else. I mean, he asked for a rule, I gave a rule, but he doesn’t accept it as a rule. I mean, what the fuck?

Yeah… I’m still trying to figure out how it all works.. I think it tracks my comments, even if the person has not approved them yet (moderated). I’ll keep you guys updated… and I DO want you to follow me.. that’s the WHOLE point behind the coComment thing.. for me at least :-)

But chat gets lost forever.. I like the “permanent” nature of comments vs. chat. Do you agree with me?

aLx.. I don’t the live chats is for me… it seems to be more for people who like the attention.. I don’t know… my stuff takes a lot of research… I feel that people will just be trying to get me to take my top off :-)

I see your point, yeah. here are my reasons for suggesting the stuff above:

live chat. this is not meant to be a regular thing. it’s just like half an hour or fifteen minutes, some sort of marina-subscribers-interaction which is currently present, too, as you respond to comments on here and over at youtube as well as taking word requests. this live chat thing was meant to be an exception, even a one-time thing. people can ask question about … I don’t know … russia or something. maybe it’s something like “some facts about me” thing, know what I mean? a lot of people do that on youtube, probably just to be more “personal” or whatever. about the t-shirt thing, yeah, of course there will be people like that. I don’t know if you got the possibility to let only registered users get in that chat room, but you do have the possibility to kick people out of the room (there are bots too that kick out people who’re spamming etc), you can also make people ops (give them the right to kick other people).

the chat thing on here. I didn’t mean to say that the chat should replace anything else. I don’t think there will be less comments to your lessons if you implant a chat. it’s just, like, people can talk to each other in there to talk about subjects they don’t want / can’t discuss by postings. people can talk in realtime instead of emailing each other. nothing wrong with emails, but maybe people feel comfortable chatting with each other. takes less time. like, say, bob wants to talk to billy or captainjack about a certain subject he mentioned in a posting or something. and it’s not like they have to use it, you know. I didn’t mean to say that you’d have to participate either. it’s just for people that want to talk about things that don’t really fit in any of the discussions on your lessons or something.

nobody has to use it, it won’t affect the (amount of) postings on your lessons, especially if you don’t show up in that chat. maybe you should just give it a try, see how it goes. you can remove it anytime.
it was just a thought, you know.

to give you an impression of what a live chat could look like, see here. it gets recorded, too, so you can … I don’t know, put it up on your site or something.

this dude is starting to really get on my nerves.

okay, there are lots of dudes, which one?

the usual suspect. prosp just can’t let it go.

catching up on comments, yea he’s being annoying. the whole subject must represent something more to him otherwise he would let it rest. and i don’t like wasting my time being fucked with. i’d like to unload some bad grammar on his ass but i think he’d get some kind of kick out of it. so fuck it.

I read this article, it’s about if and how plants sense things in their environment, like recognizing plants of their own kind.

“No one proposes that we literally look for a walnut-shaped little brain in the root or shoot tip,” five authors wrote in defense of the new group. Instead, the researchers say, they are asking that scientists be open to the possibility that plants may have their own system, perhaps analogous to an animal’s nervous system, to transfer information.

now, if they do find that plants have something like a nervous system — and sending electronic signals actually does sound like they have one — , will that have any impact on how, for instance, vegetarians (those who justify their vegetarianism by saying that plants have no nervous system so they don’t feel anything, unlike animals) see their food? you know, the more “moral” approach. mind you, I don’t have anything about someone being a vegetarian or something, why would I. but sometimes I feel like, those who refuse to eat meet see me as a cruel person or something.

damn. I had to google for “c-blocking”. he does mean cockblocking, right? hehe.

yea, vegans. i expect they would have to contrive some kind of loophole, i mean what are they going to do stop eating? they do see you as cruel, doesn’t that just satisfy you in some way though? i’ve had this argument before. i always ask, “have you seen how a lion takes down a water buffalo? talk about cruel! now i’ve seen animals butchered. in nicaragua they sacrificed a pig during a celebration. they did this by holding on to his rear legs and slicing it’s throat. the pig was dead in like seconds. now as i see it humans can be the most compassionate predators on the planet. i really think there is a deeper compassion for those people/s that hunt, thank the gods that be, and communally consume their catch than any vegan can understand. those that practice such methods are more aware of their humanity and place in the environment than someone who vainly attempts to isolate themselves from the natural world around them are ignorant and arrogant. who in the hell can live a cruel free life?

yea, he means cockblocking or c-blocking. and he adds, “metaphorically” to keep it clean and appropriate as not to offend the fair maiden marina. does that mean it would be completely appropriate for me to comment, “hey d-head, you can metaphorically take your f-ing unabridged oxford english dictionary and shove it up your ass.” wow, using dashes and the word, “metaphorically” makes my foul language completely appropriate, this is fucking, i mean f-ing great!

oh, hey, I remember you were supposed to do this website. how’s that coming along?

ha, that is now on a wait till they have more money list. in the mean time i’m trying to get some skill. also, just putting up a blog, youtube, myspace, etc. type of presence on the internet for them. the html thing is still a foreign language to me.

actually, html is pretty easy once you know a little about how it works. museum, huh? I guess you’ll want to read up on frames and tables. I love tables, they’re very useful. by using tables (in combination with a little css [maybe only for defining the appearance of links and simple text, and positioning elements within the table]), you have total control over positioning elements. I’m talking about blind tables, i.e. tables where you can’t see the borders.
how about some html editor? they have like assistants, you know, like a table assistant, you tell this thing how many rows and columns you want and it will insert the basic table structure. I use those things only because they display certain things in a certain color. that makes it easier to find stuff, is all.

by the way, who / what is (a) brodie? if that roadfucker calls me that I wanna know what I am. supposedly.

brodie

hey yo thanks for the advice. it’ll come in handy. i check your blog once in a while. i threw one up to practice on, since i apparently had an account. pretty tame and straight forward. strange switching roles sometimes, i function in too many disassociated social groups. one of the aims of the museum is to increase family participation. so i’d thought i’d try and experiment on that oprha demographic. here’s a link… commonunity

just checked your blog, it’s a great read. very cool and interesting stuff.
family participation in a museum? how’s that supposed to work? through the exhibitions? like, the themes or subjects of them? which is a good question: what do they exhibit anyway?

well… when i got on at the museum the board wanted to just put shit in glass cases and be done with it. which is in my opinion a funeral for history. nothing would change and after a while everyone would stop coming. i’ve been to small town museums, i’ve seen a gun up on a wall and under it is a little brass plate that reads, “gun.” my attitude was that the museum had to present history as being vital and relevant. so have a few permanent exhibits that are central to the community; education, industry, faith, etc… then create exhibits that you bring out annually, for special events. then host traveling exhibits which i did last year, from the smithsonian. by hosting these exhibits i reevaluate the permanent exhibits so that they add to the context of the traveling exhibit. the last smithsonian exhibit had to do with food and american culture. now… families. the only people who are members of the historical society are old people who don’t even bother showing up and as they die off so does membership. gotta get fresh blood. get kids interested in history, by working with the local school, programs for kids, they drag mom and dad in, mom and dad support the museum. i also design the exhibits to appeal to those institutions that are significant to the area. so oil industry, church, education, they recognize the work i am doing and thus are more likely to contribute resources, hopefully cash money! i could go on but thats about it. second nature actually, applied anthropology, bit manipulative actually, moo ha ha! i’ve caught myself thinking about ways to help you and your artist friends actually, how’s that going?

hm, it’s not that we don’t have ideas, that we wouldn’t be creative, you know. anna is trying to expand her site — asking me thousands of questions. I did the photosite, she’s trying to do the site for her book, and author stuff by herself with a little help from me.

hehe. they miss you.

He is saying you’r a he whore :lol: :lol:

actually, i’m beginning to miss me. i’ve been doing hospital rounds as a part of my classwork. fucking hard work. i’ve been doing cardio, neuro, palliative, ortho and whatever patients. if i see one more naked ass i’m going to need hospitalized. no that would just mean more naked asses.

hey marina, you ought to number the word games like this, 001, so that they will remain in numerical order on the lessons page. you may want to add more zeros, depending on how long you plan on keeping this up.

marina, what kind of limits are there on your search function? trying to locate some comments by locating a word and searches come up empty.

god, it’s like snow white and the seven dwarfs if they don’t get to party with marina someday they’ll just all move in together. drop me word when you get back aLx.

Hello, had to do the name in, so we see a new fae on this one :lol:

Kind of spammers down there :mrgreen:

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hey,

back from boob country. well, what can i say. if i could, i’d take the next flight back to miami beach. dude! friend of mine asked me what it’s like over there. told him: if you ever go there, leave your girlfriend at home. hehe.
loved that art deco shit, the weather, beach, ocean. you know. oh yeah, and cheeseburger baby.

so how have you been doing? anything new around here?

Don’t bring the sand to the beach!! (I know… cliché :-) )

I removed the comment search… should I bring it back?

Don’t bring the sand to the beach!!

true. too bad i don’t speak spanish.

hey, that tune in your videos, by the polish guys? i heard that on tv over there. can’t remember if it was in a commercial or something else, though. we mostly watched the fucking weather channel when we got up, and spike or whatever when we were back in our room in the evening.

That’s cool that you heard it.. I wonder if it was related to me.. or if I promoted it enough that other people contacted them to use it…

People are asking for their accounts to be closed out (I think) due to the roadrunnerch kid.. have you guys been having any issues with him?

uh, well, i think he’s a dumbass. and he thinks i am a dumbass. something like that. there were some comments on the not-so-nice side but who gives a damn. i guess we’re ignoring each other now.

naw, wasn’t related to you, so, yeah, i guess you promoted it enough.

I don’t think it did either. But i thought SPAM (the spiced-ham product) got its name when the company had a contest to name their new product and some kid won by putting the words together. I got this information on the History channel when they did a show called “America Eats History on a Bun”

smokey36bear, I’m starting to realize that the History Channel gets a lot of their information wrong! They’ve manged to get quite a few etymologies wrong, which have caused quite a few arguments in some of my lessons.. as we are conditioned to believe that what we see on TV must be correct.. especially a channel like the History Channel!!

Makes you wonder what other information might be incorrect as well.

I added a new comment rating thing… so if I see someone getting a lot of negatives… I can have a word with them! Perhaps keep them after class. But then again.. they may want to stay after class! Hmm…

I was thinking about adding a detention center to the site… but maybe as a warning if you get listed there… I don’t know…

I am the first to agree that you can’t believe everything on TV. I tell my son all the time that just because something happens on TV doesn’t mean he could do the same.
Although you would think the History channel would do a better job on their reaserch. Even the Discover channel’s show Mythbusters get alot wrong, stuff I have witnessed being true they say can’t happen.

hanks for your reply :smile:

fuckity fuck! i’m not dead, good to know your not either aLx. forced to use public pooters my modem is down. course work is heavy too, lots of fucking papers to write. personal rule, can’t get anything below a 90%, so when i really fuck things up, my grades are good enough to compensate. i’m catching up with my projects, hope to be conversing from the comfort of home soon. damn internet service provider. email me about your trip, details dude, details.

i don’t know, man. i mean, look at the artichoke lesson. stokesjrj1 is rated -1 and i don’t see the reason for that, maybe whitebyrd did that.
if you write a comment and someone else doesn’t like it, or they don’t like your response, they can give you the thumbs down although your comment wasn’t insulting or anything. it’s like on youtube, you know. but then again, most people on here are different from people on youtube, so it might work. hm.

lol, i just tried to rate myself and it works. now that’s kinda … uh … you know … weird …

I can’t rate myself. hmmm.. maybe if you are not logged in you can rate yourself… but it’s still a 1 time deal if you can.. and that may be enough to prevent abuse. We’ll try it out and see how well it works.

Hum, I think that the History Channel is correct, but sometimes you can´t follow the whole story of something and to include it all into a video would make a 5 hour story about it. If you watch the videos and then follow single parts of it you will truly reach the real etymology.

Mabe some stories are results of it……you won´t find the reality in a movie, just some overall info. if you watch another movie about the same story you prolly hear something the other movie did not mention.

Movies are like Hamburgers——–> Fastfood, ready made for all.
On the other side I always think about the Histoians and Scientist who go out and make those movies, I don´t think they can pay their studies by talking 1 hour about the word Artichoke….you took that part, you do a real good job here and I love it to find those etymologies :wink: . But if I would ask you to talk about the old Romans you will make a video that explains all, from A-Z ? :wink: Guess I will wait one year for your movie, mabe two :mrgreen:

Please go and tell them to say the truth, and please make a video out of it, I want to see what they tell you :mrgreen:

Please don´t hate me, but you know the world “it´s all about the money”, the truth isn´t important to the publishers, just to the scientists.

Fresh, AY! Agreed, and not agreed, in the same time… it’s hard for people to keep track of anything that’s said, if a certain comment/thread is not read at the opportune time it will most probably never get read. Because people don’t usually browse comments of older lessons. Also topics that are discussed in a certain lesson, remain behind, and that leads to repetition and encourages spam.
I mean let’s face it… we like to talk all kinds of stuff other than the lesson itself (and the comment section gets cluttered with all the replys and replys of replys). Those subjects may have a separate special place, where they can be read by all.
Just an idea… and as this reply goes, I’m really not sure if you’ll ever get to reading it… that’s about as much faith I’ve got in the present commenting system. It’s shouting Revolution! Can you hear it?! :-)

marina,

due to a recent comment: when people start talking crap about your appearance, your looks (“you’re ugly” blah blah) — does that bother you? do you think about it, even just for a second? i assume it’s not a problem now, but how about when you started to do videos?

Doesn’t bother me at all… in fact I actually laugh out loud at some of the comments as they are such an obvious attempt to get to me somehow.

The VERY first time I got a bad comment it hurt me, then the second one hurt me.. then after the 3rd or 4th, I started the analyze the situation… and I asked myself…

“When have I have taken the time to go to a video that someone has made and then written a comment on their video telling that person how ugly I think they are?”

And of course the answer is never. If I don’t like someone I literally move on to something else.

Which made me realize that there is something else going on here with the negative comments.

If someone takes the time out of their day to go to a video that someone has obviously put time into making and then writes a comment that is meant to hurt that other person… then I think what is going on is one of two things:

1 – I am really threatening that person’s livelihood somehow, as it is causing them to take time out of their day to try to convince other people that are watching my videos that I am an idiot, a fraud, etc… Perhaps this person has always told others that pretty blonds are dumb… so this girl must be a fraud.

or

2 – the comment is made by a 14 year old boy who thinks it’s funny to say that I look 50. As he is trying to stir the pot.

I laugh at all of the #2s and feel sorry for the #1s – but I understand where they are coming from. That’s why I feel extra happy when I get emails from girls thanking me for what I am doing, in helping break down the stereotype that affects them at school as well.

Evil comments are the first thing that other YouTubers ask me about.. other girls doing great shows… asking me how I handle them.. and I tell them, that the comments are not directed at them… they are just young kids having fun (almost like graffiti of sorts if you think about it) or people with issues of their own that they need to work out. Once they get over that, then they start to have fun.

One 24yr old kid thought he was being funny, said something about violent rape… I don’t normally react to the negative xomments on Y/T, mostly just go over to see who is there. That comment scared me, an adult, 24 is that, expressing publicly, a desire to rape someone (you) & worse, some others commented they thought it was funny. I couldn’t ignore it, laugh it off or analyze it, I had to say something… even tried to be nice about it, well kinda. In the end told him to apologize. I expected a reaction or response to what I said…nothin.
Anyhow M. you say it hurt the first few times, it hurts worse when your friends hurt you (scar tissue builds up). Keep your heart tender as you build up a thick skin.
Sorry to butt in on the converstion, Hi aLx, Florida’s good eh. No wonder so many Canadians ljve there all winter.

So this is where the “in” crowd hang out!
Yes, please bring back the search function; I was going to ask if it had lost all its data with the server switch.
Since this page is about Spam, can I point out that some idiot is posting spam on every page for a porno site

Hey Bob, I just discovered that also. I was wondering where everyone when too. Sneaky sneaky….

woohoo, i’m back on! um… yeah. now i’ve got to go and study. lets see, medical terms for the the digestive system. As much fun as a abdominoperineal resection. ugh.

swell.

language and text messaging.

the instructor seems to have suffered from every possible digestive disease and loves to share details. I am really sick of hearing about this women’s bowels. get your pics up.

marina… that numbering for the word games should have worked, wonder why it didn’t?

hey, i just got a smithsonian exhibit for 2010!

cool, what’s it about?

just emailed you a link to some of the pics …

cool pics, just sent you an email.

marina, if your interested i’ll send you a link or something, maybe i’ll text message you my grant/programming proposal and the smithsonian’s response. ha. the medical term for vision problems from reading digital devices is “iStrain” i imagine that your inbox is more of a garbage can. won’t send you anything you don’t request.

ah, i’ve always wanted to ask you why you have to do all this medical stuff? is that anthropology related? i mean, yeah, it’s got to do with humans and all, but so has sociology.

yo, marina, is that present perfect “correct”?

test … wtf.

lol. he reacted to tell me he won’t react? and i didn’t even mention him. wtf. wasn’t even thinking about him when i wrote that comment. what the hell.

hmm, i thought i explained this… probably not. so, i was planning on getting my masters in anthropology. but the more i asked around and researched the less realistic it seemed to be.

i would have to go deeper into debt, spend more time in school (i wouldn’t mind) but there’s other things i’d like to do and afterwards the job market for social scientists is like none existent. there is lots of competition for few jobs and the pay sucks.

so i did a little more research and realized that i could switch to a medical field (physical therapy). my wife is a therapist and she gets calls, mailings all begging her to accept a job, with all these great benefits and locations.

so i figure most of my education credits would transfer and i would graduate in less than half the time into a career that is in high demand for the long term, has great insurance benefits (u.s. health care sucks ass) and pays better than if i’d gotten my masters.

the long term plan is to get a job at a university research hospital, take anthro classes without paying tuition, live life, make money, travel, play, do the shit i (and family) can’t afford to do now and work on finishing my masters. at which point my kids will be older, more independent, i’ll be able to pursue anthropology without worry, cause i got a day job and some security.

you mentioned what your father had to endure, totally respect him. my father, a good man and evil bastard, has lived many lives, fell out of the steel as a pipefitter and ruined his legs. like that! we were poor, i remember my dad getting strawberries out of a grocery store dumpster.

i don’t want to struggle like that again. and i’ve met many who have struggled harder and farther than i have and they remind me just how damn lucky i am. i’d rather set aside some of my own expectations of who i am and make sure that my family is happy, secure and able to have some fun, see the world.

yep, comical ain’t it? he has mentioned pissing people off. i haven’t figured out what he did, i must have missed it.

i don’t know, at some point he started talking about how he pisses people off or something, didn’t get that either.

yeah, you told me about the b.a., but, as far as i remember not the physical therapist. cool. and kinda funny, too. my mom, she was unemployed a while ago, so they (“they” being a federal agency) made her do this job at a hospital. it’s hard to explain, the agency stuff, that is. they have what’s called one-euro-jobs. so, you get financial aid and you got to do one of these jobs, if you don’t they’ll cut down the aid, you know. anyway, her job in that hospital was to kinda take care of people suffering from dementia. which really pissed me off, cause that’s not what she once learned, not her profession. that fucking hospital just wanted to save money. so they told the agency that they needed people doing those jobs so they wouldn’t have to pay a skilled worker, a specialist to do that. people who are supposed to do this job, people who want to do this job. this is fucked up. oh well, my mom said she’s fine with it, it’s a hard job, mainly because she never done it before, but she liked it. but, you can’t do a job like that forever. besides, one euro an hour. that’s like $1.50. what the hell. those employments end after about six months, i think. after that, she got a job as a receptionist for a physical therapist. that’s her job now.

hey, maybe you can help me with this. i got three questions.

1) i’m trying to remember a song. that is, the title. i know who it was by. vanessa paradis. it’s an old one, more or less. i think i remember like a tiny piece of her video to that song. she’s standing in an empty pool.

2) another song. don’t know who did it. it’s this “li la dida” song. woman.

3) i saw that commercial when i was over there in mb. i think it’s an ad for t-mobile, not sure though. i was looking on youtube for it, couldn’t find it. it’s like, there’s this dad with his family, and at the end of that commercial, this teen daughter asks him something, and his reply ends with ” … what a drag … dude …”

any ideas?

oh, hey, you still working on that website?

Non-constructive negative comments should always be ignored. They are a very well known phenomenon best described by the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory.

Marina, looks to me like around the time of this post you decided to make all external links from this site open in a new window. While I may be late to the scene, I’d still like to offer my opinion. The same advice goes for any other aspiring webmasters who are paying attention.

This practice if fairly wide spread, but IMHO without any good reason. Here’s my rationale. Given any link, it is very easy for the user to make it open in a new window. On the other hand, given a link that automatically opens in a new window, it is much harder to make it open in the same window. Particularly, it’s very hard to tell whether a given link will open in a new window or not before actually clicking it.

Thus, from the point of view of minimizing surprises and giving the user greater control of what their browser does, it is much better to have all links open in the same window. A short Google search came up with a more in depth discussion of this issue.

ha!

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.” – Revelation 6:8

no, not until i learn more about doing it right. i don’t want to put together something that presents a bad image.

i think this is it, she’s cute, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lwthVtaocc
this aint it but its the only one i know, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8_IeAJyhTo
haven’t seen the t-mobile commercial.

yes! thanks.

original “be my baby” by the ronettes

hm. i think i like the french chick better. close call.

aLx, i seriously doubt the authenticity of augie the navy seal in iran. just doesn’t make any sense. check his site, from some of the details he’s an older, out of shape, bouncer at a strip club. the u.s. military is going to send this dude to a hot spot like iran? i would hope they could find someone who could at least type effectively. not to mention letting information like that slip is just fucking stupid. i mean, “oops i just mentioned a secret u.s. military base in iran on the internet” come on! his communications would be monitored that shit wouldn’t get out.

yeah, that’s what i thought, too, without looking at the site. have you noticed those pics of those girls? he’s got like two albums on there. wth?

ummm … look at the fourth blog entry. he linked one of marina’s lessons … and the still image reads “ho”. ummm … yeah …

yeah, the guy’s badge reads, “pink pussycat topless bar” his location is listed as arizona. no clubs by that name out there. there is one in miami beach however! that whole site is weird. maybe all those girls are strippers he has met. anyway enough time spent investigating this suspect.

hey marina, what’s up with the frames around the comments, something new?

hey, cool. you got a purple frame, i got a yellow one. i like that.

we’ve been framed!

hahaha. lol. and it was a chick that framed us. men are so stoopid.

framed

i want a lawyer.

matlock that’s funny, thanks but i got my own lawyer.

ah, fuck lawyers.

you getting the achmed ads on here, too? just asking because it says “click here” in german. which is kinda weird because only a few people over here know him, i guess.

I can make it so that certain people can have a line around their comments… I was just playing around with it… I can remove it or keep it.. what do you think? I like the quarantine remark buzz! I am quarantining yours and aLx’s remarks to protect the others!

yeah, i like it. i want to keep my line.

hm. quarantine. well! all the others are in quarantine — cause i’ll just define my place within the frame as “outside”. ha!

My question is: What does the word “Blog” mean, and what is the history behind it?

I saw the video regards to math, that kid was funny. What does Blog really stand for, or history behind it. Also, I DO know why we call “Cell phones” cell phones. Years ago, back in the fifties and sixties Amateur radio operators or “Hams”, developed a system network that involved fixed based stations called repeaters. These repeaters would pick up the signal from the hams’ radio on one frequency and transmit it on another frequency from a higher elevation and a lot more power so the signal can be received by more folks. This method lead to the idea of “linking” the repeaters, so that a Ham can make a call in one part of the state to the other in great distances. The next idea was “Auto-Patch” was allowed a Ham to make a phone call through a repeater. All he or she, had to do was use a special microphone which had built in it a number pad. This number pad made it possible to tap in the special code that told the repeater a phone call is to be made, then you would tap in the phone number. With repeaters spaced equally apart you could make a system of repeaters that would allow a phone conversation to happen. In the years that followed, engineers at A.T.T. / Bell Labs determined that repeaters spaced 2 1/2 miles apart was ideal have as a system. That way the transceivers (phones) can be constructed very small and still have good signal in transmitting and receiving. The final part of developing this system was,voting. Voting means when a transceiver is moving through an area and the signal is getting weak on one repeater but stronger to the next repeater the repeater will “pass off” the signal to the next repeater so your conversation may continue. The location of these repeaters became known as “cells”, as the pattern of these repeaters looked like a honey comb pattern- cells. So, with that development the term “cell phone” came about. Got it?

If you need any clarification on cell phones just let me know. :wink: :!:

i’m cool with it, won’t miss them if you decide we are no longer a risk to public safety.

no achmed ads, who the hell cares about boring german politics anyway? by the way did you see barack obama? ah ha ha.

what? you don’t know achmed the dead terrorist?! i kill you.

ha! found it!

oh yeah, orbital. never heard that song. i used to listen to this to annoy the grown ups. they have some good stuff.

shouldn’t have been listening to the song while i was typing.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6tRSpWqJA

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no thats not right it supposed to be, “dvxgfvbhd”

that’s funny. i’ve never run across that before. apparently he’s real popular here. anymore recommendations, i got to keep up to date!

well, actually it’s ghvtf, a language spoken by about 50 people in the wide palm deserts off-shore germany, it means “i’m not signed in at cocomment, so let me post my fucking comment in the normal way as you usually do”. but you’re right, in standard ghvtf it’s how you wrote it. i used a dialect though, spoken by about three people.
so there.

recommendations. uh, well. there’s this channel i subscribed to quite some time ago. she did this video on sky mall, which is a magazin you get on planes with all weird kind of stuff in it.
another funny thing about this video that she put on youtube like three days ago is her last sentence. uh. don’t know if she ever watched one of marina’s vids but it certainly appears so …
but i guess you were asking for some other kind of recommendation. i’ll come up w/ something.

uh … your gravatar … lenin? lol?

Is this a good article aLx? I ran it through the translator and it appears to be complimentary.. what do you think?

umm … what article?

i mean … got a link or something?

umm, where the hell is everybody?

buzzword, i guess you’re busy w/ school and all. well, i was trying to find some good articles about non-verbal communication, not regarding stuff like flirting or something, more like the opposite, you know, like, “i should’ve seen the signs” stuff. couldn’t locate any. so, i thought that you might know some sites for researching things like that. no rush though, comrade.

yeah, lenin. some reason i keep on encountering; lenin, communism, russia, cold war related stuff. thought i ought to go with it. i’m done now.

hmm. i’ll check into it. like non-verbal behavioral cues that are an indicator of future behavior, right?

i’ve found some articles, mostly on how criminals use deception. haven’t checked on any sites. can you be more specfic? like are you trying to predict the possibility of destructive behavior or a chronic psychological problems in an individual. have you met a girl? there’s no use dude, they will always be a puzzle.

marina, that can’t be your residential address that is posted. that’d be a dumb ass mistake. come on, get a post office box, don’t be so… blonde!

i don’t think it’s her residential address. looks like the address of her … uh … registered office, or whatever you call it. “hotforwords, llc”.
i’m not sure, i don’t know about this stuff, but over here i think you’re required to put an address and a phone number or something in your imprint if you’re running a business.

yeah, but that doesn’t have to be public. one usually uses a u.s. post office box to receive correspondence and packages when one doesn’t want the public showing up at the door. its like having a huge mailbox at the post office.

yeah, deception sounds good.
no, haven’t met anyone new. hm. i don’t really know how to explain it. of course it has to do with psychology, yeah, but not restricted to behaviour you can observe in a vis-a-vis conversation, but also like, intentions for contacting someone again you maybe broke up with, or somehow stopped talking to, and who you supposedly, al