| Author | Message | ||
     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.22.253 |
That includes me. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
something interesting | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.22.253 |
Exactly. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.16.133 |
I just did - see the new thread. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
30, 56. 99 are correct. Limited 4 and 8 are missing. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.22.253 |
This is the second such puzzling message today - and I think they were both being sarcastic. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
If you mean Weber's above, then he wasn't being sarcastic. He actually thought that's what you meant. It's best to simply step back and applaud him when he acts out. The nurses who care for him told me that.... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
just before I beheaded them with a tuning fork. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Here's something interesting... okay, not. Just another optical illusion time-waste. But it took me a while to see this one....  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.29.252.215 |
Why does that photo remind me of a Pink Floyd album cover? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.204 |
Yes, me too - either Ummagumma or their best of, Echoes... | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
There seem to be an awful lot of these kicking about lately. This one seems to be beyond me. Is it just that the heads look like they're attached to the wrong bodies? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Yeah, John. And (though I'm succumbing to their fascination too, I must admit) you're right, they are, aren't they? Another "meme" burning up the bandwidth.... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.24.18.255 |
Yes, that's it. Quite a disturbing image. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Okay, seriously now, here's someone saying something interesting - fascinating in fact! Namely, the brilliant Jaron Lanier, who gave this talk over in the U.K. looks like just a week or so ago…. Music, virtual reality, evolution, cognition, molecules, Hollywood, vomit, etc. The best part of it is at appx. 28:00ff, where he finally gives the "bad melodrama" example, and talks about the dangers of tech/computers: "You have to hate the computer, to use it well: there is no other choice…." Your IQ feels like it's been raised a few points, by the end of this…. Another great quote(31:11ff): "The idea that Silicon Valley kids are making up what constitutes social interaction [through Facebook] for the rest of the world is the most perverse thing that's ever happened." Amen!!! http://blip.tv/learning-without-frontiers/jaron-lanier-learning-by-experience-pl ay-5929992 | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Yup, that pic took me a little while to work out. Until I started to think to myself "her legs look a little hairy/muscular ... heck, her arms are even hairier than her legs!" Then, it dawned on me! Quick, I am.  | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.25.141.120 |
Clever. Really hard to tell who belongs to what. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
More "interesting" brilliance from Jaron Lanier. In the first 20 minutes he jumps from Aristotle to scifi to Marx, and demands his listeners - immediately following his talk - go out and read E.M. Forrester's short story "The Machine Stops." Then he launches into the internet, its very nature, and the wicked domination of the "master servers." Yes, like the page linking this says: It'll change your entire understanding of the very nature of this thing we now call the internet.... http://www.darkheartfelt.com/blog/2012/1/8/la-unemployment-jaron-lanier-explains -why-the-internet-is-al.html | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.16.58 |
Er... E. M. Forster, Craig... | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.227.96 |
I believe it's Alan Dean Forrester J Ackermann. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Ha! Yes, right there, you can see your typical American university's degree in English, in action.... Either that, or I was confusing him with that one actor, what's his name?... Robert Forrester Whittaker?...  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.70.184 |
C S Forester, maybe? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.215.75 |
C S Lewis Hamilton. Hang on, I've written a program to do these... |