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crone_lover720

#61 April 08, 2013, 08:42:17 pm

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congrats catamites. good luck gods.

Quote from: Mope on April 07, 2013, 11:14:13 am

HAVE YOU EVER WENT TO A PUBLIC PLACE OR FUCK EVEN JUST SPOKE TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW AND NOTICED THAT IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER THEY ARE GENERALLY CARBON COPIES OF SOMEONE ELSE!?!?! LIKE HUMANITY HAS SOME BULLSHIT TEMPLATE AND EVERYTIME I SEE IT I WANT TO PUNCH GOD IN THE DICK

people sometimes put on personas on when interacting with someone they don't know that well. they don't wanna let their full weird hang out before gauging who they're talking to

Quote from: thosepeople on April 08, 2013, 05:04:22 am

barret that's pretty depressing. who skips a day-long field trip? that's the type of stuff i spend like the entire class looking forward to! it's good you feel a little guilty though -- i think that's productive. i'm not making any judgments or anything but i'm a student too and i'm constantly surrounded by other students who are checked the fuck out by semester #2 and it kind of gets under my skin i guess. college is ludicrously expensive and probably the one time in your life you'll have access to billions of dollars in resources and countless people who've devoted their entire lives to what they study; it frustrates me a little when i see bros in yolo shirts dragging a dolly of natty lite crates and being seemingly oblivious to how many people dream of the opportunities they have but never end up getting them. sometimes when i'm feeling like a lazy bum i think about this and instead of phoning it in on an assignment i think is Missing The Point or skulking out of class as soon as it's over i'll ask the prof a question about their research and they seem to like that and usually i learn something at least interesting, if not useful.

i empathize with on you the regression tho. nobody tells you you can have grand revelations about your life and behavior and then kinda forget them and go back to being an idiot after a few months.

that was a little judgmental, though! I guess to their credit, traveling there was kinda rough and expensive, and it's really crunch time with final thesis projects in a major that's already extra time-consuming as it is. still, tho. and I don't think I went "back to being an idiot", I mean, I've gone to every class and I've done all the assignments well, im a TOP STUDENT, it's just in my head I've been thinking "this class is kinda junk, and I don't like this guy". I felt more irritated with myself than guilty, but really the main focus is the dude who got let down

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Mope

#62 April 08, 2013, 09:29:12 pm

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I bet he had one of those nostalgia moments where he wanted to show a bunch of young people something he really liked when he was younger or maybe is interested in and got kinda jaded because they're dumb kids. Dude I love talking to old people about shit they know usually as long as it isn't inane or somethin.

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#63 April 08, 2013, 09:36:12 pm

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yeah i guess it did sound judgmental. i'm sorry. i really didn't mean it like that tho! i think it has less bearing on you and more on the ~college lifestyle~ that you sort of seemed to hint at. i've spent a lot of time with people who genuinely couldn't seem to find a Way Out; this has probably left me more cynical than i'd like to be.

i'm not saying you're an idiot or anything, but from your post it kinda seemed like you felt more negatively about your own attitude/performance/regression in addition to the sad old professor part. maybe i read too much into it. in any event i just identified with finding yourself doing things you thought you'd moved beyond. sometimes there'll be points where i make a big step forward only to look up a year later and notice backslide and kinda marvel at the fact that i could lose touch with insight a lot more easily than i could gain it

p.s. final thesis projects wow. what do you study? in my major theses are optional and mostly only advised if you want to demonstrate interest/commitment to grad schools you're applying to. sometimes in the spring i'll walk past the architecture building and i see a bunch of people with their huge models of buildings or whatever they're showing off and wonder what their classes are like. all i get to do is read

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crone_lover720

#64 April 09, 2013, 03:09:06 am

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no, you're right to pick up on that, I guess I thought it read as catharsis. it's probably just derivative of a jamie post tho. and it didn't matter to me that it sounded judgemental, it's just something to look out for I guess

I study landscape architecture, had previously majored in biology but switched majors. it's a 5-year program, so the first half of the 5th year has a thesis prep class for research, and the second half is an actual project based upon your research. the scope of what you can do is really broad and analysis-driven. I researched a certain social aspect of urban environments, and how spatial and environmental cues can help or hinder certain people. I know that's ultra obtuse, I just don't want this post linked to my stuff!!

on rare occasions thesis projects like these get attention from professionals and kind of spearhead or reinforce a new direction in the field, and that gets me really anxious. if that's a potential goal that's just sitting out there, yikes.

Quote from: Mope on April 08, 2013, 09:29:12 pm

I bet he had one of those nostalgia moments where he wanted to show a bunch of young people something he really liked when he was younger or maybe is interested in and got kinda jaded because they're dumb kids. Dude I love talking to old people about shit they know usually as long as it isn't inane or somethin.

yeah, he got to do that at least once, actually - he took us to literally a hidden grotto in the middle of the city that few people know about. it was really cool. I know last time I was there I walked right by it. it just looks like a hedge.

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Mope

#65 April 09, 2013, 04:36:50 am

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yeah pretty much almost all of my practical work is just ingenuity and figuring shit out and I've learned so much from the old sea dogs I work with. Learned alot about the different places we go to and the cultures, history of the work and sort of shit that some people have been through. The only thing is with foreign nationals as a young buck I gotta show an inquisitive and openminded nature right off the bat (I do it anyways) because they're kinda wary of american youth from stereotypes or pretty much genuinely how they are most of the time.

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#66 April 09, 2013, 06:29:46 am

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Quote from: Neuropath on April 08, 2013, 05:19:13 am

Also whoa gods17 you are just entering college? You sound so much smart-education-older in good way!

oh well shucks!!! i'll try my best to improve more.

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#67 April 17, 2013, 08:07:17 pm

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Quote from: ATARI on March 25, 2013, 03:37:57 pm

I don't know if I just go on irc at the wrong times, but over the last few years or so I haven't really had the time to get on irc, and whenever I do, there is never anyone talking anyways, or they don't want to talk about anything other than animes or dumb k-pop

I go on IRC at weird hours, it's usually the UK/NZ/Aus members and maybe some US people too I dunno?

There's good chats sometimes, it's a good place to ramble endlessly (which I am good at).

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#68 May 13, 2013, 06:37:20 am

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I graduated, the speaker was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dpPRHYRnYc]Carson Kressley[/url] of queer eye for the straight guy fame. he's from around here.

I ended up having a pretty good time the past few semesters, and I think that's partially because I've been spending a lot less time trying to socialize on the internet and live in gameworlds, as obvious and trivial as that sounds. I remember when I started college I used to always hide away in a computer lab between classes, in order to comment on forums and avoid BROS or whatever bull. that was before smartphones and twitter were big. jesus christ I'd probably be dead

I approached this line of thought because a little while back I was walking around campus and enjoying a really nice spring day, but creeping up on me was a feeling that I spent too much of my time here alone and trying to inhabit an addictive garbage world that doesn't even exist. I justified my e-reclusion by attributing it first to different tastes and depression, then anxiety, people's preconceptions, and the feeling that I don't fit in with the college crowd. but by some coincidence kressley's speech hit upon this and I was filled with some kind of absurd feeling of coming full circle. I watched queer eye with my mom in hs. and isn't all of this from the beginning also a metaphor

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#69 May 13, 2013, 07:49:23 am

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hey earlchimp/gyro zeppeli, congrats for graduation and for/dats some good thoughts. full circle huh... here's a revenge to the tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjzsnNkL-7o.

you know this but there's a place for this kind of garbage world in growth/history (tho "in moderation". a diogenes or aristottle...) so i guess it can all come together if you work on it. tho dont take this chim(p)ing in for compulsory ego-def, i agree with you nat and think its sorta like jamie said, that there was no other way to find or connect with these people irl otherwise. different kind of mechanistic interaction tho... actually i might continue this in private, do you know the feeling that you're heading straight for the thoughts but on the way you notice that your strut might seem unexplainable to someone, better hone it etc?? it can happen even to pest people... also a corrective, i dont mean to kill public topics/dis forum with moving stuff always on private but cest la shieet, earl posts warrant a bounty- i mean a reaction from bonzi. it was fun stumbling thru this post!!

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#70 May 13, 2013, 07:30:56 pm

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The Internet takes all the physicality out of socializing, which is comforting and deadening (in that respect). Coherent, meaningful extemporaneous communication with moving, feeling, breathing, stinking people is a lot more difficult/consequential/satisfying/potentially uncomfortable, in my experience. Sometimes I forget it's not quite the same, but eventually something happens to show just how much the two forms diverge. They're useful in different ways, though

there's some jumbled up stuff about the line between written conversation and writing in here, I guess, although it's mostly been excised

I am glad to hear that you sorted some of that out, hope your thesis ended well and not suddenly

I discovered George Plimpton's hippie brother, he seems pretty decent

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crone_lover720

#71 May 13, 2013, 11:24:25 pm

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natural plastic trashworld hybrid/dog-chimp mutant

I think there are multiple uses for a place like this, yeah. like you both said: how else would we have connected with such special people or discussed such an array of subjects on a meaningful level? but there's a lot that I find awful about internet socializing too, beyond essentially writing letters to people. it's absolutely addictive. it has also occurred to me that the internet has been by far the main source of negativity and apparent malice I've seen from other people, against each other or at me, and I find that unbearable.

esiann: I'm just starting the work portion of my thesis, actually. I finish it in august, then look for a job. feeling optimistic about the job, scared of thesis!!!

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jamie

#72 May 15, 2013, 04:14:15 am

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does anyone know anything about this weight loss bacteria stuff?

i'm reading a lot of articles which just refer vaguely to some bacteria that apparently changes how much you take in from the food you eat, explaining why some people can eat more than others and not put on as much weight. i'd be interested in rubbing some of this bacteria on me or whatever you do with Bugs but I can't find the specific name of the bacteria which might be because they are still testing it but it worked on mice and that's good enough for me.

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crone_lover720

#73 May 15, 2013, 05:41:01 am

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weight loss biofilms http://www.cormon.com/products/other.aspx

actually I did a search and found the scientific american article, which has a tiny picture that lists some general families of bacteria, but it sounds like it would be useless anyway because it's about mice and they apparently have totally different gut fauna and digestive systems. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gut-microbe-swap-helps-weight-loss a lot of the articles seem to suggest a stool transplant from a healthy individual could do the trick, which might be easier and less expensive than finding the exact bacteria you want and buying it through http://www.atcc.org/ or a similar website. both of those options sound like really bad projects to pursue on your own imo.

maybe try eating a lot of fermented stuff in the meantime, supposed to be good for gut fauna and general health.
overnight oats

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#74 May 18, 2013, 08:28:05 am

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Quote from: barret's esophagus on May 13, 2013, 06:37:20 am

I graduated, the speaker was Carson Kressley of queer eye for the straight guy fame. he's from around here.

I ended up having a pretty good time the past few semesters, and I think that's partially because I've been spending a lot less time trying to socialize on the internet and live in gameworlds, as obvious and trivial as that sounds. I remember when I started college I used to always hide away in a computer lab between classes, in order to comment on forums and avoid BROS or whatever bull. that was before smartphones and twitter were big. jesus christ I'd probably be dead

I approached this line of thought because a little while back I was walking around campus and enjoying a really nice spring day, but creeping up on me was a feeling that I spent too much of my time here alone and trying to inhabit an addictive garbage world that doesn't even exist. I justified my e-reclusion by attributing it first to different tastes and depression, then anxiety, people's preconceptions, and the feeling that I don't fit in with the college crowd. but by some coincidence kressley's speech hit upon this and I was filled with some kind of absurd feeling of coming full circle. I watched queer eye with my mom in hs. and isn't all of this from the beginning also a metaphor

I'm proud of you brah, I think you'll feel alot better about yourself after coming out.

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#75 May 18, 2013, 08:09:38 pm

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coming out of what dude

thanks though, farren.

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#76 May 18, 2013, 09:29:35 pm

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I believe he means your depression/reclusiveness.

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#77 May 19, 2013, 08:24:28 am

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it was a bad joke because it took a speech from queer eye for the straight guy asshat monopolizing on his own alternative sexuality to get you to realize internet reclusiveness is a horrible thing.

I ain't any better though I go between hating the internet and television/games/movies and then turning to socializing and realizing most people are horrible and stupid and then going off to hangout on the beach or river or at sea away from concrete, billboards, and bullshit just to turn back to one or the other again.

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#78 May 19, 2013, 02:09:30 pm

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cuz your a gaymer get it

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#79 May 19, 2013, 09:55:36 pm

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I'm not a gamer, thanks.

Quote from: Mope on May 19, 2013, 08:24:28 am

it was a bad joke because it took a speech from queer eye for the straight guy asshat monopolizing on his own alternative sexuality to get you to realize internet reclusiveness is a horrible thing.

I dunno what that means, but as I've said it's been a few semesters since I noticed. I sort of realized it on my own, after years of people saying essentially the same thing and me not buying it for reasons mentioned above

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#80 May 20, 2013, 12:05:02 am

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just testin the bladder_x as u do

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