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Friday, April 10, 2009
"You know its gonna be tea baggin' 24/7 when it comes to the midterms"
This has got to be one of the best things I've ever seen.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Wave of the Future, Dude
I found this article really interesting. Drugs that can improve the faculties of normal people are already becoming prevalent (Adderol (sp???) for one) but future, more legal drugs will probably be available in the near future. There are many ethical issues surrounding this, but I think my biggest concern is that as much as we could feasibly improve ourselves, should self-improvement be so emphasized in our society. In effect, we will simply be raising the base-line levels of memory, intelligence or whatever else. Our society could be more efficient, but I don't think our happiness will improve at all, and all we would do is become less content with our basic selves.
The other major problem I have with this is that if new super-pills become available, only richer people will be able to get them, leading to an increase in the already large gap between rich and poor. What really scares me about this is, say, prestigious schools that have a combination of priviledged kids and poorer but talented kids. At school, the richer kids can get the smart drugs and will have a huge advantage over the poorer kids. In the end, this issue ties back in with my previous one, as in the end the kids just want to be smarter and perform better, but it is unlikely, and perhaps less likely, that they will be more content.
There are a ton of other interesting points in the article not about the drugs per se, but rather about memory. The thing about the girl who can remember basically every day of her life in great detail is nuts and makes me realize the brain is absolutely f-ing crazy.
The other major problem I have with this is that if new super-pills become available, only richer people will be able to get them, leading to an increase in the already large gap between rich and poor. What really scares me about this is, say, prestigious schools that have a combination of priviledged kids and poorer but talented kids. At school, the richer kids can get the smart drugs and will have a huge advantage over the poorer kids. In the end, this issue ties back in with my previous one, as in the end the kids just want to be smarter and perform better, but it is unlikely, and perhaps less likely, that they will be more content.
There are a ton of other interesting points in the article not about the drugs per se, but rather about memory. The thing about the girl who can remember basically every day of her life in great detail is nuts and makes me realize the brain is absolutely f-ing crazy.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Just Sharing
I have been watching a ton of Kenny Vs. Spenny lately. If you haven't seen the show, it is two friends facing off in competitions like "Who can bone the most women?" and "Who can wear a gorilla suit the longest?", the loser faces a ridiculous humiliation. Spenny is the straight man, while Kenny is pure evil and absolutely hilarious. Here is "Who can piss off more people?" broken into three parts 1 2 3 enjoy the mindless comedy!
Oh women...
Even Red Sox fans must agree that the media's reaction to the first Yankees game is absurd.
The new Mastodon record is brutal. I would put them in the running for best band, they are certainly the best metal band out there. Anybody else into it (Grish)?
Handsome Furs. Better than Sunset Rubdown? Better than Wold Parade?!? Perhaps...
Bank of America: FUCK YOU
Bank of America just raised the rate of my credit card to over 15%.
Having brought them at least 4-5 new customers over the past few years, I just want to say:
Fuck you very much.
It's going to take every penny I have to pay that off.
BYAH!!!
This popped into my head today and I couldn't help but dust it off...
hahaha
and then well there is dave's take...
Count it!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Soundscapes for Compromising a Remote Host
So about 8-9 years ago there was a fantastic website called musicforhackers.com that played some fucking awesome ambient music that was great to just have on in the background. Then it disappeared. Every so often I google it or try the old url to see if it has been resurrected in any form. It never has been.
Or, at least I found it was running again today. Click the listen link on the page and check it out. It's streamed as a shoutcast station, or an m3u that isn't native to itunes so your browser will download it like a file most likely, just click it and itunes will get it sorted out.
Edit: I should also mention that some of the stuff on there is experimental and kinda weird, but some of it is really really awesome. Hit or miss at times.
Adventureland!
I saw Adventureland this weekend. If you want to see it with a fully open mind, I might advise not reading this...
You've been warned.
I went in assuming the movie was going to be an out-and-out, mindless comedy, but I would go so far as to say it was a comedic drama. The characters were beautifully developed (with the exception of Bill Hader's character, which I didn't mind because he was out-of-control hilarious), and, while there are certainly laughs to be had, there was a tremendous poignancy to the story. In addition, the music was absolutely killer (probably top 5 favorite soundtrack ever).
Interestingly, like most of the recent comedies that I've enjoyed, I was not overly amped about the movie after seeing the preview, which made the movie seem rather puerile. Superbad and Knocked Up both looked kind of lame to me (especially the former, which I ended up loving), and while the previews didn't hinder my enjoyment of the movies, it peeves me that marketers are taking a lowest-common denominator approach to the movies. That is, the scenes in the previews tend to be the most sophomoric ones in the movie. I understand that the producers want to make sure that the movie gets seen by the largest audience possible, and in that sense it is a necessary evil, but at the same time it saddens me that they aren't confident enough that the public will want to see a comedic movie with nuanced characters and actual drama. At the same, when Paul Blart is #1 in box offices for a few weeks in a row, I can't really blame the producers for going for the lowest common denominator, I suppose.
You've been warned.
I went in assuming the movie was going to be an out-and-out, mindless comedy, but I would go so far as to say it was a comedic drama. The characters were beautifully developed (with the exception of Bill Hader's character, which I didn't mind because he was out-of-control hilarious), and, while there are certainly laughs to be had, there was a tremendous poignancy to the story. In addition, the music was absolutely killer (probably top 5 favorite soundtrack ever).
Interestingly, like most of the recent comedies that I've enjoyed, I was not overly amped about the movie after seeing the preview, which made the movie seem rather puerile. Superbad and Knocked Up both looked kind of lame to me (especially the former, which I ended up loving), and while the previews didn't hinder my enjoyment of the movies, it peeves me that marketers are taking a lowest-common denominator approach to the movies. That is, the scenes in the previews tend to be the most sophomoric ones in the movie. I understand that the producers want to make sure that the movie gets seen by the largest audience possible, and in that sense it is a necessary evil, but at the same time it saddens me that they aren't confident enough that the public will want to see a comedic movie with nuanced characters and actual drama. At the same, when Paul Blart is #1 in box offices for a few weeks in a row, I can't really blame the producers for going for the lowest common denominator, I suppose.
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