Fuck this weather, I was wearing shorts yesterday. I have to get up at 5 AM, fuck that too. Fuck not being able to afford a car. I watched Her. Fuck that movie. But. I finally got a keyboard cover and an ergonomic mouse that glows and shit. We (we being I, because no one here gives a shit) might finally get some Persona 5 info. And I'm getting hot chocolate later today. Truly it's the little things. Good Wintery music - Complexity, didn't you mention it's supposed to be Spring? Seriously, fuck this weather, and this town. Oh, no P5 stuff yet, but I got this: The sister unit is going to be so hyped. Edit: Oh yeah kleinbl00 I edited this picture, perhaps it will be of use to you. I've been wanting to use it against you when the "not" was still included in "that's not how it works" but goddammit you always know how it fucking works.
the good news is…. you'll be in shorts again tomorrow. I went for a run last night (in shorts and a t-shirt) and I thought about how it felt like about 50 out and sure enough - this morning is CRAZY. I watched two car accidents on my way in to work. I'm kinda over winter… but it could be worse… we could be in Boston or Detroit this week. I'm curious about your reaction to Her - did you hate it that much?
Yes, yes, fuckiiiin YES. I'm actually working on an animatic about it for class, so you can get all my points, but the general gist of it was: 1. Interracial marriage was fully legalied in 1967 - only a few years before my mom was born - but apparently dating a not-person is totally a-o-fuckin-k. I don't care HOW chill of a dude Chris Pratt is, he is NOT that chill. Seriously though, I <3 Chris Pratt. 2. Artificial Intelligence gains sentience. Does it run the stock market? Does it cure world hunger? Nope, it fuckiiiiing dates Joaquin Phoenix with a porn-stache. 3. The belief that a hipster-letter-writing website is popular enough to get an uptown office in an LA/Shanghai skyscraper. 4. That movie takes place in fucking Los Angeles. WHERE THE FUCK ARE ALL THE BLACK AND HISPANIC PEOPLE? Spike Jonez or whatever the fuck his name is knows that in LA, White people are the MINORITY, right? 5. Her is dystopian because all it showed was a vision of 20 years from now when income equality creates a complete division between people that get to putz around and have phone-sex with their computers and the homeless people that live in Silicon Valley wondering why the fuck everything got so expensive. 6. And lastly, perhaps most ashamedly, it goes the easy, but stupidly long, two-hour, drawn out route of saying something people older than me have been saying forever now: People are too obsessed with technology, look up at the world in front of you, look at real people in front of you, why are you so obsessed with your screen? It's played out as fuck.
I think there is some confusion as to the role of film here, though this is not intended to sway you from your opinion about the underlying conceptual matter, but to share why I think this is a very good film. Your criticisms regarding race are absolutely apt, but I think you have to bear in mind that the "problems" addressed in Her are typically considered "white people problems" as most of us aren't still worrying about getting shot during a traffic stop, so we get to get to focus (culturally, socially) on frying the fish of " are we alienated from one another?". This does not mean that no one who is a minority can have the same concerns or be interested in the same topics, and I do not stand by what I said as a thorough analysis, merely to extrapolate the following: There's only so many dynamics to cover in one story, and while the complete absence of minorities in the story is absolutely an issue, a white, male director speaking on behalf of minorities about the racial implications of technological infiltration in our personal lives may be outside of his purview. Not to say that this shouldn't be discussed, but no one should accept Spike Jonze as the man for the job. 1) I was bothered by the fact that so few people saw this as an issue in the film's world, but maybe it was more a criticism of permissiveness and the occlusion of opinions within "technologically literate" and "progress uber alles" crowds. If you have someone who is included in this worldview dealing with the interior turmoil of emotionally handling a relationship with a technology-based entity and coming to a conclusion based on their experience rather than some verbose philosophical pandering, you come to a shared experience that can be shown through film. In opposition you just have someone nay-saying, and then end with an "I told you so". I think of this more as a narrative-driving tool than an actual accurate depiction. 2) The AI comes to grips with it's own conclusions about what drives meaning in it's own life, and plays as more of a metaphor for the separate metaphysical basis of reality through the lens of an emotional tale. If he generates an AI for this story, and the AI goes, immediately: "I don't give a shit how pretty you are Jaoquin, I'm gonna go make a lot of money/feed the homeless," this doesn't serve to help drive home the implicit differences of underlying moral groundwork for which two different types of consciousness approach existence. Your premisealso assumes that our moral grounds would be imperative for a technologically-based AI. This is a story, not a sci-fied notumentary. 3) I appreciate more so the mise en scene this environment allows for, rather than the pragmatic considerations. He could easily work from home in his PJs. Why doesn't he? To show the subtle variations in a context which can be captured on film that the film's aesthetic mirrors the modern individual emotionally. 4) Yes. 5) agreed. completely. 6) Every story is a previous story re-told in a new lens (if it's done right) and Her does it right. HOWEVER, is not appropriate in this sense. Her is trying to discuss how this line could be blurred, and taking the notion of a sentient AI seriously without making it scary or an emotional black box, and what exactly makes a human human and how a separate conscious entity that does not mirror our own metaphysical understanding of the world around us can never fulfill this basic desire to be understood, nor can we for it. It deserves more consideration than you are allowing here. I believe this film has a far more mature take on this concept than you initially gathered, and I would consider re-watching it with a more charitable frame of mind.
You are a little too caught up in the pragmatic considerations the director has to make, this blocks you from seeing these choices as supporting the underlying thematic elements of the movie. Film is not about making a documentation of a fake world, it is about translating issues to a world in film. Ultraviolet wavelengths exist, but we cannot see them. To understand in a context that we can visual and process heuristically, here is the face of a person imaged using photography that can capture UV: We cannot see UV, ever, period, in the context in which it exists. We use an abstract concept (UV light, existential philosophy as applied to an AI), apply it to a familiar setting (a human face, a traditional emotional tale), and skew it into a context that we can understand, in this case, both using film as the medium for translating the un-seeable into a context that works for us. Does that makes sense?People are too obsessed with technology
Yeaaaah, fair enough. In all honesty it's not a terrible movie, and I'm sure this weather is helping to amplify my dislike for it. But it's also definitely not my kinda movie, haha. One thing I would add, though, is that you mention that the movie's "a story." Which I 100% agree with. I also agree that it's not "a sci-fied notumentary". I think one of my problems with the movie is that people sort of treat it like it is. We're discussing the film in my tech class, and considering how it relates in terms of real-life technological impact, and I feel like it's a waste of time viewing the movie in that lens, because I don't think you'll find anything realistic.
Give it a go again in a month or two, maybe, but it may just not be for you, which is totally fair. And bringing race into the equation is absolutely relevant, what tech means for oppressed peoples is a far cry from the techno-futurist utopia myth the most vocal are concerned with promulgating. Yeaaaah, that's not a good idea. At least in an extremely pragmatic sense. I feel like so much cultural discussion surrounding tech involves some odd sci-fi-ification that hardly resembles what could potentially happen. I'm still waiting on my hoverboard, for fuck's sake. edit: I think that a minority voice in tech is vastly overdue and would love to see any take at all, sorta like Sun ra's play on Jodorowsky-esque sci-fi. Have you ever read any James Baldwin? He's fucking brilliant, and has a book called The Devil Finds Work about film interpreted through his worldview that is very worth the read.We're discussing the film in my tech class, and considering how it relates in terms of real-life technological impact
I was writing roles for Chris Pratt back when he was older brother to that chick from Revenge before she was that chick from Revenge. Is it okay to say that Everwood was a fucking brilliantly-written show? That's where Greg Berlanti transitioned from "Dawson's Creek" to "Green Lantern."
watching that show was the second time in my life that I felt like a dirty pedophile. Amy Abbot was really cute. The first time was when a friend and I were watching Léon: The Professional and we both looked at each other and said something like "don't think I'm a weirdo perv - but she's going to be gorgeous when she grows up" Then we both shuddered and threw up a little for feeling gross. This might be the creepiest post I've ever made.
Update on the lab-drama
As some of you already mentioned, the situation was very unstable. I could feel the tension in the air, I don't know how this is possible. So I decided to do what has to be done. Wait till monday where the new month starts (so he can't send me home right away) and tell the boss that I do not intend to do my PhD thesis in his lab. Officially, I didn't start my PhD yet, because I did not register my thesis and subject, so it counts as a research job. Now to answer the question of what I did. I really thought about going with a bang. Tell that guy what is really fucked up here. But as some of you also mentioned, its not the wise solution. I would feel great, but I could put up some huge rocks into my future career. So I decided to tell him everything I dislike that has nothing to do with him. When is the right time to go to a boss and tell him that you are leaving? I think there is not right time. I took the first free window to get finished with this. My heart rate and blood pressure were so high, I could hear my pulse. This happens sometimes when I am extremely nervous. And so I went to his office. Knocked on the door, opened. I asked if he had a few minutes. He said he is busy. I told him its important. He asked if we could talk about it later. I told him "no" and went in. I didn't talk much around it and told him that I thought about it and I am not staying for my PhD in his lab. He was steady as fuck. Which surprised me. He apparently expected this. And then he told me that he tried to keep me by making the project interesting and giving me some space. He also knew that he could not address the other problems I had with the job (conferences: he still thinks its a waste of time, teaching: he doesn't like teaching). It went pretty smooth actually. We agreed that I will finish the experiments I have running by the end of the month and be gone in march. I hoped for an extra month, but I am also satisfied with what I got. He now cut me out of all meetings, delegated the project to John (yay for that!) and ordered me to teach John everything I know. Mary is still distanced. I lost all respect towards her. She annoys me now more than ever. I wonder if I should continue my literature research in her project just to mess with her. I feel bad for thinking this way, but I really don't like my trust to be used against me >< So here it starts again. Where do I go from here? I still don't know exactly. I just know its going to be a PhD and I know how my supervisor should not be. Thanks for the good advice last week!
You are not going to change anyone, you're not going to fix them, so they don't even need to know about how you feel. Just kick ass, move on and then kick some more ass in a better environment. Good luck!I wonder if I should continue my literature research in her project just to mess with her.
let me preface by saying that I did not read your previous submission, I missed it. However, it is always best to take the high road. Period. When you are leaving a job or a position and you have time left there, do your best work you've ever done and when you leave, leave them wishing you were staying.
This is exactly the point. By "doing my best work" I would be continuing my reading in her project (my past project). And the chance that I will find other stuff that she missed is high. Which goes against the reason for her to ask me to leave the place.
I'm drinking coffee and slowly getting ready for work. I want to get on the torch and mess with glass after but I'm to broke to reasonable afford it. I'm waiting on my tax refund it turned out pretty nice (1700!), I'd like to find a profitable use for it but I don't think it's enough to invest in anything that would return money anytime soon.
After struggling and cursing for half an hour, I finally figured out how to change my wiper blades. Now I feel accomplished.
The snow has stopped falling, but more shoveling must be done. What a perfect opportunity. The shoveling is done. I am waiting for peace.
Got my first smartphone yesterday. I know, I'm late but I honestly enjoyed the freedom of having to charge my phone every two weeks and being able to drop it without worrying way too much. I really didn't want to but honestly, I just can't credibly graduate with a marketing degree without having a bunch of followers on instagram or whatever. Now that I have it, might as well make the most of it. Any recommendation for a good calendar app? eightbitsamurai, I think you posted about an app once. What do you use? I also bought a domain name with my name. I have to figure out what sort of things to put on there :)
I prefer the calendar app Sunrise. Android 5.0 completely ruined the default calendar. edit: Well shit. Microsoft Is Acquiring Calendar App Sunrise For North Of $100 Million
Lollipop seems to have broken all sorts of things. I'm holding off.
It's not broken, it's just redesigned for tablets. Where I could see an entire week and read most of my appointments, I can now only see 3 days, 6 hours per day and four (!) letters per appointment name line. Lollipop is pretty cool in general. It has a lot of nifty features, I think. What else were you thinking of when you say it's breaking all sorts of things?
I know a few Nexus 7 2012 edition folk who are having horrible trouble with the tablets (wifi / bluetooth problems and performance). And they removed the functionality of the power key menu so all it does now is ... pop up a menu to turn it off. Quibbles, really. I'm sure I'll be bowled over by the leaps forward eventually. Around 5.0.3 .. or 5.1 later in the year.
I've been using Today for my calendar needs, I can sync it with email accounts and it has a great widget.
Is it an Android phone? Google's calendar app isn't terrible.
Then Google's calendar app is already installed and tied to your Google account (if you set up the phone that way.) It will also keep your To Do list for you. Contacts should be installed by default and will sync all your locally added contacts back to Google. Calendar will let you add contacts to meetings. Add Drive and install the Google Docs app for on the go editing of documents and stuff. You can also, now, point your phone at physical documents and have the camera scan them and upload them to Drive where Google will try to convert them into editable documents via OCR. It works some of the time. Switch on Google Now and Google will look at your calendar and remind you about appointments and how long you have to get to them. insomniasexx likes this. It terrifies me.
I do like it but it also terrifies me. Absolutely fucking terrifying. Plus so so so easy. I haven't missed a call or an item on my todo list in ages. That's how privacy experts always said it would happen. We don't give Google our everything until they make it more worthwhile to do it than to not do it.
I had two large appointments scheduled today, so I had my boss fly in. Both appointments cancelled last night after he had already arrived. Also, I had closed a very large deal (largest of my career) that has fell through due to a technicality that isn't worth mentioning. -Nothing I did, but still I'll not be paid on it and it will not count towards my yearly goal. Today sucked, but something good is bound to happen professionally in the next week. That was 3 bad things in one day/week. Something awesome is sure to occur. My mom arrived in town last night though and it's nice to have her here, she is a big help. I'm tired, I'm going to bed. Also, eightbitsamurai, Her was an awful film.
I woke up, drove to school, and then received the phone call that school had been called off because of inclement weather. Could have saved myself stress and time...But I do get the day off, which is excellent! I'm using it to get caught up on my backlog of books (well, not really...I'm rereading Slaughterhouse V, since I think I'll have a different appreciation of it now than I did when I read it last.), and study for an exam in calculus. Really, quite fun stuff. On another note, I've been learning how to knit, which is pretty cool!
I've been feeling older lately, like the last five years have caught up to me. It's still snowing. Campus is a skating rink at this point. All I see is white. Flowery, flaky, seas of snow muddled by exploration and the movement of time.
I'm home sick today. Anyone have any Netflix suggestions for me to check out?
I just finished the series and that was incredible. I haven't watched any anime really before, but really enjoyed this. Do you have any other recommendations?
Yessssssss, let the meguka flow through you. Klein and I will make everyone a convert before the year is over if we can do it. Miyazaki movies are always good entry anime. Fullmetal Alchemist as well. Other things by the guy that made Maducka Maguca are Psycho Pass and Aldnoah.Zero!
I couldn't quite get into Alchemist. I gave it about eight episodes. I'm currently trying to attach to Planetes but not really succeeding; I also really dig the hell out of Serial Experiments:Lain but it's certainly weird. The anime that first got me interested in anime was Genesis Climber:Mospeada as its American iteration of Battletech Series 3. Mospeada is much better. I'm open to other suggestions as well.
Oh, certainly. But then you should probably watch it again sober because it's one of the most deeply intricate series I've ever seen. https://hubski.com/pub?id=201781Believe it or not, I could go on. I'm already slightly embarrassed for having cooked off an hour on a Saturday night writing all this shit up but it's just that impressive to me. I'll say this: the only other thing I've seen come close to that level of structural beauty/contortion is Madoka Magika, and it's also fucking incredible for all those reasons and more.
I think I just realized something: sonovabitch, that's why the soundtrack was the best part of Interstellar.
I read Samsara as Sinatra because the first word of the sentence was "Frank", I was like, hell yeah I'll have to check that out. Upon further inspection I realized my mistake, but I still want to check it out.
I watched this on Wednesday and it certainly improved my mood. Quirky movie, funny in parts and serious in others. I really enjoyed it.
From my dear friend in Florida, by way of Canada.
I've learned today that I should not go run much farther than I'm used to when I also have a cold and the last thing I've eaten was two slices of bread five hours earlier. God, I'm still a bit nauseous three hours after the run. On the positive side, I'm back in my apartment and the student life has started again this week. I'm gonna have a lot on my plate the next months but it's gonna be fun!
Class and lots of reading. First round of exams is 2 weeks away, I'm assembling my study guides/outlines. I'm actually really excited for Valentines day, I've never had a chance to really do it properly before. The plan is to stay in and do a 3 course dinner plus dessert and course appropriate wine pairings. Anyone ever had white burgundy before?
Happy Wednesday, Pubski, I should like to play Tetris with you. Also known as, how small really is an 11x12 bedroom? Is it insanely small, as my mother would tell me/you? Or is my mother spoiled because her bedroom is like, 20x15 with a bathroom suite inside, or some ludicrous footage along those lines? It looks like a queen bed could fit comfortably in this space with no issues. Don't ask me where the closet or the door are because I don't know. Same for windows. I can report back and let you know tomorrow. Assume the only other furniture is a dresser of approximately 3 x 4.5 feet. HELP.
Pretty, but not helping. Assume I cannot afford to spend money on new furniture and also that I really only care to have the following items (already owned) in my bedroom: - bed - dresser - lamp (well OK, I actually don't have a lamp) - fold-up bedside "stand"/table It would work, right? I'm seeing a house tomorrow that I want to buy. Because it's gorgeous and it's in a great location and in many ways has EVERYTHING in its favor - except the bedrooms, which come in at 11x12, 14x8, and some other even-smaller thing. But consider: I will be living alone, do not anticipate roommates or co-habitating, and no kids or renters in foreseeable future. I realize I'm trying to force a favorable reaction to the bedroom size without even seeing the house. But GOT DAMN it's got everything I want. Except maybe for tiny, iddle-widdle beddywooms.
Wearing a more serious face (and knowing you're actually buying it - wait what?) consider: How much time do you plan to spend in your bedroom? Because once you have a whole, unshared house, a great way to use a bedroom is for sleeping and sexing and little else, so you need almost nothing in there. Further, if you have three bedrooms and don't plan on renting any of them out, you have a bedroom, an office and a walk in closet and the the rest of the house is your playground. Choose the big room. Put the bed in it. Middle for your office. Little for clothes. Spread out. Those photos look amazing by the way.
Super excited. I haven't even seen the place but it has everything I want, great location, great features, great price. I talked on Hubski a bit ago about my mom pressuring me to buy a house and I was just like "she's nuts." However I've had a yearish to rest on it and get my finances more straightened out - which I have, though still in the process, but incredibly rewarding - and I really do want this. I want my own place, I don't want to move every year anymore (though really, did I ever? Moving' snot fun) and I want the freedom of living alone slash with various animals. (Talk me out of getting a dog, everyone, please. I know it's not a good idea. I probably won't. But feel free to help convince me.) This is only the sixth house I'll go see so it would be a little crazy but it has so much and the price is perfect. I want this so bad. and I have to shout out to my parents and thank them for letting me live at their house on super reduced rent for the past four months (and until I do buy a house) for helping me get here. And also, start appreciating my job a fuck more. I'm twerkin' on it. I'm incredibly lucky to be where I am right now in 2015: the writing's going great, the job loves me, I'm trying - and going to - buy my own fuckin' house. Need to remember that.
My room in Calgary was about the same size as yours. I had a queen bed in the top right corner, a small-ish desk in the top left and the dresser in the bottom left. I think that as long as you can fit the bed in one of the corners, the rest will fit. I mean, you can fit the long side of the bed and the dresser and it will fit in the short side of the room (6' + 4.5' = 10.5'). How much room do you really need?
Thanks, that's helpful. I am going to check out where the closet and window(s) and door are located tomorrow and I hope that helps too. On paper, it looks like enough space. Since I will have the whole house I should have plenty of room to fit a desk, I figure.
I've always kind of wondered if there could be a kind of murphy bed that, instead of folding into a cabinet, rose up to the ceiling and was held there by a counter weight? hmm... something like this, but my idea was infinitely more janky, with pullies and that yellow nylon rope that seems to be available at every hardware store.
You can suspend beds from the ceiling, for sure, but you have to build the ceiling for it. Most ceiling joists aren't particularly load-bearing. That's actually a lot less janky than what you linked - the part they don't show you on the wall? Yeah, that's basically a forklift built into your house. All you're seeing is the tines. Everything else is hidden in the wall somewhere - that's the kind of structure this neat little trick uses. Kill-you-dead level structure. It's like this thing. note the amount of effort he goes through to document what a bitch it is to get those magnets apart. Now ask yourself if you want to sleep on top of eight of those and just how hairy it's gonna get when the guy wires go.
XL peruvian. You want the giant, hand-woven kind without spreader bars. Like this one. If you're anywhere vaguely cold you'll want a sleeping bag or something; the trickiest thing about hammocks is you get cold from below as well as above.
Trust me, you can say the very same thing about air mattresses. The one thing I didn't anticipate is that if the air in your room gets cold, you can't wrap in a blanket and be fine, because the air in your mattress will also freeze. I've been using a sleeping bag. That's surprisingly cheap. I was thinking of the $50 camping-style ones that compress for storage. But they aren't great for sleeping and this one looks way nicer.the trickiest thing about hammocks is you get cold from below as well as above.
Not gonna lie. Had an air mattress, too - I'd say I spent 70% of my time in the hammock and 30 on the air mattress. Pile a bunch of blankets on top of it, it helps. Hammocks.com used to be awesome. They still seem to have a bunch of stuff under wayfair or whatever but their prices went up. You want a "family-size" hammock. Me and the wife have shared it. She doesn't like it because i weigh roughly twice what she does so it conforms to me while she kinda gets to deal. But if it's just you? Hoo boy. Theyz nice. Mine is currently on my deck.