I wasn't a fan of the academic study of literature either. I liked the books but the discussions made me want to throat punch people.
What made me happy today?
- Thread starter big soft moose
- Start date
I am not sure. I think it's a good paper, but I don't want to share my teacher's questions. Because those aren't my words and I don't have permission to post the academic questions here. However, I appreciate enthusiasm! Besides, I still have my 1 freebie post for the workshop and I would rather that be a fiction piece.
Thanks!I second that emotion!!!
I wasn't even a big fan of the literature either. Like, we read Dracula and that was fun, but ugh... I couldn't with the papers. The teacher wanted abstract thought and woo-woo shit that wasn't my woo-woo shit. Mine is: Astrology, Numberology and Tarot. Her's is weird social theories.
On another note: I have been laughing my ass off at this clip for the past 2 days. I donno why it's so funny. But I LOVE the voice acting and how the character is screaming at others to relax. Something about it's so perfect and I can't explain.
Spoilers because it's a political parody from South Park and optional to watch:
Spoilers because it's a political parody from South Park and optional to watch:
Amontillado
Active Member
I just learned that lemmings don’t really jump off cliffs. According to the nice folks at Alaska Fish and Wildlife, the story originated in a 1958 Disney nature film, White Wilderness.
According to Alaska biologists, “The lemmings supposedly committing mass suicide by leaping into the ocean were actually thrown off a cliff by the Disney filmmakers.”
For some reason, the image of Disney nature photographers shaping generations of belief by throwing rats off a cliff helps me understand why AI is so popular.
Good to know!
On a serious note, please forgive my breach of etiquette. Animal abuse isn't a proper topic for chuckles. I don't think Disney has ever been what many of us thought it was, even in its glory days.
According to Alaska biologists, “The lemmings supposedly committing mass suicide by leaping into the ocean were actually thrown off a cliff by the Disney filmmakers.”
For some reason, the image of Disney nature photographers shaping generations of belief by throwing rats off a cliff helps me understand why AI is so popular.
Good to know!
On a serious note, please forgive my breach of etiquette. Animal abuse isn't a proper topic for chuckles. I don't think Disney has ever been what many of us thought it was, even in its glory days.
Last edited:
X Equestris
Active Member
Users of a certain age may remember those old-school Leap Pads, with the cartridges and spiral-bound books you stick inside and use this touch pen on. Well, one of the books I had as a kid was a biology one with a heavy focus on different biomes, and the tundra pages had a ton lemmings hidden all around it like a “Where’s Waldo?”
The main interactive activity on that page was basically a scavenger hunt where you’d choose a tundra predator and need to find a certain number of lemmings before the ran out or less you starved.
Not quite the same as shoving lemmings off a cliff, but man, those little guys didn’t have it much better
The main interactive activity on that page was basically a scavenger hunt where you’d choose a tundra predator and need to find a certain number of lemmings before the ran out or less you starved.
Not quite the same as shoving lemmings off a cliff, but man, those little guys didn’t have it much better
Oooo, I like lists.
Three worst subjects:
1. Graduate statistics
2. Agricultural economics
3. Organic chemistry
Three best subjects
1. Plant ecology (an entire semester of field trips with no in-classroom time)
2. Collegium musicum (vocal and instrumental ensemble performing mainly Renaissance music)
3. Environmental influences (interactions of weather and environment)
I only encountered it via Islamic Studies (academic perspective, not religious. I was a Middle Eastern politics major). Islam itself, in the beginning, was pretty easy for me to understand, fairly straightforward, but then they encountered the frackin' Greeks and started noodling about with philosophy. It was near the end of the course and my weekly essay was distinctively Pol Pot-inspired, something about anytime a society progresses to the point that people can head up their own backsides like that it's time for everyone to head back to the fields and learn the real meaning of life for a spell.
Don't think I got a good mark on that one.
Disney? Glory days?! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
Allow me to present, for your reading pleasure, two stories that Disney wishes everyone forgot:
The Snow White Party that Involved Sex, Booze and Defenestration
The Pinocchio Premiere that Ended With Naked, Drunk, Gambling Dwarfs
That's right, the House of Mouse sometimes puts on a spectacle that goes very, very wrong. (But if you don't care about Disney, also very entertaining!)
Amontillado
Active Member
I freely admit my childhood view of Disney was Fess Parker, without knowing the business pressure from Disney, characters like Scrooge McDuck, and the most intoxicating thing I've ever experienced, the Night on Bald Mountain sequence from Fantasia.Disney? Glory days?! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!
Mom probably wanted to exfiltrate me from the theater when the mountain morphed into a demon. I'm very glad she didn't. I wasn't terrified. The world is full of things that will maim and kill. It's OK. Or might as well be. We can't have any fun if we try to make the world into a padded cell.
About a week in from stopping smoking and my throat has cleared completely and quite suddenly, too. Startled myself at how loud I was when telling Alexa to do stuff.
Lol, that post was my 1000th, so it got me the "Addicted" trophy. That's exactly the problem!
Brandon S. Pilcher
Active Member
It's my birthday! I turn 36 today.
Happy birthday! Welcome to my advanced old age. Hope you like it.
X Equestris
Active Member
A happy ending of sorts for one thread of my cover art snafu previously detailed in the Unhappy thread: I talked to some folks over on an indie authors Discord server while looking for people who could identify other AI hallmarks to bolster my case and met someone who offers free replacement art for people scammed by AI
Huge weight off my shoulders there, because I really wasn’t looking forward to searching for artists in my budget all over again after this whole ordeal.
We’ll be starting work after the New Year, and I’m very excited to see what comes of this generous offer!
Huge weight off my shoulders there, because I really wasn’t looking forward to searching for artists in my budget all over again after this whole ordeal.
We’ll be starting work after the New Year, and I’m very excited to see what comes of this generous offer!
Louanne Learning
Skipping along
Active Member
Winner: 4th Contest March
Winner : February Poetry
Winner: 4th Contest Feb
Winner: 4th Contest August
Winner: June Flash Fiction
That sounds like a great idea
Dogberry's Watch
Active Member
I loved the discussions I had with the right people. There are absolutely the wank stains who like to bluster, but the people who actually enjoyed the reading and wanted to go deeper into it with me were some of the best classes I had. Only class I struggled with literature wise was my Shakespeare one, but only because the professor expected everyone to be almost PhD level of writer for our papers, and we were baby undergrads.
--
My happy thing for today is I got a lot of stuff done in the kitchen. Finally got the depression shrine washed and now the dishes are drying. Made a few snacks, and I'm trying out some of those "Souper Cubes" for some meal prepping. Now I'm going to journal and then read a bit.
