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Schadenfreude

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

the...ABJECT!!
http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/gifs/crush2.gif

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

- change to only one space after a period b/c of prevalence of word processors and magazines or something
- ven diagrams
- fucking pagemaker
- the internet was made by military people in the 50s and now in the 90s it is made by capitalism
- art students = only mildly annoying in comparison to:
- actoring students = way more annoying
- post-modernism is not all that hard to understand but any course you take that involves it will convolute it so that you end up just
- going for bike rides and enjoying pot more

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

mandee otm!!

also, I don't know what plato's cave is, for real!

nb I do not care to find out!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato's_Retreat

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link

i didn't do the bike rides.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

control systems theory
blackbody radiation
non-newtonian fluids
computational fluid dynamics
linear math
beer + 3 hour college radio slot = potential
the velvet underground
phish
sleater kinney
tuvan throat singing

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link

plato's cave was where he went to sit and eat his lunch during recess so the other kids wouldn't pick on him. modern-day philosophers use the term to refer to the practice of putting potato chips in your otherwise bland sandwich to make it taste better.

xxx-post don't believe that wikipedia crap!!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link

haha SLEATER-KINNEY SO OTM!!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, one's fondness for sleater-kinney decreases the further one gets from a college campus!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

haha plato's retreat

postmodern bike rides are the only way but no one will ever really understand entirely; however, there's a lot to look at with your own eyes along the way, but know they are your eyes and plus all the eyes of anyone who's ever told you something or the authors' of anything you've read and those who have built the houses you ride past and etc etc, don't worry, ride on - you can't stop anyway. or maybe you can!
xpost

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

- the internet was made by military people in the 50s and now in the 90s it is made by capitalism
LOL

SLEATER KINNEY COMMENTS OTM

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link

also: ani difranco and the indigo girls (what is the '00s equiv?)

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link

actually, I take back the VU and Beer + radio listings. Those will be forever classics.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

and tuvan throat singing

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

oh wait, don't forget BEER PONG

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

This isn't quite academiana, but: Christian Fundies wandering around campus wanting to know if they can "ask you a few quesitons".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

collecting empty liquor bottles for display

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link

i didn't learn BEER PONG until GRAD SCHOOLL!
around the same time i learned "hegemony" (for real not just a word)

- "wavelength" is awesome
- that song called "debaser" by the pixies, love of whom indicates cooler university people (actually, that was true at the time) is actually based on this film you saw in an art history class - it is called "un chien andalou"!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link

the last fifteen minutes of every post-colonial studies class ever:

".....weaponsofmassdezzzzz....globalizzzzzzz.......maquiladorazzz....supportforIzzzzz......shellpipelinezzzzzzzzz.....usa:nogood/seeyoutomorrow."

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

All girls, without exception, like Bjork.

Disposable income = better than you ever imagined.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

ramen tastes really good "raw"

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Gay Roomate Drunk, Crying.

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link

GP, I assume by "girls" you mean "college-age gay men"?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

...Pace Derrida...

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.delicrafts.com/wordpress/wp-content/jello_patch.jpg

http://www.socialnerve.org/che/che21_small.jpg

http://www.schoolperceptions.com/images/graduate.jpg

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

This isn't quite academiana, but: Christian Fundies wandering around campus wanting to know if they can "ask you a few quesitons".

i actually got cornered in my dorm common area during freshmen year by some campus crusade for christ folks -- one of whom was an RA on another floor of the building. jack-asses.

we also had moonies -- under some stealth name -- wandering around the campus while i was there. fun times, those late 80s/early 90s were.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah -- "gay jeans day"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

ihttp://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/2005/04/ucb_torture_teachin_poster.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link

lol at ??? + Che = Graduation! Yay!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

academia taught me that everything matters

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:34 (eighteen years ago) link

??? = http://www.delicrafts.com/wordpress/wp-content/jello_patch.jpg

http://www.delicrafts.com/wordpress/wp-content/jello_patch.jpg

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link

THEY ARE TEH JELLO SHOTS

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link

rhizomes + desiring machines

the madeleine in Recherche (nobody remembers anything else about it)

safe zones

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link

noam chomsky / manufacturing consent / "media criticism"

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

BwO et. al

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

160-some-odd posts and no mention of The Milgram Experiment!

http://www.stangl-taller.at/TESTEXPERIMENT/BILDER/milgram.jpg
http://www.betterlucktomorrow.com/character_sites/steve/pic/buzzer.jpg

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Or the Stanford Prison Experiment!

http://www.prisonexp.org/images/homepic2.gif

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, we could probably have a subset of this for concepts regularly used to explain shit they have nothing to do with:

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: ("OMG the limits of Western knowledge!!!")

Theory of Relativity ("OMG, everything is relative!!!")

Entropy (gets used in discussions of non-physics-based phenomena such as human behavior and politics)

Survival of the Fittest (that reminds me, another classic bit of Academiana 101 is "Darwin didn't actually invent 'survival of the fittest' an economist did," and "'survival of the fittest' as Darwin used it didn't actually mean 'survival of the strongest, fastest, smartest etc.')

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:30 (eighteen years ago) link

"occam's razor" = "let's go for the simple answer; thinking makes my brain hurt"

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Occam's Razor and Shroedinger's cat would fit along those lines of thinking as well.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Gah xpost :)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Many KDD systems incorporate an implicit or explicit preference for simpler models, but this use of “Occam’s razor” has been strongly criticized by several authors (e.g., Schaffer, 1993; Webb, 1996). This controversy arises partly because Occam’s razor has been interpreted in two quite different ways. The first interpretation (simplicity is a goal in itself) is essentially correct, but is at heart a preference for more comprehensible models. The second interpretation (simplicity leads to greater accuracy) is much more problematic. A critical review of the theoretical arguments for and against it shows that it is unfounded as a universal principle, and demonstrably false. A review of empirical evidence shows that it also fails as a practical heuristic.

http://foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2006/03/is_occams_razor.html

― intensity in tent cities (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i forgot all about occam's razor -- it fits this thread PERFECTLY.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link

jaymc beat me to flaneur!

most of the ones i'd have posted were taken actually.

semiotics
"to-be-looked-at-ness"
"queering of the..."
phallo(go)centric
third worldIST
the imperial imaginary
geographies of spectatorship
the nature of the (insert medium of choice here)
systems of signification
the uncanny

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Whoa, most of those are at least 200-level.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link

convergence, constructionism/essentialism, the digital divide, image politics cf. kennedy/nixon debate, "cf.".

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link

"gendered"

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Xtreme programming, ISO 7 layer model, tool of the patriach and the Jacobian matrix.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:46 (eighteen years ago) link

diaspora
opportunity cost
beards

― Fonzie Scheme (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

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