Friday, February 12, 2010

I am error

Last entry I seem to have implied that Eurylochus was the giant Odysseus blinded with a fiery poker in The Odyssey. Eurylochus was, of course, the first captain on Odysseus' ship, and Polyphemus was the giant.
The two times I don't bother fact checking myself also prove the two times I'm wrong go figure~
Even though he wasn't horrifically blinded and disfigured, he ultimately meets his fate (along with everyone on the boat who isn't Odysseus) at the hands of Zeus.
Speaking of people who need a cleansing bold from Olympus: Revoless. (what)
The amount of disdain I have developed toward institutions of formal learning in recent years is remarkable.

I hear you. Christ all mighty, it has been --two weeks-- since that dusting you Southern hicks call snow fell, why in the fuck are the upper levels on the parking garage still closed? I could have moved that "snow" two handfuls at a time and it'd be clear by now. What have you yokels been doing?
Oh, but it's probably (probably) open now you may say. Well, that doesn't keep this last week from being a ton of nonsense.
Initially, it manifested as a distaste for the amount of bias inherent in post-secondary educations.

Oh, right. That. You'll get over it and become thankful there's a right opinion you can choose from instead of having to actually think for yourself. Believe me, you're in for reading the same shit over and over again so the ability to hand in your papers three times is pretty much a bonus.
Every class has a text and test-administrator that makes certain, more than anything else, that his/her students think in the same manner that they do.

Yeah I made the mistake yesterday of perhaps telling one of my fellow classmates that while she had to read Beowulf, I'd rather read Beowulf five times than The Scarlet Letter even once, and the teacher might have heard that oops~
Well hey, two can play at the "your opinion is wrong" game. If you think The Scarlet Letter is better than any epic you are clearly misinformed.

And some of what's spoon-fed is quite offensive if enough thought is given to the implications.

IMPLICATIONS
>implying implications

Your science is full of guesswork, and correlation mistaken for causation. No amount of precision,

Excuse me? No, I'm pretty sure they're testing that Hadron supercollider a lot before they turn it on. I'm almost certain that thing has to be unbelievably precise.
In fact I think most modern scientists try not to guess or take logical leaps at all. Also unlike English class, there is often an objective truth in science. Sure, the theories might be wrong, but you're going to need a lot of actual proof (outside of "HURR YOU CAN'T KNOW BECAUSE YOU'RE MORTAL") before anyone is going to listen.
I cringe at spelling mistakes. It's terribly shallow. Meaningless.
But that's what religion is for, isn't it?

I wish there was a religion that abhorred spelling errors. I'd be high cleric.
The Cruxshadows are probably even why I appreciate Homer, though they're clearly on Troy's side, that is to say, Rome's side.

Excuse me? I've read the Iliad a few times (it's one of my favorites, see) and I'm not really sure what that means.
I'm pretty sure Homer wasn't on the side of the Trojans. Hence that whole sac of Troy business.
Oh apparently this is a song. As in recorded and published by someone else, and she (?) bought it.
Cool song, bro.
Currently playing a game that asked me if I needed it to update my system to DirectX 3 while installing. I love.

... DirectX 3, huh?
Well anyone familiar with vidya gayman would know we're about to gear up for DirectX 12, so I think I might be reading a blog from quite a few years ago--
Nope this was published December of last year.
The old one had gotten so iffy that it was apparently making Karl's computer protest being connected to it. Now that it's gone, suddenly his processor isn't overheating anymore either.
So yay. Yay yay yay.

Uhh--
Wow I thought I had networking problems, good Christ. I didn't know simply being on a network could make a processor overheat. What the fuck are you using for heat compound, peanut butter?
Now there's a six paragraph essay on her latest scar healing. No, please, do continue.
I used to like the internet. Back in the days when it felt anonymous, unregulated, untamed and unorganized.
Back then, no one knew who you were, and no one particularly cared.

Things have changed so much in ten short-- wait, no they haven't.
And you could hop from point to point to point. Nowadays, you go to wikipedia, exhaust their resources, and are lucky if you can hop anywhere of note from those resources.

Are you on drugs? Almost every Wikipedia page has an "external links" section that takes you to ten million sources pretty much only you and the guy who wrote the page read.
The web used to allow one to be thorough, too. Nowadays, any site with real, textual content is invariably in the form of a blog.

>blogs
>content
My computer is dying. Blue screens of death with various types of error codes, freezing on the "preparing to stand by" screen... I'm pretty damned sure it's beyond redemption. It'll cost roughly $700 to buy a comparable computer without a monitor, and this is only assuming it'd take my outdated graphics card (should work, but I'm paranoid about such things because my knowledge is patchier than I'd like).
... If your monitor will "take" your graphics card. Your knowledge isn't patchy, it's pretty nonexistent.
When I was a little girl, I had a habit of pacing about the playground and thinking very hard about such questions as The Nature of Man and The Meaning of Life.

I used to pretend I was Mega Man X.
I think that's the end of today's blog. I could keep going if you'd like to hear such fascinating tales like THE MATH CLASS SHE KIND OF LIKES or WACKY ZANY COMPUTER ANTICS but quite frankly I'd rather go blind like I feared I was a few days ago.

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