Random Thoughts, with or without steagles; preferably sans

by **Woody** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 08:23:21

31 pages. Can I get the Cliff's notes?

by **Ramon Gris** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 08:25:47

Slowhand wrote:I haven't read it all, but I'm getting the impression this random thoughts thread was more quantity than quality.

Yeah, but it'll be locked and forgotten soon, and ther'll be a new random thoughts thread in its place.

by **Ramon Gris** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 08:26:15

Woody wrote:31 pages. Can I get the Cliff's notes?

mose needs a hooker

by **VoxOrion** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 08:40:45

There is a narrative, but I read it backward and still got it, so it's not that heavy.

by **my cousin mose** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 08:45:43

i suck at life.

there's your cliff notes

by **Ramon Gris** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 08:46:49

my cousin mose wrote:i suck at life.

there's your cliff notes

how are you still awake?

by **Woody** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 08:51:49

Isn't mose like married with a kid? Where does he find time to booze it up and get blindingly drunk on a Thursday

by **VFB** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 08:53:36

now do it all again with the 8AM crowd, mose

by **my cousin mose** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 09:05:58

Gris -- Went to bed for a few hrs, then came into work.

Woody -- Wifey goes to bed early, I go to bed late

VFB -- I'm a fraud

by **my cousin mose** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 09:06:25

functional alcoholism at its finest/worst?

by **Ramon Gris** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 09:10:13

you're a true american hero, mose

by **my cousin mose** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 09:10:23

holy crap i really did say a bunch of stuff on here that i shouldn't have said.

my bad to all

by **MrsVox** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 09:15:00

This thread has been great entertainment for breakfast.

Mose, don't know what to say. Your situation is about as tough as it gets.

by **MrsVox** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 09:26:32

Now I've seen eveything.

Tide is making "Washing Machine Cleaner".

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 09:39:01

Lindsay: We had a guest speaker in class yesterday. She works at IBM.
I asked her about IBM offering the people they've laid off jobs in India.
Like basically they're said instead of outsourcing your job, you can outsource yourself. But you gotta live in India and get paid that wage.
It made her a little awkward.
Lindsay: I asked a few more questions about it until she admitted that she doesn't think she'll have a job next year and is gonna start looking for a job in May
me: spokesman fail

by **phatj** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 09:48:50

CrashburnAlley wrote:
VoxOrion wrote:
CrashburnAlley wrote:
VoxOrion wrote:All you have to do is pick up an instrument you don't know how to play, try and play it, and you'll have the easiest example of objectivity in music. One can take the "Make a joyful noise" thing too far.

That is subjective, though. We are socialized to believe that certain arrangements of sounds are pleasing, while others (like random strumming by a guitar newbie) are not.

It's not subjective. You're taking relativism to a "socialized" degree that is nonsensical.

I'm not seeing it, though. I'm not intentionally trying to be obtuse, I'm just trying to understand it, and I'm having a hard time. :?

I guess it's not subjective if you take an appeal to majority to be objective.

You don't have to guide me along here if you don't want to, but I'm just genuinely curious in understanding this.

I think you're right, Crashburn, music is fundamentally subjective. But on the other hand, aside from the special cases like 8-year-olds playing violin only sounding good to their parents, I suspect there's would be near-universal agreement that there's a certain threshold below which all music is "bad." Defining the threshold in a quantifiable manner would be tricky, but I think it could be done, in terms of frequencies and meter.

by **uncle milt** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 09:50:13

a player on my fantasy football team shot himself, and a player on my fantasy basketball team just got shot.

by **jerseyhoya** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:15:04

my cousin mose wrote:holy crap i really did say a bunch of stuff on here that i shouldn't have said.

my bad to all

It is what it is.

If you reread that sober, you're a brave man.

by **seke2** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:39:32

WilliamC wrote:Does anyone remember the band toad the wet sprocket, they had a few good songs I remembered just now

toad the wet sprocket is my favorite band that i never actually got to see in concert. i keep hoping they'll do a reunion tour someday. i have all their albums. even the really old rare ass ones that mostly suck, found them in some used CD store back in college.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:03:48

I love when I get credit for stuff I didn't do. One of the fine curatorial assistants was just all, "Thanks for doing that scan! You're a lifesaver." "Hey, sure, anytime."

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