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Post by Audrey Siddons on Nov 2, 2012 16:58:21 GMT -8
I'm just a very active programmer and designer, as well as still a student, so I've had this laptop for years and sort of run it into the ground. Enter key has been fixed my fate, however. Not going to knock it. I'll buy a new laptop for first semester of college. Til then, much too broke.
edit: If you were curious. "A spectacularly trenchant symbol in The Decameron is fully realized in the third day. Boccaccio utilizes the garden to instigate a strong meta narrative. He first establishes the theme of the days stories, the garden itself representing plainly the playful, clever nature of sexuality and highlighting the use of ingenuity and clever, amorous design in the pursuit of conquest and fulfillment, and the realization of sexual bliss."
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Post by Thy Dungyeon Maestyr on Nov 2, 2012 17:02:14 GMT -8
Yeah... Know what that's like! Good luck, kiddo.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Nov 2, 2012 17:05:44 GMT -8
OMG!! I hate that postmodern "analytical" drivel. I had to read and write sooo much of it when I got my BA in film production. Check this out.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Nov 2, 2012 17:10:28 GMT -8
I actually cited the above website in a paper I wrote once.
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Post by Suyoi on Nov 2, 2012 17:12:29 GMT -8
I have never met a sadder link in my life, Brett. Ever. I bow to you, sir.
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Post by Audrey Siddons on Nov 2, 2012 17:12:46 GMT -8
Oh my god, I could probably hand some of that insanity in. And get an A.
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Post by Audrey Siddons on Nov 2, 2012 17:13:27 GMT -8
I do like that I get to constantly talk about sex in my papers, now, though. In the interest of full disclosure.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Nov 2, 2012 17:14:58 GMT -8
I have never met a sadder link in my life, Brett. Ever. I bow to you, sir. If you reload the page, the text will be different every time.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Nov 2, 2012 17:19:08 GMT -8
My schoolwork tonight (and this weekend) is getting as far along as I can in my GIS final project (siting a geothermal power generator in Washington State) so that I can answer the questions related to it on my take home final that is due on Monday. They didn't tell is we'd need to be 50% or more done at this point in the semester.
I also have to write a very short paper on bio- and phytoremediation. And answer the chemistry post lab questions and submit the PDF before I miss the deadline. I also have a bunch of other stuff that I'm forgetting that's due in the first part of next week. I should probably go through my classes one-by-one and figure it out before I go to bed tonight, so I can properly prioritize them in the morning.
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Post by ∆§Indea§∆ on Nov 2, 2012 17:19:35 GMT -8
Would you all think less of me if I said I actually really enjoyed modern and post modern texts as a subject? I really liked analysing ' Pulp Fiction' from a post modern perspective, it made me appreciate it more. Like the line " Just because you are a character, doesn't mean you got character". It was interesting to look at how we view reality, hyper reality and the subversive nature of advertising and pastiche.
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Post by Suyoi on Nov 2, 2012 17:20:39 GMT -8
... wow... wow. Brett, you have officially become an idol.
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Post by Audrey Siddons on Nov 2, 2012 17:24:19 GMT -8
∆§Indea§∆ I got back and forth between loving and hating it. Sometimes it's egregiously unnecessary, sometimes it can be enlightening. Sometimes it's bull.
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Post by ◊◊BLOODBEASTER◊◊ on Nov 2, 2012 17:25:49 GMT -8
Oh man, you guys don't know pain until you try to read/write artist statements. UGHHHH. I just made a comic for mine because the BS-itude that's expected is UNBELIEVABLE.
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Post by ∆§Indea§∆ on Nov 2, 2012 17:28:31 GMT -8
@audrey- That's pretty much the way with anything like that, it's the same with psychology. Some stuff you think is genius, other stuff you just shake your head in shame to be studying it. Some psychology experiments shake your faith in humanity.
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Post by Dr. Maneep Pamplemousse on Nov 2, 2012 17:30:15 GMT -8
It was interesting to look at how we view reality, hyper reality and the subversive nature of advertising and pastiche. I won't think any less of you, but that last bit did make me throw up in my mouth a little. My issues with it is manifold, but the big points are 1) the audience has to be intimately familiar with the works of all of the people you adjectivize or reference (Marx, Freud, Baudrillard, Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze, Derrida, ad nauseum), 2) when you attach "meta-" to every fourth word, it's hard for the common person to understand you (and some things should never be connected to that prefix, metafoucaldian is not a word), and 3) your audience shouldn't have to be subject matter experts on Freudian pseudopsychology, Marxist philosophy, semantics, semiotics, syntactics, and the whole body of art history to undersstand each and every sentence in a piece of writing. But is nobody enjoyed it, nobody would write it. It's just not for me.
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