Activity from doctornemo

Ah, memories of making ASCII art on dumb printer terminals around 1980. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by AsYouKnow Bob
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Well obviously it was painted that way to appeal to Queen Carmilla For cstross: The grave of the Countess Mircalla was opened; and the General and my father recognized each his perfidious and beautiful guest, in the face now… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

My wife also saw Han Solo in carbonite, gottabefunky. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

very good title. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by chavenet, languagehat
MeFi comment - 4 days ago

“global weirding” is a phrase I like very much, and want to see in greater circulation. [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by madcaptenor, The Vice Admiral of the Narrow Seas, AsYouKnow Bob, DiscourseMarker, hydropsyche, elkevelvet
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

posted by The_Vegetables Eponhysterical! [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Foosnark
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

Thank you for this detailed post, Rhaomi. I'm traveling today and can't do the kind of research you did! [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Nelson, JHarris, TheophileEscargot
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

Excellent catch, chavenet. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chavenet
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

I admire his Poe obsession. So many adaptations. And this bit of inspiration: The group meet Edgar Allan Poe, who throughout the film drives around on a motorbike with Lenore on the back and a raven on his shoulder, commenting on the action… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by adrienneleigh, jettloe
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Looks like an earlier ad from another company. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by sourcejedi, Barbara Spitzer, torokunai
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Heh - Colbert offers a nicely Gothic twist. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Bella Donna, mazola, JHarris
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Confucius Institutes are probably the best-known elite Chinese influence project... [T]hey were welcomed by many universities because they provided cheap or even free Chinese-language classes and professors. Over time, the institutes aroused… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by clavdivs
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

I'm a lifelong horror movie fan, and this ad creeped me out. Maybe it's spending years playing a musical instrument (cello), or learning to take photos with a real camera now, or spending a lot of my life caring for books. Maybe it was the sheer… [more]
favorited 10 times, recently by kelborel, caviar2d2, Barbara Spitzer, adrienneleigh, one-half-ole, virago, lock robster, audi alteram partem, The Great Big Mulp, pxe2000
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

When 19th century people freaked out about the dangers of trains, they missed this one! [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by numaner, TrishaU, clavdivs
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

If I squint I can just make out the Mote. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by nofundy, adamg, Hairy Lobster, chavenet
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Nicolai Tangen, head of Norway’s giant oil fund. Even he has taken enough leisure time to amass a collection of Nordic modernist art Somehow I don't think it just takes time to assemble an art collection. [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Lexica, The Card Cheat, DirtyOldTown, epj, LizBoBiz, mollweide, toodleydoodley, The Manwich Horror, chavenet
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

Sometimes universities want to fly me out to talk about climate change and academia. We live on the Atlantic seaboard, so I can instead train to some locals (New England, parts of the northeast, parts of the southeast). Otherwise... I'd like to… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by ButteryMales, caviar2d2, mumimor, adrienneleigh, knotty knots, hydropsyche, col_pogo, clew, jeffburdges, Balna Watya, mazola
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

I've been spending recent years trying to get academics to think and do stuff about the climate crisis. It's been tough work, as the overwhelming majority don't want to. But I've been seeing more interest from some quarters: individual professors,… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by ButteryMales, cooker girl, unearthed, eirias, mazola
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

The New York Times article has one good photo. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Tehhund
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

biogeo, thank you for your thoughtful response. Climate change is such a hyperobject that people often grab onto one piece of it to think through: flying, diet, cars, architecture. One college I work with spent serious money on a consultant… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by biogeo, busted_crayons, limeonaire, steadystate
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

"Kennedy brainworm parasite" is a phrase I don't think I've ever put together. Ah, 2024. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by eckeric, mollweide, gatorae, wenestvedt
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

The societal and cultural forces at work continue to put much pressure on people to have children Those pressures are increasingly failing. Nearly every part of the developed world have seen their fertility rates fall below replacement… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by limeonaire, steadystate
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

centering the discussion about climate change on this very small component of the total cause is a distraction from the real issue I can't speak for anyone else in the thread, but what you say doesn't apply to what I'm doing, nor to what… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by Press Butt.on to Check, mumimor, adrienneleigh, hydropsyche, ob1quixote, clew, Balna Watya
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

Big Black played in my undergrad dorm's club around 1986. They plugged into the grid and immediately blacked out the building, appropriately. There was some technical work, and then... rock. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by whuppy, limeonaire, lasagnaboy
MeFi comment - 10 days ago

I do wonder where the “it doesn’t personally affect me” people live. In the US Parts of the midwest, it seems. (Check the series Extrapolations, which sees Miami evacuated to Duluth) [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by genpfault
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

Frequent typographical errors during the age of manual typesetting This became a plot point for a Young Ones episode. [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Jeff Morris
MeFi comment - 11 days ago

Good to see more notices on university and college labor organizing. This has been building for years, despite little support from academics and ditto from media. If you're interested in this, here's a discussion we held with two leaders of… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by busted_crayons, stellaluna, lock robster, eviemath, humbug, audi alteram partem
MeFi comment - 12 days ago

What a fun world. Some of its background: A thousand years after the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz, the world has fallen into decay. Endless war has led to technology stagnating, and beautiful countrysides have been… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by my-username, mayoarchitect, kaibutsu
MeFi comment - 12 days ago

“Though thy body’s plasticene-y, thou” I said, “art sure no weenie, Penguin proud and brisk, though teeny, walking your Antarctic route Tell me what you think you’re doing, on this dark Antarctic route?” [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Harvey Kilobit
MeFi comment - 14 days ago

I started on BASIC in 1979, working on a dumb terminal hooked up to my elementary school's mainframe. I hacked the Star Trek game and wrote some of my own code. Over the next couple of years I hand copied programs from a couple of big paperback… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by TrishaU
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

In a college class many moons ago, I was taught that animals don't have sentience because they don't respond to mirrors and don't use symbolic language. So many people do in fact believe that animals are not truly conscious. tofu_crouton,… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by gamera, Syllepsis, caviar2d2, Glinn, tofu_crouton, librarina, Tehhund
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

An emerging new picture of animal consciousness
favorited 29 times, recently by gamera, sneebler, caviar2d2, Green-eyed grenade, librarina, Aardvark Cheeselog, nicolin, snsranch, Ayn Marx, The Manwich Horror, JSilva, googlebombed, star gentle uterus, little eiffel, cendawanita, toodleydoodley, mike3k, showbiz_liz, clavdivs, Wobbuffet, Neilopolis, Glinn, signal, mubba, JHarris, mittens, apathy, Garm, Saxon Kane
MeFi post - 2 weeks ago

Wow. A very consistently anti-Ellison thread, this one. A lot of my memories of him are personal. As a college student a group of us got him to our campus for a talk, and it was a wild time. We had dinner with him, and he veered rapidly from… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Devoidoid, ovvl, pracowity, adrienneleigh, hototogisu, suelac, caviar2d2, philip-random, chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I don't think we've got to crucify everybody for their sins. Have you met MetaFilter? [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by ZakDaddy, adrienneleigh, hototogisu, pracowity, Ignorantsavage, clavdivs, Crane Shot, njohnson23, Nancy Lebovitz, neroli, mittens, Windopaene, chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

GenX here. So much of my musical taste came from my teen years: -classical, when I was playing the cello, and I can still vividly recall hearing some symphonies and concerti for the first time -pop->rock->punk->New Wave, starting from… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by pracowity, chavenet
MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Rick Perlstein is such a fine writer and historian. Very nice person, too. [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by Bella Donna, craniac, busted_crayons, nofundy, cybrcamper, ovvl
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

There's a quote attributed to Napoleon to the effect of: "If you want to understand a man, know the world he knew at 20 years old." [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by pracowity, chavenet
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

"DSCOVR is about a million miles from earth" - indeed, in the L1 point, I think. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by pjenks
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

Yes! And I want to celebrate the sheer glory of these lines: "Launched over 46 years ago, the twin Voyager spacecraft are the longest-running and most distant spacecraft in history. Before the start of their interstellar exploration, both… [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by Space Kitty, jjj606, Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, lock robster, pt68, mollweide, cuscutis, kinnakeet, Windopaene, my-username, Otherwise, Kattullus
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

That Dune essay is very strange. Dune Part Two looks good, but the images are incredibly static, people are reduced to flat images, with the exceptions of the sudden outbreaks of violent action, which are themselves short lived and poorly… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Artifice_Eternity, Lord Chancellor, edithkeeler, joannemerriam, queensissy, The Monster at the End of this Thread, philip-random, otherchaz
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

“At long last, we’re building the first high-speed rail project in our nation’s history" - at long last indeed. Oh, I hope they don't foul this up. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by socialjusticeworrier, Suedeltica
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

From TFA: If journalists, activists and democratic institutions stand to lose from Meta’s policy to limit political content, who stands to gain? “I think ultimately it benefits the fossil fuel industry, for one,” says climate justice… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by jeffburdges
MeFi comment - Last month

Average enrollment in higher Ed has been steady trending down for years That's correct. American higher ed enrollment peaked around 2012 and then declined every year until fall 2023. This is something I research. Current book ms is… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by jedicus, nofundy, joannemerriam
MeFi comment - Last month

This is a fiasco which might have some serious fallout. Right now it's a massive tide of stress for a lot of would-be and current students, their families, college and university staff and administrators, the federal workers we've mentioned, and… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by nofundy
MeFi comment - Last month

Adam Harris has done some good reporting (ungated) on this, interviewing federal staff. Inside Higher Ed has followed this story closely. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by nofundy
MeFi comment - Last month

I'm glad the article cited Alex Usher, a tremendous Canadian scholar of higher ed. His blog is very useful. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

I was going to rant about how stupid and destructive the Satanic panic was, but wanted to share these horrific bits from TFA: Dr. Braun’s inpatient unit at Rush became a magnet for referrals and a warehouse for patients, some of whom he kept… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

The movie is definitely about journalism - specifically, photojournalism in war. That's the film's primary focus. Secondarily, I agree that it's a picaresque. In particular, it's part of the venerable tradition of American road movies. Our main… [more]
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FanFare comment - Last month

Glad to learn more about these guys, of whom I'd previously read only hints. Thank you for the post, chavenet. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

For epistolary novels, the 18th century British ones are golden. But Dracula is also a fine one. (Ok, not entirely letters. Also recordings, clippings, receipts, but you get the idea) [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

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