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I especially wish English had words for gender-nonspecific third person.  Language shapes thought, after all.  Gender shouldn't matter so much, that it needs to be included in every fricken pronoun.

As best as I can tell, nearly every language is like that though. Gender does seem to be a big part of history, and most languages were created during the course of history, therefore they have gendered words for no reason beyond "It seemed important at the time".

I lost it at the Terminator movie critic idea. I would see that because my opinion of the Terminator series is about low enough to be that movie critic.

I would honestly like to see a tutorial on painting in the spirit of The Joy of Painting with Mike Tyson playing the part of the instructor. You know, so that after putting yourself into a calm with The Joy of Painting, you have an antidote that makes you really agitated.

All the while your skill in painting is increasing...

Buy crt tv. Remove screen. insert raspberry pi. Remove power supplies and components of tv. Have a small computer inside a very large box.

Feel like a big man.

Alternatively, attach it to a bunch of random motors, don't do anything useful with them, just attach them so that they can run.

I know that feeling. If you can find a guy at your job to go drinking with, there's a good chance of finding someone out there who you might just like.

Just don't drink too heavily. Buzzed is where you want to stay. Drinking more than that isn't going to reduce your shyness further, at least, not in a helpful way, and of course, there are the side effects from drinking heavily.

It's not easy finding a group of friends without some kind of introduction, as people tend to associate in cliques, small groups. These groups commingle and share members. You can spider along these connections and find people who you are looking for. The larger your initial circle, the less intermediate steps.

Small world networks and the such. In principle, you can find anyone with six jumps along the social groups, but most people don't have the stamina for that. At least not leafs like me.

What is love, Bay 12? 

Now what is love? Chemically speaking, oxytocin, throw in some pepsine argenine vasopressin and sprinkle liberally with dopamine. Now given that you aren't trying to create a pair bond with a wall, you probably want to do those things with another person(s). And hanging out with other people who aren't doing the same regimen would likely lead to undesirable outcomes on your part.

More seriously, if your friend can't accept a single fuckup and see past it, then generally they aren't suitable for long term friendship. Given the chaotic nature of life, it is only a matter of time until such a specimen runs out of people that they call friends; the move onto things they call friends is sad though.

Guilt isn't productive. Feeling guilty certainly so.

The best way to deal with it is to apologize and maybe do something nice for him, go a little out of your way as some kind of consolation. If you can get him to see it that way, it'll be fine. Unless of course the trip your friend wanted was more important than you guessed or were lead to believe. In which case the communication issue lies on his side, and you can have that little nugget of consolation.

Loyalty cannot be perfect  in a chaotic world, in a life powered by neurons and electrons, there's little space for loyalty to dwell, mix that with a society bubbling with entropy and complexity, and the last vestiges of its refuge collapse.

It's the thought that counts.

How many times did you have to Deep Dream that mofo?

15 I think.

Thats... surprisingly coherent looking for a deep dream image.

Here's my current desktop

Spoiler: Warning: Ponies (click to show/hide)

(Also WTF imgur! I give you a perfect PNG and if it's over 756 KB you convert it to a horribly compressed jpg image. If, on the other hand, I take my 2MB png and first convert it over to a 1.8MB best quality jpg then you store it just fine that way! This is idiotic! )

If you continue iterating over an image with deepdream, the hints become more and more concrete as deepdream is able to find more details it can impose upon the preexisting image.


I might actually take that desktop. It's coherent and sane compared to the one I'm using.

Besides, you can do non-oop in java. It just results in static classes, methods, attributes, etc. Make them public and they are very nearly the same as declaring a global variable or function. It's just less convenient to call them. More text.