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Apr 04 2008
Pony Partially Planned Movement
I have once again been seduced (gently, pleasantly, lovingly, with only a playfull spanking) into filling in for RiaD, who is recovering from an illness, probably not this one:
New and deadly viruses passed through sweet food and domestic animals
http://www.physorg.com/news126…
and who is well enough to do a Writing In The Raw, which will be posted in a couple hours, but not well enough to do her regularly scheduled Party.
So, put on a Air Filter Face Mask
http://www.mfiap.com/gs/index.htm
hang out if you like and show RiaD what fun she missed messing with her writing stuff, then go to the Front Page where people have been kicking ass with great skill and virtuosity.
but DO NOT REC. THIS SHIT!
Mar 20 2008
Pony Parti Pris-TIGSETTASS
Thursdays I Get Someone Else To Think About Stupid Shit
Yeah,, it’s me again, always the fill-in host, never permanent. RiaD is clearing brush while battling the flu. Our guests tonight include the Indominitable Candye Kane.
(not the best lighting ever)
Our topic today is……..META, or is it HYPER, or PARA, it’s some Greek prefix anyway. Sometimes reading down the recent comments list, it seems that the subject lines form a little dialogue of their own. I put this together from yesterdays comments. I think I only misplaced some of them when extending the columns, but the good thing is….it doesn’t matter. ( They consist of only the parts of the line visible from the front page.) Only when something is really hot are the comments in reply to one another.
In order to play the game, go to the FRONT PAGE, read the subject lines of the recent comments, either up or down. See if you can make little conversations. Then read the essays to which the comments are posted. Then add your comments to the list. Repeat as needed. See what fun!
Like those puzzles in Harpers or the Atlantic , you have to put the breaks in the right place for it to work.
And n00bs, please Don’t Rec This Bastid.
Mar 18 2008
Pony Partial – Another Bailout
Over the past few days I’ve seen both new and long time (six months?)commenters remark how this is the site for reasonable adults and calm discourse and reflection and sensitivity etc. Well, don’t look for that shit in this one.
If that’s what you’re looking for, stay on the Front Page or read the other Totally Excellent Recent and Recommended Essays.
Once again ms. moneysmith has enlisted her e-loveslave to do the Tuesday evening Pony Party. Her reason this time was kind of vague, it may have something to do with this:
http://www.hkex.com.hk/news/hk…
because she had to fly to Hong Kong.
Besides the Pony Party, she left me a list of other things to take care of: Paint a couple rooms, dust the plants, scrub the floors, do the laundry, weed the yard, reset all the flagstone, and walk the dogs twice a day. Plus she has me on a strict diet of fruit juice and protein powder, and insists on an exercise program for me.
All of this is kind of difficult attached to the dog-collar and cable and stuff, so doing the Pony Party is actually kind of a break for me.
While I was cleaning the tile grout with a toothbrush (mine) I thought I might need a little pick-me-up, so I, once again, hearkened back to my youth and thought of Joe Walsh.
The James Gang got their start in Cleveland, my home town. I don’t think anyone ever accused Joe of being too serious either.
Mar 05 2008
Pony Paltry-Judge Dread
Due to having to make a cash deposit in person to a certain bank account in a certain place, ms. moneysmith was not able to spend the incredible amount of time and effort typically on display in her Pony Parties. Since she has such high standards, and was not willing to post anything of lesser excellence, she convinced me to do one, since few would be surprised or dismayed if I put out crap, me having assiduously cultivated an aura of low expectations. Her words of wisdom to me: nocatz, nobody gives a flying fuck. Let’s hope her wonderfull-sweetiepie-lambikins self will be able to at least stop in to say hello. So,
take a shower
https://www.wildhorsefeathers….
slip into something comfortable
https://www.wildhorsefeathers….
make yourself a drink
https://www.wildhorsefeathers….
?????????
https://www.wildhorsefeathers….
and go read the Front Page, and Recommended and Recent Essays….or better yet, go back to the beginning of docudharma and start there….
https://www.docudharma.com/show…
All of the shallow, frivolous and really hot ponies, please join me for a trot through another exclusive, graminoid-dominated, docudharma pasture : Incognito
Dec 29 2007
Optimism
A few days ago a friend sent me this link, knowing my curmudgeonly bent.
The Edge Annual Question – 2007
WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT? WHY?
http://edge.org/q2007/q07_inde…
It’s a great site, and full of things to think about. Mostly Science based.
I know Compound F is familiar with it
https://www.docudharma.com/show…
maybe other are too. plf515 I’m guessing, Kurzweil is my first selection.
https://www.docudharma.com/show…
and with recent inspiration from Fearless Leader
https://www.docudharma.com/show…
and the early classic
https://www.docudharma.com/show…
and most succinctly:
What is the basis for your optimism? (4.00 / 2)
“We can’t change the country. Let us change the subject.” Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses, by James Joyce(1922).
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by: oculus @ Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 15:47:57 PDT
——————————————————————————–optimism (4.00 / 2)
Reality is the result of war between two rival groups of progammers, so….Yell Louder!!!
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by: buhdydharma @ Mon Oct 08, 2007 at 19:22:44 PDT
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Me? Not so much.
In my search of DD, I found 33 comments with the word ‘optimism’, 13 with ‘optimist’, 51 with ‘optimistic’, some of these comments included the word ‘not’.
Below is a sampling of some of the things written by a selection of the rest of the world’s best minds. I haven’t read every one, so I just picked some whose names I recognized, then a couple of whom I had never heard. (sorry, it’s still beaten into me). Some are chosen just for their snark value. My sense so far is that many are optimistic about advances/improvements in their field, and then how maybe this translates into a better world. Like I said, there’s lots there, so those of you who are looking for some rays of sunshine, take your time and browse. Post if you find something you like. I believe most are using a ‘soft’ definition of ‘optimism’, along the lines of ‘some things will get better’, contrast with ‘worst-case scenario’.
Dec 19 2007
Pony Parties: Too many?
or too few?
PLEASE GO TO moneysmiths PONY PARTY
She is a personal friend of Jack Nicholson.
PLUS-there’s a live webcam and whipped cream all over the place!!!
And moneysmith is taking all of us to the Grand Caymans to PARTY if you all go over there and stop commenting here!!
Dec 06 2007
Big Al in Bali
Al asks:
Over the next nine days, I would like you to help me get people from across the country to sign our message to the global community. We can demonstrate that the American people understand the immediacy of the climate crisis and want to work with the nations of the world to solve it.
Nov 30 2007
WITR-Rattlers
Although I had lived, and hiked, and backpacked in the Southwest for twenty or so years, encounters with rattlesnakes were pretty rare. If one sees snakes at all, they’re usually stretched across a trail or road. I had sure never encountered one where it posed a problem, like crawling into someones sleeping bag. The closest anyone I knew ever came was when I was hiking with my nephew, he once sat on a large large rock that had a rattler underneath. When it rattled, he moved. This is generally considered appropriate behavior. He might have been maybe a little too excited, and ran much farther than he needed to, but the move-away–leave-it-alone strategy is all one really needs to do in most cases. The people that do get bitten are usually young, drunk, and male.
Most people in rural areas with great hideouts like barns and woodpiles, will usually handle rattlesnake encounters with matter-of-fact blowing them away with a shotgun.
I somehow got a job at a nature sanctuary near a small town and moved there from Tucson. I had been a volunteer for a few years and Jerry, the manager, finally had the funding to hire some help. Meetings with rattlesnakes increased.
Nov 30 2007
WITR-Rattlers
Although I had lived, and hiked, and backpacked in the Southwest for twenty or so years, encounters with rattlesnakes were pretty rare. If one sees snakes at all, they’re usually stretched across a trail or road. I had sure never encountered one where it posed a problem, like crawling into someones sleeping bag. The closest anyone I knew ever came was when I was hiking with my nephew, he once sat on a large large rock that had a rattler underneath. When it rattled, he moved. This is generally considered appropriate behavior. He might have been maybe a little too excited, and ran much farther than he needed to, but the move-away–leave-it-alone strategy is all one really needs to do in most cases. The people that do get bitten are usually young, drunk, and male.
Most people in rural areas with great hideouts like barns and woodpiles, will usually handle rattlesnake encounters with matter-of-fact blowing them away with a shotgun.
I somehow got a job at a nature sanctuary near a small town and moved there from Tucson. I had been a volunteer for a few years and Jerry, the manager, finally had the funding to hire some help. Meetings with rattlesnakes increased.
Nov 23 2007
Time to get ready for RiaD
I doubt if any of these video’s have anything even remotely to do with RiaD’s Writing in the Raw tonight. I’m just looking to fill in the time before the big event. If anyone is around beforehand and is feeling bummed-out, pissed off, drunk, drowsy, or bored, join me in the jukebox.
Chrissy and the Pretenders…in case you’re trying to control your temper.
Don’t worry, things will pick up.
K.D. amd Grover
Nov 20 2007
blogosphere games
Some of you may have heard of the latest rankings of the blogs done by persons at Carnegie Mellon. Mostly it’s based on numbers of links to and from, and it seems their notion of ‘news’ and ‘information’ is somewhat different from the common meaning, or maybe not.
Carnegie Mellon algorithm identifies top 100 blogs for news
“The goal of our system when looking at blogs is to detect the big stories as early on and as close to the source as possible,” Guestrin said.
der flippen
Oct 03 2007
Bummer (poor title choice)
C’mon people, this isn’t the place I’ve come to know and love lo these many, uh, weeks. You’re going to ruin our reputation as sycophantic lightweights that have no clue about the real world. I for one will not stand for it!
I am a clueless lightweight!
I’m just a -50-something lonely guy with no job and no future- who just wants to have some fun.