As an Atheist, I'd rather have Dawkins speaking for me than Hitchens.
Oh HELL yes.
I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Apr 16, 2011 7:30:20 am PDT #3556 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Polter-Cow - Apr 16, 2011 7:32:35 am PDT #3557 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Who's the biggest protagonist prick on TV? House?
Dexter.
Really? You think he's actually a prick or you're just upgrading him because he's a murderer and killing people is prickish in your book? I think Walter White is more of a prick than Dexter.
Allyson - Apr 16, 2011 7:37:39 am PDT #3558 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
HA! I was so surprised that there was a JZ Meyers and thought this JZ should be introduced to PZ Myers and then it was the same person.
I spoke with an evo psychologist about just-so stories and he said all scientists do the same thing to narrate their theories...no, not really.
PZ's head once exploded when he posted about a paper by Jesse Bering (who is probably the most clownish of the current evo psych assholes) about the head of the penis having evolved its shape to "scoop out competitor's sperm."
His experiment? Squirt some viscous goo into a fleshlight, and use a dildo to scoop it out.
SERIOUSLY? When PZ called him on it by inquiring whether the dildo had a foreskin (among other obvious problems), Bering posted a whiny retort about how ethics prevented him from using human models and boo hoo.
SO WHY ARE YOU PUBLISHING RESULTS AS IF YOU HAVE LEARNED ANYTHING ABOUT HUMAN BIOLOGY, THEN?????
Seriously. Fleshlight.
sumi - Apr 16, 2011 7:39:16 am PDT #3559 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Man, it is cold, wet and windy here today. I'm on campus waiting for Check-in for NIUCares Day to start. (I'm working check in.) Students are starting to get here. I wondered - given the weather what the turn-out would be. (This is the second shift - shift 1 had an 8 am check-in but staff had to be here at 6... I'm glad I got the choice.)
Also - somebody has made Batman and Joker amigurumi.
Jessica - Apr 16, 2011 7:44:24 am PDT #3560 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I spoke with an evo psychologist about just-so stories and he said all scientists do the same thing to narrate their theories...no, not really.
Oh yeah, chemists do this all the time. Physicists too.
billytea - Apr 16, 2011 7:47:31 am PDT #3561 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
You think he's actually a prick or you're just upgrading him because he's a murderer and killing people is prickish in your book?
Killing people isn't in yours?
DavidS - Apr 16, 2011 7:49:08 am PDT #3562 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Killing people isn't in yours?
You can kill people in a polite manner.
Allyson - Apr 16, 2011 7:49:26 am PDT #3563 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Where? I thought just-so was specific to squishy sciences like biology/anthropology.
Just-so is culture specific, isn't it?
Jessica - Apr 16, 2011 7:49:58 am PDT #3564 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh I remember the other thing I was going to say - TAM is quite possibly the worst place in the world to do that Million Dollar Challenge thing because the ratio of male:female guests is so ridiculously skewed. (At NECSS the line for the women's bathroom was about four people. The line for the men's room went all the way down the hall. It made me sad.)
Jessica - Apr 16, 2011 7:50:53 am PDT #3565 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Where? I thought just-so was specific to squishy sciences like biology/anthropology.
I was aiming for sarcasm there.