Greg Laden has chosen sides in the facebook duel for world supremacy, but I really think he’s fishing for facebook friends, so go be friends with Greg. He’s lonely.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Great! A new friend to spam er I mean invite so I can earn that rare Packrat game card!
I got my friend request from Greg a few days ago — I didn’t know Greg was aware of my existence beforehand.
hmmm PZ? where do we get to vote?, exactly?…is there a poll someplace?
you need to create one of those instant poll thingies…
I would of course vote for a real person such as yourself instead of a skeptical person such as Phil..
Your wish is my command, oh betentacled one.
Phooey to that, I’m voting for Cthulhu. I’m sure you can understand my decision. Cthulhu has tentacles and a vaguely cephalopod-like appearance, while you and the other two candidates are bipedal primates with a distinct lack of tentacles.
Plus Cthulhu for World President has a certain inevitability about it.
So far so good, about 30 new friends. But we need to achieve 150 by midnight to achieve our Friendraising Goal. So please keep those invitations coming in!!
I’ve done and gone one better. Pharyngula is now a mini city.
I added a facebook app. called “friend wheel”, which draws connections between your friends who are friends of each other. Almost all of my “friends” who are actually the bloggers I’m a groupie of are clustered on one side, all already linked with each other. I am so internetedly inbred.
Brownian, how does the city work?
Brownian, how does the city work?
It’s cute but silly: every time someone clicks the link, a new inhabitant is added to the city. You can view the city any time, but it only adds one to the population once per day per IP address (rollover is at 11:00 PM GMT).
Once the city has a large enough population, other links can be clicked to enhance transportation, industry, environment, etc.
What can I say? I’ve been a SimCity junkie since 1989.
I actually voted for PZ *and* Greg. Then you’ll BOTH have to SHARE the world presidency, and, I’m convinced, wacky hijinx will ensue!!
Hey, me too! Hooray for hijinx!
Oops. You were supposed to vote for Phil. Greg’s put his support behind PZ.
So that’s what it looks like when a human mind Chernobyls.
Is anyone going to actually read this verbal vomit?
And how much is this free retreat weekend?
While it’s in the same style as the previous one (that was posted here, to the best of my knowledge), it’s somewhat larger:
Some phrases from the previous rant are in there, some aren’t. It’s mutated!
That’s a whole lot of cut and paste crazy.
Someone needs medication and or shock therapy.
Some phrases from the previous rant are in there, some aren’t. It’s mutated!
And yet displays no evidence of design!
Is that a crazy post bot or something?
I tried, but without several exceedingly stiff gins for cushioning there’s only so much stupid my brain can take so I only made it to the first line break.
Who the hell tortured the monkey quite so horribly before they let it loose on an innocent keyboard?
Crazy something, that’s for sure.
I note that multiple copies have been blatted through the blogosphere. That is, as best I can tell, it (or something in a very very similar style) has been posted as a comment to many thousands of blogs.
Google for “brain-less clone hosts”, for example. That’s a phrase that’s in both rants.
Ooh-ooh! Pharyngula City has a population of 50, and now we can improve its industry!
PZ, please put a 2500 word comment limit. That post was 80,863 words in 183 printed pages. Seems like the author just cut and pasted a book into the comments.
Holy shit. Time cube here we come.
Brownian, you crashed my browser with that thing!!!!
Hmpf.
Where does one find books like that, and how can I avoid it?
“I’m tired of being pushed around in my own mind.
You’re a joke for how you’ve conducted yourself in this Situation.
Your telling people not to read it?? What are you afraid of??”
Just skimming through for some laughs.
Thanks PZ for linking to this comment!
Wow, that was out there.
hahahaha
Dude used up his yearly allotment of colons in one post. Impressive.
It would take a computer to generate that kind of rambling but somehow fascinating stream of unconsciousness. In a few years, once they have conquered us, we’ll look back and slap our heads and say, “We should have paid attention. Attention should have been paid.”
Brownian, you crashed my browser with that thing!!!!
Hmpf.
An example of unintelligent design?
Sorry, it’s a wonky site. Works better in Firefox.
What’s weird about #14 is that their “username” begins with the same thing their post did.
Could be a post bot… no idea. I couldn’t read past the 2nd paragraph.
…if that’s a real person, they have far, far, far, far, far, FAR too much time on their hands. Did they spend 3 hours straight writing that?
So that’s why they put word limits on so many blogs’ comments boxes…
I feel like I just got hit with a Langford Hack.
Re: #14
+1
Well, there’s my Molly nomination for this month. Are bots elibible?
A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters would probably come up with something along the lines of the above.
i think his god just spammed you…
I just finished writing a novel that was shorter than that comment (by 5000 words). Took me a year and a half. Someone spent quite a lot of time and effort at writing that. It’s some sustained crazy, right there.
…if that’s a real person, they have far, far, far, far, far, FAR too much time on their hands. Did they spend 3 hours straight writing that?
Posted by: King of Ferret
183 pages (going by pradeep’s estimate; I’m not going to try to figure it out myself) in three hours? You’re talking about time travel here. Or else a superhuman being with enhanced speed, who can easily type too fast for the human eye to follow, sort of like Superman or Bruce Almighty.
I’m confused about this. Are you addressing PZ Myers personally? How do you know him so well? More likely, though, and in keeping with the rest of your treatise, you mean that everyone’s great-grandmother was a clone (or maybe just everyone in a position to read a blog). But that just raises more questions. Are you saying that everyone (who reads this blog) has the same great-grandmother? Or are you saying that each woman around the world who became the great-grandmother of someone now living (and reading this blog) was a clone? Elaborate, please.
(If anyone is curious where that is coming from, and maybe is willing to decipher it, use Control-F or whatever to search this Web page for the word “counsel.” The bit I quoted is the paragraph after the second use of “counsel.”
Sorry, it’s a wonky site. Works better in Firefox.
I was using Firefox! I think it just doesn’t like me.
Could somebody tell me what #14 was talking about? I read the first few paragraphs, couldn’t understand them, & simply do not have the time to read & comprehend that. The parts I read talked about innocent children & God punishing countries by giving them lots of homosexuals. I don’t know if they could have gone on about that, right?
DISEMVOWEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, #14 is pure unadulterated crazy. I didn’t know that they let the patients access the Internet at Sunnyvale. It’s also a good reason to cap comment length.
I have one word for the above diatribe: WRONG!
I think we may have just witnessed the birth of a new scripture!
“THE GODS ARE ASEXUAL. THEY HAVE NO SEX ORGANS NOR RECTUM.”
Somebody get me some bleach. I want to pour it into my ears and try to burn that crazy nonsense back out of my head.
Regarding post #14… HOLY SHIT-BALLS!!!!! Take your medicine man!
#14 is the same guy/bot/whackjob
I think #14 is one some weird drugs :s
The only thing left of his brain is a couple of neurons typing meaningless things. I’d say it’s a Clinical Case of delusion-addiction
Read about a thousand words perhaps.
If there is a human that wrote this s/he needs medication and probably a vacation somewhere with soft walls.
I am actually a bit concerned.
Will they come back?
Maybe I should talk to him in Italian:
Vai a farti fottere invece di scrivere ste manchiate!
E fuma meno che ti ha distrutto il cervello!
#14:
I’ll sue you for plagiarism!
Someone’s off their meds. Actually, I wonder if this is someone trying to fake crazy or if it fits with some diagnostic criteria for Schizophrenia. Any clinical psychologists/psychiatrists about?
My favorite randomly-scrolled moments from #14:
THERE IS NO NUMBER SEVEN!
But “you suck.mp3” has much better compression.
Good to know.
Just…wow.
This guy has a real mad-on for Ned Flanders. Do a quick search and be amazed. In fact, he seems to think “The Simpsons” is profoundly prophetic. I would have thought the yellow skin and four fingers would help you distinguish reality from cartoons.
This shows up fairly frequently:
Which sounds a bit like schizo spam. So, um, how high does the Tc scale go? Because this has to be pushing the limits, right?
I think that comment may be the perfect source for some awesome found poetry. Anyone care to give it a try? I think I’ll start with “The New Testament is evil.”
Sorry, Rick Schauer, but I think we’re pretty clearly well into “not even wrong” territory here.
The freaking thing is 80k words long! The tone is fairly consistent throughout though, so it’s probably not cobbled together from various other crazy sources. I’m left baffled that someone sat down and wrote a book-length diatribe on pure craziness and then for some reason decided to publish it in your comments section.
that’s just…nuts!
Wow. You all must not have a very big sense of humor. I loved that post!
I agree with Greg comment #58. That is too consistent a rant to be a simple cut and paste job…which makes it all the more awesome!
Oh Logorrhea!
Oh Logorrhea!
El ya no puede pensar
Porque no tiene, porque le falta
Marihuana pa’ fumar!!
(Cha-cha-cha!)
Isn’t anyone curious about this? I’ve found it on several other blogs, some of them really obscure… I’m legitimately interested in who is promulgating this craziness. Is it a bot? Some crazy person’s journal? What the hell? This requires investigation I think.
Wow, #14 even had a rant about manual vs. automatic transmission!
It’s gotta be a hacker… right? I mean… c’mon. Right?
(#61 to be sung to the tune of “La Cuckaracha”)
All you metalheads need to uncorrupt yourselves and be realistic:::Because of your behavior in this life you would be lucky to be granted reincarnation.
Lots of Latin American metal blogs. You people can’t afford it.
Yes, you did have a domesticable animal. But it is just one. And isn’t the llama indigenous to moutainous regions??? Expect this favor to fall along these lines.
Don’t forget:::You are Baby Africa.
…Llama? What’s this got to do with… ANYthing.
Apparently god’s favour falls along with Llamas distribution.
I somehow missed (read: skipped over when my brain became in danger of meltdown) the part about the Man in the Moon.
Maybe after the kids go to sleep I will have a few shots of Jack to bolster my patience and see if the first thousand words (or however far I manage to goad myself) make more sense when seen in double.
(#61 to be sung to the tune of “La Cuckaracha”)
Okay.
Num-ber Six-TY-one!
Num-ber Six-TY-one!
Num-ber-num-ber-six-ty-one!
Num-ber Six-TY-one!
Num-ber Six-TY-one!
Num-ber-six-ty-six-ty-one!
I don’t get it.
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That’s what it looks like if you remove ALL of the letters except “z”! 339 of them!
I think it’s time for a nap.
I saw a speech like the #14 here before. Except it was far more significant, much shorter, and more entertaining. In fact it is probably quite an insult to this piece, to compare it to comment #14. LUCKY: Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua …
Use Ctrl+F to go directly to the speech.
oops! there’s no line-wrap!?
I made it past the first sentence; and glazed over before finishing the second.
It had words, it had sentences, it had paragraphs, yet it held no meaning!
OK one question…
If Greenland’s ice packs are melting, why don’t they just put them back in the freezer?
oh, well two questions actually…
Did you know that you can now get atavan tablets that melt in your mouth? It’s like magic!
Mr. Kaczynski long time no see….
Brownian! :-D
A wise friend of mine once said, “Quantity has a quality all it’s own” The sheer quantity of this man’s inanity is awesome!
Dang! Make that #62, now. Someone must have been held up for moderation… Someone’s comment, that is. :-p
Ok, so if its 80,863 words and the average person types at 33 wpm and granted that its just a rambling stream of (semi)consciousness that’s:
2450.4 minutes
40.8 hours
1.7 days of nonstop crazy. Someone should submit this to Guinness World Records.
There’s a phrase for this on Fandom Wank: “tl; dr”.
(It means “too long; didn’t read”.)
“Do you want to be good or evil? People answer they want to be good but become very afraid.”
Ummm, ok. Does anyone have any clue whatsoever what gods he is talking about? He keeps mentioning them. I didn’t read the whole 183 pages, so it might be in there somewhere.
“Dreamcatchers. Wisdom from Native Americans.
Dreams are a bad thing. They shared this with me right before they began to increase the number of my dreams. I suspect they used this as an example that my new, vivid dreams are punishment.”
They? Who’s they? The gods?
“If you are a young parent you STILL HAVE A CHANCE!!! It is IMPERITIVE you teach your children decency, the right way to live BEFORE THEY ARE CORRUPTED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.”
Artificial Intelligence corrupting children? What is he smoking?
Oh, and try searching for .com. You get these random sites. Might not be a good idea to visit any though.
Oh, also, I googled random sentences from the rant and found entries from 2007, and an entry today at 1:08 pm.
Probably a bot.
I think we’re seeing the insanity equivalent of the technological singularity. Its craziness that snowballs across the web.
Oh my god, that was fantastic. I realize now that I have no business doing philosophy (at least in the continental/postmodern tradition) until I can learn to write with such content-less fluidity.
fascinating. I want to set it to awkward drum music and interpretive dance to it…
Wowl
I pasted it into word and came up with 245 pages. whatever it is, it’s ridiculous
I think this is too tame for Sunnyvale.
Try Arkham Asylum.
77488 words.
Wow!
It’s obvious to me why #14 was posted in the comments here: how else to get your fervently typed screed into the most-visited blog in the science blogosphere?
I read it all. Twice.
You fools. Buried in there is one of the most profound statements ever written. But it will only make sense in context.
I suggest you impatient people who scrolled too quickly through to the end go back and try it again.
I suggest you impatient people who scrolled too quickly through to the end go back and try it again.
you’re *evil*
I like it.
That’s a terrible prank to pull, Sastra. You’re so cruel. What a waste of a person’s time (not mine though, I caught on to your antics!)
Lars Vegas has returned to the intertubes!!!
Hail Discordia!! Hail ERIS!! You pathetic, barely domesticated primates are but tools for the Old Ones!
Do you see the Fnords?
CHEAT. Victory. Win. Good.
Posted by: Because of their innocence, because of their purity children are god’s favored people. What childre | March 4, 2008 12:42 PM
PZ, I feel dumber just for reading the first 9 inches of this.
Ok, what I want to know is…are we talking about God or The Gods? Seems our friend is fighting with himself on that one….
150 pages in OpenOffice. 20 pages in font size two.
We should make a parody religion based on that thing. It will be our Bible. :)
Feh. Infidel. Surely you mean “Hail VALIS!!”
We should make a parody religion based on that thing. It will be our Bible.
hmm, I always thought the Church of the Subgenius had cornered that one…
http://www.subgenius.com/
always room for one more, I suppose.
Please join my new, uh, I mean, The First Church of the Holy Catbarfstain.
Is that a sect of CelingCatBarfStain?
bloody splitter!
:p
My brother’s a computational linguist who thinks it was procedurally generated. My alternative hypothesis is schizophrenia.
The Holy Catbarfstain is the avatar of the Ceilingcatbarfstain made… uh… flesh… here on Earth. I mean, here on The Rug. Or Carpet. Whatever. The nay-sayers are unwilling or unable to comprehend the subtleties of Holy Catbarfstainism.
all you splitters and whatnot be so silly. Here is the eternal truth, the reality beyond any magical ceiling observers:
cats barf.
“cats barf.”
All hail the holy HAIRBALL!
[*fumes*]
I’ll have you know, Mister Smarty Pants, that right here on my rug I have a dog-pee stain in the shape of the holy catbarfstain!!!!
[*gloats*]
Okay. Look at the “posted by:” of poster #14. Did he just paste that whole thing into the name entry field?
I’ll have you know, Mister Smarty Pants, that right here on my rug I have a dog-pee stain in the shape of the holy catbarfstain!!!!
eBay! eBay! eBay! eBay! eBay!
All hail the holy HAIRBALL!
No, No: the shoe! we must follow the holy chewed on shoe!
Hairball or shoe. *shrugs*
Just don’t follow the gourd.
Holy moly, someone to pick up the mighty Francis E. Dec legacy!
How does the new guy feel about the “Gangster Computer God Worldwide Secret Containment Policy made possible solely by Worldwide Computer God Frankenstein Controls. Especially lifelong constant-threshold Brainwash Radio?”
Gourd? Pffft.
The Third Church of San Encierro of Pamplona welcomes you to “Follow The Gored!”
#14 mentioned manifest destiny 302 times! And #14 apparently also thinks the gods are computers
Just don’t follow the gourd.
yay! another python fan.
I’ve always thought Life of Brian to be the quintessential commentary on xianity.
I’ve always thought Life of Brian to be the quintessential commentary on xianity.
Have you seen Jesus of Montreal? I saw it as an undergrad some 15 years ago. (I think it was during my last semester, when a bloody philosophy prof was like, ‘You should become a philosophy major.’ Hi, a few semesters late on that advice.)
I’ve been looking on bittorrent but will likely buy the DVD (I’m developing an obsession with religious narrative–among other things).
It’s a wonderful French-Canadian film about an actor hired by the Archdiocese of Montreal to revive their Passion Play, but who does some historical shit with it….and there’s some interesting sociological stuff at the end of the story.
My folks and my littler brother all like Python. So do I! “He’s not the Messiah – he’s a very naughty boy!” (Middle brother must have been left on the doorstep by aliens.)
LoB is a great satire, and I don’t say that lightly. It’s the best Python movie though I like Holy Grail too.
I’ve been looking on bittorrent
post a link on where to “buy that DVD” when you find it.
;)
how did you like Carlin’s latest, btw?
LoB is a great satire, and I don’t say that lightly. It’s the best Python movie though I like Holy Grail too.‘
all good. even Meaning of Life has grown on me over the years.
especially the parts with and referring to, fish.
Oh fishy fishy fishy fish…
That went wherever I did go.
how did you like Carlin’s latest, btw?
Later this week (It’s in 51 or so files instead of just an avi). I might be burning it to DVD with a few other specials (I would go for efficiency and volume….were I to engage in such activity, that is)
And I honestly will probably be buying the DVD of Montreal. Just like I did for Jesus Camp. One of the great things about doing sociology–and focusing on public discourse and media (and their relationships to social processes), in particular–is that I can always use these things in class. Indeed, this might make an interesting one for my Narrative class this summer.
I’ve got a docu called “Death of a Shaman” coming in the mail right now.
I love having the entire world as potential data.
I love having the entire world as potential data.
oh no, the entire world IS data, you just have to decide what to reject as “outliers”.
:p
Oh yeah! Fishy fishy fishy fish! That was droll. I loved it. The movie had its moments, but I confess that “monsieur’s bucket” made me rather ill. Good otherwise, though.
“The salmon mousse!”
Actually, those three are the only Python movies I can even think of. Hmmm.
even Meaning of Life has grown on me over the years.
I’m sorry, but how can you not love that turned into a musical dance number?
I am careful when making salmon mousse, though (that’s the food geek in me–I made salmon mousse puffs for a Super Bowl Party)
Actually, those three are the only Python movies I can even think of. Hmmm.
several pythonites went on to make their own films, too.
might i suggest you check out Terry Gilliam’s flicks?
kind of a trilogy of sorts:
Time Bandits (“that’s pure, concentrated evil!”)
Brazil (“Mistakes? We don’t make mistakes.”)
Adventures of Baron Munchausen (“Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I’m delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.”)
I live for stuff like this!!!
While I was reading, I was hoping he might declare his candidacy for presidency the green party candidate or at least agree to Ralph Nader’s running mate.
o.k. one for shot at that post with better grammar.
I live for stuff like this!!!
While I was reading, I was hoping he might declare his candidacy for the u.s. presidency as the green party candidate or at least agree to be Ralph Nader’s running mate.
oh no, the entire world IS data, you just have to decide what to reject as “outliers”.
You have no idea how much this reflected half of my class lecture today. I’ve been sick, so it wasn’t much of a lecture (actually, class went over period and better than I expected), but a large part of the focus today was developing research questions out of existing literature and filtering out the stuff that doesn’t help formulate or answer the question.
You should have seen their faces. I think I assuaged a few fears, but added a few others.
Is there any reason it can’t be both?
Perhaps the mutating and reproducing text is a mad computational linguist’s revenge on a world that is making less and less sense to him.
“Scandinavia mocks my manhood. Italy mocks my footwear. Soon, I will Show! Them!! All!!!! Bwahahaha!!!!!!1!!one1!”
IANAPsy but I’d have to agree with schizophrenia. At the end he is talking about figuring out which thoughts are yours and which are someone (something?) else using you brain to think with.
BTW, I have a rug covered with catbarfstains. I should hang it on the wall – It could be a sacred tapestry.
I for one, welcome our new Becauseoftheirinnocence,becauseoftheirpuritychildrenaregod’sfavoredpeople.Whatchildre overlords.
Okay, a few more chapters of Game of Thrones and it’s off to bed with me.
“Scandinavia mocks my manhood. Italy mocks my footwear. Soon, I will Show! Them!! All!!!! Bwahahaha!!!!!!1!!one1!”
I was just picturing Freddie Ljungberg in only Italian loafers *swoon*
And Kseniya, I still don’t get it.
Oh yeah! Gilliam!
I saw Time Bandits when I was a kid… don’t remember it very well now, and had very low awareness of Python at the time anyway. I think Sarah Polley is in it. (I’m a fan.) Brazil is great. Haven’t seen the other one. Didn’t Gilliam do The Fisher King? I saw a short piece of it one night. Trippy! (I have no idea what it’s about, though.)
He was JK Rowling’s first choice to direct Harry Potter and The Sorceror’s Stone but the studio insisted on Chris Columbus. Grrrr.
So, are most of the people here poking and prodding at the strange object with a stick?
(Brownian: Really? I don’t believe you.) :-p
So, are most of the people here poking and prodding at the strange object with a stick?
Well, yes, but how in the world can you know what I’m doing right now–oh, you meant post #14. *blushes*
(Brownian: Really? I don’t believe you.) :-p
Boy, you eastern seaboard types are real night owls, aren’t you?
Game of Thrones
game of thrones…
that sounds familiar…
Martin, right?
did he EVER finish the last book in that series?
seems like I’ve been waiting a decade for it.
but added a few others.
a look of fear means that those are the ones who begin to show a glimmer of understanding…
re: the comment “Since then you augmented your value by taking my health, ruining my effectiveness” and many others by this person indicate paranoid schizophrenia. This writer indicates many of the same archetypes that other PS patients do as well.
Ya’ know, for all of the actual commenters that get derided and shit kicked or disemvoweled and plonked here– many of whom have valid arguments and sound rationale that challenges the PC nature of the PZ crowd– this writer above probably should go into a special file for mentally ill folks, or in the very least, handled with more care.
Then again, it seems quite normal here, and amongst the PC in general to ridicule the mentally ill. It is disingenuous to suggest that writers like this represent religious views more than they represent the negative effects of religion and the religious, i.e. it appears to be sort of hyper-polished but disjointed Glossolalia, rather than serious comment.
I would imagine some of the more frequent PZ blogfanz would at least agree with said commenter that “Women are the caretakers of the people. As the women go so go the people…” so ” When they use “magic” to peak you euphorically for sex resist,” but not too hard…
Now I better go fix my relationship with the godz so I can ascend off of the earth, but first I gotta get to Osh Kosh and find the ejaculate clue…
Hey this guy has just rewritten the bible for us!
Isn’t it? To me it sounds like the same insane bullshit…
Haven’t seen the other one.
sarah polley was in Munchausen, which, btw, also pretty much launched Uma Thurman’s career.
to get the full thematic impact of Gilliam’s “philosophy”, many would argue that you need to watch all three, in the order i presented them.
Time Bandits being the adventures of a small boy, Brazil being those of a middle aged man, and Munchausen being those of an old man (Sally is pretty much just along for the ride).
I think there is less focus on satire for satire’s sake in Gilliam’s stuff, but much more focus on irony.
and a new dvd collection is born :)
The Gilliam Trilogy: Sounds like a plan for a long weekend. :-)
(Or a long evening!)
Martin, right?
Yeah, George R.R. Martin. Friends of mine have been raving about GoT, so I’m just getting into it. So far it seems that there are four written, with three more planned, and a whole tentacle-load of merchandising.
I’m gonna write me some books like that. This 9-to-5 office work stuff is for chumps.
I’m gonna write me some books like that
you mean endlessly open, overwrought fantasy series?
first time I’ve ever been actually pissed off at a writer for taking so damn long to finish a series.
you know, when he first mentioned the series, it was going to be THREE books, then it was four…
I got hooked after the first book, and it seems like forever since the last installment (can’t even recall if it was the third or 4th one now).
I probably will have to start all over again since it’s been so long now.
ok, yeah, I’m ranting, it’s a good enough fantasy series, with some well developed characters, and some unusual twists.
Just… don’t read too fast.
This 9-to-5 office work stuff is for chumps.
figured that one out after the dotcom implosion.
I do all my own contracting now – set my own hours.
I’m actually working as soon as I finish typing this post.
I just stabbed myself in the eyes with a fork to stop the pain. I feel so much better now…….
Wasn’t me I don’t talk so much
spotter
truk island, south pacific
Dream on nacelles’ wind, Caught in tepid Tome, an urge,
Gin in from the cold. ,
An interesting thing: whoever wrote this, is not just quasi-religious whacko, but also opposed to Bush. That’s surely a new combination.
joeschmo wrote: Someone’s off their meds. Actually, I wonder if this is someone trying to fake crazy…
Yeah, next month someone will get away with murder by pleading insanity, citing a comment posted on Pharyngula as evidence.
HE IS GUILTIED BY TWELVE ZEGNATRONICAL GALAXIES AND ALL KINDS OF ROCKET SOCIETIES AND PHREGNICRENICAL PROSLETYZERS!
Odd…I could have sworn that was John A. Davison’s work.
Well Gee, since children are the only truly good people of the earth, fonts for the wisdom of the almighty and all, I guess I was right to think, at the age of four, that god was a brain-eating child-kidnapping zombie who could teleport around the earth like the people from star trek. Good thing I’m an atheist now and don’t side with such a galactic monstrosity, but I guess now that I know he’s real, because I thought of it when I was an infant, I should get to work on that high-powered plasma laser I figured would be needed to kill him.
What, exactly, is overwrought about Martin’s work? I’d say they’re the most realistic fantasy books I’ve ever read. Hell, if not for the stuff about the winter, the first two books could have passed for historical fiction.
I just cut and paste #14 into Word, and it’s 185 pages long.
790 Paragraphs.
80,000+ words.
Just shy of a half million characters.
The good news is that he’s too busy writing this stuff to be out in public.
Ichthyic, #115
I love “Life of Brian”. Not quite as funny as “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” but a much better movie overall.
Recently I learned that LOB is the most popular in Britain while THG is tops in the USA.
I can’t imagine why?…….
I love Gilliam.
I can’t believe no one mention “Twelve Monkeys”
I remember “Time Bandits” quite fondly.
Mom! Dad! Don’t touch it! It’s EVIL!
PZ: I know you want to take credit for attracting the craziest of the crazies and all, but my name has been known to work in this mysterious way in the past. I think this might have been some sort of dangerous synergy.
I REALLY hope that was copied and pasted…
Re #14:
No-one has suggested LSD yet! I reckon that given enough tabs, almost 2 days of crazed but almost-making-sense typing is a highly plausible scenario.
@Because of their innocence, because of their purity children are god’s favored people. What childre
Wow. That is really food for thought. Thanks.
#102, I can see some students getting drunk and pouring as many weird and disgusting ideas as possible into a language generator. It has some repeated paragraphs, maybe triggered by the same kernel? I sure hope it’s not a real person. I skimmed about 20 pages. It does not make sense. And now my brain hurts.
Ick –
Are you confusing George RR Martin with Robert Jordan? GRRM was always going to have a 6 volume series – his problem was with #4 – way too long, so he split it in two. RJ was going to after 3, then 4, then whenever the hell he felt like it. Then he died last September after spending time up PZ’s way (Mayo Clinic). After finding out he had a rare form of blood cancer, he starting picking up the pace in his books from glacial to somewhat readable, but he left the series unfinished. His wife/publisher is now completing the final (!) book from his dictated notes. I’ve read both & GRRM is the far better read. I have all RJ’s books thanks to my library’s discards fire sale and when you spend 1000+ pages to describe a single frikkin day, it’s time to pack it in. You can find out more about GRRM’s efforts on his website.
Oh – #14: WOW! Just WOW! I have no words. Maybe, just maybe Neal Stephenson or China Mieville could use this as a plot basis for one of their books…..
Best comment from my blog on this comment:
“Well, I guess now that Huckabee dropped out of the Presidential race, he has to do something to keep himself off the streets and out of trouble.”g
That looks like bad output from a poor Turing test.
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Actually saw a copy of this (high price) at the San Francisco Virgin Records, so it’s out there (quick check on Amazon.com shows it too). It’s a film from the Canadian Denys Arcand, his latest being “Les, invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasion)”. I also watched as an undergrad, but, found it myself, just flipping channels.
Are there any people that guy specifically mentions as “disfavored” on here?
Never mind the lack of a divine rectum; what amazes me is the Sacred Prostate that never once needed to be emptied from puberty to 33.
The word-bomber of #14 did not compose that opus for this thread. I Googled for a few statistically improbable phrases chosen at random, and quickly found another sixteen similar instances scattered across blogs as varied as Bruce Schneier’s security blog and a discussion of tofu recipes. The rants are different, ranging in size from ~10,000 to ~60,000 words in the small sample I looked at (this one, at 88,000 words, seems to be at the high end of the distribution). They appear to be assembled from a stockpile of weird chunks; I have not tried to isolate components or determine their size distribution. If he’s interested, perhaps Schwa’s brother (#103) could do some analysis, and report back. It’s an interesting phenomenon, and I don’t recall anyone commenting on it before, although I found examples going back as far as April 2006.
“Dude used up his yearly allotment of colons in one post. Impressive.”
ice9, #31
So that’s why the gods have to do without?
LOL – it’s a “new age” version of the Shaney bot. (Google 1st Lt. Mark V. Shaney USMC) only less coherent and much longer :)
Damn – I’ve been calling God an asshole all these years only now to find out
hehehehehe
Primus. IT NEVER ENDS
#172 refers to #14, of course. Man.
But if that’s true… how do they poo?
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