Boiling Brains and Sinister Spam Tavern

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:02 pm

Well, there is a limit on size for avs....if I went for reality, the board would slow to a crawl loading my glass

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:47 pm

Originally posted by das_hermit
What an old tavern thread this is. But since there's thankfully no sports...

*bump*

Now where's that bar monkey, hope someone's remembered to keep feeding him...

EDIT-And now I have to go do some work, so I'll see whoever's around when I next show up.

Hi Ode, nice to see you

How on earth did you manage to dig up this old tavern, it should be of interest to Gwally and Waverly by now.

The bar monkey unfortunately got served as a snack, but I am sure Tyb doesn't mind replacing him

So how is life? I am dead tired after having slept 4 hours and worked for 13, so I'm going to bed now, but see you soon I hope!

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 11:17 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans
The bar monkey unfortunately got served as a snack, but I am sure Tyb doesn't mind replacing him

I turn my back for a few hours and all of a sudden, Im a bar monkey...

BTW-who ate the bar monkey? Im always the last to know...

Ode to a Grasshopper · Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:00 am

Heya CE, I just went hunting for the oldest tavern thread I could find that El Sleepo hadn't shut down. A bit of history, so to speak.

Someone ate the bar monkey, huh? Only on SYM...

Guess someone'll have to start training Tyb for the job then...can I rely on you to do it @CE? It's all electro-shock therapy

to discourage bad behavior (like mixing drinks poorly, learning how to pour a beer without too much head-no-one make any jokes that may be in bad taste here, please-, etc), so you're about the best person I can think of for it...

Life is good. My studies are going well, I'm getting good results, and learning philosophy is interesting. Seeing my RL friends a lot is nice, as is finally seeing my cousin after three years of his living in England. With any luck I'll be able to get my old account back sometime within the next few weeks, or whenever Buck gets around to it. As with all students money is not exactly abundant, but that's for a large part due to buying a replica of the LOTR movie Glamdring (or Gandalf's sword to those who aren't familiar with LOTR).
I'm not very good at resisting temptation...

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:06 am

Hey man, I was wondering how long you'd be MIA for.

We must catch up again, PM me when your not busy.

I hate posting in a rush

Ode to a Grasshopper · Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:27 am

@Tam-I'll be AWOL from SYM again after tomorrow, until I next get up into the hills, but we should catch up soon regardless. I need to go shopping for more winter clothes (Op shop time) and a few other odds and ends soon, maybe we could spend a day in Freo or something?
I'll call/message you once I'm through the load of essays and revision for tests I've got coming up, and we'll figure something out then.
BTW, the Gamecube Zelda game is looking decidedly nice, have you tried the demo version in-store yet?
Almost makes me want to go out and get a Gamecube myself...

*sigh* It's just no fun baiting Ty unless he's around...

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:02 am

@The eating of the bar monkey was a collective effort from all the guests

I think Weasel got the testicles

@Ode: I will take personal responsibility for Tyb's training

Apart from drink mixing I also consider to teach him to do entertaining dances on the tables.

Originally posted by das_hermit
Life is good. My studies are going well, I'm getting good results, and learning philosophy is interesting. Seeing my RL friends a lot is nice, as is finally seeing my cousin after three years of his living in England. With any luck I'll be able to get my old account back sometime within the next few weeks, or whenever Buck gets around to it. As with all students money is not exactly abundant, but that's for a large part due to buying a replica of the LOTR movie Glamdring (or Gandalf's sword to those who aren't familiar with LOTR).
I'm not very good at resisting temptation...

That's great to hear!

I imagined you'd be apt for studying philosophy. The limited budget is always a problems for students, and like you I was no good at resisting temptations either...so I ate a lot of pasta in my student days

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:06 am

Posting from work again Canorhabditis? Dont tell me you're finished with that article already?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:17 am

Originally posted by Dottie
Posting from work again Canorhabditis? Dont tell me you're finished with that article already?

Are you the new work police or what?

Of course I'm not finished with that article yet...but it's Saturday afternoon and I'm here to do some reading...I need to take it easy sometimes, you know

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:25 am

You know, sitting at home infront of a computer all day make things like complaining over you taking it easy seem much more apealing.

CM · Post by CM » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:25 am

ah...work...i need....some...bored out of my mind. And jerry springer aint even interesting today...

Ode to a Grasshopper · Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:34 am

Why, thank you, Doctor. You know how hard it is to find good help these days, and thorough job training is so important.
I recommend the can-can, by the way, though it must be said that the notion of Tyb doing a drunken rendition of Swan Lake has a certain novelty value...

Philosophy suits me right down to the ground (Socrates is the current favourite), especially since I'm finding that I've thought through most of the ideas I've been coming across when I was at high school anyway. High school was incredibly boring (hence my exploring philosophy during it), thankfully university offers quite a bit more stimulation for the ol' grey matter. Being told that "You're going to be great" by your tutors is nice too.

[/bragging]
I've been learning a little sociology and some of the basics of psychology, too.

Funding is a really big issue at my university, the vice-chancellor has been giving a ridiculous percentage of funding to the Vetinary Studies division at the expense of other areas (especially the Arts section, unfortunately for me). Tutorials are either not offered for philosophy or have too many people, as many as fifty in some cases (my tutorials tend to be around twenty people or so). Though my university is the only one in Western Australia to offer a vet course (and the second-best on the country, apparently), very little of my fees have gone towards my own division, and a number of my tutors think that philosophy will be phased out totally within ten years.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:35 am

Originally posted by Dottie
You know, sitting at home infront of a computer all day make things like complaining over you taking it easy seem much more apealing.

Taking it easy in the form of reading more about the short allele of the 5-HTTLPR gene and post an occational spam-post here, yes. Not taking it easy as in when you take it easy

You think I don't work enough?

by CM
ah...work...i need....some...bored out of my mind. And jerry springer aint even interesting today...

I can give you some: fix some nice interior decoration to this place
a couple of sheeshas

And make me a salt lassi

CM · Post by CM » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:36 am

I dont think he believes you work. Second how much do i get paid? If i am being lazy for free i demand to be paid for the work.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:41 am

Originally posted by C Elegans
Taking it easy in the form of reading more about the short allele of the 5-HTTLPR gene and post an occational spam-post here, yes. Not taking it easy as in when you take it easy

I know that

since when have that ever stopped me?

You think I don't work enough?

Sorry

I take it all back, Spam all you want.

Ode to a Grasshopper · Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:42 am

@Fas-Springer got boring a while ago, too many actors.

Hi Dottski. Same ol' same ol', huh?

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 11:43 am

@CM: Paid? Isn't it pay enough that I let you down from the wall and gave back your clothes?

@Dottie: It's amazing you have energy enough to keep breathing

I do however detect a trace of you believing I don't work enough, so I promise I will work more in the future

@Ode: Can-can would suit Tyb perfectly

I was also thinking of teaching him something by Jan Fabre, the Dutch choreographer who often lets his dancers perform in underwear only

It good you get a bit more stimulation at university. Like you, I was bored to a coma by school before uni. Philosophy, sociology and psychology sounds like a very interesting combination.

Too bad about the funding situation at your university

It is a general problem in academia that short term pay off of the kind that is easy to identify, governs too much of the activites. Basic research, arts and other areas where the outcomes are not immediate but perhaps of very large importance when they come, often has to struggle to survive. I can think of few subjects that are so generally useful for all students, as philosophy. In Norway, all university students study one year of basic philosophy before they can go on to furhter studies of their choice. I think that is excellent. Criticial thinking, analysis, logics, building up arguments, history of ideas, language functions etc are all so very fundamental skills that all students of theorical topics should have a basic understanding of.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 11:51 am

@Ode: Hi, Yes, Unfortunatly so.

Good thing you seem to be enjoying a different situation though.

Originally posted by C Elegans
@Dottie: It's amazing you have energy enough to keep breathing I do however detect a trace of you believing I don't work enough, so I promise I will work more in the future

*Trying to look cute and helpless*

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 12:17 pm

Originally posted by Dottie
*Trying to look cute and helpless*

*sigh* I so pity you *kiss*

I'm just reading a from Elias lab about estrogen receptor genes and personlity traits. The background provided in this paper go through a lot of behavioural data connected to estrogen, and it's interesting to note that increased levels of estrogen can make people both more and less aggressive, and female mice knocked out on the ER alpha become more aggresive, whereas their male fellow knock-out become less aggressive. In short, it seems that increase of estrogens can both increase and decrease aggression in female mice and increase of testosterone can both increase or decrease aggression in male mice. Isn't it great when life is easy

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 12:23 pm

While not being easy atleast life tend to, from time to time, debunk some common views of, for example, causes of agressivity. I think its a more than fair tread off.