Links With Your Coffee - Saturday
- Scientists Induce Out-of-Body Sensation - New York Times
- Death Penalty Concerns
- Technology Review: Higher Games
- J. Michael Bailey - Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege - New York Times
- denialism blog : Who Needs Denialism When You Have Censorship & Sycophants to Enforce It?
- Shouts & Murmurs: My Mega Millions: Humor: The New Yorker
Cheryl has been a good wife, financially supporting me all these years while I pursued my dream of winning the Mega Millions, and I’d like to keep her. She’s not really a Mega Millionaire’s wife, though, as she would be the first to admit. However, in light of all her years of loyal service, I’m going to give her first crack at the position.
Out of my own pocket, I’m advancing Cheryl up to three hundred thousand dollars for a series of upgrades. She has all sorts of complaints about her face that, frankly, I don’t see, but, fine, we’ll fix all that stuff. We’ll also be installing state-of-the-art breasts, right above the original ones, which we’ll keep around for old times’ sake to remind us where we came from.
Comments
The chess article is awesome work man, thanks for linking it! Very thought-provoking.
I agree with Carmen - an interesting article even for a nonplayer like myself. The level of commentary was also very high, in general.
PROTEIN MACHINE?! That's horrible -- I fuckin' love it. I knew there was a reason why I loved chess so much.
Never again shall I call another human being a retarded fuckwad -- from now on, it's all gonna be "Sir, your heuristic pruning techniques appears to not be functioning in an optimal manner -- have you had your protein machine in for a checkup recently?"
In my limited understanding and research on the matter, regarding the Gender Theory article, it seems that there are some men do fantasize about being women (sometimes erotically, sometimes not), but there are also some "men" who know/feel they are women despite their biology disagreeing. People who want reassignment surgery have to go through multiple hurdles involving diagnosis, hormones, introspection, and so forth in order to verify the person's feelings are consistent with knowing their gender is wrong.
For his sample size, arriving at using "primarily" towards erotic reasons is reckless and unprofessional (and likely wrong).
I can't speak to any of the claims and accusations flying around, though.
The article on chess states that computers are silicon machines and humans are protein machines. Because of my diet heavy in Spanish pork products and the fact that I have a wonderful bakery on the ground floor of my building, I think I must be a fat and carbohydrates machine. This doesn’t affect my chess game much but instead of saying “Check” I just oink and a bit of powdered sugar billows out of my mouth.
I like Bobby Fischer’s idea of randomly placing the players in the back row at the start of the game to nullify memorized opening gambits. To this I would add replacing one of the chess pieces with one of the murder weapons from the board game Clue, so instead of a knight or a bishop you would have a candle stick or a bottle of poison (added for 50th Anniversary edition!). Try teaching a silicon machine to play that game!
"Scientists Induce Out-of-Body Sensation"
We all (should) know that Sasquatch, Stan Gooch, etc. are re-visitors from the passed ("ahhh, he passed away").
And UFOs are pre-visitors from the Few cheer (i do)...
What ya'll might not know, is that one of them durn alien critters (e-volvures), mated with a contemporaneous chick, and, well,...she sort of had a baby. He was short, so they called him "Kurt".
O my God..."el"gzactly.
prays the lord...
S(a)tan Gooch, of course: Turn on me, Red Man (Thanatippus, Beat les, son, the dead horse).
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