If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

What the fuck, they want a lifetime ban on the guy? Just be honest and say you want him shot out in a field after he digs his grave. Yes, that's exactly what they want. The entire conference appears to be overrun with petty narcissists. Also from the report: Summary of what was expressed in the #sc...

Haha! Is that what set Ophelia off? She felt her ladybits were imperilled by... oh hell no, I can't even ... I have the feeling Silverman is fucking with them. He's spent a half year getting gangpiled by PZ's crew every time he showed up on Twitter and took it without fighting back. Since he holds ...

From Janet Stemwedel's post on the #sciosafe session at ScienceOnline14: 5. A clarification of Bora Zivkovic's relationship to the ScienceOnline organization and its conferences, events, and initiatives going forward. We appreciate the swiftness with which Bora Zivkovic was removed from leadership o...

From the cat's perspective, which is worse: pompom hats, or fake lion mane?

http://www.catster.com/molz/knit-hat-fo ... bitchknits

Trigger warning: novelty yarn.

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c6/16/cc/c616ccd97a2a8c408164f5349bcfe34c.jpg I put a sweater on my kitty once, but she couldn't deal with it. She sat in place, trembling nervously as if she was under attack. Kittehs r dorks! I saw a pattern on Ravelry for a yarn lion's mane that you can tie...

You're an owl. You are genetically superior. Speaking of which, if you had a pet owl, would you knit cute sweaters for it:P If the owl had need for a sweater, like one of those sad neurotic parrots that pulls its own feathers out, of course I'd knit sweaters for it. :D Periodically there are reques...

PZ Steriods-I can't remember, or indeed care, why he takes them. I recall a post where he said he was taking them long term and it caused some rage, or anger. And he didn't mind it. Or some such shit. When I take them (for asthma on occasion) I do feel irritable, and hate that feeling. Must be what...

Rare defense of Peezus here. In addition to his possible medication, he lives in Minnesota, which has hellish winters. Also, as a teacher, he's exposed to many, many people throughout a typical workday. Colds can happen anytime, and flu shots only work well if they're tuned to the prevalent strain....

CaptainFluffyBunny wrote: I believe he takes corticosteroids, which lower your immune response.

For what? Not denying that it's so, just wondering. I'd think they'd be contraindicated for someone with high blood pressure/cardiovascular disease.

Unless it's lupus.

But it's never lupus.

I like to put on sweater first, too. Especially if it's a cute one that I didn't get a chance to wear much. But please understand that women have to deal with menopause symptoms and PMS which makes us break out into a sweat around the forehead for no reason but our feet remain ice cold. <snip> This...

No sure if troll..... *narrows eyes* If I'm not falling for a trap laid by a sneaky Aneris, Welch I always love your posts. Even if I find the subject deadly dull your writing is a frolick. :occasion-birthday: :occasion-balloons: :occasion-cake: :occasion-balloons: :occasion-birthday: And PZ? I'd g...

SkepticalCat and zenbabe, stay away from the Texas Hill Country and South Texas - in addition to the bark scorpions and venomous or large hairy spiders, there are several kinds of venomous snakes and a venomous lizard (the Gila monster). Also chupacabras, and lots of guns. :mrgreen: Scorpions are cr...

Re the tarantulas in the toilet: that is a not-uncommon occurrence here, particularly for toilets that are located in a barn, a public park, a trailer, or an outbuilding on rural property. If you're urogenitally-equipped such that you usually sit down to pee, you always lift the toilet seat and chec...

PeeZus posts on the Jonathan Ross/Hugo awards debacle again, and uses a recent post from Anton Zuiker as an example of how apologies and retractions should be made: Zuiker was cofounder of Science Online with Bora Zivkovic, and annoyed everyone with a post a few months ago, titled â€˜Roots and Bitte...

I'll have to disagree heavily with John Greg. I see a core of truth that underlie your unease towards those fringe members of society on Second Life, but I think you're indulging in your prejudice. This post is not wholly addressed at John Greg, since I've been pondering this question for some time...

One of these assholes has a parent, friend, lover, or patron at the BBC. They have to. THe issue simply isn't that big that it warrants the kind of coverage the BBC gives it. What is more, they always go to interview people who are on the fringes of the debate. They never pull in people with real d...

Sunder wrote:Popcorn is vegan, right?

Not if you coat it with butter and cheese.

didymos wrote:The Brony one is pretty great too:

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"I don't think that is how gender works my friend."

:lol:

Should be linked in one those "gender is a social construct" arguments.

Cancer Ward is my favorite of the three Solzhenitsyn books I've read, though all were quite good. Haven't read The First Circle . More books sitting in my basement awaiting my reading. But it's so difficult for me to focus on books with the internet at hand. A few months ago, finished Pullmans "His...

BarnOwl, the Pit has been one slippery, fast-moving beast recently. I missed the chance to thank you (was it you?) and someone else who explained veterans' compensation to me recently. So consider this those thanks. Thanks. I explained something USAian here recently, but I can't remember what it wa...

Cancer Ward is my favorite of the three Solzhenitsyn books I've read, though all were quite good. Haven't read The First Circle.

No, the SL interface was (and I'm guessing is) notoriously awful. Simply learning to move your avatar around took/takes hours - several YT parodies were made. Considering how many of the early-adopters were used to gaming, I could never figure this out. it must have been the software. I do recall t...

Oh what the hell, there's never been an insult bandwagon I didn't jump on: How did this catch on? It looks amazingly shit. It's old as hell and free. You mean, like Matt Cavanaugh's mother? Ouch. :lol: Yah, Second Life is utter shite. I tried to "attend" a conference in Second Life once, and my ava...

another lurker wrote: I don't know either. However, I am guessing:

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Only smaller, much much smaller.

I was guessing along those lines as well. :mrgreen:

Lsuoma wrote: I thought he made a point of being someone who "swings the pale pipe." So fucking embarrassing to hear shit like that. I cringe on the turd's behalf, since he doesn't have the self awareness to.

What does that even mean? Pardon my middle age, or my general cluelessness, but I have no idea.

I wish I had saved it, and kick myself for not, because I knew it would be deleted. Oddly, I have an MBA, and my comment consisted of the standard explanation about why CEOs are only interested in profit, which is that in the 20th century in public companies they are only seen as managers, and the ...

jacquescuze 3 March 2014 at 10:33 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment [Oh, I'm sorry. We don't serve slyme here, and I see from your url (now deleted) that you are most definitely slymey. Bye. Don't come back. --pzm] Jacques Cuze, I'm dyin' to see the text of your (now deleted) comment on that climate...

I'd always presumed he was doing his degree in the UK (University of Manchester?) and was in India for some kind of placement. He hasn't been in India long enough to get a full medical degree. If he's whining about not being able to do the Nepal trip then he has an easy solution at hand - he can do...

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The trays are always wet in every canteen and cafeteria in the known universe. Every. Single. One.

The Bora saga was huge validation for them. They can't possibly let it go.

Plus most of them have PTSD just from reading about it on the internetz.

Mykeru wrote:
Apparently I'm incapable of stopping.

:lol:

Almost makes me wish I had a Twitter account.

Nah, I can't be arsed.

https://twitter.com/kejames/status/439811785613250560 Subvert the dominant conference paradigm!!11!!! Stick it to those unconference unorganizers! There's talk of installing road humps/speed bumps on the boulevard behind my house. If this happens, I will make a plate of nachos, grab a beer or two o...

Oh great. The SJW egocentric infantilization of society spreads to academic conferences.

Just kill me now.

O.o

Check out some of his other tweets on plans for a bloodless coup in ScienceOnline organization.

'Pitter gamers (especially board games and meatspace RPGs) might enjoy reading some of Martin Rundkvist's blog posts on gaming. Many of his posts are on archaeology (his is one of the long-standing ScienceBlogs), but there are also quite a few reviews of games and various gaming conferences/meetups....

My Lusitano mare ware the closest thing to a physical instantiation of a Star Trek transporter there's ever been - when something spooked her you simply ended up around 10-15 feet away - without, as far as I could tell, having traveled through intervening space - facing towards where she thought th...

Ma honey badger says: "Do you want a taste you stripy cunts?" http://i.imgur.com/jVqCc95.gif :mrgreen: Your thought-bubble speech is better for the badger, but in lieu of good ole fictional strong women, when I saw the above what I heard in my head was "Get away from her you -bitch-!" (well, 'bitch...

Obviously, zebra is my spirit animal . Zebras have a reputation for being ornery, which I can relate to - though that feature of zebrahood doesn't show in this short clip. Maybe they look skittish in the clip, but at least they have a good sense of self-preservation; that's nothing to sneeze at. (P...

My snapshot of Joyce's tower. http://i.imgur.com/y3JXCrX.jpg Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. One of my favorite things about Ulysses is that Joyce describes medical students as "the votaries of levity." A univ...

Even though Bora isn't at the conference, he's STILL HARASSING THE WIMMINZ!11!! OMFGWTFBBQ Patriarchy!

(For more of same, if you can stomach it, try #scio14 bora)

I think my new dog escaped from a Mexican circus. Whenever she wants food (either her dog food, or whatever I'm preparing/eating), she walks around on her hind legs, and waves her front paws together.

Cute, but kinda freaky.

So I was looking at the weekly schedule for the PBS station, and there's a program, Moone Boy about a kid growing up in a small Irish town. This week's episode is entitled The Bell-End of an Era . I would have no idea what a bell-end referred to if it weren't for hanging out at the 'Pit. I can guara...

Get a couple pairs of those inexpensive reading glasses. You can't possibly look more of a twat than those Watsonesque hipsters wearing the empty heavy specs frames. Already got some. A nice, understated wireframe pair. When choosing the frames, I made a conscious decision not to go with anything w...

The weathering effects on that are just amazing. Whenever I used to try weathering, it always ended up looking...messy. And not in a 'weathered' kind of way, either. How do you get you blending so fuckin smooth ? Add a drop of glaze medium into the mix and use a proper sable brush and you can't rea...

If I still lived in the UK, I'd be very tempted to run around in the woods with this Empire LARP.

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That owl is all like "I totally meant to fly into this truck grill and hang out."

Those miniatures are awesome, Parsehole!

Any other 'Pitters played Killer Bunnies?

Spirit animals on the 'Pit. What have we become? One of my bosses used to call me "Poodle-boy." WTF. What does that even mean? But... in D&D my familiar will be a poodle. A little black toy poodle with a Merlin hat. They don't shed you know. Do you have curly hair? I used to get called "Poodle-head...

Make me stop looking at the hashtags or just kill me now!!!111!!!

The important thing is that they're all safe from Bora this year.

WTF does that even mean? Science is science is science. Are they saying it needs to be chewed and predigested for minority audiences? WTF?

The #scio14 hashtags are full of meaningless platitudes and SJW bafflegab.

The PeeZus made it to ScienceOnline (The Unconference Conference in Meatspace): ... Iâ€™m neglecting the blog today. Iâ€™m finally at #scio14, and itâ€™s busy busy busy. So far today Iâ€™ve been in sessions on reaching diverse audiences and on doing better at serving differently abled communities, b...

Case in point: Carbon Bigfoot PZ Myers is flying to some shitty conference again, stamping his carbon footprint all over the place: Iâ€™m on my way to #scio14 Conferences, Education, Personal by PZ Myers Thatâ€™s not good news. The good news will be â€œIâ€™m at #scio14â€œ, because Iâ€™ve got a lot ...

Fuck Cheetos. You just can't beat the British junk-snack. Like "Transform-a-Snack". A corn based chemical flavoured crisp that for some inexplicable reason comes with a mixture of chassis and wheel shapes which allows you to make vehicles out of your food. http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/d9/...

And the claim that he [Chris Clarke] is a clueless FTB herd animal that doesn't think for himself is ludicrous, since while blogging at Pharyngula he got into plenty of arguments with the more clueless regulars, and in fact quit the (minimally) paying gig because of just the kind of irrational sanc...

Might comment on Ally's thread later. For now, am amused that PZ has flounced from the thread because of the presence of pitters (Steers, in particular), and the comment on "benevolent sexism" (have just started reading the first link below). PZ's flouncing: http://i.imgur.com/YYA07AN.png?1 This is...

In other news, we're suddenly buried in snow over here. What an odd time to be snowing, after we escaped the polar vortex. I'd love some snow. It was 87F here yesterday. Blech. Still haven't had to turn the air conditioning on yet, thankfully. Glad I had that extra insulation added under the roof o...

Why is PZ in the emergency room? Is his head stuck up his asshole again? Sprained his ankle, apparently: https://twitter.com/pzmyers/status/437941376060522496 Of course now he'll understand what it's like to be an amputee, or a paraplegic. Probably won't stop him from jetting off to ScienceOnline A...

Greta offers a solution for Nate: Greta Christina 24 February 2014 at 12:22 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment "Why is trying to save money and get things cheap so fucking unethical?" NateHevens @#55: Because many of the things companies do to lower prices are unethical: from paying substandard wages ...

Cuz raw materials come from Africa and goes through sweatshop labour in China, where the once proud descendants of Yan and Yellow Emperor work themselves to death so you can have your cheap consumer products, privileged westerner. Oh, they don't care about people in far away places, working themsel...

The latter. It's the new hipster vogue. Talk about every small thing you do and add that kind of ironic "twist" to it. In that way you appear...i don't know the whole things fucking stupid. Even "ironically", really? you really want people to think you're so useless, you're such a popped zit on the...

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