Where the Kids Come to Mouth Off

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Except the part about you being an outgoing sociable cat was kinda hot.

Shit, I lost focus. Now I need to start over on that post. You think it was good? Maybe I'll pick it up again after I get something to eat.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
With a paper, you can waste time, say, snacking and doing laundry and drinking, but you can also lose focus with "maybe I should talk about this, maybe that would be interesting, what if I added a section on this here" thinking.

This is what I find great about papers. The end product is more you than tests, which are usually looking for specific answers to specific questions.

I always procrastinate when it comes to writing papers. But once I get into it, I tend to explore more of the topic and what I think about it than when I take a test. That's why I think tests are boring and measure few, limited aspects of a person's intelligence.

TM

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Shit, I lost focus. Now I need to start over on that post. You think it was good? Maybe I'll pick it up again after I get something to eat.

Care to go to lunch?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Tests, baby. It made no difference grade-wise, but I hated having a paper assignment hanging over my head all semester and then spending one long, horrible night (or in the case of my note, one long, horrible three-day period) lamenting my tendency to procrastinate.

I hate standardized tests. You can't really bullshit a standardized test.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Not Bob
If I weren't too lazy to answer this question, my response would have been exactly the same.

Clearly, this means that I am the male version of ncs. The Victor to her Victoria, as it were. The Captain to her Tennille. Etc.


ncs (left) and Not Bob at the MTV Video Music Awards, 1975.

You need to update your Tennille photo:



For more on Toni Tennille's doings
today.

[bold_n_brazen]

Sixty scientists say Blade Runner is the best science fiction movie ever made. Link.

Poll: What is the best science fiction movie ever made?

I like Blade Runner. I think it's a hell of a film. But the best? I'm not sure... I think maybe Aliens was the best sci-fi film ever made. But I'm not a scientist.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Sixty scientists say Blade Runner is the best science fiction movie ever made. Link.

Poll: What is the best science fiction movie ever made?

I like Blade Runner. I think it's a hell of a film. But the best? I'm not sure... I think maybe Aliens was the best sci-fi film ever made. But I'm not a scientist.

Wizard of Oz.

Replicant.

And congratulations on your sweet 1000 - or do we not do that anymore?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Sixty scientists say Blade Runner is the best science fiction movie ever made. Link.

Poll: What is the best science fiction movie ever made?

I like Blade Runner. I think it's a hell of a film. But the best? I'm not sure... I think maybe Aliens was the best sci-fi film ever made. But I'm not a scientist.

I really liked Brazil, one main reason was the background of constantly breaking over-complicated technology.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Sixty scientists say Blade Runner is the best science fiction movie ever made. Link.

Poll: What is the best science fiction movie ever made?

I like Blade Runner. I think it's a hell of a film. But the best? I'm not sure... I think maybe Aliens was the best sci-fi film ever made. But I'm not a scientist.

I'm with you. Aliens rocks. But I am not a huge science-fiction fan. Also liked Blade Runner a lot, but not as much as Aliens. It wasn't as scary - I don't suppose the scientists care so much about the scare factor though.

Interestingly, my dad is a retired scientist and he thinks science fiction is ridiculous. Doesn't like it at all. Except Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
This is what I find great about papers. The end product is more you than tests, which are usually looking for specific answers to specific questions.

I always procrastinate when it comes to writing papers. But once I get into it, I tend to explore more of the topic and what I think about it than when I take a test. That's why I think tests are boring and measure few, limited aspects of a person's intelligence.

TM

You like papers, that suck the life out of long periods of time and are depressing, better than tests, which have a limited lifespan, because papers are "more fun"?

You are not a hep cat. You are a pencil-dicked research drone. Or whatever.

If rp was using the word "cat" (referring to a human) and the phrase "research drone" that seems more raouaouaoual-esque than mmmmm-y to me.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Sixty scientists say Blade Runner is the best science fiction movie ever made. Link.

Poll: What is the best science fiction movie ever made?

I like Blade Runner. I think it's a hell of a film. But the best? I'm not sure... I think maybe Aliens was the best sci-fi film ever made. But I'm not a scientist.

What are the criteria?

From a cinematographic standpoint, 2001

From a story standpoint, probably BladeRunner, because it's closest to a scifi story (what about Face/Off, btw?)

From an effects standpoint, they keep topping eachother, StarWars, Empire, T2, Matrix. Has an action movie in the last 5 years been released that hasn't borrowed significantly from the effects used in the Matrix?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Poll: What is the best science fiction movie ever made?

Dune. The 183-hour Director's Cut version.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
You like papers, that suck the life out of long periods of time and are depressing, better than tests, which have a limited lifespan, because papers are "more fun"?

To borrow a term from the lovable, adorable dtb, WORD.

If rp was using the word "cat" (referring to a human) and the phrase "research drone" that seems more raouaouaoual-esque than mmmmm-y to me.

It was a fucking FIRST DRAFT. Ease up on the critique. Sheesh, maybe now you understand why I procrastinate so.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Untrue. Red represents the blood -- the very lifeforce of your paper -- running over at the violence performed at the hand of one's professor.

But, keep it. I love when the the Professor hands back papers (or leaves 'em in a stack by the door) and the kids who wouldn't shut up in class because they thought they knew everything realize that everyone has seen their work murdered.

TM

POLL: Are you a paper writer or a test-taker?

I hate tests. I've always been a paper writer. I can take tests and have always done quite well, but I think they're almost always stupid. Papers allow you to demonstrate what you know about a topic in your own way (shaped by how you can best spit back the professor's words when need be).

I have no strong preference, but I would probably lean toward paper-writing, which I suppose makes me a monkey fucking scribe. You are more able to consider the issues before writing and shape the content, even if you have to pull an all-nighter to write it. As long as I've done the background work, I find that I'd almost rather have that kind of time pressure. However, I'd probably feel a lot differently about this had computer word processors not been invented.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
You like papers, that suck the life out of long periods of time and are depressing, better than tests, which have a limited lifespan, because papers are "more fun"?

You are not a hep cat. You are a pencil-dicked research drone. Or whatever.

If rp was using the word "cat" (referring to a human) and the phrase "research drone" that seems more raouaouaoual-esque than mmmmm-y to me.

Do you have one thought in your head that isn't somehow related to SD or Taxwonk?

TM