It's like no one else woke up at 4:30.
Well, I had a 6 am flight. But we're having mechanical difficulties. IYKWIMAITYD.
That was criticism of the Post article, not you, Heebie. If this thing is going to be tried in the court of public opinion, it needs video or pictures or something. Right now it sounds like she got in a fight with her half-sister. Which is bad, but not NFL bad. Or maybe its much worse than that. HOW AM I TO KNOW?
Well, it's a part they need for the radar system, and we were supposed to be getting a replacement part on a 9 am flight from Detroit. But now they're saying that the weather has cleared up in Atlanta so we're going to leave without the part. Since you asked.
"And why aren't more people talking about the fact that domestic violence isn't simply an issue of men against women?"
#notallwomen
Getting into a drunken fight with non-immediate family at a party, while not exactly laudable behavior, is not what people usually mean by domestic violence.
I learn from the article in 6 that Philadelphia has a defense attorney named Michael J. Diamondstein. From this, I can only assume the entire thing is made up.
One difference is that Hope Solo's case hasn't gone to trial yet. A conviction requires much more than an indictment/arrest, especially on domestic violence cases, which are often (like in Solo's case) he-said/she-said swearing contests with little or no physical evidence.
I don't see why any employer, whether it's the NFL or Home Depot should fire someone just because she got charged with something. Maybe sometimes a suspension with pay is in order, if it's for some reason just impractical for the person to keep doing her job. But, goddamn, presumption of innocence. You'd want the same if you were sitting in that seat accused of something.
(Spike: all your salacious details here.)
10.1: one difference with what? Ray Rice's case never went to trial, and Adrian Peterson's case hasn't gone to trial yet.
11: Oh, yeah, that was unclear. I was thinking in comparison to Ray Rice's case, and I was thinking of his case's resolution (the controversial acceptance into a pretrial diversion program for which many/most? people with his charges have never qualified) as meaning his case has effectively "gone to trial" in the sense of coming to a final disposition.
which are often (like in Solo's case) he-said/she-said swearing contests with little or no physical evidence.
There were "visible injuries" on both victims, according to the police report; bruising and cuts. None on Solo, though her lawyer is claiming that she was the victim of an assault.
Getting into a drunken fight with non-immediate family at a party, while not exactly laudable behavior, is not what people usually mean by domestic violence.
Well, that's sort of the point of this post, isn't it? For that matter, women beating up male teenagers is "not what people usually mean by domestic violence" either.
"too fat and overweight and crazy to ever be an athlete"...
While demonstrating that you can be quite nutso and still be an athlete.
8 gets it right. None of the especially horrible things about domestic violence apply to a fight with people she doesn't live with. It's just a fight, it's not abuse.
Solo has long had a reputation as bit of a nut. But without judging this case, we really do live in Twitter world now, don't we? Bunch of people on Twitter get outraged, someone's gotta do something! For the most part, things people get outraged about I find sympathetic, but it's something to see. Optimistically, hey, the people have a voice. Pessimistically, the real world is looking more like internet outrage world.
I think it's weird to even call this domestic violence at all. It doesn't fit the most commonly used definitions.
I am a bit sceptical about 15, though. Really? So if dear old Ray Rice hadn't been living with his fiancee, no problem?
It's an interesting point. Given that there are some offences for which everyone agrees you should be suspended from, say, the NFL (beating your fiancee unconscious) and others for which everyone agrees you shouldn't be (speeding?), where does the line get drawn?
Solo's charges are misdemeanors, what are Rice's?
Right this side of Ben Roethlisberger.
(I realize the charges against Rice were dropped.)
Ray Rice's case never went to trial, and Adrian Peterson's case hasn't gone to trial yet.
Video and pictures, though. I mean, clearly Goodell is now trying to act like he cares, but if there were pictures of Solo's nephew with some bad injury, there'd be a lot more pressure to do something about her case.
If there were pictures of Solo's nephew encased in Carbonite.
The crimes of Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson were documented with pictures. Absent a video, Hope Solo has a plausible counter-narrative, and even the alleged victims' accounts don't detail abuse on the Rice/Peterson level, and don't describe a level of victims' defenselessness comparable, either.
Here's the worst of it, from the WP's account:
Solo charged him, punched him in the face and tackled him, the court document alleges. ... Police wrote in the affidavit that the teen's T-shirt was torn and he had scratch marks on his arms and a bleeding cut on his ear when officers arrived.
The defenselessness of the victims is a key feature of the Rice/Peterson situations. In Solo's case:
The teen tried to pull Solo off his mother and then broke a wooden broom over her head, the document says.
Everything isn't the same as everything else. I don't know what they've got on the less-prominent NFL abusers, but its pretty easy to differentiate Solo from Rice and Petersen.
As DB says in 8, drunken fights between people who don't live together are correctly put in a separate category.
drunken fights between people who don't live together are correctly put in a separate category.
I am still sceptical that a male footballer who beat up his sister and her teenage kid to hospitalisation point would be getting the same "oh, well, there were probably faults on both sides, and they gave as good as they got" treatment as in 24.
I think that there's an important element of betrayal that lies at the heart of intimate partner violence which makes it worse than the kind of violence Hope Solo is apparently guilty of. I don't know how or if the law should try to grapple with the impact of the heartbreak and betrayal that compounds the suffering of victims of intimate partner violence, but from my limited experience with survivors the emotional component is just as bad, if not worse, than the mere physical beating, especially if the violence is an ongoing thing as opposed to a one-then-out situation.
Solo definitely deserves punishment, and her sponsors should think hard about what kind of things they want their brand associated with, but she's not Ray Rice or Adrian Peterson.
29: Ah - I wasn't aware that the nephew and half-sister were hospitalized. I've only read the Post account.
The only actual domestic violence allegations involving Solo are where she was the victim and the perpetrator was a formal NFL player, for fuck's sake. Yeah that NFL is getting an bum rap from people not talking about Solo.
"Hospitalization point" sounds different from "scratch marks on his arm, and a bleeding cut on his ear".
And I think the better comparison is how the press would cover a male footballer who got into a fight with his _brother_ and nephew. It's not that women have a free pass to be violent -- Solo sounds like a violent nutcase if the story really is the way it sounds. But Ray Rice was beating someone who didn't have a hope in hell of physically defending herself, and Solo was in a fight with two people who plausibly weren't all that physically outclassed (the extent to which this is true is complicated. World class athlete on the one hand, but close relatives pulling from the same gene pool on the other, and I don't know anything physically specific about the sister an nephew.) Still wrongful behavior, but you can identify it as different while still calling it wrong.
The real reason for the differing reactions is that no one gives a crap about soccer, while football is the national obsession. A soccer player could kill a family of 4, and it would get less attention than if the backup center for the Raiders went to a restaurant and forgot to tip.
On the other hand, if Rice hadn't been seen dragging his unconscious girlfriend out of the elevator -- if the story had just been that Rice and his girlfriend got into a public fistfight -- it would have blown over immediately.
On the other, other hand, there's an obvious gendered aspect to the public reaction. People think of men as dangerous, and women as not.
This doesn't sound any different than what the Palin clan did a couple weeks ago, although I think they all fought people outside the family, not each other.
Also the pernicious thing about domestic violence is that the victim is often trapped in the situation and therefore more vulnerable to future injury or can't even report the abuse for fear of retribution. If this is a case of fighting with other family members who can get along perfectly well with never seeing Hope again, sure it was assault but not necessarily something worse.
I would have agreed about "hospitalization" before having my kids school send two of my kids to the ER, one with a scratch on his nose from banging it on a desk while dodging thrown paper, the other with supposed breathing difficulties that was just him being upset after running into another kid in gym. $200 copay for me both times though, thanks school nurse!
This case is domestic violence in the way that the white guy from Nigeria is an African American, right? They don't live together and don't have the kind of interdependence that makes the paradigm DV cases so bad.
The white guy is supposed to be from Kenya or South Africa. The prince who wants your bank account number is from Nigeria.
The Prince who wants your extra time and your kiss is from Minnesota.
I would say that like Pistorius, I wasn't fast enough.
I don't know anything physically specific about the sister an nephew
The nephew is fat and unathletic, as I understand it.
The nephew is fat and unathletic in ways that the ancient Egyptians wouldn't be able to understand.
Also, this story sounds suspiciously like what happens when you invite the Palins to a party.
I don't think any of the Palins are that good at sport?
I thought the Palin kids were named after sports. Isn't one of them named Dodgeball or something?
47 If you don't count shooting wolves from helicopters.
I thought that was one of the black sheep branches of the Adams family. Dodgeball Adams, brother to Puck and Niblick.
I don't think the Hope Solo case is directly comparable to either Rice or Peterson (who also aren't really comparable to each other) but it would be nice if it took some of the sheen off of women's soccer, America's most annoyingly saintliest sport.
47: Todd Palin is a champion snowmobile racer.
Anyone remember when Maks slapped Hope on Dancing? How would that have gone over if it had happened last week? At the time, it was just part of the drama of the show, and Solo said something like "I give as good as I get."
Oh, wait, I'm conflating memories and reports. He was rough with her on air during their dancing, but the slapping accusation came later in her book.
47: Snow _machine_. God, it's like you don't even pay attention when Alaskans explain things.
When I hear "snow machine," I think of the thing that makes snow for the ski slopes.
I think snow blower. It sounds like something my 79-year-old grandpa would say, "Gonna go snow machine the driveway!"
Help the man out. He's too old for that.
women's soccer, America's most annoyingly saintliest sport.
Yes, I can't imagine a more annoyingly self-righteous athletic endeavor.
I can't imagine a more annoyingly self-righteous athletic endeavor.
The Fourth Crusade? I mean, that wasn't an athletic endeavour per se but it probably still required a bit of upper body strength and co-ordination.
59 took me a second, and then I laughed.
Yes, but no one who doesn't participate in Crossfit thinks its saintly and there's no media narrative supporting that (rather, the media narrative is that Crossfit people are fanatics/jerks). Yet we've all seen hundreds of media stories about the modern day holy women that are the members of the US national women's soccer team.
I just feel like, as a mother, I'm uniquely qualified to determine saintliness.
I just feel like, as a mother, I'm uniquely qualified to determine saintliness.
That was me, ipadding it up in the Atlanta airport.
"in the struggle for the ball, the feminine comeliness disappears and the body and soul unavoidably suffer damage,"
Clearly they'd seen a few lacrosse games.
70: If I didn't know better I might think you only knew one fact about the German national women's soccer team.
Snow _machine_. God, it's like you don't even pay attention when Alaskans explain things.
365 electoral votes determined that we don't need to call it a snow machine.
I was considering posting about that. Every doctor needs to be on a fixed salary.
It's like that line about most healthcare systems being pretty much equal, except the US, which is significantly worse than all the rest.
The important thing, for the purposes of the story, is that it was one of the sports where you carry a potential weapon onto the field.
That's an awful lot of sports, isn't it?
76: You know, I wasn't involved in the earlier discussion, and it isn't my main line of work, so take this with a grain of salt -- but I think what you want here isn't a contract case, it's something like a California Section 17200 class action, or other state equivalent. Or find a friendly blue-state AG with similar-looking enforcement powers (NY, MA, something like that) to set a precedent. Some statutory scheme that gets you away from the contract language and into generalized "treating consumers unfairly or deceptively" territory.
There are in fact a ton of hospital-pricing 17200 cases, brought both by the state and private lawyers. Not really my field either (I do a lot of 17200 cases but never anything involving the health care system) but there's a lot of legal work going on in the general area, in California and probably elsewhere.
79: every sport, if, like mine, your body is a lethal weapon. (Specifically it's a sort of blunt instrument, of considerable weight, with no sharp edges.)
Though, it seems likely to me (though I don't actually know, not my area) that the specific issue raised by Knecht is also governed by state statute and insurance regulation, such that general contract law or unfair competition law principles wouldn't apply. It certainly seems likely that if a "you are unfairly charging me way too much for out-of-network care based on bs rates case" was viable as a 17200 case, it would have been brought and succeeded long ago.
Somewhere that we've talked about this before, I suggested that what's necessary is a statutory or regulatory prohibition on charging for out of network care provided without specific prior notice to the patient. Good luck getting it passed, of course, but that's what's needed.
The German national women's team saw to it that no one makes that mistake with them. I can't link to it from work, but a largish group of them posed for the German edition of Playboy.
I don't know anything about the saintliness of (or anything else about) the US women's soccer team, but the DisreputableWeb tells me that Hope Solo was among the celebrities who had nude photos stolen and posted on the internet this weekend, and that they included a bunch of close-up anus selfies.
Do angels poop?
Saints, angels, goalies, whatever.
If you can do a wide-angle anus selfie, your arms are too long.
85: The strikes me as really, really bro.
a bunch of close-up anus selfies
Wait, how can people tell that the close-up anus selfies are hers? Does she have distinguishing tattoos in the immediate vicinity? Or some unusual feature of her anatomy that make identification unmistakable?
If not two snowflakes look alike....
Yes, but unless I've got an authenticated photo of snowflake 1 for comparison purposes . . .
It doesn't have to be a photo. It could be a plaster cast or topographical map.
Presumably the photos were stolen from her phone, so unless she had a bunch of other people's anus selfies, it must be her. The context seems to suggest it's her. Certainly she hasn't come out and proclaimed "Those photos are of someone else's bunghole!" Which would be Weiner-esque but not necessarily untrue, I guess.
I haven't seen the snowflakes, but presumably they aren't solely close-up anuselfies?
Happy anuses are all alike; every unhappy anus is unhappy in its own way.
She could have had pictures of other people's anuses that weren't selfies. Maybe she is an avid anus photographer.
89: You've been iced assed, bro!
98: That's the other possibility, but you'd think she'd have disclaimed the anuses (is there more than one? Inquiring minds want to know) by now if that was true.
Could be they were intended to send to opponents to taunt them. Nothing prurient here, move along now.
Excessive anus disclamation can lead to prolapse.
This reminds me of a Kids in the Hall sketch that ended with one alien suggesting another take up rectal photography (of abducted humans) as a hobby.
You know this is a controversy that someone who is either not at work or unusually bold could just resolve for us.
I think it's professional; what is a goalie but a sphincter?
A sphincter should occasionally let things through, though, and a goalie never should.
A goalie uses her hands, whereas hands use a sphincter.
Maybe a sphincter could learn a few tricks from a goalie.
If you give s sphincter a soccer ball...
Someone get Leo Bersani on the horn.
BALLS STOP HERE
A sphincter should occasionally let things out.
Enormous, mendacious, disembodied anus
we'll get there fast
and then we'll take it slow
That's where we wanna go,
way down in Kokomo.
110: but if you TEACH a sphincter to ball...
Oh my god, 115 made me snort.
115, 117: wait, you know where that's from, yeah?
I should probably just get Standpipe on the horn when Leo Bersani's done jabbering.
118: Best thing ever on the internet!
Your bottom, 5th column, effectively pro-Saddam.
(I think? From memory!)
Well now we know who posted 112 at least.
121: Perhaps not who you think.
I can only find a part of it quoted.
How many enormous mendacious anuses could there be?
TV news suggests the supply is functionally limitless.
127: yeah that's the whole song. I feel like the original post had more, though. Damn, one of the bloggers at that blog was hilarious.
Hope Solo is an attractive woman, and if someone told you there were selfies of her crotch, you might think, "Huh, in spite of myself and greater human dignity, I might wouldn't mind seeing those," and you'd be wrong. I feel like someone just shat on my optical nerve. There are a few pictures where she's shooting the photo up from her crotch and you can see her face. In other photos, with the same light, some with the same fingers/rings in them, it's just her anus, and it looks like they were taken sequentially as she clenched and unclenched her asshole. Clearly just her checking out her body in "what does that really look like?" kind of way. Hard to imagine a more private moment being uploaded to the world (and being described to a bunch of dirty, dirty, blog denizens).
You know, it's not hard to understand the appeal of seeing unattainable, beautiful celebrities naked, but making those photos (in general, and Solo's in particular) public is so cruel I'm actually a little surprised that even the conscienceless 14-year-old boys that I imagine populate 4chan would do it, but I'm clearly naive.
Hard to imagine a more private moment being uploaded to the world
And if you can imagine one, go ahead and keep it private.
Ooooh! I just thought of something!
taken sequentially as she clenched and unclenched her asshole
Why, that makes Paris Hilton blowjob videos seem downright quaint and charming by comparison.
Knowledge is power. It's great to learn.
but I'm clearly naive
For a naive guy, you've got an unusually large base of knowledge about asshole photography.
Large bases are important when exploring anuses. Safety first!
I wonder, of all the camera-equipped phones that have ever been purchased, what percentage of them have been used to take at least one nude photo? There's no way of knowing, but I'm guessing it's over 50%, minimum.
Who among the unfoggetariat has not taken at least one nude selfie, even if it was deleted moments later?
Thinking... I am pretty sure I have not.
We could all post pictures of our sphincters in the pool.
If the anus is wearing a little hat and moustache and googly eyes does it still count as a selfie?
I have never taken a selfie, nude or not.
139: Not me! But I should probably review my photo library before I let my kids browse it, now that I think about it.
143 deserves praise.
We could all post pictures of our sphincters in the pool.
You should always wait at least thirty minutes after your sphincter eats before you let it go swimming.
What if you're just dropping the kids off at the pool?
post pictures of our sphincters in the pool
Guess the sphincter day!
Not only have I taken a nude selfie, but I think at least one instance was prompted by LB telling us that Buck's penis is banana shaped, and claiming that (therefore?) all penises were banana shaped. I felt confident that mine was not, but because science, I checked. Verdict: LB, wrong again.
Ogged, you had to take a picture to verify that? Or did you have to take a picture so that LB could verify it?
147: I don't think that makes a nude selfie more appropriate.
LB's point was that guys see their penises from above, so they imagine them to be straight, when in fact they're curved (when seen from the side), so I took a photos (several photos?) to verify it for myself. Maybe a mirror didn't occur to me, or maybe I just couldn't get an erection without my phone. Hard to say; it was many years ago.
151: Depends on your definition of "appropriate".
148: I have no memory of this interaction.
It was obviously someone else talking about the shape of Buck's penis.
153: and here I had assumed it was a euphemism for legislating from the bench.
148.last: Penises are sort-of banana shaped, especially considering the wide range of shapes bananas can have, from the nearly straight to the distinctly curved. I'm pretty sure I could find a banana shaped like my penis without having to look too hard. If you want anatomical detail like a glans I think LB is ought of luck, though.
Let's all post pictures of bananas shaped like our penises in the flickr pool.
Re 148, the necessity of photographic evidence for confirming the shape of one's own penis is an intriguing subject of inquiry, but I'm laughing too much right now to pursue it.
The original discussion started here.
Penises are sort-of banana shaped, especially considering the wide range of shapes bananas can have
This is clearly a perversion of the meaning of calling something "banana-shaped."
Either your link is broken, or my net nanny is blocking it. Anyway, I easily might have described penises as roughly banana shaped, I'm just surprised at myself for having brought Buck personally into it, and am hoping you got that bit wrong.
You totally didn't. You claimed that penises are banana-shaped, and I teased that now everyone knows the shape of Buck's penis. Hey, implication.
161.last: cleverly, Ogged never said you brought Buck into it.
163: Yes he did.
LB telling us that Buck's penis is banana shaped,
He was untruthful, but that's what he said.
Well, you did tell us, just not in so many words.
I will note that as someone who lived in a country where many varieties of bananas are grown, "banana shaped" covers a broader range of variation than you may believe if you're limiting yourself to your local North American grocery store.
I don't think that the fragment quoted in 165 means that ogged said you brought Buck into it. It could just mean that the significance of your actions was to inform everyone that &c.
168: I'd buy that if Ogged had used a word like "revealing". "Telling", as I understand it, requires that the thing told be explicit.
"Telling", as I understand it, requires that the thing told be explicit
The OED seems to require only "making known," and doesn't mention explicitness.
169: so you wouldn't buy "the lipstick on his collar told a tale", for instance?
"The banana in his pants told her everything she needed to know. This was no ordinary cock."
So great to learn about other people. I don't even look in the mirror beyond cursory grooming checks. I don't have much emotion about my appearance one way or the other-- neither flinching nor flexing for me.
139. I claim that there's a super-steep age distribution on this. I would guess 25% at most for camera phones owned by those over 30 in the US. Somehow, I do not think that selfies are all that big in China, where most phones are owned. I could be wrong, though.
What happens to the selfies you kids take? (Besides these particular ones stored in the cloud, I understand what happened to those). That is, are they private and you look at them again a few months later like private diary entries? You send them to someone you've flirted with but nothing more in the hope of more contact later? Does that work? It seems one-sided.
OK, just browsed flickr selfies to see what gets posted-- indeed, mostly kids there. Some trying out haircuts or clothes, lots of photos of a pair of people. The handful of people who look to be over thirty either have made careful self-portraits (that is, they're photographers), or mention in the comments that someone asked them for a selfie.
Oh wait, now that I've said all this-- I did take a picture of my face with a bird perched on my shoulder once, think that I posted to fb even. His little feet were so warm and it was such a neat experience-- the photo seems secondary, an afterthought almost. At the time, the bird seemed like the focus.
In the EU, you are only allowed straight bananas.
Bird selfies are the best selfies.
At the risk of falling into earnestness, much as I'd like to give LB a hard time (hmph) about this, you can all see from the original thread that she didn't say anything about Buck, and my pretending that she had was a joke all along. Since the claim that someone has deliberately revealed something private about a spouse is dicey if it's not clearly jokey, I'm just clarifying that it's clearly jokey.
She actually said that his anus was like a kiwi.
To make LB feel more comfortable everyone should post the banana cultivar the penis dearest to them most resembles.
It wasn't so much what she said as the selfies she found on his phone.
I think Eggplant's name speaks for itself.
Lord knows that's the origin of my own pseud.
179: and his penis is the curved bill emerging from in front of the kiwi.
Ogged's can choose from the set of all fruits, since we know his is not at all bananaform.
Ogged's is more like a durian.
You're thinking of my balls (again). My penis is shaped like the Washington Monument.
http://www.perpetualkid.com/banana-massager.aspx
Which one of you is hung like the holocaust memorial?
174.2 reminds me of something amazing I saw on Facebook last week. Someone I know was in Korea and photographed a bunch of people there who were taking selfies using some kind of selfie-taking device that involved attaching their phone to the end of a stick that holds the phone a reasonably large distance from them and has a button to press to take the picture. It was weird. Apparently it's very popular now.
Banana variety-resemblance is one arena where you definitely do not want to go paleo.
193: the link in 88 is to an ad for one of those.
195: Oh! I guess I was reluctant to click links amid all the anus talk.
193 sighted in Narnia too.
Also, elephant selfie. Not a euphemism. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-27624575
Discretion is the better part of valor when it comes to anuses.
115 officially ends the blog. What else is there to say?
Everyone name the atrocity the monument to which your genitalia most resemble!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Flower_(sculpture)
http://www.cluelessinboston.com/2009/10/hungarian-memorial.html
http://oberlin.edu/faculty/atacha/hiroshima.JPG
I misread that word in 202 as 'hunger' and thought he meant the potato famine memorial in Boston.
everyone should post the banana cultivar the penis dearest to them most resembles
Mine resembles a plantain.
I couldn't possibly single out just one penis as the one dearest to me. It would be like asking about a favorite book, or best beloved child.
But sewn together, they make the perfect quilt.
Every penis is just a reflected facet of the one true ur-penis.
God bless us every one.
208: The Dick-Aleph is one of my favorite Borges stories.
Borges porn is the best porn, obviously.
Paulo Coehlo Aleph porn is the worst.
The first page of google hits for "ur-penis":
The "how attractive is ur penis?" Test
Does Viagra Make Ur Penis Bigger
When does ur penis usually grow and what are the stages?
ur penis will grow (itwillgrow) on Twitter
How To Make Ur Penis Bigger - YouTube
Calling ur penis mike tyson cuz it breaks jaws | Facebook
Calling ur penis Amy Winehouse coz itz addicted to crack | Facebook
How To Make Ur Penis Bigger - Guaranteed Results
Can sperm stop coming from ur penis - Answers.com
do weights make ur penis small? - Bodybuilding.com Forums
I'm Diva Material | croutoncat: lms if ur penis glows in the dark but in a sexy way
Scrolling upward, I thought 213 was going to be apo's greatest playlist ever.
lms if ur penis glows in the dark but in a sexy way
Sexy like a rotting lobster.
Bad lobster, meet dark cellar, IYKWIMAITYD.
I assume I have to link to a clown car statue or something.
211: it comprises all porn of a certain length
How To Make Ur Penis Bigger - Guaranteed Results
Presumably this is an ad for a time machine.
I'd imagine the usual Brits. Me, anyway.
I'm about to start on my slides for a talk in five and a half hours! Guh!
I'd find that very nerve-wracking.
Me too! I should have done this earlier!
5 hours? Plenty of time. Maybe stop for a coffee?
I once forgot I had to give a talk until three hours before. It went great. As a chronic procrastinator, this definitely taught me the wrong lesson about how much time to leave myself.
I mean, it's only lab meeting. I have crashed and burned at lab meeting before, but I was younger then.
You should think of us more like people with superpowers. When Superman jumps off a building, does it gives you hives? No, because he can fly. We're like that.
It's not unknown for me to wing things like that, or do the prep immediately before [as in 30 minutes before]. Certainly for work, anyway, where I'm always under a lot of time pressure, and I resent working in the evening.
I have to admit, that my sort of academic background may not be particularly useful in some areas, but it's pretty good at building 'talk as if reading something carefully thought out and written, when you are actually bullshitting it' skills.
233: Maybe your power is the power to give me hives!
I certainly wouldn't fret about having only five hours to prepare for class. On the other hand, I'd never bother preparing slides for a class, partly for actual principled reasons.
It went fine, Heebie. One of the faculty said it was "just TED talk-y enough".
I'm glad to hear that. I am finding it so fucking weird to be meeting weekly again with my grad advisor. All sorts of unpleasant but reasonable insecurity about my inability to keep up with him has resurfaced.
I got one question that might mean a big chunk of what I'm doing makes no sense, but hey, that's what happens.
It seems bad to make fun of this accident. But I can't not picture the uninjured driver sneaking off very quietly hoping nobody will notice he was anywhere nearby despite the giant bus, the GPS, and the camera that was pointing right at his head the whole time.
I recorded our meeting today, which may be revolutionary. He always goes incredibly fast, and I hang in there for a good ten minutes and then succomb to meaningless nodding.
I had somebody repeat their question more slowly to make sure I understood it, which always makes me feel valorous for being willing to look like a dope, and also like a dope.
243: You'll feel bad about that once it comes out that Sorbo has a tumor. Because he clearly has a tumor -- who else could come up with an argument that nonsensical?
A tumor? Or has he pissed off Hera again?
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