Octopus Overlords

Competing re: life experiences is certainly less shallow than competing re: materialism.

While competing can become unhealthy, seeing who can have the most fulfilling life experiences seems a lot more noble than one upping your peer by including the sports package on your new sedan.

GreenGoo wrote: Wed Aug 08, 2018 1:20 am Competing re: life experiences is certainly less shallow than competing re: materialism.

While competing can become unhealthy, seeing who can have the most fulfilling life experiences seems a lot more noble than one upping your peer by including the sports package on your new sedan.

But it's how you end up with people spending more time taking selfies than actually being present and enjoying the event or place they're visiting. I was on a beach in Hawaii a year or two ago on a beautiful day.
At one point a young lady walks up to the edge of the water, spends 10 minutes taking the perfect selfie, then leaves. She didn't spend a single minute actually enjoying the beach, but she's probably going to succeed in making her social media followers jealous of her day at the beach.

It's still better than wearing a Rolex and constantly "checking the time" in everyone's presence.

The comic suggested they are equivalent.

I don't care how many selfies you take. You are still in Tibet, learning Buddhism.

There's plenty wrong with living your life on social media. However, as long as you *are* living your life, it's still better than seeing who can die with the most toys.

GreenGoo wrote: Wed Aug 08, 2018 9:30 am I don't care how many selfies you take. You are still in Tibet, claiming to be learning Buddhism while missing the point.

Mortoned

(I really don't have a dog in this fight, and I don't know if it's missing the point of Buddhism or not. I just wanted to try to be funny.)

Sure. I can agree with that, mostly.

I dunno. Documenting how full your life is seems as much building a mausoleum to your memory as does filling a 3500 square foot home with things but I've the point in life where who am I to judge how you find your find your happy. I don't get it but I've come to terms with the fact that I don't have to. With regard to the constant self documentarian, my only concern for the behalf is what staring any that 6" screen will do to their eyes over the decades (presumably after beginning on a 10" screen from a very young age). Staring at 14" then 17" then 20" then 24" wide screen had destroyed mine over the course of 30 years and I was never exposed to that the much brightness darkness intensity from book reading distance for so long like the kid of today are. But again, who am I to judge?

If I understand you correctly, damn kids should stay off your lawn. Is that right?

GreenGoo wrote: Wed Aug 08, 2018 10:05 am If I understand you correctly, damn kids should stay off your lawn. Is that right?

It's the time, I say let kids be kids. I don't have to understand them. Now when the LCA says I need a smart phone to buy a ticket and a smart phone to act as a ticket to get in their venue? Yeah, Get off my lawn! I will never step foot into LCA, who single handedly ruined my commute from the west side to downtown, by making it so you can't use Temple as a quick way to get off 94 at M10 and cutover to Woodward from the MotorCity. They ruined everything and I had to pay for it with my taxes. Tax subsidized corporate gentrification as a means to cut me off or even inconvenience me from the cultures I love and identify with can kiss my lily white old ass.

Something something plucked chicken.

Feeling the validity of a syllogism is a bad method of evaluation. Sufficient and Necessary! I want truth tables!!! Makes me want to throw a column on top of red and purple toga guy.

Instagram account documents the similarities in everyone's vacation pictures.

Sock Crocs. Wear them with pride and in comfort.

And shame.

How does one wash them?

And when the sock rots how to replace it.

Socks... rot?

After 5 years or so.

Not a silly pic but a cool one...

Charles Bronson and his wife, actress Jill Ireland. The photo was taken back in 1971 in Santa Monica, California.

dbt1949 wrote: Thu Aug 16, 2018 12:07 am How does one wash them?

Washing machine?

I can't imagine the rubber 'croc' would have a problem with that.

Romantic kiss. She has a great tail on her.

Needed the embiggened version.

Also, Link to purchase it.

Is there any significance to the use of resistors, inductors and such?

Very funny!

Even more entertaining than the diagram will be the fights it generates online.

Holman wrote: Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:39 pm Very funny!

Wait, it's funny? Now I'm sure I really don't get it. Admittedly I have almost no knowledge of the subject matter as it would pertain to the diagram.

GreenGoo wrote: Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:44 pm

Holman wrote: Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:39 pm Very funny!

Wait, it's funny? Now I'm sure I really don't get it. Admittedly I have almost no knowledge of the subject matter as it would pertain to the diagram.

I don't read circuitry, but I assume it's all meant to imply that this band influenced that band and so on.

Yeah, me too. The circuit elements all have meanings that could, maybe be translated into that concept. Resistors could have held alternative music back, for example.

I realize I'm not the target audience for that diagram and won't try to over analyze it any more.

An accurate diagram of Alternative Music lineages is just a huge bucket of Velvet Underground.

About a year ago I got back into a Modern Lovers phase. I'm happy to see them represented on that chart. Although I completely understand why they aren't as influential as the larger acts around them.

Seems comfortable

GreenGoo wrote: Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:30 pm Is there any significance to the use of resistors, inductors and such?

A history of alternative and independent music mapped out to the circuit board of an early transistor radio.

..so Kind of. I don't remember listening to any of these bands on a transistor radio.

Thanks, I totally missed that the circuit was for a radio. That makes sense.

Daehawk wrote: Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:10 pm Seems comfortable

PROTIP for new parents: The circular forehead rub is a great way to relax an infant.

Works on me too.

Is that a real thing?

Daehawk wrote: Thu Aug 23, 2018 2:42 am Is that a real thing?

Yep.

“Go” and “Don’t go this way” are dangerously similar.