The Career Move That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Imagine if we all just stopped believing that the only way to be an academic is to be constantly employed by a university. There—wouldn’t that make people’s lives a lot better? Let’s just do that.
a reason for not doing a Ph.D.
Thursday, January 4, 2018
January
Thursday, January 4, 2018
I Hate New Year’s Day, Antonio Gramsci, January 1, 1916
That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pauses myself, when I feel drunk with the intensity of life and I want to plunge into animality to draw from it new vigour.
Continuing the recovery
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
of this blog, i spent a couple of hours manually adding categories to old posts. Boy, i must have been bored.
Still lots of stuff broken, links often break on the internet.
Also, i missed the blog’s 10th anniversary. ¯\_(?)_/¯
Žižek
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
These contradictions don’t show that ideology is “irrational” — the problem is exactly the opposite, that there are too many reasons supporting their views. Žižek argues that these piled-up rationalizations demonstrate that something else is going on.
Have been a Slavoj Žižek fan follower for a while. Maybe i should read one of his books soon. Ha.
The Vampire Castle
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
The problem that the Vampires’ Castle was set up to solve is this: how do you hold immense wealth and power while also appearing as a victim, marginal and oppositional? The solution was already there – in the Christian Church.
(the comments are brutal, even by low internet standards)
“Canada Bread did not comment.”
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Loblaw admits to bread price-fixing scheme spanning more than 14 years
And Loblaw says it will start offering $25 gift cards on Jan. 8 to customers who declare they bought certain (as yet unnamed) breads at some of its (as yet unnamed) chains before March 1, 2015 – a gesture that the company says could cost as much as $150-million.
Terrible photography returns to the Internet
Thursday, December 7, 2017
i’ve got my photos back online, and this time they’re accessible within WordPress, where before i used a subdomain and separate software (tried a few, didn’t much like any of them). In a few minutes photos.mooresie.net will work, or you can hit the link at the top menu right now.
Learning lots lately.
Dan Harmon on depression
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Girl Asks Rick And Morty’s Co-Author How To Cope With Depression, Does Not Expect His Response
Dark thoughts will echo off the walls of your skull, they will distort and magnify. When you open your mouth (or an anonymous journal or blog or sketchpad), these thoughts go out. They’ll be back but you gotta get em OUT. Vent them. Tap them. I know you don’t want to but try it.
Marlene Bird
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Back from the garbage
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Lessons learned:
- Digitalocean or another cloud hosting service is the way to go, unless you don’t want to learn how servers work, in which case you’ll get ripped off.
- Following from the above, you can’t know for sure you’re safe enough from hacking, unless you have backend control. If you don’t, again, you’ll get ripped off.
- A proper backup procedure is necessary. Restoring from an SQL dump was painful.
Not expecting everything to work and i need to remember what all my plugins were, but it’s serviceable now.
