I tend to agree with that line of thinking, but certain groups just make me... uncomfortable. I dunno, I'm just not in a good mood today, and I have this annoying thing where I do anything I can to preserve a bad mood.
Look at it this way. Once you get to the school, you won't be seeing groups. You'll be seeing kids. Sure, some of those kids will be jerks. All schools have jerks. Sure, many of them are probably sports fans, which doesn't mesh with you. But there will be other humans there, humans who will see a new kid who's probably miserable and sympathize with him.
I know this isn't enough, but it's all I can give you.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Ugh, I fell asleep.
This makes me feel bad, as if I've "failed" somehow...
Seriously I cannot go on youtube anymore without having to see Mitt Romney's stupid face in advertisements. >:/ I would like to pretend he does not exist, at the moment.
I'm just sick of political ads in general, from both candidates and their cronies (though I've been seeing more Super PAC ads than anything else, and they can go straight to Hell). At least on the DVR, you can just fast-forward through them...
I use Firefox, but mostly for aesthetic reasons. It might not be the strongest browser, but it's very reliable and you can customize it exactly to your liking. It feels much more like my individual browser than anything else would.
That and Google Chrome does not work on La Computadora.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
ugh, internet is down
and Insight's tech support line is busy
guess i'll be sitting here with my phone for a while
CA: Argh, I know the feeling. A while ago, our FiOS ONT died and the Internet didn't work at all until they could come out and replace it. :P Also, Comcast has been problematic at work for months now, and their field techs are idiots.
I think the worst part of me leaving my old school is that with me only getting a day's notice, I only had the time to tell like, two people. And I won't be telling anyone else anytime soon because God forbid my mother let me use my phone or computer or anything when I need it.
As in any other discipline, semiotics reveals the complexity of phenomena that seem simple on the surface. Traffic signals are an example of a simple semiotic system that is far more complex than it seems. We are speaking here of standard traffic signals, not of all the many variations in existence.
2.2.1 SIGNIFIERS
The three main signifiers for traffic signals are colours: green, yellow and red. These signifiers use only one of the five sensory channels, that is, only one of the five senses – sight. (This is not the case with olfactory signs, for example.)
Within a single system of signs, signifiers must follow the principle of providing an adequate safety margin – and we are not talking about road safety. For example, traffic signals could in theory use these three colours: dark green, medium green and light green. It is easy to see that the lower safety margin between the signifiers would also decrease safety on the road.
2.2.2 REDUNDANCY AND NOISE
The colours in traffic signals are often associated (or correlated) with other kinds of visual signifiers (which correlate to the same signifieds as the colours), for example, shapes (rectangle + red, circle + green, etc.), and positions (top, middle, bottom or left, middle, right). This correlation produces redundancy, which is the process of repeating one signified, either by associating it with several different signifiers or by repeating the sign in which it is conveyed. The purpose of redundancy is to counteract what is called noise in information theory, meaning that which impedes or could impede in transmitting or correctly interpreting (receiving) the message that was produced during the act of sending. The purpose of redundancy is to ensure that the receiver (the driver or the pedestrian) can perceive the sign with no problem, even when the circumstances are unfavourable (glare, colour blindness, distraction, etc.). For instance, why does a telephone ring several times when once would suffice? To ensure that at least one of the repeated signs is perceived.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I know this isn't enough, but it's all I can give you.
I really wish I could fall asleep, but I can't, no matter how tired I am.
Except some I watched while taking a survey.
That and Google Chrome does not work on La Computadora.
and Insight's tech support line is busy
guess i'll be sitting here with my phone for a while
Good-night, Heapsters and Heapsterinas. May you all find what your souls desire.
Resurgam.
Firefox seems OK to me, and I'd rather keep my add-ons anyway.
Holy shit.
I mean, Umberto Eco writes books, but that doesn't really have anything to do with semiotics really.
2.2 ELEMENTARY SEMIOTICS AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS
As in any other discipline, semiotics reveals the complexity of
phenomena that seem simple on the surface. Traffic signals are an
example of a simple semiotic system that is far more complex than it
seems. We are speaking here of standard traffic signals, not of all the
many variations in existence.
2.2.1 SIGNIFIERS
The three main signifiers for traffic signals are colours: green, yellow and red. These signifiers use only one of the five sensory channels, that is, only one of the five senses – sight. (This is not the case with olfactory signs, for example.)
Within a single system of signs, signifiers must follow the principle of providing an adequate safety margin – and we are not talking about road safety. For example, traffic signals could in theory use these three colours: dark green, medium green and light green. It is easy to see that the lower safety margin between the signifiers would also decrease safety on the road.
2.2.2 REDUNDANCY AND NOISE
The colours in traffic signals are often associated (or
correlated) with other kinds of visual signifiers (which correlate to
the same signifieds as the colours), for example, shapes (rectangle + red, circle + green, etc.), and positions (top, middle, bottom or left, middle, right). This correlation produces redundancy,
which is the process of repeating one signified, either by associating
it with several different signifiers or by repeating the sign in which
it is conveyed. The purpose of redundancy is to counteract what is
called noise in information theory, meaning that which impedes or could impede in transmitting or correctly interpreting (receiving) the message that was produced during the act of sending.
The purpose of redundancy is to ensure that the receiver (the driver or
the pedestrian) can perceive the sign with no problem, even when the
circumstances are unfavourable (glare, colour blindness, distraction,
etc.). For instance, why does a telephone ring several times when once
would suffice? To ensure that at least one of the repeated signs is
perceived.