Mojave Music, IJBM2 is a stupid place and I don't know why I go there.
I am not sure if it is actually stupid, but I guess it does have a bit of a different feel than this place does. It seems like it kind of turned into a media discussion forum, which I never really expected based on the first IJBM. Anywho, if the atmosphere there does not suit you, I think taking a break from visiting the site makes a lot of sense.
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
I've been down this road at various times of day and it doesn't seem like there's ever an especially large number of trucks entering or leaving the AEP facility around the bend...is it just there because "truck entrance" it refers to is obscured by the curve in the road?
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I've been down this road at various times of day and it doesn't seem like there's ever an especially large number of trucks entering or leaving the AEP facility around the bend...is it just there because "truck entrance" it refers to is obscured by the curve in the road?
Yep. Someone's private driveway would be one thing, but a truck turning into a road off of a two-lane is something else entirely. I'd imagine that they put the flashing lights up there because people may tend to haul ass down that road regardless of what the speed limit is.
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
It makes sense now that I think about it.
They have lights and a sign eastbound because the AEP facility's driveway is blind due to the curve.
There's no sign westbound because the driveway comes before the curve (and there are fewer trees), meaning it's in full view as you approach.
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
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected.... Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." -- Charles Dickens
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
See ya later Lazuli.
I guess you're not called that anymore, but whatever.
Back in the medieval era (or at least from the 11th century to the 15th) in Europe and England (or at least Western Europe and England), many people wore shoes. These non-barefoot people mostly bought their shoes from the local Cordwainer, who had been trained in the business for many years and possibly almost his entire life; if it was a family business.
Cordwainers made individual shoes, for one individual person, and their lives depended on how well they sold, and their sale depended on how well they made shoes, so their lives depended on how well they made shoes. These were insanely specialized people, they had one and only one trade.
Nowadays, in this age of mass-production and interchangeable parts, we think of shoes as being interchangeable. Anyone with the same shoe size can wear your shoes as comfortably as you wear them, because it's sort of a one-size-fits-all thing. It wasn't always like that, though.
Back in the day, you had a professional Cordwainer, taking the measurements of your foot, and making a shoe specifically for you and no one else. Each toe, each callus, corn, bump, or wart, was important. These shoes basically felt like walking around barefoot, they fit so very well. Of course, they'd be slightly big so your feet had room to grow. These shoes would have to keep your feet warm in the dead of winter, in the days before most people had all these fancy ventilation systems to keep them warm. Firm and supple, soft yet strong, a perfect fit for your foot, and if you found a good enough cordwainer, you could choose the color! If you had a fantastic Cordwainer, you could have your shoes scented to smell like lilies.
Remember, these were the days when people walked a lot more than they did now, and typically couldn't have loads and loads and loads of shoes. That one pair was important, it was to last long and feel comfortable for years. Any small mistake, over years, would become very bothersome, like a pebble in a boot becomes bothersome when you walk up the mountain. It needs to be more comfortable than your customer's own feet, because if it isn't, why would your customer buy your shoes?
So, yeah, ever since mass-production, the quality of shoes has gone very much down. I don't think any of us really realize what sort of shoes they had in the middle ages.
So, yeah, Cinderella being identified by her shoe? Not actually that unlikely. A shoe was individual to a foot, and a foot is as individual to a person as a hand or face
It's obviously bullshit, because US school curriculums aren't lock-in-step. Not even close. Each state is wildly different with how it goes about handling education.
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
It's obviously bullshit, because US school curriculums aren't lock-in-step. Not even close. Each state is wildly different with how it goes about handling education.
For some reason I'm reminded of the time I mentioned in IRC that some states require a front license plate and others don't, and a British friend replied "Dear US states: please stop acting like semi-independent nations."
It struck me as sort of weird, because assigning license plates on a national level would be a nightmare. Can you imagine how many letters/digits each plate would have to have to have enough unique numbers?
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
It's obviously bullshit, because US school curriculums aren't lock-in-step. Not even close. Each state is wildly different with how it goes about handling education.
For some reason I'm reminded of the time I mentioned in IRC that some states require a front license plate and others don't, and a British friend replied "Dear US states: please stop acting like semi-independent nations."
It struck me as sort of weird, because assigning license plates on a national level would be a nightmare. Can you imagine how many letters/digits each plate would have to have to have enough unique numbers?
It's because we allow Westminster a ridiculous amount of control over the rest of the country so it weirds us out when other, larger countries don't do similarly.
For some reason I'm reminded of the time I mentioned in IRC that some states require a front license plate and others don't, and a British friend replied "Dear US states: please stop acting like semi-independent nations."
I think I speak for every Texan when I give this reply to your British friend: "No."
It struck me as sort of weird, because assigning license plates on a national level would be a nightmare. Can you imagine how many letters/digits each plate would have to have to have enough unique numbers?
It's kind of funny because Texas is one of those states that does require that front plate. This really upset my friend a few years ago because he had a Ford sports car that had the front plate offset to the side in such a way that it suck out from the smooth angle of the car in quite a ridiculous fashion, and he refused to attach the plate and stated he'd rather pay the ticket.
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IJBM2 is a stupid place and I don't know why I go there.
I am not sure if it is actually stupid, but I guess it does have a bit of a different feel than this place does. It seems like it kind of turned into a media discussion forum, which I never really expected based on the first IJBM. Anywho, if the atmosphere there does not suit you, I think taking a break from visiting the site makes a lot of sense.
holy shit, I just found 133's tumblr and
MC RIDE HAVIN' A PARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
leaving now
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That's the point
I can't comment on its content, since I don't buy it. It leans conservative, I know that much.
Bye Mojave.
Except Twilight's disturbing-ass birth scene. That... I don't even know whether BD1 was better or worse for it.
I can't imagine READING that part though. Jesus frak, that sounds gross.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Cordwainers made individual shoes, for one individual person, and their lives depended on how well they sold, and their sale depended on how well they made shoes, so their lives depended on how well they made shoes. These were insanely specialized people, they had one and only one trade.
Nowadays, in this age of mass-production and interchangeable parts, we think of shoes as being interchangeable. Anyone with the same shoe size can wear your shoes as comfortably as you wear them, because it's sort of a one-size-fits-all thing. It wasn't always like that, though.
Back in the day, you had a professional Cordwainer, taking the measurements of your foot, and making a shoe specifically for you and no one else. Each toe, each callus, corn, bump, or wart, was important. These shoes basically felt like walking around barefoot, they fit so very well. Of course, they'd be slightly big so your feet had room to grow. These shoes would have to keep your feet warm in the dead of winter, in the days before most people had all these fancy ventilation systems to keep them warm. Firm and supple, soft yet strong, a perfect fit for your foot, and if you found a good enough cordwainer, you could choose the color! If you had a fantastic Cordwainer, you could have your shoes scented to smell like lilies.
Remember, these were the days when people walked a lot more than they did now, and typically couldn't have loads and loads and loads of shoes. That one pair was important, it was to last long and feel comfortable for years. Any small mistake, over years, would become very bothersome, like a pebble in a boot becomes bothersome when you walk up the mountain. It needs to be more comfortable than your customer's own feet, because if it isn't, why would your customer buy your shoes?
So, yeah, ever since mass-production, the quality of shoes has gone very much down. I don't think any of us really realize what sort of shoes they had in the middle ages.
So, yeah, Cinderella being identified by her shoe? Not actually that unlikely. A shoe was individual to a foot, and a foot is as individual to a person as a hand or face
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When has a sockpuppet been anything but stupid?
Most do, if they're large enough, to a greater or lesser extent. We are split into constituent countries, for instance.
Devolution in Wales is an ongoing process that only started relatively recently. Scotland have a bit more control over their own affairs.
or else