FerretBrain

2013-03-12 01:27 - I Fold - link I think I'll have to check out the UK version now! As for the US, it sounds like the big reveal of season 2 (assuming we get one) will have to be that Underwood is a Cylon. He has a plan... a ridiculously convoluted plan which makes no sense...

2013-02-07 02:53 - Pedo Snore Screed of a Octafish - link ...what. I don't even. I remember back when I first read The Gate to Women's Country and had only vaguely heard of Tepper (she, like, wrote some books?), I thought the Big Damn Societal Conspiracy reveal was meant to be disturbing....

2013-01-15 03:09 - Kindlefluff 3: Royal Androids and Wanker Detectives - link but you give "Pervor" a pass? I once saw a lawyer's office proudly advertizing a name like "Purve" or "Purvel" - I can't remember exactly, but it was definitely the kind of name you'd want to change before opening any kind of pract...

2013-01-14 02:26 - Kindlefluff 3: Royal Androids and Wanker Detectives - link Horrifyingly, I can actually think of an explanation for "moss heads." You know when you have some nice landscape rocks in your yard, but they'd really be better with moss growing on them in a picturesque fashion? Supposedly, if you get a bit of moss (or m...

2012-08-05 00:09 - The Rain Fell in Torrents – Except at Occasional Intervals - link RE: Dan Oh, I think it would definitely only be useful in very limited contexts. Like if you actually are a person who has an odd writing tic and overuses "to be" verbs along with "very" and "somehow," it would be one thing you'd run through speci...

2012-08-04 03:35 - The Rain Fell in Torrents – Except at Occasional Intervals - link I'm currently very grateful that George Lucas never tried to write in E-Prime. Can you imagine his list of alternate lines for ESB? "Luke, I have the attribute of paternity with respect to you." "Luke, I impregnated your mother nine months bef...

2012-07-15 02:02 - Kindlefluff 2: Domesticating Brown People and Ignoring Murder Suspects - link the enormous collection of forensics and criminology textbooks in his room Those cops have never watched cop shows, I take it. Sounds like a frustrating book. The GenericLA setting is only upstaged in setting irritation by my idiosyncratic ...

2012-07-08 00:12 - Ferretbrain Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Episode 0 - Introduction - link I actually saw a college production of Cymbeline once. It was described to me as the "Shakespeare's greatest hits" compilation play, and that really is kind of true. There's a don't-lose-this-ring fidelity plot, a girl running away and cross-dressin...

2012-05-24 20:54 - Click here for nostalgia - link Now you've made me remember the Cain rap. I apologize for lowering the tone of the conversation. But this was totally your fault.

2012-05-13 00:11 - Exams, Demand, and a Short Lesson in Controlling Public Discourse - link Meant to specify that that was for the US educational system.

2012-05-13 00:10 - Exams, Demand, and a Short Lesson in Controlling Public Discourse - link I don't know about high school, but yeah, I don't think you need relevant subject degree to teach in most cases. They might prefer it, and I think education degrees require you to take at least some basic courses in various subjects so they know you're at...

2012-05-10 23:30 - Exams, Demand, and a Short Lesson in Controlling Public Discourse - link I think I actually make more mistakes trying to do arithmetic than I did doing calculus. They're (somewhat related but) different skills. People get so smug about their test scores, for such spurious reasons! It just makes me want to tell them tha...

2012-05-10 18:06 - Exams, Demand, and a Short Lesson in Controlling Public Discourse - link The result was that kids continued to hate, fear, and be bored by math, and in addition were now leaving school not knowing how to multiply or divide without a calculator. And now they're the math teachers. I have known several peo...

2011-10-13 22:41 - Shut. The. Fuck. Up. You. Smug. Bitch. - link There is certainly a lot of that in the Potter books and the Red Hen article. That, and "the wild guesses the protagonists make about some people a thousand years ago based on a few scraps of hearsay should be considered factually correct and not missing a...