For some reason, Christopher Butler's commentary on his post (shared below) reminded me of Ozzy Man Reviews, some of which (like this one) just put me in stitches every time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkGh8w0bC8E&feature=share
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Christopher Butler's introduction to this video is the funniest thing I've read this week.
Christopher Butler's introduction to this video is the funniest thing I've read this week.
Originally shared by Christopher Butler
There are advantages to being a country boy. For starters, we know the difference between a bee, a wasp, and yellowjacket. Bees are awesome and friendly and leave you alone unless you're just a jackass. Wasps are easily offended and will give you a swift talking to before leaving for more important matters.
Yellowjackets will fuck up your whole week.
Nothing this man in the video does is wise. Starting with "I've got wasps." No, friend, those are yellowjackets...or if you prefer, tiny yellow-striped bullets with your name all over them. They hate you. They want you to know pain and despair. They are nature's drone strikes. Abandon all hope. They are the Sideshow Bob of the animal kingdom, and we're all named Bart.
Do not be this man. This man pours soap and water in a yellowjacket nest in broad daylight while wearing flip flops.
This man has not vanquished demons. He has just cleansed them for the reckoning to come.
Interesting Note: when you smoosh a yellowjacket, it releases a pheromone that attracts other yellowjackets. Like...a lot. Smoosh one with your foot, and within a minute or so, another will come hovering over its now 2-Dimensional friend and investigate like yellowjacket FBI. Smoosh that one. Another will come zooming over soon. If you're far enough away from yellowjacket headquarters, you can kill dozens that way...assuming your bored and stupid. Stupid, because odds are you'll eventually attract too many too smoosh at once, and you'll end up covered in the yellowjacket equivalent of strongly-worded notices of complaint.
My brother once ran a push mower over a yellowjacket nest considerably larger than this one. He was covered in stings from head to toe by the time he made it back to the house, basically stripping as he sprinted. It was hilarious. If you're curious, no, he didn't see a doctor because we're from Kentucky and getting bit, stung, and spending our summers bleeding and screaming was our goddamn birthright and privilege.
Attn Kevin Howard
https://youtu.be/gh68pjIyYjk
Originally shared by Christopher Butler
There are advantages to being a country boy. For starters, we know the difference between a bee, a wasp, and yellowjacket. Bees are awesome and friendly and leave you alone unless you're just a jackass. Wasps are easily offended and will give you a swift talking to before leaving for more important matters.
Yellowjackets will fuck up your whole week.
Nothing this man in the video does is wise. Starting with "I've got wasps." No, friend, those are yellowjackets...or if you prefer, tiny yellow-striped bullets with your name all over them. They hate you. They want you to know pain and despair. They are nature's drone strikes. Abandon all hope. They are the Sideshow Bob of the animal kingdom, and we're all named Bart.
Do not be this man. This man pours soap and water in a yellowjacket nest in broad daylight while wearing flip flops.
This man has not vanquished demons. He has just cleansed them for the reckoning to come.
Interesting Note: when you smoosh a yellowjacket, it releases a pheromone that attracts other yellowjackets. Like...a lot. Smoosh one with your foot, and within a minute or so, another will come hovering over its now 2-Dimensional friend and investigate like yellowjacket FBI. Smoosh that one. Another will come zooming over soon. If you're far enough away from yellowjacket headquarters, you can kill dozens that way...assuming your bored and stupid. Stupid, because odds are you'll eventually attract too many too smoosh at once, and you'll end up covered in the yellowjacket equivalent of strongly-worded notices of complaint.
My brother once ran a push mower over a yellowjacket nest considerably larger than this one. He was covered in stings from head to toe by the time he made it back to the house, basically stripping as he sprinted. It was hilarious. If you're curious, no, he didn't see a doctor because we're from Kentucky and getting bit, stung, and spending our summers bleeding and screaming was our goddamn birthright and privilege.
Attn Kevin Howard
https://youtu.be/gh68pjIyYjk
Erry damn time.
Erry damn time.
Originally shared by PHD Comics
How many PhD's does it take??
http://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1534
Originally shared by PHD Comics
How many PhD's does it take??
http://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1534
Monday, May 30, 2016
Academic research publishing is an economic scam and the peer review process is dramatically influenced by both luck...
Academic research publishing is an economic scam and the peer review process is dramatically influenced by both luck (in terms of who you get to review your paper and how they're feeling when they review it) and who you know.
There...I said what everyone actually thinks.
Originally shared by John Baez
Let us read what we paid for
Imagine a business like this: you get highly trained experts to give you their research for free... and then you sell it back to them. Of course these experts need equipment, and they need to earn a living... so you get taxpayers to foot the bill.
And if the taxpayers want to actually read the papers they paid for? Then you charge them a big fee!
It's not surprising that with this business model, big publishers are getting rich while libraries go broke. Reed-Elsevier has a 37% profit margin!
But people are starting to fight back — from governments to energetic students like Alexandra Elbakyan here.
On Friday, the Competitiveness Council —a gathering of European ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry—said that all publicly funded scientific papers published in Europe should be made free to access by 2020.
This will start a big fight, and it may take longer than 2020. But Alexandra Elbakyan isn't waiting around.
In 2011, as a computer science grad student in Kazakhstan, she got sick of paying big fees to read science papers. She set up SciHub, a pirate website that steals papers from the publishers and sets them free.
SciHub now has 51,000,000 papers in its database. In October 2015, Elsevier sued them. In November, their domain name was shut down. But they popped up somewhere else. By February, people were downloading 200,000 papers per day. Even scientists with paid access to the publisher's databases are starting to use SciHub, because it's easier to use.
Clearly piracy is the not the ultimate solution. Elbakyan now lives in an undisclosed location, to avoid being extradited. But she gave the world a much-needed kick in the butt. The old business model of get smart people to work for free and sell the product back to them is on its way out.
For more, read:
John Bohannon, Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone, Science, 28 April 2016, http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone
and especially the SciHub Twitter feed:
https://twitter.com/Sci_Hub
Also read this:
Martin Enserink, In dramatic statement, European leaders call for ‘immediate’ open access to all scientific papers by 2020, Science,
27 May 2016, http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers
The Dutch government is really pushing this! Congratulations to them!
#openaccess
Wow, $90 for the high-speed city train (with power functions!)?!? That's a heckuva deal.
Wow, $90 for the high-speed city train (with power functions!)?!? That's a heckuva deal.
Originally shared by The Brothers Brick
Amazon.com has put more than a hundred and fifty LEGO sets on sale, starting at 20% off. Check out the sale page for the full list, but here are some highlights. The LEGO City 60052 Cargo Train set is 38% or $76 off, at $123.99 (down from $200).…
http://www.brothers-brick.com/2016/05/30/20-off-over-150-lego-sets-from-amazon-news/
Originally shared by The Brothers Brick
Amazon.com has put more than a hundred and fifty LEGO sets on sale, starting at 20% off. Check out the sale page for the full list, but here are some highlights. The LEGO City 60052 Cargo Train set is 38% or $76 off, at $123.99 (down from $200).…
http://www.brothers-brick.com/2016/05/30/20-off-over-150-lego-sets-from-amazon-news/
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Gifts? GIFTED??? Neither of those is a (reasonable) verb (IMO)!
Gifts? GIFTED??? Neither of those is a (reasonable) verb (IMO)!
Why in the world isn't "gives" or "donated" or "awarded" or any of the other existing synonyms for "give" just fine here? Seriously, The American Bazaar, you need to find yourself a new writing team.
#grammarnazi
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