Episode 69. Tastes Like Cheerleaders.
The mathematically challenged Colin and Carl talk about the RIAA’s latest ass-hattery, Koala chicks Down Under going down under, and Sony’s drowning by Immersion. On Boston in Brief, it’s all about a Beantown Newspaper by bloggers.
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All music composed and recorded by Karl Kornfeld.
Hey now, animals may have religions. I’m sure there’s a monkey god out there somewhere. Besides, don’t all good dogs go to heaven which would implicate that dogs have religion?
As for my work, I don’t stab rats in the brain. I decapitate mice, take out their brains, dissect out an area called the hippocampus and then take electrophysiological recordings from neurons and astrocytes in that region.
Wasn’t the movie The Relic about a monster that decapitated people and ate their hippocampuses?
I think Tome Sizemore was in it. He had trouble saying ‘hippocampuses’. No, it isn’t ‘hippocampii’.
And I clearly remember you detailing stabbing a rat in the wrong spot and watching him do the hemiplegic shuffle.
That was a mouse, and I injected it in the right spot but may have nicked its motor cortex slightly is all. It was fine a few hours later.
RIAA – many carriers who deal with colleges (and residential condos/apartments that provide access to tenants) are forcing them to either hand out static routable IPs or implement IP logging/filtering if they’re natting. I know that I’ve had a few clients that we had to re-IP so they could better log which user had which IP because when the RIAA complaints come in, we forward them off to our client, who in turn is responsible for noting which user had which IP at the time of complaint. In the past, the complaints have noted the offending files (likewise with MPAA complaints) and the p2p network they were grabbed from. Not sure if that’s changing, but I’m pretty sure the complaint noted that the college would be responsible for the fines if they couldn’t determine who the EU was on that given IP.
GameGeek Challenge – I for one love listening to Nobuo Uematsu scores while at work, or his solo piano versions of the Final Fantasy stuff. Fantastic music!
Well, the RIAA can suck my balls. I would love to organize the students and give each dorm room a free wireless access point with completely open security, then set up some nice onion routing.
Free the ‘net!
Without endorsing ‘piracy’, I can say the RIAA’s best friend is people’s ignorance.
Remy is the Sylar of mice!
Since we all know I suck at computers, there’s a large majority of UNC students who connect to the University internet through wireless access points. Can they track who downloads something then?
The RIAA hasn’t sent us anything, to my knowledge. Maybe they’re afraid because we have these guys watching our [collective] back: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/
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They’re actually pretty damned awesome and progressive.
(Reamy: It depends on how it’s set up. Maybe yes, maybe no. And no, that’s not a type.
And… I can’t help but imagine the snicker that Remy must have had as he submitted that story… *head shake* but topping it off with the whole “episode 69″ *cue porn music* thing… *face palm* No wonder I’m gay! ;P
Speaking of which, I’m feeling what Carl was saying about said lesbian aussie koalas. It doesn’t ‘prove’ anything, per se, but it does show, as I think he was getting at, that it’s not abnormal. As mammals go, this seems to be a perfectly natural occurrence. It doesn’t show biological cause or imperative, etc. but it does, by adding one more glaring case, shut down that whole “abnormal” argument (that the fundiest like to try persuade people). I had a great freakin’ childhood and have awesome parents, no one molested me, I was well-liked in school, but I still get people arguing that there must be something wrong with me, something ‘turned me’ gay. Being able to point out that “what? you think that koala might have had a failed relationship with a guy? was bullied in school? was molested by some sick uncle? grow up.” That feels good…
PS – Get well soon, Karl!
PPS – I vote yea on the Geek Top 3 issue. Go with whatever stories strike your fancy. Sorry. “Fancy” isn’t very manly. You may need to go cut some granite. hehe
Yeah I basically submitted it because I thought the story was funny as all get out.
Nothing turns people gay…well wait I did know a girl in college who had this incredible ability to get almost any girl to try it at least once. In the time I knew her she got at least 4 girls that we knew to change sides for a extended period of time. It was quite amazing to watch the process. Nothing shakes your confidence as a man than competing against a lesbian for the same chick and losing.
You got to watch lesbians in college Rem?
Again, you are my idol. I only got to watch them in high school, when they still had inhibitions
She’s was always fun to hang out with. I’m sure I’ll catch all kinds of crap for this story, but it needs to be told to show that I am a mere mortal man.
We had a party at my off campus apartment near UMD one night, and she was there with her girlfriend at the time, just hanging out in my room and stuff, talking and joking around. It got really late and I was tired from working, so I fell asleep and the next thing I know the two of them are cuddled up to me, treating me like a giant teddy bear. She was a good friend and I was still young and stupid, so I didn’t even think to try and take advantage of the situation.
I feel back asleep and they were gone the next morning. That by itself doesn’t make the story. What makes the story so tragic was what I found out the next day. Evidently the two of them decided that my bed was the perfect place to get frisky that evening, while I was sleeping in it.
I slept through a lesbian porno scene happening live, not 2 feet away from me. Now I’m a really sound sleeper, but to this day I still feel a taint on my soul over this. They did say that they made some effort to be quiet so as to not wake me up, but still.
So ashamed.
Ahh, nice to see that everyone here still has their delusions about lesbians and their desire to please men. LOL
I once saw an albino squirrel at Jamaica Pond.
They don’t have a desire to please men.
Except for me, because I am so god-like and just exude lust inspiring pheromones like a wild beast.
And chicks flock to that, whatever their inclination.
Who said anything about the lesbians’ desire?
I’m all about ME.
Rem – that’s not as bad as turning down your girlfriend and HER girlfriend who were interested in doing a little “experimentation”.
Your shame is nowhere near as pitiful as mine.
Oh yeah, yours is much, much worse.
Oh the stories I could tell. But no, I cannot. Shame? Your shame is nothing.
That’s because you lack a moral compass
Also, I think most semi-intelligent guys understand lesbians (even hawt ones) have no desire to touch or please them. This is really not the point.
The point is that there are exhibitionist lesbians, just like there are exhibitionist gay or hetero couples. And it just so happens, wonderfully, magically, that lesbian sex is something straight guys like to watch.
Also, there are bisexual women. It doesn’t always have to be straight or gay. Sometimes, you get hawt, you get very liberated, and you get bisexual… all in one. And the Heavans weep, and even the noise of birds is diminished out of respect, and the Devil bows his head. For such magic is the most potent of all.
Moral compass? Que c’est?
“Morals are the herd instinct of the individual.” – Robert Heinlein.
I do what’s best for me and mine. At least I include my valued friends in the ‘mine’ category. As J likes to point out, it’s about expedience.
It’s been my experience (and, yes, Mr. Hendrix, “I am”) that women are far more open to crossing the divide than most people realize. Men, it’s quite obvious, have a much much MUCH (did I say much? and much much much much?) harder time. It seems to end in power tools and talking about sports when even the mere mention of it arises. For women who’ve not had some religious dogma about having their soles burnt in everlasting hellfire and brimstone, it’s not such a big deal. And college women are especially curious. They’re out from under the heel of mom and dad and, more importantly, the crushing foot of high school’s double-standard retarded fucking “she’s a slut” bullshit.
I’ll let you in on a girl secret. Seriously. The joke “well, there was that one time in college” really isn’t such a joke for a lot of girls. A lot, and I mean a lot, of girls will give it a go to some degree or another just to see how it is. This is also why you guys get Porno Lesbians™ in porn – when some director says “hey, go down on her while he fucks you” to some clearly uninhibited girl (she’s being fucked on film – exhibitions = off)… she will. Of course, say the inverse to the guy in this scene, “hey, go down on him…”, and there will be fists involved. And maybe some power tools and sports later on.
Everyone’s a little gay, I say. But it doesn’t take much social stigma of religious dogma to beat it out of most.
AHAHAHA… Nice. Oh, Maggie, where have you been all our blogging life?
My parents were the royalty of double-standards. Some of the inevitable doublethink* and doublespeak* were hilarious, and some of it was insanely tragic. Through them I acquired a really shitty veneer of neo-con attitudes to hide my insecurities and desires. So I understand what kids go through who have parents like that. Not just with sexual experimentation (which wasn’t my focus… at least, not with dudes), but with anything. Drinking, drugs, porn, driving with only one hand on the wheel and the other changing radio stations…
Girls, I think, have more incentive to cross over and experiment. For one, once they are out from under the oppressors, it’s almost cool to sleep with another girl. Guys will think you are totally awesome, and girls (at least, the ones who aren’t prudish bitches with sticks up their asses) will figure you can party harder than anyone, you’re so hardcore. You’re liberated, to be admired.
And girls ARE more liberated. There is far, far, less stigma attached to girl-on-girl action. Think of virginity, for example. Say two girls never ever have sex with men, just eachother. Are they still virgins? Anyone who even has to think about the answer to that is unfortunately being influenced by the way society thinks of sex as a penetrative act, a marking of territory by men.
It’s a frakked-up world, to be sure. I was listening to some radio thing once where a girl being interviewed said that no sex except vaginal penetration should be counted when thinking of the number of partners. Another said that you didn’t count partners with whom you didn’t orgasm. What kind of nonsense is that? If one person’s naughty bits touch another person’s naughty bits, that’s sex, regardless of how bad it might be or how badly you might wish it weren’t. The ranking of sexual acts by acceptability, with lesbianism at the more acceptable end, has created a pseudo-rebellious safe environment for people (girls especially) to move around in.
It would be a fantastic place if sex could be appreciated for the fun, universally pleasurable diversion it is, with everyone free to enjoy their preferences and predilections without fear of moral outrage or social stigma (barring acts that actually hurt other people or children, of course). Sadly, this isn’t that world. So two girls are cool. Me wanting a bus-load of cheerleaders and two Thai midget hookers to fight under a chocolate waterfall for my amusement… not so much.
*If you don’t know what doublethink and doublespeak are, go buy a copy of George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, heathen.
Why do I have this sudden desire to go watch “Chasing Amy” and listen to Weezer’s “Pinkerton” album now?
Because Joey Lauren Adams was totally doable?
Mmm…gratuitous Joey Lauren Adams tit-shot in Mallrats…
They were a fine mid-twenties vintage then too.
OH MAN I forgot about that shot in Mallrats…. I packed up all my DVDs already too. No Chasing Amy or Mallrats for me.
“He wants to screw her in a very uncomfortable place.”
“What, like the back of a Volkswagen?”
“you must fucus!!”
“yeah, that’s what we’re hoping for!”
“Call me Donny, baby. Call me Joey!”
Tell ‘em, Stevedave!!
“What, you think just cuz a guy reads comics, he can’t start some shit?!”
When do I get to see the goddamn sailboat??!?
Have you guys listened to Kevin and Mosier’s “smodcast” yet?
Everyone wants Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride!
(and no, I didn’t even realize they were podcasting…)
Just subscribed. Thanks for the heads up.
You tell em, Greg-Dave! hehe