Mastication is for the weak!
David, what the hell was that first paragraph about? The anniversary of what-now? Must be some literary thing..
I don't really have anything of note to say, so I figure I'll just ramble on for a bit and see where things go. Please note that I'll also be including footnotes for explanation of any jargon or "lingo" that I may use, so as not to confuse the grammatically pure.
For any uber-nerds out there it may interest you to know that my favorite message board, Club Si participated in some e-thuggery* last week. It seems the board has a history for taking out smaller boards when they feel the members are assholes, ignorant, pompous, or otherwise annoy someone from CSi. Unfortunately for them, the members of Aces High 4 Eva (quite possibly the biggest ricers** I've ever seen) got on CSi's bad side after reacting badly to some good-natured ribbing at their expense.
The story, as I understand it, is as follows. Someone on the board found this Aces High board and made a post on CSi about how ugly the girls were and how lame in general they seemed to act. The CSi-ers got the bright idea to start registering on the Aces High message board and post retarded stuff, just to mess with them. Well, their boards membership went from 43 people to 96 and the number of topics went from 33 to over 200 in the span of about 36 hours. The admins for Aces High weren't smart enough to know how to ban someone so things got out of hand. CSi had taken over the board, with some resistance in the form of bodily threats and challenges to street race (ha!). The Aces admins flipped, and shut the board down and purged the entire site to get rid of us. 4 days later, presumably after having read the manual on message boards, the site came back online and the CSi members got IP banned*** and the membership went private (a mod needed to approve you to be able to post). In true internet**** style some of the members of Aces tried to bring down CSi like we had brought them. But with over 17,000 members and a rock-solid server administered by people who know a hell of a lot more about computers than I do (and I think we can agree that's saying something), not much happened. So now they want to sue CSi for "conspiracy to propagate spam", a charge I'm 99% sure they invented.
So while I don't necessarily think we weren't really big jerks in this situation, it's been funny as hell. As a PS, it's definitely worth checking out some of the Aces High Hotties to see where all this started.
A few highlights from their guestbook:
I don't really know what "coral" means here:
"Everyone make sure they get the new *Air Pharrells ! They are they new hot item, get them while they are coral. Fosho...I keeps da hot shiet...for those of you who dont know....The *Air Pharrells are new shoes, they are the replacement for Air Force Ones...so if you want to be Coral like...well...ME !...you will get them ! $200 at your coolest shoe store...Also Enyce just came out with a new Summer line up...they are hella coral, so get yourself a outfit, best bet go to www.Drjays.com they have the hottest Enyce wear on the internet...Stay Coral Aces High, represent the flyest gear, and make hollywood rich!.....EnZo Out
Philippines "
I like ellipses as much as the next guy, but come one:
"Holla to all my Aces High.... old crew... The new people probably dont know me but I used to be a part of the best family in the world. Aces High... I love all of you guys.. Holla to all the members including the old and the new... To any one one reading this who remebers me dont forget to holla... my email address is andreita1225@yahoo.com..... Yall be good and keep in touch and by the way yall looking really good.. keep it real in Fayetteville cause yall the best.... Remember dont let anybody come in between you guys....
Much love,
Aaliha
United States"
Mmmmm, cupcakes...
"Well guess who it is? Its me, its spud d-a-w-g. ha ha. On the front page of the site you ask the question. WHO ARE YOU WITH? Well I have the only answer possible. ACES HIGH. I just want to thank a few people while i got the chance. Thanks alot first off to mom for baking them delicious cupcakes for my bday. They were outstanding, next to snoop and jerry thanks for putting on my body kit for me. If you ever need a favor holla at me you know i got yall back, and last but not least the whole aces high family who made me show at last car show where i won my first trophy.
Got to go to work now love ya.
United States"
A post from CSi regarding IP bans:
"Dynamic IP owns you. Have fun getting rid of me!
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Canada"
*Sigh* They'll let anyone on the internet these days.
Footnotes:
* To act bad-ass on the internet
** Car enthusiasts who feel that style is more important than substance. IE, it's better to look fast than to be fast.
*** To have your entire IP address banned from a site, not just your username.
**** A collection of interconnected computers from all over the world, allowing vast repositories of information and revolutionary channels of communication to be made open and available to the average person, invented by Al Gore sometime in the early nineties.
posted by Pauly @ 3:15 AM
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James Joyce's _Ulysses_ (1922) is a novel detailing a single day in the life of a man named Leopold Bloom (is it Leopold? I may be wrong). Sort of like Harmony Korine's film "Kids" is a day in the life. Joyce's novel, and I know this is an inadequate explanation, takes place in Dublin (Joyce was Irish and wrote about Dublin mostly). And if you're curious, the novel is loosely based on Homer's classical text _The Odyssey_. The anniversary of the day depicted in _Ulysses_ was today.
Why does this matter? Why do the literary equivalents of Trekkies care? Because Joyce's novel is considered a modernist MASTERPIECE (whatever that means).
Modernist because, for one, it purportedly breaks from -- as in was revolutionary and innovative compared to -- the traditional narrative technique/storytelling that came before it: "stream of consciousness" (or as Dave and I learned it from one very absentminded Prof. Y. Lindeman, 'S.O.C.') is a style that primarily seeks to reflect human thought process in real time, the real way the brain operates. So, according to the S.O.C. style of narrativisitic technique, the human mind -- and bear in mind the influence of Freud, the first World War, the rise of cities where individuals no longer felt in control of anything except for their own mind, and a general zeitgeist of literary experimentation -- was quite literally a stream of mental associations, a continuous and flowing succession of memories and associations. To put it simply, Joyce thought he was putting on paper how the real minds of first-person narrators worked -- how our brains really operated and how we experience the world.
For example, Ulysees, again purportedly, didn't approach narrative the way past authors did. The 19th-century might have seen a line like, "Paul thought, 'how beautiful these flowers really are!'" Instead, Joyce came up with, "These flowers are beautiful. Marigolds remind me of the Dublin Botanical Garderns the place where I first saw my mother frown, frowning is bad, frowning never resulted in any happiness, I first knew real happiness from a plate of beans at that pub on Main Street by the way the owner of that pub had a big mole on his neck..." According to Joyce and his numerous subscribers, this is the way the human mind works.
Still, for high modernism, I still recommend turning to Virgina Woolf, for instance, _To the Lighthouse_ and Mrs. Dalloway_. She is a good sample of S.O.C., but in moderation, not entirely academicized, and gracefully performed. Oh yeah, and a much better writer.
That's that, the best explanation I can muster at this point (hopefully I'll get better at this). Now, totally baffled by your stories of onlife turf wars, unfamiliar with almost all of these intentional spelling errors (of the posters), and feeling Really Really Old, I'm going to refill my pipe, put on my cardigan and slippers, and watch the fireplace. By 8 a.m. I should be dead.
Thanks for the explanation Yohei. I tend to shy away from anything literary, so I don't know about such things.
And as far as the spelling goes, you can only imagine the epic that was trying to spellcheck this post.
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