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[whynot]

[Poll #1354270]
ETA: This is actually a pretty accurate depiction of what I look like in everyday life. (Courtesy of not_sally's awesome link.)

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[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

I think I answered "stick with sociology" but I should qualify that with: sociologists, too, have to use statistics, like really work with them, so you couldn't really escape them.

also in looking for cool links I realized I have a lot of cool ones - did you know that the entire text of the best Les Miserables translation (well, in this humble non-Francophone's opinion) by Charles Wilbour is online here? As far as I can tell it's whole. And if so, don't print it, because it is at least 1000 pages long.

here is a forum where they discuss alternate history: http://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/topics?pli=1

and here is a fun time with automatic translator programs: http://tashian.com/multibabel/

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

LE SIGH. You're right. It's why I went into this quant program in the first place, 'cos I knew I couldn't get by on ethnography alone :(. I mean, I could, but maybe not well, so I wanted to be well-rounded. WELL ALL I AM IS CONFUSED. It's not like sociology is without its generalizing theories either.

That second link. Have you read "The Years of Rice and Salt", or something? It's a historical novel AU about what would have happened if the plague killed off more of Europe than it did, and it's about the Middle Eastern and Far Eastern nations taking over. uhhhh i haven't read it, but i really want to.

A wealth of links! Yay! Here is the best thing to have happened to me today. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dN5H29AB3A)

[zempasuchil.livejournal.com]

That's what academia is - generalizing theories, building them up and tearing them down and discovering that all of life is built on generalizing theories (oh structuralism and categories of knowwwwledge). You can't escape generalities and abstractions!

It sounds like a really neat book. I love AUs like nothing else.

fdsdsfkjlsdfk aaaahhh! this is just! gaius! ew! merlin! arthur! lol lancelot! morgana! and willll! aaaahhhhhh I am speechless! I forgot how very gay this show was!

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

i mean, they edited it SO WELL. is i guess one way of putting it. i've never been into these vids and fake trailers before, but then again i have never been in a TV fandom before.