whynot: etc: oh deer (ROARRR)
Las ([personal profile] whynot) wrote2009-02-23 02:53 pm

pollversation!

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

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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)

[identity profile] zempasuchil.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] twoskeletons.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
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.