>> ^vairetube:
Well, your assertion is... that a third-worlder, or member of a peripheral, exploited nation, is Non-White... The only way you could feign ignorance is if this was a printed story with no picture or names.

Racial slur? What are you on about? -Pprt



I fail to comprehend how saying someone is from the "Third World" is a racial slur. What's the nomenclature these days? Underdeveloped nation? No, sorry, that was 20 years ago. Today it's "developing nation".

Well, your assertion is... that a third-worlder, or member of a peripheral, exploited nation, is Non-White... The only way you could feign ignorance is if this was a printed story with no picture or names.


Racial slur? What are you on about? -Pprt

>> ^RedSky:
Interesting, but they get so hung up peripheral arguments and arguing purely over definitions that it becomes unbearable. I mean how difficult could it be to grasp that Hitchens believes on the weight of evidence there is an absence of a supernatural realm and claims certainty when of course he can never know that to an absolute degree?


The term "supernatural" is extremely fluid. Any discussion on the topic has to begin with what one means by the term. This is hardly a peripheral issue at all. It is fundamental.

Interesting, but they get so hung up peripheral arguments and arguing purely over definitions that it becomes unbearable. I mean how difficult could it be to grasp that Hitchens believes on the weight of evidence there is an absence of a supernatural realm and claims certainty when of course he can never know that to an absolute degree?

Hilarious article concerning the BSG finale from the Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_depressed_distant_since?utm_source=a-section

"I'm a little concerned," first lady Michelle Obama was overheard saying at a fundraising event Tuesday. "When Firefly was canceled, he walked around like a zombie for a week, and Serenity was the only thing that snapped him out of it. Last night he said he felt like he had just discovered David Axelrod was one of the Final Five, whatever that means."

"When we spoke last month, he said season three was his least favorite because some of the episodes with Helo and the Sagittarons—and pretty much anything that involved Cally—were boring and didn't advance the plot," Afghan president Hamid Karzai said. "But I told him that when you watch it all on DVD, and you don't have to wait a whole week for a new show, those peripheral episodes actually add new color to the already established world."

>> ^rychan:
I had the same thoughts as jasonyc, and watching it again I still do. I think he was standing dangerously close to the tracks -- his toes were pretty much on the rail. He only looked to the right and stepped back when the truck came into his peripheral vision.


I don't believe he stepped back because the truck entered his vision. I think what happened is when the conductor slammed on the brakes that sound made him turn.

I had the same thoughts as jasonyc, and watching it again I still do. I think he was standing dangerously close to the tracks -- his toes were pretty much on the rail. He only looked to the right and stepped back when the truck came into his peripheral vision. I'm confused as to why he was standing there so deliberately. I'm guessing the train was completely silent because it appears (again I'm confused) that this was the rear of a train going in reverse -- no locomotive to make noise.

Anyway, if the truck caused him to notice the train and step back, then the truck probably did save his life. If he kept standing where he was and the train kept coming he'd have been hit hard and not just knocked over.

Excellent bill, enjoy! I've been a 'peripheral' fan of KOL for a number of years, glad they're getting some decent mainstream attention lately.

In reply to this comment by blahpook:
They're opening here in VA for Kings of Leon! Looks to be a good show.


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Sick sift, from a great album! Saw them last fall in Toronto, excellent time had by all.

^ I found Quake 2 multiplayer to be a lot faster than the original Quake multiplayer. I played so much Quake 2 deathmatch in the 2nd semester of my 2nd year at university that I still get the urge to run out of the room when I see a green light in my peripheral vision.

Shadowrun was pretty much the only FPS game to allow console players and PC players to compete directly. It didn't work out that well because the developers chose to reduce the accuracy and speed of the mouse in order to even the playing field. That was not theonly problem with the game but it made me not bother to try it.

I'll add my 2 bits.

I get certain visual problems before a migraine. It begins with what i would liken to tunnel vision, where i'm focusing very hard on the "centre" of my sight, if you will, and the edges become milky almost. I wouldn't say i lose my sight in those areas, but i "don't see" them. Then, distances start to morph, and i translate the distance between my head and my book/monitor/desk/hand as both very small and HUGE at the same time. Almost as though i'm considering it on a relative level (relative to the size of my body) and also on a molecular level, where the distance is astronomical. Then, having recognised this, the distance begins to change in front of my eyes, almost like zooming in and out on a camera very quickly. It's nauseating, and it gives me a panic attack, it's a really scary sensation. Other times i'll get blue sparks occuring all around the peripheral vision area, they're nothing special really, the better of the 2.

Then i get a terrible, terrible headache that lasts for at least half a day. Often it feels like such a great pressure in my head that i think it'll explode. Usually it only goes if i sleep. I'm incapable of doing anything while i have that headache, it's debilitating. It pulses in a sense, become more painful for a while and then less painful for a while. I need utter darkness, including any LED's in the room, literally every source of light has to be extinguished. Marijuana has helped, and when i've been drunk i've thought that i had a migraine, but it wasn't feeling anywhere near as bad as a migraine (and so is it? perhaps not).

During the "aura"(?) phase with the visual hallucinations and for a few days after the headache part, i find it hard to speak. I know i can say something if i want to, but when i try to speak i stutter a lot, and it takes me a while to say what i want to say, and i often feel distanced from things.

I've never had one at work or at university, i dread to think what i'd say/do if i had one. It's something i feel almost guilty about because i feel that if you've never had one you'd never accept/understand just how much it hurts. "Boss, i've got a migraine." - "Yeah, i've got a headache too, get back to work."

I'm actually feeling my hackles rise explaining it and remembering the feeling. I don't get any other the other stuff though.

I never knew about medication for migraines, i thought it'd just be painkillers. Gonna speak to my doc thanks to mintbbb's initial post.

My auras are very strange. Sometimes I get electrical patters, sometimes not.

However, I always get blind spots. Imagine looking directly at someone's face and not being able to see their left eye. It isn't obstructed, nor is there a "hole" in my vision. It simply looks like there is skin with no features there. The blind spot is relative to my center of vision, so if I look directly at their eye it will reappear, but their ear will disappear (for example). Sometimes I will lose all peripheral vision, but the blind spots only seem to affect detail... all the color is still there.

Migraine pain is nothing like a normal headache for me. It is a very intense, specific, sharp pain... like a spike being jammed into my brain. I cannot function in that state... I just lay down and void out all of my thoughts (any thought or stimulus causes more pain). Also, imagine full-body nausea... it's a terrible feeling. It usually subsides after about 6 hours.

Edit: I have not been able to find any cause for my migraines. My mother, however, knows that hers can be set off by cinnamon of all things.

It's OK. It needs more teevee screens, however. Otherwise you might be able to look somewhere without one in your peripheral vision.

computer interaction without peripheral devices or touch screens have tons of applications.... using an ATM, reading digital books/papers, surgeons/engineers interacting with digital tools in aseptic/clean rooms... pretty rad stuff.

from wiki:

Leprosy (from the Greek lepid, meaning scales on a fish), or Hansen's disease, is a chronic infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae.[1] Leprosy is primarily a granulomatous disease of the peripheral nerves and mucosa of the upper respiratory tract; skin lesions are the primary external symptom.

>> ^karkarlee:
Pretty interesting. Should be tagged with LONG, though. ( length 10:12 )



Definitely NOT long. It's under 2 minutes.