The happy thread !!

[Spock]

Originally Posted by Lotesse

I'm happy that I am not dead. (please disregard cynicism, this too shall pass )

Mork From Ork has said: "Reality, what a concept". Think on it.

You may not be able to handle it right now.

[Linaewen]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

How is it possible NOT to be aware of it?

It's possible if you don't know me well and/or you don't know me in RL. Especially nowadays with Lai and all that gone so I rarely post in the 'Official Languages Thread' anymore, niet waar?

OH! Happy: I found this lovely book of The World's Greatest Art and it has, I think, one painting each for a whole lot of art masters. Yayyyy. It's only $20 so I'm going to get it tomorrow. It even has Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' which I have sentimental attachment to because I'm studying the text with the same name now. Can't wait till exams are over and then I can become an art freak too. I hate talking to artsy people with my limited knowledge of art...I'd love to talk with them more but I can't.
Happy: just had a really good day today, if tiring at about 8 pm...*Brain shuts down*

[Lotesse]

Ciao, Linaewen! Welcome 2 the wonderful world of art... once you enter this world, it enters you, and you will never be able to live the same way without art again. I keep meaning to start an Art Appreciation thread, here... one of these days. Girl With a Pearl Earring was so sublime, it has even inspired a film. That movie (starring Scarlett Johanssen) was the bomb, BTW. I'm sure you know that already!!

I am ecstatic today, because I realised that I can still register at the last minute for a creative writing class at UCLA, which starts next week. Happyhappyhappy!! Well, maybe I shouldn't count chickens, but still...

[Linaewen]

Originally Posted by Lotesse

Ciao, Linaewen! Welcome 2 the wonderful world of art... once you enter this world, it enters you, and you will never be able to live the same way without art again. I keep meaning to start an Art Appreciation thread, here... one of these days. Girl With a Pearl Earring was so sublime, it has even inspired a film. That movie (starring Scarlett Johanssen) was the bomb, BTW. I'm sure you know that already!!

Actually, the painting inspired a book with the same name by Tracy Chevalier, which was then made into a film. I haven't watched the film because I've heard it's not true to the book and I don't want to get mixed up. Plus I have a tendency to really hate movies when they change around the original (Apparently Vermeer loves her or something in the movie?!)
I have experienced a little bit in the art world. I went to see the Dutch Masters at the National Gallery of Victoria and I got to see "The Love Letter" by Vermeer. The curator explained so many details about the paintings that I was blown away. That's why I want to delve more into the art world- because there's all this stuff you can miss unless your eye is directed towards it (like literature.)
Oh, and you should start that thread!!!!

I am ecstatic today, because I realised that I can still register at the last minute for a creative writing class at UCLA, which starts next week. Happyhappyhappy!! Well, maybe I shouldn't count chickens, but still...

Sounds great! Enjoy it, lucky girl.

[Lotesse]

Thank you, Linaewen; I shall, I hope!!

[trolls' bane]

Anti-happy (since I'm too lazy to find the venting thread ): All of the good players on my Volleyball team in PE were not there or moved.

Happy: George Carlin is funny!

[Lotesse]

No red frownies allowed here - what is WRONG with you?! Get off your lazy butt and find the venting thread; I am TRYing to get happy here dammit.

[Butterbeer]

no frownies allowed: that includes Sir doc grey wolf's (TM), happy red-frownies... even if they are having a sound of music momment ...

mmm you think eee-or is grumpy? mmmm... call that grumpy? ...

well any, whatever ... mumble mumble .. and against my better (worse?) judgment:

I am ecstatic today, because I realised that I can still register at the last minute for a creative writing class at UCLA, which starts next week. Happyhappyhappy!! Well, maybe I shouldn't count chickens, but still...

I do hope you get onto the course: because i am sure you will enjoy it and you have obviously been very keen for some time to get back to education and learning...

go get off your ass and go register NOW! - before the chickens get to watch the 'great escape' ...

[Andúril]

I guess I'm happy because I got a good deal on a camera and I'm motivated to create art with it.

[Lotesse]

Originally Posted by Butterbeer

no frownies allowed: that includes Sir doc grey wolf's (TM), happy red-frownies... even if they are having a sound of music momment ...

mmm you think eee-or is grumpy? mmmm... call that grumpy? ...

well any, whatever ... mumble mumble .. and against my better (worse?) judgment:



I do hope you get onto the course: because i am sure you will enjoy it and you have obviously been very keen for some time to get back to education and learning...

go get off your ass and go register NOW! - before the chickens get to watch the 'great escape' ...

How about don't tell me what to do? How about don't stick your little nose in when it concerns me and trolls' bane having fun NOT with you, with each other? How about that? Hey, here's somethung 4 U, Butterbeer...

[Spock]

You don't own me,
I'm not just one of your pretty toys.
You don't own me,

You don't own me,
Don't try to change me in any way.
You don't own me,
.........you get the idea

RESPECT as Aretha said is owed to all.

[littleadanel]

*leans back in chair* happy day! Nice, warm autumn day... today only one boring class out of the three... and finally I bought the dictionaries I wanted to. Yes, a happy day.

[Tree Dweller]

Minimal boring classes are always a good thing, Littleadanel!

It stoppped raining here and it is actually supposed to get cooler this week! Woooooohooooooooooooooooo

[Nerdanel]

I was on a really interesting lecture yesterday. Richard Dawkins, a professor from the University of Oxford, talked about 'Is evolution predictable?'. It was popular science, but somehow it was nice to hear it that way too, and not only with technical terminology. The lecture was so popular, they had to put some of us in another room, to watch it via video connection..

[Rían]

Sounds interesting!
So what's his answer? (is it predictable?)


happy - both my husband and I were sick on Saturday, and we were lying in bed feeling miserable, and my oldest son (15) came in with lunch on a tray for us, all on his own initiative! Chicken soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.

[Spock]

How can it be predictable when it takes eons? Illogical.

[Nerdanel]

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

Sounds interesting!
So what's his answer? (is it predictable?)


happy - both my husband and I were sick on Saturday, and we were lying in bed feeling miserable, and my oldest son (15) came in with lunch on a tray for us, all on his own initiative! Chicken soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.

He approached the question by discussing the separate evolutions of animals of big, isolated islands/continents (like Madagaskar, Australia and Africa). His guess, after considering the differences and similarities between the species in question, was that it might be predictable in the big picture, but not on the species-level.
He didn't only approach it from a geographical level though. As an example, he said that eyes have evolved separately about 40 times, so if evolution started all over again (in this same world), it'd be probable for the eye to evolve.

At first, the question might sound stupid, since evolution doesn't have a direction, but there might be an idea behind it (the question, that is).. Since the alternatives aren't infinite, the probability that quite similar species evolve entirely separately, is present.

[Lotesse]

Originally Posted by Nerdanel

I was on a really interesting lecture yesterday. Richard Dawkins, a professor from the University of Oxford, talked about 'Is evolution predictable?'. It was popular science, but somehow it was nice to hear it that way too, and not only with technical terminology. The lecture was so popular, they had to put some of us in another room, to watch it via video connection..

I would LOVE to have been able to attend this lecture.

[Nerdanel]

it was really interesting.. everyone should've come. he didn't make it complicated at all - actually he simplified it quite a lot. popular science.

[trolls' bane]

Originally Posted by Nerdanel

He approached the question by discussing the separate evolutions of animals of big, isolated islands/continents (like Madagaskar, Australia and Africa). His guess, after considering the differences and similarities between the species in question, was that it might be predictable in the big picture, but not on the species-level.
He didn't only approach it from a geographical level though. As an example, he said that eyes have evolved separately about 40 times, so if evolution started all over again (in this same world), it'd be probable for the eye to evolve.

At first, the question might sound stupid, since evolution doesn't have a direction, but there might be an idea behind it (the question, that is).. Since the alternatives aren't infinite, the probability that quite similar species evolve entirely separately, is present.

Um, what exactly does your quote have to do with what you said?