asciilifeform: we mostly have a broken motorbike and making 'zoom, zoom' sounds
asciilifeform: this is not a defense of the 'old model', but merely pointing out that 1) it is dead, yes 2) we have no replacement for it, not even in the sense that a horse can replace a broken-down motorcycle
asciilifeform: he just wanted to borrow one piddling little torsion balance, aha.
asciilifeform: sorta reminds me of how i, as a boy, saw a brass band, and asked my father why they don't simply connect a compressor to the tuba and avoid the strain. and answered 'from this, just one step to dispensing with the tubist entirely'. and hence just the same here, from this just one small step to asking 'why even do this university thing'
asciilifeform: convo with pet: 'her: why have you not opened mircea_popescu's champagne? me: it is for victory. her: and if you are defeated: me: enemy can drink it then'
asciilifeform: (re: anatomical variations and consequences thereof. based on thousands of hours of 'wild' pr0n from various nations)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: believe or not, i once read a (ru) ph.d. dissertation on this subject.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only suspected from the geometry. it's more or less exactly like i imagined it would look like.
asciilifeform: (by some accounts, only one side had 'tasty' cable insulation. but -which- side - varies)
asciilifeform: like the famous rats of stalingrad, which chewed through delicious electrical cables, taking out tank turret rotators
asciilifeform: every car owner knows of animals 'preyed on' by the machines, but not always about the... revenge. there are beasts here, for instance (iirc groundhogs) which will chew through brake lines and coolant hoses
asciilifeform: ^ this is a known problem in this part of the world. once there was even a colony infesting side mirror of my brother's car. it was actually nifty, he could pull the mirror adjustment joystick and release swarm at passing cyclists
asciilifeform: no idea what others. but the wasps are audible.
asciilifeform: in other news, there are giant wasps living in one of my walls.
