As you might have guessed, it is the time of year that many of us are bogged down by schoolwork, so while the old SF.c is not exactly dead, it is quieter than we would like to see it. If you cast your mind back, even just a little, you’ll also find this means it’s time for strange fluff.
As happens sometimes your genial host Pontifus and I were chatting just a while ago. Here’s what happened.
Cuchlann:
And apparently, according to [name redacted], I am probably “one of those students who are great but may not look like it on paper.”
O_oPontifus:
hahaha, i feel like that’s my problem
maybe because i don’t put a lot of effort into things i think are fundamentally pointless…like gre testsCuchlann:
Well, I did pretty well on my GRE. I think it has more to do with my weird ideas.
Which means you may very well be in the same boat. We both share a lot of ideas on the dissemination of theory, the study of lit., and so on.Pontifus:
true
fuck
lolCuchlann:
We’ll just build up the SF.c empire slowly, until you can found your own digital university.Pontifus:
yeah, or just make universities obsoleteCuchlann:
I’ll be dean of twitter messages.Pontifus:
and establish a learning commune sort of thingCuchlann:
You have to have an eye toward the money. We’ll need to eat.Pontifus:
hmm
ghostlightning can do thatCuchlann:
Yes.
Good call.
Owen is our first satellite campus.Pontifus:
lelangir will be too busy being the internet, and kaiser will be too busy being…swedish, i guess
yeah, owen handles study abroadCuchlann:
Yes, he will likely be busy being Swedish. Haha.Pontifus:
He does that a lot, it seems, lol
So clearly you should send in your student application now, to the first digital weeaboo university, SF.c!
(Note: Not actually a call for submissions of any kind; carry on)
lol, dean of twitters, EI LYK
You know, I can totally see lelangir saying, “ORE WA INTERNET DA!”
Lol
‘A University is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students’
-John Ciardi
‘A Internet University is what a University becomes when the students lose interest in the faculty’
-Ubiquitial
But I can see it happening. (Insert Stream of Incessant Weeaboo ‘w’s)
A lot of these fools we’ll be ‘educating’ don’t even pay for the anime they watch. We’ll start off being in the red and file bankruptcy from there.
Before you know it, Pontifus will be out in the streets looking like a hobo OH SHI—
So U don’t watch fansubs? Or any form of pirated anime at all?
Oh no. I’m like most, watching pirated fansubs exclusively. What I don’t spend on anime I spend on original related merchendise. Where I’m from there’s not a lot of orig. DVDs, but you can buy gunpla at almost any department store.
true, and the producers make more money from DVD’s and Merchandise than the anime itself
So…do you guyz use common app?
Do this on an airship.
Noted! We’ll go further. I think that after Island 1 of Macross Frontier crashed on the Vajra homeworld and with the real estate market being the way it is, Pontifus can snap up the whole thing in exchange for a fraction of his Aria pr0n.
You clearly underestimate the power of the pr0n. In his heart much fear is, and much anger. And where there is anger, there is pr0n.
This is not helping our Google search term statistics, I’m sure.
Who knows what kind of applicants we’ll end up with now.
Sadly, lolikitsune confiscated and burned it all T-T
I’m sure we have some other bargaining chips, though. And how much can a wrecked fraction of a colonization fleet cost, anyway? If nothing else, we can just buy a cheap residential module and latch on to some legit ship, like Basara’s neighborhood in 7.
Exactly the kind of applicants you would have had before, if I’m not much mistaken. :P
And by ‘this’ we mean the administration of education in its loftiest (NICE PUN) form, and not anything pr0nographic. Unless we, the board of trustees approve Pontifus’ project of setting up a college of hentai.
Fellow members of the board, WHAT SAY YOU?
I already lectured on tentacle pr0n. ^_^
Impressive. I nominate Cuchlann to be the freaking dean of this college.
I love how this post has gotten more comments than many a more legit analysis. It’s evidence of the pure, unadulterated genius of this idea.
that’s how it usually is – just look at the post before this one ;)
Frustrating as hell. I put in ridiculous amounts of work in some of my posts, and these are the ones that seldom raise the kind of discussion I enjoy.
There has to be some kind of course on dealing with the ignominy of obscureness.
There is. I teach it. The first exam, day one: find the classroom armed with only your wits & a copy of Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Dread (which is also the first textbook).
Uhhh… the one where he goes ‘existence is humiliated’?
Kind of. It has more to do with the anxiety of having the freedom to choose & of bearing the responsibility of that choice, tho he does talk about (original) sin quite a bit.
He’s my kind of guy. ^_~ Though my familiarity is about those who succeeded him (loosely): Sartre (less about metaphysics, more on his rhetoric on freedom) and Camus <3 <3 <3