tOfficial Night Shift Thread

[ladyrockess]

Tell your body to deal.

And tell your thesis adviser to step off while you're at it. :p

I'm inches from asking him to write it for me

 

[Darkstone42]

I'm inches from asking him to write it for me

Seriously, if my adviser was messing with me like that, I would probably just lose it on him one day.

 

[ladyrockess]

Seriously, if my adviser was messing with me like that, I would probably just lose it on him one day.

I'm just...I thought I was so close...and I'm so not...it's killing me...I meant to have this proposal done in SEPTEMBER and I just keep deleting what I write because it looks horrid...I don't know if I can write my whole thesis by February but I HAVE to...I want to throw up when I think about it

 

[TheRobotDevil]

I feel terrible...I think my body is rebelling against the physical and mental stress I'm putting it under

Sounds like you need to convert to a usc trojans fan

 

[Darkstone42]

I'm just...I thought I was so close...and I'm so not...it's killing me...I meant to have this proposal done in SEPTEMBER and I just keep deleting what I write because it looks horrid...I don't know if I can write my whole thesis by February but I HAVE to...I want to throw up when I think about it

What's his problem with it? The way you're wording it or the proposal itself?

 

[ladyrockess]

What's his problem with it? The way you're wording it or the proposal itself?

The wording and my "grasp of the theory".

 

[Darkstone42]

The wording and my "grasp of the theory".

Well, what's the theory?

 

[HTM_Crim_Crush]

Hey htm aside from the ice storm and power loss last night all is well.got to see power lines on fire kiffin is a dope but I didn't get to see the game how have you been?

Oh yeah, you've had ice. UGH! I didn't get to see the game either, but it certainly was nice to sit back, chill while everyone else sweated...and just simply enjoy some good football. (not an easy feat for me)

Been quite well, just super busy. Thanks for asking! Keep a fire burning!

@ Rockess. Well deserved. And plz excuse the typo, although clearly you knew I meant 'nice'. I seriously have to get my lens checked...I swear they gave me the wrong prescription. Grrr. Also, I got the higheset end of frames and just noticed one of the stones are missing. "expletives Dbl grrrrrrr......

 

[ForkEmBucky]

I like turtles

 

[Darkstone42]

I like turtles

 

[Darkstone42]

Furthermore, roasted pumpkin seeds are delicious.

 

[ladyrockess]

Well, what's the theory?

I'm examining the stylistic characteristics of temper in shell-tempered ceramics from the late prehistoric Mississippian era.

I'm trying to determine whether or not the stylistic characteristics show slow and random change over time in the manner of neutral genetic mutations as each new generation of potter unconsciously makes minute changes their manner of processing the shell temper - which should result in stylistic change of the pieces.

I'm postulating that each potter has a certain way of doing things - once you learn to process shell to make it into ceramic temper, you're probably going to do it the same way your whole life unless you find a new way of doing it that results in a functional advantage, which is why I'm avoiding as many functional characteristics as possible.

So basically the idea is that each potter is a single "meme" of genetic information that expresses behaviorally in the production of certain slow-changing stylistic characteristics of shell temper that perhaps, one day we can trace and map the same way we currently map the stylistic traits of ceramic decoration.

 

[TheRobotDevil]

Shit its after 12 its officially Halloween and my anniversary better go spend some time with the wife night all and drop by more htm we miss ya

 

[ladyrockess]

@ Rockess. Well deserved. And plz excuse the typo, although clearly you knew I meant 'nice'. I seriously have to get my lens checked...I swear they gave me the wrong prescription. Grrr. Also, I got the higheset end of frames and just noticed one of the stones are missing. "expletives Dbl grrrrrrr......

I just got new glasses this summer, and I was really reluctant to get these frames because they have stones in them, but they were really the only halfway decent ones that weren't $700...oh well!

 

[Darkstone42]

I'm examining the stylistic characteristics of temper in shell-tempered ceramics from the late prehistoric Mississippian era.

I'm trying to determine whether or not the stylistic characteristics show slow and random change over time in the manner of neutral genetic mutations as each new generation of potter unconsciously makes minute changes their manner of processing the shell temper - which should result in stylistic change of the pieces.

I'm postulating that each potter has a certain way of doing things - once you learn to process shell to make it into ceramic temper, you're probably going to do it the same way your whole life unless you find a new way of doing it that results in a functional advantage, which is why I'm avoiding as many functional characteristics as possible.

So basically the idea is that each potter is a single "meme" of genetic information that expresses behaviorally in the production of certain slow-changing stylistic characteristics of shell temper that perhaps, one day we can trace and map the same way we currently map the stylistic traits of ceramic decoration.

Is this like some sort of historical sociology/psychology study? It seems to me that you're trying to study how people operated through what they left behind, so to speak, which is pretty awesome.

Also, how are you defining functional? I could see that getting difficult at points to discern.

 

[Darkstone42]

Shit its after 12 its officially Halloween and my anniversary better go spend some time with the wife night all and drop by more htm we miss ya

Happy anniversary, clarky. Goodnight!

 

[TheRobotDevil]

Dadburn prehistoric Mississippi potheads

 

[Darkstone42]

Furthermore, this:

 

[ladyrockess]

Is this like some sort of historical sociology/psychology study? It seems to me that you're trying to study how people operated through what they left behind, so to speak, which is pretty awesome.

Also, how are you defining functional? I could see that getting difficult at points to discern.

Nope, pure archaeology. The problem with archaeology is that we only have the trash (literally in most cases) they left behind so we have to determine behavior in a VERY limited and constrained construction, but a lot of archaeologists DON'T limit themselves correctly and use junk science and make the most appalling reaches from their results. It's really a messy discipline right now, and I'm fundamentally part of the movement for a pure-science approach with actual theory involved. A lot of people don't like us because we are 100% opposed what my professor calls "fun stories".

Not to mention we'll find a certain type/style of pottery in a particular age-range of deposits, and name is "SportsHoopla" and then people will start referring to the people who made the pottery the "Hooplans" and making all sorts of assumptions about who they were and what they did when it could have been a large and diverse number of cultures who just happened to have similar pottery OR all traded for pottery from the one group or something like that.

It's really a mess.

Which is why we have to be SO careful about what conclusions we draw from what we find. Which is why I'm freaking out about my thesis

 

[HTM_Crim_Crush]

Shit its after 12 its officially Halloween and my anniversary better go spend some time with the wife night all and drop by more htm we miss ya

Sure thing, miss you guys too! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!