To Coin a Term, “Allobiology”

I’ve had this loose concept of what my primary intellectual interests were since I was a kid: weird, ancient or speculative organisms.

I never bothered to articulate a definition for this loose association of tangentially connected subjects, but recently a term that seemed fitting presented itself to me. And so, here is…

Allobiology
Allobiology is an informal umbrella term for the study of ancient, strange, extraterrestrial, or fictional organisms. So basically, paleontology, astrobiology, weird biological trivia and the animals, aliens, and monsters from works of fiction.

The etymology is just a combination of the Greek prefix “Allos,” meaning “different” or “other” and “biology,” the study of living things.

I think “allobiology” does the idea justice.

Gloating

“Gloating to the apathetic isn’t as much fun as you thought it would be, is it?”

Abyssal’s Laws of Sex

Abyssal’s First Law of Sex
If a fetish can be conceived of, somebody has it.

Abyssal’s Second Law of Sex
People will fuck. If they can’t find a willing, compatible mate, they will find an unwilling or incompatible one (e.g. rape victim, family member, same sex individual, child, animal, etc.). If they cannot find an unwilling or incompatible mate they will create one by finding creative uses for inanimate objects.

Abyssal’s Third Law of Sex
Every image on the internet has been masturbated to at least once. Rare exceptions exist, including images online for only an extremely brief period, but since some individual images have been masturbated to so many times, the ratio of masturbation sessions per image still remains extremely high.

Chewtoy

“I’m tired of being God’s chewtoy.”

To Coin a Term, “the Escalator Treatment”

The Escalator Treatment
To “give someone the escalator treatment” is to participate in a dishonest debating strategy wherein the “escalator” floods the debate with fallacious, dishonest, or blatantly false claims faster than his or her opponent can refute them.

No matter how skilled or fast the opponent is, it will take more time and energy to deal with the lies than it will for the escalator to bring them to the table. Thus, the escalator strategy can be a nearly surefire way to beat an opponent who is more competent than yourself.

Since progress against the rising flood of falsehoods quickly becomes impossible the victim is essentially “running up the down escalator.” Hence, the name.

Easy to Misunderstand

“It’s easy to misunderstand someone else’s position if you’re too ignorant to grasp it, too closed minded to investigate it, and too self-absorbed to care.”

Lacking Respect

“I lack respect for people that lack ambition.”

Thought of the Day #2: “God of the Gaps”

“God of the gaps is dead!”

Thought of the Day #1: “Every Molecule”

“Every molecule is a miracle.”

Abyssal’s Law of Faith

Abyssal’s Law of Faith:
“A person’s similarity to Jesus Christ is inversly proportional to the amount of time they spend in church worshipping Jesus Christ.”

Abyssal’s First Law of Rhetoric

Abyssal’s First Law of Rhetoric:
“The author of any passage of text containing more than three successive sentences terminating in exclamation marks is either desperate for attention or emotionally unstable.”

In Honor of World Autism Awareness Day

I am posting my results for an Asperger’s Syndrome screening test:

Results

Attempt #1: September 2007
Asperger’s Score: 152 of 200
Neurotypical Score: 42 of 200

Attempt #2: October 2007
Asperger’s Score: 165 of 200
Neurotypical Score: 34 of 200

Attempt #3: March 2008
Asperger’s Score: 151 of 200
Neurotypical Score: 50 of 200

A pie chart representing the results I got today (the lowest of all three takes).

All I have to say is “!?”

Make of this what you will. It would explain the synesthesia and the fact that I’m still obsessed with dinosaurs after 16+ years, I guess.

P.S. I was going to end that last sentence with an emoticon, but ironically couldn’t decide which one would be apropriate! At first I was thinking “<_<” then “:/” and then “;)”. That’s when I gave up. Oh well, I thought it was amusing given the context of an Asperger’s related post.

10 Things That Are Overrated

Rocky Road Ice Cream

M*A*S*H

Fig Newtons

Guitars

King of the Hill

Nascar

The NFL

Professional Wrestling

Ron Paul

Neo-Paganism

Odd Synesthetic Experience

Speaking of my aberrant psychology, this afternoon when I was petting my dog (awww…) I had an odd synesthetic experience. When I did a certain motion with my fingers I perceived a noise. I’ve never had a tactile –> sound experience like that before. I only remember having grapheme –> color and timbre –> color before this. That was an odd thing.

I’m Not a Girl, Retards!

Got some interesting traffic today. <_<

Seriously, wtf is up with that?