It may be sexist, it maybe patronizing, but this lady is so damn CUTE

[Trembling Eagle]

Natural Language Processing?  That is the field in which I work. What would you like to know, Trembling Eagle?

no, I was thinking of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

From the very little I know of it, it's nonsense.

It is nonsense.

 This jackass, meathead salesman at my office was going on to me about Neuro-Linguistic Programming the other day (incorrectly explaining it, it goes without saying). It's clear that he attributes way too much of his success in his current position to his perceived skill at Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and not nearly enough to the fact that his dad is tight with the CEO of the company by an amazing coincidence. He's like a Wurster cahracter made flesh.

If you're going to toss NLP in the rubbish bin I guess you'll have to toss in the rest of social psychology.
The hell with Chomsky too I guess.

Here's a good summary (in my opinion) of the controversy over NLP by someone who feels it is bunk. I read this guy regularly; he has a strong skeptical point of view regarding pseudoscience and woo. He's a neurologist at Yale and runs the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast.

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=228

I first came across the term NLP when I heard about Derren Brown, the English mentalist who implied for a long time that he used the techniques in many of his tricks (he's since backed off, partially because NLP is so controversial and partially because it became clear he could achieve many of the same affects through traditional magic).

The guy in that article is attacking NLP as a therapeutic discipline, which is fine, my understanding of it is more of observational modeling of human behavior. The map can never be the territory as they say in NLP, if there are better more accurate models being developed let's have them.   

[Omar]

My Gal.

[Trembling Eagle]

Now THIS I've d/l and about to listen to ironically


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgdlhe0e73w[/youtube]

[John Junk 2.0]

That song is ironic.  You'd be listening unironically to an ironic song, I says.

[Trembling Eagle]

That song is ironic.  You'd be listening unironically to an ironic song, I says.

I stand corrected

[Bryan]

Two times today I've seen this headline on the NY Times website:
"Pain Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter"

and read it as
"Palin Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter"

(shudder)

[Fido]

That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.

[Trembling Eagle]

That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.

I disagree, I HATE her politics everything else me like-y.

[John Junk 2.0]

That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.

I disagree, I HATE her politics everything else me like-y.

so gross.

[Trembling Eagle]

That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.

I disagree, I HATE her politics everything else me like-y.

so gross.

what?? don't judge me

[Regular Joe]

That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.

And that is her heavily trained PR voice! I personally am eating up how much she trembles when she isn't on stage, now that she finally is answering a few select questions from the press. It makes me nearly unable to wait for the VP debate, and not just for the reasons of finding Joe Biden to be one of those hapless people who entertain me with their lack of tact or conversational foresight.

[erika]

That woman's voice is more grating than fingernails on a chalkboard, it's more like a voice that could crack glass.

I disagree, I HATE her politics everything else me like-y.

so gross.

what?? don't judge me

But that's what the internet is for, isn't it?

(you don't judge me I judge you)

[Denim Gremlin]

I think trembling eagle is my kevin smith

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Two times today I've seen this headline on the NY Times website:
"Pain Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter"

and read it as
"Palin Spreads as Credit Vise Grows Tighter"

(shudder)

Me too, me too!  I didn't think it through enough to get to the gross part, though.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I think trembling eagle is my kevin smith

Trembling Eagle is my Raad_Man.