Since there are Conservatives of every culture, race, age, background, intellect, education, gender, sexuality, religion and philosophy in the world, I have come up with one word to describe those who hate us:
Cosmophobic.
A rare instance where the “phobic” hews to it’s true meaning.
Your reactions?
News:
As some of you know, I am currently learning to 3D model with an eye towards (hopefully) being able one day to make models of sufficient visual quality for the Catman to be able to use them here and in other visual work. Currently, I am learning a free modelling program called Anim8or. it is very powerful and if nothing else it will get me up to speed on how to model in general much in the way that learning to use one word processor teaches you how to do what you want to do in any word processor. Once you have a good ground in doing things with a word processor then learning a new one is – for me at least – merely a matter of learning/figuring outhow to do what I want/need to do in THAT word processor. Right now I’m not only figuring out how to use Anim8or but I am learning valuable lessons in work flow and figuring out how to go about producing the visual model I want. I am learning more efficient ways to do things in order to build a model. One technique I have observed from analyzing models online is to break everthing into many simple shapes and then assemble those simple shapes into a complex visual model. A major hurdle I have right now is making things look “real”.
I have a question up now at the Anim8or Community on just that – making things look “real”. My gut tells me that there is a conceptually simple “trick” (for want of a better word) to doing that. I’m hoping for a combination “Aha!”, flat-forehead moment when I read the answers. I have no doubt that it will require many hours to figure out how to implement the “trick” but I figure that absent that basic understanding I could experiment till the Dems give up and declare Trump the winner and never stumble upon the answer to my question. Here’s hoping.
I have spent a lot of time “imagineering” and have crossed a major conceptual threshold in the over-all design of a modular military and/or hospital camp. 1st off, to ship, everything must fit into or be composed of elements of standard shipping containers. I may have to adjust the dimensions later but for now my shipping modules are 8’high x 8’wide x 24’long. From that I can derive 8′ x 8′ x 8′, 16′ or 24′ hard sided “buildings” and have build modules 40′ wide x 10′ high x 24′ long. Note that 24′ is the maximum length and widths are in increments of 8′. Ceilings/roofs are supported by uprights and could conceivably allow 24′ ceilings. Imagine a surgical module 40′ wide x 10′ high x 24′ long with an 8′ wide corridor running down the middle and 4 operating rooms roughly 16′ wide x 12′ deep. Or an admin module with an open (cubical city) floor plan in a similar 40′ x 10′ x 24′ plan. While the surgical modules would only have connection points (with doors) at front and back (corridor ends) the admin module would have connection points on all 4 sides plus windows and(and skylights?). To keep people from having to step outside to go between modules, there are 3 types of connecting modules. A straight 8′ x 8′ x 24′ “hall” module, a shorter 8′ x 8′ x 16 straight module and a T-shaped connecting modular similar to the 8′ x 8′ x 16′ module but with 4′ extensions on either side in the module to allow connecting straight modules to form hallways between modules. All modules have connections for power units with larger modules also having connections for HVAC units. It ould be simple to design barracks and mess hall modules. It’s all up to the Catman.
What do you think? (besides “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”) 😉
The biggest bar to the appearance of reality in my experience is that few things remain clean without a lot of effort on the part of the owner.
A private jet may be spotless, a commercial jet will have stains, signs of fluid leaks, etc.
Same with tools and such. Making a 3D creation just a bit dirty can be difficult.
Having a bad day, Catman. No 3D modelling for me today. Slept most of the morning. Figure on napping most of the afternoon. Feel like if I’m dying I wish I’d get the hell on with it. That care package in the mail oughta help with the “reality” question some. We’ll see.
Yeaaahhh… Have you been watching the tracking number? This is insane. The “Next Facility” is Jacksonville, FL, and it’s been in transit from (Savannah GA) to Jacksonville FL for ten freaking days now!
Haven’t been following the package’s progress because, so far as I can tell, I never got the tracking number. Would love to have it so I can track the package from this end. (hint, hint) 😉
OR, maybe, rip up the road and plant flowers and various mints. It is THEIR land, after all. No toll road after all. OR, maybe this is a negotiation tactic well within their rights. We’ll see. (This is a case-in-point of why monopolies are in general bad.) But I don’t understand the entitled mindset of the “homeowners” anyway. My grandfather, the whole time my mother and then I were growing up, owned a farm that did not have access to a public road. He maintained a road across a neighbor’s land, by agreement and at his own expense. HE maintained the gates and later installed the cattle guards and maintained THEM. I don’t remember if he actually paid the other guy for the privilege, but it would have been in keeping with their mindset, one I understand. He did NOT insist on some kind of legal “easement” natural right to use someone else’s property.
Bill, literally ANYTHING you use to exercise your brain is good for your mind and staves off Alzheimer’s. You’re NOT wasting your mind, you’re protecting it. (Anyway, I’m more of the ‘a waist is a terrible thing to mind’ set.) AND, you’ve tempted me to check out Anim8or myself. Thanks for the information.
just found another “hidden post”.. (from the 1st..)
again, if you don’t see your post in a timely manner.. lets us know , so we/i can fix it… 🙂
..i love all animals,, but yeah, having a dog that weighs more than you, trying to sit on your lap, is not good.!!
..easement.. first we have to know what type of easement,, then we need to know what type of record of it,. an finally IF there is any other conventual access… IE: IF there is ANY other way in/out (bike path, walk way to bus stop..) then that negates the “land locked” rule.!
Well – since the actual word in Greek, means fear – not as in the colloquial aberration meaning dislike or something stronger . . .
Perhaps they are really afraid of us . . .
Perhaps the word for hate, misos, would be useful . . . becoming cosmomisosists.
Or is their collective opposition to us an the context of antagonistic, itself a good Greek word.
Cosmoantagonist or to reverse to fit the context – antagnocosmos
OK, sorry – wandering to far afield perhaps . .
but in my denomination, conservative clergy are more than occasionally – anathema.
– as in one to be detested or shunned.
I’m no linguist, but I think you see ‘misos’ applied to the front of a word more often, as in misogyny and misanthropy (and I don’t know why that isn’t misoanthropy, maybe just sounds awkward, maybe you drop the ‘o’ if the base word starts with a vowel). Assuming that last, it would be misocosmist (and misislamist).
And I haven’t looked up which of those roots are Greek and which Latin. (As in the old joke: Polyamory is just -wrong-. It should be polyfilia or multiamory.)
But, yeah, using common usage of word elements does get the point across more clearly and quickly.
Kid sisters! What can you say? LOL
Since there are Conservatives of every culture, race, age, background, intellect, education, gender, sexuality, religion and philosophy in the world, I have come up with one word to describe those who hate us:
Cosmophobic.
A rare instance where the “phobic” hews to it’s true meaning.
Your reactions?
News:
As some of you know, I am currently learning to 3D model with an eye towards (hopefully) being able one day to make models of sufficient visual quality for the Catman to be able to use them here and in other visual work. Currently, I am learning a free modelling program called Anim8or. it is very powerful and if nothing else it will get me up to speed on how to model in general much in the way that learning to use one word processor teaches you how to do what you want to do in any word processor. Once you have a good ground in doing things with a word processor then learning a new one is – for me at least – merely a matter of learning/figuring outhow to do what I want/need to do in THAT word processor. Right now I’m not only figuring out how to use Anim8or but I am learning valuable lessons in work flow and figuring out how to go about producing the visual model I want. I am learning more efficient ways to do things in order to build a model. One technique I have observed from analyzing models online is to break everthing into many simple shapes and then assemble those simple shapes into a complex visual model. A major hurdle I have right now is making things look “real”.
I have a question up now at the Anim8or Community on just that – making things look “real”. My gut tells me that there is a conceptually simple “trick” (for want of a better word) to doing that. I’m hoping for a combination “Aha!”, flat-forehead moment when I read the answers. I have no doubt that it will require many hours to figure out how to implement the “trick” but I figure that absent that basic understanding I could experiment till the Dems give up and declare Trump the winner and never stumble upon the answer to my question. Here’s hoping.
I have spent a lot of time “imagineering” and have crossed a major conceptual threshold in the over-all design of a modular military and/or hospital camp. 1st off, to ship, everything must fit into or be composed of elements of standard shipping containers. I may have to adjust the dimensions later but for now my shipping modules are 8’high x 8’wide x 24’long. From that I can derive 8′ x 8′ x 8′, 16′ or 24′ hard sided “buildings” and have build modules 40′ wide x 10′ high x 24′ long. Note that 24′ is the maximum length and widths are in increments of 8′. Ceilings/roofs are supported by uprights and could conceivably allow 24′ ceilings. Imagine a surgical module 40′ wide x 10′ high x 24′ long with an 8′ wide corridor running down the middle and 4 operating rooms roughly 16′ wide x 12′ deep. Or an admin module with an open (cubical city) floor plan in a similar 40′ x 10′ x 24′ plan. While the surgical modules would only have connection points (with doors) at front and back (corridor ends) the admin module would have connection points on all 4 sides plus windows and(and skylights?). To keep people from having to step outside to go between modules, there are 3 types of connecting modules. A straight 8′ x 8′ x 24′ “hall” module, a shorter 8′ x 8′ x 16 straight module and a T-shaped connecting modular similar to the 8′ x 8′ x 16′ module but with 4′ extensions on either side in the module to allow connecting straight modules to form hallways between modules. All modules have connections for power units with larger modules also having connections for HVAC units. It ould be simple to design barracks and mess hall modules. It’s all up to the Catman.
What do you think? (besides “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”) 😉
The biggest bar to the appearance of reality in my experience is that few things remain clean without a lot of effort on the part of the owner.
A private jet may be spotless, a commercial jet will have stains, signs of fluid leaks, etc.
Same with tools and such. Making a 3D creation just a bit dirty can be difficult.
Having a bad day, Catman. No 3D modelling for me today. Slept most of the morning. Figure on napping most of the afternoon. Feel like if I’m dying I wish I’d get the hell on with it. That care package in the mail oughta help with the “reality” question some. We’ll see.
Yeaaahhh… Have you been watching the tracking number? This is insane. The “Next Facility” is Jacksonville, FL, and it’s been in transit from (Savannah GA) to Jacksonville FL for ten freaking days now!
Haven’t been following the package’s progress because, so far as I can tell, I never got the tracking number. Would love to have it so I can track the package from this end. (hint, hint) 😉
OR, maybe, rip up the road and plant flowers and various mints. It is THEIR land, after all. No toll road after all. OR, maybe this is a negotiation tactic well within their rights. We’ll see. (This is a case-in-point of why monopolies are in general bad.) But I don’t understand the entitled mindset of the “homeowners” anyway. My grandfather, the whole time my mother and then I were growing up, owned a farm that did not have access to a public road. He maintained a road across a neighbor’s land, by agreement and at his own expense. HE maintained the gates and later installed the cattle guards and maintained THEM. I don’t remember if he actually paid the other guy for the privilege, but it would have been in keeping with their mindset, one I understand. He did NOT insist on some kind of legal “easement” natural right to use someone else’s property.
Bill, literally ANYTHING you use to exercise your brain is good for your mind and staves off Alzheimer’s. You’re NOT wasting your mind, you’re protecting it. (Anyway, I’m more of the ‘a waist is a terrible thing to mind’ set.) AND, you’ve tempted me to check out Anim8or myself. Thanks for the information.
just found another “hidden post”.. (from the 1st..)
again, if you don’t see your post in a timely manner.. lets us know , so we/i can fix it… 🙂
..i love all animals,, but yeah, having a dog that weighs more than you, trying to sit on your lap, is not good.!!
..easement.. first we have to know what type of easement,, then we need to know what type of record of it,. an finally IF there is any other conventual access… IE: IF there is ANY other way in/out (bike path, walk way to bus stop..) then that negates the “land locked” rule.!
A reaction to “cosmophobia”:
Well – since the actual word in Greek, means fear – not as in the colloquial aberration meaning dislike or something stronger . . .
Perhaps they are really afraid of us . . .
Perhaps the word for hate, misos, would be useful . . . becoming cosmomisosists.
Or is their collective opposition to us an the context of antagonistic, itself a good Greek word.
Cosmoantagonist or to reverse to fit the context – antagnocosmos
OK, sorry – wandering to far afield perhaps . .
but in my denomination, conservative clergy are more than occasionally – anathema.
– as in one to be detested or shunned.
Several good ideas there.
I’ll stick with Cosmophobic, I want my enemies to fear me.
Hatred is an optional bonus, fear is the key.
But I’ll remember Misos. Islamomisos is a good word. But then, Islamophobic is pretty accurate, as well.
I’m no linguist, but I think you see ‘misos’ applied to the front of a word more often, as in misogyny and misanthropy (and I don’t know why that isn’t misoanthropy, maybe just sounds awkward, maybe you drop the ‘o’ if the base word starts with a vowel). Assuming that last, it would be misocosmist (and misislamist).
And I haven’t looked up which of those roots are Greek and which Latin. (As in the old joke: Polyamory is just -wrong-. It should be polyfilia or multiamory.)
But, yeah, using common usage of word elements does get the point across more clearly and quickly.
Someone is missing a tail……
Probably hasn’t altered his jeans yet, and it’s just run down one leg?
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