[csail-related] GSB Tonight: Chickens.

[jamoozy at csail.mit.edu (Andrew "Jamoozy" Correa)]

I was thinking about chickens today [1], when I came to a profound
realization about the nature of humanity [1].  Before YouTube came into
existence to aide the collective memory in being more cohesive, there was
one thing *everyone* [2] knew.  If you beat too much on a chicken in Zelda
[3], you would incur the collective wrath of all the chickens [4] and they
would fly out of nowhere to peck you -- you could die this way!

How did "everyone" know this?  Certainly there's something to be said about
peoples' nature [5] that it was independently discovered by so many, not to
mention the fact that Nintendo went to the trouble of creating this (albeit
easy-to-find) Easter egg.  Maybe that lesson is that humans like to beat
weaker creatures?  Or that we're not yet past our barbaric history, even in
"this modern day and age?"

Well ... what does modern even mean, right?.  TX just passed a law that
creationism must be taught alongside biology.  SD passed a law urging state
public schools to teach climate change in a very specific way.  From the
bill: "(1) ... global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven
fact; (2) ... there are a variety of climatological, meteorological,
astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can
effect (sic) world weather phenomena ..." O_O [6]

Let's all get together and figure out how to get "student holidays"
officially relabed to the more accurate "undergraduate holidays" at this
week's:

       +-                                                  -+
          girl scout benefit -+-  5:30 pm  -+- 32-G9 lounge
       +-                                                  -+

           For those coming from elsewhere: Building 32 is
            <http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32>
       Once you are in 32, just take the G-elevator to the 9th
   floor and we will be in the lounge that you will be looking at
                 <http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb>

[1] Y'know; like you do.
[2] Within reason, mind.  I'm speaking "parabolically" (as opposed to
"hyperbolacally") here.
[3] WARNING: Zelda is not Free software (i.e., Software Libre)!  It does
not respect the rights of its users!
[4] I wonder if Nintendo had some sort of subconscious moral for all the
little boys (and girls?) out there at the time.
[5] Or little boys', at least ...
[6] I'm kind of afraid to address this.  There's so many things wrong with
it, if I miss something you'd think I was dumber than you already do.