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| Mar-24-07 | | WBP: <Eyal> Could this do it? |
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| Mar-24-07 | | Eyal: <WBP> Actually, the <Damn! Wrong again!> one did it. Anyway, at this rate of meta-posting we'll soon be at page 121. |
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| Mar-24-07 | | WBP: <Eyal> Shall we do it? (Just kidding!) |
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| Mar-24-07 | | achieve: <Domdaniel>
<120> is a beautiful number. But I like 121 too for some reason.. <It shouldn't make any difference in the long run. Nobody is crazy enough to keep spamming their own forum like that. Is they?> You're firmly in 3rd place.. depending you keep up this level of posting! LOL You're always a step ahead it seems.. <getting good> You're not too bad yourself <Dom>. Do you play in a tourney this weekend? Keep us dumbfanatics posted! <It's also a French Defence thing.>
Yeah, go get'em tiger!
(Fill in "You the Man" voluntarily/ optionally)
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Mar-24-07
 | | Domdaniel: We seem to have arrived. I was watching for the 120 mark as it means 3000 posts, I think... all this counting... and to what mysterious end? The tournament's next weekend, btw, Mar 30/31... and I'm going to have to do some preparing/ practice in the next week. I'll probably still be a chatterbox, though. Some of the features here -- like the ability to download PGNs of all a player's games in a particular opening -- are really useful. |
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| Mar-24-07 | | achieve: Hey <Dom>, while we might take time on some <chatterboxing>, some useful tips might be in <hitman>'s forum. Have a look. Take care and good luck,
Niels
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Mar-24-07
| | Domdaniel: <WBP> No worries about possible misconstructions. I may not be actually bulletproof, but I'm very hard to insult. And I practically never get hurt/offended by something somebody says: I tend to peer back in a myopic mad scientist manner, blink mildly, and say "ah, so this form of words is considered offensive among your species, is it? How very interesting... do go on... and how many degrees of consanguinity are covered by this taboo? Fascinating..." Great chessplayer in his day, old <Con Sanguinetti>... |
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Mar-24-07
| | Domdaniel: <achieve> <120 is a beautiful number> It's also of course a factorial:
120 = 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 = 5!
And 121 is the square of 11. Actually 121 is *always* the square of 11, in systems other than binary (where 11 x 11 = 1001); if the base is 3 or higher, 121 is square. Are there other case of adjacent squares and factorials? Yes. Another is 5040 = 7! And 71 squared is 5041.
So:
(7! + 1)/71 = 71
*all this counting... sigh...* |
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| Mar-24-07 | | achieve: No need to sigh, this is fascinating!!
I get most of it except <So:
<(7! + 1)/71 = 71 >> Need to let it sink in..
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Mar-24-07
| | Domdaniel: <Monkey Biz> Quick... who's the official <Frogspawn> Spongebob Squarepants expert? It's you, JDK, isn't it? We have need of your expertise, master. It seems that an endangered Bolivian squirrel monkey named Spongebob was stolen last July -- from, get this, Chessington World of Adventures, in Chessington, Surrey, England -- and now I read that the "Monkey snatcher faces jail"... Spongebob, valued on the black market at £2000, suffered the indignity of being stuffed into a rucksack. But other monkeys attacked the kidnapper, scratching and biting him, and providing a DNA trail that eventually led Interplod to their man. And here's the sad bit. The monkey troupe refused to accept old Spongebob back. They went "yeuch, contaminated by humans, get outta here..." Spongebob had been a "laid-back, happy little monkey" but he now has "a kink in his tail" and has been transferred to a zoo for safety. What is to be done? Find a home for Chessington Spongebob (another honorary frog)... |
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Mar-24-07
| | Domdaniel: Meanwhile, doubling up as the <Frogspawn quote of the day>, we have the Borges classification theorem: All animals are divided into:
(a) Belonging to the Emperor
(b) Embalmed ones
(c) Tame ones
(d) Sucking pigs
(e) Sirens
(f) Fabulous ones
(g) Stray dogs
(h) Those included in the present classification
(i) Frenzied ones
(j) Innumerable ones
(k) Those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
(l) et cetera
(m) Those having just broken the water pitcher
(n) those that look like flies from a distance
['a certain Chinese encyclopedia']
And a squirrel-monkey named Spongebob with post-traumatic stress disorder and rejection issues? Hmm... |
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| Mar-24-07 | | Eyal: <The Borges classification theorem> From the essay "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" (who in the 17th century divided the universe into forty categories). The continuation is also worth quoting: <The Bibliographic Institute of Brussels exerts chaos too: it has divided the universe into 1000 subdivisions, from which number 262 is the pope; number 282, the Roman Catholic Church; 263, the Day of the Lord; 268 Sunday schools; 298, mormonism; and number 294, brahmanism, buddhism, shintoism and taoism. Nor does it disdain the employment of heterogeneous subdivisions as, for example, 179: "Cruelty towards animals. Animals protection. Duel and suicide seen through moral values. Various vices and defects. Various virtues and qualities."I have registered the arbitrariness of Wilkins, of the unknown (or false) Chinese encyclopaedia writer and of the Bibliographic Institute of Brussels; it is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and speculative. The reason for this is quite simple: we do not know what the universe is.> |
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Mar-24-07
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> Wilkins, along with his analytical language, the Real Character [sic], features heavily in the three-novel 'Baroque' sequence by Neal Stephenson (Quicksilver; The Confusion; The System of the World) along with Isaac Newton, Leibniz, Wren, Pepys and many others. Brilliant stuff, focused on the emergence of scientific thinking and the dream of building a 'logic mill' (aka analytic engine aka computer). More proto-cyberfiction than 'historical novel'. And I know you're familiar with Borges' writing on Wilkins and Lully in this area. 'My' version of the Borges list may seem slightly odd, btw -- I translated it from a version cited by Foucault, itself a translation of the 'original' [sic]. The Irreal Character |
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| Mar-24-07 | | mack: Calling the Frogspawn legal department...
It turns out that bloody Balls of Steel (hack, spit) did show that 'hilarious' chess prank this week or last. What's more, I'm not censored out for half of it, and can be seen standing around holding a coat and watching a game. Where do I stand? Can I sue? |
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| Mar-24-07 | | mack: Sorry I've not been around as much recently. The internet's still buggered around my place, plus a lot of my time has been taken up with your favourite activity, Dom - transcribing long and complicated interviews. |
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| Mar-24-07 | | mack: Oh, and did the Galway tourney start today? How did it go? |
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| Mar-24-07 | | WBP: <Dom> superfast note: thanks for the message before (you know what I'm talking about). Have to sign off, but am very much enjoying the ongoing Borges stuff 'twixt you and <Eyal.> Watching with great interest the french def. going on in game one of the grudge match (and also think grudge matches to be a good idea). Best, Bill |
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Mar-24-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Dunno about Galway, but the Cork one -- slightly closer, ie 5 mins away -- is next weekend. I imagine that -- given the current rate of techno-development -- CG will soon let us stream video in our forums (as long as it's, heh, chess-related of course...). Then you can run Balls of Steel on an endless loop... Sue them. Failure to pixillate? Since current practice -- as far as I know -- *still* requires actual victims to sign releases, somebody should make a stand on behalf of the incidental victims -- people who are more than random passers-by but not the central butts of the 'joke'... nobody should be paraded on TV against their will. Even condemned criminals get to pull coats over their heads. Or you could just complain loudly enough until they give you money to shut you up. If it helps in some synchronistic way, I'm due to write a thing about some other totally crap neo-candid-camera prog. I promise to be double scathing. Maybe they'll all get the message and die of plague. |
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Mar-25-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: CURSES! <Eyal> and his academic rigor strikes yet again, this time ringing in with a fine "keeping his sums straight" stand at the Wicket... scoring three Over and Nine under... I haven't seen action like this since we bested the <Wog> at <Old Trafford> in 'ought-Six... |
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Mar-25-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: What the hell just hahppened? Are you all up now? About ten postss came in... I'M SKEERED |
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Mar-25-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Mack> Do you realize that you sound EXACTLY like a character in a <Gabriel Byrne> short story? I'd be more than a little worried If I were you... Some weird things have been happening lately... Check out <Eyal>'s forum-- I think he might be taking his <narrative research> a little too seriously.... "He was lucid, though his mind was focused on itself with a terrifying intensity... but his soul was mad..." That's not about <Eyal>, of course. It's about <Mr. Kurtz>. The REAL Mr. Kurtz, not that <Short> fellow... See <Mack>? It's getting a bit spooky- is Mr. Kurtz REAL or not? Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who cares about me anymore?
Salem, Oregon |
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| Mar-25-07 | | achieve: <Dom><(7! + 1)/71 = 71> It sank in! Good find! I was so tired I couldn't see the damn exclamation mark last night.
Took it for Awon.
Never mind.. Have a nice Sunday!
(The weather overhere is invitingly beautiful btw :)
Looks like Spring is dawning.
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| Mar-25-07 | | WBP: <Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who cares about me anymore?> Nate: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for one. LIVING TO TELL THE TALE: "He [Gustavo Ibarra] lent me Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, which marked me for life" (339). |
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Mar-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <WBP> Wasn't 'House of the Seven Gables' the one where Hawthorne used the name of the Pynchon/Pyncheon family, fine old New England name, arrived on the Mayflower, thought to have died out ... only to find himself threatened with legal action by the very-much-alive great-grandparents of the current Mr Pynchon...? That's if the Pynchonista legends are true... |
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Mar-25-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> -- <"He was lucid, though his mind was focused on itself with a terrifying intensity... but his soul was mad..."> Darn, thought that was about me. Lack of lucidity trips me up again... |
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