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Jan-22-10
 | | Domdaniel: <Annie> Oops. The adjective 'non-American' should be inserted before the word 'women'. That should hold the draw, as it were.
Here's a delicious piece of vitriol I thought I might share: Edward Winter reviewing a dubious reissue of a Capablanca book ... <In 1994, Grandmasters Publishing of Corsicana, Texas brought out a coarse algebraic version, ‘newly edited and revised by Lyndon Laird’. The task sounds a clerical doddle, but Mr Laird highlighted the various pitfalls by side-stepping none of them. Cheap in all but price, his garish paperback extirpated the original book’s style, flavour and dignity.> Bites, doesn't he? |
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Jan-22-10
| | Domdaniel: The whole piece can be found at http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... I'd actually been looking for info on a dimly-remembered story about Olga Capablanca Clark looking for $10,000 for a Capa scoresheet. I could be wrong about this, but I think it was an offhand game with Tartakower. |
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Jan-22-10
| | Domdaniel: That 'highlighted the various pitfalls by side-stepping none of them' line is exquisite. It reminds me of the art critic Robert Hughes, reviewing an 'autobiography' by an over-hyped 1980s artist. He noted that the unexamined life is not worth living ... and the unlived life is not worth examining. |
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Jan-22-10
 | | Annie K.: Woooo, chili peppers would run screaming if they had to contest that! :D <Oops. The adjective 'non-American' should be inserted before the word 'women'.> Clever sidestepping there! Although I can name at least two Americans here with excellent humor just off the cuff, <tpstar> and <tamar>, but your leaving the "women" part in does muddle the issue enough for you to make your getaway by slipping through the clouds of confusion. ;) |
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Jan-22-10
 | | OhioChessFan: I have always admired a person who has the courage of their contradictions. |
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Jan-22-10
| | OhioChessFan: Dorothy Parker: Katharine Hepburn delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B. |
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Jan-22-10
| | Annie K.: <Dom: <I still looked down my nose at him, of course. But it gets harder. Almost like refusing a signature on a check. Sorry, cheque. 'Check' is a chess word, innit?> >"Patzer sees check, patzer signs check."
-- misquoted from Bobby Fischer. :p
<from A to B>
Ouch! Hee hee... poor Hepburn. :D |
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Jan-22-10
| | OhioChessFan: TD, I understand the going rate for an autographed Elvis pic to be about $1000. Amazing. |
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Jan-22-10
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio & Annie> Thanks, both of you, for all the entertaining and stimulating and, um, *funny* conversation. But I've just noticed that it's the middle of the night. More like pre-dawn chorus time. So I'm outta here. G'♘. |
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Jan-23-10
| | Domdaniel: Strange ... how come *I* was the one who faded away last night/ this morning, with one interlocutor a few hours behind me and the other a few hours ahead? The guy in the middle timezone shouldn't be first to collapse. Must be getting old, or something. |
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Jan-23-10
| | Annie K.: Well, I warned ya I live in my own timezone in one of my first posts to this forum. ;) What with afternoon to evening work, mostly online at night and sleeping morning to noon, I am approximately on the same waking hours as the American continent. Incidentally, this "living in another continent's timezone" phenomenon has long ago been noted as a symptom of advanced geekiness by the excellent PhD site, an old favorite of mine - http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/arc... :D |
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Jan-23-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Makes sense. My problem is I keep changing virtual continents ... this week I got up at 5am local time twice, and went to bed at 5am local time twice. I get metaphoric jetlag without ever going anywhere. In one book, William Gibson played with the idea of a "soul" which evolved to live on natural circadian rhythms, adjusted to walking pace. When we travel by plane it gets left behind, accounting for the empty soulless feeling until it catches up. 25+ years ago - you wouldn't remember - Alexander Haig was US secretary of state. As well as coining words such as "epistemologicallywise", and wrongly thinking he was in charge when Reagan got shot, he was known for his frantic shuttle diplomacy, crossing and recrossing the Atlantic. I wrote something with a thinly fictionalised Haig "targeted by torque and timezones". (I was a fan of both Al Haig and Al Literation ...) In his gruff military way, Haig was a Godfather of Geek. Hillary Clinton would have octuplets rather than say "epistemologicallywise". He was also one of the first people to use 'caveat' as an English verb: not 'caveat emptor', but 'I'll caveat my response'. |
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Jan-23-10
| | Annie K.: <My problem is I keep changing virtual continents ...> I know that one. :s Sometimes I get thrown out of whack by something or other needing to get done in the morning hours, and can take days to get back to what passes for routine in my case, which is ideally to sleep from about 5-7am to about 12-2pm; this routine allows me to see some sunlight before needing to run off to work. I have to watch out that I don't go too long without seeing daylight, particularly in winter, or I get depressed. Apparently, even having a perfectly good Transylvanian background couldn't make a really good vampire out of me. Hmmph. The Gibson idea is cute. And Haig sounds like a fun guy to have known - certainly "epistemologicallywise" is whole skyscrapers above "misunderestimate" and other such recent attempts. ;p |
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Jan-23-10
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Thanks for not pointing out the contradiction between my recent profession of non-fandom and the statement <(I was a fan of both Al Haig and Al Literation ...)> ... it's senility. When I'm not repeating myself I'm contradicting myself, and sometimes both at once. I envy your Transylvanian background, though. I sometimes think of myself as a sort of Slavic Rastafarian ... with beetroot for ganja and a lost Ural homeland. |
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Jan-23-10
| | Annie K.: Nach, It's ok, <Dom>, I understand the issue of getting used to using terminology that people understand rather than what you mean precisely. :D Just easier to get through a paragraph without getting interrupted with demands for explanations if you say "I'm a fan of..." than if you say "I'm fond of..." It's also easy to tell apart those who use such terminology for reasons of convenience from those who actually live it. ;s |
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Jan-23-10
| | Domdaniel: You mean you haven't seen all the people in rubber Haig masks, holding conventions where they speak Haigish and caveat one another epistemologicallywise? |
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Jan-23-10
| | Annie K.: I must be living a sheltered life... |
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Jan-24-10
| | OhioChessFan: One of my last posts was about time zones. I'm not sure if he's a PhD, but here's what another intellectual had to say about time zones: Homer (Computer) <I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls...I want to live, Marge! Won't you let me live? > |
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Jan-24-10
| | OhioChessFan: <You mean you haven't seen all the people in rubber Haig masks, holding conventions where they speak Haigish and caveat one another epistemologicallywise?> Serving boiled Haiggis of course.. But if you're really a fan...er, fond of intellectual politicos, I think you should go for John Sununu. MS from MIT, MBA from Harvard, called the smartest man in Congress by PJ O'Rourke, and best of all, when Omni magazine had an open book IQ test, he had one of the highest submitted scores. That's major cool in a geeky sort of way. |
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Jan-24-10
| | Domdaniel: <Haigish> aka Haiglish or Haigspeak, but the accepted term is <Haigledygook> -- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/a... Interestingly, his claim to be the Godfather of Geek is reinforced by his use of 'menu' to mean a range of options. Common now, thanks to computers, but regarded as weird in the early 1980s. |
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Jan-24-10
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> IQ tests? *IQ tests*?? White male mathematics, man ... Heh.
I'm a member of Densa myself. |
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Jan-24-10
 | | Open Defence: <Your Domus is my Domus> thanks for the welcome, but I thought I was one of the Senior Tadpoles of Frogspawn, that no invitation was necessary... but being so invited, the Pommes and the Commies will now harass your ass.... you like that dont you bad boy!! |
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Jan-24-10
| | OhioChessFan: <IQ tests? *IQ tests*?? White male mathematics, man ... > Another of the high scorers on the Omni exam was Marilyn vos Savant. Not sure how she snuck into the exclusive White Male Club. Got her a nice gig in Parade Magazine though. |
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Jan-24-10
| | OhioChessFan: <I can console myself with the thought that once, maybe, just maybe, back when they were happily married, Tom and Nic went back to their suite and said "That one with the funny glasses who didn't ask us for anything was kinda nice, wasn't he, hon?" ... hmmm. I guess it works on the karmic level. > I'm breaking into a cold sweat at the thought of Nic having a thought, any thought, about me. |
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Jan-24-10
| | Domdaniel: < Nic having a thought, any thought, about me.> I've described before how Tom, Nicole and I had a short chat after the interview proper was over, with all three of us standing up. Nic and I were on roughly the same eye level, which was nice. Tom was significantly nearer the floor, and he didn't like it ... he shifted from foot to foot, broke in when Nic was talking ... anything to prevent his wife from being *metrically unfaithful*. I don't know if that would, um, stand up in court. |
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