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Dec-05-11
 | | Domdaniel: But raised eyebrows are a good thing! They exercise the face muscles - and faces need exercise too, as can be easily seen from the ones that get soft and flabby. Hedy Lamarr -- the brilliant and beautiful star of Hollywood films in the 1930s -- was also an inventor. She actually invented a tracking system that is now used in GPS, as well as a skin-tautening technique "based on the principles of the accordion". I bet that raised a few eyebrows, |
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Dec-06-11
| | Domdaniel: A great day in London for Black players of eccentric defenses. Short downs Adams with the Legky line of the French Tarrasch, 3.Nd2 h6. And Nakamura out-complicates Anand in a ... a ... a King's Indian, of all things. 3...h6 is pretty normal these days. But a King's Indian? That's bizarre. They should have a special Tony Miles/ St George Defence Prize for such games. |
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Dec-08-11
 | | OhioChessFan: You're getting involved a bit much, aren't you? |
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Dec-08-11
| | Domdaniel: <Ohio> Yup. Must be the Amenopause. |
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Dec-08-11
| | Domdaniel: Hear us, O Nuklu!
May our friends prosper.
They know who they are
Even if we sometimes appear not to.
They are deserving in thy site, O Nuklu.
We may not be this time
But we'll give it a bash. |
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Dec-08-11
| | OhioChessFan: Be careful it doesn't lead to Dementopause. |
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Dec-09-11
| | Domdaniel: Right. Basta. Enough. I'm going to settle down and live here in Frogspawn for the foreseeable, where my friends can come and visit me. Or not. On an analytic note, I've worked out why these stupid controversies have been dragging me in. It's because I tend to navigate the site mainly by going back to pages I've visited recently, especially the ones with stars to indicate a 'reply'. Only they're not replies, they're viral toxic memes. I suspect the USA goes to war for similar reasons. Inertia and that. Doing what one does because it's the sort of thing one does. O Nuklu! Peace on Earth, goodwill to sentient beings everywhere, and a snappy solution to the Riemann conjecture, if you'd be so kind. I have, uh, timetabling issues that may lead to my absence from the earlier phase of thy hunt, O Nuklu. Catch you later. |
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Dec-09-11
| | OhioChessFan: <It's because I tend to navigate the site mainly by going back to pages I've visited recently, especially the ones with stars to indicate a 'reply'.> Yep.
< Only they're not replies, they're viral toxic memes.> Oui, oui, meme. |
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Dec-10-11
| | Domdaniel: So, did I miss much while I was away *losing* two long, slow, drawn endings, like an idiot? Nope, I don't follow Nuklu neither. Is that concrete all around or is it in my head? |
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| Dec-10-11 | | hms123: <Dom> Now that I know I'll find you at home, I will stop by more often. I just finished Ken Bruen's <Headstone> and enjoyed it. His protagonist, Jack Taylor, seems to be disintegrating with each turned page. More's the Irish pity. |
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Dec-10-11
| | Domdaniel: <hms> Hmmm ... thought I'd read all the Jack Taylor books, but 'Headstone' doesn't ring a bell. Maybe its Irish/British edition had a different name? I've read a recent one, which struck me as not being as good as the early ones. He's drifted from hard-nosed realism, insofar as Galway does realism, to spooky stuff. His latest antagonist appeared to be the Devil himself. Of course, as a fellow fan pointed out to me, this could just depict old superstitions surfacing in Jack's much-damaged head. I know the feeling.
Great guy, Bruen. After I interviewed him a few years ago, he sent me some music and books *by other people* ... just to share his enthusiasms. That's rare. One of the books, for some mysterious reason, had "For Gerry ... Pynchon lives ... dude!" scrawled on it. Taylor needs to listed to 'Fear is a Man's Best Friend' by John Cale. |
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Dec-11-11
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <H> you can guard against that <disintegrating with each turned page> by not reading the paperbacks in the bathtub. My Dad gave me that protip years ago, before the war. |
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Dec-11-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> one is tempted to Quote you on you, as I'm fond of doing. "I can't go hopping about outside of Frogspawn"
--Domdaniel |
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Dec-11-11
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> I can't *consistently* go hopping usw. But consistency is the hobgoblin of small Erses. |
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Dec-11-11
| | Domdaniel: Shoulda got that Twilight Zone Klu. 0730 on Sunday morning, plenty of time, much of the world inactive, more or less. And my kinda Klu. But I jumped the gun with Rioja instead of working out Riopo fully. Moral: don't start guessing madly. Also, OwlsforThugs is faster than me, and knows more, and has megacomputers. Excuses, excuses. This doesn't feel like my year already. |
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| Dec-11-11 | | Thanh Phan: <Domdaniel> I even tried to bribe Anh <Alien> to try her quick-searches for some things, her idea was we all need practice. lol maybe some days just are~ |
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Dec-11-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Alien Math> has Google-fu training. |
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Dec-11-11
| | Domdaniel: <thanh> Some sharp-shooters have downloaded the whole CG database and customized it for partial name searches. The current search algorithms don't let you look for partial names, or names with certain initials etc. I sometimes use other databases like Chessbase to generate candidate names - I was looking for a 5-letter name starting R-I-O. I found Rioja. The answer was Riopo. Ouch. I still have 11 wins in 3 years, but Quylthulg is ahead of me. Deservedly. |
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Dec-11-11
| | jessicafischerqueen: Did the clue have something to do with "butterfly"?
<Henri Charriere> escaped once down the mighty <Riopo River> in British Gyana. |
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Dec-11-11
| | Domdaniel: I really shoulda got the long-running "8 = 93" thing too. I stumbled home last night after two very punishing losses, decided to abandon long games and look for sets of short ones, tried Tal and a few other names ... and didn't think of the Kosintseva sisters. Brain dead. Went to bed, woke up, and there it was, gone.
Also, insufficient caffeine yesterday to kickstart system before OTB games. Downhill from there. Now I'm wondering if I lost those games because part of my attention was off with Nuklu, imagining what might be happening... |
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Dec-11-11
| | Domdaniel: Bloody Hock. Gilbert Adair is dead. I was just reading his translation ('A void') of 'La Disparition' by Perec, which avoids using the letter 'e'. "such a narcissistic writer", as he said about himself. Another man down. |
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| Dec-11-11 | | Thanh Phan: I thought of yet discarded for some reason, the Quick-draw sisters when it turned out to be the answer anyways ~ Don't think as often sometimes or maybe I missed a nap |
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| Dec-11-11 | | Thanh Phan: Not sure if she uses the CG databases for name lists, I know her quote searches are broken down and put into URL's and search engines and we are learning more about scripts |
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Dec-11-11
| | Domdaniel: "Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you". Curiously, the team I was playing against yesterday was 'Adare' ... a tiny village with a habit of flying in GMs to augment the locals. But they didn't have the GMs this time, and we got over-confident. "Some days you eat Adare ..."
Gilbert Adair was a brilliant, but obscure, writer. The story goes that he once rang his publisher, and the switchboard person had never heard of him. "Are you Red Adair?" she asked. "No, I'm Unread Adair" he snapped. |
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Dec-11-11
| | OhioChessFan: Reticentcy is the hobgoblin of small mimes. And small memes. |
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