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Apr-04-12
 | | Domdaniel: <Meme> If you're paying attention at Annie's place, you're already doing the best possible thing. For she is the wisest among us. How did Capote annoy Burroughs? Hmm. The full 'charge sheet' goes like this: <You have placed your services at the disposal of interests who are turning America into a police state by the simple device of deliberately fostering the conditions which give rise to criminality and then demanding increased police powers and the retention of capital punishment to deal with the situation they have created.> And that was 1970, relatively benign by our standards, when the issue of the day was whether the death penalty should be banned or retained. It seems Burroughs didn't think much of Capote's 'In Cold Blood'. |
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| Apr-04-12 | | frogbert: <I was bewildered at the amount of petty bickering that goes on here between "mostly" amiable, intelligent adults.> meme, i'm not going to claim that i can fully explain it; to the contrary, i'd say that those who think they fully understand what's happening here - and why - are probably more naive and ignorant than the rest of us; and of course: they think too highly of themselves. |
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Apr-04-12
| | Domdaniel: Except for me. It's not actually possible to think too highly of me. |
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| Apr-04-12 | | frogbert: of course. we can't think too highly of dom. and neither can he. ;o) |
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| Apr-04-12 | | dakgootje: <and neither can he> He can't? In that case I'm thinking lower of him.. |
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| Apr-04-12 | | frogbert: which made me think of smullyan and his knights and knaves. |
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| Apr-04-12 | | hms123: <dak> Then I am going to stand on your shoulders and think higher of him than usual. I will also be able to see farther. Yours truly,
I. Newton |
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Apr-04-12
 | | OhioChessFan: <Meme: I don't think I've got a point> Oh dear. You say that like it's a bad thing. |
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Apr-04-12
| | Domdaniel: I. Newton was interested in points. And lines.
And, um, fluxions. |
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| Apr-05-12 | | dakgootje: <Then I am going to stand on your shoulders and think higher of him than usual.> Then that means on average we will still think too high of him. Which just makes you wonder. How often are things averaged, where one side just doesn't want to? |
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Apr-05-12
| | Domdaniel: <dak> -- <Which just makes you wonder. How often are things averaged, where one side just doesn't want to?> What has *wanting* got to do with anything? You round 'em up - or breed 'em yourself, or purchase from an approved source - and then you put them in cages and *measure* them. That, my lad, is how science progresses. You wanna be humane, do your measuring with a laser beam instead of a steel rod. In any case, steel rods expand slightly on encountering the warmth of a living mammal, which can screw up the measurements. But there are innaresting metallic alloys for avoiding this. A subject is a subject, hey? Some hamster can't sign his name or read a consent form, that's his furry little problem, innit. To quote Jack Shaftoe, l'Emmerdeur, King of the Vagabonds: "What possible bearing could anyone's feelings have on anything that makes a bloody difference?" No animals were tortured during the composition of this post. Well, not by me. Not, ah, *personally*. |
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| Apr-05-12 | | frogbert: <<Meme: I don't think I've got a point> Oh dear. You say that like it's a bad thing.> well, he needs at least *two* to make a line. is that also required to be stringent? |
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Apr-05-12
| | Domdaniel: Hmm. If I *define* Frogspawn as a space wherein a straight line is never the shortest distance between two points, what sort of universe do we get...? Mathematically, it's just one of the non-Euclidean geometries, parabolic or hyperbolic, Lobachevski or Bolyai. With no parallel/Playfair postulate. But as a *universe of discourse*? Again with no parallels and no playfair, and somewhat elliptical and hyperbolic. Useful things, definitions. If I define whatever part of my body happens to hit the ground as a *foot*, then I always land on my feet. |
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Apr-05-12
| | Domdaniel: As the countdown to my next -- and probably *last*, for the foreseeable future -- chess tournament continues, I am pleased to report (a) further communication with the organizers, e2e4, and (b) a modified version of the rankings which combine FIDE ratings with national ones, and move me up the order from roughly 16th to something like 8th. Which will almost certainly mean an opponent without a FIDE rating in round one. Shoulda sat on my tongue. |
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| Apr-05-12 | | Thanh Phan: <Domdaniel> Found an interesting problem when the group Anonymous hacked and left messages on Chinese sites http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57... After hacking and leaving messages in English they are only now asking for translations, just thought that was interesting timing on language requests |
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Apr-05-12
| | Domdaniel: <Thanh Phan> Yes. Timing often indicates *something* ... except when it's mere coincidence. China has somehow contrived to become more open and more closed at the same time. More information coming out, less understanding of what it might mean. The old 'inscrutable' stereotype can be dusted off and used again. |
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| Apr-05-12 | | MarkFinan: Hi Dom... I've posted something in my forum about playing with the Black pieces that i can't get my head round, and as you prefer playing Black (I think??) maybe you could give me a clearer answer? When you have time, will you take a look please mate? No rush :) |
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| Apr-05-12 | | dakgootje: I'm thinking about moving to Ireland.
Apparently the last Dubliner, Barney McKenna, just died - so the house-price there should move right down. |
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| Apr-05-12 | | Memethecat: <dakgootje> Dublin, house prices, go down? Not on your liffey. Its even worse in Paris, the prices are in-seine. |
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Apr-05-12
| | Domdaniel: <dak> Barney McKenna died? And he was the last of the (musical) Dubliners? Both news to me. As a rule, such personages tend not to live in the city as such, but in old scenic fishing villages to the north and south - places like Howth and Dalkey - which have been surrounded by suburban sprawl without really being affected by it. Very quaint, very millionaires row, quite exclusive. You won't get change out of a million, but it was five million before the property bubble burst. Not sure if I can think of a Dutch equivalent. Scheveningen, maybe.
The Nederlands seem to have developed differently ... the VOC commandeered all the actual harbours for trading purposes, and fishing villages were moved inland by the ongoing reclamation project. Or so it seems. I guess this makes Bono the leading musical Dubliner? I think he once said I was the devil, or at least possessed by something demonic. Maybe he had a point. |
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Apr-05-12
| | Domdaniel: <frogbert> Some of those 2050-ish Norwegian players are off to a good start in the Dublin Masters event. One Mihajlovic, Svetoslav, beat GM Simon Williams, while the other - Sebastian? - drew with an IM. And Christian Harstedt beat IM Mark Quinn. Dublin hasn't seen a Norse invasion like this since the city was built by some stray vikings 1000 years ago. I'm glad I stayed in the Challengers, where I could in theory win something. |
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| Apr-05-12 | | frogbert: the young kid sebastian is very promising, so drawing an im isn't totally unexpected. that his father could beat gm williams was a huge upset, though. similarly harstad (who is about my level) should *not* be able to beat im quinn. but these things happen. :o) want to have a laugh? i just played this game on fics, having the white pieces: 
click for larger viewit's black's turn, but it doesn't really matter. :o) |
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Apr-06-12
| | Domdaniel: <frogbert> Very Nimzo, that double rook 'ending'. And an ending it is, in the terminal sense. Nice. It's common enough to see games where one rook finds itself with no moves, but I haven't often seen two rooks in such a pickle. Had a closer look at the Williams and Quinn losses. The titled players played badly, taking silly risks in order to try to win, and were duly punished. Quinn played an unsound piece sac against Harstadt, and was just a piece down. Williams also shed material, but produced a lot of tactical tricks before finally conceding. There are live games and PGNs at http://www.e2e4.org.uk/dublin, as you probably know. BTW, your pal Terry McCratchy is unlucky, in that his name is unusual and thus easily googled. Some of us are not so easy to pin down. There's still a certain anonymity in numbers. The downside is when you get accused of crimes actually committed by one of your namesakes, but that doesn't happen *too* often. |
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| Apr-06-12 | | dakgootje: <Barney McKenna died? And he was the last of the (musical) Dubliners? Both news to me.> Read it yesterday in the newspaper - I wasn't personally informed. <Not sure if I can think of a Dutch equivalent. Scheveningen, maybe.> Scheveningen hasn't been scenic for many years ;)
heh, it's even officially part of The Hague nowadays - and supposedly it's as poor as well. Haven't been there in years though - so I can't really say. <I guess this makes Bono the leading musical Dubliner? I think he once said I was the devil, or at least possessed by something demonic. Maybe he had a point.> He was probably just jealous of your fancy, and ever fashionable, leather outfit. |
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| Apr-06-12 | | cro777: Good start <Dom>. Tom Collins had no chances with 14 years younger opponent. Against Eric 'Draws are for flutes' Bennett with black again?! |
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