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| Jul-01-13 | | Everyone: <not <everyone> has brain for this kind of conversation> You think? |
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| Jul-01-13 | | ruk.an: < Everyone: <not <everyone> has brain for this kind of conversation> You think?> :) ok, <everyone> , here is a very interesting post by <domdaniel> - very thought provoking. for example consider this - <'banal nuisance'> now that is very thought provoking - though i am not sure for <everyone>.
nuisance which is banal? banal means 'boring, ordinary, and not original:'
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dic... now , nuisance can be original too (this post may be counted in original nuisance category?) but can it be interesting also? can we say interesting nuisance? if not then the meaning of 'banal' in this context is unoriginal . now , sometimes i find that different dictionaries have slightly different meaning for words. so , may be in some other dictionary , there will be some other slightly different meaning for 'banal' too. so what the hell <domdaniel> meant when he wrote 'banal nuisance'? posts of <domdaniel> are very thought provoking , almost <everyone> would agree, imo |
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Jul-01-13
 | | LIFE Master AJ: A.J. Goldsby I (2200) - John K. Laning (1620) [B20]
Open (a Caesar chess event) Montgomery, AL (Rnd. #2) / 22,06,2013. 1.e4 c5; 2.Nf3 d6; 3.d4 cxd4; 4.Nxd4 Nf6; 5.Nc3 e6; 6.Bc4 a6; 7.Bb3 Nc6; 8.Be3 Be7; 9.Qe2 0-0; 10.0-0-0 Qc7; 11.Rhg1 b5; 12.g4 Na5; 13.g5 Nxb3+; 14.axb3 Ne8; 15.Qh5 Bb7; 16.Rg3 g6; 17.Qh6 Ng7; 18.Rh3 Nh5; 19.Rxh5 gxh5; 20.g6 fxg6; 21.Nxe6, 1-0 Did you look at this game?
It really is very close to perfect. Of course, I have been DEEPLY studying the Velimirovic (on-and-off) for something like 25 years, so (by now) you would guess I would at least know the basics of the line. |
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Jul-02-13
| | LIFE Master AJ: BTW - I actually have a book on the Velimirovic on my hard drive, its quite extensive, and the result of over 15 years of work. (And unless I become an IM, I doubt that it would ever get published. |
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Jul-02-13
 | | Domdaniel: <LMAJ> Thanks for dropping by. I enjoyed your game with Zhong -- I like material imbalances, especially two or three pieces vs a Queen. With the right initiative, a Queen can defeat R+B+N (eg various Kasparov games) and yet in other positions, like yours, R+N+P will bamboozle a Queen. It takes precise positional judgment to know when the sac is sound. |
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Jul-02-13
| | Domdaniel: <ruk.an + suckpoppets> I don't read your imbecilic posts. Give everyone a break, and just shut up. |
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| Jul-02-13 | | ruk.an: < Domdaniel: <ruk.an + suckpoppets> I don't read your imbecilic posts. Give everyone a break, and just shut up> hahaha
did i not tell you to stop talking to me or about me. you can't do that and on top of that here you again passing judgement on my posts -'im......' you should learn not to judge. :)
in past you did read my post and passed judgement. this time , you did not read and still passed judgement. hahaha
you are a funny guy , <domdaniel>. :) |
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| Jul-02-13 | | ruk.an: so, this time i leave you alone with a stern warning that you should learn to behave in future , <domdaniel> take care , mate :) |
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| Jul-02-13 | | JoergWalter: <Of course, I have been DEEPLY studying the Velimirovic (on-and-off) for something like 25 years, so (by now) you would guess I would at least know the basics of the line.> Is the following also a Velimirovic?
http://www.chess.com/livechess/game... |
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Jul-02-13
| | Domdaniel: Sunday. The greengrocer closed. The pub across the road, stunned and inturned after a late night, going through its own kind of hangover. The main street silent, focussed on not moving its head. Then three horses clatter up the hill. An old motorcycle drops through the gears to the roundabout. In the silence following that, quarrels breaks out among jackdaws. Nine energetic white-haired hikers pass my front door, off to tour the labour camps of the industrial revolution (now a shambles of arty middle class properties above a short steep valley full of thorn and blackberry). "Dad?" somebody calls, putting two syllables into it. "Dad?" It's interesting to have railings again, and a view of the street. You're among it, but distanced; everyone parks outside your door, but ten feet of neat old local tile separates you from the drunk thuds of doors, the stutter of the delivery diesel, the fractional conversations. It's enough. There's a high turnover, always something going on. The postman always bangs the knocker as well as pressing the doorbell--at first I thought it was peremptory, now I recognise it as unrelenting cheerfulness. I'm not quite as settled as I thought, but I can't explain how that works any more than I could explain the sense of familiarity I thought I felt when we first moved in. I'm travelling in opposite directions at once. There's a continuing undamped elasticity, a redistribution of momentum. I arrive too completely then I don't arrive enough. - M. John Harrison, [blog], 2013. |
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Jul-03-13
 | | Annie K.: <Dom> these recent 'dissociative disorder'-themed quotes are pretty effed-up stuff, btw. I would prefer you to, erm, dissociate yourself from such influences. ;s |
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Jul-04-13
| | Domdaniel: <A> I'm just, yanno, drifting through what people call the world ... influences come and go. Is 'effed-up' anything like, um, 'fortified'? |
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Jul-04-13
| | Annie K.: Heh. Just saying? ;)
Finished reading Light right now. Digestion will commence. But first I have to catch a few z's... Nite. :) |
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Jul-07-13
| | Domdaniel: <A> Excellent. Digesting Light is a fine idea. Meanwhile, here's more (brilliant?) pontification from Harrison's blog: <You can hate them without feeling wrong. You can kill them like eating sweets. Then you're hungry again & you can kill more. They're fully dehumanised. There's no off-season, no moral limitation. They're the enemy. What's not to love? They're what we really want. The zombie is the ultimate other in a neoliberal society. They're a rhetoric we all can use. Zombies aren't just for the insane Right, or for adolescent boys. They're for everyone. People who lean Left--who consider themselves adult & multicultural & would never be caught othering--will happily slaughter zombies. Zombies are the ultimate other: the act of othering they represent doesn't just remain unsaid (as it would with the Right): it remains unthought. The ultimate in deniability. Zombies: motiveless, other, but without any traceable connection to a group in the real world, they will never embarrass you by revealing their humanity. To position themselves as killable, they don't even have to parrot the twaddle of "evil". They're the pinnacle of Hollywood characterisation, actant & action as a single unit.> Not sure I agree, ackshully. Or, rather, his analysis of zombies is clever -- but the zombie concept itself is deeply suspect. It's a dubious myth which has become a semi-ironic horror-movie staple ... and has also become a philosophical quasi-joke, with 'zombies' contrasted with 'zimboes' to explore concepts of free will. But there are no zombies. Are there? I would never be caught othering ... nor, however, would I 'happily slaughter zombies'. Peace and lurv, maan. Eat my remaining brains. |
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Jul-07-13
| | Domdaniel: "Barrister and chess champion" Michael Waters get carried away ... http://www.independent.ie/irish-new... |
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| Jul-07-13 | | waustad: I just looked at the Irish Championship page: http://icu.ie/misc/games/live/Irish... and today there were no draws. |
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| Jul-07-13 | | waustad: What was Gordon Freeman thinking? |
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Jul-07-13
| | Annie K.: Heh. I'm thankfully so totally out of the movie fads scene that I am only vaguely aware that zombies seem to be one of the latest fashionable themes. But wasn't all this, eh, "revival" brought on by the oh-so-popular The Other White, erm, Living Dead, aka the (also nonexistent AFAIK, although I really shouldn't be admitting this, as a Transylvanian...) vampire demographic craze, because of those ridiculous Twilight (I think) novels by whasshername? Does sprinkling a few glitters on'em make that much difference, or what? Odd. ;s Anyhoo, as I was saying, I liked Light. A few days in, some characters, scenes and phrases are still vividly recallable, which probably means he was doing something right. ;) And here's your link to another outstanding tiny little gem, David Langford's 'Different Kinds of Darkness': http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/f... |
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Jul-07-13
| | Annie K.: Hmm, a bit of a tie-in on the Appearances Matter theme, shifting from mere Glittering Vampires to all-out Light; Kearney's life would surely have taken a completely different course, had the Shrander - who is a shape shifter after all - chosen to manifest to him with some pleasant appearance, instead of one that terrified him. So why would a supposedly intelligent alien do that, anyway... plot device, anyone? ;p I have also not entirely liked the oh-so-benevolent-forgive-yourself-already-willya-
Shrander's rather self-serving refusal to allow a meeting between Ed, freshly sold on trying the k-ship route, and Sister Dearest, who, incidentally, just opted out of that very honor. Gotta wonder why, eh? :| And then, Douglas Adams, himself a bit of a plagiarist as we know, was still first (not counting the bible and suchlike) with the "We Made You Earth People For a Specific Purpose" line (not the planet, Sheckley gets dibs on that one, I think, again not counting etc.), and George Lucas can fit in somewhere on the sidelines with that too... Well, 42 to them. Light is still a very good read. :D Nova Swing still hasn't arrived, btw. |
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Jul-08-13
| | Domdaniel: <A> Like most good works of fiction, Light is self-contained, a closed loop. In that sense, Nova Swing and Empty Space don't really qualify as sequels -- just novels set in the same universe. |
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Jul-08-13
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> I read the short story, thank you. I liked it. I was reminded of Pynchon's best short story, The Secret Integration, also about a group of bright schoolkids whose ideas come up short against adult realities. And in William Gibson's Zero History there's an image which instructs cameras to ignore it. |
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Jul-08-13
| | Domdaniel: More thoughts on Harrison: the two Kefahuchi 'sequels' are beautifully written, and are not devoid of narrative drive. Yet both are somehow superfluous: idle designs in a pre-existing fictive universe, lacking the pure primacy of Light. |
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| Jul-08-13 | | hms123: <Dom> <Annie> The BLIT-type image is also a key part of <Snow Crash>. |
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Jul-08-13
| | Domdaniel: <waustad> Thanks for the Irish c'ship link. I see Rory Quinn is in the lead with 2/2 -- and I've beaten him three times in the past couple of years. Sigh. <hms> And thank you ... Snow Crash: is it a virus or a drug? Does it fugg up your computer or your brain?
... What's the difference? |
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Jul-09-13
| | Domdaniel: <more chess, of all topics> ... I've been following live games in the Irish c'ship (afternoons) and also the supporting morning tournament, which isn't particularly strong - I've beaten several of the competitors. But the c'ship isn't very strong either -- the sole leader on 3/3 is Rory Quinn, whom I've beaten three times in recent years. Oh, I said that already, didn't I? Heh. What I tell you three times is true.
In the morning event, 5 of the top 6 games were Black wins -- showing that the current ascendancy of Black isn't just an elite GM thing. I almost wish I was playing. It's only 80 miles away, in Limerick. Sigh. |
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