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Sep-12-13
 | | Domdaniel: <St Louis Zeitnot>
"Time is always time/ and place is always and only place"
- TS Eliot
"Just time, is all, just time"
- William S Burroughs
Eliot and Burroughs, of course, were natives of St Louis who spent much of their time outside the USA. St Louis has now become a chess centre, thanks to the financial donations of R. Sinquefield. The Zeitnot was there waiting
Clocks poised forever
Awaiting some tiny change
in circumstances.
Thistledown whispers of rust
on synaptic girders. |
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Sep-14-13
 | | perfidious: <Dom>: Thanks for your kind words on my game in the Makogonov KID. Round about 1997, I picked up a copy of Suba's <Dynamic Chess Strategy>, in which the author writes of the Makogonov and Hedgehog, two of his specialities. Played the Hedgehog once and Makogonov a few times in correspondence. If you have never seen Suba's book, it is a fun read, with a slightly offbeat style, not at all a dry instructional manual, in similar fashion to Adorjan's <Black is OK!>. |
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Sep-15-13
| | Domdaniel: <perf> Thanks. I don't think I've read anything by Suba, apart perhaps from a couple of magazine articles. But I'll check him out. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | MarkFinan: Hi Dom ... Yes, I was once wrong about you before, but im a lot more cautious and careful about who i listen to nowadays, i would never knowingly lie, be it on this site or in real life...unless youre a policeman Lol.. Anyways, i wont even get started on them! Its no secret mate, i dont think either Jess or oldfoci are denying whats gone on. Apart from that i dont know what else to say, i guess people will form their own opinions. :-) |
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Sep-17-13
| | Domdaniel: <Mark> Yeah, of course, I understand that. And your latest revelation sounded pretty correct. I only wanted to say that you can't be right all the time ... who can? None of us, apart of course from the Blessed LMAJ who is free from errors (chess and otherwise) by Divine Order ... |
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Sep-17-13
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> Seeing you in my forum twice in the last few days has got me thinking. First how much I love to see you in my forum. Second, I think the all-too many hysterical obscene tirades I've subjected you to over all these years may have less to do with what I think I'm talking about, and more to do with really missing you and feeling "neglected." I do recognize that my responses of this kind rarely make much sense and they are rude almost beyond comprehension. And again there have been too many. You don't deserve them, particularly not from me. I got so curious from your last post that I actually suspected "Bad Heavens" might be some obscure indie-group from the 1980s. I tried to find "Bad Heavens" online, but apparently it's not a musical group. Is it the title of a science fiction short story?
Mainly though, it just feels really good to hear from you. |
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Sep-17-13
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Great to hear from you too. Um, 'Bad heavens' doesn't refer to anything in particular (though I wouldn't blame you for thinking that I always have an obscure reference up my sleeve ... as it were ... as it were? What's that *thing* doing in my sleeve ... out, out, damned spot ... eh, sorry, I'm rambling again ...).
'Bad heavens' was simply intended as the opposite of 'good heavens'. But, on reflection, maybe the heavens are neutral? |
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Sep-17-13
| | jessicafischerqueen: Hmm..
Why not invent a new idiom then?
I bet "Neutral Heavens" hasn't been used yet. Doesn't sound like something that would turn up in a <Shagspr Sonnet> eh? I would have liked to have met him, if only to ask him about his penchant for signing his name with different spelling all the time. I'd copy him, but I don't think I'd get sufficient milage out of a four letter name composed of only three letters. No doubt you possess some incomprehensible maths algorithm that can quickly calculate how many different spellings there are to "Jess." Which begs a question I've been meaning to ask for years: "Why does a professional culture critic know so many maths?" |
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Sep-17-13
| | Domdaniel: <"Why does a professional culture critic know so many maths?">
Yes, Zhess ... because maths is a place to escape into from 'culture criticism', maybe? For years, I didn't know much maths ... but then I found myself drawn to it. I think I've spent my life ("I suppose you could call it living") in a sort of oscillation between CP Snow's infamous Two Cultures.
Oscillation? "Regina Osculat Porcam". |
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Sep-17-13
| | jessicafischerqueen: Aha!
I'm not really a "languages person" but I'm going to take a stab at your Latin here: "Regina Osculat Porcam"
"Queen Eye Pork"
I'm guessing it's not a particularly fine cut of swine. This *has* to be the name of an indie band. |
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Sep-17-13
| | Domdaniel: < This *has* to be the name of an indie band.> Nah. It's the example that my college tutor used to give to exemplify Latin or Anglo-Saxon case endings: 'Regina osculat porcam' is 'the queen kisses the pig', and 'reginam osculat porca' is 'the pig kisses the queen' ...
- yours ever, Porky. |
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Sep-17-13
| | jessicafischerqueen: "Pork Queen" from Vancouver, Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkxq... |
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Sep-17-13
 | | Annie K.: <JessDom> Good to see you two talking to each other again, therefore I will butt in. :p "The heavens" are *not* neutral; this refers to a view of space from Earth. As usual, it's all a matter of POV. ;) |
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| Sep-17-13 | | Memethecat: Hey Dom, all I could remember was the Indian town's name resembled doolaly. The Irish flag was a gift from CGs server, not of my choosing, or a Fenian slip perhaps!? Nice to see things are bubbling along nicely here on the forums, it can be pretty funny when you've not been here for a while, like taking the lid of off a noisy box. I've got a mouse, new guest, stared at me from the top of the opposing sofa today, held my eye for 30sec, really nice. Cat's probably brought it in & not made the kill; she's loving it, poised to pounce 'cause she just heard a noise. Don't fancy the mouses chances. Haha |
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Sep-17-13
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Annie> heh... is there anything you don't know about? Also, what's this POV acronym?
This better not have something do do with kinky bondage costumes... |
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Sep-17-13
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Howay Meme> good to see you back. You know you said something a long time ago that I think of often- Something like before you could download an entire discography, you could "pass a mate a song." But passing the entire discography tends to dilute that intimacy eh? |
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Sep-17-13
 | | WCC Editing Project: <Dom> on a topic I recently saw you post about, I'd like to explain my post in here 6 years ago about "when we vanquished the Frog at Waterloo."
My French is a little rusty. |
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Sep-17-13
| | WCC Editing Project: *Agincourt*
When I'm wearing the Ayatollah costume I'm not supposed to say anything controversial. Though I just noticed you have comments set "not to appear." Still, better safe than sorry. Incidentally, I don't believe the traditional historical account of how small a number of Englishmen died at Agincourt. Beggars belief, really. Isn't it something like "five (5)"? However, I doubt many contemporaneous sources about any great historical battle casualties can be trusted. I am obliged to say at least one historical thing whilst wearing this outlandish gear. |
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Sep-17-13
| | Annie K.: <...is there anything you don't know about?> Wouldn't know, would I? ;p
<This better not have something do do with kinky bondage costumes...> I agree! =) |
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Sep-17-13
| | WCC Editing Project: <Wouldn't know, would I? > ahah that had to percolate in my "brain" for several hours until I understood it. |
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| Sep-18-13 | | Alien Math: Find a <Geek Pop Quiz: Can You Identify These Movies Without Faces Think you’re a total movie geek? An expert on all things cinema? What if we give you a single frame from a trailer–one with no faces in it–can you identify the movie? Some are harder than others! No prizes here but personal satisfaction. Discuss in the comments, and we’ll reveal the answers in a few days.>
http://geekmom.com/2013/09/geek-pop...
Think know one, all other movie have no idea. |
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Sep-18-13
| | Domdaniel: <This better not have something do do with kinky bondage costumes...>
Well spotted. POV is of course an acronym for 'Plastic or Vinyl', an important choice facing anyone thinking of investing in such a costume.
So unlike the home life of our own dear queen. |
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| Sep-18-13 | | dakgootje: A queen kissing a pig? Those royals really are into some weird stuff. Anyway, regarding 'Regina(m) osculat porca(m)' - does ending with an m signal the word is some active actor of the verb? In which case, would 'Reginam osculat porcam' be both kissing each other; and 'Regina osculat porca' the queen and the pig looking slightly awkward to each other, unsure of what to do? |
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Sep-18-13
| | Domdaniel: <dak> An innaresting thought ... but Latin is a strict mistress ('Dominatrix' ... hmm ... sounds like one of my Dom-relatives ...).
Those double-accusative or subject-only sentences are quite impossible.
The -m ending signifies one to whom something is done; the nominative -a ending signifies the agent, the one doing the doing. And, as we know, the world can be divided into those who do and those who are done ... or, as Thomas Pynchon said (almost), "Feck not with me, lest instead of fecker you become feckee ..." |
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Sep-18-13
| | Domdaniel: <Feck> ... that's if Thomas Pynchon was a character on Father Ted. "Feck, it's Bishop Pynchon ... he's Gorbally's Rainbow, y'know ..." "Whaat?"
- Richard Nixon. |
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