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Dec-14-17
 | | Domdaniel: <MAJ> Heh, no, I was not aware of that. Then again, "You Broke my Heart, so I Busted your Jaw" doesn't figure much on CG either... |
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Dec-14-17
| | Domdaniel: Hey, I reckon I just hit 30,000 posts ... |
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| Dec-14-17 | | Chess Is More: <Domdaniel: <Boomie> I find it hard to think of movies where Cruise was any good ...>
I think he was superb in 'Born on the Fourth of July', portraying Ron Kovic. Regarding Hubbard, I think he was a gifted writer of Science Fiction. Have you ever read the story 'The Professor Was a Thief'? Innovative stuff. Hubbard is a poignant example of what we just discussed in the cafe. I appreciate Hubbard the writer, but he seems to have been a terrible human being, most probably a sociopath. |
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Dec-15-17
| | Domdaniel: <Chess Is More> I agree about 'Born on the 4th of July' - a fine movie, and Cruise is central to it. Don't know why I overlooked it previously. Thanks for reminding me.
I still disagree about Hubbard, though. I just don't care for his fiction. Admittedly, I don't much like 1940s-50s 'golden age' SF - I prefer more recent stuff, from the New Wave to contemporary writers like Peter Watts, Charles Stross, M. John Harrison, etc. |
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Dec-15-17
| | Domdaniel: Tom Cruise ... " I could see he was unhappy."
Tom (thinks):
A Scientology Thetan is never unhappy. He is supremely self-programmed and thus incapable of unhappiness. If a Thetan feels unwell or unhappy it must be due to the hostile activity of a Suppressive Person. There are two people present. I am married to one of them. Thetans do not marry Suppressives, so Nic is OK. The S.P. is the other guy. Calls himself 'Domdaniel' - I declare him Suppressive and Fair Game... |
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Dec-15-17
| | Domdaniel: Fernando Arrabal (see klu #15) is a Transcendent Satrap of the College of 'Pataphysics. As were Marcel Duchamp (greatest of chess-playing artists) and Umberto Eco (who once bought me a drink - the only satrap I've met). |
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Dec-15-17
| | Domdaniel: Arrabal is a fascinating writer (and artist, filmmaker, etc.). Like Duchamp and Beckett, he has a deep interest in chess: <Arrabal has a strong interest in chess and has attended many chess tournaments. He has close relations to American Grandmaster Gata Kamsky and has advocated for Kamsky in his chess blog during Kamsky's negotiations with FIDE (the World Chess Federation) over a match in the World Chess Championship cycle.[5]
For over thirty years, Fernando Arrabal has written a column on chess for the French weekly L’Express.> |
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Dec-18-17
| | Domdaniel: A postulate: #39 is neither arithmetical nor even numerical... |
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| Dec-18-17 | | Boomie: I was tricked into thinking it was hexadecimal since the letters only go to F, which is 16 in hex. But I can't make sense out of it that way. |
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Dec-21-17
| | Domdaniel: <Boomster> And you were right ... it was hex. I was wrong. |
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Dec-22-17
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
<Domitian>
How dare you speak to a lady like that!
Seriously I think it has something to do with the "coding" Daniel uses at this website. When I post Korean at cg.com I just copy and paste if from the GOBBLE translator. https://translate.google.com/?hl=en Here's an example: 당신은 바보 One thing I don't like about the otherwise excellent GOOFLE Translator is that it "pulls punches," probably because it can't handle idiom that well. 당신은 바보 means "You're a fool" but in fact, a much, much more faithful translation is "You're a fckn crazy idiot." Really you can't say 바보 (pronounced "babo") to anyone unless you want to get hit in the face, or fired, or some such. Predictably, middle school kids say it all the time. |
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Dec-22-17
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> My recent attempts to use Korean or Chinese characters have been thwarted. Apologies. It's a terrible feeling. As if you were to write A-B-C and see it emerge as an obscenity. Since (at the moment) no Korean person is in a position to fire me, or hit me in the face (unless Trump's Frenemy Kim 'Rocketman' wants to target me). OK, then, assuming I'm not yet an enemy of the Korean peoples ... Jess, I'm glad you're going back to Canada. |
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Dec-22-17
| | jessicafischerqueen:
I'm glad too <Dom>, thank you. Sadly, I'll be leaving several life long Korean friends behind here who don't have an "extra country" to go to. I figure we're safe through the end of the Wiener Olympics though, since the Americans sent their whole team. |
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Dec-22-17
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Of course it must be hard. What is it, ten or 12 years? I remember when we first met, here - your Dad had died, not long before. My Dad had died some years earlier, though my mother lived until her late 80s, a couple of years ago. It's strange how the death of a parent affects you. And when they're both gone, what then? Suddenly, your siblings are your closest family. Luckily, I have stayed close to sibs. Many people haven't. Never mind how many guns and idiosyncrasies your brother has - try to stay in touch with him. People who abandon family connections tend to get lost. By sheer coincidence, I just now heard a guy on the radio say "How safe do I feel on my own?" |
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| Dec-23-17 | | Alien Math: <jessicafischerqueen> sorry that you are leaving your lifelong friends in Korea, that must be hard, about google translate nara says it seriously gobbles Japanese to English, and makes for some odd phrases attempting the English to Japanese translations, for the most long while there was progress with the Vietnamese language to English until sister left and from what i've seen they are creative with Mandarin and English translations, not totally sure how well they perform with Cantonese and English since fewer of us have access to it's natural language progression, that wasn't one of the focal points here |
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| Dec-23-17 | | Boomie: I think maybe I'm losing it.
I just shot a mirror because I was looking at me funny. |
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Dec-24-17
| | Domdaniel: <Alien Math> - 'Garbles' or 'Gobbles'? They are a bit different, but either can be used metaphorically... Enjoy the Afterklu Holiday. |
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| Dec-24-17 | | MostlyAverageJoe: Happy Christmas and Merry New Year, <Dom>! |
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Dec-26-17
| | Domdaniel: <Alien Math> Hi -- do you know anything about a novel called 'The Sympathizer' by Viet Thanh Nguyen? I just got a present of a copy and will start to read it soon. It was published in 2015 and won several prizes. It looks very interesting... |
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Dec-26-17
 | | OhioChessFan: <Boomie: I just shot a mirror because I was looking at me funny.> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e9...
Two clowns are eating a cannibal. One says to the other, "I think we messed this joke up." |
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| Dec-26-17 | | Alien Math: hi <Domdaniel> the author's parents left the north in 1957 about, he was born 1971 and after fall of Saigon they fled to America in 1975, he author of several books or short stories, the majority of his stories are from his parents and the vietnamese community that he would keep asking about the vietnam war, several of the soldiers from the north also made it to America over time, that helped provide a viewpoint of some of the thinking, plans or actions the northern troops went through |
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| Dec-30-17 | | morfishine: <Domdaniel> I hope you have a great and prosperous New Year! ***** |
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Dec-30-17
| | Domdaniel: <Alien Math> I am enjoying the book ... he is a very good writer, rich and deep. Interestingly, it's much more than the usual 'memoir of exile'. Interesting that he was born in 1971, meaning he was only 4 or 5 years old when the Americans left Vietnam. The novel reads like a work of the imagination, not a work of memory. Not that I trust memory: my favourite novel is Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, published in 1973. Pynchon was born in 1937, and most of Gravity's Rainbow is set in, or around, World War 2. Older writers, like Mailer, Vonnegut, Vidal, wrote fine WW2 novels, but Pynchon is in a different league. |
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Dec-30-17
| | Domdaniel: <morf> You too! In my case 'prosperous' might be a wish too far ... but thanks anyways! |
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Dec-30-17
| | Domdaniel: <MAJ> Thanks, and a happy new year to you and yours. |
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