< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 38 OF 112 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
Oct-16-12
 | | Fusilli: <EA> That is a nasty, nasty carpet! |
|
Oct-17-12 | | Expendable Asset: <Fusilli> ""History is a lie agreed upon." ---- Napoleon |
|
Nov-08-12 | | morfishine: Hi <Fusilli>! Glad you liked that Tal game! I've become more interested in Tal over the past 6 months or so; For some reason, he's one I never was interested in studying. What a mistake that has been, and what a really fine gentleman he was too. Hey, if you come across any noteworthy games, feel free to drop them off at my forum. My game collection is primarily of striking games like this Tal Game. For example, check out this game: The double knight sac is shocking: Stanishevsky vs Nikonov, 1981 Or this wild game: A Riazantsev vs V Nevostrujev, 2002 Later, Morf |
|
Nov-09-12
 | | Fusilli: Hey <morf>, thanks for stopping by! Overly busy right now, but I will look at those games this weekend. Thanks for referring me to them. Tal was just formidable. His best games are visually stunning. He is the player of the day today! |
|
Nov-11-12 | | morfishine: Hi <Fusilli>! I knew you'd love that game! Apparently, Riazantsev has a knack for these type of games |
|
Nov-11-12
 | | Fusilli: <morf> But Riazantsev was on the losing side... do you mean that he has lost other games like this? |
|
Nov-12-12 | | morfishine: Oops <Fusilli> In my haste, I got it backwards :) |
|
Nov-18-12 | | brankat: <Fusilli>
<He is the player of the day today!> And of every other day, too :-)
Hi Mariano! How have You been? |
|
Nov-19-12 | | brankat: <Fusilli> Hi again! Thanks for visiting my place. I've been mostly all right. Besides, it usually doesn't help to complain. As some say: "Patience, and shuffle the cards." :-) <..on sabbatical, working at the University of Colorado. Trying to wrap up a couple of papers before my sabbatical runs out.> You work while on a sabbatical? Well then, what do You do when You work? Rest? :-) Your students probably don't realize just how lucky they are :-) |
|
Nov-19-12
 | | Fusilli: <brankat> lol... Contrary to popular assumptions, sabbaticals are not supposed to be vacations, but a period of intensive research and scholarship, so that professors can stay up to date, explore new research directions, and altogether be productive. Of course, it does happen that many give up on research once they have had tenure for a number of years. I do not object to this when they compensate for it by being extragood at teaching, university and community service, administration, etc. (Remember academia is a self-managed institution, so a good number of us have sometimes heavy administrative responsibilities.) In recent years universities have been moving towards being stricter with sabbaticals. In most places they are not conferred automatically anymore. One has to show a research plan and turn in a performance evaluation after coming back. Vanderbilt explicitly expects those going on sabbatical to make an effort to get external funding. Those who have ostensibly given up on research are not likely to get a sabbatical. |
|
Nov-19-12
 | | Fusilli: By the way, I think the term "sabbatical" is falling out of favor too. I am "on research leave"... that's the way they put it. I think it is better than "sabbatical". It makes it explicit that I am supposed to be doing research... apart from kibbitzing on cg.com, that is. ;) |
|
Nov-19-12 | | brankat: <Fusilli> Yes, "Research leave" is a more precise term, while "sabbatical" does indeed have "vacations" connotations. Actually, that was the very first thing that occurred to me when I read Your post. He's on his vacations, I thought, and yet...must be a workaholic :-) As for the kibitzing, I've always felt that this site is a great place to do various kinds of researches: Psychology, Sociology, History, Economics. Even Chess :-) Some five years ago a friend (a member of CG.com) started his university schooling and opted for Psychology. I suggested (half-jokingly) to invest 4 years in heavy-duty kibitzing at CG, rather than "wasting" time and money on formal academic pursuits :-) Lately, he's been working on his master's thesis. Took quite a while to choose a topic. They all resembled a minefield :-) So, then again, I suggested CG as an inspiration, something like: "The Psychology of the ChessBookie game player", or "The Psyche of the CG Troll" :-) But, I don't think he listened :-) |
|
Nov-19-12 | | dakgootje: Sounds like a marvelous fellow! |
|
Nov-19-12 | | brankat: <dakgootje> Yes, he is a marvelous fellow! It's too bad I'm not at liberty to reveal the Identity. |
|
Nov-19-12 | | hms123: <brankat>
<Fusilli> is correct. Vanderbilt has never had an a sabbatical policy. It is considered and officially termed a <paid leave>. It is not automatic. Some people never get them. Others get them quite often. The leading edge is research. |
|
Nov-19-12 | | brankat: <hms123> Thanks, But then, the friend I mentioned in the previous post, must have been on a 5-year-research leave. So Lucky! Btw: <...had an a sabbatical..:>? ;-) |
|
Nov-19-12 | | hms123: <brankat> I sometimes type faster than I think. |
|
Nov-19-12
 | | Fusilli: <hms123> <Some people never get them. Others get them quite often.> I can understand why some might never get them, but what do you mean that others get them quite often? I thought a paid research leave comes up every X years (is it six?) A different thing is to buy out your teaching with money from research grants so that you can use your time for that grant's research (I have done that, but you still have to fulfill service and administrative responsibilities... you are only exempted from teaching). And another animal is when you get an extra leave in your contract as an extra perk when two universities are fighting for you... which was my luck three years ago. :) |
|
Nov-20-12 | | brankat: Yes, You have to be Good to be Lucky :-)
I think even Capablanca stated something like that. |
|
Nov-23-12 | | waustad: <<waustad> Here's an operatic question for you. What does Lucia di Lammermoor die of? An attack of madness is not a valid cause of death! :)>Probably the same thing as Isolde and so many others in that era died of. Grief? Brunhilde had the flames, but the 19th century had a thing for such things. I would expect that some stagings include suicide by knife. I'm trying to remember if the Met production explicitly does that, but the detail escapes me. It may be as up in the air as the end of Die Todte Stadt. |
|
Nov-23-12
 | | Fusilli: <waustad> Well, yes, but if the regisseur puts a knife in Lucia's hand when it wasn't in the original script, it's kind of cheating, isn't it? Although I can see that suicide is a perfectly believable alternative, even an improvement...? I'd say she suffered cardiac arrest provoked by off-the-charts stress. Don't you love opera deaths? :) |
|
Nov-24-12 | | hms123: <fusilli>
One of the anthro big shots used to get a leave every other year. Private universities play by their own rules. |
|
Nov-24-12
 | | Fusilli: <H> That's good to know! But my likelihood of becoming a big shot is, sadly, so low... |
|
Dec-02-12 | | waustad: Thanks for the input. I've toyed with the idea of getting involved in scholastic chess myself by doing some chess at the middle school here. I used to help out with a chess club for 5th-6th graders years ago, but they weren't in USCF. |
|
Dec-02-12
 | | scormus: <Sabbatical> Something of a misnomer, perhaps. The first time I came across this it was referred to as <study leave> IMO the most apt term. BTW I like your operatic leanings |
|
 |
 |
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 38 OF 112 ·
Later Kibitzing> |