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Dec-03-10
 | | Domdaniel: Between obsolete and extinct is my turf, my zone, the metaphysical street I didn't quite succeeed in growing up on. I *know* about between obsolete and extinct. There's still secrecy. Quantum-encrypted stego, or whatever. The trick with secrets is to make 'em so unimportant nobody can be bothered unravelling them. I accept that this may be a serious underestimation of human nature. |
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Dec-03-10
 | | Annie K.: <Between obsolete and extinct is my turf, my zone[...]> My, it sure is crowded here... :p
A secret is something known to one mousy, and very lucky, teetotaler? ;) |
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Dec-03-10
| | Domdaniel: <A secret is something known to one mousy, and very lucky, teetotaler?> I could riff on this. I could loop around it in ways that might indicate that I knew what it means, but, ehhh, I don't. Stumped. Gonna havta engage my crypto gears better for the comp. |
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Dec-03-10
| | Annie K.: :) ah, the recipe was: start from the known saying "a secret is something known to <one> person", then refine. Exclude dangers of leakage due to: (1) attracting attention of personages equipped with Spanish Inquisition collector items; (2) attracting attention <anyway>; and (3) blabbing it out under some influence or other, even without coercion. Then, <maybe>, it will stay secret. ;) |
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Dec-03-10
| | Domdaniel: Oh. O.K.A.Y. Right. Makes perfect, yes, quite. Don't think I knew the said known saying, but I shoulda. Do mouses have tails from the crypt? |
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Dec-03-10
| | Annie K.: <Don't think I knew the said known saying> So you're not "everybody" either, QED & congrats. ;)
<Do mouses have tails from the crypt?> The ingredients as I recognize them would be:
- mouse from mousy, just mentioned
- crypt from encryption, also mentioned.
- 'Tales from the Crypt' which I don't know, but assume is some kind of horror/zombie/vampire novel and/or movie. Did I miss anything? :) |
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Dec-03-10
| | Domdaniel: Miss anything? Nope, nada. Maybe TFTC was a 1950s horror comicbook? Ah, yes, here we are. Also a TV series, 1989-1996 or so, but the title started with EC Comics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_... |
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Dec-03-10
| | Annie K.: Aha. Thanks. It's had an interesting publishing history. I'm not a fan of the horror genre, but running through the synopses there, it wasn't bad, as plots go, if one likes that sort of thing. |
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Dec-04-10
| | Domdaniel: Not a great horror lover myself - there's basically just one plot and a few subtwists - but I was a comics fan, with detailed histories of the genre. And I used to draw covers for imaginary titles like 'Thrilling Gall-bladder Stories' and 'Genetic Engineering Does Not Pay'. Tales from deep in the crypt.
Yes, s'pose I should *try harder* on the email front. Dear. |
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Dec-04-10
| | Domdaniel: <nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for> Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one's home universe, or as a longing for versions of one's self that one will never, and can never know. (Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe) |
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Dec-04-10
| | Domdaniel: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the theories of Freud
He has warned of all the evils that the Ego must avoid Repression of the impulses results in paranoid ...
And the id goes marching on.
Melanie Safka, Psychotherapy
http://www.we7.com/song/Melanie/Psy... |
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Dec-04-10
| | Domdaniel: More odds than ends, more wishy than washy, more helter than skelter. |
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Dec-04-10
| | Annie K.: <Dom: <OK. Even I am a *little* paranoid now. Too much spook stuff going on.>> Nach. Remember, ceegee had to go into the script yesterday to fix Natalia's 33...Bf1 to 33...Bxf1, and they also manually moved all the 34.Bf1 votes to 34.Bxf1, and presumably banned 34.Bf1 as a legal move for this turn - they recently explained that they do that on a per-move basis, and manually. And when you mess around with the script, bugs happen, very easily. Complex code is a fragile thing. Incidentally, I'm very upset this weekend, because of the Carmel forest fires here. Humor supply will probably be relatively low for a while. |
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Dec-04-10
| | Domdaniel: Brilliant. The solution, not the fires. Verily is it said that a manual kludge begets many bugs. You really are cleverer than everybody else.
I'm used to hearing from denizens of Australia or California about out-of-control fires ... but Israel? That's new. Humour, of course, is a traditional response to stress, and should never be abandoned. Easy for me to say. One day I tell you it never snows here, then I'm iced in. Though I seem to have missed the blizzards whooshing by, about ten miles in any direction. |
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Dec-04-10
| | Domdaniel: Burning Heavens...
- WS Burroughs |
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Dec-04-10
 | | Open Defence: http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnesh... |
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Dec-04-10
| | Annie K.: <I'm used to hearing from denizens of Australia or California about out-of-control fires ... but Israel? That's new.> We've had major fires in the Carmel forest before, in 1989 and 1998, and a smaller outbreak in 2005. (At the time of the the '05 fire, I was living in Nesher - a separate municipality from Haifa, but right next to it, and just opposite the fire - other side of the mountain. No fire danger, but the smoke was very heavy.) But nothing this bad.
<Humour, of course, is a traditional response to stress, and should never be abandoned.Easy for me to say.>
Not only that, but you're pretty much quoting me back at me. :p Regardless, stress isn't the issue here. It's hard to find amusement in the fates of the forest wildlife and the stray animals abandoned in the communities from which the people were evacuated. Sometimes, being an empath sux more than usual.
Sigh. |
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| Dec-04-10 | | hms123: <Dom> You weren't late, but I am. your post almost got lost in the deluge of votes. Nonetheless, it is much appreciated, if equally valued with the others. |
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Dec-04-10
| | Domdaniel: - How can you joke at a time like this?
- That's why. It's always a time like this. |
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Dec-04-10
| | Annie K.: Well, that's literally correct - there's almost always <something> horrible happening <somewhere> - it's just that we live, so I hear, in a <space>-time continuum (i.e., space is a factor too), and my emotional wiring is mostly normal human, inasmuch as I'm more affected by what happens nearby. Ah well. Know any good jokes? |
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Dec-04-10
| | Annie K.: <Do mouses have tails from the crypt?> Talk about missing the forest for the trees... no, the mouses are wireless. |
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Dec-04-10
| | Domdaniel: I see it more as a continuum of possible responses ... like, if you can actually comfort some suffering furball, your empathy is being put to good use. But if the furball is going to suffer anyway ... and since proximity means less and less in this info-saturated environment ... well. That way lies TV and its gloops of cheap empatho-porn. Jokes? Nah. But I found this video while looking for the Melanie song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3sO... |
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Dec-04-10
| | Annie K.: <That way lies TV and its gloops of cheap empatho-porn.> And I don't keep a TV why? ;)
That video is funny. :) |
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Dec-04-10
| | Domdaniel: <And I don't keep a TV why?>
Dunno. Because he might borrow your clothes?
TV seems to facilitate intense emotional relationships with imaginary people. This medium is quite different. |
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Dec-04-10
| | Annie K.: <<And I don't keep a TV why?> Dunno. > >
Self defense. I <am> an empath - oversensitive. Can't handle the empathy requirements on that scale. <This medium is quite different.> Yep. :) |
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