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Dec-17-10
 | | Annie K.: Yup, me likes. Cute. :)
Repetition - let me reiterate, and I can't say this enough times... ;p - is an important training/conditioning method, providing much of the basis of important stuffz like learning and advertising. Not like you didn't know this. ;) Not incidentally, I thought not having much short-term memory was annoying... until I met somebody who didn't have much long-term memory. Now <that> is a serious problem. He'd repeat entire conversations, almost word for word, except where he sometimes remembered things that I changed his mind about - and then, next time around, he'd be earnestly trying to convince <me> of these things. :\ But the even worse part was that after several years of "friendship", he didn't know a thing about me. I ain't complaining about my memory. |
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Dec-17-10
 | | Domdaniel: Hey, *I* sometimes remember things you changed my mind about. Sometimes.
;) |
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Dec-17-10
| | Annie K.: Well, it hasn't happened that often...
<very small font>
... yet.
</very small font>
;) |
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Dec-17-10
| | Domdaniel: 1. Smileys, use of.
2. Niceness, coolness of. Though not *really* a change, as you know perfectly well. 3. Um. OK, maybe some behavioral adjustments which were latent anyhow. 4. Umm. Auer, Bach? |
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Dec-17-10
| | Domdaniel: (*Auel, Back* didn't work ...)
That's my excuse, and I'm unlikely to stick to it. Ouch. |
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Dec-17-10
| | Domdaniel: <ultramicroscopic font> Wow.
Hey, I think I discovered a new form of crypto. Or else I've been staring at CG so long I've begun to hallucinate. Memo: refresh *body*, not screen.
Memo: put *both* to sleep ... |
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Dec-17-10
| | Annie K.: Heh. Your memory is excellent, in fact. :)
I'm kinda hazy about whether I actually got #4 - but, Shirley, that's on accounta, I'm currently busy reading the Strugatsky novelette 'Roadside Picnic' (which I have here in Hungarian but haven't read before), because I saw your mention of it over at the Cafe. That's my excuse, anyway, and I'm definitely sticking to it... but you see, it hasn't all been one-way. ;) G'♘. :) |
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Dec-17-10
| | Domdaniel: A ♘ on e6.
I know somebody compared it to a rusty nail in the knee, but I think that meant it was a
<good ♘>
All context, innit? |
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Dec-17-10
| | Annie K.: A very <Russian> thing to say, that... wasn't it Bogoljubov? Context, perspective, POV.
♘e6, then. ;) |
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Dec-17-10
| | Domdaniel: Memories...
"Can you remember
The time that my member
-ship of CG all but expired?
We stayed in the hunt
Fed no troll nor no ... runt
And I won some time back
But got rather tired..." |
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Dec-17-10
| | Annie K.: You're still around? :)
Just finished reading Roadside Picnic. Great story. Powerful. It hits exactly on what half of SF is really about, which is the best and worst of human nature. |
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Dec-17-10
| | Domdaniel: Not just around, but here and there.
Yeah, the Strugatsky brothers were the biz. Their take on an SF Canada seems far more texturally appropriate than any Nordamericano version of future Russias. Lucky Russian SF readers. Even William Gibson's great story "Red Star, Winter Orbit" in which the Russian hero of the Mars landing is stranded on a dying space station with a KGB minder... The film, Stalker, is somehow more *spiritual* than the book -- and for once I don't mean anything negative by that term. |
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Dec-17-10
| | Annie K.: Yes, I think the Russian SF writers never tried to either demonize the West, or present them as simpletons, or any other caricaturized uniform trend. Makes you wonder about freedom of press, and who actually had it, and all that. :s I've read something by Yefremov too, a fascinating novel called 'The Razor's Edge'. |
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Dec-17-10
| | Domdaniel: I discovered that 'Light' by M.John Harrison -- an alltime favorite, as mentioned -- had a sequel named 'Nova Swing', published a coupla years ago. Must try to find it. Apparently there's a 3rd part on the way. Kirkus Review said this about Nova Swing: <"a cross between J. G. Ballard intense, static The Drowned World and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's terrifying Roadside Picnic. The upshot: This science-fiction noir cum literary and social criticism is memorable, perplexing and challenging in equal measure...> High praise, no? |
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Dec-17-10
| | Annie K.: Sounds like. Yeah, I remember you mentioned Light. :) Think I'll tackle my newly acquired Ballard collection of three novelettes next on my reading list... ;) |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: More bad timing, I see. Eight hours away, three clues down. And congrats to MAJ on reaching the pinnacle of being first to win five in two different years ... |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: In memory of the Captain: Harry Van Vliet Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet. Once wrote a song called 'Harry Irene'. The old fart was smart.
I will now climb into Trout Mask Replica for a while. |
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Dec-18-10
 | | Open Defence: Captain Beefheart is no more
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-... |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: The dust blows forward and the dust blows back.
I cannot go back to your Frownland. |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRH...
I scream by night
Sun screen by day
Ice cream for crow
The sun ain't stable... |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: Feline origami: A Foulds vs B De Cat, 2001 |
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Dec-18-10
| | Annie K.: Heh... :p
Free at last - just got home from my grandmother's 90'th birthday party. Gawd, how much noise can one family make?! :s A nice cup of coffee and a <quiet> evening online is what I need now. ;) |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: <I'll be very quiet> |
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Dec-18-10
| | Annie K.: :) thanks... well, posting <quietly> is ok though... ;) PS - you can has snow? =) |
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Dec-18-10
| | Domdaniel: According to http://www.godchecker.com/ ... somebody Up There has a sensa yuma. Possibly Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos... Yesterday, I tell the Kib Caff about being a teen innerleckshual snob who favored Nimzo over Fischer. Then I sleep, missing a gettable Nimzo Klu.
And that was *after* MAJ took himself out of the running. And there hasn't been another Klu all day -- well, at least 6 hours -- and now I must go do RL things. Think I told my brother I'd cook for him... |
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