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Feb-01-11
 | | Open Defence: hmmm you must be a fan of Yoko Lennon I guess.... |
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Feb-01-11
| | Open Defence: first he tried messing around with <TD> and now here, hmmm I think some of the sockpuppets are revolting again... |
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Feb-01-11
 | | Domdaniel: <Deffi> TD is smarter than me -- he just puts 'em on Ignore at once. I have this foolish habit of feeding trolls. But it's slowly dawning on me that attention is all they want anyway. That and the idea of 'hitting a nerve'. Woo-hay! Rock on! Where is Beatles Band? |
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| Feb-01-11 | | hms123: <neils> Idiomatically, "back office" refers to the folks like deffi--accountants and the like--who do all the careful work necessary for an organization to function. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl... |
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Feb-01-11
| | Open Defence: < hms123: <neils> Idiomatically, "back office" refers to the folks like deffi--accountants and the like--who do all the careful work necessary for an organization to function.> yup! we're right behind you! |
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| Feb-01-11 | | hms123: <deffi> I thought you'd like the green eyeshade. I assume you have a complete set of them to use depending on the occasion. :-) |
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Feb-01-11
| | Open Defence: +14 ballpoint pens...
a wardrobe of grey trousers
and those old mechanical calculators that printed the results... |
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Feb-01-11
| | Domdaniel: Ah, sanity is returned. Although I have a small issue with ballpoint pens. As a left-hander (sinister, gauche, cack-handed citeog) I have to *push* the pen across the page, at least when writing English. It creates friction and a loss of fluidity. And even the cleanest hand, by sitting on the bit of page yet to be writ upon, can cause blockages. I used to buy architects' drawing pens - beautiful things - with a smooth flow of ink and different nib sizes. But I tended to lose them, which was careless. So various kinds of fine fibre-tip pens do instead. I'd really like a Victorian gold-nibbed fountain pen, but it would soon become a trophy for some lucky tea-leaf. So I do actually use ballpoints now, a lot of the time. I can't write prose with one, though -- only jagged notes. I need a keyboard to form sentences. Something to do with rhythm. Must ask Annie ... is it the done thing to use different pens when writing left-to-right and right-to-left? Or even boustrophedon
.siht ekil |
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| Feb-01-11 | | dakgootje: You could try writing with the pen between your lips. Or join the right-writers. 'cording to mi-mum, I used to eat with my left hand. Afterwards I discovered this wonderful invention called 'spoon'. Moreover, I am left-footed, but for the rest I'm right handed. It's simply because I can join the winning party whenever the inevitable right vs left war breaks out. |
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| Feb-01-11 | | crawfb5: Not to mention slow-drying inks are strictly taboo for us leftists. <Must ask Annie ... is it the done thing to use different pens when writing left-to-right and right-to-left?> I suspect that's quite idiosyncratic. Writers often have various rituals they use to ease the transition from non-writing to writing, and particular pens or pencils can be part of the routine. I used to prefer a mechanical pencil for some kinds of work, one with a slightly harder lead that would not smear quite so easily. Of course I would then have to <search> for it, so I finally went back to regular pencils, bought plenty, and scattered them anywhere I might need one. |
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| Feb-01-11 | | achieve: <hms> tks, and indeed, I just realized that in dutch even job vacancy ads and descriptions make use of the term "back office" ... <<dumbdaniel> pulls your strings> That's a plain lie and personally offensive, which ought to get you banned; removed like a malignant growth. Btw twisting a username like you do *is* sufficient for an immediate ban. |
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Feb-01-11
| | Domdaniel: There we go. And there goes Lemming. He won't be back. Just too bleedin' *mouthy*, wasn't he? Probably one of those intellectuals at heart. It works like homophobia - the ones who complain the loudest about a particular proclivity are usually fighting their own urges. Wow. I actually Iggied someone. I'd better do a few more in case it makes the recipient feel special. |
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Feb-01-11
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> Thanks. You were right earlier when you said he'd get deleted. And thanks again for standing up for all things decent. God, what a creep that one was. |
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| Feb-01-11 | | achieve: <Dom> No probs - and now deffi is being targeted with the same bee ess. I'll take my precautionary measure now and then off to bed. |
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Feb-01-11
 | | Annie K.: <Dom> congratulations, about time. Pens? That's so, like, last millennium, innit? ;)
OK, if I must actually use one - say, at work, or for writing down moves at tournaments... I insist on Pilot's needle-point rolling ball pens. These don't need to be pressed too forcibly against the paper to write, so you can adopt a "lighter hand" style writing, which will mean less staining. |
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Feb-01-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Well, my so-called principles are pretty random, and thus flexible. I just don't get around to innovation very often. You're right, of course. It was *high* time I used some of my superpowers. I've had some innaresting conversations with writers about writing equipment. They can be almost fetishistic about it - Nabokov wrote his books in pencil on index cards. William Gibson invented cyberspace on a battered typewriter, and only later became the @GreatDismal tweeterist he is today. I've heard there's now a device used in American chess tournaments, which lets you enter moves on a screen rather than keep a written score. Haven't seen 'em here yet. Isn't there a danger of such machines having a hot-wired Rybka under the hood? |
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Feb-01-11
| | Domdaniel: The Lemming seems to have been vanished from several places. I tried searching for some earlier noxious post in order to rat on him - no sense in half-measures, eh? - and there they were, gone. Good for our admins. And thanks to whoever turned him in first. |
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Feb-01-11
| | Domdaniel: I've found another one to Iggy already. I'll probably be a Republican by tomorrow morning. |
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Feb-01-11
| | Annie K.: <Dom: <The Lemming seems to have been vanished from several places. I tried searching for some earlier noxious post in order to rat on him - no sense in half-measures, eh? - and there they were, gone.>> My dear... I can see you'll need some time to get used to these superpowers. ;) Of course his posts are "gone" - you have him on ignore. :D Ja, when I first started using my ignore, I went straight to five or so too. I don't think I've ever gone much higher than that... and I clear it every now and then. I've emptied it a couple of months ago, ackshly, and just repopulated it today - guess who. So, any chance of 1.e4 next? =) |
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Feb-01-11
| | Domdaniel: Oh. So that's how it works. Heh.
I'm confused because somebody put me on ignore once and still seemed to know what I was saying. Maybe he toggled. I'm remembering all the reasons I used to have ... messing up the page count, depriving myself of mices, uh, mebbe there was more. No. This time it was the correct solution.
1.e4 ... ? You want I should learn lines in the Pirc, Alekhines, Caro-Kann, French, Modski and a dozen different Sicilians? Not to mention 1...e5, a move so horrible it must remain nameless. No, basically. I have my methods. I like the positions I get. I don't feel comfortable in open games. Call it chessic agoraphobia, if you must. |
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Feb-01-11
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Thank you, too, for the usual sterling support, and not nuking Yurp. Speaking of Dirty Limericks, news arrived today that Nigel Short is playing in Bunratty later this month? Should I try to blackmail him? I s'pose not. Old Nige turned out good in the end, and has been having a high time in Gib. He needs to tear up an Open every so often to remind us that he's not riff-raff. |
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Feb-01-11
| | Annie K.: <I'm confused because somebody put me on ignore once and still seemed to know what I was saying. Maybe he toggled.> Yep. He can has two accounts, and only one of'em was ignoring you. ;) Also, the kibitzing search ignores the ignore list.
<1.e4 ... ? You want I should learn lines in the Pirc, Alekhines, Caro-Kann, French, Modski and a dozen different Sicilians? Not to mention 1...e5, a move so horrible it must remain nameless.> Heh. Anyhoo, French shouldn't be a problem, since you play it as Black - unless you're like me, and think remembering how to play <one side> of an opening is enough? ;) |
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Feb-01-11
 | | chancho: <Dom> This <Lennonfan> guy is a regular riot.
He claims he's never broken any "rules", but he's broken #3 repeatedly.
I've never even said a thing to him, and yet I'm in his list.
For someone who talks about having a "life", he sure is spending a lot of time telling us about it. *yawn* |
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Feb-01-11
| | Domdaniel: <chancho> Yeah, but an uglier riot than most. If everyone puts him on ignore he might get the message. *Some* message, anyhow.
If I was a Beatles fan I'd actually be annoyed. Taking the name in vain, and all that. You must have made the mistake of writing a coherent sentence. That's apparently a known sign of intellectuals. Whatever they are. |
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Feb-01-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> - < unless you're like me, and think remembering how to play <one side> of an opening is enough?> Yep, there are very few where I play both sides. Hence stuff like 1.Nf3 f5 2.e4 to avoid the Dutch as White. Against the English, I try out whatever system last gave me trouble. Recently this was the Symmetrical Var, which is why I played 1...c5 en route to losing a certain recent game. I used to play 1.c4 e5 as both colors ... does that count? Remember I think even 1.d4 is dangerously mainstream. I might be ready to try it soon, though. ;) I retire. ♘e6. |
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