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Jan-20-12
 | | Domdaniel: <crawf> Yep, one o' the bard's best, that - tho' I have a soft spot for the (unfinished) sequel, <Sloth's Labours Sloshed>. 'Imprints', by Ron ... I'll be talking about engrams, evil volcano creatures and bug-eyed Hubbards from Venus next. If I'm not careful. |
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| Jan-20-12 | | frogbert: i blundered a queen during "live commentary" earlier today. :o) and noticed some posts later... at least shows that you're not exclusively quoting engine output. |
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Jan-20-12
| | Domdaniel: "I've been *insulted*. And on the internets, of all places!" S'okay folks, not me personally. Just trying something on for size. Hmm. Not really *me*, is it? |
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| Jan-20-12 | | frogbert: who are *you*? |
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Jan-20-12
 | | Annie K.: <Dom> not really, thank goodness. ;) <frogbert: <who are *you*?>> That is a very indiscreet question. :p |
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| Jan-20-12 | | frogbert: annie k, sure - but i didn't really assume that dom would answer in terms of specifics about himself. more like, along the lines of philosophical musings about who we really are. who knows you? which are the different you's you are? who knows themselves? am i one person at work, one person at home, another person on cg.com, a different person in my native language? etc. :o) |
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Jan-20-12
| | Domdaniel: < who are *you*?>
A song by The Who, if I remember rightly. I was *there* (or thereabouts), so I probably don't. <Annie> Yes, most indiscreet. Luckily, I've already answered it: 'I' am a construct, what else? Well, *technically* the construct is on a break (mandatory EU regulations governing constructs, bloody Brussels, they'll take away our freedoms next, not that 'we' ever had any). I'm the Knight Manager. |
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| Jan-20-12 | | frogbert: just listened to the pronunciation samples, btw - nice work. dom, why is it "pronounce" but "pronunciation"? i guess i can google something about ethymology and/or linguistics, but now you get a chance to show off instead. |
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Jan-20-12
| | Annie K.: Makes scenes... :) |
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Jan-20-12
| | Domdaniel: Hark! Did I hear a faint tremulous voice asking for an example of my allegedly terrible puns that never get chosen as GOTD? OK. Here's one. I quite like this little game: E Condori vs A Rodriguez Vila, 2010 Steadfastly ignoring the siren calls of the players' names ("El Condori Pasa" ... "Vila Knight be Enough?") or the location (Cali, Colombia ... "Putting the Horse before the Cartel" ...?) ... I noted that it's a Kangaroo Defence (1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+) and went with <Bound for Glory>. I'm sure Woody Guthrie wooden't mind. |
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Jan-20-12
| | Domdaniel: <frogbert> -- <pronounce/ pronunciation> Um, I don't know, actually. Maybe to keep the noun in line with others such as 'enunciation' and 'annunciation', where the verbs are 'enunciate', 'annunciate', and, eh, 'announce'. The fact that Annunciation had religious significance in Olden Times may play a part. Or not. The root of all of these words is the Latin 'nuntius', a messenger - a word that is alive and well in Italian, in the form 'nuncio', a kind of Papish ambassador. I blame the Great Vowel Shift. |
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| Jan-20-12 | | frogbert: for "not knowing", i think you provided a lot of useful input. thanks. |
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| Jan-22-12 | | hms123: <Dom> Here's a pun from today's slate.com: <Romney Newtered>. Now we just need a game to go with it. It's unfortunate that these two never played:
User: newt
User: mitt |
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Jan-22-12
| | Domdaniel: <hms> Heh. As I like to say, "All newts are neuter, but some newts are neuter than other newts". I don't know what it means, but I like to say it.
Not to be confused with 'Nute', a member of a science-fictional third sex in Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald. Didn't a newt used to be an ewt originally? Like a norange or a napple in reverse? |
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| Jan-22-12 | | frogbert: "lt. newt knew lt. njet, but neatly nobody knew before the newtiny on the bounty." as reported by the newt agency neuters. |
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Jan-22-12
 | | OhioChessFan: Evolution of an ewt: ewt-newt-renewt
Thoughts on this story?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/... |
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| Jan-22-12 | | Shams: "She turned me into a newt!"
"..."
"I got better..." |
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Jan-22-12
| | Domdaniel: <frogbert> One Order of the Frogspawn medal (with bar) for < newt agency neuters>. The sheer concentration of frogs (and other batrachians) is remarkable. Incidentally, if Newt is the short form of Newton, what's Mitt? Mitterand? Mitten? Oven Glove? "My fellow, if sadly somewhat poorer, Americans ... elect me president and I will be the Catcher in the Rye." - Here's Mitt in your rye, eh? |
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| Jan-23-12 | | frogbert: thank you very much, sir. it's truely an honour. *puts on medal* i guess associations are sometimes helped a little by my froggish nature - my thoughts jump around a lot. anyone who knows the origin of the slang usage of newt? is it simply a variation of the "reptile brain" theme, or is it less obvious? |
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| Jan-23-12 | | mack: So, uh, you may have recieved a somewhat unexpected and disjointed text message from me last night. Fear not: that was just a friend of mine mucking about with the truly strange template replies on my cheapo phone. Among other set phrases were 'Call me when it's done.' Sinister, wot? Alcatel: making life easier for the armchair mafioso since 2010. |
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| Jan-23-12 | | frogbert: template - in "modern" norwegian we've obviously imported this word too, which is written "templat" in our slightly adapted version. now, i find this a little amusing because one uses templates to save time - at least that's the general idea. "templat" may be broken into "temp" and "lat", with the former being used both for "temperature" and "temporary". the latter "lat" however, means <lazy> in norwegian. (templat = temporarily lazy?) while templates and good laziness might go hand in hand, i doubt that templates like 'Call me when it's done.' save the average alcatel user much work. in fact, i can't think of many pre-cooked answers that would work well, except 'yes', 'no' and 'maybe later'. of course, selecting a template probably takes more clicks than simply typing 'no'. |
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Jan-23-12
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Phew. Thank you for explaining that. By sheer coincidence, (1) three text messages arrived more or less simultaneously, and yours was by no means the most disturbing, and (2) I was 'chatting' with Annie at the time, via computer. I contemplated *sharing* the message(s), but there are limits as to how complicated I want my life to get. You young folk, of course, take no notice of limits. And good luck to yiz. PS. The notion that phones come with what appear to be built-in chat-up lines is deeply disturbing. I much prefer traditional chat-up lines, such as "Eh, how would you like to be buried with my people?" Or the more blatant "Will yeh come for a round of the ditch?" which I happened to overhear in a field in rural Cork about 30 years ago. The invitee was a pal of mine, and she didn't stop laughing for hours. You're not bad looking yourself, either. |
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Jan-23-12
| | Annie K.: Now I'm really curious about the other messages... ;p |
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| Jan-23-12 | | frogbert: annie, now you're being very indiscreet... ;o) |
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Jan-23-12
| | Domdaniel: <frog> No, *I* am being indiscreet. Annie, on the other paw, is merely expressing curiosity. As would I. <mack> Clearly "call me when it's done" suggests mafiosi to you or me. To other folk I suspect it falls within the range of employer/employee relations, whatever they are. |
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