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Apr-19-12
 | | Annie K.: <Ohio> you're right, I just looked it up too, because I didn't remember whether he tried to find her or not... so I deleted that post. Sorry. :) Uh, guess we may have to call it quits on the slander charges and drop the case... ;) |
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| Apr-19-12 | | hms123: Drat! I was out chasing ambulances and missed a chance to take both sides of this <capricious> case. |
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Apr-19-12
| | Annie K.: <hms> heh, sorry... did you catch any? =) The bible certainly is not a boring read, that's a given. ;s I'll just add a couple of translations here for the fun fact value: 'Tamar' means 'date' - the fruit.
'Enaim' - the name of the place where Tamar waited for Yehuda - means... 'eyes'. (OK, it also means 'two springs', which is more likely to have been the origin of the name.) And 'The Night Has a Thousand Eyes' is a fine song by Bobby Vee... and whoever actually wrote the song. ;) |
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Apr-19-12
 | | Domdaniel: < he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face> Uh, I thought women got accused of prostitution when they *uncovered* the face, and maybe other areas. You can't win. |
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| Apr-19-12 | | hms123: <dom>
<You can't win.>
No, but you can <place> or <show>. Either one can cause problems depending on where you place it or what you show. |
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Apr-19-12
| | Domdaniel: Hmm. I read somewhere that sheep, cattle and pigs all lost about 10% of their brain mass since being domesticated by humans. They didn't have to watch for predators or find food and mates anymore, so brains were surplus to requirements. Evolution took care of the details. Ditto dogs. Fido may seem smart, but not as smart as his wolf ancestors. The exception is cats, who remain in control of their own breeding arrangements, by and large. There's some evidence that humans have lost brain mass since being domesticated by cats. Just saying. |
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| Apr-19-12 | | Memethecat: <They didn't have to watch for predators or find food and mates anymore, so brains were surplus to requirements.> Sounds like the royal family. There's 2 cats(6 if you count the 4 kittens born last week) that share my space & I'm definitely their human, not the other way around. |
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Apr-19-12
 | | OhioChessFan: <Dom: Uh, I thought women got accused of prostitution when they *uncovered* the face, and maybe other areas. You can't win.>
Dania it all you want. |
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Apr-19-12
| | OhioChessFan: <DomDania: Uh, I thought women got accused of prostitution when they *uncovered* the face, and maybe other areas.> Oddly enough, there is some New Testament discussion of the shame of women having an uncovered head. The uncovered head apparently was the sign of a prostitute. Probably the point under discussion was a shaved head, although I am not sure that's a settled issue. |
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Apr-20-12
| | Domdaniel: Among the Wari' people of the Amazon, the word for 'wife' also means 'hole' or 'orifice'. It is perfectly normal to say "My hole has gone fishing". Anthropologists aren't yet sure whether this is disrespect for women, deep reverence for the source of life, linguistic coincidence, or something else entirely. I think, in 21st century America, the customs of the Wari' ought to be marginally more relevant than the customs of ancient Judaeans. On the other hand, those Judaeans left descendants - both biological and memetic - and the Wari' will probably die out soon. |
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Apr-20-12
| | Domdaniel: <meme> I had two cats named Marx and Spenser -- after the comedian and the poet. They died. But Marx got to be about 20, which wasn't bad. I only feed strays now. |
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| Apr-20-12 | | frogbert: i was trying to come up with some funny remarx about a dispenser, but nothing came to mind. sorry. |
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| Apr-21-12 | | Memethecat: Your selling insurance? You'd be better off talking to my orifice. <Dom> I didn't have you down as an M&S man, more S&M. I cherish the company of my furry feline friends, their the only ones that "get me" & can cope with my grumpy, set in his ways behaviour, but I think their patience will wear thin if they have to put up with me for 20yrs. What an innings <frogbert> I'm glad I'm not the only one that writes terrible puns, I was gonna suggest a self help group, but that's not my place, the rest of the world will have to come to terms with their terrible affliction themselves. |
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| Apr-21-12 | | frogbert: maybe a self help group would've been proper pun-ishment. ha. i kill me. |
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| Apr-22-12 | | Memethecat: OK. What is so wrong with e4? I'm relatively new to all this darn book learnin, chess wise, & I've been led to believe an opening is an opening, if its still being played after a 100 or more yrs it cant be that unsound. Yet most of the players on on here seem to scoff at e4. I get the feeling that a pitying sigh emanates from their superior d4 lungs. I understand the difference between open semi-open & closed, but you dont get that sense of superiority from e4 players. Is there some big secret that only non e4 players know about? Sincere apologies for soiling the forum with chess talk. |
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Apr-22-12
| | Domdaniel: <meme> Nah, *I* scoff at 1.e4 and others take my lead. I'm sure it's a perfectly fine opening, e4. It suits open, honest, down-to-earth types like, um, Bobby Fischer. But I aspire to being a devious fook so I play 1.Nf3, mostly. Transposition is the key. Chessically, I'm a tranny. And then there's the question of the French, aka La Defense, aka The Frog's Pawn ... a machine for breaking e4 on. Having said that, I lost yet another game yesterday, last club match of the season, FIDE-rated, blah blah: in the French, after 1.e4 e6 2.Qe2. Somebody outfooked me in terms of deviosity. Think I'll give up playing chess and go back to playing with it. |
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| Apr-22-12 | | frogbert: 2. Qe2 sort of says "nope, you're *not* going to get your normal french nonsense today" ... :o) |
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| Apr-22-12 | | frogbert: <I understand the difference between open semi-open & closed, but you dont get that sense of superiority from e4 players.> well, i simply moved (mostly) away from 1. e4 when i eventually realized that i'm not the fiercely attacking maniac that goes for the opponent's throat from the get go. in fact, i'm hardly neither "fierce" nor "attacking" and am better at scoring the full point when the question is more like: how do i win this ending without allowing black to exchange both rooks and get a drawn position with ocbs: 
click for larger viewhence, when i end up in positions like this (as the fiercely attacking maniac that opened the g-file and left his king in the center) - 
click for larger view- it's typically hubris or lamp fever or both. (last move was the decisive f7-f5 after white blundered with Nd2xe4 - e4 being my adventurous g7-pawn that went from being right-wing to centrist in 3 small moves.) |
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| Apr-22-12 | | cro777: <Domdaniel: ... Which shows just how deep and up-to-date top-level prep has to be these days.> The first game against Aronian is a rare example of bad opening preparation by Kramnik. As he explained after the game, he was inspired by the win by Gunina over A.Muzychuk , which he briefly saw and did not analyse with a computer, but anticipated (because it was a decisive game of the championship) that it all was Gunina's (deep) computer preparation. |
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Apr-22-12
| | Domdaniel: I was *certain* I'd said this earlier. Mebbe it got sucked into the Dark Net ... <meme> - <...scoffing at e4> It's not scoffing *exactly*, and I'm mostly the one doing it. Others, of course, may take their cue from me. I'm not much of an e4 fan. Ah, I just remembered, I used a term like 'firkin devious' the *last* time I said this. Musta got nuked for obsceneness or o'bitchery. So it goes. e4 is too good a move to waste on ylour first turn. It's good to have in reserve to crack open the position on move 20. Some people - good-hearted, honest, simple, direct types like, eh, Bobby Fischer, believe in 1.e4. They are deluded. They want to checkmate your ass. The French, La Defense, the Frog's Pawn, exists to frustrate such delusions. The rock on which they perish. A better opening move, in the Domosphere, is 1.Nf3 ... multivalence, transposition, bluff. Tranny poker psycho chess. "He had all the characteristics of a poker, apart from its occasional warmth". |
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Apr-22-12
| | Domdaniel: Ah Pook was here. |
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Apr-22-12
| | Domdaniel: I hope that the putative (as in putain) whistleblower enjoys a long vacation in Phuket, drinking ale by the firkin and roasting on Morton's Fork while being shaved by Occam's Razor. Words. Bleagh. There are only dirty minds. |
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| Apr-22-12 | | frogbert: hm, dom?
<I was *certain* I'd said this earlier. Mebbe it got sucked into the Dark Net ...> yup, you did. in your post prior to the one i'm quoting now, in that post i commented on earlier, as in "the post that is still there". sure bells aren't ringing in your head? do you hear a faint, whistling sound, maybe? maybe time for a holiday in phuket. ;o) |
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Apr-23-12
| | Domdaniel: Hmm. Yes, well, ackshully, frogbert old bean, I *do* seem to have said something similar earlier. And it's still there. So my paranoia - even Goya couldn't draw ya - about putative whistleblowers was unfounded. Ahem. It would have been decidedly odd if an actual chess-related post had been deleted from *this* forum. You kill you, you say? Do you self-terminate regularly, or just on special occasions? |
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Apr-23-12
| | Domdaniel: Mr Shaxpere's 18th sonnet, in a multilingual Eurocentric version, goes: 18 Skal jeg sammenligne deg med en sommers dag?
Veel zachter en veel zonniger ben jij
Der Sturm zerreißt des Maien Blüthen-Kränze,
Och sommarns fröjd hvad är så kort som den?
As vezes em calor e brilho o Sol se exceed
Interdum, aut hebes est aureus ille color;
Toute beauté parfois diminue de beauté,
Sciupata dal caso o dal mutevole corso di natura;
Mas tu eterno estío no decaerá
Ty nikdy neztratíš nynejší jas své krásy,
Kuolemakaan ei kersku; vaikka vaellat sen varjossa
Sen esitken ebedi misralarla zamana
Mentre els homes respirin i els ulls puguin mirar,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Reverse engineering via Geurgle produces some innaresting lines: [line 2, from Dutch]:
Much softer and much sunnier are you
[3, German]:
The storm breaks the May flowers, wreaths
[11, Finnish]
The death will not boast, even if you walk in the shade Und so weiter. Improvements to any line are welcome. Somebody might even tell me what language "Sen esitken ebedi ..." is, as I don't know. I'd guess maybe Basque or Volapuk? There's also my short modern English version:
<Shall I compare you to a summer day?
No way.> |
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