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| Feb-16-12 | | crawfb5: <Why would you be herring from your lawyer?> To best serve your client you must kipper up to date. If you lye about your engine use, does that make you lutefisk? |
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| Feb-16-12 | | cormier: \\ // / ... tks G |
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| Feb-16-12 | | brankat: <Boomie> Thank You for the link! Yes, that's the Hudson Hotel, on west 58th. Interestingly enough, the Wiki article abut the hotel's history doesn't mention anything about the Manhattan Chess Club being housed (for years) in the building. |
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Feb-16-12
 | | harrylime: Yep I'm aware of Schlechtler's demise..
I will search out your bio on Spielmann |
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| Feb-16-12 | | crawfb5: Check your mail. Some reference material awaits your perusal in a couple of attachments. |
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| Feb-16-12 | | TheFocus: <lamont> If you missed it at the Fischer page, just letting you know I am putting two chapters of my book in the mail for you tomorrow. My girlfriend reformatted them and she did a great job. The set you are getting is even better than the one <parisattack> got. |
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Feb-16-12
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Big Aljechin>
Again, an egregiously long overdue EMU will be sent either tonight after work or tomorrow on Saturday. Thanks for those ongoing top secret articles- gold gold gold. In addition, my Moms has informed me the highly "Winter-rated" trio of <Alekhine vols. 1,2, and 3 (now in English)!> have arrived in BC and will soon be winging their way to Korea. Other good news, thanks to <lamont's> largesse, I've decided to buy a new computer today and also to buy (and learn how to use) Sony Vegas 11. My Korean friend at work knows "this place" where they build your puter to specs. I got him to phone in the fastest, biggest specs currently available to humanity. The bigger/faster your computer, the better Sony Vegas works. It's currently the top PC video editor in Christendom. I've been looking at a few tutorials, and I estimate It will take a short five years to learn how to use it. Thanks <Big>, my new semester promises to be better than last year, mainly because I'll get a new "manager" and he couldn't possibly be as bad as the last one. Or could he? Only spacetime, and quantum probability, will tell. |
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Feb-16-12
| | jessicafischerqueen: PS I shouldn't be so hard on my old manager just because he was hard on me. He actually did me a gigantic favor by teaching me, in the most terrifying manner possible, how to teach English. I hadn't even known I didn't know how to teach English, but in truth I didn't know. I do now though, thanks to him. Apparently you have to prepare "materials," whatever they are. Who knew? |
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Feb-16-12
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Open Defence> well perhaps I've been resisting it, but I'm currently enjoying Indian and Pakistani "classical music" not to mention "folk music" much, much more more than western classical music. Perhaps it's a case of apples and oranges, but If I had to choose I'd take the Indian. |
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Feb-16-12
| | jessicafischerqueen: No letters, please. |
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| Feb-17-12 | | crawfb5: <Dr. J.> Glad things are looking up. I will continue to pull material as I stumble across it. I can see why somebody might want to steal a bass, but who would lutefisk? |
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Feb-17-12
| | jessicafischerqueen: heh that would have been funnier if I knew what a "lutefisk" actually was. I got the pun part, but not the literal meaning and I hate googling. Is a lutefisk some kind of bizarre musical instrument? |
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| Feb-17-12 | | lamont: +++
Jessicakes ~
Con-cen-trate now dollink ... :
You bought ...
w/ my "largesse" ...
the most bad-ass "PC video editor in Christendom" ??
You're implying ...
Izzzraelis gotta superior model ??!!
Oy, oy, oy, Bubbala ... How many times do I have to tell you
--only buy the best !!
***
OK ~
Send mir...at anytime at all ...
via email ... any bk/bks you want,
along w/ yr/ mother's address in CA
&&& I'll have Amazon or other bk/ dealers
send 'em to her.
Or, I can send her bks/ of which you already know the cost,
& from whom to buy 'em...instead of my searching.
Or, consider Plan B:
If you have an address in S/Korea
(not necessarily yr/ residence)
to which I can ship 'em directly...
--then thatawayzzz...
Good Daughter which you be...
I can save yr/ mom muuucho loonies !!
I'm good for $500/mo.
So let the games begin...
I await yr/ email claritas.
W/ all the love in Mosesdom,
Lamontito
[No letters, please.] ;) |
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| Feb-17-12 | | lamont: +++
TheFocus ~
Cyber-smoochies to yr/ girlfriend &
assorted blessings & benedictions
& all hail, to thee, blithe spirit
--for the generous gift of them
2 chapters of yr/ Bobby Book.
Send yr/ e/mail to me:
itz: myname@att.net
--so I can comment...at length,
if need be...
or just ask JessicaWhazzerName for it. |
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| Feb-17-12 | | hms123: <jess>
You need to pay more attention to <Garrison Keillor> and http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/ <I remember asking Jens one day about lutefisk and lefse. ... The only good thing about lutefisk is that it doesn't taste nearly as bad as it smells. ...> <for our annual New Year's family gathering, I am wondering — What is "fresh" lutefisk? ... Isn't lutefisk by definition, not fresh? > <I am an unabashed Lutefisk enthusiast. ... I have never even tasted lutefisk, much to my dismay and also somewhat to my relief.> <But in vain I searched for a lutefisk stand. ... We spared you the experience of eating tourist lutefisk and you should thank us for that.> <"What is the difference between Snot and Lutefisk? Answer: Kids won't eat Lutefisk."> |
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| Feb-17-12 | | hms123: <jess> I found Garrison Keillor's definition: <lutefisk, a Scandinavian delicacy that is not permitted in populated areas, a fish that is buried in the dirt for a few months and dug up and covered with a sauce made of wallpaper paste and eaten> |
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| Feb-17-12 | | crawfb5: <jessicafischerqueen: heh that would have been funnier if I knew what a "lutefisk" actually was. I got the pun part, but not the literal meaning and I hate googling. Is a lutefisk some kind of bizarre musical instrument?> Then you didn't get the earlier pun. <Lutefisk> is cold-air-dried whitefish (aka "stockfish") treated with lye (the lye is later washed out). It's a traditional dish in Norway and nearby countries also popular in areas of the upper midwest US with substantial populations from those areas of northern Europe (e.g., Minnesota). Even though it is a traditional dish, it is quite common to make jokes about how vile it is (some examples are in the Wikipedia article on lutefisk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk). |
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| Feb-17-12 | | Alien Math: Nice to hear of new computer toward use of PC video editor, wish well. Viêt nam weather are 14 Farenheit |
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| Feb-17-12 | | playground player: <crawfb5> It's better than a Faeroese fish dish called "rast," which is essentially fish that has been allowed to decay to a semi-liquid state. <Jessicafischerqueen> First a chess question to all and sundry: The only times I've beaten CG's Little Chess Partner were with the Ruy Lopez and the Polish Opening (1.b4--and it was a big day for me when I did that!). Most of the time, of course, I lose. What are your best openings against this electronic thingummy? And now for something completely different (you'll like this, Jess, as a movie-maker yourself)... What do you think were the best movies never made? I don't mean projects abandoned before they were completed--I mean never made at all. I have two favorite films that were never made.
1. "Ulysses" starring Toshiro Mifune as Odysseus. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. 2. "Only in New England" starring Joseph Cotten as the narrator and amateur sleuth investigating a murder that happened before he was born... and just may be setting himself up to be murdered, too. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. |
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| Feb-17-12 | | cormier: wallpaper paste = flour&water |
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| Feb-17-12 | | Shams: <pp> I'm sure you know that there was actually a film adaptation of "Ulysses". Apparently it's awful. |
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| Feb-17-12 | | playground player: <shams> Do you mean the one with Kirk Douglas? I love that movie! The "Odyssey" with Armand Assante is OK, but I like the Kirk Douglas version much better. BTW, I'm talking about "Ulysses" as in The Trojan War--not the James Joyce novel, which I have never read. |
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| Feb-17-12 | | Shams: <pp> I meant the James Joyce novel, actually. Did you ever read "Portrait of the Artist..."? You may not care for the epiphanies at the end but as a record of Irish Catholic boarding school it's great. There's a long speech about what an eternal hell would actually mean that stands out in my mind. Anyway, if people don't care for "Portrait..." I don't recommend "Ulysses" to them. Your James Joyce duty may be discharged by reading this only:
http://www.online-literature.com/ja... |
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| Feb-17-12 | | playground player: <Shams> Actually, I did read "The Dead" once upon a time, and was impressed by it. But by and large I steer clear of Serious Mainstream Literature. It's so difficult to tell where the great art stops and the pretentious twaddle begins. Sometimes the same writer produces both. |
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| Feb-17-12 | | Shams: <Sometimes the same writer produces both.> Heh. A sly reference to "Finnegan's Wake", which I've not read. I bet even <Domdaniel> thinks Joyce went too far with that one. Cheers. |
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