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Jan-04-14
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <We've bonded over this before> Good grief I've a poor memory eh? Not a great qualification for being a teacher or hobbying at chess history. |
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Jan-04-14
| | jessicafischerqueen: AHH
I found it!
<Tim> here it is from the horse's mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-j... |
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| Jan-04-14 | | Shams: <jfq> There are reports, yeah. The British paranormal tabloid-zine FATE published an account years ago of a very close sighting on the Lummi Reservation. (Close as in crashing through the walls of the house.) My father knew a lot about it, but then he would. Of course, you and I know they only leave the remote wilderness in search of Kokanee. ;) |
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Jan-04-14
| | jessicafischerqueen: Heh I remember <Kokanee> too. Do they still have that? I remember harboring dark suspicions that the water really *didn't* come from the Kokanee glacier. Lummis are near Olympic Peninsula? I went there once on a High School field trip. It was like being in paradise if you don't mind permanent drizzle. |
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| Jan-04-14 | | Shams: The Lummi Reservation and Lummi Island are distinct; both are quite close to Bellingham and hence a good ways from the Olympic peninsula. On a very clear day Vancouver Island is visible. The lights of Grouse Mountain can easily be seen from my beach though. Permanent drizzle is great. |
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| Jan-04-14 | | Boomie: The morning of the 1976 presidential election, two friends walked in carrying grocery bags full of Psylocybe cyanescens and Psylocybe stuntzii which they found growing in the rose garden at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. They left to gather more and I set about cleaning them. We had never seen these varieties before. They are quite large as you can see from this photo http://www.magic-mushrooms.net/MMPI.... To test, I worked 10 of them into an omelet and put some in a pot of water to make tea. We determined later that a full dose was 2. These are the best varieties that grow in the PNW. The house began to fill up for the scheduled election party and everyone had noisemakers. Somebody brought a gong which we rang every time some obscure precinct reported a result. A couple of years later, we found an equally enormous quantity of the fun guys growing at Ronald Macdonald House...heh. The 70's was a good decade for hippies. |
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| Jan-04-14 | | Boomie: The Olympic Peninsula is my favorite hiking area. I'm especially fond of the Hoh river trail mainly because there's not much climbing. The rain forest is the most life affirming area I've seen. You can't do better than sitting naked around a camp fire on mushrooms singing folk songs. |
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| Jan-04-14 | | Shams: <Boomie> I've never heard of the stuntzii. Intriguing. Cyanescens are known as the most visual mushrooms, yes? I only had them once, in some relatively weak tea. I think those are quite hard to find. Mushroom hunters are a strange breed. My girlfriend and I snagged a couple specimens (non-psilocybin) on a hike this past fall. The fun part (by which I mean maddening) is figuring out what you have; it's particularly hard for me given that I'm color blind. We found this great website where you upload pictures of the mushrooms you find, along with the latitude and longitude of where you picked them, the altitude, any ground cover, etc. and within an hour one of the mushroom nerds will tell you what you have. It's pretty remarkable. Our mushroom (orange milkcap) was identified by a guy in San Francisco; I clicked on his profile and he's just obsessed with mushrooms. He takes annual mushroom hunting trips in Mexico and in his spare time sequences mushroom DNA! Ay ay, that's silicon valley for you. You guys ever read Terrance McKenna? |
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| Jan-04-14 | | Boomie: <Shams> Cyanescens and Stuntzii are hard to find in the wild. They grow mainly on man made areas that have some mysterious combination of nutrients. We tried to grow them indoors, of course, but ended up with a basement full of horse manure. The body of the plant grew like gangbusters but we couldn't get it to fruit. Unfortunately we didn't realize that the body is every bit as yummy as the fruit. So we ended up throwing out about a ton of high grade product. Ignorance sucks. |
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| Jan-04-14 | | Boomie: <Shams: You guys ever read Terrance McKenna?> Nope. However I met Dr. Albert Hoffman of "LSD: My Problem Child" fame. He was certainly one of the finest chemists I ever met. I had a lasting interest in cottage chemistry back in the day. |
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Jan-04-14
 | | OhioChessFan: User: Kib |
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Jan-04-14
 | | chancho: User: goat
User: milk
User: anyone <???> |
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| Jan-04-14 | | thegoodanarchist: <jessicafischerqueen: ...
It's just a habit I picked up from my father. I enjoyed the way he deliberately mispronounced and misspelled words with the sole goal to annoy people. That's when the trouble started...>
My dear, your wit is to die for! I cannot read your posts without a tissue handy in case my snorts of laughter cause my nose to explode. |
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Jan-04-14
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Looks like I picked a bad month to give up snorting goat milk. |
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Jan-04-14
| | jessicafischerqueen: My good <thegoodanarchist> It wasn't all fun and games. I grew up "learning" many things from my father that I subsequently had to "unlearn." Until I was 27 I firmly believed that the motto of the Mexican Marines was "El tuffo crappo." |
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Jan-04-14
| | OhioChessFan: Did you know the best selling greeting card of all time goes like this: He: Do you like kibbutzing?
She: I don't know, silly goy, I've never kibbutzed. |
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| Jan-05-14 | | twinlark: <Jess>
Thanks for the kind acknowledgment at <aw>'s place. Pointing Petrov in your direction was a vital component that kicked off the process of expanding his bio, but you and the others did the hard yards. Well done. It's one of the two best bios in the realm. btw how justified do you think He Who Cannot Be Named was in criticising the stroke info in Capa's bio? |
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Jan-05-14
 | | FSR: OK, it appears that all the games from the 1957 World Junior Championship are now on the website. Incidentally, the exact dates of most of the games are not available, since the tournament book doesn't have that information. Now what? |
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| Jan-05-14 | | Travis Bickle: jessicafischerqueen: AHH
I found it!
<Tim> here it is from the horse's mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-j>...
Ha! Jess, I have that beat! ; P
http://youtu.be/y_PZPpWTRTU |
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Jan-05-14
 | | harrylime: Aloha Jess !
Here's a little snitbit on RJF playing on the radio in England in the early 60's .. nothing much but it's intriguing for Fischer fans .. http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20... |
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Jan-05-14
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Ohio>
Brilliant greeting card. Hallmark, is it? Or possibly the Torah? One reason I like it so much is I can't be sure I understand it. "Kibbutzing" means "kissing" right? Or does it refer to the misspelling of "Kibbitz" to which a goy (or a shiksa!) might be prone. <He: Do you like kibbutzing?
She: I don't know, silly goy, I've never kibbutzed.> I confess this fine postcard brought back memories of the fist time I kibbutzed a goy. I liked it. |
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| Jan-05-14 | | Boomie: <Jessie>
My Dad taught me to keep my fronds close but my anemones closer. Being a drill sergeant after The Great World War II, he had us marching around the house in our jammies. "Hay foot, straw foot, belly full of bean soup."
We actually had to say that as we marched in line to the tree on Christmas morning. |
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Jan-05-14
| | jessicafischerqueen: <FSR>
Congratulations!
"What next" depends on how much you are willing to do on the project. As I recall, you have access to the tournament book right? So the next step would be to create a games collection for the event. Make a preliminary intro, post the crosstable, and arrange all of the collected games into rounds. After that, it's possible that folks from the <Biographer's Bistro> can help find the actual game dates. This event wasn't played in the stone age, so I think the dates should be available in newspapers or American chess journals. I have a pile of American chess journals sitting around, so possibly I might help out when it gets to this stage. Following recent strong recommendations from <tabanus>, it really is important to have the dates for the games in order to promote a collection to the Tournament Index. But if the dates can't be found, they can't be found. Some games collections have been promoted without including the game dates. |
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Jan-05-14
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Hozza>
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20... It is indeed an interesting snippet, and the second time you've posted it too. Thanks for finding and sharing it! I have added it to the "articles" section of the Bobby Fischer shrine in my profile as "article 10." In the meantime, I have a musical history question for you. "4 AD Label"- Bollocks, or Brilliant?
I need your opinion on this.
Here is my favorite <4 AD> track, but it's also one of the most well known. I'm not an expert- hence my question- I like <Elizabeth Fraser> a fair bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFW... |
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Jan-05-14
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Tim> Good Heavens. No wonder we became obsessed with WWII history then eh? My dad used to tape articles about "The Siege of Leningrad" to the fridge, presumably to remind us to be happy there was boloney and mustard inside. |
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