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Sep-18-18
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
I used to babysit constantly, even through University. What a great job eh? And well paying, considering how much fun it is. And how much food you can steal from the customer's fridge. |
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| Sep-18-18 | | Alien Math: we have a few people that visit to practice with, they are glad that more hearing people are learning ASL, the brothers take 2 trucks when they go camping hunting or fishing and i'm not really sure where they park, babysitting can be really fun and relaxing at times but for those moments when you hear "oh little what have you done?!" lol |
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Sep-18-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Hanh> heh... especially when they "done" it on the living room carpet behind you while you were lying on the floor watching TV... |
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Sep-19-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Boomie> argh you don't have a forum so I have to use the Bat Signal. I can't remember the line accurately I just quoted from The Godfather. Does this mean the Dona is slipping... Ten years ago the <Memorable Quotes> forum could never have gotten to me... |
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Sep-19-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Tim> also I saw you over at the <Richard Taylor> forum of good reads. I noticed that you recommended a book there the other day. I don't remember reading it, but I believe I may actually have written it. |
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| Sep-19-18 | | Boomie: <jessicafischerqueen: I can't remember the line accurately I just quoted from The Godfather.> Close enough. By the way, I admire your movies. You really love that horse, don't you? |
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Sep-19-18
 | | juan31: <jessicafischerqueen> your work about life and games del Great Maestro of Chess Rudolf Rezso Charousek, is more than Excelent. Congratulations. |
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Sep-19-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<juan31> Gracias juan. No sé cómo hablar español, pero a menudo le digo a la gente que soy un arqueólogo mexicano de ajedrez. |
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Sep-19-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Tim> <I admire your movies. You really love that horse, don't you?> A visit by our amigo <juan32> got me thinking about one of the only Spanish words I actually know. Did you know that in Spanish, a "movie" is a "pelican"? IT'S A FACT.
So I read your post as <I admire your pelican. You really love that horse, don't you?> |
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| Sep-19-18 | | Boomie: ->
Watch a pelican.
Holds more than your noodle can.
I hope there's cartoons. |
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Sep-19-18
| | juan31: Jajajajajajajajaja, usted es una gran arqueologa y !mexicana!.
I'm sure the ancient Aztec historians would be proud of you |
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| Sep-20-18 | | Boomie: <Jessie>
Concerning the horse you rode in on, I was just trying to get a head of the curve. |
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Sep-20-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
User: Watch User: aaa Jiri Pelikan |
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| Sep-21-18 | | crawfb5: No news yet on the retirement front, but just to set the mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUn... |
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| Sep-21-18 | | Boomie: <Jessie>
Telltale Games is folding. They have the Sam and Max franchise. So if you want to own your own set, go here: https://telltale.com/series/ Or you can get copies from me as usual at the new low price of nuttin'. Have you made any progress in Culture Shock? As I recall, you made it through the opening scene. Did you get to Bosco's? |
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Sep-22-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Big> I didn't know you were a <Tracy Chapman> fan? Good call. Only a matter of time until you can sit back in your two up, three down garage bungalow with three chess sets and a computer in front of you. I finished second in another <letsplaychess.com> "Youtube Greetings Tournament" and I only lost 50 ratings points in the process! |
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Sep-22-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Tim> I don't really have time to play <Sam n' Max> these days, but it is sad to see they are being canceled? Seems well out of order. |
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| Sep-22-18 | | crawfb5: <Jess> I have reasonably eclectic taste in music. In addition to various albums by <Sarah Mclachlan>, I have albums by <Loreena McKennitt>, <Bruce Cockburn> (I used to listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z02... over and over on the commute home from work -- to this day when Doreen asks if I want anything, I often say "a rocket launcher"), and even the <McGarrigle> sisters. Along with my recent purchase of <Baffin boots>, is that enough to get me into the <Canadian Club>? Just in case the midterms go really sideways, you know. Also nothing by <Celine "my passport says Canadian, but in my heart I am French. Very, very French" Dion>, <Justin "can't leave it alone" Bieber>, <Bryan "We're really sorry aboot that, eh?" Adams> or even <William "his ego was melting the tundra, so we had to send him to the deserts of California" Shatner>. Yes, Bill isn't really a singer, but how can you unhear something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cth... I think what I don't have is as important as what I do. :-) |
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Sep-28-18
 | | OhioChessFan: I had a look at Vladimir Petrov For starters, if you are going to use "Petrovs" in the bio, then you should appeal to cg.c to fix his name in the header. I tweaked a few things here and there, deleted a spot of white space, added a couple commas(of course), but had to quit after reading the third unnecessary "however" due to massive bleeding from the eyes. |
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Sep-29-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Ohio> Thank you!! We had a discussion about this a long time ago with regard to Latvian players. It was decided (somewhat) that it would be a mistake to be the only database listing the correct names for <Vladimirs Petrovs> and <Mikhails Tals>, because then there would be no synchronization with all the other databases. At any rate, <Tab> and I were in favor of not requesting a name change for <Petrovs> at <chessgames.com>. Maybe we could revisit that though. One of the advantages of an internet resource is that we are forever flexible if revisions are to be made. It might be a long time before there is any admin action on correction slips and new game uploads, at any rate. I wish <Daniel> had empowered the editors to upload games in a "sandbox" and also to be able to change the names of the players. On the other hand, who knows. Maybe he was right the way he did it. I sure miss him. It seems like I miss him more every day, instead of getting over it. I would like to keep the <Vladimirs Petrovs> spelling in the bio, at least for the time being, as a not so silent kind of "protest" against the somewhat successful obliteration of his chess life and games by the Soviet Union. Who knows, maybe one day we will experience a new world in which all of the chess players' names are correctly spelled, or at least standardized, with the English alphabet. Bit of the "Tower of Babel" problem on that, but it certainly spices things up. Feel free to get rid of the "howevers" any way you see fit. If I'm confused by any future changes you make, I'll just ask you about them. I noticed the "however" festoons when we restarted the research with <hemy>, and I felt sick also. If you don't get rid of them I will find a way. If you want, to make any, edits that you might think would change the factual record, please, post those on the <Petrovs> kibbutzing page and then we'll all take a, look at them. |
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Sep-29-18
| | OhioChessFan: I will take Petrov/Petrovs under advisement. But when in the course of of human chess education it becomes necessary for one website to amend the historical name which has connected a player with all other websites and publications, and to assume among the powers of reseach, the separate and superior station to which the Laws of Caissa entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of chessdom requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the amendment. Therefore, I perceive that the body of the bio of Petrov/Petrovs should at first usage of the previously scurrilous usage "Petrovs" should contain an explanatory note of why, to which, heretofore this site consider its usage proper, superior and correct. |
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Sep-29-18
| | OhioChessFan: <<Daniel> doesn't have any money, so he can't hire extra staff and he doesn't even have his old partner any more so he's been working double duty. Not to mention do you see all the malcontents whining on a daily basis in his forum eh? Not me and you of course... heh But seriously I've long gotten the impression this site is run on a shoe string which is the main reason I no longer publish chess history here. I love cg.com, I even shelled out for a lifetime membership. But I have no confidence whatsoever in the longevity of this website, simply because no (zero) (0) provisions have been made to make sure cg.com doesn't suddenly go off air forever. I'm confident publishing horror movie reviews over at IMDB website, because that is a proper, profitable business run by an actual corporation- you know, more than just one guy in his basement. Over half the chess websites I've bookmarked in 10 years of chess history research are now vanished. Gone. That could happen to cg.com at any moment, and seriously, unless Daniel makes some provision to make it a permanent concern, it's a waste of time for me to do any more free work here. Like you, I've been researching new additions to my chess history documentaries on youtube- also run by a GIGANTIC GOOGLE corporation that isn't going to go off the air just because a lone operator got tired of running it. Simply, and sadly put, cg.com is not a serious business and therefore is not a place to publish serious work. Unless you don't mind doing years of hard work and seeing it vanish forever in an instant. You heard it here first brah.>
I am still greatly concerned about this. You heard it here second. |
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Sep-29-18
| | OhioChessFan: <<<<<<<Just to clear up a few matters, I have no knowledge of Daniel's finances or the financial state of this website- but I doubt it's in trouble on that front. One of the reasons I have no knowledge about this and most other cg.com matters is that Daniel has never directly answered any of my "site longevity" concerns, either in public or private. I'll try to be brief- over the last 10 years I've amassed hundreds of browser bookmarks of chess websites, and at present fully half of them are gone. The problem with websites, especially one-man proprietorships, is that there are no provisions for longevity. My chess history work at youtube (not that I've published anything there for the past four years) isn't going to disappear suddenly, because it's owned by a gigantic corporation and it's not suddenly going to go off the air, or suddenly delete all the work people have posted on youtube. This isn't a "Daniel" problem, it's a systemic problem with website publishing in general. Unlike work published on paper and put in a library, work published on a website depends on the longevity of the website itself. <<<<Unless careful legal/financial provisions are made in advance, all the work a given website hosts may disappear forever, without warning, at any moment.>>>>> > This is not true of material stored in the New York Public Library, for example. If anything, I get the impression Daniel loves running cg.com. I think it's his labor of love, and it remains by far the best internet chess site in existence. The only thing I'm worried about is that it can't exist for any reasonable length of time, as far as I know, without Daniel- who is one man. In history writing, a "reasonable length of time" is 5000 years or more. History writing isn't an obsession with the past- on the contrary, it's written specifically for the future. What if all of those scrolls that make up The Bible had been stored on one man proprietor websites, instead of on paper or rock? We'd have no Bible. We might even have no knowledge there ever was a Bible. > >>>>After about 50 attempts, I got the point I wanted to emphasize in brown, so that'll have to do. May whoever owns/moderates the site now live to be 150, but again, if there are no provisions made for it to continue...... |
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Sep-29-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Ohio> Thanks for making the effort on the colors. I also have a difficult time doing that. Years and years ago I asked <cormier> how to do it, and he gave me a quite detailed tutorial that worked, but I've long since forgotten his instructions! |
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Sep-29-18
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Good idea <Ohio>, and well written. I had no idea you were a lawyer! <I will take Petrov/Petrovs under advisement. But when in the course of of human chess education it becomes necessary for one website to amend the historical name which has connected a player with all other websites and publications, and to assume among the powers of reseach, the separate and superior station to which the Laws of Caissa entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of chessdom requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the amendment.
Therefore, I perceive that the body of the bio of Petrov/Petrovs should at first usage of the previously scurrilous usage "Petrovs" should contain an explanatory note of why, to which, heretofore this site consider its usage proper, superior and correct.> I think the best way to make this clear would be to list a note from this first reference? <(Latvian spelling: Vladimirs Petrovs)> I'll need to redo all of these notes anyways because of the new information <hemy> has discovered- or "uncovered," which is the point I'm trying to make. The Soviet Union tried to bury this man and all memory of him and I mean to do something about it. That was also <twinlark's> take on him. I had never even heard of <Vladimirs Petrovs> until <twinlark> told me to buy the <Fride> biography and make a documentary about him- six years ago... Stalinists never change- in Canada they are currently defacing and tearing down statues of our first prime minister because he "didn't like Indians enough." Next comes writing him out of school curricula and books. |
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