trip to SLC was mixed:
I spent too much money, as usual (weakness for impulse buys--usually of the utterly useless variety combined with a debit card recently fattened by payday plus alcohol consumption doesn't help)--hooked up with some old friends & made some new ones, which is always nice (especially when they're of the curvy female intellectual type)
saw a band at a sort of...
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I spent too much money, as usual (weakness for impulse buys--usually of the utterly useless variety combined with a debit card recently fattened by payday plus alcohol consumption doesn't help)--hooked up with some old friends & made some new ones, which is always nice (especially when they're of the curvy female intellectual type)
saw a band at a sort of...
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whither Tororo?
tororo:
Oh, you've noticed I had turned a whiter shade of pale!
Hence the question "whiter Tororo?", I assume?
Oh, damn, it's "whither" you'd write. What an elegant way to word a question! Again, I've learned something new and interesting.
The answer: after having given grey a try, I had to admit black fits better to my complexion, so I'll stick to black!
(black is the new black, anyway).
Hence the question "whiter Tororo?", I assume?
Oh, damn, it's "whither" you'd write. What an elegant way to word a question! Again, I've learned something new and interesting.
The answer: after having given grey a try, I had to admit black fits better to my complexion, so I'll stick to black!
(black is the new black, anyway).
from an article called The Fog of War Talk By John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, AlterNet :
At the very beginning of the "war on terrorism," a reporter asked Donald Rumsfeld, "Sir, what constitutes a victory in this new environment? I mean, Cap Weinberger in 1987 laid down some pretty clear rules for engaging U.S. forces. One was, clear goals that are militarily achievable, that...
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At the very beginning of the "war on terrorism," a reporter asked Donald Rumsfeld, "Sir, what constitutes a victory in this new environment? I mean, Cap Weinberger in 1987 laid down some pretty clear rules for engaging U.S. forces. One was, clear goals that are militarily achievable, that...
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tororo:
Enjoy your trip to SLC!
There's a quote from William Gibson's blog, I thought you would be pleased with, as I was when discovering it:
"I think that the one piece of newspeak that's struck me as most barbarous, in Orwell's sense, in my lifetime, has been "politically correct".
I can actually remember the very first time I heard it. In Seattle, as it happened. I assumed that the person who'd used it was (1) using it entirely ironically, and (2) having as I thought coined it just then, was far cleverer, and funnier, than I'd previously given him credit for. My horror, subsequently, at discovering that his usage was entirely irony-free, was...Orwellian.
I suppose in the meantime that those people capable of using it without irony have pretty much ceased to use it (though not, I'd guess, to think it).
It bothered me more, even, than that more actively barbarous late 20th-century expression, "ethnic cleansing", probably because I've never met anyone who would admit to being in favor of...actually I don't like to use this phrase, because it seems so inherently, er, politically incorrect".
I have to admit that Rumsfeld succeeds in frightening me everytime he opens his mouth, even by just saying: "Nice weather, huh?" ...
There's a quote from William Gibson's blog, I thought you would be pleased with, as I was when discovering it:
"I think that the one piece of newspeak that's struck me as most barbarous, in Orwell's sense, in my lifetime, has been "politically correct".
I can actually remember the very first time I heard it. In Seattle, as it happened. I assumed that the person who'd used it was (1) using it entirely ironically, and (2) having as I thought coined it just then, was far cleverer, and funnier, than I'd previously given him credit for. My horror, subsequently, at discovering that his usage was entirely irony-free, was...Orwellian.
I suppose in the meantime that those people capable of using it without irony have pretty much ceased to use it (though not, I'd guess, to think it).
It bothered me more, even, than that more actively barbarous late 20th-century expression, "ethnic cleansing", probably because I've never met anyone who would admit to being in favor of...actually I don't like to use this phrase, because it seems so inherently, er, politically incorrect".
I have to admit that Rumsfeld succeeds in frightening me everytime he opens his mouth, even by just saying: "Nice weather, huh?" ...
since the invasion of Iraq began, I've been checking out the British press (well, the Guardian & the BBC, mostly), because most of the American coverage seemed (& seems) a bit on the cheap&sleazy side, & came across a few interesting stories about George Galloway early one, & then nothing until a day or two ago.
anyway he is an MP from Scotland (currently suspended)...
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anyway he is an MP from Scotland (currently suspended)...
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I'd like to make a movie just to have "Reno, Nevada" as recorded by the Fairport Convention playing over the opening credits...
no idea what it would be about, I just think it"d be cool to have a movie opening with that song...
no idea what it would be about, I just think it"d be cool to have a movie opening with that song...
eyeballkid:
bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Look at my superb spacing of h and a. I am drunk! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahaahhahahaahahaahahaha. bye. ha! polaroid! i get it!
some good things that have happened to me in the past couple of days:
--the problem with me car that I was told by the first mechanic I went to that he quoted at about a thousand bucks to fix I was able to correct, after visits to a coupla different mechanics, for six-fifty.
as in, six dollars & fifty cents.
--a co-worker at the...
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--the problem with me car that I was told by the first mechanic I went to that he quoted at about a thousand bucks to fix I was able to correct, after visits to a coupla different mechanics, for six-fifty.
as in, six dollars & fifty cents.
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tororo:
As an answer to your last post: u R rite, I c wot u mean.
Thanks for encouraging me to write in English. If only you knew where my English comes from! In lyce (high school) I had studied German, not with much benefit. After some attempts made (as every french teenager does) for gaining some understanding of what's written on record sleeves (the interesting records, the ones by Donovan, the Rolling Stones or Iron Butterfly all had english-written sleeves! how annoying!) I started studying a bit more seriously the language in early '8Os: when frenchies started playing RPGs, five years after Americans invented them....... it explains I master the use of such specialized vocables as dweomercraeft, periapt or glamer. But being able to tell how exactly a godendac differs from a morgenstern doesn't teach anything about grammar... I started doing some progress when i found out about internet, and how it makes possible to gossip with people that aren't really here.
Probably Marble worries you're not as much a wise person as your Grandma was... why don't you stay home all day long, as reasonable humans do? will you ever learn?
Thanks for encouraging me to write in English. If only you knew where my English comes from! In lyce (high school) I had studied German, not with much benefit. After some attempts made (as every french teenager does) for gaining some understanding of what's written on record sleeves (the interesting records, the ones by Donovan, the Rolling Stones or Iron Butterfly all had english-written sleeves! how annoying!) I started studying a bit more seriously the language in early '8Os: when frenchies started playing RPGs, five years after Americans invented them....... it explains I master the use of such specialized vocables as dweomercraeft, periapt or glamer. But being able to tell how exactly a godendac differs from a morgenstern doesn't teach anything about grammar... I started doing some progress when i found out about internet, and how it makes possible to gossip with people that aren't really here.
Probably Marble worries you're not as much a wise person as your Grandma was... why don't you stay home all day long, as reasonable humans do? will you ever learn?
tororo:
Hey! From one of your recent comments I learned "to hoist one". In my today's entry I managed to put this verb in a sentence! Did I use it properly?
after yesterday's scare I made sure that the cat in question was firmly inside the house & the windows closed.
& when I came home this morning she was right there on the front step waiting for me--I thought at first that someone had been in the house while I was at work (I moved into this place about 2 years ago & have never...
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& when I came home this morning she was right there on the front step waiting for me--I thought at first that someone had been in the house while I was at work (I moved into this place about 2 years ago & have never...
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tororo:
In a place my parents used to live once, there was an alley cat who had grown a fondness for my father. She dwelled in a ruined house near ours, and she never showed any intention to settle in our home; but everytime she saw my father, she came by and greeted him -with some reserve: she was not the kind that begs for petting. She just liked hanging around with him. Everytime he was driving back home, she was the first to hear his car approaching and, several minutes before the car was in sight, she ran up to meet him. I can't remember a single time she could have mistaken a stranger's car for my father's.
So, unless Marble is hearing-impaired.... I wouldn't find it surprising if she's able to identify your car from the specific noise its motor does, and shows up on the roadside only when it's yours that's approaching.
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So, unless Marble is hearing-impaired.... I wouldn't find it surprising if she's able to identify your car from the specific noise its motor does, and shows up on the roadside only when it's yours that's approaching.
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heart-dropping moment today when I drove home from work to see one of my cats lying in the middle of the road in front of my house--she got up & started for the front door as I got closer. I was relieved & pissed at the same time (this is one of those heartwarming little rural towns where most of the salt-of-the-earth types speed up...
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tororo:
By writing your entry the way you did, you gave me a heart-throb too!
Do you now that?
Do you now that?
heavenlystranger:
i grew up in a town like that and have lost many animals that way. give your cat a stern talking to for me.
h.s.
h.s.
"Is the following statement about you true or false: You are not the kind of person who wouldn't oppose the idea of not taking a negative stance against those who do not fail to protest the opposition to legislation that would legalize child pornography?"
--an entry in a recent contest in the Washington Post "in which we ask you to sneak a bogus question in...
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--an entry in a recent contest in the Washington Post "in which we ask you to sneak a bogus question in...
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tororo:
Notwithstanding I appreciate Uncle Bierce and the Devil's approbation, it's yours that makes me proud! But you don't say anything about syntax?? The idea crawled slowly to my mind that the following formulation of the second definition could be better:
Unusual war options: Options a victorious army's general staff takes under consideration as soon as the suicide rate becomes higher among troops on the vanquisher's side than on the vanquished's.
By the way, yours made my day. Too bad I got a headache after deciphering this today's entry of yours.
the answer?
uuhhhh...
.. to the first question:
erm...
"without a second thought!!!!!!"....?
to the second one:
"aauuuuugggh!!!!!"
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Unusual war options: Options a victorious army's general staff takes under consideration as soon as the suicide rate becomes higher among troops on the vanquisher's side than on the vanquished's.
By the way, yours made my day. Too bad I got a headache after deciphering this today's entry of yours.
the answer?
uuhhhh...
.. to the first question:
erm...
"without a second thought!!!!!!"....?
to the second one:
"aauuuuugggh!!!!!"
[Edited on Jul 21, 2003]
& it's much too soon, I think, to know the ramifications of Manifest Destiny...
just thinking out loud, here...nothing critical of foreign policy intended.....
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totally--um--unrelated:
the figure at
Iraq Body Count has topped (minimum) 6 thousand, with Saddam's DNA in nary a scalp....
just thinking out loud, here...nothing critical of foreign policy intended.....
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totally--um--unrelated:
the figure at
Iraq Body Count has topped (minimum) 6 thousand, with Saddam's DNA in nary a scalp....
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tororo:
I'll do my best for imagining some devilish definition of my own and maybe submit it..... will you?
tororo:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/international/worldspecial/17MILI.html?th
A NYT article published 07/17 suggested to me the following additions to the Devil's dictionary.... alas! it made me feel strongly how terrible my English still is. Please feel free to correct anything I could have written wrong.
Low-intensity conflict: a state of unpeace different from moderate-intensity conflict and medium-intensity conflict, but susceptible to lead to them through a process known as "war".
"General Abizaid said: 'It's low-intensity conflict, in our doctrinal terms, but it's war, however you describe it' "
Unusual war options: Options a victorious army's general staff takes under consideration as soon as the suicide rate among troops on the vanquisher's side becomes higher than on the vanquished's side.
A NYT article published 07/17 suggested to me the following additions to the Devil's dictionary.... alas! it made me feel strongly how terrible my English still is. Please feel free to correct anything I could have written wrong.
Low-intensity conflict: a state of unpeace different from moderate-intensity conflict and medium-intensity conflict, but susceptible to lead to them through a process known as "war".
"General Abizaid said: 'It's low-intensity conflict, in our doctrinal terms, but it's war, however you describe it' "
Unusual war options: Options a victorious army's general staff takes under consideration as soon as the suicide rate among troops on the vanquisher's side becomes higher than on the vanquished's side.
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I've read something strange about stones....
In France most gravestones were, until recently, carved in Bretagne, out of good Breton granite that's said to be rivalled (regarding hardness) only by Breton skulls. But in the past years, Breton gravestone-carving workshops were shut down one after another, 'cause what they could not rival with was the attractive discount prices proposed to the major undertakers companies by their Southeast Asia competitors, who used to offer carved stones for so cheap that their price remained affordable even with the shipment charges added...
.... it means, of course, that the epitaphs are digitally composed on some French undertaker's office's PC, sent to, say, Singapore through the ether and engraved on some laser-carved piece of volcanic Indonesian rock by some other laser-guided machine operated by a girl from Kalimantan who probably studied for becoming a computer programmer but found out the only other jobs that were offered to her were assembling either cameras or M-16...
I wonder how much things go differently in Nevada?