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Also to Thorn, did the law-firm guy try to recruit you?Congrats to all with the various job successes. Sorry I haven't posted more individual congrats--wrapped up too much in my own crap. I need to get away somewhere. Could we redo coshole in a couple of weeks? TIA.
I'm game for a 4-day weekend in Nicaragua
K4 > Any update on the robbers?
Yeah, any upda....Hey! What are you trying to say, Gusher?
 
Warning: lit nerd post to follow. Interesting to precious few (or none) -

This is another reason why I love my little town -

Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky

ITHACA, N.Y. – Nobel Prize-winning author and Cornell University alum, Toni Morrison will return to campus for a program Thursday, March 7, at 4:45 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, titled "Reading the Writing: A Conversation Between Toni Morrison and Claudia Brodsky."

Brodsky is a Princeton University professor of comparative literature. She and Morrison have been colleagues and friends for more than 20 years. "They will be talking about the novel [Morrison's] working on now and other recent writings"

Her numerous honors include the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature; the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Beloved" and the National Book Critics Award in 1978 for "Song of Solomon." Her works also include "The Bluest Eye," "Jazz," "Sula," "Tar Baby" and "Paradise," children's books and essay collections.
Geekgasm.
I think Morrison is enormously overrated, there I said it. No :hoods:Still pretty cool.
The problem with Morrison is she's either spectacular or average. Beloved is as good as American letters gets. Jazz? Not so much. From what I heard, Song of Solomon is extremely impressive and Paradise is no slouch either. The Bluest Eye hasn't aged as well, but still holds up as 'the' experimental/postmodern era work by an African American writer. I think her best work deserved the Nobel Prize though (she's the last American to win one too, a "scandal" the Americans never fail to harp about every time a new award is announced).I dig her because she writes in my own creative lineage, which I (roughly) trace back to Faulkner and see branching outward in two main veins: white male Delillo and black female Morrison.

Really looking forward to the reading - if I can tickets. :unsure:
Song of Solomon is one of the best books I've ever read.ETA - for me it struck that perfect balance between telling a story with a strong narrative and being "literature," for lack of a better word. Enjoyable and readable, but also much more to it than just a story. :2cents:
:lit chat activated:Dostoevesky is the master of this. If you haven't read The Brothers Karamazov, pick it up asap. You'd love it. It's the ultimate thinking man's page turner.
Kooky. I have been reading it in pieces while taking breaks from Ulysses.
:lmao: I think.
It was serious. :shrug:
Oh, well...good for you then.
:shrug: Made sense to me.

I know Dostoevsky is one of those "big writer names" but Brothers Karamazov isn't difficult at all. It's just really long. But I imagine Ulysses is like Gravity's Rainbow: difficult, but worth the effort. So you read it by sections and take a breaks before going back.

 
Also to Thorn, did the law-firm guy try to recruit you?Congrats to all with the various job successes. Sorry I haven't posted more individual congrats--wrapped up too much in my own crap. I need to get away somewhere. Could we redo coshole in a couple of weeks? TIA.
I'm game for a 4-day weekend in Nicaragua
K4 > Any update on the robbers?
Bill, that's awfully tempting. Who's in? :) Nica feels like the only place I'm ever able to relax.No more about the break-in, other than the guests apologized about a million times to Julio about it.
 
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Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?
Agreed
Ideation only became "made-up" because (I suspect) corporate douchemongers stole it from psychoanalysis (who stole it from philosophy) and douchemongered it to people who neither read nor care about psychoanalysis & philosophy.It's all over Freud and his subsequent sucklings.
Please excuse this post. Words like this are really the only knowledge I can drop on you people. Krista's professional woes? All I got is sympathy and a blank stare. Single guy dating woes? All I got is married man "envy" and lascivious cheerleading. GM financial advise? "Oh he must be talking about money. Yes, money is good. More money is better. Who knew 'sweating' could earn you more money?" So please suffer my word dorkiness. Pat me on the head and say, "thanks fly, thanks."
 
Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?
Agreed
Ideation only became "made-up" because (I suspect) corporate douchemongers stole it from psychoanalysis (who stole it from philosophy) and douchemongered it to people who neither read nor care about psychoanalysis & philosophy.It's all over Freud and his subsequent sucklings.
Please excuse this post. Words like this are really the only knowledge I can drop on you people. Krista's professional woes? All I got is sympathy and a blank stare. Single guy dating woes? All I got is married man "envy" and lascivious cheerleading. GM financial advise? "Oh he must be talking about money. Yes, money is good. More money is better. Who knew 'sweating' could earn you more money?" So please suffer my word dorkiness. Pat me on the head and say, "thanks fly, thanks."
Well then some translator made it up because Freud didn't write in English, professor.
 
Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?
Agreed
Ideation only became "made-up" because (I suspect) corporate douchemongers stole it from psychoanalysis (who stole it from philosophy) and douchemongered it to people who neither read nor care about psychoanalysis & philosophy.It's all over Freud and his subsequent sucklings.
Please excuse this post. Words like this are really the only knowledge I can drop on you people. Krista's professional woes? All I got is sympathy and a blank stare. Single guy dating woes? All I got is married man "envy" and lascivious cheerleading. GM financial advise? "Oh he must be talking about money. Yes, money is good. More money is better. Who knew 'sweating' could earn you more money?" So please suffer my word dorkiness. Pat me on the head and say, "thanks fly, thanks."
Well then some translator made it up because Freud didn't write in English, professor.Burn
 
Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?
Agreed
Ideation only became "made-up" because (I suspect) corporate douchemongers stole it from psychoanalysis (who stole it from philosophy) and douchemongered it to people who neither read nor care about psychoanalysis & philosophy.It's all over Freud and his subsequent sucklings.
Please excuse this post. Words like this are really the only knowledge I can drop on you people. Krista's professional woes? All I got is sympathy and a blank stare. Single guy dating woes? All I got is married man "envy" and lascivious cheerleading. GM financial advise? "Oh he must be talking about money. Yes, money is good. More money is better. Who knew 'sweating' could earn you more money?" So please suffer my word dorkiness. Pat me on the head and say, "thanks fly, thanks."
I'm pretty sure "ideation" is from the Art of War. I know this stuff - I'm an avid Sappho reader.
 
Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?
Agreed
Ideation only became "made-up" because (I suspect) corporate douchemongers stole it from psychoanalysis (who stole it from philosophy) and douchemongered it to people who neither read nor care about psychoanalysis & philosophy.It's all over Freud and his subsequent sucklings.
Please excuse this post. Words like this are really the only knowledge I can drop on you people. Krista's professional woes? All I got is sympathy and a blank stare. Single guy dating woes? All I got is married man "envy" and lascivious cheerleading. GM financial advise? "Oh he must be talking about money. Yes, money is good. More money is better. Who knew 'sweating' could earn you more money?" So please suffer my word dorkiness. Pat me on the head and say, "thanks fly, thanks."
thanks fly, thanks
 
Bill, that's awfully tempting. Who's in? :) Nica feels like the only place I'm ever able to relax.No more about the break-in, other than the guests apologized about a million times to Julio about it.
I'm not kidding. I can't do a whole week at this point, but I can do a arrive-Friday-leave-Monday pretty easily. I wanna do Camila this time - though I'll miss Ms Shorty.
 
Bill, that's awfully tempting. Who's in? :) Nica feels like the only place I'm ever able to relax.No more about the break-in, other than the guests apologized about a million times to Julio about it.
I'm not kidding. I can't do a whole week at this point, but I can do a arrive-Friday-leave-Monday pretty easily. I wanna do Camila this time - though I'll miss Ms Shorty.
:kicksrock:I still want to get down there at some point. Sounds rather amazing
 
Bill, that's awfully tempting. Who's in? :) Nica feels like the only place I'm ever able to relax.No more about the break-in, other than the guests apologized about a million times to Julio about it.
I'm not kidding. I can't do a whole week at this point, but I can do a arrive-Friday-leave-Monday pretty easily. I wanna do Camila this time - though I'll miss Ms Shorty.
:kicksrock:I still want to get down there at some point. Sounds rather amazing
Got a passport?I'm telling you - I can't stay at the ocean in my home state for what I can in Nicaragua per/night, and that includes the flight.
 
If there's another Coshole (did someone mention next January) I'm going to do everything I can to get there. That sounded like an absolute blast.

 
speaking GMTANholes, we could do a VRBO and just rent a house somewhere over the summer.someone mentioned summerfest in Milwaukee or that Wisconsin beernerd fest in Madison as options.dunno if anyone wants to organize, but could be a good time.

 
Bill, that's awfully tempting. Who's in? :) Nica feels like the only place I'm ever able to relax.No more about the break-in, other than the guests apologized about a million times to Julio about it.
I'm not kidding. I can't do a whole week at this point, but I can do a arrive-Friday-leave-Monday pretty easily. I wanna do Camila this time - though I'll miss Ms Shorty.
:kicksrock:I still want to get down there at some point. Sounds rather amazing
Got a passport?I'm telling you - I can't stay at the ocean in my home state for what I can in Nicaragua per/night, and that includes the flight.
Yep, freshly renewed passport last year :thumbup:
 
What kind of money did Romo pull down last night? This is all getting reported to the IRS, RIGHT!?!?!?
Came back over $500 in winnings (including his KKKK winning ~$100 for high hand of the night). All in play money, of course.
I might go play tonight. I have an entire night to myself, it might be debauch-time.Is this 2/5 NL? 1/2?
NL 1/2 He actually hit quads (Ks, Js) in two hands, but he played super tight (first time at this game) and he actually did kind of treat it like a job (his words). His feeling is that there is more to be made at that game, especially since the host has open bar, etc, and he's not one for excessive booze or coke.
 
speaking GMTANholes, we could do a VRBO and just rent a house somewhere over the summer.someone mentioned summerfest in Milwaukee or that Wisconsin beernerd fest in Madison as options.dunno if anyone wants to organize, but could be a good time.
That would be pretty awesome
 
speaking GMTANholes, we could do a VRBO and just rent a house somewhere over the summer.someone mentioned summerfest in Milwaukee or that Wisconsin beernerd fest in Madison as options.dunno if anyone wants to organize, but could be a good time.
That would be pretty awesome
While I recognize that there are certain signature events, every major city had got some version of "beerfest". I'd rather do more unique ones, like a cornhole during ComiCon, or the Kentucky Derby, or the Vegas porn convention or something.
 
Where's COlin or Rude? I think one of them should lock the "do you think this thread can get to 560 posts?" thread at 559 posts.
You missed my post in that thread, I see.
My husband just rolled in from a poker game he went to at 9:00 last night. Probably going to be a pretty productive Saturday.
Challenge him to something. "I bet you can't rake all the leaves in the yard in under two hours....I bet you can't cook a ribeye medium well for me...I bet you can't rub my feet for thirty minutes without stopping..."
:thumbup: Great minds think alike. I hadn't even read the thread when I posted that.And good advice to YSR. On the extremely unlikely chance Romo lost at poker, he's gonna want to win at SOMETHING.
Oh, he won. So, I got the "just think of it as my coming home from working a night job". Oh, ok.
Sounds like wedded bliss!
 
Where's COlin or Rude? I think one of them should lock the "do you think this thread can get to 560 posts?" thread at 559 posts.
You missed my post in that thread, I see.
My husband just rolled in from a poker game he went to at 9:00 last night. Probably going to be a pretty productive Saturday.
Challenge him to something. "I bet you can't rake all the leaves in the yard in under two hours....I bet you can't cook a ribeye medium well for me...I bet you can't rub my feet for thirty minutes without stopping..."
:thumbup: Great minds think alike. I hadn't even read the thread when I posted that.And good advice to YSR. On the extremely unlikely chance Romo lost at poker, he's gonna want to win at SOMETHING.
Oh, he won. So, I got the "just think of it as my coming home from working a night job". Oh, ok.
Sounds like wedded bliss!
Thanks, as always, Pickles.
 
Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?
Agreed
Ideation only became "made-up" because (I suspect) corporate douchemongers stole it from psychoanalysis (who stole it from philosophy) and douchemongered it to people who neither read nor care about psychoanalysis & philosophy.It's all over Freud and his subsequent sucklings.
Please excuse this post. Words like this are really the only knowledge I can drop on you people. Krista's professional woes? All I got is sympathy and a blank stare. Single guy dating woes? All I got is married man "envy" and lascivious cheerleading. GM financial advise? "Oh he must be talking about money. Yes, money is good. More money is better. Who knew 'sweating' could earn you more money?" So please suffer my word dorkiness. Pat me on the head and say, "thanks fly, thanks."
Well then some translator made it up because Freud didn't write in English, professor.Pretty sure you're wrong, lawyer.Without looking it up I'd bet my nuts the etymology of "ideation" is Latin, so I assume it made its way to both English and German (in a more ubermencsh form) via philosophical texts of the classical period or (less likely) the middle ages. So, no, it wasn't made up by Peter Gay (yes, his name is Gay) or any of Freud's other translators. They probably all agreed on "ideation" because whatever German term Freud used had the same etymology.Now I got a question for you: why do you like trying to "show me up" so to speak. Both you and Aaron get this occasional thrill out of pointing out little mistakes I might make, when nobody else cares. It's not like a posture myself as some great intellectual and have never claimed to be anything close to perfect. I'm the first guy to make fun of myself. So what's your deal? TIA will answer yours.PS - I'm no professor. Pickles is a professor. RFW is a professor. I'm just an overeducated bloke who earns a check teaching freshman. Get over it.
 
Where's COlin or Rude? I think one of them should lock the "do you think this thread can get to 560 posts?" thread at 559 posts.
You missed my post in that thread, I see.
My husband just rolled in from a poker game he went to at 9:00 last night. Probably going to be a pretty productive Saturday.
Challenge him to something. "I bet you can't rake all the leaves in the yard in under two hours....I bet you can't cook a ribeye medium well for me...I bet you can't rub my feet for thirty minutes without stopping..."
:thumbup: Great minds think alike. I hadn't even read the thread when I posted that.And good advice to YSR. On the extremely unlikely chance Romo lost at poker, he's gonna want to win at SOMETHING.
Oh, he won. So, I got the "just think of it as my coming home from working a night job". Oh, ok.
Sounds like wedded bliss!
Thanks, as always, Pickles.
:lmao:
 
Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?
Agreed
Ideation only became "made-up" because (I suspect) corporate douchemongers stole it from psychoanalysis (who stole it from philosophy) and douchemongered it to people who neither read nor care about psychoanalysis & philosophy.It's all over Freud and his subsequent sucklings.
Please excuse this post. Words like this are really the only knowledge I can drop on you people. Krista's professional woes? All I got is sympathy and a blank stare. Single guy dating woes? All I got is married man "envy" and lascivious cheerleading. GM financial advise? "Oh he must be talking about money. Yes, money is good. More money is better. Who knew 'sweating' could earn you more money?" So please suffer my word dorkiness. Pat me on the head and say, "thanks fly, thanks."
I'm pretty sure "ideation" is from the Art of War. I know this stuff - I'm an avid Sappho reader. :lmao: Sappho's ideation is my favorite meme passed down to San Fernando Valley.
 
Where's COlin or Rude? I think one of them should lock the "do you think this thread can get to 560 posts?" thread at 559 posts.
You missed my post in that thread, I see.
My husband just rolled in from a poker game he went to at 9:00 last night. Probably going to be a pretty productive Saturday.
Challenge him to something. "I bet you can't rake all the leaves in the yard in under two hours....I bet you can't cook a ribeye medium well for me...I bet you can't rub my feet for thirty minutes without stopping..."
:thumbup: Great minds think alike. I hadn't even read the thread when I posted that.And good advice to YSR. On the extremely unlikely chance Romo lost at poker, he's gonna want to win at SOMETHING.
Oh, he won. So, I got the "just think of it as my coming home from working a night job". Oh, ok.
Sounds like wedded bliss!
Thanks, as always, Pickles.
:lmao: such a dick
 
Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?
Agreed
Ideation only became "made-up" because (I suspect) corporate douchemongers stole it from psychoanalysis (who stole it from philosophy) and douchemongered it to people who neither read nor care about psychoanalysis & philosophy.It's all over Freud and his subsequent sucklings.
Please excuse this post. Words like this are really the only knowledge I can drop on you people. Krista's professional woes? All I got is sympathy and a blank stare. Single guy dating woes? All I got is married man "envy" and lascivious cheerleading. GM financial advise? "Oh he must be talking about money. Yes, money is good. More money is better. Who knew 'sweating' could earn you more money?" So please suffer my word dorkiness. Pat me on the head and say, "thanks fly, thanks."
Well then some translator made it up because Freud didn't write in English, professor.
Pretty sure you're wrong, lawyer.Without looking it up I'd bet my nuts the etymology of "ideation" is Latin, so I assume it made its way to both English and German (in a more ubermencsh form) via philosophical texts of the classical period or (less likely) the middle ages. So, no, it wasn't made up by Peter Gay (yes, his name is Gay) or any of Freud's other translators. They probably all agreed on "ideation" because whatever German term Freud used had the same etymology.Now I got a question for you: why do you like trying to "show me up" so to speak. Both you and Aaron get this occasional thrill out of pointing out little mistakes I might make, when nobody else cares. It's not like a posture myself as some great intellectual and have never claimed to be anything close to perfect. I'm the first guy to make fun of myself. So what's your deal? TIA will answer yours.PS - I'm no professor. Pickles is a professor. RFW is a professor. I'm just an overeducated bloke who earns a check teaching freshman. Get over it.you came at me bro
 
Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?
Agreed
Ideation only became "made-up" because (I suspect) corporate douchemongers stole it from psychoanalysis (who stole it from philosophy) and douchemongered it to people who neither read nor care about psychoanalysis & philosophy.It's all over Freud and his subsequent sucklings.
Please excuse this post. Words like this are really the only knowledge I can drop on you people. Krista's professional woes? All I got is sympathy and a blank stare. Single guy dating woes? All I got is married man "envy" and lascivious cheerleading. GM financial advise? "Oh he must be talking about money. Yes, money is good. More money is better. Who knew 'sweating' could earn you more money?" So please suffer my word dorkiness. Pat me on the head and say, "thanks fly, thanks."
thanks fly, thanksThat'll be one nickle.
 
Upon reflection, "purpose-build" may be just as bad, if not worse, than "ideation" on the made up words/phrases list. Are some things built with no purpose?
Agreed
Ideation only became "made-up" because (I suspect) corporate douchemongers stole it from psychoanalysis (who stole it from philosophy) and douchemongered it to people who neither read nor care about psychoanalysis & philosophy.It's all over Freud and his subsequent sucklings.
Please excuse this post. Words like this are really the only knowledge I can drop on you people. Krista's professional woes? All I got is sympathy and a blank stare. Single guy dating woes? All I got is married man "envy" and lascivious cheerleading. GM financial advise? "Oh he must be talking about money. Yes, money is good. More money is better. Who knew 'sweating' could earn you more money?" So please suffer my word dorkiness. Pat me on the head and say, "thanks fly, thanks."
Well then some translator made it up because Freud didn't write in English, professor.
Pretty sure you're wrong, lawyer.Without looking it up I'd bet my nuts the etymology of "ideation" is Latin, so I assume it made its way to both English and German (in a more ubermencsh form) via philosophical texts of the classical period or (less likely) the middle ages. So, no, it wasn't made up by Peter Gay (yes, his name is Gay) or any of Freud's other translators. They probably all agreed on "ideation" because whatever German term Freud used had the same etymology.Now I got a question for you: why do you like trying to "show me up" so to speak. Both you and Aaron get this occasional thrill out of pointing out little mistakes I might make, when nobody else cares. It's not like a posture myself as some great intellectual and have never claimed to be anything close to perfect. I'm the first guy to make fun of myself. So what's your deal? TIA will answer yours.PS - I'm no professor. Pickles is a professor. RFW is a professor. I'm just an overeducated bloke who earns a check teaching freshman. Get over it.
you came at me bro :mellow:ET: I don't get this. Unless you consider yourself a "corporate douchemonger." Wasn't referring to you. I thought I was making fun of the same people you were criticizing.
 
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My daughter filling out her Keno card: my link
She's adorable, GB
:thumbup: :goodposting: I love this age. My son's 5 1/2 and it's fun to watch them get so much pleasure doing "big boy/girl" stuff like daddy does.
Her favorite tv show is Futurama, she likes to play Keno and boos anytime she hears or sees anything related to the Yankees (fly, :bye: ). I love my kid :thumbup:
Oh we have to get our indoctrinated kids together. It'd be a shouting match of epic proportions. You bring the advil. I'll bring the scotch.
 
One of my wife's best friends revealed this morning - via text - that she is pregnant with her boyfriend (3 years) baby and has moved in with him in north San Antonio. ...leaving behind her husband of 13 years and two adopted kids in Houston. :mellow:

 
One of my wife's best friends revealed this morning - via text - that she is pregnant with her boyfriend (3 years) baby and has moved in with him in north San Antonio. ...leaving behind her husband of 13 years and two adopted kids in Houston. :mellow:
Tell her to start a thread in the FFA :popcorn:
 
One of my wife's best friends revealed this morning - via text - that she is pregnant with her boyfriend (3 years) baby and has moved in with him in north San Antonio. ...leaving behind her husband of 13 years and two adopted kids in Houston. :mellow:
What could possibly go wrong?
 

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