When I can safely do so, absolutely.
TNP has been to a Jewish wedding in the past five years.
When I can safely do so, absolutely.
TNP has been to a Jewish wedding in the past five years.
Nah.
TNP has been to a civil wedding ceremony.
Nope. Just religious ones.
TNP knows at least one currently-serving mayor.
I am only 85% sure I know the name of the mayor of my little hick cowtown, except I know he's a bitch.
TNP is very happy to surreptitiously make use of "ignore" lists on other forums.
Nope, never have.
TNP has been getting 'way too many dumb holiday cards in the mail this week.
Not really, not even the usual idiotic corporate greeting cards. Who are they fooling, I mean really. In fact I usually get piles and piles of junk mail, every single day, but even that's tapered off lately (yeah I know about the consumer lists and stuff, but that's never helped in the past).
TNP is happier when people call him or her "awesome" rather than "cool."
Yes, I'd prefer that.
TNP has said "Roger that" in the past year.
Heh. I might have, but I don't recall an exact time. However, I've used the verb "to roger" more than a couple of times in the past few months. Very different....or is it?
TNP thinks if people were like those spinning plates on the old variety TV shows, he or she would be pretty good at keeping the show going.
Yeah, I've had some practice at that kind of thing at parties.
TNP will be sleeping in this weekend.
Nope. Waking up early to head out to the burbs and stock my larder, run a few errands. Do it before all the stragglers start clogging up everything.
TNP has changed his or her mind about people who make pseudo-romantic or emotional connections on line, and thinks there's some value, in the traditional, humanist framework, to such relationships.
I'm for any method people can use to make a true, mutually-respectful emotional connection with one another. So... yes?
TNP has a favorite Christmas song.
Of course. "Silent Night." Can be played with a groove, lots of kinds of grooves. Played straight with a choir. Three chords, or you can add some extra. Everybody knows it.
TNP is going to have to stay rested and healthy for the upcoming holidays (Xmas eve, Xmas, Boxing Day, all that). Not get overstimulated by all the excitement and hullabaloo hectic stuff.
I'm sure gonna try!
TNP is looking forward to seeing a particular person this holiday season.
Sure! in *A Christmas Carol*. Mission accomplished!
TNP has been a little upset that someone else saw him or her doing something -- not a sex thing -- that wasn't really good, in fact was kind of shady.
Sort of, but not really. And as it happens, there was an innocent explanation for it.
(That's my favorite version of A Christmas Carol, too).
TNP has visitors coming on Tuesday, as we do.
No. It's going to be sort of an enforced quiet week at my place -- a decent amount of ice, and I'm at the bottom of a pretty steep hill that doesn't get sanded or anything, so pretty much glad I did some grocery shopping earlier.
TNP thinks that, even though autonomous vehicles are a horrible idea that America deserves for its sins, there's a bright spot: namely fewer idiots on the road. Just robot idiots.
Could be. The transition is going to be tricky, though - very tricky. All it will take will be a few high-profile fatal accidents for people to think that maybe robot cars will never be safe. Once there are a lot of them out there and they're demonstrably safer than human-driven cars, mile after mile, the public will hopefully come around.
TNP would ride in a robot car tomorrow if given the chance.
No, I would not. Not really out of principle, it just sounds as much fun as a farmboy discovering his first receptive sheep in the back 40.
TNP is more or less aware of some of the geofence zones where AV's (or, yes "robot car" is better -- robot phones, robot cars, robot people, it's all the same) could run, and thinks it's fantastic. Segregate that traffic, don't normalize it, just keep it tightly controlled in little places where people can toddle around in their little toy robots without getting in real peoples' way.
Early on, yeah, something like that makes sense.
TNP knows someone working in the robotics or AI field.
Sure, personally at least a handful. A biggish part of my portfolio is in automated theorem proving and information ontology (BasicFormalOntology/BFO + OwlCPP). Also machine learning, which everybody also does, any kind of analyst working with data. However, these are huge fields, so I'd bet pretty much anyone, regardless of race, sex, creed, or color, knows at least somebody involved, if not directly.
TNP thinks two solid hours of walking in the rain, plus not eating yet today, merits about six hundred calories of pure, American, rotgut whiskey. You know, except for the dipsos and the ladies.
Go for it!
TNP had to shovel snow today.
Hah! At some time I'm glad to not be every day doing that! OTOH, it's a good sign of winter coming, so what do I know.
TNP has spent more time pushing cars out of uphill snowbanks than he or she cares to admit. Good exercise!
Only once or twice, I think.
TNP's feet are a little cold right now.
Not at all.
TNP is a little bit unsure about private messaging, like on various forums and so forth -- they're like texts, but somehow almost unlimited power, and they seem kind of shady and overly-intimate, sometimes.
Yeah, I guess, kinda. Still sort of feeling my way along the digital frontier.
TNP checks FB at least three times a day.
Yeah, maybe. Probably that's about the correct number, at the high end. It's like checking your voicemail, you always suspect some little alert is going to come up and find Eliot Ness and his Untouchables are auditing you. And then it's some jackass friend sending you some idiotic photograph or bitching at you for some reason. Not really worth it.
TNP remembers when old people were complaining about those fancy text messages, and didn't see what the problem was.
No old person that I ever heard.
TNP saw a movie tonight.
Negative. Kind of burned out staring into computer screens.
TNP owns a typewriter -- not some antique, or necessarily fancy, but just a pretty good manual old-fashioned typewriter.
Yes, but it's packed away somewhere, and I don't think I've seen it in maybe a decade or more.
TNP can hear fireworks and/or gunshots right now.
Oh, well thanks for reminding me. I almost couldn't remember
TNP sort of shakes his or her head and does a half-smile when observing people getting their rocks off.
Sometimes, yes.
TNP likes Pink's song "What About Us":
Oh. Yeah, it's all right.
TNP thinks Pink is less than half as good as Pink Floyd.
More or less, maybe. Kind of comparing apples and oranges, though.
TNP once went to a Pink Floyd concert.
False. I did go to GNR this summer, though.Originally posted by Elendil's Heir
TNP would prefer a steak to a hamburger.
No, I heard he died of an overdose a long time ago.
TNP either has already seen or would like to see, but probably be disappointed at, Battersea (I think it's the power plant on the cover of Animals). I don't know, drink some British beers and just look at it, or something.
I did see it, when I was in London in late 1985. You can also see it in the movies Richard III and Children of Men.
(Pink Floyd was a band, not an individual).
TNP is feeling a little chilly at the moment.
Not now, just turned the heat off in fact. Although when I read the prev post (TPP) it was morning and freezing.
TNP has not yet fully repopulated his or her calendar for this year with various dates to remember, for stuff, and whatever, but has started to.
That's right. Still some more to write in.
TNP is a little taken aback by how the year is starting to fill up already.
Not really. This year isn't ordered enough to my tastes yet.
TNP finds making new acquaintances in equal measures exhilarating and exhausting.
Yes, that's often true. But I still like to make them.
TNP has listened to Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" in the past month:
No, but interesting factoid: it's actually in 7/4 time, and was the inspiration for Jethro Floyd's song "Money," and was originally in the key of F#, until transposed at the last minute.
TNP thinks actors Jonathan Pryce and Jonathan Hyde are very difficult to distinguish.
Yeah, probably, since I realize now that I didn't know they were different people.
TNP wouldn't mind hibernating until April.
That's a tempting thought indeed right now. (I actually met Jonathan Pryce in London many years ago).
TNP needs to shovel some snow today.
No, I have a neighbor boy for that. Also, no snow. I'm going to feed that little bastard some laxatives, he's getting fat.
TNP thinks Honor Blackman is unfairly forgotten as Avengers sidekick, in favor of that harlot Diana Rigg.
Never really thought about it, but you have a point. Don't think Diana Rigg is a harlot, though.
TNP thinks 2017 may be remembered as a watershed year, like 1968.
Maybe, but not as much as 2016, given the U.S. election.
TNP will be voting this year.
There's a voter envelope on the table by my door, but I haven't read the measures in detail, and rather than vote straight Democrat, which the overwhelming majority of my county and state will go for, plus some small variance on some not-very-interesting other items, I'm going to save the stamps. Yeah, yeah, well, whatever. Jesus wept.
TNP thinks he or she can't really be actual friends with people half his or her age -- it's pretty weird, like maybe they think you're some advisor or oracle or some shit.
No, I have some much younger friends and we get along fine. And I don't mind being an advisor or oracle or some shit now and then.
TNP really should be going to bed right about now.
Uh, yeah, maybe "about" now, as in five hours.
TNP can name a novel (or other longer-form literary work) that he or she picked up after last reading ... let's just say a long time ago, whatever that means to TNP.
You mean, read again a long time after I'd last read it? Yes, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. I read it in college and didn't care for it all that much; I read it again just a year or two ago and liked it a lot more.
TNP can name a movie he or she has seen only twice, about which his or her opinion changed significantly.
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