Hate them both, but panhandlers are less dangerous.
TNP: Cigar or cigarette?
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Hate them both, but panhandlers are less dangerous.
TNP: Cigar or cigarette?
Hate them both, but panhandlers are less dangerous.
TNP: Cigar or cigarette?
I guess I'd take a cigarette over a cigar -- cigars take too much commitment.
TNP: *The Commitments* or *Amadeus* (movies)
I like both very much, but I'd give the edge to Amadeus.
Visit Fallingwater if you ever have the chance, Jizz! Great to see and walk through it in person. I've been several times: https://www.fallingwater.org/
TNP will be seeing a movie this weekend.
I don't know. Maybe this will be the weekend I make it through *Heaven's Gate*. I hope to think I'll choose to use time more productively, but I still have a gallon of AlcoTec 48 sugar wash to get through, so who knows.
TNP: houseflies or bedbugs.
Houseflies, definitely. Far easier to get rid of.
TNP has heard an Aerosmith song in the past week.
No, but I'll probably be "listening" to them in my mind's ear a while. Oh well, they're an OK good old rock and roll group, so that's fine.
TNP has, not entirely accidentally, given himself or herself mild food poisoning more than once.
Yes, a couple of times, with dodgy street food and stuff out of the fridge that seemed OK but turned out to be juuuuust a bit past optimal consumption dates.
TNP can see a dog from where he or she now sits.
Yes, in my mind's eye I could imagine some howling hell-beast.
TNP: Sloppy Seconds or The Beatles.
The Beatles, without question.
TNP: The Beatles or the Rolling Stones?
Stones. Obviously.
TNP: The Who or The Doors?
The Who, by a nose.
TNP has been in Africa in the past five years.
Nah, have sadly never made it at all.
TNP has been to at least one of the places hit by the recent hurricanes.
Yes, I've been both to Nawlins and southern Florida.
TNP is not planning a trip to Puerto Rico anytime soon.
Yes, I am not. I guess I could sneak into Guillermo Rosado Haddock's lectures, if he's still there (he's an important scholar of the philosophy of mathematics and logic, and sometime collaborator with another important scholar, the ETA *also* American Claire Ortiz Hill), but I'd really need a reason to go there, and I can't think of any accidentally arising.
If elected, however, I would serve as an ambassador of doughy white rummies who don't speak Spanish and don't like sunbathing or gambling.
I will not be elected.
TNP can think of a good, short little classical-legit piece of music that seems Halloween-like. Excluding the big Bach D minor organ Toccata+Fugue featured in many mad scientist movies, although that's fun too. The one that seems most apropos to me is the E minor fugue from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I (fugue in two parts only, short, but kind of sinister sounding and not too much like the other fugues). Sorry, no link, but I'm pretty sure every pianist who recorded it plays it about the same: very brisk. Not necessarily Bach, either. Just looking for ideas beyond the Alfred Hitchcock "Marionette" theme, the prelude to *Psycho*, The Munsters theme, etc. No, I'm not sure why, exactly, since I might not even memorize the Em WTCI fugue by the 31st, and I have no reason to, beyond just goofing off. Favorite holiday, and all.
This always sounded to me like it might be played on a movie soundtrack as the doomed heroine's carriage pulled up to a spooky, ruined old mansion late at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqIoHEMjzQM
TNP has a favorite Halloween candy.
Those little Three Musketeers (or Milky Way/Mars bars -- can't remember which is which) are pretty good, I guess. It could be amusing to eat so much candy corn that you self-induce vomiting, and examine the contents. More amusing than finding a razor blade in an apple, anyway, like most things.
TNP thinks, regardless of the content, it is appalling that a head of state uses crappy children's computer games like Twitter. Not saying edicts should be made in impeccable Latin, but, except for maybe campaigning tricks, propping up some commercial toy software company by even acknowledging its existence is disreputable, ridiculous, shocking, and shameful.
Yes, the current occupant of the White House is all of those things, and more.
TNP has petted a cat in the past three days.
No, maybe four or five days or so.
TNP has a strange urge to purchase a new vinyl record, such as the soundtrack to Manos The Hands of Fate, or perhaps superior music. BTW, good call on the Bach-Halloween above -- I was confused, but Wikipedia set me straight. It's the same as the D minor keyboard concerto, but it sounds good on violin also, so people do it that way too. It's a good one, anyway.
No. I'm totally over vinyl.
(Here's a great performance of Bach's D Minor Concerto on piano, BTW - look at her fingers, my God, her fingers!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osg_WmeLxQk)
TNP would quite possibly kill to be able to play piano like that.
No, not kill, except maybe an enemy or a vermin. She has a refreshing (to me) brisk insouciant take on this one. I was most excited to see the visual of her RH, doing the same thing I do when doing scalar passages with my LH -- namely, stick the pinky out in PREPARATION for the times when it will be used. I consider it a symptom of faulty technique that I'm trying to correct in my LH, but she makes it obvious it doesn't slow her down. I've known it was defective since 11 or so, but never had a reason to smooth it out.
A new sound (to me), a new star! But, son, not just her fingers, her mind, forearms, wrist -- it's a full body instrument. I'm looking forward to hearing more of her playing.
ETA, also, that was nice to see a page-turner -- I haven't seen a chamber music concert in years, I even forgot they existed. Well, props to the page-turner too! I figure even if they screw up, it's not catastrophe to the audience, but I imagine the calumny spread among the audience.
EETA nice also to have a limited orchestra behind her -- one of the great revelations of my secular music life was listening to *Headhunters* or *Thrust* and thinking "dude, that's just, like four dudes in a room, playing live." I think the massive string sections and all that kind of makes orchestral music inaccessible to the common lunchpail Harry. It wasn't always like that.
EEETA looks like a Peters edition. Well, I like those too.
EEEETA: in the second "movement" she has some ideas about phrasing I've never heard before. Well done.
TNP knows his or her Meyer-Briggs personal ID, and will state it, or if not, will explain why he or she doesn't do that much ego psychology.
EEEETA Alternate TNP: Why is Osetinskaya wearing that costume? András Schiff has been doing recently the weird monkish tunic, but what's the deal?
Munge:
TNP knows his or her Meyer-Briggs personal ID, and will state it, or if not, will explain why he or she doesn't do that much ego psychology.
EEEETA Alternate TNP: Why is Osetinskaya wearing that costume? András Schiff has been doing recently the weird monkish tunic, but what's the deal?
well, the passages in thirds from the I movmt is, I admit, one I will include in my book of "stuff to do.
AlertnateTNP: TNP has a lot of stuff to do
Osetinskaya is hot melted shit on the third movement -- complete command. My current technical problem is that part of the Op. 27 no. 1 of Beethoven of the "inside the keys, overlapping hands" part of the last movement. She's fucking good at that overlapping hands. "Cut your nails. Get the butter." Yeah.
Still curious why she didn't fix her technical problem with hand shape.
I gotta fucking say, I know you guys have a rule about talking too much or whatever, but Anton Gakkel or whatever at around 1:50 of the Dm Bach keyboard concerto. That bitch was on fire, and authoritative, full of savoir-faire. This Gakkel? He's got six instruments to "conduct." He, by my count, almost dropped the beat once in a few bars, and, more importantly, forced the soloist, whatsername, into some artificial scheme.
Yeah, wel
I was last tested 20-some years ago, and think I was an ESTJ: https://www.16personalities.com/estj-personalityQuote:
Originally posted by Jizzelbin
TNP will also tell us his or her Myers-Briggs result.
Sure. INTJ. I find it useful to know this kind of stuff, since a large part of my current activity is tricking and manipulating the kinds of people who take pop psychology seriously into buying stuff from me. And, it's kind of fun, I guess.
TNP hasn't really stopped laughing from time to time about the Rick(ENTJ)&Morty Szechuan Sauce "incident."
Yes, that was a good bit. "Awesome possum!"
TNP has been out in the sun today.
Nope, isn't any. I don't expect it to be anything but overcast for the next seven months here. The inferiority of artificial light is a probably a boon for idiot nerds who make no effort to conceal their delight at dragging everyone else down to the level of their defective, repulsive personalities. Bunch of cave-dwelling idiots.
TNP prefers constant rain to merely overcast.
Well, not day after day, but yes, I do.
TNP has taken a long walk in the rain in the past month.
No, I've walked enough.
TNP thinks Samuel Beckett had a pretty good idea (whatever his inscrutable reasons might have been) to do much work in a foreign language, and is likely to try to copy this practice at some time, or already has.
No, I'm not fluent enough in anything but English to try that.
TNP knows someone who speaks Swahili.
I know or knew some white cracker mathematician who lived in Kenya for a while, but he wasn't a near-native speaker, as far as I know.
TNP thinks languages should be used, rather than studied.
No. No reason they can't be both.
TNP can think of three languages in which he or she wishes fluency.
No. Maybe English, if you're into the whole buggery and colonialism thing.
TNP thinks it's hilarious to respond to spam mobile phone texts with detailed, graphic descriptions of how the spammer's family will be dissected, in ten years, in calm, lucid detail which telegraphs a knowledge of the spammer's corporate structure and location. Obviously, TNP is aware of any consequences, and thinks all are acceptable or also hilarious.
Never even occurred to me before, but I can see the attraction.
TNP has at least five pens within arm's reach without stretching.
Well, sure, but I'd have to stretch out my arm a bit to reach the ends of my desk. I count six sharpies, one highlighter, and four or so pens, plus a shitload of mechanical pencils. And ETA no, I'm not doing a third grade science fair, I just had the Sharpies out for some reason. I defend the use of the yellow highlighter to organize my notes -- bold in pen, with square box around each subject matter, entries in pencil, major topic divisions get the yellow stripe. It is an efficient and legible system.
TNP is a sloucher at the desk, but remains faithful to the post.
yeah, sounds about right.
TNP has been to a funeral recently.
About a month ago, yes, for a former judge I knew.
TNP has seen Blade Runner 2049.
Was that what that was? I liked that they had a lot of characters that talked about stuff and did stuff at the same time -- it makes me feel smart, like a European. And then the action was very high-tech, which made me feel smart too -- like a Japanese or from Google.
TNP is disappointed that he or she doesn't say the word "nipponophile" more in conversation.
Well, now I am.
TNP is bored.
Nah, I'm OK. Too busy lately to get very bored.
TNP could do with a nap right about now.
No. I drug myself into a stupor with Benadryl/diphenhydramine every night and sleep like a top and dream like a pig on acid, whatever that expression means. As a result I am rarely tired during the day, provided I always drink teeth-staining caffeinated beverages constantly.BTW I was right about the Bach Concerto, the first solo break has excellent scale work in thirds, and the fourth solo break (still in the first movement) is every bit as tricky, looking at the score, as I thought. I didn't know Bach used that kind of Scarlatti-esque guitar/fiddle type stuff in keyboards. Nice sound, but you sort of have to pay attention, like Osetinskaya clearly does. Wow, I didn't realize that whole first movement alone is essentially an extended toccata-like piece for keyboard, with some little spots for friends of the keyboardist to get paid a small percent of the fee for the concert (if it were up to me). There would be no real reward in memorizing the piece, either. BTW Osetinskaya is using one of the Henle editions, not Peters. I'm sure the notes are all the same, but that page turner should have creased the spine so it would lie flat. For shame. I can't process the 2nd and 3d movements by looking at the score -- the slow one needs a good artist to decide how to phrase it, and the third movement, I don't know, you need brass balls to just sort of manfully get it over with, since it isn't as tuneful as the first movement.
TNP has a preference for logorrhea or rhinorrhea.
too late for an edit, but I forgot gonorrhea.
No preference. I'd strongly prefer to avoid all two (or three).
TNP will be going to the theatre this weekend.
Sure. The rich tapestry of the theater of the societal spectacle.
TNP is often as tired as enriched by the daily task of anticipating and acting upon the emotional concerns of others in an effective and empathetic manner.
No, it doesn't really wear on me like that.
TNP owns at least three calculators.
Sure, I guess. Within reach, a trusty TI-85, which may or may not have batteries (haven't used it in years, since, believe it or not, I know what log(n) and abs(v) looks like and so forth -- that's all I need), a little basic one (ETA TI-30xA, it happens -- had to buy one for physics exams where fancy calculators not allowed on tests, but they want you to get some approximations for trig functions and so forth [IMHO....never mind....eh.....never mind]. I use that one if I get tired of expanding rational numbers to decimal in my head, like, for stuff, and stuff. Cute little device. I approve!), and a Pickett slide rule, which may not be in arm's reach, but it's somewhere in my little "office," but which I think has more right to be called a pocket calculator than opening up an interpreter on the computer and typing up some expressions. Probably faster for multiplying than typing "python" or "hgc" and then typing in the numbers, and remembering the function to exit the interpreter, but I don't need a lot of quick numbers in daily life I can't just guesstimate or type into a web browser.
TNP can't think of a cheaper investment in mental arithmetic than knowing how to count in multiples of 16 (excluding knowing the powers of 2 up to a reasonable value, which is indeed very handy, and I'd recommend to anyone)
Too late for edit -- whoops, that's ghc (Glasgow Haskell Compiler). It's on a different "experimenting" machine I don't use much nowadays except for fucking with innards and stuff of the OS. No, I don't do much Haskell, a programming language that's basically clean, tidy applied logic, named after a mathematician who crossed over to the dark side of philosophy, i.e., logic, as a hobby, I guess. It's cute, but only so many hours in a day, although the ability to do stuff without a bunch of boilerplate code and importing huge libraries whose effects can be unpredictable when working on stuff written by illiterates who don't comment their code, is enticing. It's like pencil-and-paper problem-solving, but using a typewriter. Sort of like LISP (you know, the one with all the parentheses, like lambda calculus sort of), but you don't have to invest in using a full-featured environment like emacs to keep track of what you've written. And you can use the notations of central Europe, from Poland and other former lands of the dual monarchy, so it has some political satisfaction, if you have some kind of mental-patient obsession with the history of the Austro-Hungarian empire from old.
My math skills aren't that good, so counting mentally in multiples of 16 would probably take me awhile.
TNP has special plans for Halloween.
No. Usually I get really psyched up about it, seeking out new horror movies, getting into the mood, but I've been super-organized with my time, pretty much down to to the nearest five-minute interval, so I'll hang with my uncle, his sister, see some of the nephew costumes (oldest one wanted to go as R2-D2, for some reason I don't know), maybe help hand out candy for a few hours. Maybe play some spooky Bach on piano. TBH, I'm more psyched to go to mass for All Saints Days -- gotta stop slacking on that front.
TNP has had a few isolated days over the past two weeks when he or she just ate too much, and was not happy at the need to readjust for the rest of the week.
Yes. Just last night, as a matter of fact - went to Harry Buffalo and overdid it on the BBQ wings. =burp=
TNP will be handing out candy to costumed folk tonight.
Nah, kid took care of it, as he has since he stopped going out trick or treating himself.
TNP had no left over candy as of November 1.
Not so - still have about two dozen small bags of chocolate M&Ms.
TNP will climb at least three flights of stairs today.
No, did not. Sounds kind of fun to run up 3 flights and pretend to be in some spy movie, and make some ridiculous excuse for being out of breath when meeting the people on the upper floor.
TNP is extremely tired of hearing pervert journalists pander to their deviant public about alleged sex criminals, bestiality fans, mad gropers, Hollywood homosexuals, transgenders, streakers, runaway brides, whatever. By all means, arrest the offenders, report on that, if you must, just shut up in general. Yes, I know people have been obsessed with everything naughty since forever, but surely one needn't lower oneself to the primitive Mediterranean classical world.
Kinda torn. Some of this stuff desperately needed to get out, but I already see a degree of pandering and witch-hunting that's kind of scary.
TNP is already tired of November.
But... but... it just started! So, no.
TNP has already done at least half of his or her year-end-holiday shopping.
Yes, I have done all of the none shopping for this year. I'm doing no holidays anything this year. They are disruptive, intolerable, and unruly.
TNP has a preference for being "interred" in an empty swimming pool, a medical waste dumpster, or a shallow grave.
Nah, whatever.
TNP would mildly like having their ashes scattered at Disney's Haunted Mansion.
No, thanks. After having organs harvested, I'll be cremated and the ashes buried in the family plot in my Ohio hometown, I expect.
TNP has already signed up to be an organ donor.
If it's that thing you check on a US driver's license, then sure. If it's something extra, then sure I would, but that seems like a lot of effort.
TNP is feeling pretty good about November, despite Thanksgiving and other petty annoyances.
Yeah, more or less, although some of the local elections yesterday didn't turn out the way I'd hoped they would.
TNP has already, or will be, voting in an election this month.
Nah, nothing going on in Ontario at the moment, at least in my area.
TNP takes their coffee black.
Hot, sweet and black, just like my Communications officers.
TNP is a Trekker.
Sure, I like ST:TNG, and the movies. I'm sure I've seen all TOS -- they're a good glimpse at pre-TJ Hooker Shatner, and pre-Night of the Lepus DeForest Kelley. I'd say that qualifies me as a Trekker, just not an obsessive one.
TNP is sure Khatia Buniatishvili had two very good reasons for wearing her costume to perform the Schumann piano concerto.
Yes, indeed. But I'm now afraid she might catch a chill.
TNP thinks boobs and classical music are a match made in heaven.
They sure can be. I'm pretty sure that Ms. Buniatishvili, at age 30, had the same idea, but that can't be too comfortable, jogging in place in one of the virtuoso concerti. Well, I respect her for knowing her audience.
TNP thinks the odds of being a bachelor in his 40s, no matter how well-groomed and urbane, not being regarded by most young woman as some kind of old goat are pretty slim. BUT TNP THINKS IT IS POSSIBLE!
Absolutely.
TNP firmly believes that if anyone can pull it off, it'll be Jizz.
Well. I don't think that's a question can answer False/True.
TNP can only truly say that his or her world has become more tightly controlled the older he or she becomes more mature.
Nah, I've had more or less the same level of control for years now.
TNP could do with a cuppa joe right about now.
Yes, but fortunately have one to hand.
TNP is fond of lattes.
Not particularly. I'm more of a mocha guy.
TNP has been inside a Starbucks in the past 24 hours.
Yeah, just got out.
TNP thinks that Starbucks is pretty easy to handle, and doesn't understand why people make jokes about it.
Any giant, omnipresent and very successful corporation is going to have its critics.
TNP would someday like to own a giant, omnipresent and very successful corporation.
Own? Sure. But more like being the owner of a professional sports team, just sit in a private room and have people bring me things. I would consider it horrible to waste time dealing with the kinds of people I could trick or browbeat into working for me.
TNP is very frustrated by setting up new mobile phones and getting them to work the way I want them to.
Own? Sure. But more like being the owner of a professional sports team, just sit in a private room and have people bring me things. I would consider it horrible to waste time dealing with the kinds of people I could trick or browbeat into working for me.
TNP is very frustrated by setting up new mobile phones and getting them to work the way I want them to.
Absolutely. My new iPhone has been just about as much a pain in the ass as it has been a change for the better.
TNP prefers Apple products to any other.
No -- Apple's one advantage is have a Unix-like core, but I don't care about the fancy desktop applications. This new iPhone (don't know what model, the cheapest) is pretty admirably plug-and-play, but it infuriates me that I can't crack the impenetrable sandboxed case when something doesn't work and try to fix it. Also, not having access to the battery makes me very unhappy -- if I want the phone off, I want to be able to do so. Also, Sprint is fucking the worst fucking carrier in the fucking planet. What are they hard of antennae? 1x speed data? Maybe occasionally an hour of what they claim is 3G? Who told them they could work with men? I'm going to find out who's dick they're sucking on and have them fired.
TNP is regularly appalled by how little about society's "rules of the game" some people know.
I don't think I'm so much appalled anymore -- there are a lot of people in the world, and some of them aren't going to get it, but I am capable of occasionally being surprised/irritated.
TNP is still capable of being surprised by how people will desperately try to make easy things difficult.
No. It takes a special talent to take the laziest, most efficient path. Not many are called, and few are chosen. Of those few, still fewer do it correctly.
TNP can name a novel he or she recently decided to start reading in again, and will do so.
Probably the most recent was George R.R. Martin's clever, very readable sf environmental satire Tuf Voyaging, a longtime favorite of mine.
TNP has read a GRRM novel other than one of the Game of Thrones books.
No. I only know who he is because the Robot Chicken people mentioned his name once.
TNP is bored of Facebook -- too many old people on it.
Having never been on FB, I can hardly say that I'm bored of it.
TNP is bored of this planet - too many young people on it.
Mostly bored of most things and most people. If I don't approve, it's garbage, and since most of what I disapprove of comes from illiterate children, I'd have no problem disposing of most of them.
TNP thinks nerds should be put in a cage, and their results read every so often and interpreted by hu
I don't know who hu is, so I guess not.
TNP knows the first names of at least five nerds, and will share them here.
Yeah, I'll go IRL, Johnathan, Jonathan (two separate people, two different spellings), Hannah, Eric, Greg.
TNP has a position on the geek vs. nerd: who is cooler? "debate"
I think geeks are cooler, because they can at least (according to the stereotypes) do something useful, while nerds are simply social misfits.
TNP disagrees with that assessment.
No, that's what I heard, I guess. I think nerds do stuff, too, but they're just really annoying about it, but that's nitpicking, really.
TNP didn't know that on some or many bulletin board software "enter post" boxes you can use shortcuts, for example, ctrl-I for italics. I honestly thought everyone was typing 11 characters versus the 4 needed for asterisk to code it, or pressing the little picture of italic.
Agreed - I didn't know. I still use the buttons.
TNP has been thinking of the missing Argentine submarine today: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/20/americ...now/index.html
Yes, I have been, for a difference of about two or three minutes from now to past. Probably keep thinking about it for a few minutes.
TNP: ghost ship or ghost train
Are you asking which I prefer as a fictional concept? I guess either; if I have to choose, I'll go with... ghost ship. I like ships generally.
TNP would rather go on a train trip than an ocean voyage.
Hmmm, difficult, since I like both, but no, probably prefer the sea.
TNP has taken the train across North America.
Sure. Good old Empire Builder. Filthy, slow, but at least Amtrak's employees are friendly, and who doesn't like train stations? Airplane companies, that's who. The enemy of an enemy is...a filthy, slow friend.
TNP: eating in a gas station bathroom or eating on a plane.
Eating on a plane, no question. Sometimes the food isn't even all that bad.
TNP would rather drive across the country in an RV than stay in motels every night.
Not really. I've been on some medium-length trips on RVs, and from what I can see they're a bitch to drive, there's a lot of shit (sometimes literally) to take care of, and I just wouldn't want to do it. They're like pleasure boats, except not cool. On the contrary, I kind of enjoy those little motels off the interstate, catch a few winks, grab a stale doughnut and coffee for the road, and maybe stop in a town, hit the bars, and flop in some seedy motel and sleep it off.
TNP: Alexandre Dumas or Walter Scott
Dumas. More colourful stuff, since France.
TNP: Edison or Tesla
Tesla
TNP: "Bobcat" Goldthwait or Gilbert Gottfried
I know it's cooler to say Tesla these days, but Edison thought up and did more stuff that had a lasting influence. So I'll go, with no disrespect intended to Tesla, with Edison.
TNP: Washington or Lincoln?
Lincoln, because of his remarkable abilities as an orator and his decisiveness. Washington fought against the French, who were the only colonialist power which made a positive contribution to North America, but he turned out OK.
TNP thinks it's too bad this case, where compensatory damages paid against a man who was assaulted, arrested, and illegally detained by a civilian law officer, and the following case, where legal fees well in excess of a million dollars were recovered from the perpetrators, had to be pursued as civil-rights cases. Perhaps members of non-protected classes will benefit from the punishment of rogue civilians with exaggerated legal authority, though.
Both of those are the same case, but in any event, no, I'd disagree. Abuse of authority by police is just what civil rights lawsuits often stem from. If the case can't be settled, sometimes you have to take it to a jury.
TNP has had an unpleasant encounter with a cop in the past three years.
Sure. I was interrupted while walking home a few years ago, asked to identify myself, and told they were looking for someone with my description. That was it, took two minutes at most. If the first and last sentences out of some civilian stranger's filthy sewer are not "Sorry to bother you, sir" and "Sorry to have bothered you, sir," they are defective, impolite civilians, who deserve less respect than a polite beggar. Next time I provide the identification verbally, as is correct in my state when not toddling around in an automobile, like a hillbilly, and any irrelevant questions will be stated to be delayed until I'm finished dealing with their problem. While trivial, I consider it extremely unpleasant to be commanded to perform tasks by an impolite moron who dresses in a Village People costume.
TNP does not like to be interrupted.
ETA to put another way, I'm accustomed to walking on the street in an imperturbable reflective state, performing obligatory grunts to beggars, avoiding collisions of all kind, noticing things of my choice. To be forced to submit to a derelict civilian with an outrageously incompetent directive is an outrage at worst, and an interruption at best.
Agreed. I prefer not to be interrupted, but of course sometimes it's unavoidable.
TNP has a pie within ten steps of where he or she now is.
No, I've given up putting my fingers in the pie.
TNP thinks Jung was sometimes not incorrect in his conceptual analyses, despite belonging to the primitive age of the conscious-unconscious model of mind.
Probably agree, although I'm not all that well-versed on Jung.
TNP has seen A Dangerous Method, about Jung early in his career.
At first I thought it would be a departure for Cronenberg, but then I realized that his monsters for the most part sprung from the mind-this movie stripped the fantasy from his theme, leaving the far most complicated and intense reality.
TNP has stepped away from a relationship because not doing so would/could hurt the other person in the long run.
No, never found myself in that kind of relationship, although I'm coming to think my eldest son just might be in one now.
TNP has been kissed in the past 24 hours.
The second goodbye kiss is the best.
TNP has regretted trying a new food in the past month
Nah, not really. Most new foods are cool with me.
TNP puts hot sauce on most everything.
Red chili flakes on most everything.
TNP has gone more than two days without eating anything.
Went 4 days once when I was still on the streets.
TNP once went streaking while it was snowing.
No way. I lived in Buffalo, NY for a while. While I always found myself missing the snow come wintertime -- and overhearing people about town, I wasn't alone -- I don't actually enjoy snow very much. I like streaking even less. What's to say they won't release the hounds, their fierce jaws reaching out to the famous regions of the body?
ETA does not think the music of Chopin is essential, and his contributions could be replaced without much loss by attention paid to post-Beethoven composers like Schumann, Liszt, and Debussy.
I like them all, but I definitely wouldn't want to lose the sublime piano compositions of Chopin (just came across a reference to him in a novel, as it happens), so no.
TNP has another composer in mind for the remove-forever-from-this-universe list.
No, it's a free country, or whatever -- I don't care what people choose to play or write. And FTR Chopin was a remarkable talent, without question -- it is the central place of his œuvre among the piano literature that I think is distorted.
TNP Mozart or Wagner (opera composers)
Mozart. Wagner is too Wagnery for me.
TNP: What's Opera Doc or The Rabbit of Seville
The Rabbit of Seville.
TNP: Spaghetti with meatballs, or fettuccine Alfredo
I don't know, both probably. Just put it all in a bucket. OK, maybe Alfredo with plenty of lardons and parmesan, no if any cream. So, noodles, smoked bacon, parmesan, butter, garlic, black pepper, red flakes, put it in a bowl and eat. Also, fettucine > spaghetti, so that wins.
TNP knows someone IRL who resembles Felix from *The Odd Couple*
Yes. Me, I've been told!
TNP knows someone who resembles Oscar from TOC.
Not really. I had a horror that it could be me (stench of strong tobacco, extremely untidy, utilitarian about drink and food, fashion sense of good/not good), but I think Oscar was a little more congenial and easygoing. No, I don't actually know anybody like that, although it's been a long time since I saw the TV show in reruns (Randall/Klugman), or the movie. I do know the theme song from the jazz album The Return of Don Patterson, and the line "Oscar, Oscar, it's linguine!" or something. I don't know. No, I've only seen someone like that in the movies.
TNP has noticed that a lot of hardcore, man's man, macho sports fans seem to be a little bit more fastidious about things than you'd expect.
Yeah, totally, especially since some of those types are ex-military and do things right.
TNP is frequently surprised at random kindnesses as well as random cruelties.
No, unfortunately, I see a fair amount of both, and rarely is it surprising in either direction.
TNP already has big plans for Dec. 25.
Big enough. Going to be at the Hotel Roosevelt in NOLA.
TNP has New Year's Eve plans.
No, not yet.
TNP will see a movie this weekend.
I guess it's technically the weekend. I'm pretty sure The Wizard counts as a movie, although it looks like it was "filmed" on someone's camcorder circa 1988-1989. ETA, I figured it out. This movie is a remake of *Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind*, except with little kids and instead of aliens and François Truffaut, you have some video games and one of the lesser Bridges.
TNP sometimes thinks of stabbing a movie in the eyes with scissors, and yet still watches.
No. If I hate a movie that much (and it's rare), I just turn it off. Life's too short.
TNP just had a cat walk by.
No, it's been over a week since I saw The Matrix.
TNP would drink beer or eat bread made from yeast-infection lady yeast.
Not unless you paid me big bucks AND I saw medical certification that it was entirely safe.
TNP winces a little at ads for vaginal yeast infection remedies.
No, not unless they've started showing a lot more skin on network TV than I remember, complete with pustules and encrusted foam.
TNP is disappointed that he or she rarely finds an appropriate chance to insult a man by offering him a training bra, or to be non-sexist and inclusionary, a woman by doubting her hygiene.
No, I've never been tempted by either gambit.
TNP has read a James Bond novel in the past five years.
Nah, don't think I've ever read one, come to think of it.
TNP hates it when some hack continues a series by a dead novelist.
Yeah, they usually suck.
TNP is against movie prequels as a matter of principle.
No way, I like 'em. I can't think of an example of one that was good, but I still liked the Thing prequel and one of the Exorcist ones.
TNP would rather eat sixteen five-oz. cans of Starkist Chunk Light Tuna, or a fifth of 80 proof whiskey.
Hmmm....I'd probably feel better after the tuna, but it would be close.
TNP likes their whiskey straight.
Yes, not watery, brown, and leaving a burning sensation, just like grandma used to make.
TNP has gone on a severe, Christian Bale style diet in the past.
No. That would actually be dangerous.
TNP is just trying to eat fewer Christmas cookies this year.
No, I'll probably eat a few if I see some. I kind of like those "sugar cookies" shaped like trees with the frosting and stuff, but I have no idea if my sister or father or mother are going to make any for the yearly family get-together. I just had a thought I could make some myself, but then I thought, "no, I would consider that a profound mistake, for it would make a giant mess, take a bunch of time, and sugar can better be used for beverages."
TNP has been surprised by guest appearances on various media, and can name a good example.
I'm sure there have been others more recently, but off the top of my head, Sean Connery's brief appearance as King Richard at the end of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
TNP has laughed along with me at Kevin Costner's terrible English accent in that movie.
No, I saw it with high school girlfriend when it came out, possibly with her younger brother, and I didn't really know who or what Kevin Costner was at the time. Still don't, I guess.
TNP saw a TV commercial today, and didn't care for it.
No, didn't watch any TV today.
TNP has a favorite Christmas song, and will provide a YouTube link to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJYDDZ7goEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqwmZsPe_3c Dr John, band version of "Silent Night," solo piano + vox version
TNP needs to remember to laisser les bons temps rouler from time to time, give Bach a break.
Certainement! Great link - thanks; I'll be sharing it with friends.
TNP has been to Nawlins in the past year.
Nope, but I'm going there for Christmas
TNP likes a good Sazerac now and then.
You know, I've never had. But I'd drink it out of purely political solidarity with the good people among the Cajuns. Well, in addition to having a fondness for adult beveraging! :) It's basically a cognac-style brandy, right?
@EH, glad you dug the Dr John -- I'd never heard the band version, but I've been playing the solo version copied off the record since high school. It's funny, the solo from 1981 or so is in Bb, but the band version is in G -- maybe his voice register changed what he was comfortable in.
TNP is actually feeling good about spending time with their respective families/close ones on Christmas.
Yup. I get along with and enjoy the company of virtually all my family.
TNP thinks Frankie and Dino are just the the thing for the holidays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYWhqM-he8&t=3920s
:)
I defer to TNP, just couldn't resist smiley for Deano.
OK, I'll go for it. That's half true. I'm a huge Dean Martin fan -- AFAIC, he just about the coolest singer there is this side of Tony Bennett, you know, in that style. Nothing against Frank, I just am not feeling it much these days.
TNP has made some new e-buddies lately (or is it i-buddies?) and is pretty happy about it. Well, you know, tolerates it.
No, not lately.
TNP has been in Connecticut in the past two years (I'm there now).
Never been through there. Never had a reason to.
TNP has spent a pretty good amount of time in Philly (all those fancy Mainline suburbs around the city proper can count as well).
No, probably less than ten days cumulatively in my entire life.
TNP can hear a snoring person right now.
No. It's been a ...dog's...age since I've heard that. Probably passed out in the same room with my uncle -- he's not only a snorer, he's a screamer. Truly, a pleasure.
TNP finds it irresistable (unless the consequences would be deleterious) to take a rude, insulting person down a peg or two (or, ideally, all the pegs, right down to the bare earth) in private life. Isn't necessarily proud of it, but feels sometimes it's got to be done.
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! George C. Scott 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": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKOEJs602uk
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.Quote:
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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs
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.