Post #376,100
6/8/13 10:59:27 PM
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29 years later...
http://en.wikipedia....eteen_Eighty-Four
"Big Brother and the Party justify their rule in the name of a supposed greater good.[1] The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to re-write past newspaper articles so that the historical record always supports the current party line.[3] Smith is a diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother."
So, who is Smith? Just wondering?
:-)
Screamer, AKA dreck, AKA "Just a few thoughts", AKA "Putting Descartes before des horse", and so on...
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Post #376,101
6/8/13 11:11:28 PM
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Welcome back, stranger. :-)
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Post #376,164
6/10/13 10:32:48 AM
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Re: Welcome back, stranger. :-)
Thank you. Hope all is well. I'll try not to be a stranger (at least not in that sense of the word).
book 'em, Danno
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Post #376,104
6/9/13 12:12:36 AM
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good to see ya man!
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
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Post #376,165
6/10/13 10:37:31 AM
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Re: good to see ya man!
Sup Bill. Been since the 4'th many moons ago. Hope you are still keeping all these L-I-B-R-A-L-S (yeah, try to autocorrect that M-O-F-O - and it's trying to make moro out of M-O-F-O - freaking autocorrect making all my GD posts politically correct). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
So how's it going?
You know,
Dan
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Post #376,106
6/9/13 3:48:19 AM
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Hola Dan!
Hoped you'd drop in before the Great Conflagration (..oh, there'll be a fancier title--but it won't be televised.)
Did you ever score a copy of the Manfred? [Beecham: First Complete Recording]
How's it feel, realizing that the milieu you inhabit has a % Huge of folks tetched in the head?
Is the kindling temp of modrin super-paper still 451° F? (Wait.. that's another chronicle; luckily I've memorized all the good stuff, anyway..)
Drop in again, eh?
We'unses on The Barricades need moral support from all those folks what read Proust, and such..
Jejune's just no fun.
A.
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Post #376,163
6/10/13 10:31:03 AM
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Re: Hola Dan!
Breathe, Ash, breathe. I miss you too! :-)
I am also looking forward to the GC but am hoping that it will be at least on pay per view. Who knows, maybe you or I can claim rights to pyro-in-chief and at least spark a couple of embers.
Not entirely sure I completely understand the Manfred reference (unless I'm wrapped up like a deuce, you know, the runner in the night?)
I was quite surprised and pleased that you all still have a vibrant community going. I am still wrapped in the throws of raising chilluns and watching high fallutin' football folks fabricating females here in SBÂ
I still have you phone number in my cell phone (from carrier to carrier from phone to phone) from the missed attempt many years back when I was in CuppertinoÂ
It is exactly what triggered me to check z.iwethey.org in my browser. So, yes, in essence, it is all YOUR fault.
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Post #376,227
6/11/13 12:38:26 AM
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Re: Hola Dan! (Manfred)
Don't recall the exact context that led to suggesting this unique collaboration 'twixt Lord Byron and Robert Schumann; the result of these two chimerical figures is a kind of tone poem, all metaphysical in scope.
Prolly lots in Googling same, haven't been moved to look lately if someone has transcribed the 'original' Beecham / Royal Philharmonic O. 'Best': I have that LP (M2L-245) from way before the Transistorized Society dropped on us.
(Have heard that there are some performances in execrable-mp3, that suppurating wart on the rectum of sensitive souls everywhere==Don't Bother.)
Will delve further into who Must have saved this seminal recording, perfectly executing (Byron's own angst; "Manfred" is He!) A trip to the Underworld.. to rescue the beloved Astarte--is the back-story. Many wry quips abound
(including Manfred's dismissal of a priest attempting to offer him absolution ... and like that.)
Schumann was a genius, reminiscent of Mendelssohn, and the overture to Manfred is deemed among his best work.
Anyway.. listening to this with no techno-distractions, from a proper mood (?) can, for a time replace today's fungible 'questions' with all those intimations of the er, ineffable, abetted by a decent Symph. O.
Hmmm, local academics might also have a handle on a copy.
(My music system is in disarray, as the cones have rotted (foam surrounds, yet) on my Ed Long super-speakers; unclear what medium I might copy-to, as well. Do have decent Linn-Sondek LP-12 tt and ancillary stuff.. whenever. Gotta find a really ept repairer of esoteric drivers.. from the late '70s / little idea where even to begin that search.)
Catch ya later,
I.
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Post #376,108
6/9/13 4:50:06 AM
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This time, you're staying
>locks door<
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Post #376,166
6/10/13 10:46:30 AM
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Knock, knock
Open the door, beotchÂ
I'll kick it in. So it's been a long time and since we last spoke and I've heard that all men in GB are bi-sexual? Is this true? Do they also like to wear women's clothing like in Benny Hill and Monty Python? (Okay, so my sources are Keith Richards and Pete Townshend's bios). Okay, now that I've gotten that off my chest, what's been up? Has life treated you well? You're out, you're reformed, you got that money you owe me?
EtcÂ
Miss the communication greatly. (Sorry in advance for the little "outburst").
Former inhabitant of "New" England,
Daniel
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Post #376,205
6/10/13 7:22:44 PM
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Re: Knock, knock
Yeah, I'm good. Got a camera. Well, another camera. Well, a proper (if you consider a DSLR "proper") camera. I now get up at stupid o'clock and walk up hills to take pictures of grass and rocks.
Do your Xmas shopping at http://bit.ly/WKar7Q
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Post #376,290
6/11/13 4:35:35 PM
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Re: Knock, knock
Pete,
Beautiful photos - well worth the stupid o'clock wake up. Are you still racing rats in IT as well?
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Post #376,302
6/11/13 9:39:25 PM
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Re: Knock, knock
No, I've been out of IT proper for the thick end of a decade now. These days I run liaison between our customer and the development teams, along with a dash of on-site deployment and other support activities. I find talking to people and solving (non-IT) problems much more rewarding. My job is IT-related but it broadly consists of listening to people and finding out what they need, then relaying that in technical terms to the beardy ones.
I wouldn't rule out a return to IT but it would take a large pile of cash to make it happen.
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Post #376,318
6/12/13 10:06:43 AM
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Little danger of that any more
There are now enough "offshore development resources" (AKA low-paid dark people) that the be-suited classes are keeping the large piles of cash to themselves again.
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Drew
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Post #376,109
6/9/13 5:41:27 AM
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A real pleasure seeing you again.
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Post #376,168
6/10/13 10:47:54 AM
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Re: A real pleasure seeing you again.
Likewise, sir. Hope life has been treating you well?
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Post #376,243
6/11/13 8:57:49 AM
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It's been treating me pretty well
Though there are some flies in the ointment you might not be aware of. The big one is that my son was diagnosed with PDD-NOS (an autism spectrum disorder) about seven or eight years ago. I really fear for his future, and as I just said on another forum where folks were discussing SS, I don't have a retirement plan, I have a mentally disabled child instead.
Otherwise, I'm working, making decent coin for the town I live in, though far from spectacular, and I'm still playing my guitar, and the caliber of player I get to work with now is amazing, which I guess means that the caliber of player I am is getting up there.... I guess you could say my guitar is my retirement plan; when the IT world stops hiring us aging geeks, I'll go on the road; hopefully my finances will be in a place where all I have to do is break even to do all right.
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Post #376,244
6/11/13 9:05:58 AM
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Re: It's been treating me pretty well
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Post #376,292
6/11/13 4:50:41 PM
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Re: It's been treating me pretty well
Freaking awesome!!! This is a great body of work. I need to come up and hang around with you so that some of your drive might rub off on me.
To your first reply, I think there will be a place for us old computer geeks (knowledgeable and "good" ones) if we are willing to keep learning - the technology constantly changes but my analytical skills keep getting better. There are, of course, no guarantees. And I know the feeling well about having a child with questionable future independence - my daughter, Elise, still has that Down Syndrome thing. I was hoping it would be healed by nowÂ
:-) I've found that it is best to stay positive and keep a good sense of humor and self. No one could ever challenge Elise's "quality of life" - her life has been full of laughter and joy and it would be foolish of me to think that she won't find someone to yuck it up with when I'm no longer on this side of the soil. That said, I have started an irrevocable trust and it does give me some piece of mind.
I'm here to stay. I miss you guys (and gals).
Just a few thoughts,
Dan
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Post #376,115
6/9/13 11:04:34 AM
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AHHHH the Gold-Domed MFAC!
Good to see ya!
I've got a motorcycle now... if you are still in the that location, It'd be a nice day trip to swing by and see ya!
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greg@gregfolkert.net
PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05
Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C
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Post #376,169
6/10/13 10:52:32 AM
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Re: AHHHH the Gold-Domed MFAC!
Greg,
Still here and imagining girlfriends like there is no tomorrow (it was, in fact, I that taught Manti everything he knows and imagines he knows)Â
I am very happy that you got your ride and would love to see you whenever you get the notion. I am still in the same bat place at the same bat channel.
Spit shining sneakers for fun in profit in Indiana,
Dan
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