Shim consists mostly of hair, and has a secondary stomach to help digest dense texts. Despite allegations, he does not speak 'every language' and is not a hardened criminal. His tastes are eclectic, which is an excellent word.
- 2015-01-14 23:07 - Wings of Love(craft) - link Sorryish about the names... with a monograph I’d obviously do that, and if I’d been looking at each story in turn I’m sure I would as well. With the thematic arrangement it didn’t really occur to me, as most weren’t getting m...
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2015-01-10 21:45 - Wings of Love(craft) -
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Including the names of the authors of the stories would help here.
Never occurred to me, sorry. I'm curious: is there a particular way I didn't think of in which it'd help, or does it just seem generally useful? Becau... - 2014-12-01 11:14 - We Need to Talk About Conan - link Hi, um, can I call you Girr? It's just useful to avoid future confusion, and it's a handy part of your URL. If not, please suggest something better! I'll freely admit I generalised for effect. Broadly speaking, as Arthur says, I don't think num...
- 2014-11-29 07:51 - We Need to Talk About Conan - link Okay, I’m going to temporarily assume good faith here. You might understand why the commenting history on this article discourages that view – if not, there’s probably no point continuing this conversation. You do begin by ackno...
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2014-11-27 21:56 - We Need to Talk About Conan -
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Because when I see your references to feminist rhetorical points like privilege, etc., I can see that you have been well trained to see only one side of the argument.
I think this is my favourite sentence, because it so beautif... - 2014-10-30 02:38 - Beyond Good Taste - link These sound pretty dreadful. I really don't feel like most Lovecraft lends itself to cinema adaptation at all, not least because he barely wrote a word of dialogue in his life. For what it's worth, I don't have my annotated Lovecraft to hand, but...
- 2014-10-27 14:06 - Ferretbrain Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Episode 11 - The Merry Wives of Windsor - link So I'm listening to this - again, because I am in another country a long way from my friends, truly it is a sad thing - and it turns out I know things! Bucolic is indeed prancing about in the countryside. I know this because it relates to boch...
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2014-10-16 13:40 - Video Clumsy: Evilspeak -
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Translating Father Esteban’s diary by typing it into a computer (because that’s how computers work)
Obviously, the academy also had a small experimental time machine which Coopersmith used to access Google Tr... - 2014-10-02 00:53 - Ferretbrain Presents: Fighting Fantasy Podcastingness Part 1 - link Ah, the sympathy is much appreciated but undeserved. I decided to chuck in my job for further study, which is tough going but often fun. The interesting bit will, of course, be finding a new job come January. The trouble with Fighting Fan...
- 2014-10-01 22:11 - Ferretbrain Presents: Fighting Fantasy Podcastingness Part 1 - link We did talk about doing some more, and had an unsatisfactory experiment with a book that turned out not to be suitable for the format. There have also been some job-related upheavals; for example, I am now on the opposite side of the planet. Admi...
- 2014-08-01 03:26 - I Could Care Fewer - link Possibly-interesting thought on a few hours' sleep: I think what we have here is a case of registers of logic, which mildly amuses me. In formal logic, I will take your word that since X is undefined, it follows that it is unbounded. In informal l...
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2014-07-31 22:04 - I Could Care Fewer -
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"I couldn't care less" is equivalent to the inequality C !< X where X is some undefined level of caring... It follows that C is infinite.
Slackjaw.gifWhich is ironic, since the Language Police also hat...
- 2014-07-31 16:12 - I Could Care Fewer - link Sorry, I was not very coherent there. I didn't originally mean to argue that "I couldn't care less" logically means you care less than anyone else in existence, although that's where I seem to have ended up. Janne has it nailed. It means only that it is...
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2014-07-31 11:39 - I Could Care Fewer -
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I'm baffled by this:
A strictly literal reading of “I couldn't care less” is that it not only implies that you “do care, at least a little”, it implies that you care more than anybody else in the world. Otherwis...
- 2014-07-17 00:43 - Timeo Daneos et Donar Ferentes - link Some scattered thoughts, sorry quite long. My first question would be, “what is a value”? There’s obviously the rather dubious list, but leaving that aside, what is meant by values in terms of teaching them; what sort of status ...
- 2014-07-04 22:25 - Michael Bay Is America - link Thanks Alasdair! Sterling work as usual.
