Eccentric Flower talk:201105/Mind Reading

Joy:

Dude, I am now reading you there. I hate it, but I"m there.

-- 21:39, 12 May 2011 (BST)

Columbina:

Sorry you hate it. I wish it could be as satisfying for everybody else as it is for me!

-- 21:44, 12 May 2011 (BST)

Joy:

Well, I like you too much to abandon you for stupid formatting reasons. I'll get over my cranky.

-- 21:59, 12 May 2011 (BST)

Bunny42:

Well... ya see, I remember Homer and Jethro, and I'm generally reluctant to admit to it. But I used to really enjoy the music posts. (I remember Spike Jones, too...) I don't find Tumblr as friendly as I do this journal. Not sure why, except that I don't like the concept of Twitter, and Tumblr seems like Twitter on crack.

I wonder if enough people still wander by here to discuss any of these items at length. It is curious that Robert passed up the Schadenfreude item.

-- 22:16, 12 May 2011 (BST)

Jette:

Where did the Gadgets At Dinner discussion take place? I missed it, sadly.

I feel guilty because I actually have a screener of "Potiche" at home ... it was sent unsoliticed a couple of days before the movie opened here, not really enough time for me to review it. At some point I may watch it.

I like the Tumblr blog, and it's easy for me to comment, and I can subscribe to replies so I can follow the comment thread that way.

-- 23:06, 12 May 2011 (BST)

Stacey:

Sigh. Had a response. Lost it while logging in. I suck.

But, short version: I did follow the Yugoslavian link, and greatly enjoyed it. I'd come across it earlier in the day on Metafilter but hadn't wanted to devote the brainspace to it then, so I really appreciated having someone whose tastes I generally trust bring it to my attention again as a neat shiny thing.

Also, I tend to assume that if I don't have anything in-depth to say in response to something, a brief "Hey, that was neat" response is just annoying. If I'm wrong and a non-in-depth response would still be appreciated, let me know and I will no longer suppress such urges when they arise.

-- 00:34, 13 May 2011 (BST)

Stacey:

Just remembered the other part of my lost response: I haven't really figured out how to use 'liking' things on Tumblr yet. Right now I'm using them as a temporary bookmark for things I want to check out later (e.g. a music or video link when I'm at work.) I'm still figuring the medium out.

-- 00:38, 13 May 2011 (BST)

DanLyke:

Okay, I missed the Homer and Jethro link the first time around, and consider myself duly chastened.

On the "In his early 30s", I think I'm almost exactly the opposite of that quote: I love human beings on the individual level, but I despair of humanity, and roll my eyes at groups of people. Which, I think, is related to my earlier Objectivist leanings, I truly believe that people are capable of anything, and will happily struggle alongside individuals to help them achieve, but on a macro level all I see is mass stupidity. Stupidity which, on an individual level, I'm prepared to dismiss as simply lacking the background or experience to make the better decisions.

-- 01:09, 13 May 2011 (BST)

Bunny42:

Dan, that sounds exactly like what people tell me when they find out I'm conservative. I'm just naive, don't have enough knowledge or background. Once I do, I'll undoubtably amend my views and wise up. I guess I'm in one of those stupid groups, huh?

-- 02:52, 13 May 2011 (BST)

Columbina:

Jette: The Gadgets at Dinner discussion mostly happened on Twitter. Potiche is fluffy, but I believe you will enjoy it.

Stacey: The question of the "that was neat" reply has been kicking back and forth for years now. My take is, sometimes that is useful information (it's never annoying), but since I'm not very good about leaving such replies MYSELF, I hardly feel like I can ask others to reciprocate.

-- 03:36, 13 May 2011 (BST)

DanLyke:

Bunny, I actually think that attitude generally is why I have tended towards conservative. People are stupid. I don't particularly want to help "them". My tribe, however, is my tribe. The fact that I now vote Democrat is just that I've given up on right and wrong. And here endeth my thread derail.

Oh, and additional note on the rhotic drop: It's funny, but I really associated the lack of the "R" with Rhode Islanders and a certain class of Bostonians (We had a Rhode Island neighbor when I was a kid, and thought that getting her to say "aardvark" was the funniest thing, and I don't think of "R"s when I think of Wm. F. Buckley Jr.).

-- 04:08, 13 May 2011 (BST)

Joy:

Dan, that is one of the other major groups of accents that drop r's. New York ones being another.

Funny RI accent story: a linguist friend of mine grew up in RI. He went to HS with a girl named Tabitha. Her parents spelled it Tabertha. Because, the r is there, right?, just not pronounced!

-- 16:35, 13 May 2011 (BST)

Stacey:

I learned to talk while living in Boston. I then moved to New Jersey and spent a year of my childhood in speech therapy because I could not properly pronounce the letter "r" when it came in the middle or end of a word.

Looking back, I'm pretty sure I just had a Boston accent. I'm not sure the speech therapy was really called for.

(But I can now say "park the car" just fine, so maybe it was money well spent?)

-- 20:39, 13 May 2011 (BST)

Joy:

Except that exposure to your peers probably would have done the same thing for you, for free!

-- 22:17, 13 May 2011 (BST)

Stacey:

Exposure to my peers would have risked me winding up with an unholy mishmash of Boston and New Jersey accents, I suppose. Which is a horrifying thought.

-- 02:15, 14 May 2011 (BST)

ProfRobert:

I saw the Schadenfreude article on my LJ feed. I didn't really have a response because I didn't think you were interested in why legislation and regulations are so densely written, and because such explanation is long itself, and also, frankly, because taking the time to click over to the Tumblr page and then entering my e-mail, and the erasing it from the Name box and typing in ProfRobert so I can consistently be the same person here, on LJ and there, can on occasion be the marginal barrier that stops my commenting.

I find there is a conservation of "R's" in New England. For every R dropped in "pahk," it reappears in "bananer," and similar words. Stacey, was your friend's name pronounced "Tabither" by any chance? My late father, who grew up on Cape Cod and came to New York at 29 always sounded like he was in pain/strangling when he spoke. To him, my name was "Rawhbit," which, strangely, is also how my 2 1/2 year old says the name (and yes, he's getting speech therapy!).

-- 20:03, 14 May 2011 (BST)

Spc476:

I've passed by the Tumblr site, although for the past week or so I've been remiss, seeing how my best friend is in town.

-- 07:14, 20 May 2011 (BST)

Jayran:

Look who finally figured out your Tumblr account. (Also, man, we are peas in a pod. Next time, TELL me you're posting secret links somewhere!)

-- 02:16, 22 May 2011 (BST)

Columbina:

Sorry! I did post a couple of notices on Twitter, but they may have gotten lost in the general mayhem.

-- 03:24, 22 May 2011 (BST)

Columbina:

Also, I owe you an apology, because I not only didn't think you read these pages, but I forgot I had given you a username here! I are dumb.

-- 03:27, 22 May 2011 (BST)