@nextwave
I write, edit, run, teach, play chess, and think — but seldom more than two at once. Recovering domain investor. Chronic punster. Into the Brontës, Joni Mitchell, Alistair MacLean, new wave 🎶, Lord of the Rings, Vashti Bunyan.
It’s all right. 🙃
This math teacher is a bit perplexed by the #nytspellingbee rejecting the common statistical term DECILE. #spellingbee
I wonder whether the town’s name was the source for Lord Lowborough, a character in Anne Brontë’s novel _The Tenant of Wildfell Hall_.
Also, I went to school with someone whose surname was Lufburrow. Perhaps his ancestors lived in that town.
(This comment is not meant to mock a typo.) I love the idea of “chant gpt”. I’m imagining hearing awful algorithmic advice in a sonorous, drawn-out Gregorian voicing.
My 4th-grade teacher played this for us in 1970. It expanded my little mind.
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Often, an SSB & J is the best (for those of us who prefer sunflower seed butter) … but it isn’t redolent of childhood the way a PB & J can be.
You’re welcome! If you want to read one person’s views on the strengths and drawbacks of many other Jane Eyre adaptations, please visit my website: JaneEyre.net.
My favorite Jane Eyre film is the 2006 BBC dramatization, with Toby Stephens as Rochester and — more importantly — Ruth Wilson’s brilliant, unrivaled portrayal of Jane.
I learn this lesson each night, but it fades by the following night.
The “intellectual dominance” bit reminds me of this supposed exchange between a math professor and a college classmate of mine who was a titled player.
Professor, seeing student’s attempt to solve a math problem: “Don’t you know *anything*?”
Student: “Why don’t we get a chessboard and find out?”
In both publishing and hockey, a knowledge of blue lines will make you seem qualified.
In Manhattan, from Upper to Lower,
There’s a roar like one massive snow blower.
I just can’t wait for spring,
When the weather should bring
The less ear-splitting sound of a mower.
Verizon’s agent replies: “I have checked with my technical team, and they informed me that we need to schedule a tech visit. There is a wait time of 15 months.”
ME: Hey #Verizon, one of your wires has fallen and is blocking our driveway. Help!
THEM:
I try to reach Genius without seeing any hints. If I get well past Genius (maybe a couple times a month), I check total word count and total score to see if I’m close enough to make a push toward Queen Bee worthwhile.
Nothing like the rush of finding an impressively long pangram in the #nytspellingbee … accompanied by the shock of seeing that familiar word not be accepted.
You could even say those two emotions are CONCOMITANT.
#spellingbee
“Get Together” — The Youngbloods
My go-to when I need a dash of hope for humanity.
Playing “blindfold chess” does look impressive, though pretty much any master-level player can do it.
Using an actual blindfold adds more of an aura to it.
When I was grocery shopping yesterday, the store’s audio system played this song.
I loved hearing it, but I wondered whether someone had decided that such songs are now “easy listening” music for the older shoppers (people like me).
Shirley is amusing, though readers must muddle through plot lines about the Luddite movement to reach the typical Bronte character studies.
I actually think Charlotte’s prose is at its most brilliant in Villette. I just find the story less captivating than Jane Eyre, and bits of it are in French.
I thought Hinds’s Rochester was too raging/tempestuous, even more than the book character. Maybe the screenwriter or director made that choice. I haven’t seen him in other films.
“Do not be too eager to deal out death and judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill … before this is over.” -Gandalf
Joni Mitchell
Carole King
Bonnie Raitt
Aimee Mann
Nanci Griffith
Gordon Lightfoot (my first concert, 1978)
Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense tour)
David Bowie (Serious Moonlight tour)
Prince (Sign O The Times tour)
Joni Mitchell (in her later performing years [2000-ish]; still awesome)
When I rented an apartment in the early 1990s, the lease agreement hadn’t been updated for a while; one clause forbade tenants from playing a Victrola after 9:00 p.m.
Something a bit different: “Music For Evenings”, from my favorite minimalist band, Young Marble Giants.
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That song is great on its own *and* as a reminder of “Freaks and Geeks” … my favorite TV series.
I also use Eno, but in my case it’s Neroli as an occasional low-key background working soundtrack.
I’ve started watching the recent documentary “Sly Lives!”. So far, Sly Stone is coming off as an even more fascinating person than I had realized.
Sometimes they don’t *want* it to sound OK. When I was on hold for a doctor’s office, they played these songs:
Michael Jackson - “Beat It”
Cheap Trick - “Surrender”
Heart - “Never”
I got the message and hung up.
