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Date: 26 Aug 2006 10:00:10
From: notbob
Subject: Coffee for turkeys
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You knew it all along:;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5274352.stm?ls
nb
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Date: 27 Aug 2006 06:27:27
From: daveb
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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And computers, and cars and on and on.
Difference between a pentium and a Celeron? celeron is identical to
pentium -- with some of the on-chip memory disabled. sells for less.
other examples abound. but it is such fun to dump on Starbucks here
Dave
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Date: 27 Aug 2006 17:35:34
From: Paul Pratt
Subject: Re: Coffee for turkeys
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notbob wrote:
> You knew it all along:;
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5274352.stm?ls
>
> nb
"Choose the secret cappuccino and you are effectively beating the
coffee shop down to a bargain-basement price at which they make little
money."
I like that bit the best.
Paul
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Date: 27 Aug 2006 14:50:53
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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daveb wrote:
> And computers, and cars and on and on.
>
> Difference between a pentium and a Celeron? celeron is identical to
> pentium -- with some of the on-chip memory disabled. sells for less.
Way beyond less money to compare a Pentium to late Celeron model D
revisions. Intel got that right, only too late. A 2.5Ghz Celeron D
overclocks to 3.5Ghz, far beyond Celeron revisions prior - and will
keep up with a AMD 64 3200. The analogy is like going to Denny's,
where for twice the money, multitasked serving personel offer more
coffee value (at some better disposition), as if to buy a recent price
reduced AMD 2X 939 dualcore (but not a Semperon); whereas the Celeron D
would be as to a McDonald's cup of coffee (throwoff design to directly
compete with Starbucks) for half the money at disadvantage (personel
don't multitask as virtual machines, more plebian environment, etc).
Going directly, head-to-head on a "Starbucks processor" would take an
Intel Extreme Edition - where they both may be high enough to qualify
at parity within Nasdaq100 (QQQQ) trendsetters' indices. Then, again,
I doubt that many people actually look closely over individual
microprocessors for value within respective pricing listings, either,
as the article illustrates in a smaller serving. He's a reporter,
afterall, and the symbioses of rubbing elbows amid monetary affluence
is dynamically foremost a forgone consideration propriety precludes
mention. One better to ought nibble and not bite nasty chunks from
hands that served him.
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Date: 28 Aug 2006 05:48:06
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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1st decent openbox 939 mb return I see this 756 is gone for x2 split
core.
daveb wrote:
> ohmigod.
>
> Flasherly wrote:
> > >
> > > Difference between a pentium and a Celeron? celeron is identical to
> > > pentium -- with some of the on-chip memory disabled. sells for less.
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Date: 30 Aug 2006 13:59:41
From: Natalie Drest
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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"Flasherly" <gjerrell@ij.net > wrote in message
news:1156769286.322262.260680@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> 1st decent openbox 939 mb return I see this 756 is gone for x2 split
> core.
I'm sure I had a spam email with the same randon text string just
yesterday...
--
"I won't go into binary counting here. For further information you can
search the Internet, or cut off all but one of your fingers."
-Roger Nichols
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Date: 28 Aug 2006 04:36:38
From: daveb
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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ohmigod.
Flasherly wrote:
> daveb wrote:
> > And computers, and cars and on and on.
> >
> > Difference between a pentium and a Celeron? celeron is identical to
> > pentium -- with some of the on-chip memory disabled. sells for less.
>
> Way beyond less money to compare a Pentium to late Celeron model D
> revisions. Intel got that right, only too late. A 2.5Ghz Celeron D
> overclocks to 3.5Ghz, far beyond Celeron revisions prior - and will
> keep up with a AMD 64 3200. The analogy is like going to Denny's,
> where for twice the money, multitasked serving personel offer more
> coffee value (at some better disposition), as if to buy a recent price
> reduced AMD 2X 939 dualcore (but not a Semperon); whereas the Celeron D
> would be as to a McDonald's cup of coffee (throwoff design to directly
> compete with Starbucks) for half the money at disadvantage (personel
> don't multitask as virtual machines, more plebian environment, etc).
> Going directly, head-to-head on a "Starbucks processor" would take an
> Intel Extreme Edition - where they both may be high enough to qualify
> at parity within Nasdaq100 (QQQQ) trendsetters' indices. Then, again,
> I doubt that many people actually look closely over individual
> microprocessors for value within respective pricing listings, either,
> as the article illustrates in a smaller serving. He's a reporter,
> afterall, and the symbioses of rubbing elbows amid monetary affluence
> is dynamically foremost a forgone consideration propriety precludes
> mention. One better to ought nibble and not bite nasty chunks from
> hands that served him.
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Date: 29 Aug 2006 16:26:05
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Don C. wrote:
> Is this post written in English? I recognize all of the words but put
> together they translate to complete gibberish.
An analogy to AMD situated as a mean to a value for taste to cost, as a
Celeron D is least to value for taste - whereas a highest taste for
highest cost is as an Intel Extreme Edition would be to Starbucks'
coffee. Coffee and stock market days. They come and go like fair
weather. Though today's market was A-OK. Honestly, didn't realize
coffee would seem so apart from processors - seems like a suitable
integral to me. Take this picture, and notice the key in FED Chairman
Bernanke's take on the market in June, in part forcing down AMD's X2 64
offerings from $850 to $150 in the provided timeframe. That's a sweet
cup.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=6m&s=INTC&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=sbux+amd
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Date: 31 Aug 2006 21:10:13
From: Ian Smith
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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On 29 Aug 2006 16:26:05 -0700, Flasherly <gjerrell@ij.net > wrote:
> Don C. wrote:
>
> > Is this post written in English? I recognize all of the words but put
> > together they translate to complete gibberish.
Well, I thought it might have been English on the first exposure, but
given a shorter passage to look at, it's apparent that no, it isn't.
It might be English if you add a few (30%?) words and slightly
re-arrange them, though:
> An analogy to AMD situated as a mean to a value for taste to cost, as a
> Celeron D is least to value for taste - whereas a highest taste for
> highest cost is as an Intel Extreme Edition would be to Starbucks'
> coffee.
This is not a sentence. It might mean "The posting was an analogy.
I was comparing coffee drinks to computer processors. For example, an
AMD processor is an average value-for-money processor, a Celeron D has
least value-for-money. An Intel Extreme edition has a high
performance and a very high price, and this is the equivalent to a
starbucks coffee".
Then again, it might not - I suspect only Flasherly really knows.
Also, I suspect that most people on the group would query the
performance rating he/she/it assigns to a starbucks coffee.
> Coffee and stock market days. They come and go like fair weather.
I'm not even going to try and speculate what those sentences mean.
Coffee doesn't come and go, in any way that I can imagine. I'm not
sure what a 'stock market day' is.
And so on - it doesn't make sense, I think. Some words ('integral')
seem to be used with non-conventional meanings, and some of the
comparisons (a drink of coffee is just like a computer processor)
don't look entirely intuitive.
regards, Ian SMith
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Date: 29 Aug 2006 12:49:30
From: Don C.
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Flasherly wrote:
> Way beyond less money to compare a Pentium to late Celeron model D
> revisions. Intel got that right, only too late. A 2.5Ghz Celeron D
> overclocks to 3.5Ghz, far beyond Celeron revisions prior - and will
> keep up with a AMD 64 3200. The analogy is like going to Denny's,
> where for twice the money, multitasked serving personel offer more
> coffee value (at some better disposition), as if to buy a recent price
> reduced AMD 2X 939 dualcore (but not a Semperon); whereas the Celeron D
> would be as to a McDonald's cup of coffee (throwoff design to directly
> compete with Starbucks) for half the money at disadvantage (personel
> don't multitask as virtual machines, more plebian environment, etc).
> Going directly, head-to-head on a "Starbucks processor" would take an
> Intel Extreme Edition - where they both may be high enough to qualify
> at parity within Nasdaq100 (QQQQ) trendsetters' indices. Then, again,
> I doubt that many people actually look closely over individual
> microprocessors for value within respective pricing listings, either,
> as the article illustrates in a smaller serving. He's a reporter,
> afterall, and the symbioses of rubbing elbows amid monetary affluence
> is dynamically foremost a forgone consideration propriety precludes
> mention. One better to ought nibble and not bite nasty chunks from
> hands that served him.
Is this post written in English? I recognize all of the words but put
together they translate to complete gibberish.
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Date: 29 Aug 2006 15:00:56
From: notbob
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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On 2006-08-29, Don C. <DonRCummings@gmail.com > wrote:
> Is this post written in English? I recognize all of the words but put
> together they translate to complete gibberish.
LOL!....
You noticed that, too. ;)
nb
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Date: 30 Aug 2006 18:06:19
From: Danny
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Don C. wrote:
> Is this post written in English? I recognize all of the words but put
> together they translate to complete gibberish.
>
It would appear that Flasherly has had many, many espressii... ;)
--
Regards, Danny
http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
http://www.malabargold.co.uk (UK/EU ordering for Malabar Gold blend)
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Date: 29 Aug 2006 23:44:44
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Natalie Drest wrote:
> "Flasherly" <gjerrell@ij.net> wrote in message
> news:1156769286.322262.260680@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > 1st decent openbox 939 mb return I see this 756 is gone for x2 split
> > core.
>
> I'm sure I had a spam email with the same randon text string just
> yesterday...
Nope - be in popular new store computers, too.
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Date: 30 Aug 2006 16:42:12
From: Carmen
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Flasherly wrote:
> Danny wrote:
> > Don C. wrote:
> >
> > > Is this post written in English? I recognize all of the words but put
> > > together they translate to complete gibberish.
> >
> > It would appear that Flasherly has had many, many espressii... ;)
>
> Not as many as computers I've flipped. I'm with you aficionados, so
> someday. Much too much computer support and I got out. I'm just too
> nice. They way I talk affects otherwise perfectly nice people into
> imploring me to drive 40 miles to their homes to straighten out messes
> for nothing.
In my mind's eye you're now indelibly stamped with the face of the Geek
Squad man who whips out the jet pack when he's caught in the traffic
jam. <G >
Carmen
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Date: 30 Aug 2006 15:39:50
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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IBM - yep, definately one of a Breed Apart (as television repairbuddy
used to call them), and one of the few consumer grade machines I'd eye
with some trepidation before just jumping right in with both paws
splayed. I think of IBM as sort of an maco-alterego to the evolution
of IT, overall. On one hand, here's all the garage tinkers with their
Zylogs and TIs (enter the late philanthropist Bill Gates on 8088
architecture), whereas over there is Chief HeavyIron with 360s settled
heavy into industrial globality. Quandary: How do we build a better
inexpensive AM/FM mousetrap computer? I suspect something of a
quagmire for IBM, being their infrastructure of ties into a global
economy. The dichotomy of odds between quality and a downward spiral
of Gateways and Dells for a vastly supportive and growing
consumer-mindedness, albeit cutthroat economics at a lowest capital
denominator. Never sat down to read one of several books involving a
detailed critique for IBM's retinue of misapplications along the trail
IT/PC revolution. Though, certainly bought IBM parts when feasible
based on industry R&D contributions -- all, that is, except for joint
ventures and OEM peripherials after being burned on a couple of times
from outsourced Pakistanian, Burmese and a likes. Yes, indeed,
although CP/M was too soon and expensive for my blood - 10" HDs and
early $800US MFM equations - nevertheless, dotpromt comands, DP, and
UNIX ports does tend leaving lingering marks over the years. I was
well-advised early - if you're getting into computers, then dig a hole
to an approximate depth of a well to throw all your money into. Whence
flipping for updates gradually turned somewhat dauntingly bigger.
Couple of declined opportunties to go into the field, both municipally
and privately (heh, I know a fellow from aways back that went into
IBM's Chattanooga, TN faciltiies ... Bill Blomgreen, hm... ). Exciting
as it sounds, all that district traveling you did wouldn't fare so well
here - largely having traveled the world throughout my youth, I've come
to the realization I simply don't like strange beds. Sure coffee's the
sole impetus in that? :) I noted sometime ago, and by the way really
ought mention, that's a jolly good, smashing stand, I do say.
Danny wrote:
> I opened my mobile espresso bar having been ejected from IBM after 10+
> years as a tech support contractor. I spent many years in
> compatability testing (all the latest non-released hardware) and then
> in TAM (Technical Account Manager), supporting major customers as
> their single point of contact within IBM, 24/7. I used to travel
> Europe, spending the evenings sitting outside cafes, and decided that
> there was nowhere in Portsmouth to do this. Or anywhere in Portsmouth
> to get a decent coffee, hence the adventure began.
>
> I preferred the old days of CP/M and Singer computers, 8" floppies and
> multi-formatters, followed by ICL System 25 etc, where the DP
> department ruled.
>
>
> --
> Regards, Danny
>
> http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
> http://www.malabargold.co.uk (UK/EU ordering for Malabar Gold blend)
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Date: 30 Aug 2006 19:10:11
From: notbob
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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On 2006-08-30, Flasherly <gjerrell@ij.net > wrote:
> IBM - yep, definately one of a .....
Yeah, but apart from that, do you have anything to say?
nb
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Date: 30 Aug 2006 13:44:43
From: Omniryx@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Do they straighten out your syntax and style in exchange?
Flasherly wrote:
>They way I talk affects otherwise perfectly nice people into
> imploring me to drive 40 miles to their homes to straighten out messes
> for nothing.
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Date: 30 Aug 2006 13:09:35
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Danny wrote:
> Don C. wrote:
>
> > Is this post written in English? I recognize all of the words but put
> > together they translate to complete gibberish.
> >
>
> It would appear that Flasherly has had many, many espressii... ;)
Not as many as computers I've flipped. I'm with you aficionados, so
someday. Much too much computer support and I got out. I'm just too
nice. They way I talk affects otherwise perfectly nice people into
imploring me to drive 40 miles to their homes to straighten out messes
for nothing.
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Date: 30 Aug 2006 21:47:03
From: Danny
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Flasherly wrote:
> Danny wrote:
>
>>Don C. wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is this post written in English? I recognize all of the words but put
>>>together they translate to complete gibberish.
>>>
>>
>>It would appear that Flasherly has had many, many espressii... ;)
>
>
> Not as many as computers I've flipped. I'm with you aficionados, so
> someday. Much too much computer support and I got out. I'm just too
> nice. They way I talk affects otherwise perfectly nice people into
> imploring me to drive 40 miles to their homes to straighten out messes
> for nothing.
>
I opened my mobile espresso bar having been ejected from IBM after 10+
years as a tech support contractor. I spent many years in
compatability testing (all the latest non-released hardware) and then
in TAM (Technical Account Manager), supporting major customers as
their single point of contact within IBM, 24/7. I used to travel
Europe, spending the evenings sitting outside cafes, and decided that
there was nowhere in Portsmouth to do this. Or anywhere in Portsmouth
to get a decent coffee, hence the adventure began.
I preferred the old days of CP/M and Singer computers, 8" floppies and
multi-formatters, followed by ICL System 25 etc, where the DP
department ruled.
--
Regards, Danny
http://www.gaggia-espresso.com (a purely hobby site)
http://www.malabargold.co.uk (UK/EU ordering for Malabar Gold blend)
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Date: 31 Aug 2006 07:53:48
From: Omniryx@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Carmen wrote:
> In my mind's eye you're now indelibly stamped with the face of the Geek
> Squad man who whips out the jet pack when he's caught in the traffic
> jam. <G>
No, Carmen, the Geek Squad man knew where he was going. :)
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Date: 31 Aug 2006 07:53:48
From: Omniryx@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Carmen wrote:
> In my mind's eye you're now indelibly stamped with the face of the Geek
> Squad man who whips out the jet pack when he's caught in the traffic
> jam. <G>
No, Carmen, the Geek Squad man knew where he was going. :)
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Date: 31 Aug 2006 07:52:47
From: Omniryx@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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notbob wrote:
> Yeah, but apart from that, do you have anything to say?
Apparently not, Bob, but he sure enjoys hearing himself say it. I have
a mental image of Flasherly carefully crafting his twisted syntax and
his spacey non sequiturs, chorlting over how clever he is.
Oh...that reminds me...I have a patient at 11:00.
Will
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Date: 31 Aug 2006 19:40:11
From: Don C.
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Flasherly wrote:
> Presciences. How nice, one with a forsight to say what more I should
> say, with another to envision what thoughts yet have to arrive.
> Detractors always have been. Ghandi deplored a nature in them that
> drives naked meaness, and a Roman emperior once pushed them into the
> circus, so caught well unawares while fondling the acts of condemnation.
Did a thesaurus throw up?
When I was a TA working on my MA in English, we had a fun assignment
where we assigned stream of consciousness essays to our intro classes.
The point was to illustrate that the complex imagery and almost lyrical
use of language achieved by geniuses such as Beckett or Faulkner in
their prose was next to impossible to emulate. We would have the
students read their essays aloud. This was actually kind of mean on
our part but there was no way that we (the professors) were going to
suffer alone and if you were ever forced to muddle through the grading
of 35 intro to lit papers on a semi-weekly basis you would want to
wreak some vengeance yourself. Trust me on this.
Invariably, the readings would go one of two ways: The very
intelligent students would realize that they had failed miserably at
producing "art" and would laugh at themselves as they read their
unintelligible ramblings. The class would share a good laugh and we
would move on.
The pseudo-intellectual, let's call them non-geniuses in the group
would adopt serious poses (imagine a beat poet sitting in a cafe) and,
upon reading their horrid drivel would get offended at the guffaws and
catcalls coming from the audience. They would get indignant as they
believed that they were inscrutable geniuses with an intellect that was
just too towering for the rabble to recognize. They would never make
the connection that what was a valid coherent idea in their mind was
beyond their limited intelligence to translate onto paper.
My question is this. Does Flasherly smile whiles he writes? Or does he
smoke a Galoise and wear a beret?
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Date: 31 Aug 2006 17:54:46
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Omniryx@gmail.com wrote:
> Carmen wrote:
> > In my mind's eye you're now indelibly stamped with the face of the Geek
> > Squad man who whips out the jet pack when he's caught in the traffic
> > jam. <G>
>
>
> No, Carmen, the Geek Squad man knew where he was going. :)
Presciences. How nice, one with a forsight to say what more I should
say, with another to envision what thoughts yet have to arrive.
Detractors always have been. Ghandi deplored a nature in them that
drives naked meaness, and a Roman emperior once pushed them into the
circus, so caught well unawares while fondling the acts of condemnation.
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Date: 01 Sep 2006 09:29:51
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Don C. wrote:
> Flasherly wrote:
> > Presciences. How nice, one with a forsight to say what more I should
> > say, with another to envision what thoughts yet have to arrive.
> > Detractors always have been. Ghandi deplored a nature in them that
> > drives naked meaness, and a Roman emperior once pushed them into the
> > circus, so caught well unawares while fondling the acts of condemnation.
>
> Did a thesaurus throw up?
Not the good ones. I'm running through spawned child processes, a
command interpreter with resident hooks linked directly into the
WindowsXP GUI interface, all from the earliest of thesauruses, in 1987.
Programs don't spit out, throw up, or otherwise eviscerate their
substances apart from an intended aim the operator employs. Operands
or architecture change down the years, some become obsolete, while a
supportive layer of electronic components fall aside as processors
begin their thermal die breakdown, which is then said to exhibit some
lesser or greater probability information will be lost in an ensuing
chaos. Programs, however, must remain integral when one follows a
cardinal tenent of sound backup proceedures. As I mentioned, I'm
about good and ready for a little chaos. If my thesaurus, or any other
trusted programming aides puke, it will be at clear advantage to dollar
cost average into a 939 socket platform, with effectively two virtual
machines, preferable within an availablity of options, at present,
extended.
> When I was a TA working on my MA in English, we had a fun assignment
> where we assigned stream of consciousness essays to our intro classes.
> The point was to illustrate that the complex imagery and almost lyrical
> use of language achieved by geniuses such as Beckett or Faulkner in
> their prose was next to impossible to emulate. We would have the
> students read their essays aloud. This was actually kind of mean on
> our part but there was no way that we (the professors) were going to
> suffer alone and if you were ever forced to muddle through the grading
> of 35 intro to lit papers on a semi-weekly basis you would want to
> wreak some vengeance yourself. Trust me on this.
Prose and verse, conscious streaming and Beckett or Faulkner. I
shouldn't think such exercises meanminded. From what I can offhand
recall, conscious streaming probably emanetes from first modern novels
and Russian useage of the characteristic mental state for a medium
suitable to thematically deploy. There's also the Austrian influence,
a gateway between Europe and the Middle East, where modernism as
aesthetic expression first occurs, though more notably in early
avantgarde painting. Among the Huxley crowd is another, an emminent
key for crossleads into a resplendent genre. Of course, least to
mention, Freud.
> Invariably, the readings would go one of two ways: The very
> intelligent students would realize that they had failed miserably at
> producing "art" and would laugh at themselves as they read their
> unintelligible ramblings. The class would share a good laugh and we
> would move on.
Yes. What we cannot do must then be sought by means adept to a level
of proficiency we do, indeed, possess. Either it flows or not. If
they can't take the heat, they oughtn't pound the beat. An exercise,
stylistically, in one form or another as exercises go. Important,
nevertheless, inasmuch to realize a leeway and some discretion given an
otherwise tritely terse amelioration devoted to the perpetual state of
10th-grade mentality. Newspeak for the masses, brother, and I don't
mean Strunk and Wagnall. Aside unconvential lucidity in style alone
has to forge anew, is not solely the mark of genius, but a practiced,
polished, and well-heeled craft. I've only to think to D.H. Lawrence's
essays from France, or alongside English coalminers, for a place aside
practitioners of lucid refinement. You shan't find the same rabble
seated before a professor at the podium, reciting Joyce beneath a
showerhead with a forcefullness cold water evokes. Just, perhaps, only
the odd and quirky instances of Henry Miller, Burroughs, or a Gene
Genet juxtiposed amdist general dispersion patterns.
> The pseudo-intellectual, let's call them non-geniuses in the group
> would adopt serious poses (imagine a beat poet sitting in a cafe) and,
> upon reading their horrid drivel would get offended at the guffaws and
> catcalls coming from the audience. They would get indignant as they
> believed that they were inscrutable geniuses with an intellect that was
> just too towering for the rabble to recognize. They would never make
> the connection that what was a valid coherent idea in their mind was
> beyond their limited intelligence to translate onto paper.
The nature of artistic magnanimity is driven. Driven by what one might
wonder. In part by the very rabble set upon it, as you well suspect.
It follows the job description to wrest and twist reality from placid
consciousness. How well that measure is recompensed is in measure
perception accedes, willingly with the compulsion to follow.
> My question is this. Does Flasherly smile whiles he writes? Or does he
> smoke a Galoise and wear a beret?
When Camus was asked that question, he advised syncopation be
indicative of a raised finger, the smallest finger (the -a of pima), so
to touch the outside of their eyebrow "just so". Whereas Flaubert
advises succinctly (of the critics), 'they're lamp posts to be pissed
upon.' I think there's more to Flaubert's turn than meets the eye,
though, that there's inherently the pith of a double-entendre within.
That what first the simile is to a lamp post is tantamount to a
significance critics impart, namely illumination and direction, apart
from all significance later in passing an artiste naturally must
reassume. I've established a forbearance for most things arts. And,
yes, I suppose at times a smile, too, will do when permissible.
Perhaps I smiled when I read your message, as I smile even now, and
thank you for a sincerity you've put forth.
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Date: 01 Sep 2006 06:30:21
From: Carmen
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Flasherly wrote:
> Omniryx@gmail.com wrote:
> > Carmen wrote:
> > > In my mind's eye you're now indelibly stamped with the face of the Geek
> > > Squad man who whips out the jet pack when he's caught in the traffic
> > > jam. <G>
> >
> >
> > No, Carmen, the Geek Squad man knew where he was going. :)
>
> Presciences. How nice, one with a forsight to say what more I should
> say, with another to envision what thoughts yet have to arrive.
> Detractors always have been. Ghandi deplored a nature in them that
> drives naked meaness, and a Roman emperior once pushed them into the
> circus, so caught well unawares while fondling the acts of condemnation.
The choice to take offense where none is intended is an unfortunate
one. Life offers so many unavoidable opportunities for unhappiness, to
manufacture more for oneself seems senseless. In a side note it also
presupposes that the Geek Squad man is somehow a negative comparison, a
conclusion that is a mystery to me.
Carmen
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Date: 01 Sep 2006 04:59:09
From: Omniryx@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Don C. wrote:
> My question is this. Does Flasherly smile whiles he writes? Or does he
> smoke a Galoise and wear a beret?
An interesting speculation. One would like to forgive him as a Finn
who learned English from a Romanian teacher trained in Pakistan except
that, in another thread, he demonstrates that he can write quite
intelligibly, at least in short bursts. There is no doubt that his
tortured syntax is an affectation from which he takes delight.
However, I'm not going to fight with him about it. Fighting on the
internet is like running in the Special Olympics. You may win but
you're still retarded.
Will
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Date: 02 Sep 2006 10:21:30
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Alan wrote:
> Will, I'd say that if Flasherly wrote his papers as well as he wrote the
> above post, he was quite likely one of your failing sophomores . . . .
That's because I decided to omit the passage . . .[effectively] to
think, construe, or reminise over as a student.
I audited teachers when writing state grants, and I'm not getting paid
nearly enough to write what damn well pleases him.
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Date: 02 Sep 2006 17:34:32
From: Alan
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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"Flasherly" wrote
> Alan wrote:
>
>> Will, I'd say that if Flasherly wrote his papers as well as he wrote the
>> above post, he was quite likely one of your failing sophomores . . . .
>
> That's because I decided to omit the passage . . .[effectively] to
> think, construe, or reminise over as a student.
Well, that certainly clears things up . . .
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Date: 02 Sep 2006 09:30:02
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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> It seems terribly important to Flasherly to be urbane, sophisticated,
> intellectual, occult, obscurely witty. Reminds me of some of the
> sophomores I taught at Sarah Lawrence. One wonders if he has
> internalized the image he strives so hard to project.
>
> (There's a paper in this somewhere.)
>
> Will
Thanks for the vaguely construed compliments. You say you teach, in the
past tense, so I'll assume not presently. That's fine and dandy with
me. You may say you do what you please if that's what you wish to say.
I'll not deny you are a teacher. People are free to say to others who
they are, and often find themselves accepted at face value. We're all
images here, each and every person. A life duely given to carry some
weight of consequence and internal perception. Lifelike images
purporting to know and project such subjects that may become objects
the greater whole exemplifies -- metaphysical constructs of philosophy,
religion, psychology, and literature.
Once more, go over the above, teacher. Is what I say to denigrate or
otherwise slader and cast doubt over a greater perception you perceive
yourself? If not, reasoned manner stands you accord a courtesy when
directly engaging others in like manner. You asked the question what
internalization processes apply specifically myself and I've retorted
with reason pertinence is too endemic to be other than superficially
germane.
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Date: 02 Sep 2006 16:55:40
From: Alan
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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"Flasherly" <gjerrell@ij.net > wrote in message
news:1157214602.838892.31830@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
>> It seems terribly important to Flasherly to be urbane, sophisticated,
>> intellectual, occult, obscurely witty. Reminds me of some of the
>> sophomores I taught at Sarah Lawrence. One wonders if he has
>> internalized the image he strives so hard to project.
>>
>> (There's a paper in this somewhere.)
>>
>> Will
>
> Thanks for the vaguely construed compliments. You say you teach, in the
> past tense, so I'll assume not presently. That's fine and dandy with
> me. You may say you do what you please if that's what you wish to say.
> I'll not deny you are a teacher. People are free to say to others who
> they are, and often find themselves accepted at face value. We're all
> images here, each and every person. A life duely given to carry some
> weight of consequence and internal perception. Lifelike images
> purporting to know and project such subjects that may become objects
> the greater whole exemplifies -- metaphysical constructs of philosophy,
> religion, psychology, and literature.
>
> Once more, go over the above, teacher. Is what I say to denigrate or
> otherwise slader and cast doubt over a greater perception you perceive
> yourself? If not, reasoned manner stands you accord a courtesy when
> directly engaging others in like manner. You asked the question what
> internalization processes apply specifically myself and I've retorted
> with reason pertinence is too endemic to be other than superficially
> germane.
Will, I'd say that if Flasherly wrote his papers as well as he wrote the
above post, he was quite likely one of your failing sophomores . . . .
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Date: 02 Sep 2006 06:50:26
From: Omniryx@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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It seems terribly important to Flasherly to be urbane, sophisticated,
intellectual, occult, obscurely witty. Reminds me of some of the
sophomores I taught at Sarah Lawrence. One wonders if he has
internalized the image he strives so hard to project.
(There's a paper in this somewhere.)
Will
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Date: 02 Sep 2006 19:11:19
From: Flasherly
Subject: Re: coffeemuggers workshop
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daveb wrote:
> OMIGOD!
>
> Yet another GAS BAG finds (let us hope) a temporary home!
>
> Even Howard Cosell himself would be revolted!!
>
> BTW, Google must be glad that disk space is nearly free these days.
A simple clay coffee cup with a modest inscription is fine. Something
cute or pithy. Perhaps an empty seat along the backwall to
occasionally scribble.
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Date: 02 Sep 2006 14:22:35
From: daveb
Subject: The gas bag - "flasherly"
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OMIGOD!
Yet another GAS BAG finds (let us hope) a temporary home!
Even Howard Cosell himself would be revolted!!
BTW, Google must be glad that disk space is nearly free these days.
Dave
www.hitechespresso.com
> Alan wrote:
>
> > Will, I'd say that if Flasherly wrote his papers as well as he wrote the
> > above post, he was quite likely one of your failing sophomores . . . .
>
> That's because I decided to omit the passage . . .[effectively] to
> think, construe, or reminise over as a student.
>
> I audited teachers when writing state grants, and I'm not getting paid
> nearly enough to write what damn well pleases him.
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Date: 06 Sep 2006 06:45:36
From: Omniryx@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Coffee for ?? dump on Starbucks
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Alan wrote:
> Well, that certainly clears things up . . .
Doesn't it just.
His writing begins to remind me of the journals of William Halstead in
his declining years when he had suffered significant cerebral atrophy
secondary to cocaine use. Wonderful rambling sentences that one senses
almost meant something. Almost.
Sequelae from brain injury?
Working in a second language?
Or merely pretentious--and persistent in his pretention?
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Date: 06 Sep 2006 05:25:30
From: Leo95se
Subject: Re: Coffee for turkeys
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really wanna beat em at their own game? go in just to use the bathroom
and dont order anything, short, long, tall, or skinny. it all sucks
anyway!
notbob wrote:
> You knew it all along:;
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5274352.stm?ls
>
> nb
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