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thanne
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response 25 of 90:
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Mar 29 01:39 UTC 1995 |
I thought it was helmke.
You guys are so hip. I don't keep books on my nightstand (only
birth control supplies, heh), but I'm reading _Moo_ by Jane Smiley,
_A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg_ by Tim Cahill, _The Russians_ by
Hedrick Smith (? Smith? Suddenly that looks wrong), and well,
I was reading _The Rim_ by that guy on the Well whose name escapes
me, but I think I've given up.
Then there are piles of 'em waiting to be read, but who knows when
that'll happen.
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nephi
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response 26 of 90:
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Mar 29 04:30 UTC 1995 |
I don't have time for fiction.
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sdober
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response 27 of 90:
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Mar 29 07:41 UTC 1995 |
I don't have time for reality.
That Cahill book is great, thanne. He's a fave of mine.
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remmers
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response 28 of 90:
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Mar 29 12:22 UTC 1995 |
Nightstand:
Two crossword puzzle pages from TimesFAX (online New York Times digest).
Nicholas Negroponte, _Being Digital_
August 1994 _Games Magazine_
Harold Bloom, _The Western Canon_
E. Annie Proulx, _The Shipping News_
Philip Ward, _A Lifetime's Reading: The World's 500 Greatest Books_
Cricket Liu et al, _Managing Internet Information Services_
Thomas & Turner, _Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose_
Susan Holtzer, _Something to Kill For_
E.B. and K.S. White, _A Subtreasury of American Humor_
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brenner
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response 29 of 90:
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Mar 29 14:14 UTC 1995 |
Being Digital is now in my car. How do you like it?
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juls
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response 30 of 90:
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Mar 29 16:42 UTC 1995 |
OH BOY!!
"Two crossword puzzle pages from TimesFAX (online New York Times
digest)
How do I get that??!! And do they include the monthly double crostics?
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thanne
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response 31 of 90:
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Mar 29 22:15 UTC 1995 |
Being Digital is on an airplane headed for Boulder in my husband's
suitcase. He hasn't said how he likes it yet, but he did read me
an amusing quote from it.
Cahill: Yeah, I discovered him by accident when I picked up Jaguars
Ripped My Flesh at a used bookstore. Now I want to go skydiving
and see if it makes me bark like a dog, too.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwoof!
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vsclyne
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response 32 of 90:
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Mar 30 02:53 UTC 1995 |
Thanne, does this mean your husband will be out of town Friday?
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remmers
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response 33 of 90:
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Mar 30 02:54 UTC 1995 |
Re #30: You fire up your Web browser, invoke the URL
http://www.nytimesfax.com (or something close to that)
and click on today's digest. It's in Adobe's Portable Document
Format, so you have to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed in order
to view it. The crossword puzzle is on page 6. As far as I know
they don't do the double-crostics.
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brenner
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response 34 of 90:
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Mar 30 05:58 UTC 1995 |
Don't answer him, thannie, its a trick!
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thanne
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response 35 of 90:
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Mar 30 07:43 UTC 1995 |
Heh, really. It'll only be me and my 70-pound ill-tempered mastiff
sitting home alone...
Actually, I hope I can still make it Friday. Exciting Things are
happening at work.
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humdog
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response 36 of 90:
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Mar 30 10:40 UTC 1995 |
family circle
lady's home journal
redbook
the journal of postmodern philosophy
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nephi
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response 37 of 90:
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Mar 30 11:22 UTC 1995 |
(What, exactly, is postmodern?)
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vsclyne
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response 38 of 90:
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Mar 30 13:34 UTC 1995 |
Re #37: It's an imperative. It means, "Nephi, don't
do no old fashioned posts here. Post modern."
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juls
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response 39 of 90:
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Mar 30 16:35 UTC 1995 |
Re#33: Thanks, remmers! But I guess I'll have to feed my addiction the
old-fashioned way -- no acrobats, Adobe or otherwise.
(Isn't there an old saying, "Sir, you are a gentleman and an acrobat!"?
or was that another topic?)
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humdog
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response 40 of 90:
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Mar 30 16:49 UTC 1995 |
i am trying to avoid the LEcture On Postmodernism, you know.
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raven
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response 41 of 90:
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Mar 30 20:40 UTC 1995 |
Po-mo is a bunch of pretentious (but often fun) French philosophical
verbiage that tries to prove that there is no reality other than that given
to us by language.
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helmke
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response 42 of 90:
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Mar 31 11:46 UTC 1995 |
So that's where all the Wittgenstein I forgot comes from! I thought this
all seemed familiar.
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humdog
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response 43 of 90:
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Mar 31 14:00 UTC 1995 |
raven my dear, you are succinct but wrong.
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raven
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response 44 of 90:
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Mar 31 23:56 UTC 1995 |
Oh yeah eat my Derrida... Po-Mo derives from a bending of Saussares
theory that language as it relates to reality consists of 3 parts:
signifier----->signified----->referent
In Saussare (sp???) the referent is the actual reality, the signifed is the
idea of the reality in our heads and the signifier is the concrete word or
sound that points to the signified.
The structuralist like Levi Strauss were the first to attack this idea,
claiming that the referent was a bogus idea, that there is only the
relationship of the signifier to the signified. Basicaly that the world
just consisted of somewhat arbitrary systems of classifications, this is
actualy similar to focaults ideas much as he would have been loath to
call himself a structuralist.
Derrida (shine the spotlight on our star po-mo dude) went furthur to
(say???) that the relationship between the signifier and the signified
is bogus, that there is mearly a self reflexive web of signifiers.
This theory in turn influenced our modern crop of po-mos like
Baudrillard who claim we are living in a simulacra, blah, blah.
set verbose mode=off
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raven
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response 45 of 90:
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Apr 1 00:02 UTC 1995 |
p.s. Focault said some things about power, and Lacan said some things
about the phallus as signifier. There now I saved you about $150.00 you
have spent to read all that French verbiage. Gotta do something with my
useless education now that I buss tables in over priced cafe here in A2.
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juls
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response 46 of 90:
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Apr 1 00:44 UTC 1995 |
My, my -- more impressive scholarship when all that was called for was
a few lines of "Did not" "Did, too" "Fuck you" and then a (for some)
very satisfying flame war. At least that's how it usually goes, isn't
it?
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sdober
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response 47 of 90:
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Apr 1 02:32 UTC 1995 |
Oh christ. I'm gettin outta dodge before Carmen gets back and blows his fool
haid off.
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raven
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response 48 of 90:
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Apr 1 03:22 UTC 1995 |
Flame war blah, that's like eating raw tofu. I'd rather get funky, like
disco inferno ya know. :-)
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raven
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response 49 of 90:
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Apr 1 03:26 UTC 1995 |
Did I leave a burning chicken in here?? You set them on fire and
off they run disrupting innocent conferences.
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