Blume und my dumb ass will be there.
not near Josh's workplace
Just had to twist the knife, didn't you?
Barring 24 hours of productivity and inspiration, I will only make it as close as Cambria. Cheers, though.
Alas, still in Orange County till 1/4. Have fun! I am bummed about not getting to meet Sifu and Blume and all the other non-Westerner Unfoggedtariat (esp. AWB) and everyone else in town for the MLA. Good luck at the MLA, by the way!
Oh, bloody heck. I will not be back in town until 1/1, it turns out. How sad, for I did want to meet you scholars of modern language.
I will be in the District Of. However in the near future my band hopes to play a loss-leading vacation show limited tour in San Francisco and hopes that time-delayed Unfogged readers will keep this in mind.
my attendance is probable though not definite.
Until the last king is strangled with the guts of the last priest, ari.
I only wish there were some way for read to stand everyone up.
10 is awesome. People should put that on all of their party invitations.
15: Ari is a close relative of the people who killed Christ, so it only seems appropriate he would be the guest of honor at a priest-strangling party.
After intimating that I could be there, I must regretfully inform you that I will not, in fact, be there. Christmas was in New York this year.
No, there are actually several things it don't beat.
I'm not sure I like your attitude, buster.
That's too bad. I like it quite a bit.
Nowhere near my workplace either. Look what happens when we listen to W-lfs-n.
It's right near the hotel where we won't be staying tomorrow, though.
23: Very far from my workplace. And do you see me griping?
I would take a leave from my traditional lurking and come to this, Ben. If I were, you know, around.
Sadly, too short notice for me to attend, even in spirit(s). I guess these here bottles will have to wait for the next Portland meetup.
How can something be to short notice to be present in spirit?
Jesus' spirits need to be sent by mail.
Color commentary on SF: 24:40 + on SWPL speaks.
He does uptalk in a particularly annoying way.
I couldn't get past the point where she said, "It's really, really funny."
San Franciscans have a crippling inferiority complex about *NYC*? Uh, okay then.
I have a crippling inferiority complex about this guy's coat.
I've watched the talk and subsequent questioning. It's clear that anyone who professes a preference for the reggaeton genre must be stopped. I mean, really. That shit is awful. And no, I don't think he's joking about it.
Ari is a close relative of the people who killed Christ, so it only seems appropriate he would be the guest of honor at a priest-strangling party.
Also, Sifu's people were mixed up in a regicide, so it's doubly appropriate.
My people weren't puritans. They were the booze-soaked plutocrats who waited to see if it was safe, then came over.
My people weren't puritans. They were the booze-soaked plutocrats who waited to see if it was safe, then came over.
So you and Alameida are kin?
I won't be able to stay late, as I need to go back to Davis tonight. If Ari's coming, maybe I can snag a ride back with him???? But it is my intention to leave my bags at the Hilton and wander around until 7 to see all you nerds.
My people weren't puritans.
I feel betrayed. Who am I gonna WASP out with tonight? Who???
Sorry I missed this by flying out last night. I had finally settled my brain and anxiety down enough by then to have been able to manage something.
But not as WASPy as my people. No one's people are as WASPy as my people. I feel so alone.
Alas, AWB (and others), I'm very unlikely to come. Our younger boy has a high fever, which probably means an infected ear. And his illness means that I'll almost certainly need to be home. Should I still e-mail you, Magpie? And if so, where? Oh, wait, it's probably linked to your name, right? I'll try that.
What about eric, though? Is he coming?
the linked picture is both funny and disturbing. that someone would do that to themselves and not have it done to them while in a coma or intoxicated is odd.
Also, right now I'm trying to imagine how awkward i will find tonight... I'm thinking fairly awkward though maybe not too awkward.
Sifus people were definitely WASPs.
With a trust fund. Tonight someone should remember to discuss the issues around the Patriots not making the playoffs, also the likelihood that Tom Brady's injury will be career-ending.
as I need to go back to Davis tonight
So what's the outsider's perspective on Davis? I have to visit there in a few months and I don't trust the locals' glowing praise for the town.
53. That's what I always look for in an evening out.
So what's the outsider's perspective on Davis?
Well, as a resident of the Bay Area I'm duty-bound to badmouth the place. It's flat and boring and unpleasantly hot in the summer. Plus, you know, the school only exists because Cal needed someplace to teach the dirt farmers how to actually grow something.
That answer your question?
Davis is a small pretty town. After you've walked the downtown, which will take you a couple hours if you stop and window shop, you've pretty much seen it. Very pleasant to live in, if you like small pretty towns.
If you'll be spending longer, you should plan a bike ride to Winters or day hikes in the Sierras.
I was going to say it was a place Cal came up with to safely contain all the Okies outside of urban areas.
Also, it's where my aunt used to take her pet goat to get it de-farted.
49: I don't know. We don't move in lockstep, though lord knows I've tried to tether myself to his rising star.
54: Davis is sort of like a Midwestern college town (Madison, Ann Arbor, Lawrence) plopped down in Northern California. I think I would hate it if I weren't me: white, straight, a cyclist, a lover of dogs, and fond of (my own) children. That said, as with the aforementioned college towns, Davis seems to grab hold of people who live here. And, finally, I should note that I lived in Madison and hated it there. So everything I say on this subject should be filtered through the fact that I'm a terrible person and a worse judge of excellent places.
it's where my aunt used to take her pet goat to get it de-farted
New mouseover text?
Hmmm. Lesbians seem to like Davis just fine.
58: I can't figure out who to e-mail you and don't know if you still want me to. If this has anything to do with your family's pet goat, please count me out. That's not my thing.
"how to e-mail you"
But the goat part of the above message stands, freak.
Also 62: You restrict yourself to sheep?
61: Becoupled lesbians? Because if so, yeah, I'd think so. Singles, though, not so much, I wouldn't imagine. But hey, what do I know?
Ari, I was going to e-mail you our cell numbers for later coordination. Bring the kids! It'll be such fun!
Ari, I was going to e-mail you our cell numbers for later coordination. Bring the kids! It'll be such fun!
If you're visiting Davis from the east coast during the winter, then drive out past Winters and go hiking at the Stebbins-Cold Canyon preserve . It's lovely in the winter, very green, beautiful views, and the temperature is pleasant. Then you can either eat at the excellent steakhouse in Winters or do the beautiful drive over Highway 128 into Napa Valley for something even fancier. The Palms Playhouse in Winters also features very good SWPL-type folk rock performers.
69: Is there some reason that I shouldn't tell you that my cell phone number is (303) 520-2500? Because if there is, I hope Ben will delete this comment. But if not, do let me know where you'll be. If the little one gets to sleep, I might try to come down for some late-night goat wrangling.
That's a very elegant number you've got, ari.
74: Home is even better (ends in 1234). My secret? I don't settle when they offer the first crappy number the computer generates.
Thanks for the Davis opinions. I might not be there for long, and I might be sitting through talks for most of it, but I'll keep in mind the biking/hiking suggestions if there's an opportunity.
Re Davis, at least go to the arboretum. It's pleasant and in town.
At Davis they have a cow with a little window you can peek inside.
Okay, now Blume and I are bringing a lurker so anonymous and lurker-y that he's never actually looked at the blog, and also doesn't know what it is.
That's pretty intense. I mean, that's real dedication to lurking.
AND THAT, FOLKS, IS WHAT A MEETUP SHOULD BE.
I'm a terrible person and a worse judge of excellent places.
Everyone should realize that Ari is Canadian. B can tell you that Canadia is a terrible place, and apparently the people there have sex with bears.
At Davis they have a cow with a little window you can peek inside.
Thye have had such cows for a long time--at least since I was a kid living in Davis in the 1960s. Going to the university to look at the cows and other livestock they kept on campus was a staple of life growing up in Davis back in the day. When I tell my kids--who are city kids (or at least high density suburb kids)--about this, they are suitably appalled.
Dear people we drove put of the booth: sorry, Unfogged is rapacious.
85: Did you at least tell them they seemed like very driven people?
85: I assume you relished the lamentations of their women.
I hope you all know that there is another seekrit meetup such that the outlandishly rapacious unfoggeteers are mere foils.
The lack of update from the meet-up is suspicious.
Everyone was like, "oh, I have to go to the east bay."
Oh, also, we went to a different place partway through.
We're back in the not-east-bay! In our defense, fuck off.
And what you said is very hurtful.
Everyone was like, "oh, I have to go to the east bay."bed. Because we have to work.
I'm also back in the not east bay, and I don't have to go to bed because I don't have to work tomorrow.
In other news the meet up was fun, but the bar(?) was too noisy. Also everyone looked exactly as they write.
Exactly as they write, eh? A bunch of seriphim?
That meetup was fun. Fun! The drinks at that first place were terrific, and I got to drunkenly argue not-very-supportable positions. Capital!
This turned out to be easy to locate, and cheaper than expected, too!
102: I had the Reg's copy of that out for years.
The book is a hoax, of course. The Romans were not interested in sex. People have been reading sex into things that were really entirely non-sexual. The Victorian scholars have been wrongly maligned.
Do not be deceived: this is a scholarly work which deals with Latin sexual terms in a clinical and analytical manner. I purchased this book for a college Latin course and discovered it to be bereft of titillation
My favorite Amazon review of a classics book. A review for The Power of Thetis by Laura Slatkin:
There's not one wasted word in this little opus, and I was fascinated by a perspective on Homer that I'd never thought of before. Okay...I know I really shouldn't say this, but there's another reason why this book is dear to my heart, so I'll leave serious comment on the contents of this book to others. The evening after I read Power of Thetis I had to go to this stuffy dinner party. Anyway, there was this really interesting woman there--really hot, too. It was driving me nuts just sitting next to her. Normally she wouldn't have looked twice at the likes of me, but it turned out that she was really into Greek literature. Well, I'm no Homerist but since I had just read this book and its arguments were really lucid and easy reccounted, I was able to get into this intense conversation with her about Achilles. It was really cool. And the end result was that she went home with me. Thank God for books like this.
At Davis they have a cow with a little window you can peek inside.
You find these at ag colleges and the like, far and wide.
106: And your side of the story is ...?
107: University of Maryland College Park has one of these. I used to drive past her on the way to the lab. She seemed happy enough, but I'm not really up on reading bovine emotions. The cool thing is that it's not just a window - you can pop the lid off and reach inside to grab a handful of stomach contents.
The cool thing is that it's not just a window - you can pop the lid off and reach inside to grab a handful of stomach contents.
Which is the point, really, so the students can see what's going on in there. I've been told it doesn't bother them at all (the cows I mean) but then again, the person who told me was the one responsible for the window, so I don't know how much weight to give that.
This turned out to be easy to locate, and cheaper than expected, too
Hurrah!
Rather than milk cows, we should use them to process cellulose into edible form and learn to cook with that. In terms of protein and carbohydrates, that would be much more productive than drinking milk, much less eating meat. Presumably the second or third stomach would be the one to harvest.
Oh, nasty. You mean it's a real cow, not a model cow? I'd misunderstood on first read. Ughh.
