hi unregd
what is the most interesting and noble bird commonly seen in your area?
― no xmas for jonchaies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
dunno about noble, but I grew up in a condo complex centered around an old farmer's field with a big man-made pond in the middle, and it was home to sometimes 100+ Canada geese. it made for some entertaining goose encounters/observations, ex.:
-I started a fight between two geese when they both went after a piece of bread I'd thrown at them. they chased each other around the pond and pecked at each other's tail feathers for a long time while the rest of the flock honked and shuffled around nervously. after a while they lost interest and disappeared into the flock, protected from retribution by the fact that geese all look the same, have bad memories, and don't have names.
-one winter I walked to the field and found the entire flock crowded around this one goose who had gotten its butt stuck to the pond ice. it spent a good 15 minutes (or smth like that; I don't remember) twisting about and flapping its wings while all the other geese just hung around seeming stressed. it got free eventually, yay.
-one spring I found a goose skeleton under one of the willow trees planted around the pond. I still kick myself for not taking it home with me. I mean how awesome...
― every time you touch me (I get hives) (unregistered), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
there's also the infamous bird on a wire assaulting passersby, who I never met in person, regrettably.
― every time you touch me (I get hives) (unregistered), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
canada geese are noisy and altogether ignoble
― no xmas for jonchaies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
this is not the behaviour of a good bird species
― no xmas for jonchaies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 10:00 (twelve years ago) link
now this is just straight-up libel.
― every time you touch me (I get hives) (unregistered), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
unregd, what if anything would be worth saving if switzerland was on fire?
― Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Saturday, 5 November 2011 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
a goat
― cher's missing (unregistered), Saturday, 5 November 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
the more i think about it, the more right it seems
― The Triumph of the Will High (nakhchivan), Saturday, 19 November 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
^
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 January 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
the best ilx poster p much
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
aw, thanks, nakh
― flopson and jetsam (unregistered), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
I hardly ever post here anymore, I don't think.
― flopson and jetsam (unregistered), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
?
― buzza, Friday, 17 February 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
pressure didn't suit imo
― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Friday, 17 February 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
R.I.P.
Hey Googler, what brings you to ILX?
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 17 February 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
his last post doesn't really suggest he had a vendetta against ilx and was planning a DoS attack, but uh...
― iatee, Friday, 17 February 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
there's so much to ask him now
― buzza, Friday, 17 February 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
it's like when some unassuming kid goes on a school shooting
― iatee, Friday, 17 February 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
ikr
farewell to a gontser macher of the html playground
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 17 February 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
unreg:(
― toandos, Friday, 17 February 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
so is this ever going to get cleared up?
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
Got a message from him; he set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequences. Is going to take time off anyway regardless of ban.
― stet, Friday, February 17, 2012 8:39 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
(other thread)
― iatee, Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.chicagometroaeyc.org/files/images/OpeningMinds/registernow.gif
― i think you'd be cool to meet. i bet we'd have a lot to talk about (buzza), Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
he set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequenceshe set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequenceshe set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequenceshe set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequenceshe set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequenceshe set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequences
fwiw I still think there's a great New Yorker article in all of this.
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
the first ILX-based NYer article will happen after i find dude from so not gonna happen
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
pretty good love story imo
― iatee, Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
gr80, we've still not find that dude? jeez. can't believe that tbh. have we set up a huge search to find him? i'll volunteer tbh
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
we found his Facebook page.
he denied my friend request.
if my travels ever take me to PA again it will be on my agenda
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Oh it should be top priority!
― HO WBEAUTIFUL IS THE GENTLYFALLINGBLOOD? (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 18 February 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
unregd what, if any, 21st century music from uk do you like?
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Sunday, 7 September 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
do you want me to type up a List of Band/Albums, or...?
― disinclination loops (unregistered), Sunday, 7 September 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
if you like, after all, who doesnt like lists of albums by bands?
however, if the list would be too long and time to by compile, perhaps just a few 'key artists'
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Sunday, 7 September 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
ok, I've enjoyed all of these:
Life Without BuildingsBows - CassidyPJ Harvey - White Chalk; Let England ShakeFour Tet - RoundsCamera Obscura - My Maudlin CareerKaito - You've Seen Us, You Must Have Seen UsCharlotte HatherleyRoddy Frame - SurfThe Unthanks - LastBroadcastUncle AcidMax TundraSol SeppyGoldfrappBark Psychosis - Codename: DustsuckerPortishead - ThirdPram - The Museum of Imaginary AnimalsMovietone - The Blossom Filled StreetsLouis Philippe - An Unknown SpringThought Forms - Ghost Mountainthe new Soundcarriersthe new Esben and the Witch
― disinclination loops (unregistered), Sunday, 7 September 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
Hm. You're not who I thought you were, are you?
― Good Time Charlie Don't Surf (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 September 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
ha, didn't you used to think I was the same guy as display name (this cannot be changed)?
but no, this is the only handle I've posted under for the past like 5 years.
― disinclination loops (unregistered), Sunday, 7 September 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
Thought you were the guy whose real name sounds like the word for onion in a foreign language.
― Good Time Charlie Don't Surf (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 September 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
nope (but now I am intrigued)
― disinclination loops (unregistered), Sunday, 7 September 2014 23:17 (nine years ago) link
Few things about your posting style led me to that conclusion but recently started to doubt.
― Good Time Charlie Don't Surf (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 September 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
But yeah, I did confuse you with the other guy you mentioned.
― Good Time Charlie Don't Surf (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 September 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
does onion dude still post here?
― disinclination loops (unregistered), Monday, 8 September 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
thats quite an extensive list of uk music, i think i thought you had more of an americana sort of interest but i underestimated your cosmopolitanism
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Monday, 8 September 2014 00:13 (nine years ago) link
like the platonic ideal of an unregd sort of record would be a rare acapella recording of bluegrass and country rock songs by 1970s scoolchildren
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Monday, 8 September 2014 00:16 (nine years ago) link
aw, thanks! tbf my taste is (or was a few years ago) pretty heavily slanted toward American indie/folk/singer-songwriter stuff, and I'm more or less ignorant about UK grime/garage/2step/dubstep/hip-hop/whatever. a lot of the albums on my list are throwbacks to the '90s 'lost generation' post-rock/Too Pure era, so I do seem to be fixated on a particular era of UK music.
lol, my biggest fear is that I'll come across an old blog entry about an album with that exact description, but the upload link will be dead and I won't be able to find it anywhere else. I do like searching for obscuro stuff like that, even if it isn't usually very good.
― disinclination loops (unregistered), Monday, 8 September 2014 00:39 (nine years ago) link
90s lost generation has some interesting stuff, i should probably go back to bark psychosis and disco inferno, flying saucer attack i used to like very muchidk what else is happening now that derives from this, perhaps that last these new puritans lp
― Nothing less than the Spirit of the Age (nakhchivan), Monday, 8 September 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
for something recent in the FSA vein, I'd recommend Jessica Bailiff's last album. I've haven't heard anything by These New Puritans, but maybe I should give them a try.
― disinclination loops (unregistered), Monday, 8 September 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
what is the reason, if any, for your interest in gerontology?
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 11:12 (nine years ago) link
good question!
it probably stems from reading about Jeanne Calment and Shigechiyo Izumi in the Guinness Book as a child & being taken with the idea that people born in the 1870s were still living, + my naive childhood ambition/expectation of surviving into the 22nd century in peak physical form (no one ever explained to me that my chances of doing so were vanishingly small), + my weakness for treacly/condescending lifestyle articles to the effect of 'alabama-man-109-still-plays-tennis-shovels-driveway-smokes-unbelievable-amounts-cannabis', + the beauty of statistics
I'm not too knowledgeable the biology of aging, though; I'm mostly interested in the age verification process. when I have some time on my hands, I'll seek out articles and obituaries for people who claimed to be 110+-years-old, and I'll try to piece together their lifespans based on birth & census & marriage & death records (a hobby that itself stems from my interest in my own genealogy). if the person was truly a supercentenarian, I'll send my findings to the GRG (not in any official capacity — anyone can do it) so they can add another data point to their list. if it turns out the person's age was misreported, they were probably the perpetrator of pension fraud or the victim of sloppy recordkeeping, and the pedantic thrill of debunking outrageous age claims just barely outweighs the tedium of pursuing so many false leads.
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 5 April 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link
ftr, Izumi died before I was born and probably wasn't anywhere near 120 years old, and Guinness has since rescinded his title. but this photo nevertheless made an impression on me:
http://i.imgur.com/IK4G72g.jpg
(iirc the children had allegedly all been born after he turned 110)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 5 April 2015 05:07 (nine years ago) link
tough week in the gerontology game
― Albanic Kanun Autark (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 April 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
yup :(
in another year and a half (being generous here) there'll be no one left from 1899 and no one will be able to boast about having lived in parts of three centuries. "born before Kitty Hawk" just doesn't have the same shock value. what a travesty for world's oldest person journalism.
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 6 April 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
there is pronounced longevity on the irish side of my family so there have been a couple of recipients of this 'centenarian bounty'
this is supposedly administered partially to discover particularly dense or ambitious frauds from people collecting the pension payments of the deceased
The fraud was only discovered because welfare staff were preparing to make the "presidential centenarian bounty payment" to McLoughlin's deceased friend, Gerry Donnelly, whose 100th birthday would have been in April 2007. Mr Donnelly had died in 1984.
― Albanic Kanun Autark (nakhchivan), Monday, 6 April 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Something old people never warned me about is how witnessing the 100th anniversaries adds so much context to how long time lasts.
For example, I remember when a hundred WW1 vets would appear on the local news celebrating another 11/11 or how the Titanic sinking had happened in the present century. I marched in a parade celebrating the Boy Scouts' 75th anniversary (they're up to 105 this year) and had a grandmother who remembered when they dimmed the lights in Memphis after Thomas Edison died.
Now I open up the obituaries and see outdated photos of men with sideburns and in wide lapels accompanying obituaries for men in their 80s.
― pplains, Monday, 6 April 2015 21:05 (nine years ago) link
xpost - that makes me think of Sogen Kato, whose family collected his pension for 30 years while his body slowly mummified in his bedroom, only to be discovered by officials ('throwing up everywhere over what they'd found') after he was pronounced the oldest man in Tokyo.
I feel like the centenarian bounty might encourage older people to inflate their own ages even as it discourages younger people from collecting their dead parents' pensions. but it probably results in a net reduction in fraud, so I won't begrudge the odd deceitful 95-year-old his €2,540 and commemorative coin (otoh I doubt any English people are lying about their ages just to get a measly telegram from the queen)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 6 April 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
yeah but you forget that 100 years ago ireland was run by the colonial power that controlled the entire indian subcontinent with a couple of thousand civil servants, so presumably they have a fairly failsafe record of whoever was alive in 1915
the sogen kato story is one of my favourites and i am glad to be able to revisit it
― nakhchivan, Monday, 6 April 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
^valid point
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 6 April 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
this essentially useless article about longevity in sardinia caused me to spend a couple of hours reading about the piratic slave traders of the barbary states
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/20/secret-long-happy-life-mountain-villages-sardinia
― nakhchivan, Monday, 6 April 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
we had a grim version of that story. I may relate
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Monday, 6 April 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
The inquiry also noted that many elderly Japanese citizens were dying in solitude. "Die alone and in two months all that is left is the stench, a rotting corpse and maggots," The Japan Times said in an editorial,[13]
― nakhchivan, Monday, 6 April 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
a grim version
please do
― drash, Monday, 6 April 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/recluse-shared-bed-with-her-dead-sister-for-up-to-a-year-26016977.html
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Monday, 6 April 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
:(
A Rose for Emily
― drash, Monday, 6 April 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
would not smell as sweet presumably
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Monday, 6 April 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
lol, guilty lol
― drash, Monday, 6 April 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
unreg, do you compose much creative writing
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2015 09:03 (nine years ago) link
I wrote a lot of poetry as a teenager (& would often recite sonnets at school coffee houses and submit stuff to literary magazines), but at this point in my life I consider myself unusually prolific if I can find the patience/confidence/motivation to complete three shortish poems a year. mostly I just fill .rtf files with disjointed poem/story ideas and promptly forget about them.
If you're asking if I produce any creative writing in the vein of my joeky/idle ilx posts, then my answer is, regrettably, no.
I might ask the same question of you, though. Your submissions to the poetry contest threads are uniformly excellent, but do you produce much poetry (and/or vacuum performance art) beyond that?
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 12 April 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
(one of my more memorable high school sonnets began with the line, "If each of my regrets was but a stone", so don't go thinking I was a child prodigy or smth)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 12 April 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
aww, that could go well, depends v much on line 2, maybe you could do an ex libris thing and suggest 5 different options
i too wrote loads of poetry (and dyson'd with death) in younger days but all my writing (poetry or otherwise) nowadays feeds into the novel i'm writing, currently 150,000 words deep & counting :/ thanks for the nice words!
i thought you might write based on your brilliant posting here - as much the wit and intelligence displayed as the prose style. 'after you brush' sequence ffs, comic novel on my desk in 5 months pls
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
nah, I was a staunch classicist as a teenager (I despised free verse & once had a heated argument in English class about WCW's Red Wheelbarrow — 'I'm not sure what he was trying to accomplish with this piece, but it definitely isn't a poem) so my sole concession to modernity in that particular sonnet was a nonce rhyme scheme. but I do like the idea of remixing/revising one's old high school poetry inna oulipo style.
fyi I would definitely read/buy a 150,000+-word imago novel! and if you feel bashful about sharing it with ilx, just post it piecemeal on the 'posts you had second thought about' thread and hardly anybody will catch on.
[I hereby assert my copyright over the 'after you brush' sequence and all derivative publications]
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
nonce rhyming scheme
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
this kind of nonce:http://www.unsplendid.com/noncedef_frames.htm
but uh apparently 'nonce' has a very interesting colloquial meaning in the UK that I wasn't aware of until just now :-/
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
I enjoyed a fleeting meander on what such a scheme might entail tbf
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
lol
I was a classicist too tbh, balked at even the notion of blank verse, although I did come up with some fairly elaborate rhyme schemes. very formalist, very classic prog
now I'm less that, more screaming avant-garde mess with increasingly rare motes of substantive form, and all's the better. novel is like maybe two-thirds complete if that so it will be a while longer before I post the whole thing, IF I post the whole thing
unreg you have a wodehousean knack for the right detail & I feel there is genuine lit mileage in this
my next question is whether u r ilx buddies with ogmor because you both seem into the same type of roots folk & blues
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
Ogmor is a good poster! but I can't remember ever having crossed paths with him on ilx, hmmmm
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Happy birthday!
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Saturday, 11 July 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
thanks!
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Saturday, 11 July 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
happy birthday! :)
wd flense a piece of cake for you
http://www.tophatcakes.co.uk/media/art/bluewhale.jpg
― drash, Saturday, 11 July 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
awwww, thanks
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Saturday, 11 July 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
one of the all-time best posters. Love yr threads. Happy b-day!
― bamcquern, Saturday, 11 July 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
delightful unregistered!
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Saturday, 11 July 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
are you getting a free slurpee today?
― sarahell, Saturday, 11 July 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
thx everyone! I live about 10 miles away from the nearest 7-Eleven & I didn't pass any while driving today, so no slurpee this year.
(I'm still slightly bitter @ 7-Eleven because I used to think Slurpee Day was limited to customers born on July 11, but it turns out any pleb with a May 20 birthdate can get a free one as long as they show up on the right day. I don't really need 7-Eleven to reaffirm my special-snowflakeness, but it would be a nice gesture)
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Sunday, 12 July 2015 02:09 (eight years ago) link