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I thought so too but after a brief & partial listen to the new record: no, they are not done quite yet ...

it = cat power? (insert photo of feline clenching fist) agree with zhao on supreme clientele: never felt it much at all in terms of the whole wu catalogue, much much less than ironman. as you say it was the production.

I always found it a bit sweet myself---definitely good but not bitter.

looks like it's time for a smoke (Teatime for me)

Thanks guys. Very interesting and sounds like very much fun. I think I need to do some more work to get at the details---a project I may have space to undertake now I've been offered tenure :) . Thanks also Slothrop for pointing out the existence of the PhD Comics forum. I never noticed that...

chocolate synthesizer is a great record imo ... 5678s are not necessary on this list for sure!!! :) I love that Plastics record, and RC Succession also gets play aruond my house (mostly from my wife though). Not a big fan of Yazawa Eikichi (among many others on this list). X? Boowy? One...

Obsessive concern in either direction seems useless to me. I have recently quit smoking because I got tired of having to think about it all the time. I exercise daily and am relatively healthy but I am not willing to not have that nth drink because it would make my body impure ... don't we...

But also hmlt, this doesn't say `I cannot talk about this subject intellligently and am unwilling to say anything further' but `I cnnot make pronouncements' which is quite a different deal isnt it? There should be a difference---particularly with this kind of subject matter---between someone who...

Fair enough: trying to engage vs not trying to engage. It also makes some sense that people would turn things so they can be viewed through their favored lens ...

Here is another basic question. What kind of mathematics forms the basics of this kind physics? Newtonian physics is based on calculus (well maybe this is more chicken-eggy than this way of putting things makes it seem). Presumably it's an applied area of some kind of abstract math right? (You...

I found this a bit shocking, from the blog Bruno linked: >What about next, I would be thinking. Would cranks with their "theories of everything" who know less than 1% what I do and whose IQ is 45 below mine - literally an inferior species - would be placed upon us or even dictate what we can...

Bashment-wise this year I liked Battlefield actually---energetic with plenty of that trancey cheese, but not in a cheesy way.

Nightmare!!!! I mostly teach linguistics but I have one course now in which I have a year (1 90-min meeting a week) to teach Japanese students (of education, appropriately enough for this thread) how to write competently in English. It doesn't work. But there are no expectations on anyone's...

nice!

I think we had a thread on this before ... some good info there too. Recently I have enjoyed (random selection): George Pelecanos (DC) Greg Rucka (very comic book) Don Winslow (quick & stylish) Ian Rankin remains enjoyable though the template is a bit tired now (as I read a copy of `Naming...

yes! it's like saying that every book should have an uplifting message with good `role models': the sonic version of socialist realism ...

I was insomniac or somewhat so until I started to exercise daily (bicycle/swimming). Now I sometimes even fall asleep reading (or maybe it's just the content, reading a lot of math these days ... :) ) anyway never any trouble sleeping at night unless I've been drinking.

saturday morning here ... differentiation? what's that? :) more seriously, the issue is structural: I currently give courses at three levels (intro, advanced, and seminar). none of these courses have prerequisites---this is not an option. so you get students in the courses of three types (at...

I think my favorites are the snoop dog ones &, most of all, the wu-tang one ... "the intersection of the set of things to fuck with and the set consisting of the wu-tang is empty' ... boom!!!!!

What I do is give a 2-3 page handout in each class and follow it relatively closely. First on there comes the question to be asked and answered for the day and its relation to the big issues of the course. Then we explore the question, possible answers, and possible objections, which leads to...