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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: (not) my style 653
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-12-15  08:20 <=-

 >  ML> This was in general a horrid mess. I ate the various
 >  ML> vegetables and just picked at the rest. The fish seemed as
 >  ML> if it had been dried out in the sun and partially putrefied
 >  ML> before being baked.
 > Not your usual style, to be sure, to be eating the vegetables as the
 > best thing there... (G)  I seem to see a similarity in the "goodness" of
 > the fish, though...  And one wonders what mebaru saikyo-style might
 > normally mean... ;)
 ML> I looked it up - 8 of 9 Internet references are to
 ML> United Airlines, so that's no help. The ninth is to
 ML> a DVD about fish that is described as "cosmic mook
 ML> salt water lure fishing."

So, perhaps some (non-)linguist/chef at United made it up... ;)

 >  ML> it more often than other such institutions is a direct
 >  ML> reflection of that kind of obsessive achievement, a
 >  ML> "thing of itself" rather than mappable to other ways
 >  ML> of keeping score (dollars, for example).
 > Particularly in some fields...   
 ML> I barely had patience for one, though I do have a
 ML> bunch of orphaned graduate credits in various fields
 ML> from back when I was still playing academic games.
 ML> Though there are other odd certifications I got as well,
 ML> some from real institutions, mostly just for knowing
 ML> junk (i.e., not requiring classroom time).

I only made it through one master's level course... Daddy went straight
thru to his PhD, although he did take off a couple years in the middle
for a war.... Mommy finally was able to finish her Bachelor's (after 8
kids), and then went on to get first a Masters in Musicology, and then
one in Library Science...  I think in her case there was some of that
obsessive achievement, to be honest...  ;)  She never really did
anything with the degrees, but then, she didn't get the last one until
after I was through college...  :)

 > And then, there are the perpetual
 > students... I remember one such at RIT, he'd already earned a few
 > undergrad degrees (IIRC, maybe it was simply almost earned and then gone
 > on to something else), but continued taking a wide variety of courses...
 > nowadays, there are graduate programs available there, in multiple
 > fields...  ;)
 ML> There's some guy who was in the news who had 29 going
 ML> on 30 of the things. One wonders.

Some of them stay perpetual students instead of facing the real world... 

 >  ML> I'm more inclined than most people to say yes to
 >  ML> things that I don't care much about but that don't
 >  ML> cost me much in the way of effort.
 > I'd tend to be similar, as long as there weren't too many other demands
 ML> I'm also more generous with my time than with my money,
 ML> which makes sense because I've more of the former than
 ML> the latter.

If I have, I tend to be generous with... whatever... 

 >  ML> Unlike most people of my intellectual circle, I
 >  ML> don't much care about intellectual property - but
 >  ML> what steams me is when somebody takes credit where
 >  ML> credit isn't due, or else where credit is due but
 >  ML> not to the claimant.
 > Likewise...  :)
 ML> There was a guy on RIME or ILink when I was moderator
 ML> who would post stuff with copyright notices of his own,
 ML> which I'd question, especially since most of the
 ML> recipes were standard ones with maybe a tweak or two.
 ML> He got furious and sent me a personal note that said I 
 ML> was unfair to "those of us who are creative," which 
 ML> got only a sneer from me. By the way, if you see a 
 ML> footnote that says "copyright [    ], all rights
 ML> reserved," it means (legally speaking) that the claimant
 ML> reserves all rights only if s/he actually has any. It's
 ML> mostly a bluff, and documents that claim this (especially
 ML> recipes) I automatically consider a little fishy.

Yup, especially recipes, since there are only so many ways one can do
certain things... :)  I've put a similar notice on the music I've
written, mostly for documenting the date of composition, but also to
announce my ownership... Not much I probably could really do,
realistically, if stolen, since I've not registered my copyright...

 ML> Bonito-infused Scotch
 ML> categories: airline, booze, weird
 ML> serving: 1
 ML> 1 bottle blended Scotch
 ML> 1 handful bonito flakes
 ML> Infuse for 3 days in a sealed glass container.
 ML> Hemispheres magazine 12/15

Now that's fishy...!   ;)

ttyl      neb

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