What are you currently reading?

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Well, it basically means "an idiot" but it's a really odd way to say it.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

I was wondering the same thing..saw it translated as "nincompoop" in some webpage. 

Yes, that's it, pretty much.

[North Star]

I was wondering the same thing..saw it translated as "nincompoop" in some webpage. 

Nincompoop is quite accurate. It's an affectionate form - well, maybe not that affectionate - of tyhmä, i.e. stupid. The Dude might say foolerino, if he wasn't into the whole brevity thing.  0:)

[Karl Henning]

I was wondering the same thing..saw it translated as "nincompoop" in some webpage. 

Well, it basically means "an idiot" but it's a really odd way to say it.

Well, and if you please, nincompoop is perhaps an odd way of saying an idiot 

[Karl Henning]

Nincompoop is quite accurate. It's an affectionate form - well, maybe not that affectionate - of tyhmä, i.e. stupid. The Dude might say foolerino, if he wasn't into the whole brevity thing.  0:)

Reminds me of Sam's old Gaffer calling him a ninnyhammer.

[lisa needs braces]

Interesting looking but ... Let us know.
I see Tyler Cowen blurbed the book. The world knows few greater masters of the incomprehensible sentence, the garbled paragraph, than Tyler Cowen.

I ran into him at a shopping mall a year ago.

[Karl Henning]

A book that my sister wrote;  she began just by sending e-mail messages to keep our youngest sister in good cheer, and then she was encouraged to make it a complete story.  Reading it makes me smile.

[Artem]

As usual with Bernhard, I enjoyed this book. It is a story of a man, trying to write a work of his life entitled On the sense of hearing. He lives with his wife far away from the society but ends up killing her. It is the first thing that you learn on page one of the book about the main character in the novel.



The book is an account of an imaginary literary club. It is a short and fun read, but won't stay on your mind for too long after you finish it.

[NikF]

I don't suppose this really counts as reading...



We moved into this house last year and still have boxes needing unpacked. But that's nothing, because this afternoon we found a couple of boxes containing many guitar magazines dating from about 1977 to 1987. I don't remember where these came from. Anyway, one of us is continuing to soldier on with the task of unpacking, organising, storing etc. And one of us is laying back on the sofa reading about guitars with pointy headstocks.

[North Star]

I don't suppose this really counts as reading...

We moved into this house last year and still have boxes needing unpacked. But that's nothing, because this afternoon we found a couple of boxes containing many guitar magazines dating from about 1977 to 1987. I don't remember where these came from. Anyway, one of us is continuing to soldier on with the task of unpacking, organising, storing etc. And one of us is laying back on the sofa reading about guitars with pointy headstocks.

I am appalled. Please. for the love of all things bright and beautiful, read instead about guitars with open-book headstocks or those round Fender-style headstocks, and not those awful pointy things! I quite like the Randy Rhoads signature design, though - but that's probably the only decent design from the 1980s. You may read about that one. 

[NikF]

I am appalled. Please. for the love of all things bright and beautiful, read instead about guitars with open-book headstocks or those round Fender-style headstocks, and not those awful pointy things! I quite like the Randy Rhoads signature design, though - but that's probably the only decent design from the 1980s. You may read about that one. 

Ah, no, it's more that I'm considering how some can find such headstocks aesthetically pleasing, while I can only think of them as being useful if I were stranded on a desert island and could use them for spearing fish or making holes in coconuts or poking snakes or something.
I'll have a look later and see if Randy Rhodes and his guitar appear in any of the issues. For now, I can only offer either Julian Bream, Joe Pass, or Yngwie Malmsteen and his ego. No difference between those three. Heh.

[North Star]

Ah, no, it's more that I'm considering how some can find such headstocks aesthetically pleasing, while I can only think of them as being useful if I were stranded on a desert island and could use them for spearing fish or making holes in coconuts or poking snakes or something.

Well I certainly think that violins are rather more aesthetically pleasing (in more ways than one).




Thread duty - Ordered this:

[Brian]

Thread duty - Ordered this:

I guess you knew today is his birthday.

[North Star]

I guess you knew today is his birthday.

Even more appropriately, I actually did not know that. No wonder you would know that, though, Brian.  Happy Birthday.

[Ken B]

I guess you knew today is his birthday.

Is it his birthday, or is it the birthday of some other Borges?

[Karl Henning]

If a stock market goes too long in one relentless direction with little volatility, it's often a sign that investors have mentally checked out.

(Probably worth pointing out, that if that one relentless direction is down, the investors are probably still checked in . . . .)

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2015/0824/Calls-for-calm-Dow-falls-nearly-4-percent-but-is-there-really-a-recession-coming

[Drasko]

Sophocles - Oedipus Rex, Antigone

[Karl Henning]

I cyphered that out, even before I got to Antigona 

[Drasko]

I cyphered that out, even before I got to Antigona 

Funny how these things work, I was listening to Strauss' Elektra a bit recently, and got hankering for some ancient Greek literature. I had this one handy, even though I've read both before, and now planing to move to Homer, whom I haven't read since high school and to complete Aeschylus, some of which I've never read before. 

[kishnevi]

Sophocles - Oedipus Rex, Antigone

No  Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ?

Which I think is the finest of the three.

I have Aeschylus and Sophocles in a combination of Penguin and Modern Library.  Herodotus and Thucydides also in Modern Library translations.  But  Richmond Lattimore is the man who Hellenized me.  Homer, Hesiod,  Pindar, Sappho and a host of lesser, fragmentary poets,  all from his pen,  and Euripides, who he translated in partnership with a fellow named Grene.