Member: justjim

fiddlesticks. they'll all just be grateful somebody sorts me out so i don't stay endlessly stuck in the mud of stupidity helplessly spinning my wheels. :)

looking at the books you've added i'm wondering if you've been touched by the FSM's noodly appendage. may you be bathed in heavenly sauce. :)

posted by mirrordrum at 10:56 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2009

you've saved me! it's 'umbo.' i was looking under the 1980s on imdb.com and never saw 'who's the boss'--i know nothing about danza. never watched tv in the 80s and the only thing i watched in the early 90's was xena and x-files. :)

bless you for a wonderful, wonderful man.

posted by mirrordrum at 3:08 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2009

sorry just thought I'd clarify my last comment and say I was referring to the refusing to sell books part of your comment.

I was not meaning to suggest in anyway that you were also a miserable, chain smoking, drunken misanthrope.

I'm sure you're a very nice man!

posted by Littlemissbashful at 11:55 pm (EST) on Nov 15, 2009

I just saw this on your profile

90% second-hand! I love second-hand book shops although everybody says I would be no good at running one. "You want to buy what??!! No, sod off, I haven't read that yet! Get out of my shop, I'm trying to read!"

If you've never seen the TV series 'Black Books' with Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey you should take a look - you sound like you could swap a few stories over a bottle of the red stuff...

posted by Littlemissbashful at 11:45 pm (EST) on Nov 15, 2009

1592 “PISH, PISH, what talke you of olde age or balde pates.”—Pierce Penilesse (British Library Copy) by Thomas Nashe

1598 "PISH for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!”—Henry V (1623) by Shakespeare, Act II. Scene i

1672 “PISH, said I, that's no such great matter.”—The Rehearsal Transprosed by A. Marvell, I. page 52

1708 “PISH, PISH, quoth Seymour in a huff.”—England’s Reformation (1716) by T. Ward, page56

1828 “PISH! she can't hear.”—City Looking Glass (1933) by R. M. Bird, II. v. page 55

1894 ‘PISH!’ I growled. ‘Someone has fooled you.’”—Under the Red Robe by S. Weyman, xiv. page 264

1925 “Sorry to hurt your feelings . .. but I'm beyond that. PISH!”—The Informer by L. O’Flaherty, xv. page 238

IRMC. you may imagine me looking quite smug even though i admit my company is antiquated, to say the least.

posted by mirrordrum at 10:43 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2009

i say 'pish'. didn't you just read me saying 'pish?' goodness. i think the spring cicadas have addled your senses. ;)

i shall look for your message. i haven't really visited the site yet but shall.

do you think i should add another hint on crambo!? i picked a difficult word. probably shouldn't have chosen it but i've been longing to use it somewhere.

i don't know yet how long one should wait on crambo!, if one has picked a particularly tricky word, before giving hints. thoughts?

posted by mirrordrum at 9:49 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2009

oh pish. that's not icky at all. remarkable shots. your cicadas look just like ours. i simply dote on them. great bulge-eyed creatures that seem to do no harm and provide a great source of protein. i didn't like them when i first moved to Tennessee and now i find them fascinating and rather endearing.

i expect they'll survive climate change just fine and i'm glad! :)

keep sending 'em on. i've joined DPS hoping to learn something i can use to improve my admittedly lackluster efforts.

posted by mirrordrum at 7:01 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2009

Just a glitch I guess

posted by BarkingMatt at 5:03 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2009

Have you seen the yellow sign?

(Just to check)

posted by BarkingMatt at 4:48 pm (EST) on Nov 14, 2009

gorgeous, jj. an amazing shot. can't believe how clear it is in the middle of what appears to be quite vigorous bouncing about. 'strornry. i've never seen a magpie, more's the pity. i was out today trying to take hdr shots without a tripod, as usual. tarsome not to be able to use one but there it is. i have fun trying anyhow. :)

many thanks.

posted by mirrordrum at 2:48 am (EST) on Nov 8, 2009

the tortoise is amazing, especially the work with the vegetation. that's a lot of selecting and masking, or whatever you used. i also really like the nest-building shot. the water ripples are gorgeous and the gum tree is wonderful. thanks for sending me your link. more, more. :)

the first and last ones on this page are two of my faves from recent days. i'm trying to do some HDR photos, too.

hope i got the HTML code right on that there link.

posted by mirrordrum at 9:51 pm (EST) on Oct 28, 2009

it's not subtle really. or wasn't meant to be. i just figured it was like a Hansel and Gretel thing where you follow the bread crumbs or whatever.

i been all involved trying to get our Unitarian church e-list restarted and i haven't a clue what i'm doing so i've been having to learn. and do some moderating and stuff. interesting but time consuming.

and messing about with photographs. and day-to-day stuff.

you cook anything interesting lately? are you putting up small batches of seasonal foods? what's seasonal in Oz, anyway?

missed you guys. :)

posted by mirrordrum at 12:08 am (EST) on Oct 28, 2009

from crambo, i wrote:

'in Wilkie Collins' novel, the two destinies, Mary's father has a little black terrier, a 'creature who possessed, in equal proportions, the enviable advantages of perfect good-humor and perfect common sense.'

if you Google the Collins plus two destinies plus any part of the quote, you'll find, for example,:

http://www.online-literature.com/wilkie-...

search on that page for almost any of the words in the quote and you find these 2 paragraphs:

"In those days I was thirteen, and Mary was ten years old. Walking on our way to the lake we had Mary's father with us for guide and companion. The good man served as bailiff on my father's estate. He was, besides, a skilled master in the art of decoying ducks. The dog that helped him (we used no tame ducks as decoys in Suffolk) was a little black terrier; a skilled master also, in his way; a creature who possessed, in equal proportions, the enviable advantages of perfect good-humor and perfect common sense.

The dog followed the bailiff, and we followed the dog."

so Mary's father is a bailiff and the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction is a bailiwick and that rhymes with organic. see?

i guess in trying not to make it too easy and to give you a chance to use Google, i made it too diffy. i always check to be sure that what i put in the hint can be found via Google by running the hint myself.

nice word, tympanic. :)

cheers.

posted by mirrordrum at 11:10 pm (EST) on Oct 27, 2009

certainly not! my only interest in military/war reading is a) scholarly, from an anthropological standpoint or b)well, there really isn't a b.

rest assured, i remain atlargeintheworld! (at least in cyberspace)

ps: what was this i read in the BETA group about your piles of books being thinned out by a, ahem, "small fire"? could this possibly be the root of your obscene pleasure over my slight misfortune with the toast?

posted by atlargeintheworld at 3:53 am (EST) on Oct 27, 2009

I believe you either have far more space than I do, or are just pickier. I could easily add 1000 books to my library per year if I didn't get rid of some in the process. :)

posted by infiniteletters at 8:48 pm (EST) on Oct 12, 2009

Yes, we are talking about Winnebago Spectrum and not the Motor Home: can you please give me more information on how to do this activity: import Winnebago records to Library Thing?

I dont know what a CSV file is.

Thanks!

I "shouted" to get attention as this question is something that has really been haunting me for a year now.

Thanks again

posted by irckigalirw at 6:05 am (EST) on Sep 30, 2009

You made me laugh out loud.

I've only barely been out of the country (southern Canada, Bahamas, and Neuevo Lorado, Mexico - we walked in from Texas), and there were never any bullets.

I grew up and still live in Nebraska, the Land of the Bland.

I guess raising a girl through the teenage years wasn't totally boring, but she was (and is) a good kid, so I didn't experience all the drama I might have.

But in books - ah, there I have excelled! And I seem to find the most interesting friends. Especially the ones who have dodged bullets and come in from the cold!

posted by MerryMary at 9:19 pm (EST) on Sep 27, 2009

Seriously, what a great story. I have led such a boring life.

posted by MerryMary at 9:06 pm (EST) on Sep 27, 2009

you won't regret adding bbb&b to your list. i'm just dipping into the large print edition here and there to play the game while i wait for the audio to arrive. the first bit i read, about mrs. richardson, made me laugh so hard i was draped all over the coffee table whooping and gasping and i nearly collapsed onto the floor.

she's right up there with the luggage as a fave character, i'll tell you. if i'd met her before i joined LT, i'd have used 'mrs. richardson' as my handle.

hope you cooked happily this weekend and didn't have to iron too much.

posted by mirrordrum at 11:47 pm (EST) on Sep 7, 2009

Thanks so much!! You've made my day :)

posted by felius at 11:31 pm (EST) on Jul 30, 2009

And I am adding [[Netherlands]] to mine Wishlist...

I have catalogued less that 10% of my collection. I would expect a much higher level of overlap between us once my catalogue is 'complete'.

posted by TheoClarke at 6:51 pm (EST) on Jun 12, 2009

A victorian referencing rugby league? Blasphemer!

posted by MrAndrew at 8:28 am (EST) on Jun 3, 2009