L thanks I feel ok now !! Yesteryear is a very good subject a lot of it
about I have a lot of yesteryears myself or is it yesterdecades??!!
Sorry about the love letters and computer games and was it powder or real
coffee?? We need to know!!!
P have fun -if you like having fun
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Dominic Fox
Sent: 19 October 2012 15:56
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Meaningless words
Silverlight is Microsoft's attempt to produce a rival to Flash. In
Microsoft-world it's considered a big deal; outside of that echo-chamber, a
big joke. Like their search engine, Bing. Both technologies are probably
quite good as such things go. But the world has no pressing need of either,
and it's not as easy as it used to be for Microsoft tot use its monopoly
power to make everyone use them anyway. Google, on the other hand...
D
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
>
> Dear Patrick
>
> P ps what was this 'sensible work?' did it involve cups of
> tea and computer games ??love letters?? We need to know!!!
>
> You do not need to know, Patrick; but I shall tell you.
>
> No love letters, unfortunately.
>
> I'm going to sit right down and write myself a letter.
>
> I dislike computer games.
>
> It involved coffee, yes. I was writing an addition to a talk
> of yesteryear which is about to be published.
>
> OK?
>
> Jolly good. Carry on then
>
>
>
> L
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 19 October 2012 12:51
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Meaningless words
>
> I have been thinking recently about the process whereby the language
> is being emptied of denotation. It's not new. I was brought up (to use
> an appropriate phrase) with all sorts of nonsense in Latin which
> sounds shallower to me in the post Vatican 2 English... The use of an
> artificial language gave it an a tone of gravity
>
> Politicians do it. For all I know even bees and overeducated fleas
> may do it -- if I have not garbled the song.
>
> But there has been an acceleration and expansion of the process
> whereby the only difference between us and those in the region of the
> Tower of Babel is that they noticed.
>
> This morning I found the following on the MicroSoft website. (I had
> been interrupted in sensible work by an MS advert of some kind for
> Silverlight and I don't what it is)
>
> Silverlight is a powerful development tool for creating engaging,
> interactive user experiences for Web and mobile applications.
> Silverlight is a free plug-in, powered by the .NET framework and
> compatible with multiple browsers, devices and operating systems,
> bringing a new level of interactivity wherever the Web works.
>
> I don't know if you are familiar with the TV series Red Dwarf but
> some decades ago I saw an episode in which Cat sees something odd and
> asks:
> What is it? The others tell him and he asks: What is it? And on...
>
> My suspicion is that I don't need Silverlight.
>
> Q What's an html editor? A It helps you write html without the
> hassles that follow from using a word processor.
>
> Got it.
>
> Q What's silverlight?
>
> A. Sounds of the morning trumpet
>
> ttfn
>
> L
>
--
Shall we be pure or impure? Today
we shall be very pure. It must always
be possible to contain
impurities in a pure way.
--Tarmo Uustalu and Varmo Vene
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