Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Kebabette,
Proving your point, here's a photo of a rather fine looking Gaggia coffee machine at work - Fail's Cafe, Christchurch ca. 1955
Except one could point to France, a country dedicated to proving the point that you can use great coffee machines and still make consistently awful coffee. A friend of mine once got kicked out of a cafe in Nice because he ordered a coffee so long as he could make it himself. He could see they had the equipment...
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Have you ever seen Craig and David in the same room? No? Me neither. Clearly this is very suspicious.
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I have never seen any of the SW prequels and, short of it becoming a prerequisite for receiving a vital organ transplant, I can say with a certain assuredness that I never will.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
Kind of points towards the 20s or 30s.
I was going to say "the 1220s or 30s, right?" but look, in English it's used up until the last century. You could have knocked me down with a quill.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
She had an amanuensis
I think they prefer to be called personal assistants.
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Then I came back home to Christchurch, and Mum, it was so hard.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is where I broke down. Such a lovely, tender, thoughtful piece Emma - thank you.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to andin,
But finding "IT" in a living person has proved absolutely fruitless
Has it now? Because frankly contemporary theories of mind seem pretty convincing to me, and they don't have all that much trouble in talking about consciousness in concrete terms.
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If you're suggesting I'm going to regain consciousness in another dimension without memory, then it's pretty simple: it won't be me!
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I don't recall being aware in another dimension before I was born, so the idea that I will somehow be conscious after I'm dead seems just ridiculously odd and arbitrary and wishful. "Surprise" wouldn't begin to describe how I would feel.
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(People will be dismayed to know that I'm aware that I owe an answer to Kyle from when I was away - but I've been away and now I'm buried in deadlines, so it will have to wait.)