Posted on 01/27/2018 10:37:03 AM PST by mairdie
LoL. #metoo
Peking—Beijing= North Capital.
Nan Jing = South Capital.
Of course, Liu He obviously wasn't Penske material. He might have lasted 14 days with Play Now. If He could have gotten in with Kruger Industrial Smoothing, He could have made a name for himself (but not "T-Bone" - Neil Watkins in accounting has that).
I would think he’d have taken the larger office.
Thanks mairdie.
He may have lasted two months if he had done so.
It was the phony charity that did him in.
“The Han Fund. Money for Hans.”
you referenced me!
Krueger: George, you’re ordering a T-Bone?
George: I love ‘em!
Krueger: Well, maybe we should just call you “T-Bone”!
Excellent. Thanks for posting.
I’m so used to seeing scenes like that on Sherlock Holmes or some such, it’s a mental jerk to realize those are real.
what in the heck is that?
It is quite a fun read
That sounds totally made-up
Of COURSE it was!
Henry Livingston was the author of Night Before Christmas. He was also a tongue in cheek writer who kept his tongue firmly attached to his cheek and will write with a totally straight face the most amazing nonsense. One of his prose pieces is done from the point of view of an ancient pine tree. A poem is done from the point of view of a lump of gold in the ground describing the moment the miner removes the earth and the gold first sees light.
He has a massive number of these, many of them published in the New York Magazine or Literary Repository, of which Clement Moore’s father was a subscriber.
One of my favorites is about the telescope carved from the ice of the River Volga and through it the romantic assignations on the various planets were observed.
I spent a year of my life reading the newspapers and magazines from 1775 to 1830 from morning till night. I LIVED in a time when George Washington was spoken of in the present tense. Husband got me this immense microfilm reader that connected to the computer and NY sent me microfilm of the NY publications.
“I spent a year of my life reading the newspapers and magazines from 1775 to 1830 from morning till night”
wow! that sounds amazing. I would love to do that too
Basically, you need to be pro-active. Find something you want and go after it. Once I retired, I wasn’t sure what I’d do with my energy and organization and Night Before Christmas turned out to be it. We, in the military/industrial complex, have some BIG advantages over the academic world in that we’re trained to precision and willing to do vast amounts of work to get our answers. There’s a lot of hand waving in academia, and reliance on short-lived research fellows.
When I started the poetry research with the Vassar professor, I traveled to research institutions until I figured out it was better to do it at home. Nowadays it’s even easier because I subscribe to multiple newspaper publications and can work with PDFs.
The challenge at first was identifying Henry’s poetry because he published anonymously, as well as under the pseudonym R. We know that because we have a handwritten poetry manuscript book and we’ve found the published versions published both ways. But NEVER under his name. So once you have the general theory, you start searching for those markers. I’ve missed things sometimes because I can’t keep my attention locked closely enough while skimming through years of issues, and sometimes because issues are missing. Which means I have to do the skimming search over and over again.
And just this last year I found at least 5-8 more poems. Some R that I missed. Some that statistically are in Henry’s style. After we finished the Henry/Moore analysis statistically (A New Zealand Emeritus Professor), I started bugging him for a way to figure out if a poem was Henry’s. So we’re still in the middle of trying to build a black box where you put in a poem on one side and the other side pops out probability. Basically, I went through the newspapers AGAIN and built a data set equal in size to Henry’s that was guaranteed to be anonymous or guaranteed to be NOT by Henry or by anyone famous, but someone known. Had to be in the newspapers in which Henry published and over the dates he published.
So you run the anonymous in the place of the Moore body and you cross check yourself with the known body. That is, you don’t want known poems to show up as Henry’s. Mac recently published the first of those tests.
But if you’re willing to do the work for an academic, and you’re interested in something down their avenue, there’s a lot of potential for a lot of retirement fun.
If you’re interested in seeing the original newspaper articles, most of these pieces of prose and poetry include the original piece.
http://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/prose/index.htm
http://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/poetry/index.htm
I was actually able to purchase a 1791 New York Magazine and scanned in all of Henry’s submissions.
http://www.henrylivingston.com/writing/1791-index.htm
And if you enjoy music, I transcribed about a half of Henry’s music manuscript into the program Mozart so that you can hear midi of the music of the period. Avoid psalms. He obviously only recorded the part he sang or played and they make no sense in isolation. But the pieces in the favorites are great fun. I also bought an original score of the light opera from which he took a number of pieces to write in his book, and transcribed maybe 70 percent of it into multipart midi, using a aaahhhh for the voice part.
http://www.henrylivingston.com/music/
http://www.henrylivingston.com/music/duenna.htm
It’s just all a fun way to spend retirement.
geebus you are making me feel very inferior to your awesomeness!!!!!
I really hope you’re joking because that was awful. Every one of us does their own thing to the best of their ability. I’ve had some great opportunities and succeeded and failed. Just like you and just like everyone else has done. Nothing I do is more awesome than the work of any other person here. It’s just the same hard work you do every day. You and everyone else - and me - work our hearts out for the things we love. We put passion into everything because it makes us happy. The people on this FR are awesome because PEOPLE are awesome. Every single person has a passion that would keep us fascinated for hours to just sit and listen to. I used to carry my video camera everywhere and I’d video people telling about their passions and adored it. I saw a man in his backyard working on a HUGE model train and stopped and he let me video him talking about that collection and his work on them. To this day, I don’t know who he was and the train and the tracks are gone. I have no doubt that if I’d driven by YOUR house when you were in the midst of working on one of the things that you do, that no one else does, it would have made a marvelous video, too. Please don’t make fun of people having passion for doing things. Know that we all celebrate each other.
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