James Barbetti

Sparkling Developer of Questionable Vintage
and sometime Mistranslator of Ariosto

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@Aliteraryshadow There's still plenty of room left for further unimprovement.

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

No, I've never fallen asleep, at work, in the office, apart from that. I'm not narcoleptic... as such. But I can get to sleep very, very easily (2min, whenever I want to) and go straight to REM sleep. It's like I wuz granted the upside of narcolepsy without any of the downside.

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

Nui quote from bed-time last night:

"I feel sleepy now. Play some Bruckner for me!"

This is a new development, but it sort of reminds me of "Let's watch an episode of Rings of Power..." (she ALWAYS fell asleep, usually in the first slow-motion scene, & used it as a soporific).

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

Well, that, and a former team lead. But Xavier had a very deep voice, and a strong French accent, and kept saying the exact same things over and over again (word for word), which was cheating, rather. Even standing up, and pinching myself to stay awake, I'd still doze off.

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@PPapakonNucl I like finding an automatic door's sweet spot, so I can walk up to it, and stand there, looking bemused, and then impatient, and finally theatrically snapping my fingers at it (right in the sweet spot, so it'll open at once). But a lot of modern doors work too well for this game.

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@nise_yoshimi Or, so I expect. I don't really have THAT much idea what will happen next.

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@nise_yoshimi Over the weekend, I wrote the first canto of a poem about such a one. And while, at the end of that first canto, it might have seemed she'd been permanently incapacitated, with a Percussion Sidewall Coring Gun, it was only canto 1. In canto 2 she'll make a miraculous recovery.

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@John_Attridge Em-dash futures: already up an eighth.

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@nomadpossum @JasperBeech There's a Socratic dialogue to back that up, if we can trust Aristophanes. (I think we should!)

Socrates: Consider this: if from so small a belly as yours, a clarion can sound, isn't it likely, that the air that issued, from an infinite being would resound, like rolling thunder?

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@JasperBeech @nomadpossum I think that (absent genetic testing), we should give Jocatsta and Oedipuss the benefit of the doubt. Didn't their kittens turn out well? (Those rumours of intense sibling rivalry were, I am almost certain, grotesque exaggeration. Perhaps they were a little fractious...)

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@JasperBeech @nomadpossum Any "evidence" of incest was at best circumstantial and at worst, tendentious. The Oracle at Delphi was notorious (indeed, a by-word) for "Delphic Utterance" (which is a polite way of saying: wont to make predictions with multiple interpretations). What Orwell called doublespeak.

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@alexpotato Grandpa Eric couldn't read books. He was very long-sighted, and didn't get corrective glasses until he was in his 50s). He just listened (to radio, to friends, to family, asked for summaries of what books & newspaper articles said)... and remembered absolutely everything.

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@timgill924 Note: In practice, for an actual grocery, the single biggest problem (which I left off the list, coz school canteens don't have it) (because: car-boot sales!) is usually: servicing debt. Especially if you're already in a "servicing the debt on your past losses" death-spiral.

[James Barbetti @BarbettiJames]

@timgill924 (That, and its sort of fun raising funds with thinly veiled threats, like "If you don't buy this overpriced crap at the car-boot sale or your children might have to go hungry", and who would want to give up on that?)