I play poker (and lose).
December 24, 2007 5:53 PM Subscribe
Q: How much time, if any, do you spend on the web? Is it a distraction or a blessing?
Jenny Diski: Acres of time, wasted, wasted. I play poker (and lose), I play ludo and mah jong. I check out MetaFilter.
From The Best and Worst Literary quotes of 2007
Jenny Diski: Acres of time, wasted, wasted. I play poker (and lose), I play ludo and mah jong. I check out MetaFilter.
From The Best and Worst Literary quotes of 2007
This post was deleted for the following reason: if your one tag is metafilter and your point is metafilter then this maybe needs to go on metatalk. Calling out an ex-user in this fashion detracts from what might otherwise be a decent post. -- jessamyn
it's actually got pitchforks and torches - all we need now is myron florin
posted by pyramid termite at 6:05 PM on December 24, 2007
posted by pyramid termite at 6:05 PM on December 24, 2007
So mathowie is... Satan??
posted by languagehat at 6:05 PM on December 24, 2007
posted by languagehat at 6:05 PM on December 24, 2007
I sometimes think I might go back to typewriting. But you can’t get the ribbons.
So now we're like 5 people who like Office 2007's ribbons! :P
posted by Foci for Analysis at 6:07 PM on December 24, 2007
So now we're like 5 people who like Office 2007's ribbons! :P
posted by Foci for Analysis at 6:07 PM on December 24, 2007
You've done Ms Diski a disservice by cutting the quality last line from her quote, "I sometimes think I might go back to typewriting. But you can’t get the ribbons.”
Hugh Massingberd's bit of pedantry is magnificent. Isn't he the one Private Eye used to do as "Massivesnob"? Lives up to his billing splendidly if so; particularly the crack about the Duke of Beaufort's memoirs.
posted by Abiezer at 6:08 PM on December 24, 2007
Hugh Massingberd's bit of pedantry is magnificent. Isn't he the one Private Eye used to do as "Massivesnob"? Lives up to his billing splendidly if so; particularly the crack about the Duke of Beaufort's memoirs.
posted by Abiezer at 6:08 PM on December 24, 2007
Oh, Jenny, you gave up on us so fast!
Couldn't take the heat...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:09 PM on December 24, 2007
Couldn't take the heat...
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:09 PM on December 24, 2007
This belongs in metatalk, i think.
Why? Are all the other authors quoted on that list ex-MeFiers?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:10 PM on December 24, 2007
Why? Are all the other authors quoted on that list ex-MeFiers?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:10 PM on December 24, 2007
Is there an award for Most Stupidly Unnecessary Use of Page Breaks To Boost Hits on a Mainstream Media Site? Because this article would win for 2007, totally.
posted by mediareport at 6:11 PM on December 24, 2007
posted by mediareport at 6:11 PM on December 24, 2007
Well, except for the poker, ludo and mah jong, that about sums up my web experience too.
posted by telstar at 6:17 PM on December 24, 2007
posted by telstar at 6:17 PM on December 24, 2007
You've done Ms Diski a disservice by cutting the quality last line from her quote.
Seriously guys. Maybe it's just me... but this seems really assy. If you want to post this article on its own merits for people to read, that's one thing. But instead this seems like going out of your way to immaturely make fun of someone who isn't in the room. Which makes me think maybe she was smart to leave.
posted by miss lynnster at 6:25 PM on December 24, 2007
Seriously guys. Maybe it's just me... but this seems really assy. If you want to post this article on its own merits for people to read, that's one thing. But instead this seems like going out of your way to immaturely make fun of someone who isn't in the room. Which makes me think maybe she was smart to leave.
posted by miss lynnster at 6:25 PM on December 24, 2007
I'd love to listen to a conversation between Jeanette Winterson and Ruth Rendell. Also, I liked
jennydiski, she did the site good.
posted by Kattullus at 6:26 PM on December 24, 2007
jennydiski, she did the site good.
posted by Kattullus at 6:26 PM on December 24, 2007
God, we're like dogs who perk up every time we hear a familiar name.
posted by klangklangston at 6:34 PM on December 24, 2007
posted by klangklangston at 6:34 PM on December 24, 2007
woof woof.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:37 PM on December 24, 2007
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:37 PM on December 24, 2007
I liked the Annie Dillard quote. It's possible I like every Annie Dillard quote, though.
posted by phooky at 6:39 PM on December 24, 2007
posted by phooky at 6:39 PM on December 24, 2007
I miss jennydiski.
Also, the bad sex one made me ponder the unmentionable:
“So Klara turned head to foot, and put her most unmentionable part down on his hard-breathing nose and mouth, and took his old battering ram into her lips. Uncle was now as soft as a coil of excrement. She sucked on him nonetheless with an avidity that could only come from the Evil One — that she knew. From there, the impulse had come. So now they both had their heads at the wrong end, and the Evil One was there. He had never been so close before.
The Hound began to come to life. Right in her mouth. It surprised her. Alois had been so limp. But now he was a man again! His mouth lathered with her sap, he turned around and embraced her face with all the passion of his own lips and face, ready at last to grind into her with the Hound, drive it into her piety.”
posted by Rumple at 7:02 PM on December 24, 2007
Also, the bad sex one made me ponder the unmentionable:
“So Klara turned head to foot, and put her most unmentionable part down on his hard-breathing nose and mouth, and took his old battering ram into her lips. Uncle was now as soft as a coil of excrement. She sucked on him nonetheless with an avidity that could only come from the Evil One — that she knew. From there, the impulse had come. So now they both had their heads at the wrong end, and the Evil One was there. He had never been so close before.
The Hound began to come to life. Right in her mouth. It surprised her. Alois had been so limp. But now he was a man again! His mouth lathered with her sap, he turned around and embraced her face with all the passion of his own lips and face, ready at last to grind into her with the Hound, drive it into her piety.”
posted by Rumple at 7:02 PM on December 24, 2007
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I actually approve of that as an official motto.
posted by spiderwire at 6:02 PM on December 24, 2007