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Category: Communication 9 comments 17 Sep 2003 @ 07:01 by jazzolog : But There Also Is Lee The GardenerHe took a patch of harsh mountain land and turned it into a thriving farm. But when Korea was flooded with foreign imports he was ruined---and last week, during the world trade talks, Lee Kyung-hae plunged a knife into his heart. Who was he? {link:http://www.guardian.co.uk/wto/article/0,2763,1042865,00.html} 17 Sep 2003 @ 12:36 by quidnovi : Off Topic Comment Sorry Richard! I am normally a big fan of your posts and of your occasional comments (even unauthorized ones such as this one which keep popping up on my log even though the Comment Option is turned off (I don't mind), but this comment of yours does not address the topic at hand. Furthermore, its content does not inform the reader about the issue you have chosen to bring up, its importance or your point of view (see {link:http://www.solonschools.com/Teachers/languagearts_rubrics/Gr%206%20Persuasive%20Rubric.pdf|Rating Table}---you are a teacher so I know you can relate ;-) Dont get me wrong, here, I understand that the {link:http://www.wto.org|WTO} is a most serious and pressing issue: "How can market forces and technological progress be directed to serve humanity, instead of enslaving humanity to markets and technologies? How will democracies function if their most important laws are subject to an unelected international bureaucracy? Why are the rights of investors granted precedence over the rights of workers and the preservation of the natural environment?" ---{link:http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/1999/11/30/labor/index.html|Joe Canason} Some think the WTO is a great thing ({link:http://aworldconnected.org/article.php/446.html|In Defense of Global Capitalism}) other think the WTO is the wrong world institution run by the wrong people for the wrong reasons ({link:http://www.speakeasy.org/~peterc/wtow|What's wrong with the WTO?}) I am sure you mean well, but dont you think, Richard, that the WTO or {link:http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/82389_comment.php|Lee Kyung-hae} s death are respectively a serious topic and a tragic event that both are deserving maybe of a little better than a snide comment lazily dropped on a post unrelated to that issue? 17 Sep 2003 @ 14:13 by jazzolog : Terribly Sorry I meant no offense...nor did I know your comment thingie was turned off. Honest! I would not intrude. I thought there was sort of a connection...but you are the boss, and please delete my above and this if you wish. We wild mountain monks without Logs sometimes have to look for a place to park our thoughts...and often the Chats whiz by so fast that the impact is lost. Oh well, that's my problem and not yours. I regret horribly leaving footprints where none is desired. Adieu. 17 Sep 2003 @ 16:34 by quidnovi : No harm done, my friend I do (and did) totally understand what it was the "wild mountain monk" was doing (and why), which is why I have never made a big deal about it. 1. The Comment thingie: The comment thingie has been turned off because I am a little bit short on time right now and I do not feel it fair to invite people to post comments when I know that I am not going to be around (or that I just simply won't have the time) to answer. 2. Footprints: You remind me of that absurd commercial about those monks who find a way around their vow of silence by resorting to Smartphone technology as a palliative to their (self-imposed) inability to speak. For goodness sake, Richard, if you want to be silent, be silent, but, hey, if you want to speak just speak. You know how popular JazzoLog was. If you want to talk about Lee Kyung-hae or the WTO, why don't you just re-open your NCN newslog and post an entry about it? 18 Sep 2003 @ 00:00 by jazzolog : What, Me Quiet? No, I never said I wanted to be silent...or to quit this joint. Perhaps you were busy and missed it at one of the other Logs. JazzoLOG got taken down when a 6th grade friend of my daughter's found it through Google, apparently, and posted a couple of delightful comments. I realized then that this child was just a few clicks away from investigating at least one other public Log in which I was described as a sexual pervert. When I expressed this concern to the Power-That-Is, he shrugged the libel stuff off and said it was my own fault for getting myself into the mess. (The guy would make a great judge at a rape trial.) I resigned my "assistant administrator" position here on the spot, and began to relocate jazzoLOG to a site with a little more law 'n order...if not compassion. You can visit it easily, Francis--- {link:http://www.upsaid.com/jazzolog/} and there's a cool new article too, called Snakes In My Ceiling. Who would want to miss that? Anyway, that leaves me back where I started at NCN...wandering through these labyrinthine halls looking for an honest man and/or woman. 18 Sep 2003 @ 10:01 by quidnovi : Rashomon ...after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My drawing number 1. It looked like this: {link:http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/232/000232-000086.jpg|drawing no. 1} I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. They answered me: "Why should any one be frightened by a hat?" My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Then, I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My drawing number 2 looked like this: {link:http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/232/000232-000087.jpg|drawing no. 2} The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my drawing number 1 and my drawing number 2. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. Such knowledge is useful, if one gets lost in the night. I have had, in the course of my life, many encounters with many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them. Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my drawing number 1, which I have always kept. I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say: "That is a hat." Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man. ---Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince 18 Sep 2003 @ 13:14 by jazzolog : Vraiment And similarly I shall not speak of all the snakes in my ceiling. Already 2 people have told me they'll not read any of my essays ever again. Somehow all senses of dread descended upon them...and they walk about fearing a snake will fall around their shoulders at any moment. I did not intend such a catastrophe...and shall be more careful what I write about in the future. Nor will I discuss my experiences with milk snakes. Contrary to the well-known myth that milk snakes suck milk from the udders of cows, the little constrictors are so named because they actually can entwine the teats in such a way to thoroughly and gently milk a cow completely. I once trained an entire fleet of milk snakes for a dairy farmer...and thus now live in financial independence just like the professor-squires at Ohio University, who also do no work. But I shall not speak of it. Nor be tempted to write here anymore. We just can't spare the time. I still have a few milk snakes of my own though, Francis. If you're in the neighborhood, stop by for a glass of fresh-squeezed. 18 Sep 2003 @ 16:26 by quidnovi : JazzoLOG's address is now (as most people already know): {link:http://www.upsaid.com/jazzolog|http://www.upsaid.com/jazzolog} Interestingly, I also found it listed under {link:http://www.espoir.upsaid.com/jazzolog|http://www.espoir.upsaid.com/jazzolog} Espoir is not only a beautiful word meaning hope, but it is also, I feel, one of the most pleasantly sounding word there is. It's sound even better in Italian ("la speranza"---pretty isn't it?) I say high, you say low You say why, and I say I don't know Oh, no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello Why, why, why, why, why, why Do you say good bye Goodbye, bye, bye, bye, bye Oh, no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello Hello Hela, heba helloa Hela, heba helloa And, Richard, I always have time to spare for friends---I just don't always have time to spar with them (not pointlessly so, that is ;-) 19 Sep 2003 @ 00:21 by jazzolog : Hoping For The Best Yes, I certainly agree; however, getting out of a "pointless spar" with a friend I find one of the most difficult tasks of life---and especially so here in NCN. Inevitably the spar one finds pointless turns out to be a matter of life and death with one's friend. --sigh-- The actual benefactress for jazzoLOG is Sindy, with tech help from Imagine---and so we should add another way in is {link:http://sparkle.shorturl.com/} clicking LightNews when you get there. You'll find Sindy's delightful Log there (different from here) and that Kay writes there now too. There are a couple others as well. Sindy does what she REALLY does quietly and carefully---rather different from the side of her she dances in the NCN Chats---and never has wanted any publicity or to attract NCNers away from what goes on here. So I'm a little hesitant to reveal the Sparkle site---but I'm hoping readers of this Log will be respectful if you visit. Sparring of any kind just doesn't happen there---and personally I find it impossible to argue with her about anything. Everytime I've tried I end up laughing. Bushman's a little like that too. :-) Other entries in Communication 16 Mar 2003 @ 21:21: Fallen Jedi 23 Sep 2002 @ 20:31: Being Real 15 Sep 2002 @ 11:05: On the Wings of Hummingbirds 8 Sep 2002 @ 11:55: Dreamers and Doers 28 Jul 2002 @ 19:54: At Play in the (fractal) Fields of NCN 20 Jul 2002 @ 10:17: The Power of Talk
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