Re: Glad you didn’t buy into Dogecoin

[Mark Kohut]

Michael,

An engaging post, endearing even. (Have the meanings of these words
changed, which info you gave
was fascinating).

I too used to bristle at the "cheap' use of the word tragedy, very hooked
on Aristotle's definition, so it
may be a minor 'tragedy' that I accept the societal change. 🤗

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 5:33 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think it was at 8 or 7 cents, now it’s under 6.
> Elon Musk has been talking it up as a “people’s bitcoin” but the ride from
> .0008 to .08 seems to have stalled, at least for now - people are thinking
> in terms of a dollar eventually, but I sold 2/3 of mine at  7 & made about
> a hundred dollars. Kept 1,000 for the long haul just in case.
>
> I wanted to cash out of that & some stocks to get a cork floor in the guest
> room so I could sleep there again - I must’ve brought home bedbugs from a
> hike (I leave my shoes in the garage now) and they can lie dormant for
> years, so the only way I can be sure to reclaim the space is to get rid of
> the carpet.
>
> Meanwhile I’ve been sleeping on the very comfortable sofa in my dad’s old
> home office. So no wonder I get up in the middle of the night and post to
> the p list...it’s comfortable but it’s still only a couch.
>
> Have always wanted a cork floor. Had we stayed in the house in Kansas, a
> cork floor, a tankless water heater, and subfloor heating would have been
> projects.
>
> P List is functioning again, so that’s nice.
>
> I wonder whatever happened to jbor? People used to give him a tough time.
>
>  I got jbor confused with Jody (who seems to have returned) back in 2005,
> and that English dude, John something, noticed the discrepancies & set me
> straight off list.
>
> His wife is Serbian, I think, or Croatian, and he really hated Milosevich!
>
> Offered to punch me one time, over some ignorant comment I made about the
> former Yugoslavia.
>
> I think how maybe I was in doubt as to the supreme righteousness of the US
> bombing there?
>
> It’s like the time I posted that Trayvon Martin’s death wasn’t a tragedy
> per se, at least not by the Joycean and Aristotelian definition.
>
> David Morris, while he didn’t offer to punch me, gave me a scolding. But
> Trayvon Martin wouldn’t be the protagonist of the tragedy. Zimmerman would,
> as he displayed the hubris.
>
> But the more general meaning of tragedy as something bad that happens is
> numerically superior, I guess. There are better words for it - I still
> think tragedy doesn’t really apply.
>
> Paul Blart mall cop blundering, for the deed itself. Miscarriage of justice
> for the aftermath.
>
> There are probably even better words, but I didn’t contest Morris very
> strongly. It’d be like King Canute trying to stop linguistic drift!
>
> Other p-list memory was sharing with Paul Mackin my wonderment at how
> “peruse” has come to mean to briefly glance at when it originally meant to
> read carefully. Paul pointed out that “scan” has undergone a similar change
> in meaning.
>
> Hope you are staying warm!
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