Re: Glad you didn’t buy into Dogecoin

[Jochen Stremmel]

Those words were – more than others – invested by the passing of time,
maybe even by its siegecraft.

But they were not beleaguered by it.

Am Fr., 19. Feb. 2021 um 12:02 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>:

> 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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