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Alex R ([personal profile] alexr_rwx) wrote2004-08-09 04:50 pm
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impulse buy!!

One of these... early birthday present to myself? I'm thinking that it's going on the righthand side of the desk, hooked up to the KVM, where the vt220 is right now. We'll see, though... maybe we could put it out in the living room.

As Mel [livejournal.com profile] delamancha pointed out, it's quite irrational to use this as a part of a bargain with myself to make me sit down and translate San Manuel Bueno, Martír into English, but I consciously realize this, and I'm doing it anyway.
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[identity profile] eponis.livejournal.com 2004-08-09 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
As long as we know that our actions are intentionally irrational, that makes them rational (i.e. thought-out and decided upon), right?

Happy early birthday to you!
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[identity profile] oniugnip.livejournal.com 2004-08-09 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
... perhaps... *grins* So does rationalizing an action make it rational?

That, and I really wanted one, so it's okay. And a happy two-and-two-thirds-months-early birthday to you! :)

[identity profile] falun.livejournal.com 2004-08-09 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
as long as it works, no?
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[identity profile] oniugnip.livejournal.com 2004-08-09 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you (and many other anglohablantes) would appreciate the novella... so yes :) Means are irrelevant, and all values are human values anyway! *facial expression to indicate seriousness and gravity*
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[personal profile] agonistes 2004-08-09 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you should put a picture of Jeff Buckley on the new whatsit-computer-thing.

Inspiration for when you're translating, and all that.

*nods sagely*
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[identity profile] oniugnip.livejournal.com 2004-08-09 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
... do you hear that silence?

... that's the sound of me furiously using google-images to find apropos background pictures, featuring Jeff Buckley!!

Why not a nice Unamuno headshot (http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t287/T287893A.jpg)?
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