Comments on: Prolepsis and Fireworks http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/01/16/prolepsis-and-fireworks/ Just. One. Column. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:04:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Thor Peskowitz http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/01/16/prolepsis-and-fireworks/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Thor Peskowitz Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:57:42 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=61#comment-177 So HOW BOUT those Lakers? So HOW BOUT those Lakers?

]]> By: Commander Plaza http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/01/16/prolepsis-and-fireworks/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Commander Plaza Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:50:29 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=61#comment-175 Los Reyes v. The Awful Lakers tonight I hate them Pimpgnosis Los Reyes v. The Awful Lakers tonight
I hate them
Pimpgnosis

]]> By: leuschke.org links http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/01/16/prolepsis-and-fireworks/comment-page-1/#comment-174 leuschke.org links Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:13:44 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=61#comment-174 <strong>if you want to dine with the devil, you need a long spoon</strong> googlebomb in the making if you want to dine with the devil, you need a long spoon
googlebomb in the making

]]> By: G http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/01/16/prolepsis-and-fireworks/comment-page-1/#comment-173 G Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:34:21 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=61#comment-173 And the rest of us got to hear *Rex* say "If you want to dine with the devil, you'll need a long spoon," waaaay more than five times. Way more. (To be fair, I was doing it too. And I'm doing it again right now.) Like everything else I read (or eat, or step on) these days, I read this through the filter of the (academic) job search. It's all about prolepsis: are you the person they're going to want to work with *forever*? If I post this idle bit of claptrap on my blog and the search committee reads it, will I be summarily canned? And so on. Great. Now you made my head explode too. And I needed it. And the rest of us got to hear *Rex* say “If you want to dine with the devil, you’ll need a long spoon,” waaaay more than five times. Way more. (To be fair, I was doing it too. And I’m doing it again right now.)

Like everything else I read (or eat, or step on) these days, I read this through the filter of the (academic) job search. It’s all about prolepsis: are you the person they’re going to want to work with *forever*? If I post this idle bit of claptrap on my blog and the search committee reads it, will I be summarily canned? And so on.

Great. Now you made my head explode too. And I needed it.

]]> By: Rex http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/01/16/prolepsis-and-fireworks/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Rex Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:23:25 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=61#comment-172 Yes - with Jack Palance and Angelina Jolie and NOT Claude van Damme. It was about as good as you'd expect. I did get to hear Jack Palance say "if you want to dine with the devil, you need a long spoon" like 5 times, which was at least a little redeeming. Yes – with Jack Palance and Angelina Jolie and NOT Claude van Damme. It was about as good as you’d expect. I did get to hear Jack Palance say “if you want to dine with the devil, you need a long spoon” like 5 times, which was at least a little redeeming.

]]> By: Naz http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/01/16/prolepsis-and-fireworks/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Naz Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:50:40 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=61#comment-171 Ah. Cyborg II? They made a sequel to that? Ah. Cyborg II? They made a sequel to that?

]]> By: Rex http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/01/16/prolepsis-and-fireworks/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Rex Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:24:47 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=61#comment-170 Sorry - he didn't pick it up. We ran to hide. The police drove away, we went home and watched Cyborg II. Sorry – he didn’t pick it up. We ran to hide. The police drove away, we went home and watched Cyborg II.

]]> By: Naz http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/01/16/prolepsis-and-fireworks/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Naz Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:43:06 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=61#comment-169 What happened though? The story was not finished. What happened though? The story was not finished.

]]> By: Thor Peskowitz http://alex.golub.name/log/2004/01/16/prolepsis-and-fireworks/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Thor Peskowitz Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:21:23 +0000 http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=61#comment-168 So you want to develop a game theory of cultural logic, as an alternative to the game theory of rational choice that economics and international relations have staked out. Good idea. So you want to develop a game theory of cultural logic, as an alternative to the game theory of rational choice that economics and international relations have staked out. Good idea.

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