Hey, sorry Unter, but I seemed to have taken off without notice last night. Went to take what I thought would be a quick phonecall, but came back much later to find my net quota for that day was up. Indeed, it irks me that my thinking for the net is now dominated by this fear of going over - under censorship and a despotic regime, no less.

Well, in general, I might not see you guys and gal(s) much in the next couple of weeks; got final exams coming up for the year and a host of assignments regarding my recent tryst in Geriatrics to write up. Wish me luck!

Good luck Dante, hope to see you around again soon...

Good luck Dante. Hope to hear from you soon. Remember this if you need some comical relief just jump on vent when you see us around. You got my addy anyway so drop me a line on how things are going and I will drop you one the follow up on the wacky world of Middie. LOL

Midknight

thanks, i'm checking the forums before i leave home but missing out on vent because i'm at work during those times. oh well...keep you posted.

'-_-'

Well, my last exams are within the next 24 hours, after which is another academic/quasi-professional year gone...hmmm, role-plays are the rage this time...I can always get a job in acting I guess, given the recent indemnity crisis in practice...

I bought a slight increase to my bandwidth quota for the next few weeks, which hopefully translates to more durability on vent and in-game...with cash from being a clinical trial test-subject NO LESS!!

In any case, I'm eager to see/play-test any maps or code people are doing...page me here, vent or MSN, I'll be around for some "gg's" from tomorrow.

FFA, 1v1, you name it, I'll bone it!!
[edit] hey, that might be another sig too...hmm..

An Epicurean few weeks before you ship off into the far-east?

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Originally posted by Unter den Uebrigen:
An Epicurean few weeks

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O not at all, it'll be a time for reflection of the past and contemplation of the future...

NOT.
It'll be a wild orgiastic time, worthy of Bacchus himself.

Originally posted by Dante:
a time for reflection [...] NOT.

It might interest you to find out about “Epicurean contemplation”:

“Interpreting ἐνέργεια as ‘heightened consciousness’, hedonists understood the highest good (Aristotle's θεωρία) as the pursuit of pleasure.”

A marriage of cock and cranium, if ever one.

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Originally posted by Unter den Uebrigen:
hedonists understood the highest good..as the pursuit of pleasure...

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At first I found it difficult to consider; but in the idyllic life of a small town such as Perth, I'm becoming attuned to 'meditative pleasure', or as it were, 'unblemished revelry'.

Thanks for pointing the way.

Indeed; and especially contraposed to metropolitan dissipation.  Before coming to the Schwarzwald I, too, was a lubricious flâneur:

“If the Net surfer, who keeps posting to mailing lists and newsgroups and accumulating endless data, is a reincarnation of Baudelaire's flâneur, the user navigating a virtual space assumes the position of the nineteenth century explorer, a character from Cooper and Twain. This is particularly true for the navigable spaces of computer games.”

The Rune/LC matrix as a space of co-contemplative hedonia?