Was there a WLDG note purge?

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
So, was there a note purge, then?
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No. There's just a page of white you now have to scroll down before you get to the search returns. Previously, you'd clearly see the returns to the right of the search box.
 
And I should add that with the database at Wine Therapy mostly destroyed, the search engine at the WLDG is the best way to search for wines within Chris's older write-ups, or to search for his older write-ups in general.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
And I should add that with the database at Wine Therapy mostly destroyed, the search engine at the WLDG is the best way to search for wines within Chris's older write-ups, or to search for his older write-ups in general.
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He must still have copies on the Compleat Wine Geek, yes?

Or was there a purge?
 
As I mentioned earlier, there's no search function on his site. You can read his essays, but finding a write-up on a specific wine is arduous.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
And I should add that with the database at Wine Therapy mostly destroyed, the search engine at the WLDG is the best way to search for wines within Chris's older write-ups, or to search for his older write-ups in general.
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How about my older write-ups?
 
originally posted by BJ:
originally posted by Brad Kane:
And I should add that with the database at Wine Therapy mostly destroyed, the search engine at the WLDG is the best way to search for wines within Chris's older write-ups, or to search for his older write-ups in general.
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How about my older write-ups?
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I don't see anything when I plug in your name, Brad.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Of course, to answer it properly, we would have to know what kind of place wine disorder is, what its essence or its purpose is.
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OK, how’s about a multiple choice type poll thingie framework:

a) our essence is the giving and taking of abuse and our purpose the relief of boredom, whenever possible at the expense of our employers (which explains why activity surges during business hours)
b) our essence is the propagation of darkness and our purpose unrelenting obfuscation
d) our essence is self-conscious deployment of language and our purpose juvenile rhetorical grandstanding
e) our essence is the search for post-guru wine pleasure and our purpose the sharing of knowledge in the confusing and mostly futile quest to increase said pleasure
f) our essence is a shared self-selecting sensibility and our purpose the comforting feeling that we are not alone in our deviancy
g) our essence is sibling rivalries and our purpose to relive our childhood environment and its toxic patterns
h) our essence is a safe place to say fuck without offending and our purpose to communicate with enough nuance to dispense with emoticons
i) our essence is Borg and our purpose to assimilate anyone who gives point scores

Hmmm, no matter how we slice & dice, nothing in the above would gainsay the query about the search function on WLDG.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
As I mentioned earlier, there's no search function on his site. You can read his essays, but finding a write-up on a specific wine is arduous.
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You could use the browser search function, clicking through the essays, one by one. Still arduous, though less so than eyeball scanning.
 
Hey, Brad... Google can do this. Just add "site:compleatwinegeek.com" as one of the words in your query. This restricts the output to only coming from that site.
 
originally posted by maureen:
wow, I was in St Joseph, Mo, for three days, away from TV and internet - so glad this was the first wine board thread I opened.
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What a coincidence! Last night I drank a so-so St Joseph and was in such misery that I had to take something for my headache, and the only thing here other than Tequila was a St Joseph aspirin!

But, although we're definitely on the same page here, there's already been too much thread drift so let's get back onto the topic at hand: Alfa parts. I have a friend who at one time had three garages full of Alfa-Romeo parts!!!. He'd sourced parts from collectors, fished them out of junkyards, and even bought out the parts departments of a couple of Alfa dealers when they went under. It was a treasure trove of OEM parts for just about every Alfa that had ever been imported into the USA, plus a bunch of other things. The irony (at least I thought it ironic) is that he didn't even own an Alfa-Romeo, instead preferring to drive an ancient Landrover (now that's a vehicle that could use a couple of garages-worth of spare parts!)(BTW, is punctuation supposed to go inside or outside of the parenthesis when it's the end of the sentence?)(just wondering)! He just liked the look and feel of the Alfa designs and once he got started amassing them, the collection just took on a life of its own.

He was more focused on his wine though. He had a couple of caves dug into the hillside in back of the house and they were temperature-controlled and he had some fabulous wines there. Enough Burgundy to get by, but he was buying a lot of wine from the Rhône, Piedmonte, Germany, Austria, the Loire, and Spain long before it was trendy to diversify one's cellar beyond Bordeaux and California Cabernet Sauvignon.

But then, right around his 50th birthday he met a sweet young thing and they got married. In short order they had a couple of children, he sold his aluminum siding business and began managing Israeli folksinger troupes and sold his compound with the three garages and two wine cellars and moved to Orange County. He kept most of the wine but sold the Alfa-Romeo parts to some other loser with no life and nowadays drinks his 1982 Giacosa Riservas when he brings In 'n' Out burgers home for the family. His wife has learned not to ask how much a particular bottle of wine might cost and he's learned that life is not just about having more wine than the next guy (nor having more car parts than the next state). He seems to be living happily ever after, and I doubt that he's particularly concerned one way or the other who asks what about which search engine where, why, or how.

I think I'd have to say that I'm probably right there with him, but I'm not really a search-engine person anyway. I don't think I've searched for anything on Wine Disorder or Wine therapy more than once or twice a year. Still, like following the Mets or the Yankees, I accept that it's important to some people so I don't let it disturb me. Very little disturbs me anymore because it all disturbs me and that sets a new base for my ILD (Irritant-Level-Demarkation) meter. I think everyone should just reset their own ILD meters when they read Wine Disorder because then, the stuff that really tweaks you off just doesn't seem like that big of a deal. It works for me.

-Eden (my ILD level is set so high today that I'm in a perfect mood to attend the Farm Wine Imports' Joe Dressner love fest today in Bakersfield)
 
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Of course, to answer it properly, we would have to know what kind of place wine disorder is, what its essence or its purpose is.
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OK, how’s about a multiple choice type poll thingie framework:

a) our essence is the giving and taking of abuse and our purpose the relief of boredom, whenever possible at the expense of our employers (which explains why activity surges during business hours)
b) our essence is the propagation of darkness and our purpose unrelenting obfuscation
d) our essence is self-conscious deployment of language and our purpose juvenile rhetorical grandstanding
e) our essence is the search for post-guru wine pleasure and our purpose the sharing of knowledge in the confusing and mostly futile quest to increase said pleasure
f) our essence is a shared self-selecting sensibility and our purpose the comforting feeling that we are not alone in our deviancy
g) our essence is sibling rivalries and our purpose to relive our childhood environment and its toxic patterns
h) our essence is a safe place to say fuck without offending and our purpose to communicate with enough nuance to dispense with emoticons
i) our essence is Borg and our purpose to assimilate anyone who gives point scores

Hmmm, no matter how we slice & dice, nothing in the above would gainsay the query about the search function on WLDG.
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With the exception of e and possibly f, asking about WLDG on this board would accord with the essence specified and fulfill and element of the purpose--as long as one didn't expect a useful answer. Since this thread does not seem to indicate either e or f as likely descriptions of essence and purpose, I would say then that this is A right place to ask, as long as one didn't expect a useful answer. And I would further say this thread is rough empirical support of that claim.
 
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