Kill the "what did you drink tonight" and "save the 'what did you drink tonight'" threads.

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

but, i enjoyed your loire valley pics and the art gallery pics. truly.

Yea, verily.

So, why all the hate on fotos?

Perhaps a case could be made for standalone photo-essays on a variety of subjects (was it Slaton who used to post delightfully wry photo-essays on the flyover everyday? I miss those), it's the TN threads that can get weighed down by pictures of wine labels, unreliable pictures of wine colors, and pictures of jeeb participants in different states of bleary-eyed dissipation. Perhaps exceptions could be made for those of people giving the finger, those that register an Aloha pattern, and those of young ladies kissing to scandalize the assembled. Just as we avoid smileys because folks are held to a higher grammatical standard, and should deploy irony and humor in a manner that is clear enough without crutches, documentary pictures are, to me, to be avoided for a similar reason. Would they help a Coad chronicle? Maybe there is a reason why illustrated books are mostly for children.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Dithyrambus

Sounds like a heart condition.

There's a jeu de mots in there somewhere, just haven't had the time to find it.

In other news, a lurker writes to chastise me for drinking Loire in the south of France, subscribing to a more circumscribed notion of locavority, disregarding my preference for the acidity of more northerly climes. Thus bullied, at last night’s dinner at the restaurant outpost of noted Niçoise natural wine bar La Part des Anges, we started with a young NV Anglore grenache blanc VdF and of course regretted it (not enough acidity). Though the caramel almond and mild oxidation made a curiously Nutty Bavarian match for the truffle-infused eggs, foie gras and overly-hard-to-chew jambon crudités. Luckily the carbonic 2007 Jean-Michel Stéphan Côte Rotie Bassenon that followed, weighing in at a remarkably full-mouthed 12%, reinstated the preferred order of things, while remaining somewhat of the south. The deliciously decadent Burg aromas made a case for northern syrah/pinot noir kinship, combatting the knee-jerk impulse to reject this ethereal elixir for insufficient varietal character.

 

[Brad Kane]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

but, i enjoyed your loire valley pics and the art gallery pics. truly.

Yea, verily.

So, why all the hate on fotos?

Perhaps a case could be made for standalone photo-essays on a variety of subjects (was it Slaton who used to post delightfully wry photo-essays on the flyover everyday? I miss those), it's the TN threads that can get weighed down by pictures of wine labels, unreliable pictures of wine colors, and pictures of jeeb participants in different states of bleary-eyed dissipation. Perhaps exceptions could be made for those of people giving the finger, those that register an Aloha pattern, and those of young ladies kissing to scandalize the assembled. Just as we avoid smileys because folks are held to a higher grammatical standard, and should deploy irony and humor in a manner that is clear enough without crutches, documentary pictures are, to me, to be avoided for a similar reason. Would they help a Coad chronicle? Maybe there is a reason why illustrated books are mostly for children.

Sorry, Oswaldo. I've been posting pics in my posts since before you started participating here. Most people tend to enjoy them, at least that's the feedback I get. You're one of maybe six vocal people that don't seem to like pics in posts despite the fact that you also include them in some of your posts, which is a little pot and kettle, no?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

 

[scottreiner]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
In other news, a lurker writes to chastise me for drinking Loire in the south of France

Winegrrrl a lurker?

 

[Sharon Bowman]

Shhhhh!

 

[Marc D]

Can I post about the 2005 Bourgogne here or is there another thread for that?

Anyway it was a tale of two bottles, the first glass resembled a fine drinkable Monday night burgundy, by the second glass it qualified as fatsink cleaner material.

Why does this happen, a young bottle shows some nice aroma and pleasing minerals etc and then with a little air shuts down into a dark fruited, licorice, tannin dominated sip?

The curse of 2005?

The wine was G Barthod Bons Baton Bourgogne.

 

[Yule Kim]

Can we please kill the "kill the 'what did you drink last night' thread" thread please? This is all getting too meta for me.

 

[Peter Creasey]

Considering the thread hijacking here with Brad's topic, some disambiguation might be nice.

. . . . Pete

 

[Brad Kane]

originally posted by Yule Kim:
Can we please kill the "kill the 'what did you drink last night' thread" thread please? This is all getting too meta for me.

Amen.

 

[Bill Lundstrom]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

but, i enjoyed your loire valley pics and the art gallery pics. truly.

Yea, verily.

So, why all the hate on fotos?

Perhaps a case could be made for standalone photo-essays on a variety of subjects (was it Slaton who used to post delightfully wry photo-essays on the flyover everyday? I miss those), it's the TN threads that can get weighed down by pictures of wine labels, unreliable pictures of wine colors, and pictures of jeeb participants in different states of bleary-eyed dissipation. Perhaps exceptions could be made for those of people giving the finger, those that register an Aloha pattern, and those of young ladies kissing to scandalize the assembled. Just as we avoid smileys because folks are held to a higher grammatical standard, and should deploy irony and humor in a manner that is clear enough without crutches, documentary pictures are, to me, to be avoided for a similar reason. Would they help a Coad chronicle? Maybe there is a reason why illustrated books are mostly for children.

I think you mean Putnam Weekly's threads. Full of photos and great.

 

[Jonathan Loesberg]

Are threads ever killed? They can only fade away with disuse.

 

[Brad Kane]

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Are threads ever killed? They can only fade away with disuse.

Well, no, they can be killed, say if and when the original poster has had enough and decides to delete it.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

but, i enjoyed your loire valley pics and the art gallery pics. truly.

Yea, verily.

So, why all the hate on fotos?

Perhaps a case could be made for standalone photo-essays on a variety of subjects (was it Slaton who used to post delightfully wry photo-essays on the flyover everyday? I miss those), it's the TN threads that can get weighed down by pictures of wine labels, unreliable pictures of wine colors, and pictures of jeeb participants in different states of bleary-eyed dissipation. Perhaps exceptions could be made for those of people giving the finger, those that register an Aloha pattern, and those of young ladies kissing to scandalize the assembled. Just as we avoid smileys because folks are held to a higher grammatical standard, and should deploy irony and humor in a manner that is clear enough without crutches, documentary pictures are, to me, to be avoided for a similar reason. Would they help a Coad chronicle? Maybe there is a reason why illustrated books are mostly for children.

I think you mean Putnam Weekly's threads. Full of photos and great.

Yes, thank you. In some cases having photos goes dandily with the spirit of this place.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by Brad Kane:

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Are threads ever killed? They can only fade away with disuse.

Well, no, they can be killed, say if and when the original poster has had enough and decides to delete it.

The original poster has that power, but he does not own all the contents of the thread he started. To delete it means to delete what everyone else has written.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by MLipton:
On other fronts, I'm shocked that no one has stood up for the altogether creditable search function of this bored. I routinely use it to search for specific wines or wineries and have never found a problem with it apart from a lack of focusing ability (but, hey, that's why I can read, right?)

Pish. It's good for finding my own posts but nearly useless for finding anything else because it takes separate terms as OR instead of AND.

 

[Yixin]

You mean you guys don't PDF and index every single thread?

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Yixin:
You mean you guys don't PDF and index every single thread?

In honor of traditional methods we have a (basement) room full of scribes incising the threads onto wax tablets. We managed to get most of Hammurabi's staff -- about which we're quite pleased -- but they are not as productive as they once were.

Also, Callahan's OCR device is surprisingly balky with cuneiform.