email search -- from:me dumbass
This post started out about me never deleting emails. What it ended up as... you'll see below.
Search Results: 1-46 of 46 [oldest is from 2009]
Let's look at that oldest email from me using the word "dumbass":
Hey Andrew -- attached a text file of riffs for Live and Learn. Some of the riffs would overlap each other, and some are repeated at different points, just FYI. I figure give y'all lots of choice.
I might be able to get another to you tomorrow morning.
btw, I do subject my kids to some of those 50s educational films, but usually ones about obedience, manners, good behavior. We have got on their cases about going to the hospital for doing stupid stuff, but this film is a bit over-the-top.
- mpc
aka meepbobeep
aka meep
Hmmm, not in the text... must be the attachment...
00 12 00 14 That's quite the dumbass epidemic
next one:
that whole doc pisses me off.
yes, the trustees do not have expertise to make actuarial decision, but seriously, the actuaries are not picking the 8% valuation rate. And the "oh noes! the rate would change each period!" whine is dumbass as =life=insurance=companies= have to deal with this as well.
As interest rates changes, values of assets change - makes sense values of liabilities change, too.
This really is no Wikileaks.
Ooooh, here! Behind the scenes!
I thought you might find this interesting.
I believe this is connected to that dumbass press release from earlier this week.
[obv, this is behind-the-scenes.... for now.]
FWIW, that was about a press release on Social Security from an actuarial organization in 2010. I think. Hell if I know. There's been so much dumbass things going on between actuarial orgs... (it's getting better, though)
and there's this:
this is sad. i hope the reason for this column is senility. i'm not kidding.
but given the collective kitten the europeans had over not being able
to use sex as an underwriting variable....though, i wanted to throttle
them after what i learned about the life market there. I wanted to say
"dudes, most of your life products do not distinguish between smokers
and non-smokers and you have 20% margins built in... SHUT UP YOU
PUSSIES"
anyway.
That's what actuarial controversy sounds like.
and more:
At least with the dumbass community service proposal, [redacted] didn't have any history of people shouting NO! to deter him.
I guess he's assuming that most SOA members don't know any CAS members (which isn't a bad assumption), so that his current effort doesn't look totally stupid to an outside audience.
If he truly doesn't know that this has been proposed before, and that CAS members haven't been that enthused with the prior iterations.... well, jeez.
Anyway, it was fun calling him out on this on Monday at the ASNY meeting.
and an excerpt:
I think you need to avoid the "AT LEAST I'M NOT A DUMBASS" line
no matter how true it is.
See, I can be diplomatic.
And to close:
It seems like it, because I see this particularly stupid parrotting coming out.
At least I have an idea where the dumbass 80% comes from.
This "everybody retires tomorrow" bullshit... ugh
Yes, that's me discussing public pension policy.
FWIW, searching on "from:me stupid" gives 105 results
jackass: 12
idiot: 94
bastard: 15
asinine: 1
knave: 1
on that last....
subject: Have at thee, thou scurvy knave!
I'm sure several several people will respond to thine anti-feminism (or whatever they will call it) in the most recent BOTW, but being a grammar zombie, and one who has seen the light re: pronouns and their history, I say thou hast discovered the wrong solution to Christie's poorly-worded appeal.
It's not that Christie should have changed "an American citizen and her doctor" to "an American citizen and his doctor." Sorry, dude, "his" has never been a neuter pronoun, for all the prescriptivists have tried. The natural construction in our current language is: "an American citizen and their doctor."
Yes, my dear sir, thou art in the presence of a singular-theyist.
Which is hardly an affront, as most people are singular you-ists. "You" used to be only plural in its use. Hie thee hence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
Someone else (and many someone elses) have gotten to this issue before me, and have this to say:
http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/singular-they-and-the-many-reasons-why-its-correct/
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austheir.html
My own amusement is that as authors have had to self-edit more and more in this internet age, and the amount of written comment is based off of people's own natural speech patterns as opposed to be shoehorned into what is supposedly logical (though breaks the logic of language), I believe the singular theyists will finally get to win. Huzzah!
My next project is the standardization of "y'all". I started that one by reverse invasion of Yankeeland.
Wish me luck.
And I will leave it there. I have fun reading my own emails from years ago.
Search Results: 1-46 of 46 [oldest is from 2009]
Let's look at that oldest email from me using the word "dumbass":
Hey Andrew -- attached a text file of riffs for Live and Learn. Some of the riffs would overlap each other, and some are repeated at different points, just FYI. I figure give y'all lots of choice.
I might be able to get another to you tomorrow morning.
btw, I do subject my kids to some of those 50s educational films, but usually ones about obedience, manners, good behavior. We have got on their cases about going to the hospital for doing stupid stuff, but this film is a bit over-the-top.
- mpc
aka meepbobeep
aka meep
Hmmm, not in the text... must be the attachment...
00 12 00 14 That's quite the dumbass epidemic
next one:
that whole doc pisses me off.
yes, the trustees do not have expertise to make actuarial decision, but seriously, the actuaries are not picking the 8% valuation rate. And the "oh noes! the rate would change each period!" whine is dumbass as =life=insurance=companies= have to deal with this as well.
As interest rates changes, values of assets change - makes sense values of liabilities change, too.
This really is no Wikileaks.
Ooooh, here! Behind the scenes!
I thought you might find this interesting.
I believe this is connected to that dumbass press release from earlier this week.
[obv, this is behind-the-scenes.... for now.]
FWIW, that was about a press release on Social Security from an actuarial organization in 2010. I think. Hell if I know. There's been so much dumbass things going on between actuarial orgs... (it's getting better, though)
and there's this:
this is sad. i hope the reason for this column is senility. i'm not kidding.
but given the collective kitten the europeans had over not being able
to use sex as an underwriting variable....though, i wanted to throttle
them after what i learned about the life market there. I wanted to say
"dudes, most of your life products do not distinguish between smokers
and non-smokers and you have 20% margins built in... SHUT UP YOU
PUSSIES"
anyway.
That's what actuarial controversy sounds like.
and more:
At least with the dumbass community service proposal, [redacted] didn't have any history of people shouting NO! to deter him.
I guess he's assuming that most SOA members don't know any CAS members (which isn't a bad assumption), so that his current effort doesn't look totally stupid to an outside audience.
If he truly doesn't know that this has been proposed before, and that CAS members haven't been that enthused with the prior iterations.... well, jeez.
Anyway, it was fun calling him out on this on Monday at the ASNY meeting.
and an excerpt:
I think you need to avoid the "AT LEAST I'M NOT A DUMBASS" line
no matter how true it is.
See, I can be diplomatic.
And to close:
It seems like it, because I see this particularly stupid parrotting coming out.
At least I have an idea where the dumbass 80% comes from.
This "everybody retires tomorrow" bullshit... ugh
Yes, that's me discussing public pension policy.
FWIW, searching on "from:me stupid" gives 105 results
jackass: 12
idiot: 94
bastard: 15
asinine: 1
knave: 1
on that last....
subject: Have at thee, thou scurvy knave!
I'm sure several several people will respond to thine anti-feminism (or whatever they will call it) in the most recent BOTW, but being a grammar zombie, and one who has seen the light re: pronouns and their history, I say thou hast discovered the wrong solution to Christie's poorly-worded appeal.
It's not that Christie should have changed "an American citizen and her doctor" to "an American citizen and his doctor." Sorry, dude, "his" has never been a neuter pronoun, for all the prescriptivists have tried. The natural construction in our current language is: "an American citizen and their doctor."
Yes, my dear sir, thou art in the presence of a singular-theyist.
Which is hardly an affront, as most people are singular you-ists. "You" used to be only plural in its use. Hie thee hence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou
Someone else (and many someone elses) have gotten to this issue before me, and have this to say:
http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/singular-they-and-the-many-reasons-why-its-correct/
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austheir.html
My own amusement is that as authors have had to self-edit more and more in this internet age, and the amount of written comment is based off of people's own natural speech patterns as opposed to be shoehorned into what is supposedly logical (though breaks the logic of language), I believe the singular theyists will finally get to win. Huzzah!
My next project is the standardization of "y'all". I started that one by reverse invasion of Yankeeland.
Wish me luck.
And I will leave it there. I have fun reading my own emails from years ago.