If you are fond of a book, say, "I'll just slip this into my bag when no one is looking."
If you are fond of a book, steal it! For then when you spill coffee on it at two AM, you will not be upset.
Loeb classics were always getting stolen-- they had a high resale/return value
And they're small, practically begging to be stolen.
epictetus. and I have to cop to having stolen a few loebs from the columbia classics library, but that was just to read, not to sell...
I have only ever shoplifted two books (in a single incident): Hegemony or Survival by Chomsky and The Foundations of Arithmetic by Frege.
Given the subject matter, the appropriate question is were you in control of your kleptomaniacal desires?
I haven't shoplifted anything since I was little and I stole a pack of gum. My dad drove me back to the store and made me apologize to the store manager.
I think it was Tidal Wave.
Ogged, it sounds like you might have something you'd like to apologize for.
I was officially declared a juvenile delinquent by the judge who oversaw the Janklow trial. My shoplifting days are long gone, but I was quite the artful dodger once upon a time.
Ogged, it sounds like you might have something you'd like to apologize for.
No, sorry, just using my imagination.
god, adam; I though I had stolen something nerdy, but you just pwned me with the Frege thing.
I stole condoms - only because I was too embarrassed to buy them outright.
Later I found out our frat had a "Morality Chairman" who would happily sell me such items. Much better.
I though I had stolen something nerdy
I stole the box set to the Gamma World RPG. (And umpty-ump other RPG-related items.)
Aside from copious amounts of digital media and a coaster from a bar (once), I've never shoplifted/stolen anything. Am I missing out? I can start now if necessary.
No, Chopper, stealing the Gamma World RPG is geeky, not nerdy.
Wait! I thought of something. I once snuck my own 6-pack of beer into a super-crowded shi-shi SoHo lounge with a friend. What we paid for the whole 6-pack would have barely covered one beer, with tip. No one even noticed.
That's not really shoplifting, though. Probably just against the house rules.
Two cassette-sized speakers and a splicing dongle so I could play music from my Walkman in stereo?
A further, humiliating expansion on 22: I thought that having the capabilities that such a technological setup would provide would win me cool points in the Theatre Tech crowd.
23: No. Being declared a JD and having my father lose all trust in me for a few years kinda knocked it out of me. Then I grew some pride.
(mp3s don't count, right?)
I thought that having the capabilities that such a technological setup would provide would win me cool points in the Theatre Tech crowd.
We're a hard bunch to win over.
I have some library books I acquired as a child that never made it back to the library. I don't know if this is actually stealing, because I wasn't intending to keep them when I took them out, but I'm certainly liable for conversion.
(A couple of years ago I had occasion to be back in my high school library, and picked up a book I'd taken out more than fifteen years ago. No one had taken it out since. So I console myself that probably no one would have read the ones I never returned.)
I'm in the same library book boat as LB, regarding a german, complete edition of Lichtenberg's Waste Books. I can't even read them very well.
Shoplifted some food a couple of times, long ago, because I had the wacky impulse to have some that week. Never shoplifted a book; instead, had problems with vast numbers of free ones always being available while working in NYC publishing.
"Things in our control are... desire...."
Didn't this come up before?
Who's Afraud if Philosophy by Derrida, several years ago. I rationalized it because it was the campus bookstore, and so I was really just extending my scholarship a bit. Derrida's not half as nerdy as Frege, though. In fact, it's difficult to think of what is more nerdy than Frege.
(mp3s don't count, right?)
mp3s don't count.
Who's Afraud if Philosophy
I really hope that was unintentional, but that would be too good to be true.
unintentional; i plainly mixed my "i" and "o" buttons, which are right next to each other. See, it's not just that I'm a bad speller; I'm a bad typist.
It is funny, though.
Joe D.,
I now completely disregard the signs at movie theatres telling me that outside food is not allowed. There are a couple of local places that get movies just before the DVD where I'll still buy concessions.
Davis Square comes to mind. The tickets are cheap. There's real butter on the popcorn, and the prices aren't absolutely outrageous.
o, u, and i are part uf an eqiovalence class fir Mochael.
Ah bin wulfsin oll ovur toun. Ah thunk ot wis sumthan ah et.
Derrida's not half as nerdy as Frege, though.
Get out. Where I'm from, Frege is a must-read, perfectly respectable, and Derrida is some funny guy they think about over in the English department.
Naw, it's likely that a reasonably well-educated person on the train will have heard of Derrida, much less likely they've heard of Frege.
So much the worse for trainriders! (I'm at least half-kidding.)
But that's just because Derrida is much more recent than Frege. How long has it been since Derrida's best-known works were published, after all? Not that long. I bet that if you asked a bunch of people in the 1920s, you'd find many more knew who Frege was than Derrida.
Aye. Derrida is for comp lit dilettantes. Frege is for serious thinkers.
I suspect, also, that Derrida's being born in the 1930s might have something to do with that, b-wo.
My dad drove me back to the store and made me apologize to the store manager.
I had this same experience at about age 5 with a roll of LifeSavers. Cured me of stealing until the summer after the fifth grade when I stole a cassette from KMart. '77 by the Talking Heads. I had never heard of them at the time but the band name was so strange to me that I felt I had to have it. At that young age, the music was even stranger, though I fell in love with Psycho Killer. It was pretty much my first foray outside of KISS-Aerosmith territory.
Didn't return to my thieving ways until the interwebs came along.
Frege is a must-read
Really? What I was thinking is that not many people would be interested in Frege unless they're specifically studying the philosophy of math or logic. Even other philosophers I imagined, such as bioethicists, likely wouldn't have read him. Derrida, as was pointed out, has a much wider audience. Of course, you may say that there is something flawed with my reasoning that less popular = more nerdy.
Derrida is some funny guy they think about over in the English department.
This is, amusingly, one of the pet peeves of the professor I studied Derrida with. I say amusingly because of how he expressed it. He was complaining about some paper a professor in comp lit gave on Derrida, and said something like, "I don't try to teach chemsitry. Why? Because I don't know anything about it. Why are they trying to teach Derrida? They don't know anything about that."
To that one could probably mount some Protagoras-like reply, but the paper in question was bad enough to let it pass.
Um, is the non-italicized portion of 39 supposed to provide evidence against (what is claimed in) the italicized portion? Because it sure as heck does not.
frege is totally a must read. I love frege.
I really appreciated being forced to read Husserl before Frege. The contrast only makes you appreciate Frege more.
Sinn und Bedeutung 4EVA
I had a job whose duties included swiping the mailing label pouches from the Fed Ex box near the building entrance.
You were paid for this in dollars, or pickled puppy snouts?
It was at a litigation support company, actually.
Re: "Davis Square comes to mind. The tickets are cheap. There's real butter on the popcorn, and the prices aren't absolutely outrageous."
A million dollars for the canyon-o-corn seems to me to be outrageous. So does one cent for the thimble-o-corn...
It was at a litigation support company, actually.
Is this code for "snouts"?
According to the terms of the confidentiality agreement required of all employees of that company, I am not at liberty to divulge such information.
my capsule review of Frege's Begriffsschriff: gosh this could use a few more jokes.
That's not bad, dsquared, but some people do this thing called "shorter such-and-such," where they summarize a piece in a way that's pithy, humorous, and ever so slightly uncharitable. It's very funny.
Shorter ogged: I'm a nitpicking neovirgin.
pithy, humor, and ever slightly uncharitable. 4 stars Chopper!
even shorter ogged: I might be gay.
Is it time to conclude that no one got the joke in 60?
um, yeah, i think we did. nice day today, wasn't it?
seriously, there was no end of laughter. and by the way, that granny at the pool, she totally dug you.
I assumed it was a Frege-joke, but I truly don't get it.
Is it time to conclude that ogged, when confonted with his own inadequacies, will attempt to claim that he was merely engaging in humor, not unlike a lad woefully out of his league attempting to hit on the woman who thinks of him as just a friend?
The joke, my frenemies, is that dsquared is the originator of the "shorter such-and-such" method.
god, that's hysterical. it's, like, metablogian humor. somebody get the comedy channel on the blower NOW!
Nah, I don't think it's quite comedy channel material, but I knew you'd like, pete.
to quote a great line from the simpsons, i kid because i love -- at the mineshaft
I don't see how 71 affects 61 and 70.
or 64, for that matter. what about 64? hey, gil wants to know about 64!
sorry, but i bet apo got that, which would make one more than those who got ogged's foray into "humor"