Comments on: Der Ball

By: mig

mig — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:45:42 +0000

Oooh, Swiss/Austrian. Sounds like a volatile mix. Maybe the neutrality cancels itself out or something. A friend in college, whose father was from Switzerland, said he married and American woman rather than a Swiss woman because of three words: “Bitch, bitch, bitch.” I’m not saying there is any truth to that. I’m just reporting what he said.

I don’t really have much intimate experience with Austrian women; but I think I was really, really fortunate to get the one I did.

[Hey, who changed the locks?]

By: zizka

zizka — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 19:15:18 +0000

My experience has been that women **never** take it well when wine is spilled on them in public places. Perhaps Austrian women are different; however, my ex-wife was Austrian and Swiss in descent. Days, weeks, perhaps years from now you will be punished.

Or I could be wrong. Perhaps a sampling error.

By: mig

mig — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:38:04 +0000

It’s sad, but the word “anthropologist” did not come to me, neither at the ball when I was first remarking on that, nor during the writing of that post. So I substituted zoologist, because there is one here, Antal Festetics, who does really funny television programs where he does stuff like that, observes people at a ball or whatever. At least I think he does. At least he used to, I think. If I got his name right.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:22:47 +0000

What you want is an anthropologist.
If they could’ve made the ball wait til March, I might have accomodated you. Well, if we can talk Pixar into sending us to CHI2004, you’ll have to find us some other participant observation opportunities.