The messages were discovered during a recent internal affairs investigation and add to a growing list of racist emails and texts traded among department officers.
In fact, push the notion of hidden pattern a bit further and chart reading can even turn religious: the analyst Perry J. Kaufman devotes 10 pages to financial astrology in a scrupulous theoretical text, "Trading Systems and Methods" (1998, Wiley), a method few analysts would probably confess to using.
At a Tuesday news conference, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi revealed details of text messages traded among three former San Francisco officers that used the N-word to refer to black people, "rag heads" to refer to people of Middle Eastern descent and "beaners" to refer to Latinos. .
He shook hands and grinned, texted and traded phone calls — with a handful of owners and dozens of racing officials.
On top of these difficulties, from what we know of Gongsun Long, we should expect the text to trade in semantic ambiguity and to slip in a category mistake or two, the more to baffle and entertain the audience.
He even traded text messages with Nick Collison, the Thunder forward and Sonics veteran, the other day.
To cope, she traded text messages with her musician friend while seated at Mr. Lazar's table.
In Malawi last year, Idah and I traded text messages as I drove up the dirt road to her university.
Palmer was stoic about his situation with the Bengals during the workouts — "He stuck to his guns, but we didn't talk much about it," O'Brien said — and the two traded text messages after the news broke that the Raiders were pushing to trade for Palmer as a replacement for Jason Campbell, who broke his collarbone last week.
Are we even the same person when it comes time to remove the texting, and trade it in for person-to-person talking?
