On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 5:59 PM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
> TempleOS :) Never heard of that it's a good one. Reminds me of Richard > Lee on Curt Cobain was murdered. (Arthur probably knows him) > Arthur here did not know anything about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Kurt_Cobain in 1994, but soon thereafter I met Cobain's co-musician https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krist_Novoselic when I was working at Alfi News, a bookstore in North Seattle. When Novoselic paid for a stack of items with a check, I asked him if his Slavonic name meant something like "new village". We got into a big discussion about his Croatian name, and, when Novoselic went out the door, a bunch of people rushed over to tell me that the customer was a member of Cobain's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band) from Aberdeen. Another time at the same job I asked an intellectual young man with an accent, "Sind Sie Deutscher?" or "Are you a German?" He was only mildly surprised that I could detect his nationality, but what I did next blew his mind into confetti and smithereens. Wondering why a young intellectual German might be visiting my part of Seattle near the university, where I had helped two young beauties obtain jobs as program coordinators at the Institute for Nuclear Theory, I mind-blowingly asked the guy, "Sind Sie Physiker?" for "Are you a physicist?" After he recovered from his shock and regained his composure, he admitted that he was indeed a physicist from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forschungszentrum_Jülich in northern Germany. The next night he came back with four other physicists and we all talked German. More recently on 17 December 2019 I gave a talk to the Board of Regents of the University of Washington to complain about Husky Football brain damage, but that's another story officially entered into the meeting minutes. http://old.reddit.com/user/AiHasBeenSolved ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Ta1a8973b8982c873-Md45362ca1b81c37f798bf674 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
