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2022-09-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
That's what I always thought. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, 12:44 PM glen wrote: > Clearly you're a Scientismist! >8^D > > On 9/26/22 11:14, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > I'm sorry I opened that. > > > > --- > > Frank

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2022-09-26 Thread glen
Clearly you're a Scientismist! >8^D On 9/26/22 11:14, Frank Wimberly wrote: I'm sorry I opened that. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 4:27 PM Jon Zingale mailto:jonzing...@gmail.com>> wrote: Steve - Reponsi

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2022-09-26 Thread Frank Wimberly
I'm sorry I opened that. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 4:27 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Steve - > > Reponsive to your references to Sabine Hossenfelder, et al... > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR_8gpJCT4I&t=69s&

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2022-05-09 Thread glen
Hey now, if it's rooted in the history, it must be the right thing to do: https://youtu.be/djMjYgqFrrQ On 5/9/22 08:10, Barry MacKichan wrote: Wasn’t that the guy who touted curing bubonic plague wtih bleach and bright lights? --Barry On 9 May 2022, at 10:38, glen wrote: Draft Overturning

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2022-05-09 Thread Marcus Daniels
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-roe-wade-alito-scotus-hale On 5/8/22 20:58, Alexander Rasmus wrote: > Nich, > > The test of "is this law

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2022-05-09 Thread Barry MacKichan
Wasn’t that the guy who touted curing bubonic plague wtih bleach and bright lights? --Barry On 9 May 2022, at 10:38, glen wrote: Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-roe-wade-alito-scot

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2022-05-09 Thread Barry MacKichan
Especially if it were retroactive… --Barry On 8 May 2022, at 21:29, Frank Wimberly wrote: Wasn't it Alito? That would doom Social Security. Also people would be outraged. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, May 8, 2022, 7:14 PM

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2022-05-09 Thread glen
Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Infamous Witch Trial Judge With Long-Discredited Ideas on Rape https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-roe-wade-alito-scotus-hale On 5/8/22 20:58, Alexander Rasmus wrote: Nich, The test of "is this law rooted in the traditions of our nation" means that

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2022-05-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
If SCOTUS says it is, it is. On May 8, 2022, at 8:59 PM, Alexander Rasmus wrote:  Nich, The test of "is this law rooted in the traditions of our nation" means that it's unlikely to be found constitutional if applied to the entire population. Depending on who is applying the test, it's unclea

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2022-05-08 Thread Alexander Rasmus
Nich, The test of "is this law rooted in the traditions of our nation" means that it's unlikely to be found constitutional if applied to the entire population. Depending on who is applying the test, it's unclear whether it would stand if applied to a narrowly tailored group. Best, Alex On Sun, M

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2022-05-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Sunday, May 8, 2022 8:29 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) > > > > Was

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2022-05-08 Thread thompnickson2
iday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) Wasn't it Alito? That would doom Social Security. Also people would be outraged. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, May 8, 2022, 7:14 PM

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2022-05-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
Wasn't it Alito? That would doom Social Security. Also people would be outraged. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sun, May 8, 2022, 7:14 PM Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Is there anything in the draft Scalia decision that would prevent

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2021-12-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/12/11/michael-strahan-blue-origin-space-flight-nr-vpx.cnn On Dec 12, 2021, at 10:52 AM, David Eric Smith wrote:  That poem runs through my head almost-daily in this era where all is blame, yet little is helpful work. Has been since present since I enco

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2021-12-12 Thread Jon Zingale
'Stating that there is a single answer to a math problem is "white" and therefore "racist."' Of course, there *is* only a single answer (Elon) and that is for whitey to be on the moon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nzoPopQ7V0&ab_channel=reelblack .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.

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2021-10-30 Thread Marcus Daniels
There is already coercion in the workplace in the form of the org chart. My take on psychological safety is that it is really about bounding and resolving conflict and not letting the outcome of arguments take on truth status or change the political power of the winners or losers. This is in

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2021-08-11 Thread David Eric Smith
Nicely written article, on a thing we have been looking forward to for a while. Would be interesting to look at this state under Lorentz transforms, given that it is spatially localized and using Anderson’s asymptotically-total internal reflection to create a specially ordered pattern (if I unde

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2021-08-11 Thread uǝlƃ ☤ $
Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-time-crystal-built-using-googles-quantum-computer-20210730/ On 7/26/21 7:59 AM, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > No, thanks very much for the transcript. Time as updating is an old concept. > So, it's not clear

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2021-07-26 Thread uǝlƃ ☤ $
No, thanks very much for the transcript. Time as updating is an old concept. So, it's not clear to me that they're talking about anything new *there*. But they sound a bit wrong to me in decoupling the updating from the *subgraph* that gets updated as well as any kind of causal cascade of updati

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2021-07-24 Thread thompnickson2
m On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ Sent: Friday, July 23, 2021 4:19 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) This one? https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4757-3714-1_3.pdf I don't think I have special access. On 7/23/21 1:10 PM, Jon Zingale wrote: > So far,

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2021-07-23 Thread Jon Zingale
Glen, Thank you for looking into it. Yes, that is the publication. Also, thank you for posting "The post-truth prophets"[0]. Sean Illing manages to get at the heart of what I find myself defending regarding postmodernism[1]. You may remember that some months ago, I was on a "Bergson through the ey

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2021-07-23 Thread Jon Zingale
(reposted for readability) EricS, I am sorry to say that with the disruption of the nabble Friam server, and with my head buried in work, I managed to miss your response to my queries about your approach to Fisher's Theorem. Thankfully, RogerF brought your response to my attention. In the last fe

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2021-07-23 Thread uǝlƃ ☤ $
This one? https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4757-3714-1_3.pdf I don't think I have special access. On 7/23/21 1:10 PM, Jon Zingale wrote: > So far, what is written above is about as much as I understand. Thank you for > the Springer link. Unfortunately, the pay-wall around tha

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2021-07-23 Thread Jon Zingale
EricS, I am sorry to say that with the disruption of the nabble Friam server, and with my head buried in work, I managed to miss your response to my queries about your approach to Fisher's Theorem. Thankfully, RogerF brought your response to my attention. In the last few months since we engaged th

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2021-07-19 Thread David Eric Smith
Jon, hi, I have owed you a response for a long time. I think I kept imagining that, if I waited long enough, I would learn enough about a couple of things you asked to be able to understand the questions and perhaps answer usefully. At this stage I think I am giving up any systematic hope of

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2021-05-05 Thread jon zingale
You're right ;) That is also one of my favorite facts about Darwin. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.

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2021-05-05 Thread thompnickson2
M To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) EricS, Thank you for the kind and thoughtful response. Your 'three levels' project is interesting to me and reminds me (even if only tangentially) of an analysis I worked on regarding food webs, n-species Lotka-Volterra, and ABMs.

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2021-05-05 Thread jon zingale
EricS, Thank you for the kind and thoughtful response. Your 'three levels' project is interesting to me and reminds me (even if only tangentially) of an analysis I worked on regarding food webs, n-species Lotka-Volterra, and ABMs. I wanted to clarify for myself what each level of analysis offered

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2021-04-28 Thread David Eric Smith
Jon, hi and thank you, So, I am not going to be knowledgeable or sophisticated enough to have a conversation with you as an equal on computational complexity classes and algorithms. I can tell you what I was hoping to take from Valiant, on the assumption that it is compatible with the current

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2021-04-26 Thread jon zingale
""" I like what Leslie Valiant has to say in PAC, as a way of framing theissues, even though I know he is a punching bag for the geneticistsbecause of various things they understand as important that he isn’ttrying to understand deeply or deal with. I don’t care that he hadlimitations; the questio

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2021-03-25 Thread David Eric Smith
Hi Glen, Thank you, and yes, I did submit it somewhere. There are a couple of different evolution journals where this kind of subject is published. They all have length limits — 140 characters or something like that — which this thing exceeds. I don’t even remember which of them I sent to, b

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2021-03-25 Thread ⛧ glen
That paper is positively pornographic! Well done. If I understand what you're doing, which I most likely don't, the mechanized graphs are an excellent example of some rhetoric I'm currently trying to foist on some unwilling victims (re the "languages" within which we couch hypotheses, and how "

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2021-03-24 Thread David Eric Smith
Nick, hi, I won’t be able to do anything like even a good-faith effort to reply to this thread. The time it would cost me to compose something I wouldn’t either disagree with or regret having written will cost me more shame and punishment for delinquency than I can budget at the moment. Your

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2021-03-24 Thread thompnickson2
6 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Cc: David Eric Smith Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) Nick, hi, I won’t be able to do anything like even a good-faith effort to reply to this thread. The time it would cost me to compose something I wouldn’t either disagree wi

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2020-11-11 Thread David Eric Smith
Vaccinate them or put them in solitary. Social butterflies in the time of cholera. I know why the caged social butterfly sings. The thorn social butterflies. The health care workers really are owed more than they can ever be repaid. Just as trump is. Eric > On Nov 11, 2020, at 4:26 PM, Geo

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2020-11-11 Thread Roger Critchlow
WGBH, the PBS local channel, put up a graphic last night showing that 40% of nurses weren't sure they'd get vaccinated even if it were available. -- rec -- On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 5:32 PM David Eric Smith wrote: > Vaccinate them or put them in solitary. > > Social butterflies in the time of cho

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2020-08-25 Thread thompnickson2
<mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> thompnicks...@gmail.com <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam On Behalf Of Russ Abbott Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2020 1:29 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re:

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2020-08-25 Thread Frank Wimberly
Great. Thanks Russ and Glen. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:37 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > And here: > > > https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=Automated+Search+for+Causal+Relations%3A+Theory+and+Pra

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2020-08-25 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
And here: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=Automated+Search+for+Causal+Relations%3A+Theory+and+Practice&btnG= which is helpful because it shows 19 citations. Books aren't daunting. They're ossified and not (often) peer reviewed. The citations and references are WAY more

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2020-08-25 Thread Russ Abbott
It's available here . -- Russ Abbott Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 12:13 PM Frank Wimberly wrote: > > https://www.academia.edu/keypass/cHFjczFFMm

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2020-08-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
My favorite part of flying. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Aug 13, 2020, 8:30 AM Barry MacKichan wrote: > Does it include lessons on how to land the plane? > > —Barry > > On 12 Aug 2020, at 21:53, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > I just

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2020-08-13 Thread Barry MacKichan
Does it include lessons on how to land the plane? —Barry On 12 Aug 2020, at 21:53, Frank Wimberly wrote: > I just got an email from a flight training program offering me a nine month > course to get a multi engine commercial license. They don't read the Friam > listsrv, I hope. I'm too old in

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2020-08-13 Thread Prof David West
There is a projected shortage of 50,000 commercial pilots by 2030 — assuming COVID ever eases off. So, analogous to the fervid recruitment of COBOL programmers, they are trying to recruit anyone who has either had a pilot's license or a subscription to any kind of flying magazine. I have a frie

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2020-05-07 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
For some reason, the link to Gorski's debunking is messed up in that article. I had to go looking for it: https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/05/06/judy-mikovits-pandemic/ You *forced* me to watch Plandemic, too. I'll never get that time back. 8^D On 5/7/20 3:46 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > T

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2020-05-07 Thread Roger Critchlow
hursday, May 7, 2020 at 2:55 PM > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) > > > > Right, https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame - Show what revision and > author last modified each line

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2020-05-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) Right, https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file -- rec -- On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 5:19 PM Jon Zingale mailto:jonzing...@gmail.com>> wrote: Roger, You say, "It's already ha

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2020-05-07 Thread Roger Critchlow
Right, https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-blame - Show what revision and author last modified each line of a file -- rec -- On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 5:19 PM Jon Zingale wrote: > Roger, > > You say, "It's already happened more than once. People, acting as if > they cared about the code have taken o

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2017-04-27 Thread Gillian Densmore
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2017-04-27 Thread Gillian Densmore
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2017-04-26 Thread glen ☣
Oooh. I'm jealous! I absolutely love the feeling of a newly wiped and reinstalled OS. I do it on my phone all the time ... it would be unwise for me to do it on my main 'puter. But I do it on my laptop sporadically just to get that new-puter feelz. On 04/26/2017 11:32 AM, Nick Thompson wro

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2014-06-27 Thread Stephen Guerin
Pretty amazing effort. Seems like a 10 line script though :-) On Jun 27, 2014 10:45 AM, "Owen Densmore" wrote: > From a tweet: > > *Jeremy Ashkenas* @jashkenas 2h > > If you knew how long @mapshaper

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2011-08-30 Thread Mikhail Gorelkin
Greg, I did it :-) Thank you, --Mikhail -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Greg Sonnenfeld Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 2:33 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (no subject

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2011-08-30 Thread Greg Sonnenfeld
Sounds like its time to change your e-mail password :P Greg Sonnenfeld On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Mikhail Gorelkin wrote: > Sorry, it seems I got a virus :-( --Mikhail > > > > From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf > Of Mi

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2011-08-30 Thread Mikhail Gorelkin
Sorry, it seems I got a virus :-( --Mikhail From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Mikhail Gorelkin Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:49 AM To: fkee...@twcny.rr.com; friam@redfish.com; malone.ger...@gmail.com; gorel...@gmail.com; jwoodro...@nsphereinc.com;

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2011-08-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
What kind of SPAM is this? -J. Sent from Android Mikhail Gorelkin wrote: http://saudiautism.com/jkjlksjflaja2.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, uns

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2009-06-27 Thread Rikus Combrinck
Eric, I mean. Typo. Apologies. From: Rikus Combrinck Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 10:11 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) > When I return I will try to get back to Rikus's questions. > This is indeed an ex

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2009-06-27 Thread Rikus Combrinck
> When I return I will try to get back to Rikus's questions. > This is indeed an excellent and stimulating conversation. Please do, Erice. I remain intrigued and look forward to you perspective. Regards, Rikus From: ERIC P. CHARLES Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 5:34 AM To: friam@redfish

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2009-03-29 Thread Robert Holmes
Not puns, but I hope this helps. from Prairie Home Companion 12/31/05: *Garrison Keillor:* ...brought to you by RCA, the Rutabaga Council of America, representing America's most under-appreciated vegetable, rutabagas. So many people confuse rutabagas with turnips. They're not alike at all. Rutaba

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2009-03-29 Thread Pamela McCorduck
Cornish pasties loomed large in my family legend: as a young man my father always went to Cornwall for holidays from grim Liverpool, where my family was situated. He loved to talk about the treat that Cornish pasties were. So when I finally visited Cornwall (as full of mines as Wales, and w

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2009-03-29 Thread Stephen Thompson
Gary is correct on the pron. and explanation of the pasty. The best ones are from a small restaurant in Virginia, MN on "da range" as they say. I understood these delectable treats actually started with the Welsh miners - something along the lines of the movie "How Green Was My Valley" (did I

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2009-03-28 Thread Nicholas Thompson
...@earthlink.net;The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: 3/28/2009 5:42:36 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] (no subject) A half-dozen rutabaga puns spring to mind, which I have thankfully suppressed. On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Pamela, have never eaten a rutabaga

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2009-03-28 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
We used to eat swedes (aka rutabaga) when I grew up in England. Roasted it seems it was a little like sweet potatoes. On the original (?) pasty see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_pasty another mining connection. Robert C Gary Schiltz wrote: You haven't lived until you've eate

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2009-03-28 Thread Gary Schiltz
You haven't lived until you've eaten a pasty (pronounced PAST EE, and not to be confused withthe minimalist apparel worn by certain "entertainers", so I've been told) on a -20 degree winter day in the upper great lakes region. One of the main ingredients is, of course, rutabaga. A pasty is

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2009-03-28 Thread Pamela McCorduck
Okay, I answered Nick privately with a non-PC answer, so I may as well 'fess up to the whole group. I am perfectly willing to pay whatever it costs to fly in sweet green produce from better climates. Sorry to be such a spoiled brat. Pamela On Mar 28, 2009, at 7:42 PM, Douglas Roberts wro

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2009-03-28 Thread Douglas Roberts
A half-dozen rutabaga puns spring to mind, which I have thankfully suppressed. On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Pamela, > > have never eaten a rutabaga. I have stood at the produce in Whole Foods and > admired their fortitude, but i have

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2009-03-28 Thread michel bloch
Nicholas, I have eaten rutabaga and Jerusalem artichoke during WW II. It was not good at all. Cordialement Michel Bloch 33(0)1 46 37 01 93 http://www.mountvernon.fr/Sciences_complexite.htm _ De : friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] De la part de N

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2006-11-07 Thread Roger Critchlow
The discovery channel, http://discoverychannel.ca/mercury, is reported to be planning a live telecast. -- rec -- On 11/7/06, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Does anybody know where we can get a live feed of Mercury transiting the > sun, this weds. > > Nick > Nicholas S. Th

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2006-07-17 Thread steve smith
> I > don't believe that the being that results, while itself thinking that > it is the same "I" as me, will be. It can't be, as a dicontinuity has > occured--"I" might even have lived a while after the "copy" was > stored. So, even though my thoughts might go on, and something that > thinks it's

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2006-07-16 Thread James Steiner
On 7/16/06, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who is the I that has my brain? Is "I" a proper loop? Tangentally, this question is part of the reason I am very disturbed by the concept of the "singularity"--the point in history when the mind/brain can be downloaded/backed-up, then la

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2006-07-16 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Title: Message Phil,   Answering your post will require some heavy thinking.  I have a garden that is in danger of dying of the heat and a brain, likewise, so it may be a few days.  Probably most of the problems you are having with me are because I am by instinct (if not ideology) a behaviorist

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2006-07-16 Thread Phil Henshaw
Title: Message [ph] great questions!  tried to keep short & as html... isn't it weird how html 'fixed' the old email discussion thread format?!   Nick wrote: All This is becoming bloody interesting.  Although I am not sure I agree with Phil's comments, the  way in which they ar