I want to send you a copy so you can explain it to me.
Yay!
Come on out, River. The nice man wants to kidnap you.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Emily - Nov 22, 2005 4:50:24 pm PST #6543 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Rick - Nov 22, 2005 4:53:52 pm PST #6544 of 10006
Yes, that is totally related to the seeing-the-same-color question. You all see it, right?
As it happens, it is exactly related becasue they do this color stuff using a geometric representation of color perception in a Euclidean or NonEuclidean multidimensional scaling solution. That's how they solved the problem. But then I fell asleep.
tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 4:55:38 pm PST #6545 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Are you sure you didn't fall asleep first, and dream the whole thing?
Rick - Nov 22, 2005 4:57:40 pm PST #6546 of 10006
Are you sure you didn't fall asleep first, and dream the whole thing?
Are you sure you are reading the board and not just dreaming the whole thing.
Emily - Nov 22, 2005 4:57:59 pm PST #6547 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Freaky. I thought I was just making a metaphorical connection about subjective perception.
But then I fell asleep.
I can see that that might be a problem.
Okay, folks, quick poll time! Should I do my next paper on Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, or, um, other Great Figure of the last three centuries?
tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 5:01:11 pm PST #6548 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Are you sure you are reading the board and not just dreaming the whole thing.
I'm pretty sure I only exist as a character in someone else's dream.
Also, 'elses' is a weird word.
eta: also, "else's"
tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 5:02:14 pm PST #6549 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Should I do my next paper on Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, or, um, other Great Figure of the last three centuries?
Babbage is the guy with the Difference Engine, right? That sounds cool.
Emily - Nov 22, 2005 5:03:38 pm PST #6550 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Also, 'elses' is a weird word.
Pretty sure that's because it never comes up. Except maybe in literary theory: "In this way the author problematizes the character's uniqueness, creating a host of others and elses, all imbued with post-colonial notions of the exotic." Er, throw a reference to gender in there somewhere.
tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 5:05:21 pm PST #6551 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I was confused. I was thinking of possessive pronouns, which don't get the apostrophe.
Emily - Nov 22, 2005 5:06:09 pm PST #6552 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Babbage is the guy with the Difference Engine, right? That sounds cool.
Yes, but Turing invented the Turing Machine! Plus? Gay. I know that shouldn't be a factor, but I can't help it. I'm sure I'm imbuing him with post-Stonewall conceptions of cool or something, but I find it so hard to overcome that bias.
The slash probably isn't helping. I probably need to go seek out really unpleasant gay people to balance my perceptions, but somehow that never manages to get a high priority on my list of things to do.