Re: Merry Xmas, Logic Hounds!
- From: herbzet <herbzet@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:02:27 -0500
Tron wrote:
Hi,
"herbzet" skrev:
Hi, sorry not to have replied yet; I fell very ill Friday night
(while typing a reply to this!) -- I'm just getting well enough
to post again.
But more soon.
How very gracious of you to take the time while recovering to notify.
I fervently hope it wasn't what you had to reply to that made you so ill.
Actually, I believe that to be the case. You may expect a
communication from my attorneys very soon.
No worries about replying - the logic project is approaching 2500 years,
at a conservative estimate; a day or a week or two will not a make or break
it.
Get well! And better get very well than well soon (as per above),
although of course I wish you (vw & ws) - and no ifs.
MVH,
T
PS
To cheer you up, I've spent some time googling for logic jokes.
The results are a joke in itself, but cheering up the infirm is "done" in
UK/US, no...?
(Here, we'd just whack'em on the head.) So ... read'em and w&&p:
Top Score for academic nerdiness, and originality (= rare on Google):
Once all the scientists die and go to heaven. They decide to play
hide-n-seek
......... Unfortunately Einstein is the one who has the den........... He is
supposed to count up to 100...and then start searching.....Everyone starts
hiding except Newton ......... Newton just draws a square of 1 meter and
stands in it right in front of Einstein...........
Einstein's counting: 1,2202, 2.928, 3.141592653589793238462643 ...... 31
...37... 41...43... 47... 53.... 59.... 61.... 67 71.....9 7.008 ,
98.666328 , 99.000000001 .....100........ He opens his eyes and finds Newton
standing in front...... Einstein says " Newton 's out.
Newton's....out....." Newton denies and says Newton is not out........ He
claims that he is not Newton ...... All the scientists come out to see how
he proves that he is not Newton .......... Newton says "I am standing in a
square of area 1m squared..... That makes me Newton per meter squared......
since a Newton per meter squared is one Pascal, I'm Pascal, Therefore
Pascal is OUT !!!!!!!!!"
A collection of Prejudice, in tribute of the Troubles in Gaza:
A while ago, a worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question
asked was: "Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the
food shortage in the rest of the world?"
The survey was a huge failure...
a.. In Africa most didn't know what "food" meant.
b.. In Eastern Europe most didn't know what "honest" meant.
c.. In Western Europe most didn't know what "shortage" meant.
d.. In China most didn't know what "opinion" meant.
e.. In the Middle East most didn't know what "solution" meant.
f.. In South America most didn't know what "please" meant.
g.. And in the USA most didn't know what "the rest of the world" meant.
Florilegia
being,
a selecktion of various sentences and
utterances
deemed worthy of note by virtue of
their form,
or their content, and sometimes
both,
for the edification of The
Reader,
and entertainment of the General
Publicke:
NN (unattributed):
DEPRESSION IS MERELY ANGER WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM
"I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you."
It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to
others.
Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
Abraham Lincoln:
"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
Oscar Wilde:
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends"
Stephen Bishop:
"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
Aristotle:
"It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of
precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness
where only an approximation is possible."
Peter Bamm:
What God thinks of money can be seen in the people he gives it to.
Lorraine Hansberry:
"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that
which must also make you lonely."
Andrew Mathis:
IT IS BAD LUCK TO BE SUPERSTITIOUS.
Tron:
Laughter is counterfactual emotion
Thomas Dewar
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Friedrich Schiller :
"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly
vanquished. "
"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. "
"I am better than my reputation. "
Arthur Schopenhauer :
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read
them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the
appropriation of their contents.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the
world
(For every x ...) Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
(Here's one about us on sci.logic:)
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
(and another one:)
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so
uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the
inexplicable.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority
have always done just the opposite.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible.
They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the
poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers,
magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in
print.
(And finally, here's one just for you:)
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who
possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
This last sounds like George Bernard Shaw to me.
Good stuff -- thanks very much!
--
hz
.
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