Re: Latest fuss, my apologies

From: Jesse F. Hughes (jesse_at_phiwumbda.org)
Date: 10/03/04 

Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 07:25:09 +0200

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> jstevh@msn.com (James Harris) writes:
>
>> "Justin" <no@spam.com> wrote in message news:<cjl4d8$la0$2@grapevine.wam.umd.edu>...
>>> In sci.math James Harris <jstevh@msn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> : Unfortunately I was just wrong recently as I fiddled with
>>>
>>> Look you're constantly wrong, and you constantly belittle the
>>> people who tell you so. Will you apologize to those in person - to
>>> ***, to Nora, and so on? Give up something heartfelt, really.
>>
>> They like it. Why do you think they keep replying?
>
> Because they love math and you keep spitting on her.

Love math? What did she ever do for them?

As James recently wrote:

,----[ <3c65f87.0409101658.4d1d020d@posting.google.com> ]
| But the math doesn't care about their mortgages. It doesn't care
| about their political needs. And it doesn't care about them.
|
| Today's mathematicians have to hate mathematics because mathematics
| doesn't look out for them. It doesn't pay attention to their needs.
| It doesn't worry about their bills.
|
| Mathematics just doesn't care, so they don't care about mathematics.
`----

When I read that, I gotta tell you, I felt sympathy for the
mathematicians, not for mathematics. That lady, she's just an evil,
uncaring one. She'll get what she's got coming.

Someone more lyrical than I could turn this into a blistering blues
number. I'm thinking either in the direction of Sonny Boy's "Get Your
Hand Out of My Pocket" or maybe Buddy Guy's "Damn Right I Got the
Blues." Maybe a bit more Albert Collins-ish? 

-- 
"There was an accident in the air.  There was a sign saying, 'Planes
don't go here.  The clouds have to be fixed.'" 
  -- Quincy P. Hughes applies the lessons of Dutch train travel to 
     pretending about airplanes.
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