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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Dougherty<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 12, 2014 6:31 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] cheerful thought<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><br>On Dec 12, 2014 6:47 PM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p>> <span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>If one went to heaven only to discover one’s harp was always out of tune and one’s wings didn’t fit right, would those be ith world problems?<br><br>> <span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>What’s the point in being a math geek if you can’t have a weird sense of humor?<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>It's just one dimension less than that line of course. <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>If not a weird sense of humor I'd have none at all. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>When Descarte came up with the term “imaginary” for the i axis, I wonder if he realized what potential it creates for geek wordplay?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I have heard that he had a horse which understood mathematics, and was a most attentive audience whenever he introduced a new concept. But not in this case, for when the mathematician tried to explain the concept to the beast, it objected with an emphatic NAY! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(Brace yourself, you know it is coming. Save yourself, stop reading, flee!)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The problem was he put Descarte before the horse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>