<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:21.3333px"> the canonical tome by Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson, with the unsurprising title The Ants. spike</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:21.3333px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:21.3333px"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">So you were just blown away by the canon. bill w</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 12:40 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-9196462063623400232WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Red and green qualia<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">>>…<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">OK well, do let BillW’s tragic story be a warning. He too retired, and found himself with far too much time on his hands. It started out as just having a little fun, but got worse and still worse until he was found in the gutter, reading entire books about… cod.</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">spike</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Guilty. I wonder how many books Spike has on bees...... bill w</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">Well sure, but I have an excuse: friends give me those. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">My favorite beast book isn’t on either cod or bees however. It’s on ants. It’s the canonical tome by Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson, with the unsurprising title The Ants.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">That one is just wicked cool. Ants are really cool beasts. One can experiment on them without getting wet or raising the ire of the PETA folks (they refuse to stick up for bugs (but other than that, they are a generally commendable group of people.)) <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">I did some fun stuff with ants before my neighbor hired a mystery guy named Jose who claimed he could rid his house completely of ants without even coming inside, for 100 bucks, paid in cash, no questions asked including any identification past “Jose.” So… he hired Jose, who showed up with some mystery chemical which I think was probably dimethyl chlordane, sprinkled around my neighbor’s house, had some of the bootleg chemical remaining, so he came over and put some around my house too. Whatever probably-illegal chemical he used has kept both homes antless for the past dozen years.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">So… no more experiments with ants unless I go down the street. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">Now if I get lymphoma, I have some idea of who slew me: Jose.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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