[ExI] cheerful thought

Stephen Van Sickle sjv2006 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 14 02:05:06 UTC 2014


Have you no shame, sir!

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On Dec 12, 2014 6:54 PM, "spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> *Sent:* Friday, December 12, 2014 6:31 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] cheerful thought
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> On Dec 12, 2014 6:47 PM, "spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
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> > >…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?
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> > >…What’s the point in being a math geek if you can’t have a weird sense
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> >…It's just one dimension less than that line of course.
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> >…If not a weird sense of humor I'd have none at all.
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> When Descarte came up with the term “imaginary” for the i axis, I wonder
> if he realized what potential it creates for geek wordplay?
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> 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!
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> (Brace yourself, you know it is coming.  Save yourself, stop reading,
> flee!)
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> The problem was he put Descarte before the horse.
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