At 11:34 AM -0700 9/16/05, Bill Stewart wrote:
So, I saw this here at Farquhar Street at 14:55EST, jumped in the shower, thus missing the train 13:20 train at Rozzy Square :-), instead took the ^^^^^ bus, and then the T, and got to MIT's New Funny-Looking Building about 16:40 or so, and saw the last few slides, asking the first, and only, question, because the grad-students shot out of there at relativistic velocity, probably so they wouldn't miss their dinner, or something...
Time travel aside (okay, innumeracy aside, some state-school philosophy majors can't count, either...), if I'm a reporter, this is "new journalism", since most of the missive is about *wonderful* *ME*... :-) Cheers, RAH Who reminds people that sentences that begin "The upshot, to me,", et. al., are usually committing the informal fallacy of relativism anyway...But enough about me, what do *you* think about me... -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'