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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:35:31 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2008 12:33:29 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>
>
>>Robin Williams, "Live at the Met", talking about his son Zachary.
>>
>>Hilarious stuff. The logical follow-on is his interview on "Inside the
>>Actors Studio" where he talks about the same child as a young adult. I
>>may have to watch that again now. :-)
>
> He is funny, he was on TV here recently and had to be dragged off.
Had to be dragged off?
Jim
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:30:28 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>Or a different hypersphere.
>>
>>
> Render it, I dare you
I don't work that way. ;-) Besides, the videos I mentioned show
something like that. :-)
>>Which reminds me, there's a really good video exploration of extra-
>>dimensional mathematics, can't remember if it was posted here or not.
>>I'll have to see if I can find it again, it was fascinating stuff.
>>
>>
> Please do/
>
> BTW what is the record for the longest thread of trivia?
3,192,793 messages. Why do you ask? ;-)
Jim
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:33:34 +0000, Stephen wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2008 12:30:47 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:27:37 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> On 19 Dec 2008 12:10:45 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:24:21 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>Well, you wrote that then, this is now, as I write this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> But not as I read it
>>>>
>>>>Well, it was when you wrote your reply, but now it's now, even as you
>>>>read this it's now. :-)
>>>>
>>> Wasn't it now, then and then, now?
>>
>>Don't you mean "wasn't it now then, and then now?"?
>>
> I don't know, lets ask Darren?
> IIRC he was hot on apostrophes and commas are just fallen apostrophes.
I'm pretty sure it is what I wrote. :-)
I think Darren probably stopped following this thread long ago. :-)
Jim
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Stephen wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2008 12:30:47 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:27:37 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> On 19 Dec 2008 12:10:45 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:24:21 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Well, you wrote that then, this is now, as I write this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> But not as I read it
>>>> Well, it was when you wrote your reply, but now it's now, even as you
>>>> read this it's now. :-)
>>>>
>>> Wasn't it now, then and then, now?
>> Don't you mean "wasn't it now then, and then now?"?
>>
> I don't know, lets ask Darren?
> IIRC he was hot on apostrophes and commas are just fallen apostrophes.
>
I think it may be mayn't haven't been. That's just a wild guess.
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Stephen wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2008 12:11:36 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:40:12 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:12:45 -0600, Mike Raiford
>>> <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:54:42 -0600, Mike Raiford
>>>>> <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:30:08 -0600, Mike Raiford
>>>>>>> <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:09:27 -0600, Mike Raiford
>>>>>>>>> <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> But if the cat is dead will observing it make it live again?
>>>>>>>>>> You can never know that answer.
>>>>>>>>> Why?
>>>>>>>> Because ...
>>>>>>> Why Mike why?
>>>>>> To make you ask why, that's why :)
>>>>> Why?
>>>> Are you training me for when my kid learns this word?
>>> Got it! :-)
>> No, no, no, the proper response is "Who are you, Carl Sagan?!"
>>
>
> (Woosh!)
>
> Didn't someone open his box,years ago?
Nah, I left it closed. I liked the superposition of the cat better than
the observed state.
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Stephen wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2008 12:33:29 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
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>> Robin Williams, "Live at the Met", talking about his son Zachary.
>>
>> Hilarious stuff. The logical follow-on is his interview on "Inside the
>> Actors Studio" where he talks about the same child as a young adult. I
>> may have to watch that again now. :-)
>
> He is funny, he was on TV here recently and had to be dragged off.
Haha.. what? Why?
One of my favorite comedians, btw..
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Stephen wrote:
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> Render it, I dare you ;)
>
You'd need to calculate diffuse lighting and project it in 3D space to
get anything meaningful. A projection of a hypersphere would look much
like a sphere.
>
> BTW what is the record for the longest thread of trivia?
One of Andy's "Wondering" series?
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Stephen wrote:
> BTW what is the record for the longest thread of trivia?
More worthless trivia:
The only two classes in my entire four years of high school I received
an A (>90%) in were Computer Science, and Chemistry...
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:30:28 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>Which reminds me, there's a really good video exploration of extra-
>>dimensional mathematics, can't remember if it was posted here or not.
>>I'll have to see if I can find it again, it was fascinating stuff.
>>
>>
> Please do/
Found it:
http://www.dimensions-math.org/
Jim
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On 19 Dec 2008 12:53:56 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:35:31 +0000, Stephen wrote:
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>> On 19 Dec 2008 12:33:29 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Robin Williams, "Live at the Met", talking about his son Zachary.
>>>
>>>Hilarious stuff. The logical follow-on is his interview on "Inside the
>>>Actors Studio" where he talks about the same child as a young adult. I
>>>may have to watch that again now. :-)
>>
>> He is funny, he was on TV here recently and had to be dragged off.
>
>Had to be dragged off?
>
Not literally but you know when he gets started, he can't stop. Outside of his
act (it was a chat show) he is a nice polite man. (If a bit loud) :)
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Stephen
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