>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: cosmobimbo@hotmail.com
>Subject: math things
>Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 02:44:37 -0500
>hey, I took your web site ad from your door on friday when I came by
>to visit patrick. I visited your site and, while obviously all things
>are illusory and metaphysically this is all just an exercise in self
>amusement, nonetheless I might offer some "answers" to your questions:
>
>wrt william poundstone's question on the flickering lamp, the sum of
>an infinite series is an abuse of notation, iirc. The closed sigma
>form is defined over finite index sets, and then you're taking the
>limit of the sigma form as the index set (naturals from 1 to n) grows
>without bound. The sigma 1 to infinity is actually short hand for
>limit of sigma 1 to n, as n grows to infinity. That means the light
>converges to a state of being on for a full second, but doesn't
>necessarily achieve it. The supremum is on, but the set of
>light-switch states is open, by simple inspection of the
>expression. There is no natural number N such that 1/N = 0, yet for
>any natural K > 0 you can find a natural L > K such that 1/L < 1/K, so
>the partial sums are definitely an open set.
>
>wrt the "warp 2 blink"; I think, if my meagre understanding of special
>relativity is accurate, that as you approach the speed of light, the
>magnitudes of all vectors in the subspace generated by your vector of
>motion converge towards zero, so there's no meaning to the phrase
>"faster than light" -- motion becomes meaningless along that
>vector. You become infinitely close to everything along the line of
>motion. Space is actually supposed to expand and contract depending on
>how fast you move relative to other things in space.
>
>wrt visualizing the 4th dimension, it might help to think not in terms
>of the "passage" of time, since that's just one arbitrary, fixed
>subspace of 4-space. Think of the motion of 3d-humans through 4-space
>as equivalent to a sheet of paper suspended in 3-space. The paper has
>a fixed 2 dimensional subspace. No motion can be made on the paper
>which is orthogonal to the 2 dimensions of the page -- you cannot get
>"off" the page. Thus, even if you had complete freedom of motion in
>the page, if it were infinitely large and you had complete mastery of
>it, you would have no way of altering your elevation off the
>page. You're trapped in it. The only motion of vectors in the page
>which even makes sense in 3 dimensions is the motion of the *entire*
>page at once. If I lift the page, or drop it from a building, the
>whole space traverses the 3rd dimension at the same pace, and its
>vectors are still completely fixed in the subspace of the page
>(ignoring for the moment such mind games as folding the page or
>whatnot). I usually find that the most illuminating visualization of
>dimensions. If you like, you can also just think about the matrix math
>that underlies it all, but it's not quite as intuitive..
>
>and for what it's worth, roger penrose recently sued a toilet paper
>company because they stole one of his symmetry groups as a
>pattern.
>
>sleep tight,
>
>-graydon
>From: Graydon Hoare
>Reply-To: Graydon Hoare
>To: frances raftis
>Subject: Re: math things
>Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 16:05:26 -0500 (EST)
>
>If you were to paste enough famous academics' heads on poster boys, you
>could probably sell a calendar full and make a fortune.
>
>um, after 2 seconds the guy flipping the light has presumably worn out his
>fingers (having completed a power series), but if he's still at it and the
>strategy hasn't changed, the light should still just be hovering
>infinitely close to the supremum -- if I read the problem right it never
>achieves it. sigma abuse can be a crime; unless they're consenting
>submissives you really ought to let them go.
>
>I read the bit where penrose started thinking about quantum superposition
>in the thermally isolated segments of the cytoskeletal network as an
>explanation for the controlled feeling of consciousness in human minds,
>but he immediately begins backpedalling in later work because he doesn't
>want to want to be seen as promoting a theory that admits the plausibility
>of a conscious computer or ocean, and finds it displeasing that such
>things would have an inner life of their own. bloody fascist.
>
>you're right about truth, but math isn't about truth. it's about playing
>with things which make no sense to others, but are beautiful in their own
>way. My analysis teacher relayed this quote: "Mathematicians are like the
>french. Upon hearing anything in english, they immediately translate it to
>their own language, in which is means something completely different."
>
>-graydon
>
>
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: cosmobimbo@hotmail.com
>Subject: feynmann bagel stories
>Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 00:29:27 -0500
>
>what makes blue murder different than red murder?
>no I didn't find the secret message, you deconstructed your web page before I
>had a chance to look. what are you some kind of manic webpage monster?
>ps even if he'd have lived long enough, zeno would have hated leibnitz.
>
>-graydon
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: cosmobimbo@hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: feynmann bagel stories
>Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:00:15 -0500
>
>in fact there *are* bagel stories
>
>http://freeweb.pdq.net/shoe/stories.htm
>
>don't splay yourself too much, it can cause market instability.
>
>-graydon
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: cosmobimbo@hotmail.com
>CC: graydon@pobox.com
>Subject: Re: feynmann bagel stories
>Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:39:38 -0500
>
>you can make your own bagel story about feynman if you like. they
>have a "amazing bagel story generator" actually.
>
>what astonishes me is that I found this page only *after* you asked if
>there were bagel stories. I just asked the mother web for "bagel
>stories". That's completely absurd. the web must be destroyed before
>it consumes everything.
>
>you remind me, I mean to go to hart house today.. wonder when it closes.
>
>-graydon
>From: Graydon Hoare
>Reply-To: Graydon Hoare
>To: frances raftis
>Subject: stroboplastics
>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:39:11 -0500 (EST)
>
>you're taking an awfully big risk transmitting the number 23 over an
>unencrypted channel.
>
>ps. all those packing non sequiturs kept the poppy seeds just the right
>temperature.
>
>
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: oliver wendel jones
>Subject: chromoplastics
>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:23:29 -0500 (EST)
>
>it's pretty easy, being over your head. I mean I have the genetic
>advantage of being taller. it's not really fair at all.
>is there a prize?
>
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>Reply-To: Graydon Hoare
>To: Frances Absurdity Raftis
>Subject: phytoplastics
>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:35:23 -0500 (EST)
>
>see, you're really assuming I have control over the height of my
>cupboards. my landlord would be appalled it I went and adjusted everything
>to be the right height.
>
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: "welles fargo"
>Subject: pneumoplastiks
>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 16:52:49 -0500
>
>think evil in O2 is really predicated on how you want to describe the
>intents of entire elements. have read some "philosophy" on the matter
>by the chemists from california and they think it has to do with
>cosmic geometry or something wonderful like that, words like evil
>don't come up much. tend to think calling O2 good or bad on our terms
>is like the baby carrot calling the banker dishonest, but there's
>certainly -some- intent in a bottle of air. doubt is relates to bank
>heists or genocide tho. agreed death and perhaps most things are not
>well understood, but this isn't too disturbing is it? understanding is
>a lark.
>
>am in 2nd year math spec. with a sorta lame dog of a minor in
>computers to prop me up for time of inevitably getting sick of
>math. tho had a very odd & cranky day and left classes early because
>they were generally insulting to intelligence or else it's just that
>time of month and need to sleep.. mmm. ripe bananas, hot bath,
>semialgebras & fierce german techno.. you're still in mol bio yes?
>year 1 or 2?
>
>start using first person pronoun again?
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: tuber snaky
>Subject: rickshawmorphy
>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:43:22 -0500
>
>I have received twelve emails today, all of them blank, from a man
>named wilhelm wienemann who apparantly still has to learn how email
>works. it must be very important. he needs help. perhaps he is stuck
>in the bottom of a well with an animated evil potato.
>
>I don't know where quiz came from. john turturro? no, it was earlier
>than him..
>
>you should write science fiction about surfers in hawaii. when they
>complain that it's not in outer space or related to the internet,
>biotechnology, global warming, and the global ultra-corporations which
>occupy most SF, you can give them a snide look as though they're too
>stupid to understand the metaphor.
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: dust monkey
>Subject: one legged centipede
>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:51:35 -0500
>
>I agree, I'm quite pleased I managed to track down a new job which is
>all remote geek work with a crew in dallas, and lets me work *at*
>4am. JOY. I like the sunshine and everything but through the winter
>the only thing the daytime has to offer is more wind and more traffic.
>
>I'm actually vegetarian, so futomake isn't really #1 on my list. I
>really dig sushi tho, just not eel.
>
>A book, toilet paper and gum is just enough to make some little people
>made of paper, but then, I might get distracted and not finish. I'm
>easily distracted. like for instance, I might get up and make some
>waffles. A friend my roommate's been seeing off and on left us crate
>of 48 eggo waffles, on our back porch. Strange girl..
>
>wesley willis is a giraffe. he's not dangerous, because he's only 2
>inches tall. besides which giraffes are harmless (unless you're a bug
>or a tree). Not nearly as bad as elephants, which (no joke) actually
>knock over trees they don't like with their heads in order to let
>tastier grasses grow.
>
>you learned fake bellydancing? where, at work?
>I think I know some people at the CIA if you want I can put you in
>touch, but they might "disappear" you.
>
>-graydon
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: permanent creation
>Subject: principle of equivalence
>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:37:31 -0500
>
>coffee is my third weakness.
>ashe (from evil dead) whupped Wesley Willis' ass. Ashe whupped
>everyone's ass, including ripley, conan, and even the guy who was
>robocop before he got all messed up and had to wear the
>helmet. um. um. whatshisname.
>don't dispair tho. life isn't always as amok as we desire.
>
>- coming - down - off - sugar - high -
>
>hmm, I should go learn how statistics work.
>-g
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: samhan nem
>Subject: phree juph
>Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 23:49:07 -0500
>
>was in the area and thought I'd drop in but it's midnight and I need
>to make analysis homework happen. how you fixed for lobster? oh wait..
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: Astro chicken
>Subject: mon crayon est jeune
>Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 21:38:24 -0500
>
>I actually know everyone named ambrose. it's a hobby.
>catholics can be nice people, I just wouldn't want to be one
>myself.. there's a little too much clarity and conviction in that
>faith. I can only handle religions whose main philosophical conclusion
>is "we know squat, so lets just be friendly"
>
>mmm. goat cheese. so.. goddamn.. long.. since.. I've.. had.. any
>
>-markus milna
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: El Hector
>Subject: edgy squirrils
>Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 12:37:45 -0500
>
>3 members of the dirty dozen, mikhail baryshnikov, winston churchill,
>marlon brando, my best friend's bar mitzvah instructor with the wooden
>leg, the director of the CIA, francis bacon, hargrove montel, frank
>oz, and my last roommate -- dirty old goats every last one of
>them. Plus, there's a huge number of actual old goats who quality as
>dirty, either through goat sexual deviancy, orgiastic pagan goat blood
>festivals, goat gambling, goat pit fighting, or goat solvent abuse.
>
>I like to assume people are deeply, irrevocably corrupted until they
>hint me otherwise. as st augustine put it: peccatum poena peccati. sin
>is the punishment for sin. you get what you paid for.
>
>-thubrik
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: shoe maker
>Subject: fritz oswald
>Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 21:03:36 -0500
>
>I think goats, um, don't bathe. I think they just stand in the rain
>and get angry. or perhaps they lick themselves.. some animals do that
>to keep clean. Generally the mammals don't like submersion. Unless
>they're cetaceans or humans.
>
>it is entirely possible that you saw me in diablos, as I was there
>cramming for math. It is also entirely possible I didn't recognize
>you. what were you presenting your metamorphic self in today? I was
>wearing the same brown coat, a black sweater and a little necklace,
>had almost no hair and was grimacing uncontrollably at the vile
>theorems of vector calculus, and sipping coffee by the clock so as to
>peak precisely 25 minutes into my test, which went horrendously
>poorly.
>
>I got an interesting book about the life of evariste galois. it's pretty
>good. first fiction I've read in a while. he was a twerp, but a smart
>one.
>
>yow its windy..
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: neuro frito
>Subject: and so I challenge you!
>Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 00:57:57 -0500
>
>Oh please! I don't study physics. physics is for people who want to
>apply things.. I think this book sums it up nicely:
>
>"Now I see that there are four kinds of heroes. The first, and least,
>the Three Hundred Spartans, who combed their hair as the Persians
>converged on them. Second, Socrates, and those who sacrifice their
>life for a moral or ethical ideal. Third, the martyrs, like the young
>Saint Sebastian, who dies, and maybe still die, for their
>Faith. Fourth, and highest, Archimedes, the man who gave his life for
>nothing more than a circle. As the Roman sword rose above his head,
>Archimedes was not thinking of his country's welfare nor strengthened
>by a sense of moral or ethical righteousness. He was not looking
>beyond the blade to paradise. At that instant, sitting in a circle
>drawn on the sandy floor, he vanquished the sword through
>geometry. And when the sword fell, the old man was embraced at once by
>the circle he loved."
>
>if I recall, the colloquium was about fodor's new book, not the fate
>(!) of the universe.. perhaps we're thinking of different
>colloquii. was it the cog sci student union thingy? I didn't really
>have a choice about going, as it was co-scheduled against my test with
>kiumars, the mild-mannered mumbling manifolds TA. I wanted to go
>because I like that fella whose name I forget who asked me, the cog
>sci keener. damn my memory's bad. too .. much .. drugs!
>
>was all ready to go to hart house again but my roommate enslaved me to
>go buy groceries. he is true domestic evil. he decorates. bleah. I
>even paid the bills, yet still he torments me. I will shackle him to
>his bed and pour creamed corn all over him when he's not paying
>attention.. I shall go ride the bicycle of eternal friction tomorrow
>after differentials. the exercize high is pretty good. It's not
>*quite* as good as heroin, but then there's something to be said for
>moderation, especially if you're trying to wake up the next day and
>want to go to class.
>
>-bedoin smith
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: Jub Jub
>Subject: moulinex
>Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:56:21 -0500
>
>martyrdom is just self obsession taken to its illogical conclusion. I
>have no real patience for it. I agree entirely that the act of
>creating something is the essential joy of a discipline. merely
>sitting and contemplating is dull. But this is not the issue I am
>referring to. Motivation is the issue -- I spend hours programming for
>fun, as it provides me similar pleasure, but I need no worldly
>justification as to the *worthiness* of the activity. it doesn't
>actually have to be useful to anyone if it has some aesthetic or
>curiosity value to me. It is pleasing, so I do it. Clearly phisics can
>have such personal value, but the math department (I find) has less
>devotees of the almighty utilitarian greater good, and more people
>just enfatuated with playing with something they enjoy. I have the
>same criticism about the computer science dept. Too many want to make
>programs which cause someone to get rich or something "important" to
>get done; all fine and well for putting food on the table, but where
>is the passion in that? This is why I switched majors. The people in
>CS don't generally *care*. Many times I've been in a CS class and the
>instructor says "this is something somewhat mathematical, so we'll
>just skip it since it's non-critical to your careers" and then totally
>glosses over the most beautiful CS idea. That's really too bad.
>
>math is, as you say, very simple. I doubt it even requires 10
>completely distinct ideas. you have sets, you have the natural numbers
>(which are the cardinality of sets), and you have maybe 3-4 set axioms
>which they preserve. everything else is just a construction /
>exploration of the things you can make with sets. You know an attempt
>was made to actually formulate a proof of set axioms using set axioms?
>hehe. fools, oh well. It didn't work of course; got proved impossible.
>
>weight lifting eh? I've pretty much stuck to the bikes, or
>running. makes me feel quite delicious if I give it long enough. It's
>a slow activity, sorta hypnotic but very good.. long time to stretch,
>warm up, actually do it, cool down, and stretch; but then I actually
>*can* move the next day. perhaps I'll try the large mass moving and
>see what it does to/for me. the amount I giggle depends entirely on
>whether it's a funny feeling or a groovy feeling. sometimes I just
>smile.
>
>must head out now. differentials awaits.
>
>-pugmort
>
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: chavoise r monk
>Subject: dufresne
>Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:10:52 -0500 (EST)
>
>the difference between computers and bio is that when you're all done with
>a program at the end of a day, there's less of a chance that it will
>follow you home and eat you. when we start making robots with teeth and
>poisonous venom, maybe the perils will be equal.. but I think the
>principles are all the same -- playing with structures of simple things,
>teaching them to modify themselves and reproduce.
>
>extension of sensory organs is a worthy pursuit. I'm not sure how well
>conventional programming or biology techniques are suited to the task, but
>one can always invent new techniques.. I've always wondered what the
>heliosphere looks like in the colors I can't imagine.
>
>-graydon
>
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: yokimbe the yellowfish
>Subject: gazip moth stewy
>Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 01:19:52 -0500
>
>I don't work my arms out much -- didn't try chinups, but I doubt I
>could do [m]any. Perhaps I will work my arms up to it... I tried some
>of the bicep things and the thigh things, the hamstring thing, and one
>of the lower back things. there were moments, but it wasn't like
>wall-to-wall bliss.
>
>to fix sickness, ingest 2 quarts of water each 4 hours, either plain
>or boiled with ecinacea if you have any. Noah's sells it by the
>bag. Bathe twice a day, in really hot water, and sleep in a dark,
>quiet room the rest of the time. If you can't sleep, think about
>eggplant or bruce lee. Eat honey (your body does not need to work
>digest it) and bread, and the sickness will be gone in 2 days. you get
>sympathy whether its your fault or not. sick is bleh.
>
>When I was little, I once had a fever which caused me to hallucinate
>that my hands were turning to wood. it was horrifying. it's worse when
>you're a child though, and do not know how to control it at all.
>
>churchland, from what I've read of him, is just a materialist who
>likes to play devils advocate and try to get a rise out of other
>philosophers. does a damn fine job at it too..
>
>when I was 18, I was a hippie, and then a raver. I raved
>constantly. that's all I remember.. it was a good year. there was
>nothing else that needed doing.
>
>you missed a pretty good belly dance at milk. there was even a fire eater. :)
>
>-gourd the turnip
>
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: Antler Girl
>Subject: china
>Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 17:06:08 -0500
>
>hamilton is no place to be growing up. you're lucky you didn't get
>captured by a spinach monster. I was born there and left immediately,
>though I suppose not by my own choosing. having long hair can be fun,
>but having no hair is ecstatic. unless you subscribe to the theory
>that they are antennae for interstellar communication, in which case
>having no hair is just peaceful. Aside from the tranquility of math
>and programming, I haven't found anything that surpasses raves. I
>doubt I'm spicy enough to be a spice girl.
>
>blerp. just woke up. must use shower technology to regain
>sanit(y|ation). will by by around 6:30?
>-gfish
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: elvis costello
>Subject: vishnu mark 1
>Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 23:46:44 -0500
>
>spinach good. just ate too much curried spinach with my ex-boss and
>his bro before we proceeded to loot offices of work, ninj style. the
>lawyers are coming to lock the palce down. confiscation orders. got my
>too much coffee man comics, symplx techno disk and small bottle of
>emergency ibuprophen. erased all fingerprints, out thru the
>cieling. run run run.. spinach monster's coming!
>
>don't get me wrong, you got a fine mane. I's just sayin that sometimes
>life gets ya down, and a soft fuzzy head of stubble can be your only
>friend in this cruel, mixed up daffy world. Plus it helps if you're
>dancing a lot, as your hair smells less and you don't get as hot.
>
>mmm. winnipeg. harsh mistress of the coldest winter winds. have you
>been out there much since your relocation to the steel city? I have
>only been there a couple times, and not recently.
>
>"do not swallow. children under 6 years of age should use only a
>pea-sized amount and be supervised while brushing"
>
>-wronskian
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: LUH 3417
>Subject: bolsheviks and bratwurst
>Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:10:06 -0500
>
>yes, I'm afraid I'll be without the joy of belling this term as
>well. My last algebra mark was a scant 7 % above the 50 and I worked
>my fanny off for that. My consolation is that even if I have to take
>all 4 of my current courses again next year, I will *never* have to
>take another course with the algebraic sadist I spent the last 2 terms
>with. I love the topic dearly, but he really didn't want anyone there
>who wasn't willing to face the wrath of khan and the 9th circle of h-e
>double-hockey-sticks in order to enjoy a moment's basking in the
>symmetries of the dihedral-6 group.
>
>kyoto and its restaurant will surely last till your retirement.
>japanese aesthetics are da bomb. My favourite visual design is
>the japanese swan motif with the wings curled up into a circular
>variant. I could look at that all day. some things about japan are
>questionable; their restaurants and artwork are not.
>
>I believe if you find yourself actually staring at a welding torch,
>you will have much more serious visual problems than the mere fusing
>of contact lenses. Perhaps welding should be left for sometime with
>less distracting (and hazardous) workload. Do you have a scrabble kit?
>I need to work some tonight and tomorrow daytime to make money for
>rent and reading week. Am going to montreal to visit some german
>hackers I've recruited.. what are your evenings like this week?
>
>-gleemonex morphosyntactic automaton 403
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: lowercase M
>Subject: basement hovels
>Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 16:20:27 -0500
>
>ok, I'll come raid diabolos after my pacing russian guy stops pacing
>and darts out of his differentials class, shaking and muttering to
>himself. that will be, um, sometime shortly after 11.. I can't stay
>long tho. jserv and webslinger aren't working yet and I need to kick
>them (or whisper sultry suggestions in their ears) until they start
>playing nice.
>
>as for incompleteness, it could be a few different things. First off,
>it could be a feeling of ennui or spiritual emptyness which
>accompanies a long day of seemingly useful, but strangely
>dissatisfying activity. A feeling that the world, however nice, is
>just somehow missing the one thing you have been looking for.
>
>on the second hand, it could be you're talking about incompleteness of
>a normed vector space, like an n-dimensional set of the real numbers
>or something. In that case, incompleteness is the absence of
>completeness, which is the property that any cauchy sequence converges
>to a point in the space. A cauchy sequence being any sequence a[i] where
>there exist M, N > 0 such that
>
>m > M, n > N => |a[m] - a[n]| > |a[m+1] - a[n + 1]|
>
>i.e. elements in the sequence are getting closer together. Most useful
>spaces are complete. In fact, the reals are just a completion of the
>rationals. you just take sequences of rationals, and you take all
>limits of (infinite) cauchy sequences of rationals, and that's the
>reals.
>
>On the third hand (the so called "gripping hand") you could be
>referring the the very famous incompleteness, which is a property
>which kurt godel exhibited the space of first order predicate formulae
>to posess way back in the misty days of 1931, thus making david
>hilbert extremely angry.
>
>the idea is that you're trying to prove that something similar to
>arithmetic (predicate formulae in this case) is complete, i.e. that
>you can definitely prove any formula which happens to be true with
>respect to your axioms. Unfortunately it turns out if you are working
>with a countably infinite set with only finite axioms, you can encode
>the formula combinators (the sematic objects which combine formulas to
>form new ones, like conjunction, negation, existential qualification,
>etc) as terms themselves (for instance by allocating the first N
>numbers to refer to your combinators, and shifting all the other
>numbers down N entries) in a new set of formulae. Most importantly to
>the incompleteness theorem, you can encode the statement "this
>statement cannot be verified" as a sequence of terms, which you must
>then attempt to verify using the normal axioms. If you were to
>successfully verify it, the statement is false, which implies a
>contradiction, since no statement can simultaneously be verifiable and
>nonverifiable (this is an assumption you need to grant to your axioms,
>which most people assume math & set theory to posess). therefore it
>must be true, which means it must be unverifiable. But it is encoded
>in mathematics, so there exist formulae which are unverifiable but
>still true.
>
>it's kinda a cheap trick, but the guy got a lot of people steamed,
>including alonzo church and alan turing. turing was also sorta mad
>because he was homosexual and it was illegal in england at the time,
>but this just made matters worse. then the war broke out, and, well..
>
>fizzzzzzzzzzz.
>for my next trick. I approach the bed. will I arrive, or just
>converge?
>
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: labrat
>Subject: offending the french
>Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:45:23 -0500 (EST)
>
>ooooohhhh... you are so wrong about the bicycle of eternal friction. all
>you have to do is go as hard as you possibly can with some real fast
>techno as inspiration for > 25 minutes and all of a sudden a lovely
>shimmering blue euphoria takes over.. oh lordy, it's a warm summer
>afternoon in my head :) I think I shall go and sit myself within
>grabajaba and sip some of their mint tea, and see if I can make heads or
>tails of this multilinear integration handout we got. ackoglu seemed
>genuinely impressed with himself and he writes good handouts. if you want
>to take a break from lab prep I might be there for an hour or so.
>
>no, we never got to play scrabble. have you been down to cafe sopro
>sotto? they have a fine scrabble kit and let you play 24 hours a day in a
>very livingroomy setting while they feed you cake.
>
>You'd probably enjoy montreal, it's not too bad as towns go. very cheap
>rent, and nice people (except those who consider you a cockroach for being
>anglo). wine's cheap and corner-store accessible, the parks are about
>average, but it has a large pagan drumming festival every sunday in the
>summer, with much dancing and tomfoolery. And of course, they make good
>bagels.
>
>-blzf 22
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: pinky curruthers
>Subject: the turntables might wobble but they don't fall down
>Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 16:17:29 -0500
>
>I enjoyed having my ass whupped in scrabble, and ensuing conversation;
>perhaps I'll be back sooner rather than later in the week. will you be
>about on or after wednesday? I think allo stop has a return ride then.
>
>you're right about the cold going for the lungs -- although I have
>begun to sneeze now, I kinda like sneezing in a strange way. it's more
>exciting than just a hacking cough.
>
>I'll keep my eyes open for the criminally insane and the mallards. or
>the criminal mallards.
>From: Graydon Hoare
>Reply-To: Graydon Hoare
>To: repo girl
>Subject: rusty the chicken
>Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:31:38 -0500 (EST)
>
>I am checking sporadically my mail, although the connection is a little
>inconvenient and there's an adorable 17month old here to keep my
>attention. I arrived safely after suffering the wrath of 200 decibel queen
>and russian disco, and interminable inane conversation from 2 driving
>buddies, and 2 hours trudging through the cold to locate my yhost who
>decided to go out barhopping and specify only a vague semblance of the
>part of town he'd be in. ah well, ya get whatcha pay for. am getting over
>the sickness after coughing up a walleye and 2 muskrats. stefan and I are
>making great progress and soon the entire world will tremble at the
>awesomeness and funktasticality of the code which flows from the minds of
>berlin! stefan has also taught me a couple interesting things about the
>curvature of space and the tautological nature of gravitation when
>modeled as a wave. I'm not sure I understand but I nodded my head.
>
>I sent you a special present, I hope you get it.
>
>-g
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: finnagan
>Subject: towel, check. chicken, check. varsol, check.
>Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:50:44 -0500
>
>I find the notion of slot car racing, only with gigantic slot cars ten
>or twelve feet high, unspeakably exciting. I don't really know why.
>
>ps I'm at home now ya silly git, there's no need to type!
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: cosmobimbo@hotmail.com
>Subject: hardy oregano
>Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:22:22 -0500
>
>after exhaustive anagramatical analysis, it appears that your name can
>most amusingly be rearranged to spell
>
>"sniff cat's rear"
>
>some other notable contenders for the top slot:
>
>fairness craft
>facts refrains
>faces ran first
>fran cries fast
>fire ants scarf (or fine arts scarf)
>sniff rat races
>friar fans sect
>far finest scar
>staffer in cars
>stiff near scar
>can fear firsts
>
>If you include "marie" the list becomes somewhat enormous, and I
>haven't sorted through all of them. there's a lot of good words in
>there though.
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: cosmobimbo@hotmail.com
>Subject: the wind in the grass
>Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 21:56:12 -0500
>
>I *really* enjoy waking up next to you, even if it means we never get
>anything accomplished and my teeth fall out and I get aches and
>pains. and that is what I have to say.
>how did tutoring go?
>
>-g
>
>From: Graydon Hoare
>To: Trudgel Frunken Poose Pucker
>Subject: Gozerith von Armwold
>Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:21:55 -0500
>
>you are the chiggiest scrom I've ever licked beneath the moof. It
>pleases me to know your star monks are virulent, and moreover the time
>has come to say roe blad. So ish reinfully and mark 2 dates on your
>torrid rug peel: the finks of jova, and the ides of susp. Coming for
>you, am I.
>
>the challenge is set in liquidex and rubber stamped.
>
>-wuw moon vanj
>