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Walter Watts
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The Virus chat room CAN be fun sometime:
« on: 2004-06-11 13:31:30 » |
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The Virus chat room CAN be fun sometime:
10:55:28 WW If the devil is in the detail, then the devil's followers are by necessity quite fecund in their prolific additions to said detail.
10:56:28 WW What's it called when you mix too many metaphors together?
10:56:56 WW whatever it is, I think it's in the dictionary under WW
10:56:57 rhino dunno, a metaphor pandaemonum?
10:56:58 Kid-A Kid-A (~Dave@[death to spam].217.137.109.80) has quit IRC [Quit: We wanna be free to ride on machines without being hassled by the man, and we wanna get loaded]
10:58:01 WW mixed metaphor
10:58:01 WW n.
10:58:01 WW A succession of incongruous metaphors, as in The negotiator played his cards to the hilt.
10:58:04 rhino the "devil in the detail" idea was a good one
10:58:35 WW but does it have "BALLS" 
10:58:43 rhino sounded like a fecund meme 
10:58:52 WW probably, just no receptive eggs
10:58:58 WW please stop me
10:59:21 rhino try it in the mailing list, as a thought of the day
10:59:44 rhino let it seek eggs
10:59:58 WW I was gonna say you can only fuck one person at a time, but in this day of the Internet, that's not true anymore
10:59:59 Lukian Lukian (~wizard@[death to spam].61.29.69.188) has quit IRC [Read error: Connection reset by peer]
11:00:36 rhino no, it is not...
11:00:42 WW see, there's eggs leaving right in the midst of this brilliance
11:01:41 WW maybe they're infected and are in a hurry to infect others we don't know about
11:02:07 WW So we can read it a year later in somebody elses Best-Seller
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Re: virus: The Virus chat room CAN be fun sometime:
« Reply #1 on: 2004-06-11 16:50:35 » |
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[Walter]
The Virus chat room CAN be fun sometime:
10:55:28 WW If the devil is in the detail, then the devil's followers
are by necessity quite fecund in their prolific additions to said
detail.
<snip>
[rhinoceros]
Something else which came up during this enjoyable chat with Walter in
the #virus IRC channel was a part of this story I read recently:
The Ultimate in Anty-Particles
http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/langton.html
<snip>
A thin woman with spiky hair wore a T-shirt labeled "Watch This
Space." There was an overexcited fuzzicist who was busily explaining a
flexible extension of conventional logic to three skeptical
constructivists who wanted to make it more rigid. And a nerdish type in
one corner was madly tapping the keys of a laptop computer.
I grinned and began to relax. The trip was going to be as
intellectually rewarding as I had hoped, after all. I introduced myself
to spiky hair and T-shirt, whose name turned out to be Louise. "I'm
watching," I said.
"Uh?"
"'This Space.' I'm not seeing anything unexpected."
She gave me a funny look, as if she was trying to work out whether I
was being sexist. "It's for the Equation," she said. "When they find
it."
"The Equation?"
"Mind you, I'm not very hopeful of a quick breakthrough now that
those idiots in Congress have canceled the Superconducting Super
Collider."
"Oh, that equation," I said. "The Theory of Everything." She was a
fundamentalist; I should have picked that up.
<end snip>
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