On 9/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a finely tuned clock, indeed - except that it is now attached to a > detonator. It is nobody's intention that this be the way it is. But that > doesn't > help. > > And something or other about breakfeast cereals, but I'm not sure what. > > Art >
Well, that's disturbing imagery, so I'll send in my defusers and try to fill in more of the picture as I see it. There's this cold hearted business logic that'll chew up good people, spit em back zombies for The Establishment, and then there are good hearted people, still not chewed up yet, at least not completely (some were spit back for some reason? Not tastey?). You and I both know it well (the Business World) and work for it, but in different walkx of life. I come from a crony capitalist Philippines, and before that from some thriving Etruscan center, updated through centuries, a product of Overseas Schools, interlude in Florida. I had by 'n large wonderful teachers, who gave me great faith and hope in this life. Plus I was blessed with great parents. So I was already far in the direction of Loving Education, which is probably what got me into Princeton (on top of the high test scores, which many good schools don't even care about). I dove head first into computer science (by way of APL, including a graphical version tucked away in the E-Quad) and philosophy (1879 Hall, since made bigger). This all goes to explain the importance of the Global University meme in my writing (GU), which is acknowledged from the outset as a meme i.e. not some real administration with one apex hierarchy. We're multi-apex and we know it. We're a network of invisible colleges, with real campus footprint manifestations. The Fuller School is one of these invisible colleges, and our campus ain't shabby: radomes, Montreal Expo, a long shelf of books, an Archive at Stanford, numerous websites, a long pedigree of contributing professionals. I thank my lucky stars to have crewed among them, many of whom I'll never meet probably. But in a very big world, it's not stupid to have a crew as cosmopoliton and polyglot as Fuller's, a lot like New York's (which polyglot functioning also includes self policing as a necessary evil). I won't go back over the breakfast cereal business. That was a one-off, although a Geek Brand cereal could conceivably tease kids with Pythonic Equations amidst the fuzzy furries, with a DVD in the box, one of those Distros we've been talking about. Why not? Let's just say I'm not too worried about our working at cross-purposes sometimes, with respect to investors looking to pump up our snake, make it a Macy Day balloon or whatever (Portland is getting a new Macy's downtown, complete with hotel, and I think that's a very positive development). We can use edu-sig to compare notes, which I like doing, because I advertise my 4D Solutions as "a pioneer in open source" which is what Bucky called "thinking out loud" and took very seriously (there's a good bio-documentary about him by that title you could see sometime, first broadcast by WNET, which also did a website). Relevant: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fuller_b.html Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
