Hello Harry et al:
Thanks for your very kind and encouraging words.
Further about words: I think your item on communicating
with them, where the end leertts are the smae but the idensis have
odrer of the romdan vietary, did in fact get through on <fw>,
and I hope a few of us tried it out in one context or another ... and
if it wasn't you or another <fw>er who dispatched that
particular item, it may have come roaring by last week from a
colleague on another list. Can't recall right now. Seems
to be making the rounds; interesting regardless.
The following may also be of interest and could support one view
or another on the kinds of thinking we find ourselves doing:
<http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i30_hargadon.html>
Let's see: critical thinking, lateral thinking, linear
thinking ... hmm ... I hope what I hear somewhere in the background
isn't a gaggle of some minor deities with their sticky little fingers
straining and pulling at the controls of 'chimeric thinking', all
pointing and snickering and chortling and punching each other on the
shoulder and having us on.
And, if it turns out that they are, well, good for them -- and
for us, too! After all, as we all work away with our backs to
the wall, our shoulders to the wheel and our noses to the grindstone,
life is meant to be thoroughly enjoyed, is it not? ... 'explorator
excogito sapienter, ergo superstructum' ... ;-) ...
I'm confident that my botching of Latin clearly proves I am not
pretending to have any skill or scholarship inclinations in that
language; I just occasionally tend to find it to be a very useful and
interesting aid in shaping some aspects of reformulative thinking
about how we (ab)use language to express our shining thoughts, and how
thereby what we think are the best of our ideas sometime become
seriously reshaped in the most surprising ways ...
... as we all know, the challenge then is, of course, to make
good use of such unexpected gifts.
Cheers / Bob Este / Ph.D candidate / U of Calgary
