Re: [lace-chat] Question of language, again...
On Sat, 22 May 2004 20:29:59 -0400, Tamara wrote: From 45+ years ago, I seem to remember that there was a term when things moved in the 2+2+2 order (arithmetical progression?) And a different one when they moved in a 2x2x2 fashion (geometrical progression?) I need *both* those terms. I think... :) Right on both counts. (Sorry, just couldn't resist the pun.) -- A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston Steph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tatting, lace stitching page http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] :) Fwd: Bread Statistics
In a message dated 21/05/2004 00:52:19 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. A nationwide Just Say No To Toast campaign, with complete celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers. As a coeliac I fully welcome this campaign. About ruddy time too!!! Regards Liz Beecher I'm blogging now - see what it's all about To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Fwd: Question of language, again...
I think this one was really meant for the chat at large, not just for me. Leastways, it's of interest (or should be g) to everyone, which is why I'm forwarding. And, while I'm at it (ie the subject of forwarding)... I'd *really appreciate it* if y'all'd send the *decent* jokes (like the recent Bread Statistics) to the chat *directly*, for the next few months (till early November), instead of sending them to me for laundering first. That's mostly because of my new! improved! signature... :) Its barf to appreciation ratio seems to be running at a steady 2:1. Avital has accepted my (cogently logical, I'd like to think g) argument on why it ought to be permitted at all, but we both agreed that there was no reason at all, for me to *ram* it down everyone's throat 7 times a day... So, I have self-imposed a limit; no more than 2 messages a day on lace, and no more than 4 on chat. When you send a message to me to forward, for whatever reason (usually a disaffection with Arachne; you read, but you won't post), you clip one of the slots I permit myself for that day. If I forward *your* message (and parade my sig to everyone's indignation in the process), I do not feel as free to forward someone else's. Several of my sources are totally outside the *Arachne* loop (never mind *chat*); when they come up with something really funny, I do want to share it with y'all (as long as it's half-decent; otherwise, it goes via the subterrenean route). But, I *can not*, if I'd already expended my day's ration on forwarding stuff that nobody could/would have objected to (if it weren't for *my* sig)... I'll continue to forward jokes, to chat (and elsewhere) from the non-chat people, as long as I'm on chat. I'll even continue to forward the ones which you're not sure about (somewhat risquee) and will accept the blame for those. But I will no longer forward, to Arachne, *perfectly acceptable* messages from the members of Arachne. And, anyway, I'll be outa here, for 5 weeks, beginning June 21. Some of you will *hafta* learn to live without the umbilical cord... g From: M.A. From 45+ years ago, I seem to remember that there was a term when things moved in the 2+2+2 order (arithmetical progression?) And a different one when they moved in a 2x2x2 fashion (geometrical progression?) I need *both* those terms. I think... :) From about the same era, I remember it too: If a series is formed by always adding the same number, it's called an arithmetic progression. E.g. 1, 3, 5, 7 ... ; or 4, 9, 14, 19 ... If a series is formed by always multiplying by the same number, it's a geometric progression. E.g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ... ; or 2, 6, 18, 54 ... Doesn't matter what number you start with, it's the process which is important for the naming of the progression. So you and I have remembered the same thing; and so we're probably right. Until one of the other mathematicians on the list comes up with some new-fangled idea G. BTW, that 'and' is the same as 'times', 'or' is the same as 'plus' works in logic and in binary arithmetic (ask Danek) but not in common-or-garden everyday sums. I always maintained that arithmetic (sums) are not the same thing as mathematics. I can do mathematics - sums take a little longer. A lawyer was well into a lengthy cross-examination when he stopped and said: Your honor, a juror is asleep. The judge ruled: You put him to sleep; you wake him up. --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] :)? Fwd: fundraising
That is really scary... Although, when I think of it, it might be the result of the law that where political parties get their money from must be public (I think there's a law like that, although I'm not sure, maybe I'm getting my countries confused again g). In which case it seems like pretty annoying misuse of initially reasonable information. Weronika On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:57:05PM -0400, Tamara P. Duvall wrote: Got this from DS, and am forwarding to the chat-at-large (rather than through the subterrenean route), because, while somewhat political, it's unbiased, just reporting facts. And, I suspect, it's also fascinating (if I could only learn how to navigate it properly and milk it for all the info it contains g). It is also an interesting addendum to the -- periodically resurfacing on chat -- issue of privacy (and how much of it we have. Or not. As the case seems to be g). Having your lace postings bandied on Google may be unpleasant and, personally, I'm not overfond of the yearly Visa summary of my spending, but this is something else. To people who still have illusions of being able to keep themselves to themselves, it's *beyond* a bit scary... I had no idea that a track of the *checks* I write is a matter of public record; just as well I never could afford (or justify g) big political donations :) From: D.D. Dunno if you've seen this site: http://www.fundrace.org/ The money maps are pretty cool [...] The site also lets you look up what people have contributed, by address or by name. See who's contributed how much to whom in your neighborhood and bake them a cake / toilet paper their yard! (Yes, it's a bit scary.) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Freeway Lace Guild meeting
Hi, Last Saturday (i.e. the one before yesterday - I'm never sure what last and next mean in English) I went to the Freeway Lace Guild Meeting. I had lots of fun - thanks for everyone who was there and is on arachne! I started a bookmark, and spent exactly all of my money on a new pillow, tools and colored thread - fortunately one merciful sould gave all my new stuff a ride so that I didn't have to bike home for half an hour with two pillows hanging from my back g. I got to see other people's work, pretty bobbins and such - also I now know what tatting looks like. And one lady did the most amazing thing with her lace pillow - she needed the bobbins for something else, so she unwound the thread from *38 pairs* of bobbins in the middle of making a lace piece with them, and just left all of the thread there by itself. It looked very scary... I was too busy running around and trying to look at everything at once to do much work, but I got started on a bookmark and learned lots of new styles of spiders. Meeting other lacemakers was great! I'm really looking forward to meeting other lacemakers in Alaska and Sunnyvale in the summer. Weronika To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Re :)? Fwd: fundraising
Weronika Patena wrote: That is really scary... Although, when I think of it, it might be the result of the law that where political parties get their money from must be public You're absolutely right; there is a law which addresses that issue. Presumably, it's so that we can see which particular big interest is bribing our candidate so that, if we disagree with that big interest, we'll have the option of staying away from the candidate... But the whole thing leaks at both ends... :) On the one hand, my $25 isn't likely to sway the candidate's mind once he's in office (provided I had $25 to spare... When I do, I'm more likely to send it to UNESCO or Doctors Without Borders, then to a politician). On the other hand... I don't know how services are reported in US, but I know they didn't used to be reported in Poland g You got ferried for free from one end of the country to another... Your house and swimming pool were built at no cost to you... Money didn't change hands, so it was no business of the tax-folks, and everyone was happy (except Joe Schmoe)... Sometimes, I think I hate politics more than I do 'puters... :) --- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Happy Victoria Day
To all my Canadian buddies, I hope you're all enjoying the May long weekend. Anyone in the Maritimes able to go on a picnic? That is, is it spring yet? For a fact-filled page of when we've been celebrating the sovereign's birthday, go here: http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/jfa-ha/victoria_e.cfm There will be a parade in Victoria, BC - marching bands, pipe and drum corps, clowns, floats, and probably a facsimile Queen - sometimes we have a Victoria impostor as well as an Elizabeth II. bye for now Bev in Sooke BC (west coast of Canada) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
