Re: [FRIAM] Freeman Dyson and Homo Sapiens Exploitatus

2009-03-31 Thread Pamela McCorduck
It almost makes me glad I brought up rutabagas. Anyway, I spenched my morning tea all over my screen. Thanks, Doug. P. On Mar 30, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: Ok, enough yammering about rutabagas. I don't carrot all for this line of discussion. Promiscuous potatoes, on the

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Locovores

2009-03-31 Thread PPARYSKI
Gabriel's just north of Santa Fe on 84/285 and La Chosa have excellent New Mexican food. The O'Keeffe Cafe and 315 have fine French cuisine Jinja has good Asian food & India House has decent Indian food Andiamo has good, but not great Italian fare (strange that SF doesn't have a fine Italian res

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Locovores

2009-03-31 Thread Nicholas Thompson
The o'keefe cafe has FRENCH food? That bends my east coast mind. and 315? Tell me more. True french cooking is more than usually respectful of the ingredients, so I am inclined to pursue these leads. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark Universi

[FRIAM] vol 69, #21

2009-03-31 Thread peggy miller
1) I agree with the below quoted thoughts of Steve Smith -- and 2) Duh ... how stupid am I? .. I thought the joke about Idaho was a reference to gardening -- as in "hoe" ... maybe Doug needs to get out there with the soil more! Or go to Germany for a vacation where it is legal .. Peggy Scott Smi

Re: [FRIAM] vol 69, #21

2009-03-31 Thread Douglas Roberts
Secret confession time: (Put the tea down, Pamela) I deeply, sincerely wanted to mash that promiscuous spud. Alternatively, I'd consider a trip to Germany... --Doug On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:18 AM, peggy miller wrote: > 1) I agree with the below quoted thoughts of Steve Smith -- > and 2) D

Re: [FRIAM] vol 69, #21

2009-03-31 Thread Steve Smith
peggy miller wrote: 1) I agree with the below quoted thoughts of  Steve Smith  -- Anyone who's fallen out of a canoe knows ... Articles on big thinkers like Dyson get me all nostalgic sometimes. And here I thought only Nick Thompson read my rants all of the way through (and then

Re: [FRIAM] vol 69, #21

2009-03-31 Thread Douglas Roberts
Steve, I actually read all the way through each of your rants, and always with awe, because of 1. the amount of time & energy you spend on them, 2. the perfect punctuation & grammar, and 3. the fact that each time you seem to be pursuing the rant instead of other programmatic (read: m

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Locovores

2009-03-31 Thread pparyski
Hi Nick!  Yes 315 and the Okeefe Cafe feature French cuisine.  Et c'est tres bon! P -Original Message- From: Nicholas Thompson To: friam@redfish.com Sent: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 9:53 am Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Locovores The o'keefe cafe has FRENCH food?  That bends my east coas

[FRIAM] SF Fine Italian does exist

2009-03-31 Thread Leigh Fanning
>> Andiamo has good, but not great Italian fare (strange that SF doesn't have a fine Italian resto) Oh, but it does: http://osteriadassisi.net/ Leigh FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. Jo

Re: [FRIAM] SF Fine Italian does exist

2009-03-31 Thread McNamara, Laura A
Osteria is fabulous. L. -Original Message- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Leigh Fanning Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:34 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] SF Fine Italian does exist >> Andiamo

Re: [FRIAM] vol 69, #21

2009-03-31 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Yes. I agree on all points. I think Steve has a future as a professional ranter. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ - Original Message - From:

[FRIAM] restaurants

2009-03-31 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Perhaps we should form a once-a-month supper club. It might be nice to gnash spouses. Note the use of modal language. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

Re: [FRIAM] vol 69, #21

2009-03-31 Thread Dede Densmore
As upset as I got with Steve for that long-ago poem (he'll remember), I, too, always read all the way through his rants; and I do it mostly because, yes, the writing is truly impressive. Dede On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Yes. I agree on all points. I think Steve ha

Re: [FRIAM] SF Fine Italian does exist

2009-03-31 Thread Scott R. Powell
Trattoria Nostrani on Johnson Street is one of the best Italian restaurants in the Southwest with a prodigious selection of Italian wines. Drawbacks - the cost and the occasionally fractious personality of one of the owners. http://www.trattorianostrani.com/ And just up the street is the O'Keeffe.

Re: [FRIAM] restaurants

2009-03-31 Thread Scott R. Powell
Gnash or nosh, Nick? Scott Powell On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Perhaps we should form a once-a-month supper club. It might be nice to > gnash spouses. Note the use of modal language. > > Nick > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Pr

Re: [FRIAM] SF Fine Italian does exist

2009-03-31 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Now I see why I have not heard of these restaurants! Okeefe's has a prix fixe of $70 per person for dinner. I guess the 28 is for lunch? N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/

Re: [FRIAM] SF Fine Italian does exist

2009-03-31 Thread Scott R. Powell
No, that's a dinner prix fixe as well. Scott Powell On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Now I see why I have not heard of these restaurants! > > Okeefe's has a prix fixe of $70 per person for dinner. I guess the 28 is > for lunch? > > N >

[FRIAM] Have your browser do some work for a change! Help some GUTS-XL/Challenge students

2009-03-31 Thread Stephen Guerin
Please help out Max and Harsha test their distributed computing project. Point your browser to http://mds.g-r-c.com/ and leave it running while you're not using your machine just for the next day or so. More info below from their mentor, Nick Bennett. -Stephen From: Nick Bennett Date: M

[FRIAM] Merle is posting something interesting for you guys

2009-03-31 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 1:30 – 3:00 pm Location: 1008/272 & 274 C. Meghan Starbuck, Assistant Professor of Economics at New Mexico State University Will present recent work on: An agent-based model for carbon tax policy in the United States Abstract: This paper uses an a