Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

2013-04-29 Thread Nicholas Thompson
rlo Barnes Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 10:54 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer I am rapidly becoming envious of a "generation" (there I said it) who will have the option of saying "everything I know, I lea

Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

2013-04-29 Thread Arlo Barnes
> > I am rapidly becoming envious of a "generation" (there I said it) who will > have the option of saying "everything I know, I learned from XKCD". I'm > already guilty of imagining that "everything I know, I learned from > Wikipedia". Wikipedia having it's own feeling of being self-generating.

Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

2013-04-29 Thread Steve Smith
Arlo sed: My knowledge about how I conceive of 'tautology' is currently limited to XKCD and the ensuing discussion [particularly here ]

Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

2013-04-29 Thread Arlo Barnes
> > Get a tan, have some pina coladas and come back rested and ready. rAmen. I subscribed to the Discuss list at about the same time as I subscribed to another list, that of the Aerican Empire (there is a strong sense of community there, and a lot of noisy signal). A year or so ago we had the mos

Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

2013-04-25 Thread Stephen Guerin
Doug, Your quips will be missed in the interim. Make it a quick one. Get a tan, have some pina coladas and come back rested and ready. -S On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Dear FRIAMers (even those of you who are a bit of an asshole now & then) > > I've come to the concl

Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Smith
l musings so he won't feel left out ;^) - S N *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Douglas Roberts *Sent:* Thursday, April 25, 2013 7:11 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer Dear FRIAMer

Re: [FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

2013-04-25 Thread Nicholas Thompson
] Separate Vacations This Summer Dear FRIAMers (even those of you who are a bit of an asshole now & then) I've come to the conclusion that it is best if we take separate vacations this summer. Accordingly, I have adjusted my incoming stream of email to skillfully detect any miss

[FRIAM] Separate Vacations This Summer

2013-04-25 Thread Douglas Roberts
Dear FRIAMers (even those of you who are a bit of an asshole now & then) I've come to the conclusion that it is best if we take separate vacations this summer. Accordingly, I have adjusted my incoming stream of email to skillfully detect any missives that originate from the FRIAM list, and have a