Russel -
I only recently realized that *you* were the author of "Theory of
Nothing"... my wife brought home a copy (she is the consummate
hunter-gatherer of books) and I saw your name on it. I must have read
it when it was first published (6 years ago or so?) but lost track of
the copy...
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 09:19:28PM -0700, Steve Smith wrote:
> Russel -
>
> I only recently realized that *you* were the author of "Theory of
> Nothing"... my wife brought home a copy (she is the consummate
> hunter-gatherer of books) and I saw your name on it. I must have
> read it when it was
Russell -
I did post a few times to the emergence discussion group, but alas
didn't find to time required to do the essential reading of the tomes
discussing emergence, so eventually had to skip the discussion.
I *do* remember you posting now, but at the time did not appreciate
that you were t
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Russell -
>
> I did post a few times to the emergence discussion group, but alas didn't
>> find to time required to do the essential reading of the tomes discussing
>> emergence, so eventually had to skip the discussion.
>>
> I *do* remember
Doug -
What do they call it when people intersperse comments to an email
within the body of the quoted email?
Well, I think Nick referred to it as "Larding" and then found some
etymological foundation in adding layers of fat into leaner meats
it is probably mostly intended to reference th
I would take care with the term fluffing as there is a job title -
fluffer - and what a fluffer does is fluffing - but it is not something
anyone on this list would care to do, or so I assume.
davew
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013, at 03:04 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Doug -
What do they call it when
Thank you Nick. I'm been larding all day, (not on e-mail), and I didn't
know what to call it!
Merle
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Prof David West wrote:
> **
>
> I would take care with the term fluffing as there is a job title - fluffer
> - and what a fluffer does is fluffing - but it is not
Dave -
Thanks for the warning...
If you know Doug at all, you know this is precisely what he was
referring to, and while I admit to not being a likely job candidate in
any literal sense, I am happy to go with the metaphor, mostly just to
try to stay one-up on Doug if that is possible (or even
Steve,
I find it hard that you would say such things about me!
:-o
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Dave -
>
> Thanks for the warning...
>
> If you know Doug at all, you know this is precisely what he was referring
> to, and while I admit to not being a likely job candida
:)
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
> Thank you Nick. I'm been larding all day, (not on e-mail), and I didn't
> know what to call it!
>
> Merle
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Prof David West wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>> I would take care with the term fluffing as there is a j
Perhaps it is called larding because it is a more acceptable version of
spam? Although the only similarities are that both are content one might
not read (then again, one might). See *bacn*.
-Arlo James Barnes
*PostScript*: For a relatively SFW (though as we all know, little on the
web is actually
I'm pleased to announce that my book "Theory of Nothing" is now for
sale through Booksurge and Amazon.com. If you go to the Booksurge
website (http://www.booksurge.com, http://www.booksurge.co.uk for
Brits and http://www.booksurge.com.au for us Aussies) you should get
the PDF softcopy bundled with
It has come to my attention that the e-book version of Theory of
Nothing is encrypted with Fileopen, a proprietry encryption plugin
that is only available for MSWindows (and possibly MacOS, although I
couldn't verify that).
I have requested Booksurge make an unencrypted version of the the
e-book a
Nick: here's the paper Russell mentions below:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/nlin/0101006v1.pdf
Russell: is the paper a summary of the book? I realize that's out of
order, the paper came first.
Maybe we should finally chat about it here?
-- Owen
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Russell Standish
wro
No - the paper came first, by quite a number of years. Also the paper
"Why Occams Razor", which also feeds into the book.
The paper "The Importance of the Observer in Science", which I presented at the
peculiar "Two Cultures" conference, is indeed a summary of one of the
main themes of the book.
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