Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-26 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Steve Smith wrote at 04/25/2013 08:08 PM:
 But let's see if something emerges on FOAR
 of merit regarding Deutsch and the Multiverse!

I subscribed.  But, _sheesh_, 41 e-mails since I stopped reading
yesterday. And lots of acronyms and jargon.  It'll take quite an
investment to ramp up.  Thanks for the link Russell.

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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-25 Thread glen ropella

Yeah, but at least FOAR allows top-posting!  Nothing on the internet is
more irrational than the bias against top-posting.  And I mean it.  The
bias against top-posting is the lower bound of rationality.  Hm.  Would
it be oxymoronic to claim the existence of an upper bound on
irrationality?  Is there an ordering relation on irrational reasoning?

On 04/24/2013 10:01 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
 Nothing I love better than being thrown out of a bar.   Exchanging a few
 blows with the bouncers, maybe landing a rabbit punch or two on the way
 through the door and coming back the next night for another round!
 
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  # Don't feed the trolls. If someone posts something obviously
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Keep responses to more subtle points that you disagree with.
 
 If FRIAM had these standards, half of us would be banned within the
 week, and the remaining lurkers would never post... the sound of *no*
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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Holmes
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:05 AM, glen ropella g...@ropella.name wrote:


 Yeah, but at least FOAR allows top-posting!  Nothing on the internet is
 more irrational than the bias against top-posting.  And I mean it.  The
 bias against top-posting is the lower bound of rationality.  Hm.  Would
 it be oxymoronic to claim the existence of an upper bound on
 irrationality?  Is there an ordering relation on irrational reasoning?

 On 04/24/2013 10:01 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
  Nothing I love better than being thrown out of a bar.   Exchanging a few
  blows with the bouncers, maybe landing a rabbit punch or two on the way
  through the door and coming back the next night for another round!
 
  Rules for the anti-FOAR list:
 
   # Use of profanity, insults or excessive ad-hominem is discouraged.
 Please keep this civil.
   # Keep things on-topic. If your posting can't be related to something
 in the books mentioned above, please take it offline.
 
   # Don't feed the trolls. If someone posts something obviously
 outrageous in order to stir up trouble, simply don't respond to it.
 Keep responses to more subtle points that you disagree with.
 
  If FRIAM had these standards, half of us would be banned within the
  week, and the remaining lurkers would never post... the sound of *no*
  hands clapping!


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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-25 Thread Marcus G. Daniels

On 4/25/13 8:05 AM, glen ropella wrote:

Nothing on the internet is more irrational than the bias against top-posting.

On 4/25/13 8:59 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:

  Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Top-posting encourages those that don't dissect one proposition at a 
time but just want to give their Facebook Analysis.  (Thumbs up, thumbs 
down without defending the details of their position.)


Marcus


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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-25 Thread Nicholas Thompson
See below. 

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Robert Holmes
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:00 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

 

[NST NST] Q: Does anybody know of an algorithm that creates an archive
(in Word, Preferably) of posts in their actual temporal order? 
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
[NST == Thanks, Robert, for the clarification.  ==NST] 

 

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:05 AM, glen ropella g...@ropella.name wrote:


Yeah, but at least FOAR allows top-posting!  Nothing on the internet is
more irrational than the bias against top-posting.  And I mean it.  The
bias against top-posting is the lower bound of rationality.  Hm.  Would
it be oxymoronic to claim the existence of an upper bound on
irrationality?  Is there an ordering relation on irrational reasoning?


On 04/24/2013 10:01 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
 Nothing I love better than being thrown out of a bar.   Exchanging a few
 blows with the bouncers, maybe landing a rabbit punch or two on the way
 through the door and coming back the next night for another round!

 Rules for the anti-FOAR list:


  # Use of profanity, insults or excessive ad-hominem is discouraged.
Please keep this civil.
  # Keep things on-topic. If your posting can't be related to something

in the books mentioned above, please take it offline.


  # Don't feed the trolls. If someone posts something obviously

outrageous in order to stir up trouble, simply don't respond to it.
Keep responses to more subtle points that you disagree with.

 If FRIAM had these standards, half of us would be banned within the
 week, and the remaining lurkers would never post... the sound of *no*
 hands clapping!



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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-25 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 09:28:31AM -0600, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
 On 4/25/13 8:05 AM, glen ropella wrote:
 Nothing on the internet is more irrational than the bias against 
 top-posting.
 On 4/25/13 8:59 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:
   Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
 Top-posting encourages those that don't dissect one proposition at a
 time but just want to give their Facebook Analysis.  (Thumbs up,
 thumbs down without defending the details of their position.)
 
 Marcus

There's plenty of other things way more annoying than top-posting. Not
removing irrelevant parts of the cited text is one. Going off on a
wild tangent unrelated to the original conversation another. But
hardly worth a ban - people can filter and ignore stuff that is poorly
presented.

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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-25 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:01:55PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
 Nothing I love better than being thrown out of a bar.   Exchanging a
 few blows with the bouncers, maybe landing a rabbit punch or two on
 the way through the door and coming back the next night for another
 round!
 
 Rules for the anti-FOAR list:
 
  # Use of profanity, insults or excessive ad-hominem is discouraged.
Please keep this civil.
  # Keep things on-topic. If your posting can't be related to something
in the books mentioned above, please take it offline.
 
  # Don't feed the trolls. If someone posts something obviously
outrageous in order to stir up trouble, simply don't respond to it.
Keep responses to more subtle points that you disagree with.
 
 If FRIAM had these standards, half of us would be banned within the
 week, and the remaining lurkers would never post... the sound of
 *no* hands clapping!
 
 Thanks!
  - Steve

Well nobody's been banned yet, aside from a few blatant spammers. And the
rules have been followed pretty well, except perhaps for the staying
on topic one - that gets stretched quite a bit at times. But a good
old free-for-all on Deutsch's multiverse will be definitely on-topic!

Cheers

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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Smith

Russel -

Thanks!  Actually, I didn't find anything on the description pages about 
banning


I thought it was *your* reference to banning (or maybe Glen) that I was 
responding to.  Top posts and all that...


I myself, am probably too rambly/tangenty for any list less seasoned by 
my presence than this one.  But let's see if something emerges on FOAR 
of merit regarding Deutsch and the Multiverse!


- Steve
If FRIAM had these standards, half of us would be banned within the 
week, and the remaining lurkers would never post... the sound of *no* 
hands clapping! Thanks! - Steve

Well nobody's been banned yet, aside from a few blatant spammers. And the
rules have been followed pretty well, except perhaps for the staying
on topic one - that gets stretched quite a bit at times. But a good
old free-for-all on Deutsch's multiverse will be definitely on-topic!




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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-24 Thread glen
Steve Smith wrote at 04/23/2013 05:45 PM:
 I am just now skimming a book, _Shop Class as Soulcraft_ by Matthew B.
 Crawford.

Added to my wish list!  Thanks.
https://www.powells.com/biblio/9780143117469

 I believe that some of the discontent being expressed on this list,
 perhaps most acutely attributed to Doug, aka TrollBoi (grin),  is
 roughly predicated on the assumption that there is a whole lot of
 *talking* going on and not (necessarily) a whole lot of *doing* 

Well, you also have to consider that this is a mailing list.  If I still
lived in Santa Fe, I'd meet with y'all on Fridays and I like to think
there'd be more doing from my end. ... or maybe not.  But on a mailing
list, what else is there but talk?  There can be _links_ to projects,
and with other tools, there can even be collaboration.  But it seems to
me that anyone who subscribes to a mailing list shouldn't expect
anything more than talk.

Expecting something else would be akin to insanity, like expecting your
hammer to get up and dance for you.

 even (perhaps?) in the form of *careful* thought, which in my book is
 a form of *doing*. 

That's a consideration.  It seems to me that it's the _type_ of talk
that irritates Doug, not that talk is the only thing that exists on a
mailing list.  But because Doug almost never participates in the
discussion (other than to ridicule it), it's difficult to know what type
of discussion he would prefer.  Eric's foray into the relationship of
the Higg's mechanism to the cosmological constant seemed well-tuned. It
would be exciting to see Doug (or anyone else) launch into potential
mechanisms for inflation or related to metaphysical hypotheses for what
might go on outside our universe.

Personally, I'd love to see people smarter than me discuss David
Deutsch's multiverse.

 I share Nick's hope (more a belief) that there is in fact a dialectic
 ongoing within these frayed and tangled threads...

Well, FWIW, I learn quite a bit from this list.  To me, it's less about
mind-changing and more about fleshing things out in a way not previously
conceived.

 Doug alluded to there being no shortage of *pontification* here, and
 while I think I *do* feel that from time to time, here and there, what I
 suppose I feel I hear more of is *speculation* which I happen to hold in
 high esteem...

I don't feel the need to classify interactions as pontification or
speculation so much.  I do _try_ to classify things, but mostly for
whatever tiny audience I might have.  If it were up to me, all
classifications would come with a time/space/context caveat, because
they're always false.  As a result, pontification is not pontification.

To invert the focus, if a classification I made remains stable for a
long time or across many contexts, then I begin to worry that I'm stuck
in some hobgoblin hyper-consistency rut.  I've either stopped learning
... or perhaps I've become God. And if I were to bet on which is most
likely, I'd take the former. ;-)

 There are a number of topics of discussion here which do little to move
 me.  It is within the context of *those* discussions that I find myself
 judging others' contribution as being possibly idle or worse,
 vainglorious.

I think the key to happiness is stated well by Nick's outburst:

Nicholas Thompson wrote at 04/23/2013 12:52 PM:
 Just do your thing. Don’t feel judged when other people do a
 different thing, don’t feel slighted when other people don’t want to
 do your thing, don’ t judge others for doing something you don’t
 understand. Just do you damned thing. It’s really quite easy.

One side issue, of course, is sheer volume. You can't read/hear/see
everything.  So, you have to filter.  You can rely on others to filter
for you, or you can filter yourself.  For some reason, I'm comfortable
filtering things for myself.  I can hear speeches from Obama, Bush, or
Ahmadinejad and decide for myself what to believe and what not to.  I
enjoy reading false flag nonsense from the nutjobs on the internet.
But when I don't want to read it, it's easy to ignore.

If you haven't developed these ignorance skills, then deluges of
information (high or low signal-to-noise) can be difficult to deal with.
 My autistic nephew, in particular, has a very tough time choosing which
information to pay attention to and which to ignore.  For such people,
tools like procmail, bayesian spam filters, and peer-reviewed journals
are critical.

There is a personality type, however, that won't willingly give in to
such constraints.  They _want_ to read/hear/see everything, even though
they can't.  When/if they miss a piece of information, they feel left
out, anxious, or somehow inadequate.  I think it's a type of obsessive
compulsive disorder.  One of my previous bosses was like this.  He was
so embarrassed when/if you pointed out an article or factoid that he
wasn't aware of, he would either _lie_ and claim he knew about it or use
some defense mechanism (like pretending he was late for something to cut
the 

Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Smith

Glen -

Thanks for throwing down here.  While I agree with your point made a 
while back that we could drive a truck or a train through our likely 
differences in opinion about this and that, I appreciate that you seem 
to have a similar bandwidth to my own... it doesn't seem to phase you to 
sort through the relatively high volume of this list, and more pointedly 
*my* high volume.

I believe that some of the discontent being expressed on this list,
perhaps most acutely attributed to Doug, aka TrollBoi (grin),  is
roughly predicated on the assumption that there is a whole lot of
*talking* going on and not (necessarily) a whole lot of *doing*

Well, you also have to consider that this is a mailing list.  If I still
lived in Santa Fe, I'd meet with y'all on Fridays and I like to think
there'd be more doing from my end. ... or maybe not.  But on a mailing
list, what else is there but talk?  There can be _links_ to projects,
and with other tools, there can even be collaboration.  But it seems to
me that anyone who subscribes to a mailing list shouldn't expect
anything more than talk.
Yes, of course... which is why I brought up CarefulThought(tm) later... 
but of course *that* begs the classification issue you so nicely 
illuminated.

Expecting something else would be akin to insanity, like expecting your
hammer to get up and dance for you.
I've seen it happen... but I think I was using a sawzall to cut through 
the 1x8 it was sitting on at the time.

even (perhaps?) in the form of *careful* thought, which in my book is
a form of *doing*.

That's a consideration.  It seems to me that it's the _type_ of talk
that irritates Doug, not that talk is the only thing that exists on a
mailing list.  But because Doug almost never participates in the
discussion (other than to ridicule it), it's difficult to know what type
of discussion he would prefer.
grin  Doug, IMO (as a meat-space friend) prefers to have lots of talk 
going on around him so that he can cherry-pick particularly egregious 
(or not) things to make fun of, often to good effect.   I'm used to 
it... just as his cats are used to his game of cat bowling...  animals 
in general but mammals (and birds) in particular seem to be quite adaptable.

   Eric's foray into the relationship of
the Higg's mechanism to the cosmological constant seemed well-tuned. It
would be exciting to see Doug (or anyone else) launch into potential
mechanisms for inflation or related to metaphysical hypotheses for what
might go on outside our universe.

Personally, I'd love to see people smarter than me discuss David
Deutsch's multiverse.

Yes, me too...

I share Nick's hope (more a belief) that there is in fact a dialectic
ongoing within these frayed and tangled threads...

Well, FWIW, I learn quite a bit from this list.  To me, it's less about
mind-changing and more about fleshing things out in a way not previously
conceived.
referencing forward again, I also appreciate the serendipitous factoids 
others offer up, but in my case, it includes entirely new ways of 
thinking about something as opposed to simply hanging more hats on the 
existing coat tree that seems to be my mind. Alternative structurings of 
said complex adaptive coat-tree if you will.

Doug alluded to there being no shortage of *pontification* here, and
while I think I *do* feel that from time to time, here and there, what I
suppose I feel I hear more of is *speculation* which I happen to hold in
high esteem...

I don't feel the need to classify interactions as pontification or
speculation so much.  I do _try_ to classify things, but mostly for
whatever tiny audience I might have.  If it were up to me, all
classifications would come with a time/space/context caveat, because
they're always false.  As a result, pontification is not pontification.
Agreed.  While someone may speak authoritarially and conclusively (in 
tone) on some topic which I happen to already know plenty about or 
perhaps on the opposite end, have little interest in, I understand that 
to others, the same stuff may be excruciatingly illuminating and 
interesting.

To invert the focus, if a classification I made remains stable for a
long time or across many contexts, then I begin to worry that I'm stuck
in some hobgoblin hyper-consistency rut.  I've either stopped learning
... or perhaps I've become God. And if I were to bet on which is most
likely, I'd take the former. ;-)
It is the nudging me out of hyper-consistency ruts that I value more 
than simple additional factoids and even minor parallax offerings 
(referring back to Nick's interest in dialectic).   I think I share with 
you a general preference for, or appreciation of, a many worlds 
interpretation of sentience.  Each one of can/should/and-defacto-does 
live in a separate universe (or even multiverse in some cases) 
constructed of our own experiences and intrinsic nature.  Nick may hold 
high some ideal of a convergent unification of those within an 
individual and a group and perhaps 

Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-24 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 04:00:15PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
 Glen -
 
 Personally, I'd love to see people smarter than me discuss David
 Deutsch's multiverse.
 Yes, me too...

You could always come over to FOAR for that sort of discussion. Or
even FOR, if you don't mind the potential for being banned for some
arbitrary reason (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/blog/?p=5).

Cheers

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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Smith
Nothing I love better than being thrown out of a bar.   Exchanging a few 
blows with the bouncers, maybe landing a rabbit punch or two on the way 
through the door and coming back the next night for another round!


Rules for the anti-FOAR list:

 # Use of profanity, insults or excessive ad-hominem is discouraged.
   Please keep this civil.
 # Keep things on-topic. If your posting can't be related to something
   in the books mentioned above, please take it offline.

 # Don't feed the trolls. If someone posts something obviously
   outrageous in order to stir up trouble, simply don't respond to it.
   Keep responses to more subtle points that you disagree with.

If FRIAM had these standards, half of us would be banned within the 
week, and the remaining lurkers would never post... the sound of *no* 
hands clapping!


Thanks!
 - Steve



On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 04:00:15PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote:

Glen -

Personally, I'd love to see people smarter than me discuss David
Deutsch's multiverse.

Yes, me too...

You could always come over to FOAR for that sort of discussion. Or
even FOR, if you don't mind the potential for being banned for some
arbitrary reason (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/blog/?p=5).

Cheers




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[FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-23 Thread Steve Smith
I am just now skimming a book, _Shop Class as Soulcraft_ by Matthew B. 
Crawford.   It relates to the (meta) discussion(s) at hand in the 
following manner:


Crawford has a BS in Physics and a PhD in Philosophy yet chooses to make 
his living as a Motorcycle Mechanic (supplemented by writing books like 
this one).   He apprenticed as an electrician starting at age 14 and 
between his BS and his PhD worked as an electrician (residential), under 
his own shingle. His voice is more like that of Henry Petrotski, 
Michael Pollan, or Bill McKibben than Robert Persig, but the motorcycle 
tie-in is powerful.  Especially if you ride and maintain motorcycles.


Crawford is erudite and astute in his writing and apparently in his 
life.  He would likely support Glen's regular assertions that *doing* 
matters more than *thinking* or maybe more pointedly: *doing* is what 
matters, and *thinking* is another matter altogether.  And this is a man 
who obviously spent a lot of years training his *thinker*, despite also 
having spent his time working with his hands and choosing to continue to 
do so on a daily basis.


I believe that some of the discontent being expressed on this list, 
perhaps most acutely attributed to Doug, aka TrollBoi (grin),  is 
roughly predicated on the assumption that there is a whole lot of 
*talking* going on and not (necessarily) a whole lot of *doing* even 
(perhaps?) in the form of *careful* thought, which in my book is a form 
of *doing*.   (more on this on Glen's thread maybe).


I share Nick's hope (more a belief) that there is in fact a dialectic 
ongoing within these frayed and tangled threads... I certainly will 
claim to have been informed by others' perspectives and persuaded by 
their reasoned arguments.  I very much appreciate Nick's attempts to 
nudge various threads back into some form of dialectic.  I don't know 
that my own efforts are as effective, though I do have plenty of 
off-list communication amongst some of the folks I know here independent 
of FRIAM that tells me that I do at least provide entertainment or it's 
weak cousin, distraction.


Doug alluded to there being no shortage of *pontification* here, and 
while I think I *do* feel that from time to time, here and there, what I 
suppose I feel I hear more of is *speculation* which I happen to hold in 
high esteem...  following my own round-n-round-the-mulberry-bush with 
Glen on Scientific Method and in particular Hypothesis Generation.   
Speculation is either part of or one mechanism of hypothesis generation 
(in my experience).


There are a number of topics of discussion here which do little to move 
me.  It is within the context of *those* discussions that I find myself 
judging others' contribution as being possibly idle or worse, 
vainglorious.  (Just to pontificate and tangent, did anyone here know 
that vainglory was once it's own deadly sin independent of vanity 
which is just an expression of pride?).


I am, despite being a programmer by trade (once full time, now only 
incidentally) and a computer scientist (partly by training, much by 
practice), not terribly interested in the details of the latest nuances 
of programming languages whether that be JavaScript, Python, or 
Haskell.  Nor of the latest details of network security or cryptography. 
  Or the best cell phone coverage/plan/device/snafu. But I mostly just 
skim over them, see if there is a gem I can learn from and go on.   Gawd 
knows I have enough things to have opinions on without including 
detailed nuances of these bits of tradecraft.


I am, at best, an armchair Cosmologist.  I've been around (BS Physics in 
the 70's, 30 years at LANL) deep physics and the cosmology that it 
supports to feel that I've heard it all.  I *love* the many things 
that evolved through the 80's and 90's in this arena but I have ceased 
to keep up... so again, I just read on through and look for nuggets 
without getting my knickers in a twist if I hear something that sounds 
wrong to me or if I simply get bored.   I am not easily bored, but some 
of the talk here (probably a near perfect complement to what bores Doug) 
bores *me* to distraction.


But I *love* learning.  I love my own process of learning by doing, but 
more to the point, many acts along the continuum of learning by 
hypothesis generation and testing (with iteration).   I *love* watching 
others exercising their curiosity and get rewarded in many ways.  And 
this is the very best part of FRIAM... when someone reports or shares a 
new discovery they just made (themselves more than in the popular press) 
or insight they had.   And when a discussion yields a new understanding 
of a given problem, of a given situation, even better.


I also love language.  Not just the sound of my own voice but the many 
truly erudite voices here that rise up above the babble from time to 
time.  There are several here who regularly teach me new words, or 
better yet, a more nuanced understanding of words I thought I 

Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels

On 4/23/13 6:45 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
he should be enjoying his Rosarita (is that a type of Margarita?) at 
the Dragon
Hmm, I have to clarify some terminology here.   I believe it's known as 
a Rosalita at the Pink Adobe.

Don't you just hate auto-correct on mobile devices?

Marcus


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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-23 Thread Douglas Roberts
Ha, gotcha. The Rosarita is a Margarita recipe invented by Rosalie back in
the late 50's. You remember that, right Marcus?
On Apr 23, 2013 8:05 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote:

 On 4/23/13 6:45 PM, Steve Smith wrote:

 he should be enjoying his Rosarita (is that a type of Margarita?) at the
 Dragon

 Hmm, I have to clarify some terminology here.   I believe it's known as a
 Rosalita at the Pink Adobe.
 Don't you just hate auto-correct on mobile devices?

 Marcus

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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-23 Thread Marcus G. Daniels

On 4/23/13 8:08 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:


The Rosarita is a Margarita recipe invented by Rosalie back in the 
late 50's. You remember that, right Marcus?



Exhibit A, page 2.

http://www.thepinkadobe.com/PinkAdobeDinnerMenu1012.pdf


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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-23 Thread Douglas Roberts
Damn, I stand (sit, actually) corrected. Remind me to never bet against you.
On Apr 23, 2013 8:20 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote:

 On 4/23/13 8:08 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:


 The Rosarita is a Margarita recipe invented by Rosalie back in the late
 50's. You remember that, right Marcus?

  Exhibit A, page 2.

 http://www.thepinkadobe.com/**PinkAdobeDinnerMenu1012.pdfhttp://www.thepinkadobe.com/PinkAdobeDinnerMenu1012.pdf

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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-23 Thread Steve Smith
As long as we are picking nits and splitting hairs, the menu refers to 
Rosalea as opposed to Rosalie.


A Margarita by any other name would taste as fine?


Damn, I stand (sit, actually) corrected. Remind me to never bet 
against you.


On Apr 23, 2013 8:20 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com 
mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote:


On 4/23/13 8:08 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:


The Rosarita is a Margarita recipe invented by Rosalie back in
the late 50's. You remember that, right Marcus?

Exhibit A, page 2.

http://www.thepinkadobe.com/PinkAdobeDinnerMenu1012.pdf


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Re: [FRIAM] Meta-discussion

2013-04-23 Thread Douglas Roberts
We used to go there in the mid-80's and sit next to her and Rhett Butler,
her black dog and tell her stories about our parrots.
On Apr 23, 2013 8:27 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:

  As long as we are picking nits and splitting hairs, the menu refers to
 Rosalea as opposed to Rosalie.

 A Margarita by any other name would taste as fine?

 Damn, I stand (sit, actually) corrected. Remind me to never bet against
 you.
 On Apr 23, 2013 8:20 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.com wrote:

 On 4/23/13 8:08 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:


 The Rosarita is a Margarita recipe invented by Rosalie back in the late
 50's. You remember that, right Marcus?

  Exhibit A, page 2.

 http://www.thepinkadobe.com/PinkAdobeDinnerMenu1012.pdf

 
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