Nick, that was Little Black Sambo, who chased the tigers around a tree until
they turned into butter.
I think children aren't allowed to read that any more, but having a childhood
during colonial times, I was allowed.
Pamela
On Sep 24, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Steve,
Sorry, reading mail late, so didn't realize several people had already answered
Nick.
On Sep 25, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Pamela McCorduck wrote:
Nick, that was Little Black Sambo, who chased the tigers around a tree until
they turned into butter.
I think children aren't allowed to read that
Tory FWIWàOn my account, if she had to think and decide, she didnt believe.
Nor did she decide until she did. ßFWIW.
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Victoria Hughes
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 11:20 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied
Doug I look forward to hearing your HAWG roll through the gates of St.
Johns College. Bring Steve. N
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Douglas Roberts
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 11:28 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
No, butter is good. I am sad that so much of the children's literature that
I loved as a kid, cannot now be read to children without having to make
exuses and explanations.Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Douglas Roberts
Sent: Monday,
I'm gonna need a bigger rear tire if Steve's on the back...
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Nicholas Thompson
nickthomp...@earthlink.net wrote:
Doug I look forward to hearing your HAWG roll through the gates of St.
Johns College. Bring Steve. N
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*From:*
Pamela,
I liked learning that so many of us had that common base. Nick
From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Pamela McCorduck
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 10:16 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM]
I read it, too, probably in a church sponsored day-care in the DC suburbs
in the fifties, or at my grandparents' houses.
And I remember the restaurant, though I don't remember ever stopping in for
a stack.
-- rec --
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
Nick -
The shirt-tail appended to all FRIAM posts ends lectures, archives,
unsubscribe, maps at
http://www.friam.org;. However, I a 404 Not Found error when trying to
connect to that URL.
Is it defunct, or just temporarily out of order? If the former, is there an
alternative URL
for lectures,
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote:
My father bought a wartime surplus Harley when he returned from WWII, had
a grand good time stripping the military paintjob and repainting it only to
have two scary accidents within a few months (civilian turning left in
No, butter is good. I am sad that so much of the children's
literature that I loved as a kid, cannot now be read to children
without having to make exuses and explanations. Nick
I think it is a shame that some of these things have been expunged or
redacted, but I accept the cultural
Doug -
I've done at least a hundred thousand miles on a bike but I'm pretty
sure I've never been on the back of one. Just run the pressure up to
100lbs and set your shocks on high... it will be fine.
As an aside (imagine that), as much as I like a warm woman clutching me
around the torso,
Roger -
And I think that is why Doug chooses a sleek German-Engineered machine
over one of those big-iron sculptures you used to see on the side of the
road being fiddled with... (now that they cost more than a Prius and
only Doctors and Lawyers own them, that has changed a little). I have
Prof David West wrote at 09/22/2012 09:00 AM:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012, at 10:24 AM, glen wrote:
Here's an honest and personal question to make the ethics concrete:
Should I have intervened?
clearly a tough question - given the state of society, the prevalence of
guns and predisposition to
On 9/25/12 12:39 PM, glen wrote:
That goes _directly_ back to the point that population density is
probably the critical variable in discussions of how others raise
their kids.
Cuts both ways. One question is whether the quiet presence is
representative of the community or if it represents a
Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 09/25/2012 12:51 PM:
Consider a hypothetical female couple, well-paid, and taxpaying Stanford
and MIT PhDs, who move out to the country and home school and
telecommute. Those boys are forced to have girly hair and their moms
vote for the communist party.. etc.
Dear Russ
1. Religion / faith is not something which can be bought, although
the US Televangelists who buy cheap advertising on my cable TV
channels to sell me JSUSSS at 4:00 a.m may disagree.
2. Buddhism is a religion indigenous to the Indian sub-continent
(per wikipedia).
3. BUDDHUISM
It would take the inverse form
Faith is absolute acceptance whereas Belief is limited/conditional acceptance.
So Russ may have belief in X without having faith in it.
eg.
Russ believes that his old and broken down motorcycle can take him
from A to B, but he doesn't have faith that it will
On
If it is true that,
Russ believes that his old and broken down motorcycle can take him from A
to B, but he doesn't have faith that it will
Can it also be true that Russ doubt whether his ... motorcycle can take him
from A to B? Is it the case that, on your understanding, doubt and belief
can
Sarbajit,
I don't claim to speak for Western Buddhism. I suspect, though, that most
Westerners who identify with Buddhism do not include rebirth as a part of
their view of the world. The focus is more on the present, on acknowledging
the world (including himself or herself) as it is -- and as it
I've never spent much time studying modal logic. The doxastic
logichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxastic_logicversion of faith
that I pointed to in the Stanford Encyc of Phil article is
a model logic version. Your example sentences are overflowing with modal
modifiers. Personally I don't see why I
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