On Tue, 22 May 2001, Joshua Bell wrote:
>
> > > > You guys are so lucky. We had to make our own rocks first.
> > >
> > > Hey, not only did we have to make our rocks, we had to carry them uphill
> > > afterward.
> > >
> >
> >Oh, I forgot a detail..we had to make our own hills, one virtual parton at
> >a
> >time. :-)
>
> I was going to leap in with a story my uncle told me about having to
> develop a new system of logic every day before breakfast - on which to
> base geometrical axioms before constructing a spacetime so there'd be
> a place to eat and for the rocks and hills to inhabit - but I thought
> things were getting a little silly at that point.
I relayed part of the chain to my husband, and he proposed to one-up with,
"Well, we had to make our own 'up'. There was no such thing as gravity
back then." Or something to that effect.
It's fun to be silly! :D
> On a related tangent*, while I was away on vacation for the last two
> weeks (anyone notice?) I read "Flatterland" by Ian Stewart - yet
> another sequel to Flatland. Anyone else tried it out?
Nope. I saw it in the bookstore last week. I ended up getting a Stephen
Jay Gould book instead. Would you recommend it? How does it compare with
_Sphereland_, or have you read that one?
> * Do I start the second paragraph of everything I post that way? If
> not, it's a significant fraction.
It *is* a significant fraction. How about going off on a related cosecant
or something sometime, for a change?
Julia
