At 10:34 PM 5/22/01 -0500, Julia wrote:
>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?
It's a little-known fact that the Lord was talking to Noah about a
completely different topic when the subject of the Flood first came
up. The conversation then went off on an arctangent . . .
-- Ronn! :)
