Thanks, Eric.
It's great to hear your voice. I think this is the first time I have ever bent one of Doug''s threads, so, while I am at it, I am going to bend it real good! The philosopher Rorty would insist that we have to include HISTORY, just plain old history, as one of the factors. I cite from the authority, Seuss, PhD, his ground-breaking work on the origin of the famous, Circus McGurkus <http://www.amazon.com/If-Ran-Circus-Classic-Seuss/dp/039480080X/ref=sr_1_2? s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362074235&sr=1-2&keywords=circus+mcgurkus> : Then a fluff-muffled Truffle will ride on a Huffle, And, next in line, a fine Flummox will shuffle. The Flummox will carry a Lurch in a pail, And a Fibble will carry the Flummox's tail While, on top of the Flummox, three Harp-Twanging Snarp Will twang mighty twangs on their Three-Snarper-Harp While a Bolster blows bloops on a three-nozzled bloozer! A Nolster blows flops on a one-nozzled noozer! And then comes lion who's partly a trout! Then more stuff! For forty-five minutes, about! Now, that's what I call a well bent thread! Mind those slithetoes, Eric N From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Smith Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:49 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post. Don't mean to thread hijack, but it seems this thread was pretty far gone anyway. I must say that the English phonotactics are really on display here. Googlezon sounds like something big, heavy and vaguely dangerous, a kind of Golem but somewhat clunky and difficult to take seriously, like the monsters in old Japanese semi-animations. Amazoogle sounds like something from a Douglas Adams book, with a long wiggly trunk and lumpy multicolored skin, probably involving purple and green coloration and perhaps spots, and even more difficult to take seriously. Now why would that be? Syllable-initial stops versus vowels and sibilants? Stress on the final versus the penultimate syllable? A reduced final vowel in the latter that kind of dribbles away? Must ask my psycholinguist friends for a breakdown. I'm sure they have nothing better to do. On Feb 28, 2013, at 2:53 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Vaaaary funny. It's some sort of a video or perhaps only a link? If somebody doesn't remember its name or have a better filing system than mine, I think it is lost in the bit-midden. N From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:31 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post. "I know it's on my hard drive but I cannot imagine how to search for it." Use Google. On Feb 27, 2013 8:24 PM, "Nicholas Thompson" <[email protected]> wrote: Does anybody remember a wonderful, phony corporate ad which predicted the eclipsing of Microsoft by an entity called Googlezon (as opposed to Amazoogle, I suppose). I know it's on my hard drive but I cannot imagine how to search for it. Might be time to dust it off and wonder how close it came to being true. And, of course, we ain't done yet. N From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Charles Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 6:45 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post. Don't be silly. Soon as WebCrawler aggregates all those results, they will be the clear winner! -------- Eric Charles Assistant Professor of Psychology Penn State, Altoona _____ From: "Barry MacKichan" <[email protected]> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 2:03:41 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Wow. 6 whole days without a Nexus 4 post. Alta Vista On Feb 26, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: Anyone else remember when google was this small internet search engine that hardly anyone had heard of because they were off using yahoo? (or possible lycos?) ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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