I stopped paying attention at 'metaphysically' and slipped into a coma at 'pulchritudinem'. Next time talk into my good ear.
On Apr 7, 3:56 pm, PATRICK MOORE <[email protected]> wrote: > It is metaphysically (literally) impossible for something to be kludgy > in the sense of badly designed and to be at the same time and in the > same respect beautiful, since beauty implies order and harmony among > the parts -- ie, that is part of what it is to be beautiful, at least > in composite things. Ens et bonum et unum et pulchritudinem sunt unum > in re. > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:54 AM, William <[email protected]> wrote: > > What if something is both beautiful and kludgy? Is it beauludgy? > > Barf > > > On Apr 7, 10:34 am, CycloFiend <[email protected]> wrote: > >> on 4/7/11 8:53 AM, PATRICK MOORE at [email protected] wrote: > > >> > Just for the record: my interest in the text and my reason for > >> > referring to it was not the writing style but the message: don't > >> > obsess over the looks of your bikes, they are meant for riding, though > >> > riding has no quarrel with looks. > > >> > I am surprised by the many photos I see of bikes that are showroom > >> > floor clean. Either they are not ridden, or, more likely, the owners > >> > spend as much time cleaning them as riding them. Now I do live in a > >> > dry climate, but mine get washed about 3 times a year. (I am very > >> > careful about keeping the drivetrain cleaned and lubed.) I am too busy > >> > fixing flats to clean them more often than that. > > >> The other thing that happens is that when I actually wrangle my sloth and > >> clean the bike, I end up wanting to document that. So, I end up with > >> images > >> from the squeaky clean end o' the spectrum. A place just north of > >> Brigadoon. > > >> Dirty bikes. Clean drivetrains. > > >> Each bicycle increases exponentially the possibility that none of them will > >> work properly. > > >> - J > > >> -- > >> Jim Edgar > >> [email protected] > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW at [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
