Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-05-24 Thread Nicholas Thompson
ity (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > [Original Message] > From: Jochen Fromm > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Date: 5/24/2009 5:15:34 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about? > > The F

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-05-24 Thread Jochen Fromm
- and will delete the CAS list again if no one is interested. Just a try. -J. - Original Message - From: Nicholas Thompson To: friam@redfish.com Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 6:34 PM Subject: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about? And in the last week, I discovered that FRIAM is really about

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-03-29 Thread qef
quot; is an interesting exploration of "The Mikado" on and off the stage. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151568/ - Claiborne Booker - -Original Message- From: Nicholas Thompson To: friam@redfish.com Sent: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:34 pm Subject: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-03-29 Thread Douglas Roberts
It is curious that we find tuber puns so appealing. (Um, 5) On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Robert J. Cordingley < rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote: > Lettuce all turnip and root for FRIAM at the next meat. (four) > Robert C > (Can they get any worse? - But wait it can't be that bad, there was a N

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-03-29 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
Lettuce all turnip and root for FRIAM at the next meat. (four) Robert C (Can they get any worse? - But wait it can't be that bad, there was a NYT Op-ed 'Puns for the Ages' yesterday.) Ted Carmichael wrote: You mean the true nature of FRIAM is emerging organically? (three) On Sun, Mar 29, 2009

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-03-29 Thread Louis Macovsky
Fri(ed)(y)ams - Original Message - From: Douglas Roberts To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about? It's about time for a mashup. (four) On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-03-29 Thread Douglas Roberts
It's about time for a mashup. (four) On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Ted Carmichael wrote: > You mean the true nature of FRIAM is emerging organically? (three) > > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > >> Nick, >> >> Perhaps FRIAM is finally discovering it's roots. (That'

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-03-29 Thread Ted Carmichael
You mean the true nature of FRIAM is emerging organically? (three) On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: > Nick, > > Perhaps FRIAM is finally discovering it's roots. (That's two). > > --Doug > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Nicholas Thompson < > nickthomp...@earthlink.net>

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-03-29 Thread Steve Smith
Well, the FriAM coffee klatch from whence the e-mail list gets it's name has *always* been about food (COFFEE is food, right?) and puns (or more generally WITTICISMS and CLEVERISMS) more than anything else.  - Steve My father;s favorite saying was:  Things are never what they s

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-03-29 Thread Douglas Roberts
Nick, Perhaps FRIAM is finally discovering it's roots. (That's two). --Doug On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Nicholas Thompson < nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > And in the last week, I discovered that FRIAM is really about FOOD and > PUNS. What a turnout! What amazing richness of inf

Re: [FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-03-29 Thread John Sadd
Well, one of the things it seems to have turned into is a mechanism for various trivia discussions with a sometimes modest cultural or scientific connection, so in light of that, do you know, Nick (or anyone), who wrote the couplet your father loved to quote? js On Mar 29, 2009, at 10:34 A

[FRIAM] What is friam REALLY about?

2009-03-29 Thread Nicholas Thompson
My father;s favorite saying was: Things are never what they seem, skim milk masquerades for cream! Not particularly elegant, but he LOVED to say it. So it is that things are never about what they are called. For instance, if you have ever painted a house, you know that the proceddure should