While we're all out playing golf, camping, cooking out with family, going to the swim club or lake, or whatever else we do on the holiday tomorrow, wouldn't...
rbrake@...
Jul 3, 2000 9:35 pm
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don't know if you're aware of this development in the news, but it's one of those "unseen impact" things. from tidbits. -- barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
barry brake
barry@...
Jul 4, 2000 8:59 am
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Rich I read the Jacoby column and pinned it on the bulletin board. Very impressive piece. Tim...
Wtcweaver@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:37 pm
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a friend passes this along... -- barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2, 2000 Michael Kelley Commentary, Memphis Commercial Appeal DECLARATION...
barry brake
barry@...
Jul 8, 2000 3:50 am
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This is an interesting essay about the future of computing and the Internet. Any regular slashdot readers (http://www.slashdot.org) will probably have already...
Aaron
botono9@...
Jul 8, 2000 7:10 pm
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B I guess Jeff Jacoby (Boston Globe columnist) took us all in, didn't he! He has been suspended for four months without pay from the Globe. Why do these ...
Wtcweaver@...
Jul 9, 2000 2:43 am
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Too bad. I didn't know about Jacoby's suspension. I could see the G. Hildreath (whatever his name was)stuff being junk, spread aimlessly by email. But you'd...
rbrake@...
Jul 11, 2000 4:14 pm
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hey -- here's an interesting article from the hartford advocate about the practice of neurofeedback -- related to biofeedback, where gizmos that are hooked up...
barry brake
barry@...
Jul 26, 2000 1:20 pm
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That is an interesting article, and I'm not at all surprised by the experiences and good results people are having. Some of the resistance in the field may be...
stingray1@...
Jul 27, 2000 6:15 pm
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The fact is that you and I already use energy from "alternative" (that is, not fossil fuel) sources. Here's a handy quiz -- ten questions -- from enn to see...
barry brake
barry@...
Jul 31, 2000 8:10 pm
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true, "Erin Brockovich" was a crowd-pleasing good movie; that, of course, almost guarantees that its basis in reality is slightly thin. a few months ago salon...
barry brake
barry@...
Aug 11, 2000 7:18 pm
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true, "Erin Brockovich" was a crowd-pleasing good movie; that, of course, almost guarantees that its basis in reality is slightly thin. a few months ago salon...
barry brake
barry@...
Aug 11, 2000 7:20 pm
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most of the jobs we've had to do over the last 150 years have had newer and newer machines associated with them; sometimes (as in the typewriter) the machine...
barry brake
barry@...
Aug 13, 2000 5:52 am
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... it works! jason young forwards this news that some guy built one from the notebook of leonardo da vinci -- a 500-year-old design! ...
barry
barry@...
Aug 21, 2000 11:33 pm
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here's a review of the latest by richard rorty, a notorious troublemaker in the worlds of philosophy and culture. ...
barry
barry@...
Aug 29, 2000 7:10 am
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hey gang -- you know, I keep going back and forth on the issue of school vouchers. It is a bit dangerous to lean that closely to establishment; but the market...
barry brake
barry@...
Oct 9, 2000 7:49 pm
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B The primary argument against is that some folks will not or cannot make decisions in the best interest of their children. Thus, it follows, those parents...
Wtcweaver@...
Oct 10, 2000 1:41 pm
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Barry, et. al., An interesting topic. I direct your attention to the current New Yorker (not available online, so if you don't subscribe, grab a coffee and...
Paul Brake
speedbrake@...
Oct 10, 2000 4:12 pm
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Thought some would enjoy this little story of number theory from FERMAT'S ENIGMA by Simon Singh... "...no amount of evidence is enough to satisfy...
Paul Brake
speedbrake@...
Jan 9, 2001 12:28 am
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... interesting! and even more so because that's how we think day in and day out. the basis, in fact, of the empirical temperament is that by testing 1,000...
barry brake
barry@...
Jan 9, 2001 8:20 am
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... For future reference, you can use ^ to raise a number to the power of another number. So the above equation would be: x^4 + y^4 + z^4 = w^4...
Aaron
botono9@...
Jan 9, 2001 2:11 pm
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I'm reading the Lord of the Rings, finally! Figured I'd better do it before the film comes out. And I'm struck by two resemblances: the debt that the Harry...
barry brake
barry@...
Jan 11, 2001 3:23 pm
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sorry!! accidentally left out the coolest part!! ..................... I'm reading the Lord of the Rings, finally! Figured I'd better do it before the film...
barry brake
barry@...
Jan 11, 2001 3:29 pm
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I really, really, really need to see the Ring. I read the Tolkien cycle several years ago as a high-schooler and loved it. I've been meaning to get back to it...
jasony@...
Jan 12, 2001 5:27 pm
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Barry et. al., Welcome to the fellowship of the ring, where most of us have been since junior high/high school!! Seriously, I'm glad your reading these ...
Paul Brake
speedbrake@...
Jan 16, 2001 7:51 pm
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paul writes: <<Frodo is the HP character in Tolkien, but you always get the feeling that he is a tool of larger forces, unlike HP who seems to be destined to...
barry@...
Jan 17, 2001 2:01 am
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... Yes, but...perhaps what I was thinking of was my response as a child to the various characters: so I thought it would be neat to be *chosen* to be the ...
Paul Brake
speedbrake@...
Jan 17, 2001 4:18 am
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paul writes: <<In fact, in Wagner, Lewis, and Rowling, who is the Aragorn character? Or is Aragorn just another Frodo, being used by *the force* in a parallel...
barry@...
Jan 17, 2001 5:02 pm
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hey - an interesting number-play by mike keith, with whom I've corresponded a bit lately..... ... Suppose an hour, minute, day, month, and year are written...
barry@...
Feb 22, 2001 9:55 am
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Last post was in February. We've either all become dull or busy. I'm planning to see Blue Man Group in September, which I've been wanting to do for ages. I was...
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