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Re: [Plug] At the risk of getting flamed to my dying day, I'm going to pose a question...
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Chris Fearnley wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> OK, I'll hazard a comment on this far off-topic issue.
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Far off what topic? Topic doesnt live here. This list is a study in
chaos. :)
Ok, first off... wow. That was incredibly well spoken. This little
exchange should be HTMLified and submitted to /.
Women are the arch enemy of productivity and sanity in my little corner
of the universe. Nothing makes me loose my mind quite like a cute grrl.
Its like instant bonehead mode "Duuhhh.... like yew.... ". But it feels
good, so thats all that counts. The new one's name is Beth. As silly as
it sounds we met on IRC/mailinglists. We met last week and kinda just
sat down and 'caught up on old times'. There was this instant bond... a
sense of recogntion. I think I found a grrl version of me... minus the
tattoo's. So now I'm kinda overwhelmed by how a chance meeting can lead
to such random happiness. We're both pretty amused at our sudden
connection. I have that high 'fifteen year old crush on the girl accross
class' feeling. I wonder if there's a pill for that yet? I swear to god,
if I keep grinning like an idiot when I think of her I'm gonna sue her
for defamation of character and emotional trauma for destroying in a
single week an image I've spent years building. Funny how random events
can have such an impact. I should go get a giant chaos tattoo....
Trying to figure out how men & women interact is like trying to read the
mind of god. And I think on some level that it IS the mind of god. All I
know is that it's far beyond me. I cant even figure out the mind of
Jason, and I live there. Guess I'll go enjoy the moment.
> First, I think it is necessary to characterize women and men as
> functional entities in Universe. Woman are the continuity of human
> life ... women form a continuous waveform of generation after
> generation of new life. Men are discontinuous. Synergetics
> (http://www.CJFearnley.com/fuller-faq-2.html) discusses how continuous
> tension (pull) and discontinuous compression (push) as complementary
> forces in Universe are two of the key ideas needed to understand how
> both the Universe and thinking function. Women are primarily tensional
> and men primarily compressional; women tend to pull/attract and men
> tend to push/force. Of course, as you pull a rope taught in tension,
> its girth contracts in compression at ninety degrees to the direction of
> the pull-force. Tension and compression are always and only
> coexistent. This can all be modeled by the tetrahedron. For more
> discussion see Prudence Allen's article and my discussion of it at
> http://www.CJFearnley.com/fuller-faq-2.html#ss2.26 .
>
> Unix is to my mind an elegantly balanced meld of tension and
> compression. Pipes, wrappers and glue scripts, sockets, independent
> yet complementary config files, etc. It has the feel of a large,
> complex, gossamer structure: tensional relationships everywhere and no
> independently standing compressional struts. Like a geodesic sphere
> (http://www.CJFearnley.com/jpegs.html) or tensegrity
> (http://www.CJFearnley.com/fuller-faq-5.html#ss5.1). The Windows model
> of strictly hierarchical menus and configuration in a monolithic
> registry strikes me as an oversized stone house (stability depends on
> the weight of the stones upon each other and not upon tension). Unlike
> the geodesic dome which can grow to arbitrary size, a very large stone
> or brick house will eventually collapse under its own weight.
>
> Unix is yin/yang. Windows is just a penis.
>
> --
> Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting
> cjf@netaxs.com | Design Science Revolutionary
> http://www.CJFearnley.com | Explorer in Universe
> "Dare to be Naïve" -- Bucky Fuller
--
J.
When I grow up, I wanna be more like me.
I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an
attitude.
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