Subject: Re: Making Life More Surreal.... From: ewm@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ernst W Mayer) Date: 1991-01-25, 11:40 Newsgroups: misc.kids,alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <48442@apple.Apple.COM>, scott@apple.com (scott douglass) writes: |> Sitting in the local Arby's with his baby brother and me, my three-year-old |> Alan looked up fron his Adventure Meal and said, "These grapes are right on |> the edge." This was a bit unusual, but not too. But all day long, he kept |> shouting, "Road trip! Road trip!" Finally, when our housemate came home, |> Alan told him, "Every day, once a day, give yourself a present." |> |> Evidently in exploring our Macintosh Alan had come across a Twin Peaks |> stack which we had downloaded consisting of various quotes from the |> show. You just click on the words, and the Mac plays the quote. Of |> course, being a three-year-old, Alan sits there and plays them over and |> over and over, and his little brain records each one. |> |> There must be some way to put this to good use. ... |> -- maggie Hmmm...seeing as your little Nicky - ooops, of course I mean your little Alan, is so delightfully curious, you may be on to something here. I think you should insert a few quotes which may be more useful into your machine, such as: "The Riemann curvature tensor tells us how close the given connexion is to being Euclidean", "I think the mathematics of models for dynamical systems which exhibit dominantly dispersive behavior, solitary wave regions or blowup in finite time, all depending on the value of a single parameter or set of n parameters, are really neat", "This week, I learned about symplectic geometry and evolution of near-integrable systems on smooth manifolds in day care", then get that kid to your friendly local well-endowed institution of higher learning and retire early. Good luck! *--Ernst W. Mayer - GSRA, Aerospace Engineering/Applied Mathematics-* | The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. | | Internet: ewm@caen.engin.umich.edu, ewm@math.lsa.umich.edu | | FishNet : salmon.swim.upstream@spawning.time :-o ? ;->...:-) ! | | .. .. | *----"Was nicht totet, hartet." - F. Nietzsche----------------------*