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it suffices to say that ET is a place with a high signal-to-noise ratio.
Most of us have days when we're fairly convinced that we're providing the noise rather than the signal, and some posters seem to so rarely be noise as to be intimidating. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
John Cage - 4'33" by David Tudor
Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
A particular aspect of ET is that it has a maths element. I am a very slow learner, but I have been trying. So:
Is "he"
er...
Hmmmm. I think of ET as an educational resource, where I can ask people with great knowledge questions and receive enlightening answers.
I also think it has high humour and a superior jukebox.
I think ET will die when it is no longer possible to click on "Write a new diary entry..." and write...whatever comes to or has been burning in one's mind.
I think having nothing to say is fine as long as this nothing is elegant and/or humorous...in which case...hmmm...something is being said, or is it?
(There's a nice comment from David Tutor at the end of the video about the reaction to John Cage's piece.)
(And then there's this:)
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(moustache-based emoticon) Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
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