Quoting "Eric \"Shubes\"" : > Darrin Chandler wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:08:09PM -0700, Gene Holmerud wrote: > >> His reply was not ignoring it. > > > > I was just being difficult. > > > >> Actually, this is a variation of the famous Kurt Godel conundrum of the > >> following two sentences: > >> > >> The following sentence is true. > >> > >> The preceding sentence is false. > >> > >> Godel recognized that both of these could not be resolved logically. See > > >> the book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R > >> Hofstadter. It won an emmy. Hofstadter is also the one who wrote > >> Hofstader's Rule: "Everything takes longer than you think, even when you > > >> take Hofstadter's Rule into account." It won a Murphy's Law corollary > >> competition in Omni magazine decades ago. > >> > >> Gene > > > > Good recommendation. I've got it laying around here somewhere, but I > > haven't picked it up since the early 90's. It's time to read it again, > > methinks. > > > One of my favorites. I read it back in the early 80's. Due for a re-read. I > loved the bit about the perfect stereo (in order to be perfect, it must be > able to create any sound, including a sound that destroys itself, making it > imperfect?). > Sounds like some kind of distortion to me. Not that I'm looking for feedback. TJ ------------------------------------------------- FastQ Communications Providing Innovative Internet Solutions Since 1993 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss