Re: New Thread! (not really):wq

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?).

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-Eric 'shubes'
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