Re: New Thread! (not really):wq

Quoting "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@shubes.net>:

> 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



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