New Thread! (not really):wq

[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?).

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-Eric 'shubes'