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Skriven 2015-04-30 15:45:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: dubieties 584
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-29-15  18:29 <=-

 ML>> I figure nobody could have doubted much less denied the
 ML>> former, but the latter of course is a judgment of my own,
 ML>> and perhaps a minority one.
 NB>> I was hearing some comments that went along with the latter.
 ML> I'm glad of that. I've just fought a losing battle agains
 ML> funding a couple frauds who have been supported by a very
 ML> famous fraud. I said I'd resign from the committee if the
 ML> project was supported. I haven't heard anything in a couple
 ML> weeks, so I figure I was quietly dropped from the group
 ML> without any kind of fuss.

Maybe... should there have been more meetings in the meantime...?  I
don't expect you will be shedding too many tears over being dropped...?
 
 ML>> I might find a supply (if reasonably priced) and do the
 ML>> experiment.
 NB>> An expensive way to save calories on dessert... rather as I thought.
 NB>> I suppose that if you found a reasonably priced supply, it could be
 NB>> an interesting experiment...
 ML> Now that the guy's gone, maybe there will be discounts run
 ML> on his brainchild, before it becomes a collector's item.

Ya never know...
 
 NB>> I have a Special Dark bar here in front of me, 1.45oz, 180 calories it
 NB>> claims... Perhaps you have the larger bars...?   Ok, I redid the math,
 NB>> and 2oz of nuts would be 420 calories, so 600 a day... ;)
 ML> Anyhow, I wouldn't buy a 1.45 oz bar - too tiny by a good margin.

Oh, ok... then you'd probably get sufficient for the day...  ;)

 ML>> So it seems to me that in the long run, a beneficial effect
 ML>> of the Internet will be that our relatively good information
 ML>> will spill over somewhat into their realm. Or am I being too
 ML>> utopian?
 NB>> One could hope that it would work that way, and counteract all the
 NB>> bad information that is out there, too....
 ML> It has been hypothesized that there's a Gresham's law of
 ML> information as well of currency. If that's largely or even
 ML> somewhat true, we're doomed.
 
oh, well......

 ML>> Of the genius, maybe; I share one trait with the Drum, and that
 ML>> is that I don't much think about wealth.
 NB>> Independently "wealthy" maybe would be nice... not having to worry
 NB>> about where the ready might come from when needed... but otherwise,
 NB>> not something I think much about either...
 ML> I've always skirted close to the edge and usually do barely
 ML> okay. Right now, though, I wanted to give a few bucks to my
 ML> (commercial) hosts in Nepal but don't have the wherewithal.

I hear that one... that's when the edge does bother a bit more... not
having the wherewithal to share when one would otherwise like to...

 ML>> Yeah, I was disappointed, too. Turns out a vast percentage
 ML>> of what I learned pre-university was false, and I didn't
 ML>> learn much in university, so where does that put me now?
 NB>> Learning more on your own ever since...?  ;)
 ML> Failing to learn! I hope.

Depends on what the learning is...   (G)

 NB>> My alma mater keeps asking me to tell them all the wonderful ways in
 NB>> which my education there prepared me for my subsequent career... I'm
 NB>> sure they don't want to hear, hardly at all... ;)  I'm afraid they
 NB>> won't get the glowing testamonials they want from me...  :)
 ML> I'm sure that my alma mater knows about and is not particularly
 ML> proud of me; it and I can console ourselves that there have been
 ML> far worse alumni, for example Putzi Hanfstaengl and the Unabomer.

There is that...  :)

 ML> I was in an honors-only program that was eliminated after only
 ML> a couple years; at its 25th anniversary someone did a study of
 ML> the graduates, and approximately zero percent of us went on in
 ML> the field of study we set out in.

What I was given to understand by certain persons in the admissions
office of Princeton, that sort of lack of continuity of study was not
only expected, but to some degree, encouraged...  Which was why there
wasn't any room at the mid-point of collegiate study for transfers to be
admitted... since nobody really left, just changed their course...  At
least that was their stated reasoning as to why my son (and I) were
stupid or at least very naive to think there was any chance of his
transfering in after 2 years at a 2-year school...

ttyl        neb

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