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#101787 - 04/27/03 05:17 AM Food as a verb
sjm old hand Registered: 07/19/02 Posts: 742 Loc: Akina	http://snurl.com/18lf
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#101788 - 04/27/03 06:18 AM Re: Food as a verb
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7185 Loc: Vermont	food as a verb, food as a verb... Schroedinger's cat. <blink> I'm trying but I ain't gettin' it... somebody want to give me a whack upside the head? _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#101789 - 04/27/03 06:24 AM Re: Food as a verb
sjm old hand Registered: 07/19/02 Posts: 742 Loc: Akina	There is no link between the two. The Get Fuzzy strip I linked to in reference to the many discussions held in this cesspit of mediocrity about verbifying nouns. The <blink> strip refers to discussions here about Schroedinger's Cat. I thought they were amusant, that's all.
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#101790 - 04/27/03 06:35 AM Re: Food as a verb
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7185 Loc: Vermont	ah, I got the same strip with both links! hence my confusion! _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#101791 - 04/27/03 06:39 AM Re: Food as a verb
Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...	Loved the cartoon! Thanks for posting. But where is there reference in the thread starter to Schroedinger? Or in the comic strip? What am I missing here? The box with the moving pictures is the television, of course...
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#101792 - 04/27/03 06:45 AM Re: Food as a verb
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7185 Loc: Vermont	hey, I finally got to see the Food strip! very funny! seems we have a variable link. makes things very interesting! _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#101793 - 04/27/03 09:00 AM Re: St. Bucky
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13658	Patron saint of the descriptivists.
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#101794 - 04/28/03 06:42 AM Re: St. Bucky
dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK	Oh, buckyballs! http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/nsfoutreach/htm/n50_z2/pages_z3/08_pg.htm
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#101795 - 04/28/03 09:03 AM Re: St. Bucky
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11580 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Thanks, dxb, for that link. ...and Harry Kroto (University of Sussex, UK; non-NSF funded) shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of "buckminsterfullerene." Friend of yours? :-) It says buckytubes are the strongest materials known; I immediately wondered if that meant stronger than diamonds. Upon second thought, though, I realized that diamonds are known for their hardness, which might not necessarily equate with strength.
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#101796 - 04/28/03 09:37 AM Re: St. Bucky
dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK	Nope, don't know the guy. I am always irritated by articles that I can't date, and this is one of them. Maybe there is some way of finding out, but I don't know it. The early expectations for buckyballs, last I heard, have yet to be realised; people are still scratching their heads over how to get to the applications, every now and then there is something in the New Scientist, then silence. So I don't know about this 'strong' material's uses. Strength here refers to its strength as a structure (microstructure) I believe. I suspect there are folk out there who could update us on all this...(?).
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#101797 - 04/28/03 09:45 AM Re: St. Bucky
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13658	articles that I can't date Here's one that's got a date on it: http://www.nature.com/nsu/030421/030421-14.html They don't call them buckytubes but they do say they're made of carbon.
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#101798 - 04/28/03 11:55 AM Re: St. Bucky
dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK	Thanks for that link Faldage. Evidentally something IS happening.
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#101799 - 04/28/03 12:12 PM Re: St. Bucky
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13658	something IS happening So often you hear that X is going to be the technological revolution of the millennium, the greatest thing since sliced quasars, and then … nothing. BTW, wasn't it Buckminster Fuller that said "I think I'm a verb"? Bucky the cat was named after Buck O'Neil, the Negro League player.
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#101800 - 04/28/03 12:21 PM Re: St. Bucky
dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK	Being a Verb "I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing -- a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process -- an integral function of the universe." -- R. Buckminster Fuller Edit: I think he was fond of this image(?) since on another occasion he said: "God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper."
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