Food as a verb - 04/27/03 09:17 AM
Re: Food as a verb - 04/27/03 10:18 AM
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?
I'm trying but I ain't gettin' it... somebody want to give me a whack upside the head?
Re: Food as a verb - 04/27/03 10:24 AM
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.
Re: Food as a verb - 04/27/03 10:35 AM
ah, I got the same strip with both links! hence my confusion!
Re: Food as a verb - 04/27/03 10:39 AM
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...
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...
Re: Food as a verb - 04/27/03 10:45 AM
hey, I finally got to see the Food strip! very funny! seems we have a variable link. makes things very interesting! 
Re: St. Bucky - 04/27/03 01:00 PM
Patron saint of the descriptivists.
Re: St. Bucky - 04/28/03 10:42 AM
Re: St. Bucky - 04/28/03 01:03 PM
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.
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.
Re: St. Bucky - 04/28/03 01:37 PM
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...(?).
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...(?).
Re: St. Bucky - 04/28/03 01:45 PM
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.
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.
Re: St. Bucky - 04/28/03 03:55 PM
Thanks for that link Faldage. Evidentally something IS happening.
Re: St. Bucky - 04/28/03 04:12 PM
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.
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.
Re: St. Bucky - 04/28/03 04:21 PM
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."
"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."