Re: Christmas, but not a Merry-Christmasy, coincidence.

On Dec 31 2008, 10:58 pm, R H Draney <dadoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
TsuiDF filted:
I did manage once to slip a reference to a Tom Lehrer lyric into the
footnote of a paper presented at an academic conference.  The
discussant noted the 'wide range' of references in the paper.... I
took that as a compliment.

Would it be a violation of a non-disclosure contract to reveal which lyric and
what context you found for it?...r

No, not at all, it's long since out of date and I'm not sure I even
have a copy of it anywhere handy.

The lyric was from the song about von Braun (completely OT: whose
autograph I once obtained after a scientific lecture I heard as a mere
slip of a youth) and it was the bit about 'who cares where it comes
down, that's not my department' to which I referred. The context was
a discussion of the possibility of taking legal action in China in the
mid-1990s against software piracy. (The connection is of course
crystal clear, no?)

IIRC, what I was getting at was that certain actions might seem
worthwhile and reasonable at the time, but might have unintended
consequences in the broader context. The 'certain actions' I was
reflecting on included actions of the Anton Piller type (ex parte
injunctions, of a type that, for example, the German administration
averred it would never undertake, for historical reasons if nothing
else). One had to ask oneself if one really wanted to urge the
availability of such mechanisms.

But that wouldn't have been very entertaining, so I slipped the Lehrer
reference into a footnote, fully intending to remove it at a later
date. Shall have to find the article one of these days and see if I
actually did delete it before it hit print.

Happy New Year,

Stephanie
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