Re: Hello

Hi,

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 03:43 +0200, Bohus Král wrote:
What's up ?

An interesting question as it really depends on your definition of down
and also your position in relation to both "up" and "down". For example,
you may be "up" a ladder, but still way down below the surface of the
moon, however, in relation to the ground, you're much higher than it.

Now, if you define "down" as being something as simplistic as being
anything under your feet, there can never be a down, as there is always
something beneath you. If you carry this logic through, you eventually
go through the planet and out into space. Assuming that you have a space
suit on (with lots of air) and carry on in the time honoured roundy sort
of way that the planet goes on, eventually, you will circumnavigate the
moon.

At this point, in comparison to when you were up a ladder (but below the
moon), you're now above the moon with the ladder down from your relative
position.

In relation to your question (as posed without any bounds or explicit
criteria), I don't know.

It may now be worth defining boundaries to your question. I shall
attempt to do so now.

1. Contextually. This posting is in a public usenet group where the
denizens have a common interest or goal. In this case, it's
about the utterly fantabulous Sinclair machines, more explictly
(but not confined to) the ZX Spectrum (not confined to company
ownership)
2. Physically. As this is a usenet group, the only up is actually
down depending on how you order the postings (for example, if
one orders this posting to be in date order, it will be at the
bottom of the list - unless you have things threaded, in which
case, it will be at the bottom of that threaded list). Up, in
this definition is therefore down in relation to date.
3. Emotionally. It is realised that those silly enough to believe
the lies told by Comode that their "machines" were in some way
better than the Sinclair offerings do cause emotional grief as
it interferes with the well founded and proven knowledge that
the Speccy kicked the Comodes backside everywhere it went.
However, this grief quickly converts to joy when the Comode user
realises that the Sinclair people are right.
4. Health. This is probably the best example of the problem of
relativity. Compared to a few weeks back (when I was down with
the 'flu), I'm amazingly well. Compared to before I had my
stomach op last year, I couldn't be better. However, I'm in
work, bored and counting down the days until I'm out of here, so
in that respect, I'm down. Health, you see has to be considered
as being not a Geshalt entity, but a combination of physical and
mental wellbeing. The emotional wellbeing is also important, but
can usually be attributed to a combination of physical and
mental.

To answer your question (with the criteria and examples above as a form
of constraint on said Q), I'm not too bad, all things considered. I
could do with another coffee. And a couple of honey glazed Shakiras on
my desk.... (I'll leave the rest up to your imagination!)

Don't get me started on what constitutes a "thing" though!

How are you spending your summer holidays ?

An interesting simile - using up a period of time as if it was money (or
some other exchangeable entity). It is even more interesting as certain
work patterns (such as flex-time) allows you to "save" this time for a
later point and then "spend" it.

I have no vacation time left that I can spend (took a week after my
lovely little daughter was born, an extra week at Christmas, a week
after Easter so I can do some teaching in a local high school and other
days on interviews), so I'm sitting in sunny Salford, getting hideously
bored, drinking coffee and replying to postings like this.

I suppose I could actually do some work, but where is the fun in that?

TTFN

Lord Fred Fernackerpan
--
"Logic, my dear Zoe, is merely the ability to be wrong with authority" -
Dr Who

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