Re: OT: US/Mexico wall would be "disgraceful" Fox

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:07:19 GMT, DirtCrashr <khunwick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>>>Each time I do it it's different with different results. Dangerous
>>>lack of consistency for something that's supposed to be finite.
>>
>>I maintain my belief this could be made intuitive for you. It's all in
>>matching the explanation to the way you take in data.
>
>It's certainly possible, the math classes I took when I prepared for
>the Plumber Union exam were really helpful and I scored high in the
>class out of about 40 others. I forget where exactly and I already
>forgot what I learned, so it wasn't intuitive enough, beyond certain
>small margins.
>

If you don't use it, you lose it. Remember what I looked like, and then
remember I played hockey at a fairly decent level. See? Oh.. sorry for the
unnecessary visual.

>>>I could do History Numbers because they tied to something, 480BC
>>>Battle of Thermopalyae and Salamis, 1066AD Battle of Hastings, 1215
>>>Magna Carta - and that wasn't even MY American History, but I could
>>>work the negative BC numbers and the positive AD ones.
>>
>>How about 10/17/1777?
>
>Got me on that one! I learned more other-peoiple's History than ours.
>In High School the History teacher was basically a Communist who said
>that everything we were doing was going to hell and would end in ruin.
>What a great Optimist!

Yea.. wierd. Sounds like a conservative:)


Burgoyne surrendered. Or at least we were told that. I loathed history.

>
>>>What I missed was being able to see how numbers interacted, and what
>>>ruled their behavior.
>>
>>It's cool stuff... at least some of it.
>
>It has a great narrative, sorta like Joyce's Ulysses... ;-)
>
><snip>

Math is sort of a combination language and philosophy system. Once
fluent... the observer can discover some genuinely great ideas.

>
>>>Might as well try and tell me how funny "Green Acres" or some other TV
><snip>
>
>>Agreed... it's hard to explain the humor of green acres to a new crowd. But
>>math is less sensitive to trends. Too bad it's just not practical to spend
>>a few years explaining some of the cool things.. I wonder of you'd like
>>some of the writing out there on math.. say, The Mathematical Tourist?
>
>If it's written I can grasp it. And I did well when I studied the
>subject matter later (above) but it didn't stick because there was
>never any purposeful stuff behind it tying it together, like a job and
>making money. I was 3rd on the list for 6 years but nobody died and I
>got too old to haul pipe around for the Journeymen having coffee on
>tailgates, doing their livelihoods for them. I'm just not a Union
>guy.

Get the book... might be fun. I think it's written at a fairly accessible
level. *** unions. One of the reasons jobs are being transported out.

>
>>You know.. I think Pete agreed at dinner. There's no more riding dirt
>>bikes. Maybe I should dump the XR too?
>
>Oh HELL no, it's an action, a flow-event - that can't be appreciated
>any other way. Don't cut your fingers or toes off and wear short-bus
>headgear just because you didn't compete in Paris-Dakar!!

I would never try Dakar. I have no need to ever set foot in France again:)
As for the sentiment, it's more a "the places to ride are *gone*" kind of
thing. Why piss away room in the garage? It just is NOT getting ridden
(which is not to say I don't want to ride... I do).


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Mike W.
96 XR400
70 CT70
71 KG 100 (Hodaka-powered)
99 KZ1000P
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