Humour December 2006
More on the question of why the chicken crossed the road:
- Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
- Nietzsche: Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you.
- Oliver North: National Security was at stake.
- B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded
its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion
that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions
to be of its own free will.
- Carl Jung: The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt
necessitated that individual chickens cross roads at this
historical juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such
occurrences into being.
- Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: The possibility of "crossing" was encoded
into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into
being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
- Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
- Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
Newsgroup Humour
Below are a number of messages I saw on one of my favourite newsgroups. Can you tell that I'm a newsgroup junkie? - Trevor
Electric Sheep
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Ablang
typed this:
Electric Sheep is a free,
open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can
be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep"
the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the
internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as
"sheep". The result is a collective "android dream" an
homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Anyone watching one of these
computers may vote for their favourite animations using the keyboard. The more
popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with
mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience.
You may take a tour of the
sheep web site and related documents http://www.electricsheep.org/
I am on dial-up - would this
cost a fortune? Ewe.
Should I upgrade my ram? No, just let it go on a
ram-page
That might cause a
lambentable disaster.
Roger Hunt
Please chronicle the
disaster somewhere on ewesnet. Meanwhile look at:
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/lambtales/LAMBTALE.HTM
Frank Bohan
Have a nice day, or part
thereof.
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