From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-12-02T02:28:31+09:00
Subject: Re: SOT gmail invites

Kevin Bullock wrote:
> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Kevin Bullock wrote:
>>
>>> Lyndon Samson wrote:
>>>
>>>> X % of the people of this list appear to be using GoogleMail, where X
>>>> is some value ~50 :-)
>>>>
>>> % irb --prompt simple
>>>
>>>>> ~50
>>>>
>>>>
>>> => -51
>>>
>>> -51 people are using GoogleMail? :P
>>>
>> Just don't shake hands with any of them....
>>
>>         Hugh
> 
> 
> Hehehe. Been reading _A_Brief_History_Of_Time_ lately? :)
> 
> "...if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish 
> in a great flash of light." --Stephen Hawking
> 

Haha... as long as we're OT, there is an old poem to that effect. :)


Hal



Far up beyond the tropostrata
There is a region dark and stellar
Where, on a streak of antimatter
Lived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller.

Remote from fusion's origin
He lived unguessed and unawares
With all his anti-kith and -kin,
And kept macassars on his chairs.

One day while idling by the sea
He spied a tin of monstrous girth
That bore three letters: AEC.
Out stepped a visitor from Earth.

Then, shouting gladly o'er the sands
Met two who in their alien ways
Were like lentils. Their right hands
Clasped, and the rest was gamma rays.