From: thunk Date: 2010-04-06T16:30:06+09:00 Subject: Re: ThunkGen released! ...... and nothing has to happen to that ru'id for it to become a part of a system that is continually "fired! at" every new posting. Authors are sorted and given ranks by "merito-tology" / secret meetings / politico points / inverse to spelling errors or whatever the bright people behind all this think is should be. (oh boy, that's a sleeper) Conceptually the ru'ids are not "flying around" rather they much more like a BULLET (metaphore #103, sorry) but that is true. The hit the target or they don't. Oh. Like a light wave - that fits, and recently a nifty phrase pinged the author's gedanker, something like "shadow caster" and a flag got attached to that, a not got made on a wiki- page, and the author was accused of rambling too long..... it was a suspended idea shoved into text.... how to explain? Bullets seem not so peaceful, but excuse the author for a moment, and let him share? - not an unfascinating gedangengang partner? A modern machinegun can "caste" (like stones... wow) bullets in such a way that square meters are covered in seconds. now, if they were less menacing and smart enough to send a message back.... then a helicopter could bullet caste objects of interest and build an image of what the target was. ahhhh, light does that too, right? so these Ru'ids are about the speed of a bullet, less harmful, they-come-in- peace! , but they "form an image" of what they are thrown at by way of very simple communications.... it's a shame bullets cannot do the same yet. OK? The author was in "Blue Sky Research" where we did "brain storming" and some of that has never gone away - it is a technique that has probably been renamed in problem space but in such sessions you don't inhibit thoughts. No, stream of consiousness did not "die" with Joyce - do you know who Robin Williams is? Oh boy. that man can caste thoughts....... puff the magic comedian - git it? thunktocktor