11Sept99 Transition Phase; before tour-mission of famous scientists
James Kibo Parry
Archimedes Plutonium (archimedes...@my-deja.com) wrote:
>
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I'm glad to see your new palatial estate in Nova Scotia isn't keeping
you away from the Macs in the Dartmouth libraries.
> [...]
>
> I have no trouble with prioritizing and knowing the better of details
> to general big picture. What I have the most problem with is "missing
> something" for which I find out only years afterwards and which I
> cannot correct. For example, I never married and feel I have not missed
> anything yet but maybe sometime in the future I may have missed
> something.
Yep, maybe someday a woman will get to see you naked, and she'll
definitely tell you which parts you're missing.
> [...]
>
> I think we have to balance the details in our life with the
> big-picture that we adopt. We cannot live in all details and we cannot
> live in all dreams, because the two go to composing a life. And one
> should endeavor to balance life's details with life's dreams.
>
> I almost got into trouble as of lately in not balancing details with
> dreams. I started a foolish quest to shopping for a trailer whilst on
> the Greyhound bus tour of the USA.
What? Archimedes Plutonium did something foolish?
Okay, who forged that article? I know the real Archimedes Plutonium
would NEVER do anything foolish.
> Sort of like a work-vacation. If I had continued I am sure that I
> would have bought a trailer and then
become president of the world.
> hauled it up to my land and destroying my vacation in the meantime. A
> conflict of details that would have ruined the dream vacation. So,
> today I set aside my shopping of trailers until January of 2000.
Golly, that only gives you four months to finish moving out of
Dartmouth into that house you bought.
> Pace ourselves in details of life. The big picture, the dream of my
> life is that I am devoted to science, thus the details such as where I
> live must reflect the priority-dream. And any decisions in life that
> come up must ask the first question as to how to help further the dream
> and decide accordingly. For me to decide to live in a trailer rather
> than a house is a recognition that a house is a
> time-consuming-detailer.
What, the house wastes your time talking about what brands of cookies it likes?
> Owning a house or building steals a good
> fraction of a mind away, a fraction that could better be spent on my
> dream of doing more science. Having a wife and family steals away an
> enormous amount of a mind, such that the amount remaining to do science
> or physics is a tiny amount.
>
> Today I bought a Newman's Own brand of cookies the espresso chocolate
> chip, which last week I bought the orange chocolate chip. The espresso
> was great and one of the best boxes of cookies I ever bought.
I am glad to see your mind is still completely filled with important
scientific matters. Except for the part that's filled with cookies.
(That's the way Archie's brain crumbles.)
> These are all details that goes into composing a life, but it is the
> dreams that we mostly remember.
...AND WHEN I WOKE UP, MY PAUL NEWMAN COOKIES WERE GONE!
> The dream I have now as regards to my home for the next ten years is
> that I envision 3 homes. All Airstream trailers and in 3 locations,
> Canada, Florida and South Dakota. Where I spend a season at each.
Um, Arch, has anyone ever told you that you can MOVE an Airstream?
> Trailers that are low maintenance, so that my dream of doing science is
> helped and not of fixing up buildings. So, let me see whether in the
> next few years whether such a pattern was my fate.
I think your fate's pattern is probably more of a paisley.
-- K.
Or possibly a frieze of Zöllner lines.
Simon Clark
ki...@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) wrote:
> In talk.politics.misc,
> Archimedes Plutonium (archimedes...@my-deja.com) wrote:
> >
> > NNTP-Posting-Host: kiewit-pub-bp-36.dartmouth.edu
> > X-Newsreader: InterNews 2....@kiewit-pub-bp-36.dartmouth.edu[U]
He also set his zip code in his deja profile to the same as Dartmouth's:
http://www.deja.com/mem_profile.xp?mem=archimedes_plutonium
(And he didn't even put up a picture of himself!)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/about.html
> I'm glad to see your new palatial estate in Nova Scotia isn't keeping
> you away from the Macs in the Dartmouth libraries.
Could it be that only his "mind" is leaving Dartmouth? While his body
remains in Dartmouth Asylum? (Is anyone else thinking of "Brazil"?)
--
Simon Clark
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
James Kibo Parry
>
> Today is Saturday 11 Sept and I depart for
(sound of thousands of Kibologists holding their breath while they
continue reading the words which might say "The Alt.Religion.Kibology
Party-Like Event")
> this worldwide tour of the famous scientist upon 23 Sept,
Cool! Are you going to start at his feet and climb him, or just buy a
ticket on one of those little boats that goes around the bloodstream?
> and already I am beginning to complicate it. It is one of my
> characteristics or habit that I seem to fill things up.
Is _that_ why the doctor told you only to come back after filling
up the ten-gallon specimen bottle?
> [...]
>
> The idea has entered my mind that on the USA tour of famous scientists
> that I will also look for Real Estate to buy and to look at Airstream
> trailers, visit the big Airstream dealerships.
This could be a coffee-table book!
_Airstream Trailers Of The Famous Scientists And Philosophers_
I can't wait to see that one where Plato was chained to the wall.
> Now, I am just imagining myself with a Greyhound bus pass to relax
> and enjoy myself for 1.5 months
Via Greyhound, 1.5 months is about enough to get from Dartmouth to,
oh, the state line. Maybe you should consider a faster mode of transport.
Gee, maybe you should buy a purple Toyota pickup truck or something.
> and then I ripp that enjoyment and leisure up
Archimedes Plutonium-inspired death metal rock band name #37:
ARCHIE THE RIPPPER!
> with the purchase of land or a trailer and thus preempting the tour
Your tour should be pre-empted for a rerun of that show about the little
girl who was really a robot, but nobody ever noticed even though she
spoke in a robot voice and could fly and always wore the same dress.
> or cutting a wide swath right down the middle of the tour by having
> to close a Real Estate deal or having to haul a Airstream half way
> or full way across the USA. How fast could I haul an Airstream, say
> from California to Halifax, and me being a novice in trailer hauling?
Oh, I see, learning to haul a trailer is beyond the capabilities of
the King of Science.
> If such an event does occur during this 1.5 month tour, well, you can
> just imagine what such would do to the tour of famous scientists sites.
>
> But my mind is having fun in the "shopping" for Real Estate and
> trailers. My mind envisions that in the next 10 years I will end up
> owning about 10 separate pieces of property, most of them farmlands,
Me, I own 10 connected pieces of property! All of which I am standing on
right at this minute!
By the way, a few days ago you were only planning to buy three plots.
Why the sudden increase? Are you really going to need to hide that
many mistresses from your wife?
> and that I will end up putting about 5 Airstream trailers on these
> properties.
Each?
> It is safe to say that I am the best person to know what
> Archimedes Plutonium will do in the next 10 years.
It is safe to say that no sane person would claim to know what
Archimedes Plutonium will do in the next 10 years.
> And what turned out to be a "slight fascination" and "minor desire"
> for my father to buy an Airstream and vacation and see the West
> in an Airstream, but he never got the opportunity, has turned into
> his son's obsession.
This is the worst remake of "Moby Dick" ever!
> Why would I ever have needed 4 bicycles when 1 is sufficient?
Is this where the dancing bears come in? Or should I just say something mean?
> Why would a single person such as myself, who will probably be travelling
> for the rest of my life rather than be in one place for more than 4 months
> (a single season) have need or use for say 5 Airstream trailers?
Well, you could fill up one with dirty dishes, and then you'd have to
move into another one...
> Such is the will of God.
GOD DEMANDS OLD TRAILERS WITH ROUNDED EDGES!!!
> And truthfully, my mind at this moment is more excited about
> buying Real Estate and trailer and the painting with Olympic stain my
> Halifax cabin, than it is excited over crisscrossing the USA leisurely
> and Europe travel. I have to admit, that when I think of California of
> Berkeley and where plutonium was first identified what crosses my mind
> is the Spaghetti Factory restaurants that I so much enjoyed in San
> Diego.
(Mental image: A conveyor belt carrying dozens of paper cups.
Lucille Ball is frantically stuffing spaghetti into them as they
pass through a microwave into Archimedes Plutonium's mouth.)
> And I have to be honest that what comes to my mind about Germany
> is not Gottingen and Quantum Physics but puff pastry cream horns, and
> of Cambridge England the thoughts should be where Newton walked and
> talked and where Quantum Physics and the Cavendish laboratories and
> Rutherford, but to be honest what crosses my mind is the world's best
> pizza and those fish and chips in downtown London.
If you ever repost that paragraph, could you please put a box around it
so that more people will see it before they make up their minds about
your scientific background?
> I do not know what it is with me that I can never relax but have to go
> go go.
Maybe you should switch to decaffeinated spaghetti.
> My father was the same way, where a vacation usually ended up
> working harder than with a job. But he had fun. So I guess the key
> measure of a trip or tour is whether it is fun, regardless of what I
> end up doing. I find it extremely fun to travel and see new sights and
> sounds and eat new food, but I also find it extremely fun to shop for
> real-estate and trailers and to even do something like Olympic stain
> the cabin.
I hear the Russians have never lost that event to a crazy guy.
> My father died of a heart attack at around 64 or 65 years of age.
When's your birthday?
> I do not know if his go go attitude and inability to ever really
> relax and "do nothing" had a role in heart attacks. I suspect it was
> more genetics and that a go go lifestyle is actually better for the
> heart than is a lethargic relaxed lifestyle.
> But, let what comes, come...
(Mental image: Archie opens the side of his aluminum Airstream trailer
with a can opener, and it's filled with spinach. He eats some, making
big plutonium atoms light up in the biceps of his hideously deformed arms.
His pipe spins around and goes "TOOT! TOOT!" and he says, "But, let what
comes, come, I yam what I yam, I'm Archie the Trailer Man!")
-- K.
My pipe goes "BEABLE! BEABLE!"
robert lindsay
James "Kibo" Parry <ki...@world.std.com> wrote:
>> It is safe to say that I am the best person to know what
>> Archimedes Plutonium will do in the next 10 years.
>
>It is safe to say that no sane person would claim to know what
>Archimedes Plutonium will do in the next 10 years.
It is safe to say the even using the vast power of Apple's new 'supercomputer'
no power on earth can tell us what Archie will post in the next 10 minutes.
I've tried zapping him with my Mind Control Ray^W^W^W weather satellite
but I keep hitting him in the head.
--
Robert Lindsay, NASA - Goddard, Greenbelt MD rlin...@seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov
#include <standard_disclaimer.h> 301-286-9958 ISTJ Type 9
"I mean, if you're scared of NASA, that's like being afraid of wax paper."
-J. "Kibo" Parry, USENET, Jan 30, 1999 Should we talk about the weather? -REM
Eddie Hi There!
metawinslet!
Are. You. Telling. Me. That, that the Best pizza in
the world is-in CambrigeEnglandNotChicago Illinois?!
<sarcasm, tinged with self-doubt>
And I suppose the best taco in the world is made in Oslo,
Sweden! </stwsd> Hah. Like it's not in the heart of
Metropolitan Des Moines Iowa.
Or - is it?!
Eddie "Hi There!" Lowther,
PS. Belated "thanks!" to whoever donated a Taco to me at
ARKPLE. I was doing OK with my banananana cappupucino slosh
w. cream, but you obviously saw I needed a cheap taco.
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Chris McGonnell
> >> Archimedes Plutonium will do in the next 10 years.
> >
> >It is safe to say that no sane person would claim to know what
> >Archimedes Plutonium will do in the next 10 years.
>
'supercomputer'
> no power on earth can tell us what Archie will post in the next 10
minutes.
>
> I've tried zapping him with my Mind Control Ray^W^W^W weather satellite
> but I keep hitting him in the head.
(Italian accent) "The tinfoil helmet, she's a works!"
--
Chris McG.
Harming humanity since 1951
"Wow, was that forced or what? -- The Avocado Avenger
Joseph Michael Bay
>Hmmm... frivolous lawsuits; food based out of paper cups (see
><http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=222577787>); Spaghetti
>Factory; psychosis and paranoia... little did I realize I had
>been married to a distant relative of Archimedes Plutonium
>all along.
Yaay! And it's just as funny as when Kibo posts about Archimedes
Plutonium, too!
And I really mean that.
--
Joseph M. Bay www.stanford.edu/~jmbay/ Lamont Sanford Junior University
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