On Mar 18, 6:10=A0pm, thro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Wayne Throop) wrote:
> :: =A0 =A0 "I'm afraid of cows. =A0And Millie is afraid of, um, um, you
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> :: =A0 =A0 =A0the thing where if you take all the money people spend and
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> :: =A0 =A0 =A0put it inside what the weather's going to do and then you
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> :: =A0 =A0 =A0sing to cats and stuff? =A0She's afraid of that."
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> : Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> : O...kay. =A0This either is intentional gibbberish or maybe about not
> : investing everything in blue-skies technology companies.... =A0Millie
> : was right, of course.
>
> I took it to be intentional gibberish, but with some indication that
> it's gibberish because the person speaking can't quite find the worlds
> to frame a complicated concept. =A0It has some sort of surreal coherence
> to it (at least, to me). =A0"If I cross-correlate economic trends with
> weather prediction I find that..." =A0The Three is finding all sorts of
> correlations that most un-augmented people are unaware of, but are so
> blindingly obvious to her that she can't even find the words, like
trying
> to explain what you do automatically without thinking of it.
>
> Though I like the "don't invest in blue-sky tech companies"
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....
Oh - that congruence with weather is accidental. I was thinking
financial forecasting, futures investing, then ventures where there
isn't a visible financial payoff... like the Internet and technology
boom that died with the end of Enron and/or Clinton. (Depending on
who you like to blame.)
> In any event, I recommend reading the whole scene. =A0Better, the whole
> story. =A0
Noted.
> She almost comes off like, oh, Vinge's Old One, who also has
> problems explaining things to mere humans. =A0Or something along those
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> But all compressed into a couple of surreal paragraphs. =A0And just a
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> or two about how feared the Threes and Twos are, by just about
everybody,
> even the enforcement goons they brought along. =A0Building a very
interest=
ing
> background by simply dropping a word or two here and there. =A0"The door
> dilated" on steroids.
>
> Oh well. =A0Maybe I'm just easily amused.
No bad thing ;-)
Douglas Adams's depressed genius robot character Marvin had a line "I
get a headache just thinking down to your level."
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