From: jodybean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (zaphod-)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: and stuff.. as always..
Keywords: I don't know.. let me right it, and I'll get back in touch..
Date: 27 Jul 92 08:57:55 GMT
Reply-To: jodybean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (zaphod-)


The door opens to a very tired jody.. Toxic Hell is not the most fun of
places to work, and I still wonder how I convinced myself to go back into
fast food.  Ah vell, on to the post..

It's been a couple of weeks since last I really looked around in here...
I think somewhere around the winding down on the empath conversations, and
the turn to Godel, Escher, Bach (moreso to a flood of side conversations
around that) drove me running, screaming from the room.  Me -- one who hopes
one day to be teaching math.. hmmf.  I don't think it's so much the thought 
of talks about logic, math, and infinity, and stuff, but more that I have the
hardest time paying attention to such stuff over the network.  Maybe it's
because there's usually two to three posts saying the same thing per idea in
a news conversation (and I have a hangup about repetition.. hmmf) or maybe it's
just that I hadn't seen this side to callahan's before, and wasn't quite 
expecting it..

Then again, it seems that the summertime traffic through ccwf has been marked
for quick killing, and I was having a hard enough time keeping track of
everything
before they set the terribly short deletion times here (at u.t.).  I did notice
that I was getting lost in the articles when everything seemed to be something
I wouldn't mind talking about..  ah vell..



So, I'm here again.. don't know for how long, because I've been
splitting my time
into work, tutoring, sleeping (yes telsor, I do sleep ;)  ), irc, xrn, and all
sorts of other stuff.   Looks like it's gotten to be a hotbed of stuff in here
lately.. hmm.


Just out of curiousity.. what other ways (aside from punning) can we think of
of using the english language to create wordplay..  I suggested spoonerisms
(Thy Ink) to telsor, but I can't think of a nifty way of doing those..

For the uninformed:  Before I lent the setter, I placed a stone lamp on it...
     or     If you have to shake a tower, don't forget to shake off your toes!

All of the various puzzles from Nord & Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
spring to mind.. but I can't see a good way of modifying those sorts of
things..

ah well.. hello again, all..


"May we never forget those who no longer just walk by us.."

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jodybean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu   
"How much of our lives is just idle conversation?" -- bean thought # 11

Been developing this list as of late..  some others:

  "Where is the seat of our awareness?" and related questions..
  "Why do people tend to fuzz the differences between sex and love?"
  "What happens when I die?" (side-note to awareness, really)
  "Why can I rarely remember most of my childhood?"
  "Should I change anything about me -- am I satisfied with my person?"
  "What do I need to do in order to feel that I'm surviving in this world?"
  "How much control of my life do I want to leave in the hands of others?"
  "What things am I still unwilling to let other people see about me?"
  "What things am I still unwilling to let myself see about me?"
  
Courtesy of elf:
   "Why am I straight?"   i.e. who says deep relationships have to be 
      mostly with members of an opposite sex, and what exactly do we
      seek in sex anyway.

Courtesy of tanya:
   "Why do so many people still work within the stereotypes?"