May 2008
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I was only half joking about food at the meeting….
Haha…lovely.
I wonder....
Taurus Career Horoscope Month : May 2008 A new chapter of your life may be about to begin this month so be honest with yourself and focus on aspects that you can live up to. You should be able to put a positive spin on practically everything you touch. As the month begins you need to make your own decisions as others may assume the role of the judging committee. It may be surprisingly...
“That Microsoft tie-up has seemed like a betrayal to many XO supporters who have...”
– A Laptop For Everyone One Laptop Per Child—Version 2.0 Andy Greenberg, 05.20.08, 3:05 PM ET
Negroponte goes the way of Nero... →
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NYC Thursday Evening after work….haha….and she thinks of old stripping habits…ridiculous. Should be fun.
“Dear Engaged Participants:
The conversation we’ve been having since we...”
– Intro to a Letter from Scot Horst, Chair of the LEED Steering Committee
“A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
WANDERLUST!
Conventionally, everyone believes anything of value requires money. In reality, everything of value requires being unconventional!
“Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.”
– William Shakespeare
“You already have two strikes — you’re Irish and you’re a cook.”
– Tim McGinnis
“I am part of a demented and decadent food chain”
– Tim McGinnis
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
– Harry S. Truman, Pres. U.S.
“Justice ceases to be just when it ceases to be human.”
– Saint Katharine Drexel
Memories of our lives, of our work, and our deeds will continue in others. -Rosa Parks
Love isn’t love unless it is expressed; caring isn’t caring unless the other person knows; sharing isn’t sharing unless the other person is included.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming it. -Helen Keller
It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -Eleanor Roosevelt
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Degrees and Our Small World
The phrase “six degrees of separation” is often used as a synonym for the idea of the “small world” phenomenon.
An Abstract Example
At this point one may wonder how many friends a person must have in a world where every pair of individuals is at most six steps apart and everyone has about the same number of friends. First, give the world a population of a millon virtual people denoted P000000, P000001, .. P543210, .. P999998, P999999. Then imagine that Pijklmn knows everyone whose number differs by one digit — ie....
“A fascinating game grew out of this discussion. One of us suggested performing...”
– Karinthy, Frigyes. Chain-Links. Translated from Hungarian and annotated by Adam Makkai and Enikö Jankó.
The Small World
In 1929 a Hungarian author named Frigyes Karinthy published a volume of short stories titled “Everything is Different.” One of these pieces was titled “Chains,” or “Chain-Links.” The story investigated in abstract, conceptual, and fictional terms, which are many of the problems that now captivate mathematicians, sociologists, and physicists within the field of...
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
lol…remember…I sit at a desk for 8 hours a day…so yes, I have…I need 2 filter more…I’m going 2 delete one’s i’m not commenting on
