Comments on: Thermo**

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:22:38 +0000

This is why (speaking of nano) I want to get a plug-innable memory chip for my head. I never remember anything.

What were we talking about, again?

By: LDA

LDA — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:54:53 +0000

Geez, you’d think I’d have remembered that! OK, I read a&m at A&M my freshman year… But alas, the unused bytes in long term shortage degrade, or are being overwritten the older I become.

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:17:19 +0000

toujour gai comes from archy and mehitabel, by Don Marquis. It was mehitabel's fave phrase.

By: LDA

LDA — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:47:24 +0000

No prob, S-C. I haven’t read thru all the voluminous and knowledgeable posts herein, so I expect I risk running over the same material you’ve previously discussed. Appreciate your pointing me to those posts I’ve neglected to find. Thanks.

Morgan, Thanks, too. And wasn’t ‘Toujour gai’ a Broadway tune from “Shinbone Alley”?

I digress… I’m just thrilled to find a clutch of folks who expound upon relevant issues of interest to me. (Perhaps explains my enthusiasm to post w/o pre-emptive due diligence.) Much to my disappointment, I’ve found many overseas-assigned countrymen to be rigid in their viewpoints. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised. This isn’t a university community where ‘free thinking’ is either valued or encouraged. One of many minor reasons I’ve declined to extend my 2-yr tour; returning home to O’ahu in April. So looking forward to being home…

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:05:13 +0000

Hey, LDA, I wasn’t commenting about your comment as much as saying “here is additional interesting stuff on this topic.”

HyperTextual and all that.

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:44:13 +0000

Definitely fashionable, LDA. Toujour gai

By: LDA

LDA — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 11:40:59 +0000

Always unfashionably late to the party…

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:19:21 +0000

I should do a serious post about nanotech. It has tremendous promise — and tremendous risks. Of course, by the time we have problems with nano, we will probably be facing the Singularity with regard to AI anyway. Or another dark age, due to the collapse of civilization in an overheated world…or some damn thing. Oh! And I just read that according to some scientists, there is a good likelihood that the Earth only has another half a billion years left before it’s rendered uninhabitable anyway. I HATE when that happens.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:11:47 +0000

And we talked about this a little bit way back in November right here.

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:07:59 +0000

LDA’s post was stuck in moderation because of the number of links. I unstuck it.

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:01:16 +0000

LDA, this is really interesting. You are a time traveller! Your post came first, but did not show up until *after* Steve’s. Weird.

Caroline, so… presuming we could have basically SkinTV… what channels would you want showing? And, er, how many pixels?

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:49:36 +0000

Did you want those Hi Def or VGA?

By: Caroline Spector

Caroline Spector — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:28:37 +0000

Where are my nano tattoo implants, dammit.

By: Bradley Denton

Bradley Denton — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:20:16 +0000

I’m in full agreement, Morgan. That’s why I’m cowering under my desk.

By: Morgan J. Locke

Morgan J. Locke — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:32:37 +0000

For sure. Nanotechnology has horrendous power to obliterate everything and everyone. So do nukes. We are already there, in that deadly future.