YDL 4.0 - Super Off Topic

[Olaf Olson]

Interesting approach, looking down another axis. I like it.

Still, Stavromula Beta was what Our Hero heard when he was told it would 
all end there. I didn't want to give away the fact that this was Stavro 
Mueller's Other Place, commonly called Beta. So... Stavro Mueller was 
never a place, but Beta was.

I shall step back and end my participation in the truly distant trip off 
topic.

Olaf

Norberto Quintanar wrote:

>*sniff* I love this list!  And agree with Derick decaf is a crime.
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>
>Derick wrote:
>Clint - Decaf is a crime!  I'll continue to take my daily cup of
>Expresso followed with a GBlaster chaser, just to clear the ole'
>pipes!
>
>Olaf, I think that I have a surprise for you...but I'll start by
>expressing a full appreciation of Douglas' outrageous talent.  Now
>for
>the incidentals:
>
>1. Stavro Mueller is a person, or was a person, who never was a
>place.
>
>2. Ursa Minor Alpha and Beta are places although too few know where
>they
>are and that they in fact do exist.  I could say I was cheating but
>Douglas knew his science which is exactly what made him such a
>powerful
>science fiction writer.  The same way (Isaac) Asimov was a Chemist
>and
>(Arthur C.) Clarke and Engineer...excuse me, THE ENGINEER who
>invented
>the TRANSISTOR and was directly involved and responsible for the
>first
>global telecommunications satellite.
>
>Douglas also was familiar with Advanced Mathematics and its key
>suppositions which are used liberally throughout his work, but again
>few
>are paying close attention.  Again very very few people are going to
>"get" what the jokes were which he was "sharing" or "revealing" or
>"discussing"...of course there will be always few who will have a
>"religious" epiphany and start a new religion based on this and other
>works discussing simultaneous dimensional multiplicity dynamics and
>how
>it applies to their lives.  Some would say, this has already
>happened,
>and they passed on together along with Halley's Comet!  But that
>ignores
>their variants...but few along our particular continuum axis would
>recognize that occurrence unless one remembered a particularly funny
>little function which crops up nearly everywhere nearly all the time.
>
>
>I speak of that function which appears to be ubiquitous in the
>structure
>of all living structures and DOWNRIGHT essential for the very
>existence
>of all things human.  Douglas must have known it; others know it as
>the
>function phi.  What is phi?  One form of it is the graph of f(x)= 1/x
>
>It just so happens that this function DETERMINES the shape of what
>Nature uses to grow not only Nautilus shells, but the ventricles of
>the
>heart AND brain; as well as the curves of the spine as well as which
>structures in a fetus grow first and how they become innervated.  It
>ALSO has been observed to be essential to how curves of force develop
>which has been called hurricanes and/or tornadoes.  As well as
>whirlpools, spiral behavior of curling, and unfolding; it goes on...
>
>I've given enough hints here for you to intuit for yourself. 
>However,
>as I've come this far I might as well drop some more hints which
>Douglas
>himself used.  But before I do that understanding how and what phi is
>doing has a lot to do with this view of Douglas' work.  Remember that
>phi exists in Quadrant I and III!  It also approaches the axes
>(plural)
>in ALL QUADRANTS IN ALL DIMENSIONAL GENERATIONS -- INFINITELY.
>Remember
>that little sub-seminar on Limits in Calculus class?  Something
>approaching infinitely somewhere without ever getting there... sounds
>fantastic, but it is true AND demonstrable in precisely phi!
>
>In other words, the Vogon, even at the cost of becoming the only
>Vogon
>in existence cannot EVER complete his/its task.  It can merely
>APPROACH
>A MEASURE OR FINITE LEVEL PASSING FOR THE APPEARANCE OF
>ACCOMPLISHMENT. 
>Douglas' Hint, is quite clear.  It ends with the last few words of
>the
>Vogon listening to Music. Music is a completely human activity even
>older than humanity's activity with Science.
>
>The STORY is NOT OVER, just Douglas' description of it in the current
>continuum!  The trick of course is to SEE it from the OTHER AXIS. All
>views are NOT equivalent; this is the Vogon limitation.  Very similar
>to
>the Vulcan's slavish adoption of Logic! As you are still perfecting
>the
>Art of Flying it is easily forgiven that one misses the clearly
>obvious
>fact that Marvin is about to BE!  
>
>Just Keep Practicing and one day you'll see the point AND miss the
>ground entirely -- which is a much preferable way to live and come
>out
>of many intractable predicaments.  Of course, moving along the
>various
>axes successfully means paying attention to what phi is doing within
>a
>certain rate of time so that one transverses along the timeline as
>opposed to becoming discreet upon it!
>
>Best wishes and by all means KEEP MISSING IT...the ground...that is.
>:)
>
>On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 19:48, OlafOccurrence Olson wrote:
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>>I will admit that I too learned a great deal from Douglas Adams,
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>chief 
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>>among the things I learned is that the secret to flying is to throw
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>>yourself at the ground and miss. I haven't perfected it yet and
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>I've 
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>>decided not to try from any higher starting points than I have so
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>far 
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>>attempted.
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>>Nevertheless, I wish he had stopped before the final book in the
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>series, 
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>>in which the simultaneous guide managed to finish the story
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>permanently, 
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>>in Stavromula Beta. Still... those fjords are quite nice.
>>
>>Sorry for the inconvenience...
>>
>>Olaf
>>
>>Clinton MacDonald wrote:
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>>>Douglas -- uh, I mean, Derick:
>>>
>>>Derick Centeno wrote:
>>>
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>>>>Now THAT fellow not only lives forever, BUT FOREVER IN
>>>>EVERY POSSIBLE UNIVERSE SIMULTANEOUSLY!! C'MON WITH THAT
>>>>MANY PROFOUNDO...WHAT WAS THAT DRINK>>>??? Ah YES...THE
>>>>PAN GALACTIC GARGLE BLASTER... WELL...ANYONE CAN NOT
>>>>ONLY LOOK COOL THEY CAN BE COOL TOO!
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>>>>
>>>Don't take this the wrong way, and I say this only as a friend:
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>Switch 
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>>>to decaf, dude! :-)
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>>>>Dear Douglas Adams, beat us all to it though... What IF
>>>>everything before THAT book were merely rough drafts and
>>>>Hitchhiker IS THE BOOK!! And the Universe is waiting for
>>>>us to figure it out kind of like a twisted Jonathan
>>>>Livingston Seagull with a GargleBlaster as a chaser!
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>That's an interesting hypothesis. And I scare myself silly, in
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>that I 
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>>>sort of agree with you: almost everything I know, I learned from 
>>>reading the __Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy__. It was a sad
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>day 
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>>>when Douglas N. Adams left us.
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>>><sniff>
>>>
>>>Best wishes,
>>>Clint
>>>("Yellow," he thought and stomped off back to his bedroom to get 
>>>dressed.)
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