Re: Seth Finkelstein / N.Y Times


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From John Young <jya@PIPELINE.COM>
Date Fri, 20 Jul 2001 07:03:19 -0700
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All verbities are excellently commendable (no period)

Did you truly understand that the Times reporter's middle
initial is "8."? Yes, 8, decimal point, not period.

This is astounding Fermat stuff. I will soon publish an
essay, lengthy, on why this numerical MI trend will soon
replace the fascination with SSNs. To absorbe it will require
arithmetical facility above innumeracy.

Alpha nyms are on the way out, IP IDs are in.

Imagine what it will be like when words are passe and
all language will be 1s and 0s. Not spoken, emitted.
Whence then rhetoric, argument, irony, scorn, ill
will air kisses?

A keyboard with two, maybe three, keys, 0, 1,
pause for effect.


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