Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@social.cleverlibre.org

@adambienkov
OH. MY. GOD. Even this American is a little disturbed by that. 🙄

@LearnDSML
@JamesGleick
James Gleick's "The Information" introduced me to the fascinating Mr. Shannon a few years back. It's a name anybody working with computers should know; he was an amazing guy!

@_4_d_4_m_ @cybergibbons
,,, and I immediately started thinking of the most efficient way to clean that up in SQL, despite not having done that kind of work for a very long time. Thanks a whole lot. 😜

@_4_d_4_m_
My country has an entire political party based on that. As, I gather, does yours. 😉

@dankennedy_nu
Excuse me, I have to go lie down for a while because that thought resulted in a classic case of Blown Mind Syndrome.

@_4_d_4_m_ @jayarava
The ones with rope glued on plaques.

@_4_d_4_m_
I bet Ambrose Bierce's "Devil's Dictionary" is on the internet somewhere, it's been public domain for a long time.

@SignalsAndSorcery
Oh no, now I've got the Dark Shadows theme playing in my head.

@_4_d_4_m_ @jayarava
Yeah, not lately anyway. I've gone out of my way to follow as many funny people here as I can. 😎

@jayarava
Oh my yes, I've seen rather a lot of that. There's a sobriety forum I'm a moderator on that's had a "daily Buddha" feature for years, and it's exactly what you're talking about. I've sometimes corrected a garbled sutta quote, because I simply cannot let something like that stand, but otherwise just sigh and move on.

@jayarava
And I do wonder a bit at the apparent lack of interest in Mastodon-world, though I guess it might just be a matter of timing-- when there were 300,000 people here, I can see how there might not be so many people interested in Buddhist phililogy. Now that I see numbers more like 9 million, it might be that things are about to change.

I wonder if mentioning your presence here on the Sutta Central forums might help gain some readership for you here? You're semi-famous, or at least a known entity, in that locale (I think I've mentioned that that's where I first learned of your existence and your work). I could post a thought or two about something you've written over there with a link back to here. Maybe that would help.

@jayarava
Good morning-almost-afternoon to you! I can't help but have at least some rudimentary understanding of what you're on about 😉, having read everything you've done on the Heart at the Raves site. Printed and read. Read and scribbled notes on.

The whole topic is fascinating to me, as it contains crime (well, fraud anyway) and a mystery and an insight into an era in China that already interested me, when Buddhism was being re-shaped and adapted to a non-Indian culture-- and a culture with an already longstanding tradition of high literary accomplishments. You've given me many, many an hour of enjoyment in contemplation of all its facets. I'm very grateful to you for the diligence with which you've set yourself such a thankless task.

@jayarava
I thank you again for reading that so I don't have to. What a peculiar fellow he was.

Your handling of him in your recent "The Cessation of Sensory Experience..." was rather delicious, and I'm hereby awarding you 17 extra Essay Points for the "matter in the eye" line in that work. 😆

@Sheril
I've seen Bose's name mentioned in several physics-oriented general interest sorts of books. The Bose-Einstein condensate is a fascinating topic to reflect on, to me.

That's the first time I've seen a photo of him; thanks for putting a face to a name!