From: Wes Kussmaul <wes@authentrus.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:02:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318536170.1860.52.camel@Wes-Toshiba-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db295cc2af7bfc141c541de527d71469@coraid.com>
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 15:30 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote:
> On Thu Oct 13 13:23:01 EDT 2011, viriketo@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 07:19:59PM +0200, tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:
> > > And it's a chance that there is no Nobel for mathematics or computer
> > > science: no need to be deshonored by this mondaine crap.
> >
> > Or there are shameful "Nobel" prizes, like the economics, started by the Bank of
> > Sweden taking profit of Nobel's name, and with very strong political biases,
> > denounced even by those receiving the award. And presented by the press usually
> > neglecting these details.
>
> i'd be a little hacked off if my wife ran off with a mathematician, too.
> alfred just had the money to do something about it.
Supposedly that's an urban legend, as he - again supposedly - was never
married. Come to think of it that would explain why the prizes exist!
Wes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 5:29 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-10-13 5:35 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-10-13 6:57 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-13 13:19 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2011-10-13 13:44 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 13:30 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-13 15:19 ` pera
2011-10-13 16:56 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 17:26 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-13 17:40 ` simon softnet
2011-10-13 18:24 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 18:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-13 17:19 ` tlaronde
2011-10-13 17:22 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-10-13 19:30 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-13 20:02 ` Wes Kussmaul [this message]
2011-10-13 21:19 ` Nick LaForge
2011-10-13 22:57 ` Thomas
2011-10-13 23:20 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-10-24 8:46 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-11-10 9:43 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-11-10 12:56 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-11-10 12:57 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-11-11 0:10 ` clinton
2011-10-13 18:14 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2020-09-28 18:32 Sad news Dan Cross
2020-09-28 18:54 ` [9fans] " Gorka Guardiola
2020-09-28 19:24 ` Gabriel Díaz López De La Llave
2020-09-28 19:29 ` Federico Benavento
2020-09-28 19:38 ` Don Bailey
2020-09-28 21:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2020-09-29 3:44 ` Lucio De Re
2020-09-29 8:01 ` enrique.soriano
2020-09-29 8:07 ` Francisco Ballesteros
2020-09-29 11:57 ` elbingmiss
2020-09-30 8:20 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2020-09-30 8:43 ` Christopher Nielsen
2020-09-29 8:14 Steve Simon
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