From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c0620604210847j38bd4722uca2ac34a9031be79@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:47:34 -0700 From: "Jack Johnson" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails In-Reply-To: <775b8d190604210434y164451e5s734d0ba8db48875@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <14f6dbefdc797dedc47545423b77609d@quanstro.net> <775b8d190604210434y164451e5s734d0ba8db48875@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 43c3489a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 4/21/06, Bruce Ellis wrote: > i take offense at the term mythical. I understand your offense, but look at it this way: only a handful of people can claim to have seen architeuthis, but we tend to believe that architeuthis exists. The rest of us we have to rely on anecdote. That reliance on anecdote makes it mythical, but we still believe it exists. Kind of like Natalie Portman's bedroom.... I heard Teller (of Penn & Teller) on the radio a couple of months back, but I've never actually seen him speak. I still wonder if it's just a brilliantly subduded joke: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D4750603 Maybe Rob has seen his lips move. -Jack