Comments on: Getting Back on the Bicycle http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/11/05/getting-back-on-the-bicycle/ Dedicated to the mathematical arts. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:11:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Todd Trimble http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/11/05/getting-back-on-the-bicycle/#comment-56374 Todd Trimble Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:38:52 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/11/05/getting-back-on-the-bicycle/#comment-56374 Hmm... do you believe him? Does he have specific remembrances of when and where and under what circumstances he invented this phrase? How would he account for or react to <a href="http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/414150.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>? On an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Richard Lewis claims to have invented "the (blank) from hell" -- the 'blank' being anything you like (mother-in-law, etc.). In the absence of further details, I'd grant Nelson's claim the same amount of credibility. Hmm… do you believe him? Does he have specific remembrances of when and where and under what circumstances he invented this phrase? How would he account for or react to this?

On an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Richard Lewis claims to have invented “the (blank) from hell” — the ‘blank’ being anything you like (mother-in-law, etc.). In the absence of further details, I’d grant Nelson’s claim the same amount of credibility.

]]> By: Jonathan Vos Post http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/11/05/getting-back-on-the-bicycle/#comment-56373 Jonathan Vos Post Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:22:02 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/11/05/getting-back-on-the-bicycle/#comment-56373 Dear Walt, Sorry if I was grouchy the last time your laptop issue was raised. Since I've been addicted to computer usage since I started programming in 1966 (41 years ago) I do empathize with the withdrawal symptoms. "Helpful" friends and relatives love to stuff us into vacation retreats without computational capability. I always smuggle a pocket calculator in with me... Speaking of bicycles, Ted Nelson, father of hypertext and hypermedia, claims to have originated the phrase: "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." Dear Walt,

Sorry if I was grouchy the last time your laptop issue was raised.

Since I’ve been addicted to computer usage since I started programming in 1966 (41 years ago) I do empathize with the withdrawal symptoms.

“Helpful” friends and relatives love to stuff us into vacation retreats without computational capability. I always smuggle a pocket calculator in with me…

Speaking of bicycles, Ted Nelson, father of hypertext and hypermedia, claims to have originated the phrase: “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”

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