From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23517 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2005 15:57:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 23499 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jun 2005 15:57:51 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:57:51 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5EFvoW3004924 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:57:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:58:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Subject: Re: My Spacebar is OK! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00425.txt.bz2 On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Lionel B wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> ----Original Message---- > >>> From: Igor Pechtchanski > >>> Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06 > >> > >>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > >>> > >>>> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a > >>>> lot more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's > >>>> falling off the top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed > >>>> off the edge of a coffee-table! > >>> > >>> You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-) > >>> Igor > >> > >> No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo. That's why > >> the hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height! > > > > Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the > > edge, would there? > > Personally, I've had to ban them from the coffee table, since they > always leave the newspapers messed up so you can't find the front page. Yeah, I feel your pain. My cat does that, too. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT