30 May
2010
30 May
'10
5:33 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Anyone off to VCF-UK
There is a woman that became famous on YouTube, by using only her *feet* to
peel a banana:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu1PY8PIrYA
I haven't watched the video yet, so perhaps she cheated somehow?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin
at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 2010, dwight elvey wrote:
>> The only problem is that decimal don't fit the physical world well.
>> Thing in the physical world are fraction of powers of fractions.
>> 1/8 and 1/32 make more sense in the physical world.
>> Decimal is just what you learned in school.
>
> . . . and based on the very arbitrary basis of number of fingers.
>
> Q: then why not base 20?
> A: because the more dominant (agressive) cultures came from climates
where
feet were kept
bundled up for warmth, and stank too much to expose them
publicly
:?D Like it!
Mind you, I don't think I've met anyone with the flexibility and
control to individually raise and lower toes to count on...