[FRIAM] Newborn Heart Rate

[Frank Wimberly]

We were at a friend's cocktail party in Pittsburgh.  He was an MD and he
had a cold.  He poured himself a martini consisting of two shots of vodka,
a couple drops of vermouth, and an olive.  As he started to drink it he
said, "I need to denature this virus."

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Sun, Oct 3, 2021, 2:03 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 5:57 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just to be clear – and perhaps nerdishly literal minded – I would NEVER
>> claim that word play alone is science; I would only claim that it has a
>> role to play.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 10:59 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  You might help me distinguish between vicious DAWW and virtuous DAWW.
>> You might exile me.  But you probably won’t get me to stop.
>>
>>
>> If we follow the virtuous DAWW, it feels like wuwei
>> <https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?wdqb=c%3A%2A%E6%97%A0%E4%B8%BA%2A&wdrst=0>science
>> to me. Who needs action <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics)>
>> when you got words? We are but meat puppets playing with nirvana
>> <https://youtu.be/Sj8UbmdV7bk?t=53>.
>>
> Nick, I absolutely see the value in wordplay (DAWW) and do think it's an
> important part of science and mathematics.
>
> I was being perhaps a little too clever in my own mind with my obtuse DAWW
> riff above.  At the risk of over parsing (like the risk of explaining a
> joke)  virtuous DAWW triggered the homophone of the Dao (道) and its central
> concept of wu-wei, which is often inaccurately translated as inaction but
> closer to right action / Least (stationary) action in physics for me.
>
> This then triggered lyrics of one of my favorite songs, Plateau
> <https://genius.com/Nirvana-plateau-lyrics> from the Meat Puppets,  "who
> needs action when you got words". To me, the line captures your and my
> relationship where I'm struggling with generalizing the concept of Action
> in Complex Systems and you are working your thoughts out with words. I find
> this a healthy dialogue!
>
> And then I couldn't resist sharing the MTV unplugged concert where Nirvana
> covered the Meat Puppets song with one of the Meat Puppets playing on
> stage. The link to Youtube is to that line in the song in the performance.
> So the literal Meat Puppet playing with Nivana mutated to "we are but meat
> puppets playing with Nirvana" gave me 15 minutes of interesting private
> contemplation of a puppet master animating our puppets and wooing our
> puppet minds with Nirvana.
>
> Certainly too obtuse of references and self-indulgent to post but what the
> hell.
>
> So I really do appreciate your DAWW and was just trying to join in and
> play with your dicking. :-)
>
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