<div dir="ltr">Cardinal? The only cardinal I know has red feathers and a conical beak made for cracking seeds. And by the way, it's Ecuador, not Peru. In any case, in honor of Cardinal Standish, and as someone who lives two miles south of the equator, I will break out in song: "I come from the land down... er... well slightly, down under..."</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:34 PM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_7644762663374865926WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Friammers, <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Conclave is on schedule. Still negotiating to get Cardinals Standish and Schiltz in from Australia and Peru (?) respectively. We will, of course, have to elect a new FRIAM pope before we disband on Saturday. Which color smoke do we put up George’s chimney? I never can remember. Perhaps we should set up a computer in a side room so people can call in from the diaspora? Renew old acquaintances. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">As the person who will be justifiably be to blame we end up like dogs fighting over Merle’s two loaves of fine bread, I am hoping that we can have a little chat tomorrow about who’s bringing what. It’s those long tails on the binomial distribution I worry about. Hard to eat a long tail. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nick <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Nicholas Thompson<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Clark University<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>George Duncan<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 13, 2020 11:49 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Super, Jon<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">George Duncan<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University<br><a href="http://georgeduncanart.com/" target="_blank">georgeduncanart.com</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Land: (505) 983-6895 <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Mobile: (505) 469-4671<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <br>My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><h1 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.25pt;font-weight:normal">"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion."</span><span style="letter-spacing:-0.25pt"><u></u><u></u></span></h1><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.25pt">From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. </span><u></u><u></u></p></div><table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0" width="85%" style="width:85%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0.75pt"><p align="center" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(93,86,81)">"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(93,86,81)"><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0.75pt"></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:25 AM Jon Zingale <<a href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonzingale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Sarah and I will be there. 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