[FRIAM] friam Winter POTLUCK

[Gary Schiltz]

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..."

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:34 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Friammers,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Nick
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *George Duncan
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 13, 2020 11:49 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] friam Winter Party
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> Super, Jon
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> George Duncan
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> Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
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> My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and
> luminous chaos.
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> "Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may
> then be a valuable delusion."
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> From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn.
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> "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest
> power." Joanna Macy.
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> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:25 AM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sarah and I will be there. I am looking
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> forward to meeting some of you in person.
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