[FRIAM] George Phillip Tremblay IV

[Marcus Daniels]

Keep elaborating it. For example, ask it to incorporate radiochemistry: 

“Like calling fallout a ‘light dusting,’ meteorological euphemisms cloak radiochemistry in weather's small talk.”

“When rain carries cesium, forecasts trade science for syntax.”

Now add in Buck Rodgers:

“Buck Rogers promised jetpacks—he didn’t warn us the sky would glow green and come with a fallout forecast.”

Ask it to include some remarks on adenosine.

“Buck Rogers flew through neutron storms without ever needing coffee—today, we decode euphemisms for fallout while our adenosine receptors beg for sleep.”

And so on. It’s clearly universal interpolation. 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
Date: Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] George Phillip Tremblay IV 

My guess is that there must be something in George’s training that is close to exactly the same as this utterance. How would one go about confirming or disproving this hypothesis? 
— Barry 
On 18 Apr 2025, at 22:48, Nicholas Thompson wrote: 

The last time I checked in with this list it was starting to be not-cool to gush over 
George, but every once in a while he produces an aphorism that makes me laugh out loud, alone in my study: He defined meteorological euphemisms as "terms that describe what something would be if only it were the thing it isn't." 

Nicholas S. Thompson 

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology 

Clark University 

nthompson at clarku.edu <mailto:nthompson at clarku.edu> 

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson> 





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