Comments on: Accelerated Thinking

By: Martin E.

Martin E. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:02:30 +0000

Depends on your idea of light entertainment, I guess.

By: Keith A.

Keith A. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:46:18 +0000

Martin E. – I think Baron Ludlow went to Davos one year to speak on the beginning of the Universe or the end of humanity.

By: Martin E.

Martin E. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:46:04 +0000

P.S. Are you saying Martin Rees and Roger Blandford are gas giants?

By: Martin E.

Martin E. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:43:43 +0000

bugger. my html must be rusty. The Debra Winger movie was ‘Black Widow’ (see imdb.com), and Davos is the ‘World Economic Forum’, see html://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm
[is there some sneaky way to cut 'n paste links without typing all that

By: andyxl

andyxl — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:18:06 +0000

Martin, have you been at the Sherry ? You never said what Debra Winger was in, and Davos was an empty hyperlink …

By: Martin E.

Martin E. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:16:25 +0000

Ah yes, almost famous. But famous is like rich: "Rich is never enough" as Theresa Russell's character says to Debra Winger's in { . Our ol' mate Phil, for example, who goes to the Googleplex, is the only person I know who has gone to Davos, so I was super-impressed; but it turns out he was brought in as the light entertainment, to chair a panel on the future of science, or some such, one evening, after the serious moving and shaking had be done for the day. There you go, fame is never enough.

By: andyxl

andyxl — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:47:57 +0000

Indeedy. I refer you to this earlier post about almost meeting famous people.

By: Martin E.

Martin E. — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:34:09 +0000

Coo. Off to the mighty Googleple., Where he will, incidentally, run into our old mate Phil Campbell. But not for long, as Phil will be at the opera in Santa Fe on Wednesday… with us Don’t we fly close to (but not quite in) exalted circles!