<div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>All of this just once again brings back the famous graffiti on the back of one of the wooden chairs in the original incarnation of the Legendary MIT Lecture Hall -- 10-250 [Maclaurin Building -- Huntington Lecture Hall --- for those unfamiliar with MIT Campus-speak]</div><div>The Hall dates to the era of the completion of the original Cambridge Campus circa 1920</div><div>Carved into the curved wooden back side of the chair [on the side facing the next row behind]:</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_m16tt0ug1" alt="image.png" width="472" height="191"> [pair of original chairs from the MIT MUseum collection]<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Science is a Communist Plot</font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Plotting is a Communist Science</font></div><div><br></div><div>There is no known precedence [then] and subsequently the chairs have all been replaced by cushioned chairs -- so its reality is lost to history</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 10:25 PM Michael Alexander via LCTG <<a href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us">lctg@lists.toku.us</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>
This reminds me of an interchange in my introductory calculus course.<div><br></div><div>Professor: Why does 1/x go to zero as x goes to infinity?<br><br>Class: [stunned silence]</div><div><br></div><div>[more silence]</div><div><br></div><div>Professor: Because it <u>waants</u> to!</div><div><br></div><div> Mike Alexander</div><div><br><p style="font-size:15px;color:rgb(113,95,250);padding-top:15px;margin-top:0px">On Monday, September 16, 2024, 5:01 PM, John P. Rudy via LCTG <<a href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" target="_blank">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote><div id="m_5632310073281482265yiv8178807658"><div><div><p><span style="font-family:sans-serif">It is just to be funny as Calvin and Hobbes always it</span></p><p><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p><div id="m_5632310073281482265yiv8178807658yqt47144"><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:sans-serif"> Robert Primak <<a href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bobprimak@yahoo.com</a>> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 16, 2024 3:09 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Lex Computer Group <<a href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us" target="_blank">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>>; John P. Rudy <<a href="mailto:jjrudy1@comcast.net" target="_blank">jjrudy1@comcast.net</a>><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] why does ice float</span></p></div></div><p> </p><div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">As a degreed chemist, I don't need to look this one up. </span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">But the Dad Answer looks a lot like ChatGPT made it up. </span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">-- Bob Primak </span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"> </span></p></div></div><div id="m_5632310073281482265yiv8178807658yahoo_quoted_7340281631"><div><div><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">On Monday, September 16, 2024 at 12:16:11 PM EDT, John P. 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