Dragaera

Ubiquitous

Thu Feb 17 12:33:31 PST 2005

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Simmons [mailto:scs at di.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:06 PM
> To: Jot Powers
> Cc: dragaera at dragaera.info; Shawn Burns
> Subject: Re: Ubiquitous
> 
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:36:49PM -0700, Jot Powers wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 02:30:05PM -0500, Steve Simmons wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:50:32AM -0800, Shawn Burns wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Shawn (commenting on how easy communication is in 
> English even if 
> > > > used
> > > > poorly): "What is a 'ubiquitous' mean?"
> > > > 
> > > > Def #1: "Nifty" (this may have been a joke) Def #2: "Easily 
> > > > Corruptible"
> > > > Def #3: "Widespread"
> > > > Def #4: "It means that everybody knows what the words mean"
> > >
> > > Or it could be that all four responses were jokes.  Only 
> #3 and #4 
> > > come even vaguely close to what it actually means, and I'm pretty 
> > > sure #4 was a joke.
> > 
> > As the author of #2, I can tell you _it_ was certainly a joke.  :)
> 
> As the author of #4, I salute you!  OK, let's hear from bachelor #2.
> --
> We were discussing how much illumination the various blinking 
> lights in the computer room emit:
>     He:  It just keeps getting brighter in there.
>     Me:  If only we did, too.
> 

We are an hilarious group of people, although some of us are funnier than
others. Which begs the question "How do we quantify funny?"

I am clearly slower on the uptake than the rest of youse. Especially y'all
Steve.

Shawn