From: Jeff Davis (jdavis@socketscience.com)
Date: Tue Apr 20 1999 - 14:43:00 MDT
Recently, sensors have detected a widely distributed smile reflex highly correlated with emanations from Emlyn the Prolific, a newly discovered star in the Extropian Galaxy. Spectral analysis suggests that the stimulus may have taken the form:
>As I recall, the brain transfer looked like scooping the brain out with a spoon, and popping it in
>the other head like so much jelly - it didn't look too sophisticated. But they were wearing white
>lab coats, so it must be true.
Smile reflex accompanied by major waves of pleasantness punctuated by textbook guffaw. Thank you, Emlyn.
You asked:
>I am positive that I didn't just dream this up... has someone seen something similar?
You'll find the whole story in
SHUFFLEBRAIN
The Quest of Hologramic Mind
second edition
by Paul Pietsch
to which I unfortunately do not have a link, but which can be easily found on the net, full-text.
My appreciation for your abundant and playful offerings also inspires the tiniest of cautionary notes: consider that tattered fragment of verse:
"I'm burning my candle at both ends,
It cannot last the night.
Da dada da dada da dada da da (I forget this line)
But oh, what a beautiful light!"
Which is to say, "Pace yourself, girl. Don't want to lose you to burnout."
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
Ray Charles
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