> As at least one female philosopher (my wife) has observed, "Men are from
> Earth, women are from Earth.  Deal with it."

Heck! it's only a metaphor! Surely she didn't tell the kids there is no
Santa!
Or is this just you, "doing a Plato": putting your own words your wifes
mouth?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Walsh" <jwalsh at bigpond.net.au>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: Lots of concurrency


> > I am also faintly amused by the thought that I (a male) am commenting on
> > Justin (a male), who is quoting a book by John (a male) on the subject
> > of women's mentalities...
> >
> > Are there any women on this list?  And if so, why not?
>
> No! Because I (male) like yourself (male) am sitting around the "barbie"
in
> the company of, a whole lot of other males, who also have precious little
to
> do, but single-mindedly prattle on about philosophy and silly games,
whilst
> the women are breaking their backs, multi-taskingly
> doing our chores  and the kids (under our care) are drowning in the pool.
> Got to rush now, the barbie is in fire!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <gf at zchs.org>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Cc: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Lots of concurrency
>
>
> >
> > As at least one female philosopher (my wife) has observed, "Men are from
> > Earth, women are from Earth.  Deal with it."
> >
> > <G>
> >
> > Gary Fisher
> >
> >
> > Russell Allen <russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I like the way in which the squeak mailing list attempts to merge
> > > concepts from outside the CompSci universe into discussions - recently
I
> > > have been intrigued by what other people are saying about how they
> > > perceive music.
> > >
> > > For me, I can listen to music in the way which people are suggesting
(as
> > > a parallel series of notes - ie horizontally) or vertically as a
> > > succession of sounds/chords, or I think, in whole number of other ways
> > > less amenable to computing analogies ;).
> > >
> > > This, though, is just my experience.  I could, for what it is worth,
> > > tell the list about how I perceive music, and how this changes when,
for
> > > example, I am singing a solo.  I wouldn't want to tell the list
(without
> > > some serious research) what all soloists think/experience when
singing.
> > >
> > > I have a strong suspicion that this retisence should be carried over
to
> > > other sweeping generalisations:  I know both male and female musicians
> > > who can 'multitask' better than I can.  Whether there is a fundamental
> > > difference in brain make-up is still undecided; and "Men are from Mars
> > > and Women are from Venus" is hardly a groundbreaking piece of either
> > > sociology or biology.
> > >
> > > I am also faintly amused by the thought that I (a male) am commenting
on
> > > Justin (a male), who is quoting a book by John (a male) on the subject
> > > of women's mentalities...
> > >
> > > Are there any women on this list?  And if so, why not?  What good is
> > > programming for children of all ages if half the children are
> > > uninterested or excluded?
> > >
> > > Russell
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>