Subj : Re: puzzle
To   : comp.programming
From : spinoza1111
Date : Tue Jul 12 2005 01:32 am



John Smith wrote:
> spinoza1111@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > The resentment here is of ability to explain, complementary to the
> > inability to read shown by O'Dwyer who read a claim for O(n) when I
> > said "close to". This resentment then morphed into the usual anhedonic
> > personal attacks
>
> Thanks for the new word Ed. I looked it up at:
>
>   http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/anhedonia

The pleasure one feels on learning a word is not some delight in a
sound. It is learning a new form of life.

"Solidarity" teaches us that we don't have to always compete.

"Anhedonia" names what Dilbert experiences. The other day, for example,
he was out walking with his girlfriend on one of those Saturday
expeditions which are supposed to be pleasurable, but at which one
doggedly tries only to have fun after a week of coding, in which one
has, by dint of 16 hour days, had in a form of Stockholm Syndrome to
fall in love with brute force code.

His girlfriend engages in one of those weary rants in which she says,
why do I have to be the sensitive one, as if this excuses her and
allows her to be a caricature of insensitivity.

An incredibly anhedonic scene.

Learning anhedonia as a word suggests that in the words of my peace
group, way back in Evanston, Another World is Possible, in which one
doesn't have to "geek out" to have fun. In which even in personal life,
one is not negotiating treacherous undercurrents for temporary
advantages that are ashes, ashes, all fall down.
>
> I, for one, have always felt your contributions to this group were
> nothing less than "normally pleasurable life events such as eating,
> exercise, and social/sexual interactions."

Cool. To which list I would add a good fart.
> 
> -JS

.