From: gvcarter-AT-purdue.edu
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:14:14 -0500
Subject: Re: In the News



Hugh,

Tiles are also associated w/ mahjong, the "game of one hundred intelligences."  
Unlike chess that focuses on one person-goal, mahjong concerns itself with 
moves coming from the "north," "south," "east," and "west."  

The game has declined in popularity the U.S., particularly as boardgames like 
Monopoly became more widespread. 

Some of the mahjong tiles are called "flowers," and these tiles are stored in a 
teakwood caskets.

regards,
geof        




Quoting hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>:

> Steve/All,
> 
> Sorry, let's talk about space.
> 
> When the first Shuttle crashed, I had thought it might be because of
> failure of the "tiles".
> The structural engineers with whom I shared some office space, designed and
> shipped the basic wing
> structure, and some other NASA contractor applied the tiles.  Loss of tiles
> caused the second
> shuttle crash.
> 
> The structural engineers sometime referred to the design as the "flying
> brickyard", and said the
> basic structure would melt like butter if tiles were lost and air penetrated
> the interior of the wing
> on re-entry.  That's what happened.
> 
> The Russian spacecraft take some crew members and supplies to the Low Earth
> Orbit,  but can't lift the 60,000
> pound loads that were used by Shuttle crews  to build the Space Station.
> 
> Both shuttles and crews were lost because of  NASA "culture" and politics,
> which are in some ways more
> interesting, but less common than religion.  In both cases, NASA ignored the
> warnings of  expert lower echelon
> engineers, proceeded with the missions and lost shuttles and crews.  Several
> of the articles I read, following
> the last crash, convinced me the NASA leader should have been fired.  If the
> incredible success of the Mars mission continues, he should be given credit,
> but I don't think any lives have been at risk.
> 
> Some of the news in this country seems to be well-known, but totally
> ignored.  Washington D.C. is said to be the
> "murder capital" of the world, but is not allowed the self-government that
> we are dying to give Iraq.
> 
> regards,
> Hugh
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "steve.devos" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
> To: <lyotard-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 6:55 PM
> Subject: Re: In the News
> 
> 
> > Hugh
> >
> > I do wish you hadn't mention the Mel Gibson 'christ' movie - i prefer
> > Bush's dream over Gibson's dreams of being jesus...
> >
> > shudder
> >
> > regards
> > stev
> >
> > hbone wrote:
> >
> > > Geof/All,
> > >
> > >Geof wrote:
> > >
> > > > But, in counter-distinction to framing Mars in relation to "war," I
> would
> > > > introduce the term "combat" along Deleuzian lines.  As he explains in
> a
> > > > essay "To be done with judgment," the notion of combat stands not for
> a
> > >
> > >
> > >>will to
> > >>
> > >>
> > > > destruction, God's judgment, or the stretching of strength in its
> lowest
> > > > strength.  Yes, I agree that Bush's move is to declare war on Mars, on
> > >
> > >
> > >>aliens.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > > (Interesting, isn't it, that just prior to the Mars project
> declaration
> > >
> > >
> > >>that
> > >>
> > >>
> > > > Bush passed strange legislation w/ respect to migrant worker visas.)
> > > >
> > > > What "combat" affords is a supplement of force, a test of forces, a
> > > > child-like
> > > > inspection of values.  Such moves, like "Wal-Martians" stutterance of
> the
> > > > comedian, brings various zones into existence.  It will have brought a
> > > >means of
> > > > seeing what agrees and disagrees with us through symbols already in
> > > > circulation.
> > >
> > > Speaking of war, "God's judgment",  and "symbols already in
> circulation",
> > >Christians  have an overwhelming interest  in "sacrificial death" (for
> > >others) while a  troublesome  number of the Islamic descendants of
> Abraham
> > >offer their own
> > >bodies.
> > >
> > > Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" has already  been screened for
> the
> > > Pope and  other Vatican officials, and is now scheduled for 2000 screens
> > >across the nation next month.
> > >
> > >regards,
> > >Hugh
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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