E.... C.... (godiva@kublai.com)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:34:23 -0400
Thanks, I was getting a bit worried. I started taping them already though!
--Eavan
On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 12:18:33AM +0000, Dan Ullman wrote:
>
> Eavan:
> I'm sending the money order tomorrow. Thanks a lot. Dan.
>
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> >From: E.... C.... <godiva@kublai.com>
> >To: Press Gang Mailing List <pressgang@lists.yoyo.org>
> >Subject: Re: [pressgang] Cliffhangers - good or bad?
> >Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:24:35 -0400
> >
> >On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 12:19:15AM +1000, ldarling wrote:
> >>
> >> I have to disagree with Krystal and Eavan in their praise of the
> >> cliffhanger ending of TAC. Clearly it works for some, but I find it kind
> >> of lame, cliche and with a tacked on feel, so it kind of grates with the
> >> rest of the episode. But that's just my opinion.
> >
> >There is a reason the cliffhanger became popular: It's good. PG was not
> meant
> >to be resolved, it was meant to be thought about, and this ending was meant
> >to make you frustrated. They could never solve every little question, so
> they
> >decided to solve none. I love the way they ended the show, and I love the
> >way we can derive other conclusions from this episode.
> >
> >> I like chris's idea about the Star Trek ending. Again, this ending left
> >> much unresolved, and the adventures sure to continue, but it felt more
> like
> >> an ending - more closure. Which is what Day Dreams, Holding On and The
> >> Last Word also possessed, a lot more than TAC.
> >>
> >Who wants more closure? Who wants to be able to say "Well, that's done.
> Time
> >to move on." I want to be able to puzzle about the ending any time I get
> >bored... Kind of how this subject came up. There is no reason that TAC
> should
> >have followed the same guidelines as Day Dreams, Holding on or The Last
> Word.
> >They had already done all this, it seems silly to repeat. The Star Trek
> ending
> >would have left nothing to the imagination, and would have allowed no more
> >PG. Lynda being part of the gang like that? How could they ever possibly
> hope
> >to continue? PG would never be the same.
> >
> >--Eavan
> >
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-- Once upon a time, when I was training to be a mathematician, a group of us bright young students taking number theory discovered the names of the smaller prime numbers.2: The Odd Prime -- It's the only even prime, therefore is odd. QED. 3: The True Prime -- Lewis Carroll: "If I tell you 3 times, it's true." 31: The Arbitrary Prime -- Determined by unanimous unvote. We needed an arbitrary prime in case the prof asked for one, and so had an election. 91 received the most votes (well, it *looks* prime) and 3+4i the next most. However, 31 was the only candidate to receive none at all. 41: The Female Prime -- The polynomial X**2 - X + 41 is prime for integer values from 1 to 40. 43: The Male Prime - they form a prime pair.
Since the composite numbers are formed from primes, their qualities are derived from those primes. So, for instance, the number 6 is "odd but true", while the powers of 2 are all extremely odd numbers.
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