Without people to connect the dots, all of this 'horrible' knowledge runs the risk of being useless. Alas, rare is the discipline that can provide maximum benefit to society without some cross-pollination and hybridization with many other disciplines.
Makes me glad I went to Mudd, where the fundamental educational philosophy has strengthened my inherest propensity to the broad and shallow base of knowledge, with occasional pilings to keep it all together.
The senior man in our office is in his mid 70s, and his interests (largely coincident with my own) are represented by his personal folder on our server. just browsing his subfolder names is a succulent trip down the road of knowledge, and to dip into one of those folders is oft delightful with the information, data and other nectar he has harvested. The morsel of the week that he brought by was pocket sized fusion reactors that someone's developed. Neat stuff.
Hmm. All the culinary terminology leads me to think its dinner time in New Zealand.
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Date: 2005-04-30 05:18 am (UTC)Makes me glad I went to Mudd, where the fundamental educational philosophy has strengthened my inherest propensity to the broad and shallow base of knowledge, with occasional pilings to keep it all together.
The senior man in our office is in his mid 70s, and his interests (largely coincident with my own) are represented by his personal folder on our server. just browsing his subfolder names is a succulent trip down the road of knowledge, and to dip into one of those folders is oft delightful with the information, data and other nectar he has harvested. The morsel of the week that he brought by was pocket sized fusion reactors that someone's developed. Neat stuff.
Hmm. All the culinary terminology leads me to think its dinner time in New Zealand.