A promise (still) unkept.
As part of the Boidem's third birthday celebration
I noted that: About a year ago I promised someone that
around this time I'd have a presentation prepared on Winnie the Pooh and the internet
The background for that promise was a presentation at the
computers in education conference of that year at which one lecturer presented
a paper in which she explained how the internet (still rather new to us back then)
was a logical extension of quantum physics. Basically, the idea was that since
(here comes the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle again) everything was relative
(including a page on that topic in this column
as well?) the hypertextual nature of cyberspace was intimately related to the
laws of quantum physics. In a new-age "let's not worry about the facts"
sort of way, it almost made sense. It was also a very well received lecture, causing
me to remark to one of my advisors (who had also heard the lecture and was also
scratching his head as to why someone might think that it made sense) that I could
construct an at least as convincing lecture about Winnie the Pooh and the internet
with at least the same degree of disregard for the facts.
As I noted back
then, though preparing such a paper wouldn't be too difficult, I doubted that
Pooh and friends would still count me as a friend of theirs after doing so. So
that's a project that's been put on a very-back burner, perhaps permanently.
Go to: What?
Yet again?, or
Go to: Writing for myself?,
or
Go to: Having fun