Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Film megabytes and some curious contradictions
From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:06:40 -0500
References: <ae.c7f4b4e.272f5983@aol.com> <39FE10BD.9F31DE70@rabiner.cncoffice.com>

I think the "Angels on the head of a pin" bit was a medieval thing.  I seem
to remember Thomas Aquinas musing on it but one of the philosophers of the
group should know for sure.

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Film megabytes and some curious contradictions


> ><Snip>
> >  The guys who complicate things are the BS artists if you ask me!
> >  mark rabiner >>
> >
> > Okay - so how many pixels can dance on the head of a pin?
> >
> > Joe Sobel
>
> What does that expression mean anyhew?
> "How many fairies are dancing on the head of a pin?" he asked Cottingley
> How did that expression come about?
> somebody was arguing with somebody.
> Was in Sir Arthur Canon Doyle? Harry Houdini? Albert Einstein? Sir Eastman
Kodak?
>
> Mark Rabiner Esq.
>
> It was angels!
> http://www.rbs0.com/baromete.htm
>

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Message from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] Film megabytes and some curious contradictions)