Boring Brand ...

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Hell, I enjoyed it. But then I liked Sterling too.

BTW, I was walking across the plaza this morning on the way to work and saw what
I thought to be an unusually confused tourist snapping photos from the center of
the plaza. For the attentive viewer of Stewart's slides, I'm partially behind a
tree on the Northeast shot.

-s

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Carl writes:

> Ditto.  The neutrinos passing through the audience had more mass.  Alas, this
> happens in about
> half the public lectures.  One might wish SFI would instruct their speakers to
> have more respect
> for the audience.  Even inspired fluff has a place occasionally, but
> it could at
> least be fun.
>
> I suspect much of the audience didn't ask questions because they were
> embarrassed by the level
> of what they had heard.
>
> Wow, man.  Time is of the essence.  Yeah, well, right.  Gotta go.  Bye.

Richard writes:
> Stewart Brand is a mumbling bore, who like much of his Santa Fe audience
> tonight, has yet to get out of the sixties. I can't believe that SFI sponsored
> this hideous, intellectually-shallow waste of time. Wish I'd gone to
> hear about
> neutrinos.