[at-l] Referring to a reference, and such.

["Felix J. McGillicuddy" <AThiker@smithville.net>]

I have referred to this post, publicly or otherwise, several times in
the past couple of days. And, since it's raining here in God's Country,
I figgered I'd post it. It is from April of '98, and Wingfoot's list:


Amy Friends wrote:
> >You mean I was *not* the only philosophy major out there! I hike
therefor I am. Renee Descart, (French
> >Rationalist philosopher and mathematician). Im so esoteric. Gar-bear
>
> Hmmm, well, I never took a philosophy course (my degree is in
geology),
> but I did take lots of math... it's Descartes. :)


Well, I attended boarding school with the future Rene Descartes. He was
quite the romantic, and not a bad hiker. Once, on a long holiday, we
went
hiking in the Alps. It was drizzling and we were laying in a tent
reading. He was writing a note to his girlfriend, telling her how he
missed her on this rainy day. I said "Isn't that sweet? Sending your
sweetheart a 'Rainy-Day Card'. Why don't you work on rectangles, or
something progressive?"  His trailname was immediately changed to
"Rainy-Day Cards". After he started moving up the lucrative philosophy
ladder, he went with the more French spelling we see today. I remember
another time he said "Cohiko, ergo sum", loosely translating to "I hike,

therefore I am". I replied with "I don't hike, therefore I'm not."

--
Felix Navidad

ME-->GA 98
"Your Move"
http://Felixhikes.tripod.com/




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