I think the pic was stripped by the listserv. Here it is http://bit.ly/9YQHMf
Nico
On Nov 4, 2010, at 5:10 AM, Richard Pyle wrote:
Nice pic! I remember when you took it. For those who don't know us personally, Bob is the one standing, waving his arms (as Bob is prone to do). I am the one in the lower right foreground, looking like I've gone without sleep for days (as I am prone to do).
At the time, I was looking over your shoulder and saw that you were tweeting back and forth with Jim Croft (and I think Rod Page as well). What made that funny to me was that Jim was in the room, just out of frame on the left side of the photo, and Rod was (presumably) in Glasgow, and the three of you were having a virtual conversation in real time, during a conference presentation. It's a different world....
Anyway, to bring it back into scope for this email list, I'll note that in the photo I'm wearing my treasured GBIF/TDWG T-shirt, customized with the embroidered caption, "GUID's Rule". I think of "GUID's" as possesive, so it's comparable to something like "God's Rule". Coincidentally, I happen to be wearing that very same shirt right now.
So...where were we?
Rich
P.S. One final off-topic salvo: Nico, you have no idea how jealous I am that you were at the rally!
From: Nico Cellinese [mailto:ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 5:21 PM To: Bob Morris Cc: Richard Pyle; tdwg-content@lists.tdwg.org Subject: Re: [tdwg-content] A question of Ranks [was: Re: tdwg-content Digest, Vol 20, Issue 17]
Of course Bob!!
Nico (picking up her pieces after exploding)
On Nov 3, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Bob Morris wrote:
Ah, but here's the rub when it comes to Propositional orFirst Order Logic: If there is any assertion of Rich's---or anybody else's---about which you, Nico C, both agree and disagree, then every assertion whatsoever of yours is correct. Now that part, I realize you already accept. The catch is that every assertion whatsoever of yours is also false. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion --Bob On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Nico Cellinese ncellinese@flmnh.ufl.edu wrote:
Wonderful to agree and disagree with you, yesindeed, even better with *spirit*!
Jon Stewart would be proud of us both. I went to the rally in DC last Saturday! We two areindeed sane :-)
As for the utility of ranks -- well, I'mready to agree to disagree, as long as we can both acknowledge that lots and lots of existing data "out there" are still classified (in a taxonomic sense) against the Linnaean nomenclatural system, for which dwc:taxonRank is a relevant (at least) attribute.
Indeed! As mentioned in a previous email to you, Ican live (even happy) with dwc:taxonRank :-)
Nico (who does not believe in species but thinksonly clades are real)
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