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!
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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 or
First 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, yes
indeed, even better with *spirit*!
Jon Stewart would be proud of us both.
I went to the rally in DC last Saturday! We two are
indeed sane :-)
As for the utility of ranks -- well, I'm
ready 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, I
can live (even happy) with dwc:taxonRank :-)
Nico (who does not believe in species but thinks
only clades are real)
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