From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 9 14:24:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A96A37C044 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 14:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29276; Tue, 9 May 2000 17:23:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 17:23:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Matt Heckaman , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.8 gone for good? In-Reply-To: <00May10.065553est.115366@border.alcanet.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 May 2000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 02:35:16AM +1000, Matt Heckaman wrote: >>Don't bet on that, here's an interesting story of mine: >> >>I sent two letters on the same day, from the same post office here in >>Montreal, Canada. I sent one letter express, one letter normal mail. >... >[The further you post a letter, the quicker it arrives] It's the slightly infamous Inverse Proportion colloary of Murhpy's Law. In this case, the amount of time it takes a letter to reach its destination is inversely proportion to the distance to the destination. Perhaps more accurately Murphurian though would be the amount of time a letter takes to reach its destination is inversely proportional to the importance of the letter and the cost spent on mailing it. Another great example is the classic Murphurian maxim the hardness of the butter is inversely proportional to the softness of the roll. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix@looksharp.net Illegitimi non carborundum. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message