[Edinburgh-pm] Happy Birthday Television

[A Smith]

Hi Miles
The words of an educated person. The rules are you don't mix Latin and
Greek. I discovered this recently when I queried the word tetrahedron,
asking why it wasn't a quadrahedron!
We can discuss whether this 20th century television thing about to be
totally superceded by sending the signal via the Internet rather than
through the Ether.  It does mean that  Mars Man won't be able to watch it,
unless he has a ultra-sensitive WiFi receiver.
See you folk Thursday.
--
Andrew

On 21 January 2011 16:15, Miles Gould <miles at assyrian.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:20:39AM +0000, Murray wrote:
> > My sources [1] tell me that on 27th Jan 1926, "John Baird, a Scottish
> > inventor, demonstrated a pictorial transmission machine called
> > television".
>
> It'll never catch on - the word is half Greek and half Latin.
>
> > This would seem like an auspicious reason, where one needed, to celebrate
> and
> > consume beverage.  As it happens, 27th Jan (next thursday) is also the
> 4th
> > thursday of the month, meaning edinburgh.pm.
>
> Alas, I can't make it to either - I'll be at a party in Glasgow tonight,
> and recovering from a day's winter climbing in Aviemore next Thursday.
> Have a good time without me, though :-)
>
> However, I'm through in Edinburgh the following Saturday morning for
> Green Party stuff*, and it would be great to see folk thereafter...
>
> Miles
>
> * The Scottish Green Party, being into participatory democracy, has a
> randomly-chosen party member on every party committee. Hence, despite
> having been a member for less than a year and having attended about
> three branch meetings, I've been appointed to the party's senior
> governing body... I think my role will be to keep quiet and nursemaid
> the videoconferencing setup.
>
> --
> Alias: Just realised I have called everyone who owns a shiny modern SLR
> a gorilla.
> Mat: Meh. They won't notice, they're too busy with their multi-zoned
> eye-tracking focusing systems. Ponces. We're much cooler than them.
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