Sanny Posted December 28, 2007 Report Posted December 28, 2007 Funny you should ask... Not that this makes it much clearer, though. But the article does say this: Philosophy In philosophy, the Russian theologian/philosopher Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900) used the word "syzygy" to signify "unity-friendship-community," used as either an adjective or a noun, meaning: * a pair of connected or correlative things, or * a couple or pair of opposites. That could be all of us! We're a unity-friendship-community, made of opposites, as well as connected or correlative things.
dub Posted December 30, 2007 Report Posted December 30, 2007 I thought sizzigies were them thaings you weren't s'posed to run with......
Sanny Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Posted December 30, 2007 I thought sizzigies were them thaings you weren't s'posed to run with...... Well, huh... You're right! Strange the wiki article didn't mention THAT. Dumb article...
jdbower Posted December 30, 2007 Report Posted December 30, 2007 Those Wikipedia guys don't even know when to use "all y'all" instead of just "y'all"!
johnnyboy Posted March 6, 2008 Report Posted March 6, 2008 I thought SYZYGY was a license plate meaning/pronounciation for a Sizey Guy! Duh.....
trish Posted March 6, 2008 Report Posted March 6, 2008 Where hasSyzygies been? Haven't heard from him in quite a while?
Syzygies Posted March 9, 2008 Report Posted March 9, 2008 I thought SYZYGY was a license plate meaning/pronounciation for a Sizey Guy! Duh..... Actually, I did have SYZYGIES as my license plate in New York for quite a while. It was fun watching people's reactions. My favorite was a kid clearly heading for a career pumping gas, who looked and looked, then threw me a finger. I've been busy building and overclocking computers (it's like a bat flying around in a dozen-dimensional cage) but we're trying the Zuni Cafe chicken recipe in our cooker tomorrow night.
trish Posted March 9, 2008 Report Posted March 9, 2008 Are you teaching or in private industry these days?
linuxwrangler Posted June 12, 2008 Report Posted June 12, 2008 Might not explain syzygies but might explain Syzygies: (From http://www.xkcd.com/ - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. And yes, its Creative Commons license does allow for reposting: http://www.xkcd.com/license.html)
jdbower Posted June 12, 2008 Report Posted June 12, 2008 I love that comic, even if I did find a disturbing reference to my in-laws in it once... This one is probably my favorite since there are a lot of math teachers in my life.
linuxwrangler Posted June 12, 2008 Report Posted June 12, 2008 I love that comic... Daily reading for me. As someone who has to constantly remind developers to distrust, verify and scrub everything submitted to a webserver, I loved this one http://xkcd.com/327/ And I got a good laugh from the overzealous automatic WiFi configuration: http://xkcd.com/416/
