Horus_Kol

[Bica]

Simple question for you, What don't you know? You seem to be the resident genious on just about everything, that is very respectful and something strived for. How do you know so much, better yet, how do you remember it?

[leoo24]

bet he doesn't know the color of my boxer shorts :P

[Bica]

I wouldn't put it past him to deduce the color of you boxer shorts.

[Horus_Kol]

ummm... Today, leoo, you are wearing the pink ones, with yellow polka dots and lacy frills? Yes/no?


In answer to your question - there is plenty that I don't know.

How the universe started, how life started, what gives me the ability to think about this stuff, the location of the "I".

I am terrible at languages. I learnt some basic French, German and Spanish, but because I haven't used any of it for any time, I can only now say "Hello", "Goodbye" and "Thankyou".

I am not all that good a programmer - I know enough to do some pretty cool stuff, but I can't measure up to someone like Scoutt here for example (jdjorgenson and torrents are two others that get my admiration). Also I could not produce anything like a commercial game (even those cute shareware demos you get on gamer mags), although I would like to give it a try sometime.

I learn through simply reading, listening, and watching. Same as everyone else.

I remember because I think about what I read, hear, and see.

I believe memory is associative, and is reinforced through the act of remembering. Meaning that, if I think enough about stuff, I'll remember it. If I think about enough stuff in connection with other stuff, I'll remember it.


I have to say, though, I am driven.
I am driven by a desire to answer those questions about the universe, life, intelligence. I constantly search for new information that other people have turned up.

I guess I am a natural synthesist - I can collate information (sometimes seemingly unrelated) and roll it up into a new worldview. In that I guess I am lucky - but I wish I was a better guitar player.

[ven7]

Well said Horus. Life truly is one learning journey that we can all take part of. :)

[Gregory]

he probably reads a lot.

the ultimate source of useless information: the Discovery channel.

I have more useless facts stored in my head than names of people!

Horus has (what we call) street smarts.

Scoutt has Tech smarts.

Theyre both geniuses in their own ways.

[Horus_Kol]

hey don't knock the discovery channel.

While I don't know if they have the same programming on the US version as we do in the UK, I have learnt a lot of stuff from that. And it is really quite useful and interesting.

[Jake]

Originally posted by Horus_Kol
hey don't knock the discovery channel.

NERD! ;)

[Bica]

On the subject of tv channels, does anybody watch that show on TLC, Extreme Engineering, now that is an awesome show.

[kemikalfire]

no, but I watch bookoos of trading spaces :) that's right folks...bookoos...so much so that I got my husband and my 2 other male roomates watching it with me...it's funny to have a conversation involving myself and 3 other guys on the subject of couch covers...

and I don't want to know the reason why leo would think that horus would know what color his undies were, come on guys...behind closed doors...thanks!! ;)

kate!

[leoo24]

Originally posted by Horus_Kol
ummm... Today, leoo, you are wearing the pink ones, with yellow polka dots and lacy frills? Yes/no?





:eek: oh my god they are pinkish (pale samon color as ross from friends would say) but no dots. I did have my tutu on earlier on today so that may count for the frills :P

[Bica]

See Leo? I told you he'd know ;) Maybe we should all be scared now, Horus knows what our underwear looks like :confused:

[Gregory]

i bet 1000 dollars he doesnt know what brand of cap(hat, sombrero, whatever you wanna call it) im wearing!

[kemikalfire]

Originally posted by Gregory
i bet 1000 dollars he doesnt know what brand of cap(hat, sombrero, whatever you wanna call it) im wearing!

and I'll bet 1000 dollars he doesn't care ;)

kate!

[Gregory]

:(

[bruno]

The thing hes not telling us is that hes actualy 228 years old and thats why he knows everything.

[Pegasus]

Originally posted by bruno
The thing hes not telling us is that hes actualy 228 years old and thats why he knows everything. Oh, dear. You'd better not tell him that. He's just celebrated his 224th to the best of my knowledge. *lol* Mind you, I can say that. I'm almost twice his age.

Most of his information comes from the Cheshire Cat or the Red Queen. <shrug> And who are we to argue with them, right? ;)

Peg

[okeeffemarc]

Books are the key boys and girls, I go out all day either playing rugby, footie or go gym (all revolved around work now of course)

and when i get home, i just sit on my ass and read a book, because you enjoy a story, soak up new vocabulary and learn alot:)

[Blueangel]

Are we talking about the same Horus here?
The arrogant little upstart that just lurrrrvs proving me wrong? Even if he does claim to be testing the strength of my arguement :P

I reckon we need to get Horus, Kevin, Transmothra, Entimp, Ian, KWJams, and a few notable others, around the same table in a pub and thrash out a few of the issues they've raised in the past.

Peg, Kate and I can referee and throw bread rolls at public order offenders :D
That's before they descend into a drunken giggle.

I was once the eight of diamonds Peg...but that's another story....

[Pegasus]

*lol* Gees, Angel, putting those guys in the same shire, never mind the same room, could be dangerous!

Yeah, we could throw bread rolls, or peanuts or poke them with pretzel sticks. But I'm not sure what that would do - improve their manners or make them worse. *wg* Be interesting to find out. I wonder how long it would take to load them onto a lorry to get them home, though. Do you suppose the publican would charge extra for that? <shrug> Or we could just put them on roller skates and drag them out. That might work. Then, again, if they're going to spend the night in the "Queen's Hotel", we wouldn't have to worry about that. Would we?

Of course, there could be another problem. You, me and Kate at the same table. Are you sure the guys could handle that?

Peg

[Gregory]

Imagine if they were all US senators with Horus as the President... im not surw if we would have a terrible or awesome country...

[Pegasus]

Yeah, I'm not sure if that would qualify them as the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers, or "Roger Rabbit & Co.".

Mind you, it might make some things less confusing. Sort of. Can you imagine of the tax laws were set up like HTML or CSS? "Strict compliancy required". They'd *never* get their lunches as tax-deductible expenses. ;)

Peg

[Gregory]

"the goverment standards have now become X-TAX, meaning that you must follow strictly all of the rules, or you will not be valid!"

[bruno]

Hey heres something that could make for some fun. If anyone here knows how to sing and play a a musicle instrument... even a kazoo, i think we need to write a Horus Kol theme song. :rocker: :banana: :boogy: :jamin:

[Gregory]

well, i haven't got a microphone for my computer, so i can't sing for you guys, sorry!

[bruno]

i cant sing... but i will for you guys, hehe.

[Gregory]

you guys can here me sign on the old version of my website, i believe... well... i dont really sing. but still.

[kemikalfire]

Originally posted by Pegasus
*lol* Gees, Angel, putting those guys in the same shire, never mind the same room, could be dangerous!

Yeah, we could throw bread rolls, or peanuts or poke them with pretzel sticks. But I'm not sure what that would do - improve their manners or make them worse. *wg* Be interesting to find out. I wonder how long it would take to load them onto a lorry to get them home, though. Do you suppose the publican would charge extra for that? <shrug> Or we could just put them on roller skates and drag them out. That might work. Then, again, if they're going to spend the night in the "Queen's Hotel", we wouldn't have to worry about that. Would we?


Itchy bombs! throw itchy bombs!!


Of course, there could be another problem. You, me and Kate at the same table. Are you sure the guys could handle that?

Peg

lol, I doubt it, besides...we'd be the only three there who'd be right, no matter what they were debating, and I hate having that much of an unfair advantage over a situation....

kate!

[Pegasus]

*rotfl* Right or wrong, Kate, it doesn't really matter. It's no end hilarious pinning one of their feet to the floor and watching them spin. Drunken whirling dervishes!

A couple of spikes, a hammer and a camera. All the fixin's for a wonderful tale to tell *their* grandchildren. *wg* I wonder how much they'd pay for the negatives?

Peg

[Horus_Kol]

Originally Posted by Pegasus
It's no end hilarious pinning one of their feet to the floor and watching them spin. Drunken whirling dervishes!

A couple of spikes, a hammer and a camera. All the fixin's for a wonderful tale to tell *their* grandchildren. *wg* I wonder how much they'd pay for the negatives?

A dark side to Peg that I never knew existed :eek:


Originally Posted by Blueangel
The arrogant little upstart that just lurrrrvs proving me wrong? Even if he does claim to be testing the strength of my arguement

And like the steel being put through the flame - it either shatters or comes out stronger ;)


Originally Posted by Pegasus
Most of his information comes from the Cheshire Cat or the Red Queen

I do not reveal my sources (if only because I would get locked up in a strait jacket for my own "safety").


Originally Posted by Goldieboy
NERD!

Ha! The pigeonhole effect...


Originally Posted by okeeffemarc
Books are the key boys and girls, I go out all day either playing rugby, footie or go gym (all revolved around work now of course)

and when i get home, i just sit on my ass and read a book, because you enjoy a story, soak up new vocabulary and learn alot

Precisely.

So, when I am not hill-walking, rock-climbing, cycling, working or writing, I sit and read.

Sometimes I read fiction (at the moment, I am reading one of the Pern books by Anne Macaffrey). Sometimes I read non-fiction (just read Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose).

Either way, it stretches your mind, and you either learn about the world that is (or was), or about the worlds that could be.

[Blueangel]

Originally posted by kemikalfire
...we'd be the only three there who'd be right, no matter what they were debating, and I hate having that much of an unfair advantage over a situation....

kate! :rofl:
I envisaged us getting quietly sozzled behind a mountain of bread rolls and the occasinal shout of...B*LL*X!
But, it looks like I've enlisted the help of a couple of more malevolent spirits.
Sounds like fun!

[Gregory]

right now im reading mythology by edith hamilton, and the posts my by you guys. i guess im reading all fiction then :D!

[Horus_Kol]

Originally Posted by Gregory
right now im reading mythology by edith hamilton, and the posts my by you guys. i guess im reading all fiction then

Who said mythology was fiction?

Behind every myth is a grain of truth - most of them were there to explain the unexplainable.

Like the story of Echo - who after being jilted by Narcissus (i think - she was definitely jilted) ran off into the woods, and then faded.

The only evidence of Echo was a lonely voice calling back in the empty woods.