A Fish story

Matthew Davis · 01 May 2002, 22:46 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: "Matthew Davis" <matthew at michaelscycles.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) A Fish story
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 23:46:11 +0100
Message-ID: <urth-v0205-843 at digest.urth.net>
X-Urthmirror-Source: http://www.urth.net/urth/archives/v0205/843.txt.shtml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
To: <urth at urth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 11:30 PM
Subject: RE: (urth) A Fish story

> > What to make of his name "Rab Sammon"? I don't know.
>
> Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is the Irish legend of
> the Salmon of Wisdom. Then there's always "Samhain."
>
> But I haven't read the story...

Rab as a contraction of rabbi? Contraction of Robert?

Apparently Sammon as a surname is 1. a contraction of Solomon. 2. a varient
of Salmon. 3. a variant of Seaman.
Also, apparently there's something called a Sammon projection which is a
nonlinear mapping of high dimensional vectors onto a two dimensional space.

None of these seem highly pertinent.

--=20

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net