An amazing invention
We put our faithful steed car Skippy into the shop two days ago, necessitating the loan of a rental vehicle, which I drove to work yesterday, along with efbq, who needed it for later in the day. I hadn't had my coffee yet and so was operating on sort of a simian, hindbrain-only mode, therefore I didn't notice what was set into the panel of our loaner until she pointed it out: a cassette player, in combination with the radio, which had written on it "LOGIC CONTROL DECK".
This was such an amazing, wonderful discovery that it shocked me into some semblance of awareness. Talk about impressed! I mean, can you imagine anything more useful, particularly in this day and age?
efbq and I theorized on how it might work. Her feeling was that since it was a cassette system, you could install different schools of logic when you needed to. That would be great for long trips! "Oh, I'm tired of this Aristotlean reference frame. Let's understand the next hundred miles from the viewpoint of Wittgensteinian postmodernist thought!" OTOH, I thought it might work differently: you'd record something like, say, a speech by Dubya, or anything by Rush Limbaugh, put it in the deck - and turn up the logic! It would be as if that knob on the TV marked "brightness" actually worked correctly. Of course, what would it sound like afterwards? My guess would be something like this...
This was such an amazing, wonderful discovery that it shocked me into some semblance of awareness. Talk about impressed! I mean, can you imagine anything more useful, particularly in this day and age?
efbq and I theorized on how it might work. Her feeling was that since it was a cassette system, you could install different schools of logic when you needed to. That would be great for long trips! "Oh, I'm tired of this Aristotlean reference frame. Let's understand the next hundred miles from the viewpoint of Wittgensteinian postmodernist thought!" OTOH, I thought it might work differently: you'd record something like, say, a speech by Dubya, or anything by Rush Limbaugh, put it in the deck - and turn up the logic! It would be as if that knob on the TV marked "brightness" actually worked correctly. Of course, what would it sound like afterwards? My guess would be something like this...