[NTLK] Post Raputre Newton Owners

[J.M. Heinrichs]

If you don't have much data to present, PowerPoint can expand the apparent volume to a more satisfactory size. More from Edward Tufte:
http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Style-PowerPoint-Pitching-Corrupts/dp/0961392169/ref=sr_1_1

http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-01/bay-area/17466332_1_east-bay-bay-area-first-time-camping
"The number 5, Camping concluded, equals "atonement." Ten is "completeness." Seventeen means "heaven." Camping patiently explained how he reached his conclusion for May 21, 2011.
"Christ hung on the cross April 1, 33 A.D.," he began. "Now go to April 1 of 2011 A.D., and that's 1,978 years."
Camping then multiplied 1,978 by 365.2422 days - the number of days in each solar year, not to be confused with a calendar year.
Next, Camping noted that April 1 to May 21 encompasses 51 days. Add 51 to the sum of previous multiplication total, and it equals 722,500.
Camping realized that (5 x 10 x 17) x (5 x 10 x 17) = 722,500.
Or put into words: (Atonement x Completeness x Heaven), squared.
"Five times 10 times 17 is telling you a story," Camping said. "It's the story from the time Christ made payment for your sins until you're completely saved.
"I tell ya, I just about fell off my chair when I realized that," Camping said."

Looks to me like a proper PowerPoint presentation. And it's Pythagorean.

Cheers
John
 minicapt1 at mac.com

On 21 May 11, at 18:01, Lord Groundhog wrote:

> ~~~ On 2011/05/22 01:46, J.M. Heinrichs at minicapt1 at mac.com wrote ~~~
> 
>> One can often achieve a measure of comprehension when one only memorises the
>> PowerPoint slides.
> 
> Cheers
> John
> 
> 
> 
> Oddly, Powerpoint slides appear to be one of the few ways he *didn't* try to
> propagate this -- or have you seen something I haven't?
> 
> In a way I'm glad:  apparently, although M$ has issued a patch for the
> security problems in PP for windoze, they've left PP for Mac unsupported
> except for the most recent version.  I'd hate it if, on top of the hassle of
> trying to decipher Harold's attempts at Powerpoint, I ended up with some
> weird security issue on my MacBook.  :-P  That really would feel like the
> end of -- well, not the world, but something pretty inconvenient.
> 
> 
> 
> Shalom. 
> Christian 
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