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"It's no good; I can't do it."
"Can't do it? But ... but, Clark - you're Superman! You can leap tall buildings at a single bound! Be more powerful than a -"
"I know my own powers, Lois. But this is too much, even for me."
"No, Clark, no; why, you can read at superfast speed, and you've changed history so often nobody has a clue what the backstory is anymore - surely you can't let a little thing like this defeat you. Say - you haven't been snorting kryptonite again, have you?"
"No I have not. Lois - you'll just have to accept it. There are some things even Superman can't do."
"I don't believe it!""
"Lana Lang would believe me."
"I'm sure she would. C'mon, Clark ... try one more time ... just for me, huh?"
"No, Lois. Look, once and for all, just accept it. I can't keep up with all the posts on the Fforde Fforum!"
"Wuss."
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 20, 2003 09:32PM
Frank Miller's Batman beats up Superman by means of a cunning plan. Seen that one? Apparently it's fairly priceless now. In that version, Superman is, well, a bit dim. Could Batman keep up with the Fforum?
Seriously, it's getting to be a fairly full time business trying to do so. Lose a day and you've had it. Supposing the rate of increase continues, what do we do?
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.STTNWAHO.covad.net)
Date: July 20, 2003 09:37PM
I'm only attempting to keep up with a few threads, though I have trouble from day to day remembering which ones those are! But it is a nice escape from the thankless task of sorting and packing; I move in a week and a half. *sigh*
Eep! What are you going to do? Chop off us ne'er do well newbies? Nnoooooooooo! But wasn't there a surge and a drop off (as it were) when the first two books were published? I know I found the fforum early on and then forgot about it for quite a while... maybe it'll level out a bit...
Post Edited (07-20-03 23:35)
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 20, 2003 10:43PM
Dunno --- don't go! Not wanting anyone to go, just pondering the nature of Fforum growth and its' implications. No doubt PSD is on top of things and can tell us whether we are more like a power series or an exponential, or what.
I really benefit from gatherings, it makes the Fforum so much more understandable to me.
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 20, 2003 11:25PM
I might have known. My maths was honed in the Physics dept and then ritually abused in Control Eng. I'll be interested by your research, feel free to get technical. I'm just too lazy (or over-committed) to bother with the effort myself.
For those not technically minded, if it's exponential, that could mean real trouble (though Jasper will probably have sold more books than there are people in a foreseeable time).
Alison, if I pay to have you dragged away, don't I get the choice of where?
PSD: What about the S curve that you get from the logistic map ? It levels off to a new higher population. It also leads to chaotic behaviour which sounds about right for round here...