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> what does your friend have to do with Hestenes’s paper? The comment is clearly totally irrelevant, so I did some googling, and it appears that "trane" is a b
by DougMerritt 11y ago
> what does your friend have to do with Hestenes’s paper?
The comment is clearly totally irrelevant, so I did some googling, and it appears that "trane" is a bot created on Kuro5hin by MichaelCrawford, and that references to "Kuro5hin's trane" are some sort of inside joke.
Which in turn makes it look like the non sequitur above was posted by that bot, even if other posts from that account were by human.
In any case it's just adding noise to the conversation.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoHis website is http://www.subbot.org/ http://www.subbot.org/ His real name is Robert Mitchell. He has a BA in Classical Greek as well as a Master's of some sort from U of Chicago. He worked for several years as a Java coder but for reasons I don't fully understand, decided that paying work is somehow evil and so flatly refuses even to apply for a job. In part that's because he is very shy and so cannot tolerate office politics, and in part - again for reasons I don't understand - he has a passionate hatred for women and so cannot tolerate being in their presence. He's heavily into jazz and swing music; he likes to call himself "trane" because that was John Coltrane's nickname.