Comments on: Infinite Summary – Week 10

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:46:29 +0000

P.S. Thank you, thank you for this. IS, and the community, and all your hard work.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:24:29 +0000

Ah, I bet you’re right! Thanks, Noah!

By: FMike

FMike — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:47:42 +0000

Thanks, Noah! I was confused on this point as well, re: MIT defensive in bed.

By: Noah

Noah — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:16:03 +0000

Pretty sure he was talking about MIT being in bed with Defense, meaning the Department of Defense, since MIT (and most major research universities)do a lot of their research using government grants and develop technology used in military applications.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:53:44 +0000

There’s something I don’t get on p. 726: “The young and eruption-studded person’s report remained consistent two levels past average USA endurance, the only variance involving several curious claims that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was defensive in bed.” So the engineer for WYYY is being tortured and interrogated, but I don’t get the last part. I assume he says something, probably a slang expression, that the Québécois don’t understand and thus translate verbatim instead of as idiom. What do you suppose he said that sounded like “defensive in bed”?

By: mynameisnotlinda

mynameisnotlinda — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:34:38 +0000

Everything is coming together! It’s so exciting!

By: matthewbaldwin

matthewbaldwin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:12:03 +0000

Bah–I shouldn’t do these late at night. Keep the corrections coming, folks.

By: minderbender

minderbender — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:03:41 +0000

I don’t believe it is Kate Gompert who is worried about her teeth and dreams of Don Gately on p. 723. I believe it is Joelle van Dyne.

By: matthewbaldwin

matthewbaldwin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:21:05 +0000

You are correct. Amended, thanks.

By: Russell

Russell — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:17:48 +0000

I believe I recall that the entertainment found by the AFR is not the master, but only a smaller read-only copy…