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<DIV><FONT face="Brush Script" size=5>Ho Harrison</FONT><FONT
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>S</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>eason's Greetings
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<DIV>This is the Old <EM><STRONG>curmuddgin</STRONG> </EM>speaking. And I know
it is Christmas and Hanukkah -- so I should be very charitable. Glowing with the
season, as it were. But every time I hear about Mix/Match it reminds me of
Running Rats in my college Experimental Psych Lab. Those rats just couldn't do
it until we programmed them -- set the course as it were -- Mixed and Maxed.
Yes, I know that very reputable folks like Kathy Danmiller (of Strategic Real
Time Change fame) and Marv Weisbord (Future Search fame) all do it. And they are
friends. But that doesn't make me like it any more. I ain't a rat. And most
<I>Homo sapiens</I> aren't either. And actually I don't think the rats like it
either. Why is that we presume that good folks seriously engaged in a topic of
their passion can't get together in new and useful ways? For 15+ years we have
seen it happen every single time space was opened. So why the necessity of
running rats (aka people)? Like sitting them down in tables of 8, carefully
selected for the right MIX/Match? Maybe because the Space isn't really
open????<BR><BR>Harrison<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>