BEER Ch. 4 The Red Herring

[Dave Monroe]

"'We already put the red herring on indefinite hold?'" (BE, Ch. 4, p. 37)


Gabriel Ice

In Abrahamic religions, Gabriel (Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל, Modern Gavri'el
Tiberian Gaḇrîʼēl, God is my strength; Arabic: جبريل, Jibrīl or
جبرائيل Jibrāʾīl) is an angel who typically serves as a messenger sent
from God to certain people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06330a.htm

Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics (ICE) is a term used in
cyberpunk literature to refer to security programs which protect
computerized data from being accessed by hackers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusion_Countermeasures_Electronics


"'the red herring on indefinite hold?'"

Red herring is an idiom that misleads or detracts from the actual or
otherwise important issue. It may be either a logical fallacy or a
literary device that leads readers or characters towards a false
conclusion, often used in mystery or detective fiction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

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Tallis

A tallit [taˈlit] (Hebrew: טַלִּית) (talet in Modern Hebrew, Sephardic
Hebrew and Ladino) (tallis, in Ashkenazic Hebrew and Yiddish) pl.
tallitot (talleisim, tallism, in Ashkenazic Hebrew and Yiddish) is a
Jewish prayer shawl.... In orthodox, Ashkenazi circles, a Tallit is
customarily presented to a groom before marriage as part of the dowry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallit


"morphs"

Morphing is a special effect in motion pictures and animations that
changes (or morphs) one image into another through a seamless
transition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphing

E.g., ...

http://www.nfb.ca/film/Hunger


Beneish Model

A mathematical model that uses financial ratios and eight variables to
identify whether a company has manipulated its earnings. The variables
are constructed from the data in the company's financial statements
and, once calculated, create an M-Score to describe the degree to
which the earnings have been manipulated.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/beneishmodel.asp

A math model that identifies whether a company has manipulated its
earnings using said company's financial statements.

http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_37


"'It's a journey'"

>From the quote by Chinese philosopher Laozi (c 604 bc - c 531 bc) in
the Tao Te Ching, chapter 64

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_journey_of_a_thousand_miles_begins_with_a_single_step

The term has been taken up by Harold Bloom to describe the
inclinations of writers to "swerve" from the influence of their
predecessors; it is the first of his "Ratios of Revision" as described
in The Anxiety of Influence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinamen
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