Dr. Matei quote of the day

Today, Dr. Matei compared online communities to sturgeons--because they're "cartiladginous." Like "trying to nail Jello to a wall."
This was only funny because Pam answered, "A fish? Online communities are like a fish?"
And that was only funny because earlier Dr. Matei said that "It's like a dog, sitting on a pile of hay. The goat can't get to it, and the dog won't eat it!"--in relation to "spare data sets that you'll never use." Sometimes his metaphors (meta-phor, substitution) are very Burkeian. After all, I talk about critical trouts....