Re: A Link for Dan
My mistake. Posted on a fan page for Niel Stephenson. Stephenson has no facebook presence. Doug On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Doug Pensinger brig...@zo.com wrote: Posted to Facebook by Niel Stephenson http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comicsid=1868 Doug ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: On Listmail
Doug Pensinger wrote: Ahem. Hello? Anyone here Just got back from Penguicon. I had breakfast with Karl Schroeder, which was fairly wide-ranging in looking at Canada and the US, among other topics. And attended a great talk by Geoffrey Landis that discussed the physics of time travel. But your point about Facebook and Twitter may be correct, to some degree. The unfortunate thing about that is neither medium is worth a damn for any serious conversation. I am not in Dan Minette's league, as 3-4 paragraphs into an e-mail I start to run out of steam, but you simply cannot talk intelligently at 140 characters per message. Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL zwil...@zwilnik.com Linux User #333216 The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers - Bill Gates, The Road Ahead ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
RE: On Listmail
I'm here, but moderated because I have a new email account. Folks are busy, so I haven't seen my first email, or we no longer see our own emails. BTW, Doug, as shocking and horrendous as the accident was, (the entire bottom casing was blown up miles by the gas pressure) I am no fan of NIMBY. If you want to stop drilling for oil, then California should stop using fossil fuels, not let others take all the risks for them. ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
RE: On Listmail
I guess I'm off moderation, I just didn't see my first post. I was off listmail for a while because I moved to Grove OK. My wife took a call to the small town and we are renting a house on Grand Lake. It's beautiful there, and we are lucky in that the housing market is full of houses that aren't selling, so we can rent a house with 250 feet of lake shore, two very big (around 30' x 40') boat docks, 2.5 acres, 2400 sq. feet for 1500/month. The land is valued at $750,000k without the house. I've been working more than full time, helping out at church, and my wife's been working 70 hour weeks. This is her first week of vacation. So, that's where I've been. Dan M. ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
Re: On Listmail
Hi Dan, I'm glad to see you're still around and that you've escaped Houston. You wrote: Doug, as shocking and horrendous as the accident was, (the entire bottom casing was blown up miles by the gas pressure) I am no fan of NIMBY. If you want to stop drilling for oil, then California should stop using fossil fuels, not let others take all the risks for them. It's not really not NIMBY, it's not on my pristine coast. If the oil were in the Mojave or if they found more in the central valley,it would be different. You used to argue that off shore drilling was safe, an argument that, as you have noted, has quite literally been blown out of the water. Drilling in a protected shore would be no different than drilling in Yosemite or Yellowstone. If anything good is to come out of this disaster, its that we'll be taking a closer look at offshore drilling, and that nobody will even be suggesting that we rape the California coast for a few buckets of oil. Beyond that, you're right, we should stop using fossil fuels as quickly as is practicable. I favor large state and federal taxes on gas and oil to subsidize research and development on alternatives and the development of mass transit. Maybe in light of this debacle a few more people will see it my way. Doug Not in Anyone's Back Yard maru ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
