Back on Sept. 06, 2006, William T Goodall wrote:
Ooh!
New 24 screen iMac with 1920 x 1200 resolution.
Rattles piggybank Maru
I *was* going to say feh, and provide this link which includes the 30
Apple Cinema HD Display: http://www.apple.com/displays/
But then I realized you said iMac, not
rob wrote:
Earlier today I was informed that I would be working at Chase Tower on
Monday and Tuesday.
Later it dawned upon me that on 9/11 (Monday) I would be working in
the tallest building west of the Mississippi.
Tha..rilling!
Ah well...I'm a child of the Cold War, I was well
Warren wrote:
On Sep 25, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
In one of the Democratic party's regular mass mailings, from Howard
Dean today, I read this:
You know that Democrats have a real plan for destroying Osama bin
Laden and al Qaeda, fixing the mess in Iraq, and really
Julia wrote:
First photo on http://www.conjecturer.com/weblog/?p=3045 will amuse some
folks here.
I thought it was very funny. I mean, who names a street Lime Kiln Road?
;-)
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On 9/29/06, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, it's the SAME SIZE as each of the first two. THAT'S the one that
took me a week or two to wrap my head around. :)
No, they're not the same size. I'm sure of it. I counted them.
Okay, I didn't count ALL of
Julia wrote
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Julia wrote:
First photo on http://www.conjecturer.com/weblog/?p=3045 will amuse
some
folks here.
I thought it was very funny. I mean, who names a street Lime Kiln
Road?
;-)
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Well, the problem
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Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: WTC Redux
Matthew and Julie Bos wrote:
On 7/19/06 11:47 AM, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the strength of your
Dave Land wrote:
In the immoral words of Erik Reuter
Typo, or Freudian slip?
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I wrote:
So would now be a good time to ask if anyone's interested in doing a
chapter-by-chapter group read-through and analysis of one of The
Good
Doc's (recent) books? Or a book by one of the other Killer B's, or
any of the other folks mentioned in this list's FAQ?
Doug Pensinger
Charlie Bell wrote:
I have this really weird urge to be ontopic. I'm sure it'll
pass... ;)
Steve Sloan replied:
On topic? What's that? ;-)
So would now be a good time to ask if anyone's interested in doing a
chapter-by-chapter group read-through and analysis of one of The Good Doc's
/aug2004molerecipes.htm
http://www.tenspeedpress.com/inside/page.php3?ftr=192
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Mauro wrote:
Would that be Shiner Bock, Breakfast of Champions? :-)
I was first introduced to Shiner by an old friend of mine and former
active
brineller, Reggie Bautista.
I'm not active around here much anymore, but I still lurk some. It's good
to see you jumping in from time to time
Kevin Street wrote:
Actually, it's amazing what a cesspool of filth keyboards can be. A few
months back a small bug disappeared into my keyboard so I grabbed a
screwdriver and took it apart. Never did find the bug, but there was an
astonishing amount of dust, lint and...unidentified material
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Subject: Tull fans?
snip
However, for Christmas this past year my brother-in-law got me Jethro
Tull:
A History of the Band, 1968-2001 by Scott Allen Nollen. If you're a Tull
fan (and I am), this is a must read It is organized
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:00:43 -0500, Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It may be a cosmetic problem, but its also a real pain. I sometimes have
problems with my *toes* hurting because the nails are too thick, and
filing
them down is tedious and time consuming (that said, I did get a
in the toilet.
Still, somehow, I always make it to work on time.
You must get up really early.
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1844 list messages behind and I think there's a reply from lawguru in there
somewhere too Maru
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on only 4 episodes.
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Still skipping along through various threads Maru
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basis (not as regular as I'd like for the Thai stuff).
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haven't met the candidate from in or near Belton.
My wife used to work in Belton.
Of course, that would be Belton, Missouri, close enough to KC to be
considered part of the KC metro area... :-) By the way, if you ever get a
chance to send your kids to public school in Belton, don't.
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any political or religious or social or artistic statement
they want to.
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it to that
list. But there is not a single idea that I can't express without using
those words.
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in the expression of that idea.
Are there any lawyers or judges lurking out there? Perhaps someone with
more experience in constitutional law might want to chime in here. I'd
really like to know (and I'd be really surprised) if there are any court
rulings which are counter to this argument.
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means a person is allowed to say
Fuck whenever and whereever they fucking want to, or need to.
Try again. There is no constitutional protection of your right to say fuck.
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or the other. If I am wrong, I will apologize to The
Fool on-list.
They say it may take a couple of weeks to get an answer. I'll let you all
know.
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is a vast
over-reaction? You bet. Do I think the use of obscene language is
constitutionally protected? No, but we'll see in a couple of weeks if any
lawyers agree with me.
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?
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colleges not on the
coasts, but I don't think as many of them are clustered into great
universities as on the coasts.
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timewise for me right now, which will let
me continue to participate here a bit more than I had expected, at least for
the next month.
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groups that it might incite anti-Semitism. The
Passion is slated
to open Feb. 25, Ash Wednesday.
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rob wrote:
I'm getting hit with copies of Novarg.
Anyone else?
I'm also getting spam from names similar to those on Brin-L and
Culture.
Could someone be harvesting our mailing lists membership lists without
detection?
The Fool replied:
I've had a grand total of 0 spam, for the past
it. Tell us
why Ted Kennedy's arguements are wrong without resorting to bringing up an
incident that happened... how many decades ago?... and accusing him of being
drunk. Maybe he was. But that's not a particularly persuasive
counter-arguement.
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are monoamine oxidase inhibitors, and I'm not sure
if those were included in the brain growth studies. Maybe one of the
medical types on the list will jump in with this info?
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and then
take those symptoms seriously if you get them.
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From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: Doing Business With The Enemy
At 08:23 PM 2/1/04, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
He's not alone. Ted
for buttons, replacing them
with a morse code-like system of tapping for the execution of phone
functions.
The only issue, of course, is how to pass a call over to a friend.
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cannibalism? :-)
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VFP Signs and Symbols
Transubstantiation Class
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Julia wrote:
Anyone feel they were heavily influenced by Asimov's short story The
Martian Way?
I say this as a long-time Asimov fan.
The Martian Way? Never heard of it. Any idea if it's available in any of
the copious numbers of Asimov anthologies out there?
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to crawl before you can walk, and you
have to learn to walk before you can run. Sure it's going to be expensive.
But if we don't start now, then when?
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pictured Hoon as much more attractive than the picture at the
bottom of this article...
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David Hobby wrote:
(And just finished _Darwin's
Radio_, which mentions RU-pentium. Groan.)
Other than that pun, did you like the book?
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about the Nozomi mission from Japan. And Mars
replied: 'All your base are belong to us.'
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.
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Julia wrote:
Subject: Re: Spinach Promotes Longevity
Only if you're not seriously allergic
Julia
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Unless, of course, you're talking about a sword in one hand and a long
dagger in the other...
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Or Sometimes Two Swords Maru
spyware finders
And a spam filter for a small fee!
Which really has nothing to do with my question.
If you don't mind me asking, are you the same Amanda Marlowe who wrote:
http://www.toasted-cheese.com/ezine/1-5/marlowe.htm
?
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of
The Scotsman is the second song on the first CD of the two-CD set.
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Ronn! wrote:
A is homeomorphic to B means that there is a homeomorphism which maps A
to B. A homeomorphism is a bicontinuous bijection.
And that's supposed to help how? ;-)
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know if this is affecting Brazilian students who go to college in the
USA? I had two or three Brazilian friends when I was attending the
University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music.
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for AARP. Ellen did this to me
and I will kill her if my bad back and sore knees let me catch up to her.
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William Taylor wrote:
The movie theater now has a Lord of the Rings pinball machine.
Good design. Plenty of opporunity for multiball
Ooh, I'm gonna have to go hunting for this one.
Reggie Bautista
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these books four or five years ago when I heard the author
on Coast to Coast with Art Bell (on a night Bell was not hosting, as I
recall). Make of that what you will.
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Gautam wrote:
That's also the reason why the odds that I'm going to
be able to go have dropped - just because they can't
support any more personnel over there right now.
Well, here's hoping you beat the odds on this one.
Reggie Bautista
No Second Line Maru
Alberto wrote:
Maybe the easiest way to enter the USA now is going to
Cuba, stealing a boat, and entering as a Castro refugee!
It didn't work for Elian...
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rob wrote:
My favorite of the last few years is Dreamcatcher.
Please please *please* tell me the book was much better than the movie.
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was 41 but only about a
month away from turning 42.
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to give him this email address if he'd like to
talk to an adoptee more about this.
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critic always tells us we have the coolest toys. The way I see it,
creative play is never a bad thing, no matter what your age. Wasn't there a
Star Trek episode about this? :-)
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. The last time I was there
was for my honeymoon, a long long time ago in a galaxie far away.
Congrats, and happy birthday!
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-- then buy or build a new
house with fire-suppression already installed before we move in :-)
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Julia wrote, re: books by Sawyer:
I really enjoy his
books up to the last 3 pages or so, and then I get a little annoyed
about the ending. :)
Sounds like most Stephen King books for me, only replace last 3 pages with
last 3 chapters.
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Bailey (IMO _Shadowdance_ is by
far his best novel, and qualifies for me as a non-guilty pleasure).
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hires illegals is as much of a profiteer as
your cousin.
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to read someday list but it doesn't look like I'll be
getting to it anytime in the next year or two.
-Rama series - Clarke
See above, although somewhat higher on the list.
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in the titles)? I haven't read much in that
genre since the early 1980s...
I hope that helps a little.
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their innovative ideas to efficiently accomplish worthwhile
goals: Ashoka.
http://www.ashoka.org/
Wow. That's one of the reasons I love this list. You learn about the
coolest organizations...
Reggie Bautista
Rethinking his charitable spending Maru
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with little to no benefits and a paycheck only a little
better than what you would get for flipping burgers.
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to take up a different form of exercise, maybe
something that requires less in the way of mechanical parts.
Have you ever considered Tai Chi? :-)
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, even with all of the changes. Just
thought I'd toss that in there.
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of money. But illegal aliens work
for far less than union scale. That's why a lot of companies break the law
to hire them. Also, I won't dispute that citizen employees who work in
construction get good benefits. But employers don't treat illegals the
same.
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since I read it that I can remember I reacted
very strongly, very emotionally, and in a very negative way to the second
book, but I don't really remember why.
Maybe it's time I re-read it.
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Something in the back of my brain is telling me it was a Heinlein character,
maybe Jubal Harshaw or one of the other Old Man characters. I'm almost
positive it was from some work of fiction, I think I remember reading it in
the form of a conversation.
But I could be wrong :-)
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Maybe
Jim wrote:
Personally, I'm Going for the One. But that's just me.
Great, now I'll have that song going through my head for weeks. :-)
By the way, studio version or the version from YesShows?
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Get in the way as the tons of water
Racing with you crashing thru the rudder
Once
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To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: SCOUTED: More Teenagers Say No to Sex, but Experts Aren't Sure
Why
At 11:59 PM 12/27/03, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Alberto asked
the bulk of my CD collection right now so I can't just go look the
m up. But this thread is fun!
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Sorry for the sleepy ramblings Maru
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Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: Outlandish but exceedingly fun.
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Matt wrote:
-- Matt
...who wonders whether the monkeys
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Merry (somewhat belated) Christmas, all!
Merry Beltane!
Now that's belated.
William Taylor
Or really early. ;-)
By the way, this looks like as good a place as any to say this, so, Happy
Winter Holidays to All!
Reggie Bautista
-oriented chain that has several
stores around here), drug stores, sex-ed classrooms...
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Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: Science Fiction In Music
At 12:19 AM 12/27/03, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Ronn! wrote:
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary
Going For Completeness, Not Necessarily Quality Maru
Or maybe for shear, unadulterated fear? ;-)
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fun...
:-)
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Matt wrote:
-- Matt
...who wonders whether the monkeys' script revisions
for Hamlet were any good...
Is this possible? Hamlet was perfect, after all ;-)
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Travis Edmunds wrote:
A rose by any other name
...is the sexual organ of a thorny shrub ;-)
(I wish I could remember where I first heard that...)
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John Horn posted:
Looks pretty cool!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/hellboy/index.html
I finally got around to watching this trailer.
I'm definitely looking forward to this movie now, thanks for posting this!
Reggie Bautista
Damon wrote:
You know I find it ironic after reading Doug's rant that if I did
the same thing for a historical movie I might be labled as being
pedantic...
Erik replied:
Pre-emptive whining?
Pithy observation?
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Damon's, Not Erik's, Maru
of the
members of the Fellowship...
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, December 01, 2003 9:00 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Two Towers Extended DVD
Reggie wrote:
Quite possibly, but it depends on why that person nearly walked out.
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Details? Maru
You asked for it 8^). Deploy rant mode
It's been almost a year since I've
of the Shire could have
been a big letdown. Of course, a lot of people thought the fifth season
of Babylon 5 was a letdown...
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second one.
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Have a safe trip! My wife and I will probably be seeing _RotK_ on the 20th.
I'm scheduled for an extreme amount of overtime earlier that week.
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Doug replied:
Hmmm... I wonder if it's different enough so that someone who nearly walked
out of the theater release might feel better about it.
Quite possibly, but it depends on why that person nearly walked out.
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I wrote:
Kansas City has a Highland Games weekend every year,
and depending on
which vendors come, sometimes you can get haggis and
sometimes you
can get haggis sausage. There are Scottish
Festivals and Celtic Festivals
like this across the US every year where you can get
decent haggis,
theatrical marathon.
I haven't heard yet that this is planned, but to me it
seems like a no-brainer of a marketing gimmick...
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not for Americans... ;-)
House of Douglas Bakery, by the way, is a frequent vendor at these events,
and they make the best Eccles Cakes I've ever tasted.
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VFP Douglas Clan, Kirkpatrick Sept
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and don't interact much with the
others.
XXOOYFSB
?
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Ronn! wrote:
Remember: you are what you eat. (Or drink.)
Anyone on the list eat haggis?
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in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream).
Now if we could just get the two to get along...
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an audio signal. Was the laser you were studying being
modulated in any way? Any modulation of either frequency or
amplitude could cause the metal to vibrate, which would account
for the sound you heard. Of course, it's possible a power/amplitude
modulation could have been unintended...
Reggie
because it
matches the usage on the quoted website.)
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Sterling's _Schismatrix_ one of the unsung
classics of SF, probably the greatest space opera of the 1980s,)
and his upcoming SF and fantasy projects, among other things.
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