I have posted the latest renders of my B. B. Wolf character
at the top of my main gallery page:
http://www.sloansteady.com/
Since the last time I posted new pictures, I've given him a
more wolf-like eye color, and painted a better head texture
for him. A lot of thanks go to the Paint Shop
Nick Arnett wrote:
If the consensus is to get rid of [Brin-L] in the subject
line, it'll go. And as a practical matter, that means if no
one strongly objects in the next 24 hours or so to getting
rid of it. Anyone?
Ray Ludenia wrote:
I see you managed to send this message without it!
Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLWPD/RZO/BOZO wrote:
ARAB / ISLAMIC NOBEL WINNERS
19.6% of World's Population
1.2 billion Muslims
snip
JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS
0.2% OF WORLDS POPULATION
14.1 Million Jews
I wonder what the use of this set of statistics is, anyway.
It looks like it was
Reggie Bautista wrote:
When I was a kid, we had a Tennessee Walker (along with a
couple of other horses). One of my brothers who was 5'8
at the time (a little under 2 meters, Alberto :-)
Actually, it's a *lot* under 2 meters. ;-)
Two meters is almost 6 feet, 7 inches, which is pretty
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
What is a sled? What is the max crew of a sled?
Have you ever seen those small vehicles that scuba divers
use, that just pull the diver along? I get the impression
that that's basically what a sled is: a one-man, or one-fin,
vehicle, which is not enclosed, and basically
Ritu Ko wrote about Saddam's other career as a romance novelist:
I have always thought it was near-unpardonably short
sighted of Saddam not to explore this avenue of addressing
his financial problems. :)
*He* doesn't have financial problems, nor do his cronies.
It's the people of Iraq that
At 21:53 22-10-2002 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
What if the SOB is caught in Maryland by an armed
civilian of Virginia that can only legally carry a
firearm in his own state?
A mild thought to all of this mess.
This is the perfect example of why we require trial-by-jury
in this
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
As for your criticism of certain members of the UNSC: the
United States itself does not exactly have a spotless record
either, so maybe you should worry about your own country's
behaviour first, before complaining about the behaviour of
other members. The US is no
The Fool wrote:
So why did a seemingly unhealthy diet not affect indicators of
cardiovascular risk? In an interview with Reuters Health, Brehm
suggested that the benefits of losing more weight may offset the
disadvantages associated with high fat and cholesterol. Perhaps
it's weight loss
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Considering the fact that your country kept its
representative government only because the US was
willing to put NY and Washington on the line to
protect it,
Huh? That requires some explanation.
During the Cold War, the US promised to defend western
Europe as if
Doug wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
a lot of stuff which I wish I had more tome to reply to...
Was that a Freudian slip? ;-)
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J. van Baardwijk wrote:
So, can we expect an American invasion of North Korea in
the near future? If nothing else, the US would at least show
something resembling consistency by invading North Korea.
Doug wrote:
No Oil.
8^(
Or less cynically, a harder country to invade. We spanked
At 11:42 PM 10/26/02, William Taylor wrote:
Ten dings = one dong
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
And 10 dongs = 1 dung?
That makes an odd sort of sense, because if we ever need that
many dings, it will probably be during a major shit-storm... ;-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Naw, I'm holding it in Chex.
Aha! Borrowing a classic strategy from General Mills.
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Reggie Bautista wrote:
Somehow, the thought of anonymous dinging had never
entered my mind before this discussion started. Since
I first heard mention of dinging, I always assumed it
would be an open, transparent process. Personally,
I'd like to see the ding-er give an explanation to the
I have added a new picture of Julia and little Sammy to my
Brin-L memberpix pages:
http://www.sloan3d.com/cgi-bin/memberpix.cgi?person=julia
Either click the bottom thumbnail, or use this link to go
directly to the picture:
John Garcia wrote:
We have the same type booths here in Manhattan. There's
something satisfying about pulling the lever down and
hearing that 'Ka-chunk!'.
So, do you imagine that you're ka-chunking on the
politician's head? That would be pretty satisfying here
in Alabama, at least. ;-)
Ronn Blankenship wrote, about the Alabama governor's race:
With any luck, sometime before the end of January I'll
find out who was elected governor.
Julia Thompson wrote:
So what's the holdup? I know what it was in Tarrant
County, TX and I can go back and see what it was in Bexar
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
Haven't got a clue as to what Oreo is.
Oreos are a brand of round chocolate sandwich cookies with
white creamy stuff (mostly lard, I think) in the middle.
Hydrox is another brand that makes a similar kind of cookie.
Jon Gabriel wrote:
I suppose he knew what he was doing was wrong if he snuck the
monument in late one night after the building had closed and
didn't consult his fellow judges.
Alabama judge loses Ten Commandments case
U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson gave Alabama Chief Justice
Roy
I got this email today. Does anybody here have any idea where
this qote might appear in UPLIFT WAR?
Subject: David Brin question
Date:Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:13:49 -0800
From:Ben Sibelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Mr. Sloan:
I like your website and I noticed you're a
K. Feete wrote:
I'm trying to remember what 401K is.
A 401K is a retirement package. An employee invests some
set percentage of her salary each pay period into one or
more stock market or bond funds. The employer often matches
the employee's investment in those funds, which helps a lot.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:42:31AM -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote:
That should be lose, of course. Darn that Nyarlathotep.
Erik Reuter wrote:
Darn that WHAT? I can't find it in my dictionary. Maybe
I'm missing a play on words?
Nyarlathotep was the name of a chaotic god-like character
from
Kevin Street wrote:
Okay, what the hell is going on? For various reasons, I
haven't been reading Brin-L much lately, but today I came
back and scanned through the messages, only to find that
Jeroen has become some kind of Typhoid Mary who has to be
censored from the list for its own
Deborah Harrell wrote:
grimace Partly because I find open conflict very
difficult - and disturbing - to deal with. [Duh.]
Me too. In the chat yesterday, I promised to write an email
that would at least *attempt* to smooth things over. I've
been working on it all day, and I'm still not
Julia Thompson wrote:
I'd be just as happy with some *real* topics for discussion.
Anyone have anything more to add on those mice? If not,
anyone want to hear anything silly regarding mice? :) (If
so on the last, change the subject header so's I see it to
respond to more quickly.)
I want
Gary Nunn wrote:
Gosh, as much as I hate to break up the party and make an
*actual* Brin related post, does anyone know what the good
Doctor is up to lately? Is he subbed? Unsubbed? Lurking?
Traveling? Writing?
He posts to the RFF (Reading For the Future) list about once
every two weeks or
Jim Sharkey wrote:
I dunno. The Kanten/Linten clan hasn't bought any bridges
yet. And I suppose the Tymbrimi could be considered moderate,
if for no other reason than they don't have a desire to kill
and/or subjugate every other race in the Galaxies. :-) And
who's going to trick them into
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Hey Rob, should I give you the name and phone number of
my lawyer? He claims to have plenty of experience with
sexual-harassment lawsuits. :-)
Looks more like sexual *his*-assment. ;-)
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Robert Seeberger wrote:
Naw...this is a treasure:
http://download.consumptionjunction.com/multimedia/cj_14401.wmv
xponent
High Bandwidth Of The Rings Maru
rob
That was pretty funny, but I liked the Spiderman spoof from
that show a lot better. Jack Black shot webbing out of some
of
Reggie Bautista wrote:
The CGI animated series, for all it's problems, was 10
times the movie that the movie was.
Definitely. I wonder why cartoons made as follow-ups to movies
are often so much better than the movie itself. The same is
also true of the various recent Batman animated series.
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
I am Ademu ku ripusukonbu
Now, taste my steel, pawn of Apu!
Thank you, come again! ;-)
Assuming that's a Samurai Jack reference, the demon's name
is Aku. :-)
BTW, my Japanese name is apparently Sutebe Suroanu, so Domo
Arigato, Mr. JavaScript Roboto! ;-)
Debbie wrote:
Deborafu Harureruru
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Harureruru... Isn't that a city in Hawaii?
That's how Scooby Doo would pronounce the name of their
capital city. ;-)
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Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
Stefan Jones posted this link on another board to
which I subscribe:
http://gning.org/skiffy.html
In light of recent discussions, I thought this result
was interesting:
You are:
David Brin
Bestselling producer of impossible-to-put-down epic adventures
in a
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
I finally did it. Finished the bathroom late yesterday evening.
Congratulations! :-)
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Doug Pensinger wrote:
Has anyone else noted the correlation between the party in power in the
White house and the state of health care (crisis / copacetic)?
Wasn't the state of health care pretty lousy under Clinton too?
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J. van Baardwijk wrote:
On this evening of Wednesday dreary
when I logged in,
bored and weary
In the world of Brin-L Chat
As so oft' before
I had
So much it came as a surprise
when I saw blackness,
blackness b'fore my eyes
If you can't get in through mud.sloansteady.com,
The weekly Brin-L chat is going on right now. Follow the
instructions at
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This is a newer server that William set up. I changed mud.sloansteady.com to forward to the new server, but it's
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use
Deborah Harrell wrote:
This got me to the same place that William noted (and
that I got to from your website), but I was unable to
'create debbi' or type any text at all. Help
wasn't. :(
When you get to that screen, you need to type
create debbi some_sort_of_password
without the quotes.
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
According to labor statistics, productivity for American
workers continues to climb. I can understand how that
is measured for industries in which there is a measurable
*thing* produced, such as cars or toasters, but how do
those statistics get determined for
William and I were talking about this last night. From all
of y'all who don't like MUDs, and do like IRC, what do you
feel are the pros and cons of each? Maybe we can find some
other MUD server software that does what you like, or even
some other protocol that would combine the best of both
Richard Baker wrote:
Personally, I prefer IRC because it's an open, mature and
flexible standard with a range of clients for essentially
every platform, including Java. My current IRC client is
certainly better than any MUD client I've ever seen (although
this may be because I haven't looked
William T Goodall wrote:
What about Hotline?
I didn't know anything about it until I looked around for its home page:
http://www.hotspringsinc.com/
It looks pretty interesting, but it excludes people on Linux
machines, unlike IRC and MUD/MUSHes.
William T Goodall wrote:
There are some Hotline clients for Linux:
There is GtkHx at http://gtkhx.sourceforge.net/
And Fidelio at http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~abas/fidelio/
And HX at a http://hx.fortyoz.org/
Very interesting... :-)
Julia Thompson wrote:
I know of someone for which it's a migraine trigger.
It's also a trigger for me, although I think my main migraine
triggers are MSG and natural flavor(ings), which is just a
euphemism for MSG. Unfortunately, it's perfectly legal for
food manufacturers to put that sort of
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Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
then Command Prompt.
Tain't no such animal.
It may be hidden by the Windows feature where it hides
seldom-used menu options. To get them back, click that
little double-down arrow icon at the bottom of the
Accessories menu, and see if Command Prompt or MS-DOS
Prompt
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
Even without this, there's adequate documentation of how
bugf*ck insane airline security is getting - I mean, when
a kid can't take his G.I. Joe action figure's TOY FRICKIN'
RIFLE on the plane with him, you wonder what new variant
of crack is being smoked by these
Amanda SubbaRao wrote:
Can I beat my kid because he may hit me someday?
No, but you can certainly take away his baseball bat if he's
already hit somebody with it, and probably will again.
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Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
The Gandalf vs. Balrog fight was one of the coolest things
I have ever seen. When they plunged into the lake below the
mountain it was like watching a scene from the war in Heaven
from Paraside Lost. (And the music!)
That really was cool.
I enjoyed Gimli's
Erik Reuter wrote spoilers for the movie:
In addition to the glaring errors Marvin pointed out, I thought
the whole justice system for prevented murders was ridiculously
unlikely. The wooden painted balls were just silly. And it
seemed the potential murderers were tried and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why did you name a group of Urs for a chemical company?
Chiron was a centaur from Greek mythology.
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Julia Thompson wrote:
What about dry mouth? That was the worst thing when I was on
Zoloft, and from what I've heard, it probably wouldn't have
been any better if I'd been on Prozac.
In all of the drug ads, it's pronounced as one word,
drymouth. :-)
Since we've changed MUD servers, I've updated the MUD
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Please let me know if you have any problems following
the instructions, or getting into the chat on Wednesday
afternoon.
Gary L. Nunn wrote:
Armageddon!
(10 putz points to anyone that knows that reference)
That's the safe word that the adventurous gay couple
used in the funniest felching story I ever heard -- I
think on the John Boy and Billy radio show. When they
read the story, they said the word armageddon
Jon Gabriel wrote:
I have the equally hilarious Top Ten response e-mail that
floated around with that archived if anyone wants me to post it.
Jon
It's funny, but really disgusting to contemplate maru
I'd like to see it... although I'm not sure what that
says about me... ;-)
Jon Gabriel wrote:
Somewhat curious, but not enough to go surfing the net
for big busted female wrestlers' at work maru
GSV Back to Breasts Thread :)
I remember seeing the female wrestler named Chyna (or
something like that) when she made a guest appearance on
Third Rock, and she was fairly
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Nick Arnett wrote:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 678 |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 678 |
Those are two of my email addresses, so add [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to those duplicates, please.
Nick Arnett wrote:
Already done done that. That's why they have same same
Person_ID of 678. But thanks for taking the time!
Ah. I was thinking that number was a posting count of
some sort. Oops. :-)
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Nick Arnett wrote:
No, it doesn't mean that... those are id numbers, not counts!
I'm glad I'm not the only one, then! ;-)
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The Fool wrote:
http://www.jhuger.com/kisshank.mv
This morning there was a knock at my door. When I answered the
door I found a well groomed, nicely dressed couple. The man
spoke first:
John:
Hi! I'm John, and this is Mary.
Mary:
Hi! We're here to invite you to come kiss Hank's ass
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like
umbrellas.
That makes a surprising amount of sense!
Planet: A body of Earth surrounded by sky.
Very poetic.
:-)
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Doug Pensinger wrote:
In terms of Nick's analysis of how many months at the top,
Stefan would have to challenge Julia. Through all of 1996
and 1997 he was far and away the biggest poster on the
list - daylight second.
He posted mostly one or two liners and had an excellent, subtle
sense
Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/01/13/1421/index.html
http://www.1421.tv/
NEW YORK (CNN) -- In his new book, 1421: The Year China
Discovered America (William Morrow)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060537639/eogan-20
Gavin Menzies claims that a massive
on 14/1/03 4:58 pm, Steve Sloan II at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The voyages of the Vikings, Chinese, and Amerigo Vespucci
are all very impressive, but they all *quit going* after a
while, kinda like the US and the Moon. ;-) Columbus' trip
was different, because after he arrived, European
Deborah Harrell wrote:
True. Frex, would I advocate killing (lethal injection,
say) a comatose stroke victim who best medical judgement
and experience calls essentially terminal? No. Would I
advise withholding nutrition and drugs, except what seemed
needful for comfort? Yes. If on a ventilator,
Sean Kane wrote:
Just saw this...
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue299/site.html
It's the SciFi.com site of the week. This week it's Star Wars
Origami. The reviewer was particularly taken with the Darth
Vader creation by one Eileen Tan. Who ever knew a simple sheet
of black paper could be
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In a message dated 1/15/2003 10:04:39 AM US Mountain Standard
Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But there are 212 balls still remaining inside of me.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could he go on tour playing Jerry Lee Lewis?
Goodness gracious!
LOL
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Hamsters. They have very dexterous (if somewhat small) hands,
the *love* exploring (my wife and I can put our hamster in her
hamster ball and she'll run around the house for hours), and
they are quite smart and strong, as evidenced by their ability
to escape from any
Andrew Crystall wrote:
Judaism has never had a problem with souls being divided.
There are only (as I recall, might be wrong) 100,000 Jewish
souls out there, but some people have parts of the same one :P
Hmmm, I didn't know that. It sounds a lot like Minbari theology,
so now I'm wondering if
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and Andrew Crystall are fighting...
Settle down back there, you two, or I'm going to turn this car
right around and head home! ;-)
But seriously, Jeroen, Andrew and Nick raise some very valid
points about copyright laws and the archive CD. You should
probably talk to a lawyer,
Julia Thompson wrote:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1043013622300562504,00.html
It's rather interesting what greed will force in the US
legal system.
The decision is completely wrong, and I'm wondering why
dolls and toys have such completely different tariff
rates.
I just hope
Robert Seeberger wrote:
Ammiano also said Segway's campaign rubbed officials the
wrong way.
Segway didn't help themselves by hiring very expensive
lobbyists, he said. I think that backfired on them, too.
New Hampshire-based Segway hired lobbying firms but has
made no contributions to any
I'm forwarding this from the Reading For the Future list:
--
I started an individual letter to several addressees in this
and other DYR/RFF groups, but then decided there were so many
that perhaps this slightly off-topic post might be acceptable
and save time here. Replies expressing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it was not here, what list was it where the mark responded with tales
of Lovecraft and had the guy going for over a month?
Here it is:
Fw: Ghost: Cthulhu vs the Nigerian scammers
http://www.geocities.com/steerp1ke/David_Ehi.html
Jon Gabriel wrote:
:)
http://gprojects.web.aol.com/tso/quiz_standalone.html
You are an Innovator Sim
Creativity is your middle name. You belong to the group of
Sims who include the artists, designers, and innovators.
You love to create and build houses in the world. Your
designs are extremely
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are even books
by Frank Bawm at times.
Didn't he write the Wizard of Awz? ;-)
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Deborah Harrell wrote:
Hmm, what category would 'Highlander' fit?
Fantasy, b/c of the immortality angle?
Yes, fantasy. I prefer to ignore that incredibly ugly
attempt in Highlander 2 to make it science fiction, by
claiming that the Immortals are actually aliens.
Reggie Bautista wrote:
SciFi.com and some other similar sites and mags, often refer
to genre books, movies, and TV shows. By genre, they
usually mean, science fiction, science fantasy (or space
fantasy, like _Star Wars_ or the recent Joss Whedon show
_Firefly_),
I disagree with classifying
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Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Non-sentients:
Tribbles (oh, definitely! Just don't want to actually
encounter a pile of them... :D )
They are Heinlein's Flatcats from _The Rolling Stones_
Nope, tribbles aren't flat and flying saucer-shaped, more
tubular. Maybe a related species? :-)
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
Jacques Chirac. It's been a long day.
Oh yeah, the guy whose name always makes me think of that
villain from Bugs Bunny cartoons named Black Jacques
Shellac. ;-)
In this particular case, we know exactly what The
Axis of Weasel is motivated by.
LOL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Live chat? KEWL... What day of the week?
Whoops! :-)
Wednesday night, and there are people there right now.
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Jim Sharkey wrote:
I can't believe they feel it necessary to announce This is
not a terrorist attack. Does the media just want to sell
us a bill of fear, or have Americans gone so far off the
paranoia deep end that they need to be reassured of this at
all times?
The first massive shuttle
Julia Thompson wrote:
Is it =! or !=?
In C and most of the other UNIX-developed programming and
scripting languages like awk, Perl, etc., it's !=.
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Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
Nah.. I'm a freak who spells things correctly (colour,
theatre, etc) so you don't strike me as terribly, well, odd ;)
That's not correct spelling. It's merely *French* spelling,
which leads nicely back to the subject of this thread. ;-)
Julia Thompson wrote:
Got it in one.
Now, I can't remember which collection it was in. Do I go
upstairs and look that up, or does someone tell us?
River of Time.
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Gary L. Nunn wrote:
Ok, this is my space mechanic ignorance showing, but how
could the shuttle have possibly been too heavy to dock in a
weightless environment?
Maybe the steering thrusters didn't have enough muscle to
precisely place an unusually massive shuttle into docking
position?
Jon Gabriel wrote:
Vinge: A Darkness Upon the Deep (it contains lots of
anti-authority themes)
A Deepness in the Sky?
Greg Mandel: Mindstar Rising / A Quantum Murder
Greg Mandel is the character's name. :-)
I think you mean Peter F. Hamilton.
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Dan Minette wrote:
If you want, John, I can do a Monte Carlo analysis on the
probability that random variations could have caused the
difference between the stock market performance under
Republicans and Democrats.
It wouldn't have to be random to be completely independent
of which politician
J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Why would post-war Iraq be the first Iraqi republic? Iraq is
*already* a republic.
It's like the old Eastern Block countries. The more they
called themselves democratic in the name of their country,
the less likely it was to actually *be* a democracy.
Jon Gabriel wrote:
I've now gotten responded to 3 offlist requests for today's
Camille Paglia salon.com interview. If anyone else wants it,
let me know and I'll send.
I'd like a copy.
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Gary L. Nunn wrote:
My suggestion would be to make the policy painfully simple
in both language and understanding:
By posting to Brin-L, you understand and agree that your
post can and will be archived and be made publicly available.
It does not need to be any more complicated than that.
Damon wrote:
Yeah, SciFi Channel pretty much sucks these days.
There's SOME light in the tunnel...March 16th will premiere the
new mini series Children of Dune. I know I'll be watching...
I'm afraid that miniseries might be the last gasp, since it
was probably commissioned before Sci-Fi's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Spoilsport:-) ]
You mean I can't say Steve is a cartoonist as well?
[Bigger :-)]
Who, me? :-)
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