On Mon, 7 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey Gang,
>
> Did I miss where we explained or reminded everybody what the "Darmok"
> episode of Star trek, the Next Generation, was?
No. Nobody explained it yet. I can't do it justice tonight....
> (By the way, there's a little-known and quite inconvenient side-effect
> of nanoprobes for 7-of-9: her perpetual virginity. Shortly after
> copulation, the nanoprobes have everything repaired, tightened,
> restored and probably polished. Very discouraging.)
Depends on if your big thing is virgins or not. Virgins as prostitutes
fetched a very high price in certain places at certain times....
> The last digest I received, 1801, had a line after line of apparently
> random text. Is it a problem of my AOL software? supposed to be a
> picture of the baby? Wondering.
Picture of a baby. Someone forgot the general request not to send
attachments to the list, but that one can be forgiven, given the
circumstances. If you want someone to send it directly to you, holler
eitehr on-list or off-list.
> Got a poster of the decoded human genome. Fascinating reading. A
> little repetitive.
A little?
I imagine that after awhile it's like reading howevermany digits of pi.
(I had the first hundred-some-odd memorized at one point, but I've
forgotten a lot of them. I think I used some of that memory space for
phone numbers, and then I overloaded that memory module. Don't know if
I'll ever manage to free up enough to have the 20 or so phone numbers I
most *want* memorized.)
> Beautiful weather in Philadelphia area. Glorious! Hope it is
> wherever you are too.
I'd love it a lot more if it weren't for the fact that our house is in the
middle of being painted -- the weather that rolled in Thursday night kind
of put off the completion date for *that* for awhile. (Maybe if it
doesn't rain here tonight -- we'll see....) Aside from that, I've enjoyed
the bits where it was cloudy, looking an awful lot like rain, and actually
raining. It would have been a lot less fun, though, if the tornado watch
had been upgraded to a tornado warning. (That's when we all pile into a
half-bath that's just way too small for, what do we have now, about 450
lbs. of mammal in the household?)
Julia
