In a message dated 7/29/2003 3:19:28 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hello everyone,
> My name is Patrick Schlichtenmyer.
[Irish-German? Not that it matters unless you have to choose between beer or
guinness.]
I used to be a subscriber to this
> list a while back. I left because of other events transpiring in my
> life; recently I have been thinking of the list and I decided to drop
> in and see what's up.
{Less flaming, more silly.]
>
> A little about me and my interests: My favorite authors are David
> Brin(duh!), Stephen Baxter, and J.R.R Tolkien. I could list many more,
> but these will suffice for now.
[So you found all of the Tolkien references in the Jijo novels then.]
>
> I have recently got into the hobby of chainmailling. Not for any
> role-playing reason, but simply because (to my surprise I enjoy doing
> it for its own sake. I have a nice patch of european 4in1 mail about 8
> by 8 square inches that took me about 6 months to do(hey, I'm still
> learning! :)).
I made two suits a chamaille, and a coif over the years.
Be sure to use two different sizes of pliers. The heavier pair is the anchor,
and you move the lighter pair.
What gague and I.D. is that patch?
>
> I live in San Diego, California.
[A local to Brin. >waves of suppressed envy< ]
>
> I am a Roman Catholic.
{Only comment I have here is that I'm trying to write an Uplift story where
a wazoon does a spying job in the Washington National Cathedral by
wearing a gargoyle suit with a pricetag on his toe.]
>
> Subjects that I find interesting are quantum mechanics,
{To the tuna advertising jingle.....
"Ask any Tytlal you happen to see, 'Draw me an angle and
divide it by three.'" ]
philosophy,
{I once had a gaming barbarian named Azonips. He was a backwards thinker.]
> theology,
[Pantheistic agnostic here. The more religions there are, the more fun it is
to say........."I don't think so.........but maybe."
In My Father's house are many mansions...... And I like to ring the
doorbell to them all and then run and hide in the bushes.]
archaeology
Find any gold chains embedded in lumps of coal?
Part of the Uplift dinosaur controversy.....
, and astronomy to name a few.
[Ronn's job to comment here. I only had Bok for one semester.]
>
> I am currently reading "Kiln People" by David Brin, and I am finding
> it very fascinating.
[Brin always likes to write with multiple POV. Now he does it with only one
person.]
>
> I hope that was a decent introduction, and I hope to have many good
> discussions!
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Patrick
>
Ta.
William Taylor
Vilyehm Teighlore on
zMUD to avoid confusion
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"Now is the wienerdog
of our discoteque made
Gloria Swanson by this
wig of yarn."
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