In a message dated 12/6/2003 9:53:11 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >As an aside, I just put a copy of Build Yourself a Telescope onto Alibris. > >Only one of about fifty copies out there. > > I'm not familiar with it.
Ah, it is _Making Your Own Telescope_ by Allyn J. Thompson
Now _that_ sounds somewhat more familiar . . . in fact, I may have a copy around here somewhere . . .
Reprinted again and again, and so popular that Dover came out with a reprint.
Get the title wrong and of course ya wouldn't know it.
Somewhere, probably boxed up for later discovery, I have a 1910 or so
telescope catalog. The biggest one pictured, that they _say_ the'll make, looks
bigger than
the biggest one ever made, though not as long.
They must have been Yerkeing the buyer's chain.
Argh. I think my Jerry Pournelle joke was better.
> >I thought I'd mention this because, of course, we're actually in danger of
> >talking about SF.
>
> Why in heck would we want to talk about San Francisco?
San Francisco is full of freaks and weirdoes, behaving totally without any rhyme or reason, and believing in impossible, illogical dreams.
--unlike any well structured Science Fiction story
. . . or this list . . .
;-)
-- Ronn! :)
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