From: d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David,
Would you be so kind as to entertain us by taking the test (takes
only a few minutes) and tell us the result? Inquiring Brin-L minds
would like to know.
Stefan Jones posted this link on another board to which I
subscribe:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
sigh
Clearly I must bow to those with superior knowledge in
this field - but I still don't have to like the kinked
logic of a supposedly rational _Mathematics_. ;P
Mathematics is not about numbers, it's about abstract
things that can be manipulated using known rules.
Jon Gabriel wrote:
Got this in my mailbox this morning. Whoo boy. For anyone else
who didn't see this week's episode of Enterprise, this excerpt from
a review doesn't spoil the ending or plot but may ruin your viewing
pleasure anyway. :-)
Yeah, it wasn't too good. They pulled out all the
At 23:00 14-12-2002 -0600, Amanda SubbaRao wrote:
Aha -- a new face in the crowd! Welcome! :-)
Care to tell us more about yourself? My informants tell me you are a doctor
of Astrophysics and Astronomy at Northeastern Illinois University, but
that's pretty much it. (OK, that plus a comment
Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
Prairie fire that would outrace a horse Maru
(from another 'Little House' book)
Which one? I'm trying to remember, and about all I
*can* remember is
something about Pa plowing a
d.brin wrote:
But honestly folks. Ain't it too silly for lifespan?
Too silly is relative. It's ridiculous, certainly, but is it more or
less a waste of time than sitting around in the covered outdoor seating
area of a restaurant on a Saturday night with a bunch of people in
various
Jon Gabriel wrote:
My wife's suggestion was also practical: Wear boots to and from the office
and keep the dress shoes under my desk. Change when arriving and leaving.
:-)
You mean, you hadn't thought of that already?
I'm guessing the weather doesn't get bad enough for you to *need* to
wear
The pattern suggests that 45 scientists, who might well have read the
paper, made an error when they cited it. Then 151 others copied their
misprints without reading the original. So for at least 77 per cent of
the 196 misprinted citations, no one read the paper.
Actually, my
In a message dated 12/15/2002 12:26:25 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh, and welcome to Brin-L too! The people here aren't as crazy
as they look (except for Rob, who is much crazier).
As I sit here pouring Cheerios on my applesauce, I wonder what he means
by this
- Original Message -
From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?
Amanda said:
I decided Academia was Not For Me
Welcome to the club! (Although I suspect that I'm
At 12:50 AM 12/15/02 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
But sets can become much more weirder than irrational numbers
Indeed, they can _be_ irrational numbers . . . unless you think that's too
unkind a cut.
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed
At 10:45 AM 12/15/02 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote:
My wife's suggestion was also practical: Wear boots to and from the office
and keep the dress shoes under my desk. Change when arriving and leaving.
:-)
You mean, you hadn't thought of that already?
I'm guessing the
Actually, I saw them both! :)
Thank you!
Will be responding in more depth once I figure out if I'm telecommuting
in the morning. :-(
Jon
Transit Strike delenda est maru
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Behalf Of Ronn! Blankenship
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 4:12 PM
At 10:41 AM 12/15/02 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
d.brin wrote:
But honestly folks. Ain't it too silly for lifespan?
Too silly is relative. It's ridiculous, certainly, but is it more or
less a waste of time than sitting around in the covered outdoor seating
area of a restaurant on a Saturday
Welcome, Amanda!
At 12:12 PM 12/15/02 -0600, Amanda SubbaRao wrote:
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aha -- a new face in the crowd! Welcome! :-)
Care to tell us more about yourself? My informants tell me you are a doctor
of Astrophysics and Astronomy at Northeastern Illinois
Thanks, Amanda, for finding me... so to speak.
Here was a set of answers that got me David Brin:
1. War and conquest
2. Whatever is big, fast, and/or powerful
3. Patriotism is foolish... but I suppose I'm rather parochial.
4. I'll shit on you like you've never been shit on before.
5. I just
I second that welcome! Nice to meet you. :)
And... don't worry, Jeroen *does* work for a government, but not ours.
:) Although I'm almost afraid to ask what his 'informants' tell him
about the rest of us.
Jon
GSV Who knew Big Brother would be Dutch?
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 12:50 AM 12/15/02 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
But sets can become much more weirder than irrational numbers
Indeed, they can _be_ irrational numbers . . . unless you think that's too
unkind a cut.
What kind of cut would that be?
:)
Julia
I taped it... but didn't watch it until this afternoon. It was bad. Bad
Bad BAD! Whoever wrote it should be shot. Fatally. Then they should
be killed one more time just to be sure they never write again.
Anyway, the 'hot alien chick' guest star is Padma Lakshmi. I knew she
looked familiar,
From the weird lunch department: I had a Yoohoo and a Morningstar fake
corn dog for lunch with a golden delicious apple and some raisins.
I don't normally drink Yoohoo, but it magically appeared in the fridge
this morning and I couldn't very well let it mingle unchecked with the
condiments and
Our good Dr. Brin comments:
1. War and conquest
2. Whatever is big, fast, and/or powerful
How interesting.
In fact, a majority of these answers are bizarre or even
diametrically opposite to anything having to do with me.
1,2,4,5, and 8 have no bearing on truth in any way.
Perhaps
Jon wrote:
I taped it... but didn't watch it until this afternoon. It was bad. Bad
Bad BAD! Whoever wrote it should be shot. Fatally. Then they should
be killed one more time just to be sure they never write again.
Anyway, the 'hot alien chick' guest star is Padma Lakshmi. I knew she
At 04:26 PM 12/15/02 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 12:50 AM 12/15/02 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
But sets can become much more weirder than irrational numbers
Indeed, they can _be_ irrational numbers . . . unless you think that's too
unkind a cut.
What kind
Jon wrote:
How are Cheerios and Applesauce? Do they make the applesauce more
festive?
Jon
BTW, I don't recommend the above combo... fake hotdogs wrapped in
cornbread don't go as well with sickeningly sweet chocolate milk as you
might expect.
As I would expect it to be awful, I'll heed your
In a message dated 12/15/2002 3:44:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How are Cheerios and Applesauce? Do they make the applesauce more
festive?
It's like crushing Fritos over cottage cheese. You go for the combination of
crunch and soft. You only add the
In a message dated 12/15/2002 3:50:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sean
(anyone see Nemesis yet?...)
--
Nope. I figure it is only worth the $5 non weekend afternoon price.
I did spend the big $8+ for Drumline. As expected, the late Friday night
showing was
Sean wondered:
(anyone see Nemesis yet?...)
Word from an acquaintance is it's as good as First Contact, much
better than Generations or Insurrection.
I'm waiting for Two Towers. Peter Jackson RAWKS.
*does dance*
Gotta have a new Object of Fanboy Worship, since Lucas managed to
completely
d.brin wrote:
Here was a set of answers that got me David Brin:
1. War and conquest
In fact, a majority of these answers are bizarre or even
diametrically opposite to anything having to do with me.
1,2,4,5, and 8 have no bearing on truth in any way.
I think the reason for 1. War and
Jon Gabriel wrote:
*sigh* I never thought of myself as a Star Trek geek until my wife
pointed out how often I spot actors and actresses on other shows and
movies and say things like Hey, he was a Klingon on a Deep Space Nine
episode a few years back.
One day I watched _Dark Angel_, then _Birds
In a message dated 12/15/2002 5:41:41 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
a CD of Wlliam Shatner and Leonard Nimoy singing. You've not known
psychological torture until you've heard Shatner do Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds or Mr. Tambourine Man or Nimoy do Proud Mary or
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=361736
The American weaponry likely to be deployed in any military strike against
Iraq is so advanced and hi-tech that some was not even ready to be used in
the operation in Afghanistan just 12 months ago.
With an armoury including
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2cid=573ncid=573e=6u=/nm/2002
1213/od_nm/potter_dc
A private U.S. buyer coughed up $485 a word for a 93-word synopsis of the
yet-to-be completed fifth book about wizard boy wonder Harry Potter.
It was sold to a telephone bidder from America for 28,680
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/bizarre/1701060
Matt Boswell had that holiday spirit after Christmas shopping last week in
Frisco.
Then he saw some stinking thief messing around in the back of his pickup
truck outside Stonebriar Centre mall.
I yelled at him, said Boswell, who watched the
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/bizarre/1698542
A Gambian man unused to Germany's winter weather woke up to find his car had
turned completely white overnight and called police to complain vandals had
painted it.
Police in the central German town of Hildesheim responding to investigate
the
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/bizarre/1698583
French is such a rich language that it now has, by state decree, two words
for the at sign, which has become a worldwide symbol for the Internet, but
only one official way to pronounce it.
A special commission struggling to defend French
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/bizarre/1692161
A woman who had been wandering the streets for eight years was headed home
for a Christmas reunion with her family today because she remembered she
once had invested in the stock market.
When a bedraggled Alice Perley wandered into the
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/bizarre/1698583
French is such a rich language that it now has, by state decree, two
words
French is like those galactic languages, in which their is only one way
to say something. French is rather anal
The Fool wrote:
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/bizarre/1698583
French is such a rich language that it now has, by state decree,
two
words
French is like those galactic languages, in which their is only one
way
to say something. French
Mike wrote:
Where can I get that CD? I have a few people I don't
like.
I don't know if I can be party to spreading such torment. :)
However, if you e-mail me after the holidays, I suppose I could be talked into making
a copy of it for interested parties. I'm pretty sure the hideous works
In a message dated 12/15/2002 6:18:06 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A private U.S. buyer coughed up $485 a word for a 93-word synopsis of the
yet-to-be completed fifth book about wizard boy wonder Harry Potter.
I would rather have an auction where the successful
One other thing worth pointing out about this type of test is that the
answers for which an author is mostly unique (i.e., few other authors
gave the same answer) are pivotal in scoring the overall test. For
example, for Brin, questions #1, #4, and #8 have Brin with 3 or fewer
other authors, so if
Thanks Erik But there must be more to it. Some answers are
obligate. They form a choice cut between one author and another.
Others... the test doesn't care if I voted for Al Gore or
PatRobertson.
As for #4, I'd like to know who j (my fellow shitter) is. Bizare.
and enough on this I got
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 07:32:28PM -0800, d.brin wrote:
Thanks Erik But there must be more to it. Some answers
are obligate. They form a choice cut between one author and
another. Others... the test doesn't care if I voted for Al Gore or
PatRobertson.
It just adds one to each variable
Just ran across this awesome database for speculative fiction.
The link below is for the Brin entries, or should I say, Glen David Brin
entries? :-)
Looks fairly complete, including quite a few articles and stories that I
have never heard of.
Brin entry:
As for #4, I'd like to know who j (my fellow shitter) is. Bizare.
Pournelle.
Yup. Nuff said. This dope has had enough of our time. Next item.
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Mike wrote:
Where can I get that CD? I have a few people I don't
like.
I don't know if I can be party to spreading such torment. :)
However, if you e-mail me after the holidays, I suppose I could be
talked into making a copy of it for
Just ran across this awesome database for speculative fiction.
The link below is for the Brin entries, or should I say, Glen David Brin
entries? :-)
Looks fairly complete, including quite a few articles and stories that I
have never heard of.
Brin entry:
From our good Dr. Brin:
Bizare.
and enough on this I got kids stuff to do.
I once had fun with a local radio talk show host, as I called her a radio
personality who happened to be a Tucson resident. And I called the man who
had the program before her's, a Tucson resident who happened to be
d.brin wrote:
Interesting to rank CONTACTING ALIENS as nonfiction! I list it under fiction.
It's reference material for a fiction series. Reference material counts
as non-fiction, no matter to what it refers. Or something like that.
:)
Julia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I list it under the category of puzzles and brain teasers, but surprised our
good Dr. Brin by coming up with solutions to problems that he never knew
existed.
He just de-Pila-tated my best idea.
Must have been a hairy one, then.
Ah well. Let the Buyur beware.
A friend sent me this...
... on 30 years after Apollo 17 -- in The Guardian, of all places!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/spacedocumentary/story/0,2763,860813,00.html
__
Cute. Laurie is a San Diegan. I met him recently.
As for sadness over
...
Now, who is going to send this damn test to Jerry?
Jerry doesn't take tests. After all, he's a best-selling science fiction
writer. He *gives* tests.
Did I mention that he's a best-selling science fiction writer? And makes a
lot of money? Really a whole lot?
Nick
52 matches
Mail list logo