Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Amanda SubbaRao
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:

Re: [ir]rational answer question

2002-12-15 Thread Alberto Monteiro
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.

RE: ST Enterprise episode review... yeesh

2002-12-15 Thread Jim Sharkey
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

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread J. van Baardwijk
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

Re: [Listref] Hayman Fire

2002-12-15 Thread Julia Thompson
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

Re: Fwd: Re: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Julia Thompson
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

Re: Update on Ali the Video Store Clerk

2002-12-15 Thread Julia Thompson
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

Re: citations

2002-12-15 Thread David Hobby
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

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Medievalbk
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

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Seeberger
- 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

Re: [ir]rational answer question

2002-12-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
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

Re: Update on Ali the Video Store Clerk

2002-12-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
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

RE: Update on Ali the Video Store Clerk

2002-12-15 Thread Jon Gabriel
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

Re: Fwd: Re: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
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

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
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

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread d.brin
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

RE: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Jon Gabriel
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

Re: [ir]rational answer question

2002-12-15 Thread Julia Thompson
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

RE: ST Enterprise episode review... yeesh

2002-12-15 Thread Jon Gabriel
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,

RE: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Jon Gabriel
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

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Medievalbk
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

RE: ST Enterprise episode review... yeesh

2002-12-15 Thread Sean Kane
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

Re: [ir]rational answer question

2002-12-15 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
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

Weird eats was: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Sean Kane
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

Re:[Sausage LINK] What Science Fiction Epicurean Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Medievalbk
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

Re: ST Enterprise episode review... yeesh

2002-12-15 Thread Medievalbk
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

Re: ST Enterprise episode review... yeesh

2002-12-15 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
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

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Alberto Monteiro
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

Re: ST Enterprise episode review... yeesh

2002-12-15 Thread Alberto Monteiro
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

Re: On the topic of Star Trek and pain

2002-12-15 Thread Medievalbk
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

Hi-tech arms 'would finish war in a week'

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Seeberger
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

Wierd News: Buyer Pays $485 a Word for Potter Plot

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Seeberger
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

Wierd News: Thief steals bags of poop; owner still laughing

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Seeberger
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

Wierd News: Gambian confuses German snow with vandalism

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Seeberger
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

Wierd news: French crack down on Internet pronunciations

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Seeberger
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

Numinous Nomination: Woman missing 8 years is home for Christmas

2002-12-15 Thread Robert Seeberger
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

Re: Wierd news: French crack down on Internet pronunciations

2002-12-15 Thread The Fool
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

Re: Wierd news: French crack down on Internet pronunciations

2002-12-15 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
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

Re: On the topic of Star Trek and pain

2002-12-15 Thread Jim Sharkey
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

Re: Wierd News: Buyer Pays $485 a Word for Potter Plot

2002-12-15 Thread Medievalbk
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

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Erik Reuter
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

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread d.brin
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

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Erik Reuter
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

Brin: Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase

2002-12-15 Thread Gary Nunn
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:

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread d.brin
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

Re: On the topic of Star Trek and pain

2002-12-15 Thread Julia Thompson
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

Re: Brin: Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase

2002-12-15 Thread d.brin
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:

Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Medievalbk
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

Re: Brin: Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase

2002-12-15 Thread Julia Thompson
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

Re: Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase

2002-12-15 Thread Julia Thompson
[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.

Re: Interesting essay ...

2002-12-15 Thread d.brin
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

RE: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?

2002-12-15 Thread Nick Arnett
... 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