Re: insomnia

2003-08-29 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Sonja van Baardwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even when I was a kid I used to get a lot done > during the nights I > couldn't get to sleep. After a bit of troubled sleep > I'd get up shortly > after midnight, then start cleaning, organising, > rearranging, writing > letters, etc. basically

Re: 34 weeks - 14-28 days to go

2003-08-29 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 8/29/2003 4:23:42 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Then I'm guessing that "Hang in there" evokes > groans if not downright crossness...but "Wallow in > there" is even worse! :D (Even if it _is_ > appropriate for future Hippos...) > > Debbi >

Re: Creative spam

2003-08-29 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > --- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > > Lo, these many years ago, in college Organic > > > > Chemistry, I and a friend created the 'O-chem > > >>Personality Wheel,' with categories from

Re: 34 weeks - 14-28 days to go

2003-08-29 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I made it to 34 weeks today. Now we don't > have to worry about lung maturity in the babies. That's very good news! :) > I'm alternating between feeling like a beached whale > (lying down or > sitting) and a lead penguin (walking). :) T

blackout image from space...

2003-08-29 Thread Gary Nunn
Interesting image of the blackout from a geosynchronous satellite http://www.rbduncan.com/space.jpg ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Teen to be arrested for "blaster" attack

2003-08-29 Thread Julia Thompson
He's under house arrest now. Article at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=&e=2&u=/ap/20030829/ap_on_hi_te/internet_attack Links to related articles on the same page. If he is convicted, I wouldn't mind the sentence including weekly visits from Bob t

[Scouted] Lab chimp "speaks"

2003-08-29 Thread Deborah Harrell
Well, not really, but he does appear to vocalize certain 'concepts': http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns3218 "A bonobo has surprised his trainers by appearing to make up his own "words". It is the first report of an ape making sounds that seem to hold their meaning across different

Re: Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad

2003-08-29 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 07:24 PM 8/22/03 -0500, Horn, John wrote: content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/08/22/brazil.rocket.explosion.ap/ index.html BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- A rocket exploded on its launch pad Friday while under

[Listref] Domestication and Neotony

2003-08-29 Thread Deborah Harrell
I came across this in skimming, and given a list discussion on pets and what constitutes a 'suitable pet,' I thought others would enjoy this (and our hairy cousins get top billing since the article's not really about pets!) : http://scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?colID=13&articleID=000D2103-1F

Bringing Back The Light

2003-08-29 Thread Deborah Harrell
I thought the recent story of the man who had some return of vision (after ~40 years of blindness) following corneal stem cell transplant was fascinating, especially WRT how the brain requires experience/input to develop certain abilities correctly: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/Healtholog

Re: Question about the current e-mail plague

2003-08-29 Thread Julia Thompson
Julia Thompson wrote: > BINGO! I hadn't emptied my trash folder in awhile, and was able to go > check headers on all the e-mails containing the virus that I'd received > today. ALL of them went through the same mail server: > BUZZ (hsc47-152.med.utah.edu [155.100.47.152]) > > So, I guess the th

Re: Global Warming

2003-08-29 Thread Robert J. Chassell
> Could it be natural hundred and thousand year cycles causing > drought and wet conditions? Could be, but I hope not. While it might be good for certain non-human inhabitants of the planet, like bugs, if the weather turns more uncertain, it will not be good for humans to suffer more drou

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-29 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 01:10 PM 8/29/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 03:42 am, Doug Pensinger wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: Chomsky just speaks to elites - like you. That's where his power comes from. I can see we're going to need a definition of elite before we continue this discussion. I

82 killed 229 hurt in iraq car bomb blast

2003-08-29 Thread The Fool
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030829/1/3dspp.html Eighty-two killed, 229 hurt in Najaf car bomb blast: doctors AFP Photo A car bomb killed at least 82 people and wounded 229 others outside one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines in the central Iraqi city of Najaf, medical sources told AFP. The N

The Era of Entitlement

2003-08-29 Thread The Fool
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20030828.html The Era of Entitlement: What Alabama Judge Roy Moore, File "Sharers," and the Catholic Church Have in Common By MARCI HAMILTON [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, Aug. 28, 2003 This is the Age of Entitlement. I do not mean entitlement only in t

Re: Question about the current e-mail plague

2003-08-29 Thread Julia Thompson
Julia Thompson wrote: > > David Hobby wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > I'm talking about sobig.f. > > > > > > > > > > I've been noticing that I don't get any messages with it overnight, but > > > > > at some point during the morning, I start getting a whole bunch. And > > > > > then they drop off sud

Re: Question about the current e-mail plague

2003-08-29 Thread Julia Thompson
David Hobby wrote: > > ... > > > > I'm talking about sobig.f. > > > > > > > > I've been noticing that I don't get any messages with it overnight, but > > > > at some point during the morning, I start getting a whole bunch. And > > > > then they drop off suddenly at some point during the evening.

Re: Question about the current e-mail plague

2003-08-29 Thread David Hobby
... > > > I'm talking about sobig.f. > > > > > > I've been noticing that I don't get any messages with it overnight, but > > > at some point during the morning, I start getting a whole bunch. And > > > then they drop off suddenly at some point during the evening. Anyone > > > else seeing this? A

Teen to be arrested for "blaster" attack

2003-08-29 Thread Julia Thompson
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030829/ap_on_hi_te/internet_attack_7 An unidentified 18-year-old is going to be arrested for unleashing the "blaster" virus. (Identifying information will be released after the arrest.) See article for more.

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-29 Thread Ray Ludenia
Doug Pensinger wrote: > Gautam Mukunda wrote: > >> Chomsky just speaks to elites - like you. That's >> where his power comes from. > > I can see we're going to need a definition of elite before we > continue this discussion. I don't know how I could be considered > elite in any sense of the wo

ADMIN: Non-subscriber postings will be discarded

2003-08-29 Thread Nick Arnett
Due to the ridiculous volume of virus-generated bogus postings to brin-l and other lists that we host, I've temporarily changed the list server settings to discard any non-subscriber postings. Normally, we have moderated them, checking to make sure that they are not legitimate posts. In 99 percen

Re: insomnia

2003-08-29 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
At 02:31 PM 8/18/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: >Hey, you've got a mind -- try to have fun with it during those times! >:) (My mother regularly wakes up for an hour or two in the middle of >the night, and years ago decided to try to *enjoy* it, and she's been >generally happier since.) Even when

Re: insomnia

2003-08-29 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk
At 02:31 PM 8/18/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: >Hey, you've got a mind -- try to have fun with it during those times! >:) (My mother regularly wakes up for an hour or two in the middle of >the night, and years ago decided to try to *enjoy* it, and she's been >generally happier since.) Even

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-29 Thread William T Goodall
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 03:42 am, Doug Pensinger wrote: Gautam Mukunda wrote: Chomsky just speaks to elites - like you. That's where his power comes from. I can see we're going to need a definition of elite before we continue this discussion. I don't know how I could be considered elit

Re: Question about the current e-mail plague

2003-08-29 Thread William T Goodall
On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 03:54 am, Julia Thompson wrote: I'm talking about sobig.f. I've been noticing that I don't get any messages with it overnight, but at some point during the morning, I start getting a whole bunch. And then they drop off suddenly at some point during the evening. A

Re: Question about the current e-mail plague

2003-08-29 Thread Doug Pensinger
Julia Thompson wrote: I'm talking about sobig.f. I've been noticing that I don't get any messages with it overnight, but at some point during the morning, I start getting a whole bunch. And then they drop off suddenly at some point during the evening. Anyone else seeing this? Anyone *not* seein

Re: Creative spam

2003-08-29 Thread David Hobby
Deborah Harrell wrote: > > --- David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > > > > Lo, these many years ago, in college Organic > > > Chemistry, I and a friend created the 'O-chem > >>Personality Wheel,' with categories from > Ortho-normal > > > (your basic staid and seda

Re: Question about the current e-mail plague

2003-08-29 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:54 PM > Subject: Question about the current e-mail plague > > > I'm talking about sobig.f. > > > > I've been noticing that I don't ge

Re: Question about the current e-mail plague

2003-08-29 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:54 PM Subject: Question about the current e-mail plague > I'm talking about sobig.f. > > I've been noticing that I don't get any messages with it overnight, but > at

Question about the current e-mail plague

2003-08-29 Thread Julia Thompson
I'm talking about sobig.f. I've been noticing that I don't get any messages with it overnight, but at some point during the morning, I start getting a whole bunch. And then they drop off suddenly at some point during the evening. Anyone else seeing this? Anyone *not* seeing this? Just curious.

Re: Politics, was [L3] Re: fight the evil of price discrimination

2003-08-29 Thread Doug Pensinger
Gautam Mukunda wrote: Chomsky just speaks to elites - like you. That's where his power comes from. I can see we're going to need a definition of elite before we continue this discussion. I don't know how I could be considered elite in any sense of the word. Doug _

34 weeks - 14-28 days to go

2003-08-29 Thread Julia Thompson
Well, I made it to 34 weeks today. Now we don't have to worry about lung maturity in the babies. I'm alternating between feeling like a beached whale (lying down or sitting) and a lead penguin (walking). :) I guess the worst thing about it is that I haven't been able to pick up Sammy for awhile

Re: unconstitutional House vote sanctifies religion

2003-08-29 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 05:28 PM 8/28/2003 -0400, you wrote: In a message dated 8/27/2003 5:01:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On the flip side, many are claiming that to forcibly remove the Ten > Commandments monument would violate _their_ First Amendment rights of > freedom of religion. > >

Re: BBC to put television show archive online

2003-08-29 Thread Jim Sharkey
Bryon Daly wrote: >From: "Jim Sharkey" >>Strange timing, considering that Neverwhere is being released on >>DVD September 9. >I've read Gaiman's Neverwhere, but had no idea they made a series >out of it until I saw it listed at Amazon. In truth, the book adapts the series. He wrote both, but