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From: Alberto Monteiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:59 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Brin: Transparent Society
CJ Kucera quoted:
NEW YORK It sounds like a chapter out of Spy vs. Spy:
Researchers
at Carnegie
From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tangent
When I was in grade school, we did soap carvings once.
Everyone had to bring in a bar of soap and a pocketknife.
(I'm guessing the pocketknife
would be forbidden these days) I managed to carve a passable
fish
out of a bar of
I ran this on some messages for a self-help list I subscribe to. I found
that in almost every case, it resolved the messages as female. This list is
characteristic in that little confrontation occurs between members, even
when a post is decidely aggressive. However, a sampling of the Brin list
was
This article by Spider Robinson laments the decline in SF, replaced by
backwards-looking Fantasy:
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030908/COSPIDER08/
or:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L565156D5
Would you guys agree? Is this an indicator that young people no longer
--- Russell Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gary Nunn wrote:
I have
no problem with my family knowing where I am at, at all times, however,
I am not sure how I feel about my employer having the ability to track
my location at all times. I could easily see this becoming a required
A relative of mine received a letter (from state xx, where xx is at least
nine states from PA) that said:
My nephew's mother disappeared 30 years ago. We wonder if you are yyy mother?
I don't think it's a scam of any sort. Of course the relative isn't this
man's mother. She gained her name,
* Adam C. Lipscomb [Tue, 12/08/2003 at 13:04 -0500]
Reproduced, that is.
Alexander Norman Lipscomb (Alec) was born at 7:46 AM on Monday, August
11th. He weighed 9 lbs, 8 oz, and his mother is incredibly happy that
someone else will be carrying him for the next while.
(belated :-)
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030908/COSPI
DER08/
Forward, into the past
Why are our imaginations retreating from science and space, and into
fantasy? asks SPIDER ROBINSON
By SPIDER ROBINSON
Monday, September 8, 2003 - Page A17
I've recently returned from
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/09/08/military.college.ap/index.html
Graduates plan male-only military college
Monday, September 8, 2003
SHELBYVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Disgusted by what they see as the extinction
of the all-male Southern military college, some graduates want to build one
it seems?
--
William T Goodall
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Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/
One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
their C programs. -- Robert
My last message was from Damon, two of them.
The mccmedia has more recent messages, but yahoo doesn't.
I was sick from work today. I'm treating my body more right now then ever,
but it doesn't act the way it should. There are other things going on, but
still if I have to work another 35 years,
Sent something over half-an-hour ago...no show so far.
Ping?
Debbi
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--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debbi wrote:
I thought this was fun:
NASA Science News for September 4, 2003
A surprising number of astronauts are also
musicians--and they love to play in space.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/04sep_music.htm?list818490
That
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Julia Thompson wrote:
(I was living in New England in the mid-1980s. 'Nuff said. At least I
was used to that sort of thing, being a Red Sox fan and all)
You should hate the Raiders too then, eh?
Doesn't everyone hate the Raiders? ;-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is, they say, before those schools started admitting women, before they
stopped saying mealtime prayers, and before the winds of political correctness
swept aside many of the reminders of the Confederacy.
If a group of black separatists made a similar
Apologies if this has been posted already
Warren Zevon died on Sunday past from lung cancer. New York Times
obituary at
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/09/arts/music/09ZEVO.html
Maybe Letterman will re-broadcast the show he did with Zevon a few
months ago.
john
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe it's only a regional promotion.
On TV, Kentucky Fried Chicken is running new ads promoting
their popcorn chicken.
You can win $5,000 if you make and send in your own
commercial. Thirty seconds long on video or DVD.
See www.kfc.com
I finally saw an ad for
Hmmm - If it wasn't a black military school in Detroit, but some other
blacks-only institution reviving their traditions and past, I don't
think much would be said at all. There are plenty of women-only
institutions, plenty of African-American-only institutions, and in fact
plenty of
Judith Berman wrote an article on this topic in The New York Review of
Science Fiction several years ago. It was called Science Fiction Without The
Future or something like that.
Tom Beck
www.prydonians.org
www.mercerjewishsingles.org
I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never
John Garcia wrote
Apologies if this has been posted already
Warren Zevon died on Sunday past from lung cancer. New York Times
obituary at
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/09/arts/music/09ZEVO.html
Maybe Letterman will re-broadcast the show he did with Zevon a few
months ago.
Would you guys agree? Is this an indicator that
young people no longer
find the real future exciting? Or is it more just
an indicator of book
publishers overzealously adhering to the latest
trends, while potentially
great SF authors languish unpublished?
I personally think its just a
In a message dated 9/9/2003 5:55:22 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I finally saw an ad for that contest yesterday. Your ad ideas
sound pretty good. Unfortunately, the only way for me to get
access to an actual spacesuit would involve breaking into the
Space and
Bryon Daly wrote:
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Julia Thompson wrote:
(I was living in New England in the mid-1980s. 'Nuff said. At least I
was used to that sort of thing, being a Red Sox fan and all)
You should hate the Raiders too then, eh?
Doesn't everyone hate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Straight white guys still get every possible
advantage in this society. It's just that they had it their own way for so
long, they came to feel that was the natural order of things. Attempts to
redress the balance just a little bit on
Chad Cooper wrote:
I ran this on some messages for a self-help list I subscribe to. I found
that in almost every case, it resolved the messages as female. This list is
characteristic in that little confrontation occurs between members, even
when a post is decidely aggressive. However, a
Our mail carrier dropped off a letter with an address that wasn't ours
(the house number was a permutation of the digits of our house number),
so Dan went and took it over to the right house. Turns out the newest
neighbors on the street (who have been here for a few months, anyway)
are a
Kevin Tarr wrote:
A relative of mine received a letter (from state xx, where xx is at least
nine states from PA) that said:
My nephew's mother disappeared 30 years ago. We wonder if you are yyy mother?
I don't think it's a scam of any sort. Of course the relative isn't this
man's
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(I'm part of a branch of a family that was found in the past few
years. Got a call right after a Super Bowl, from my father's second
cousin. Guy lives in Gonzales. Never met him yet, but we e-mail a
lot. I got my favorite cousin in touch with him last
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Misplaced mail, interesting neighbor, snake
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 22:42:37 -0500
snip
Oh, and the neighbor that Dan's most friendly with came over on the
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