In a message dated 12/6/03 12:35:12 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Somebody post, so I know that
it's not totally constipated.
Totlal is General Mills.
Post has their own cereal.
Which one can make you more constipated?
Depends upon if you leave it in the box,
At 02:50 PM 12/6/03 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/6/03 12:06:01 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since the list is oddly quiet, though nothing seems particularly wonky
about the server, I thought I'd share some stats about our anti-spam
efforts...
In a message dated 12/6/03 1:12:53 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How many inches of extra manhood are being offered
daily?
Enough to make a liar out of Jerry Pournelle if the customer lies on his
stomach . . .
This is a very good line. It takes a second
I assume it's only proper to introduce myself, so hello everyone. I'm a
huge David Brin fan, as well as a fan of sci-fi in general. However, as for
Mr. Brins' fellow Killer Bees, I have not read any of their works. That
being said, plus noticing a lack of sci-fi activity in the recently
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Hello,
In a message dated 12/6/03 5:15:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-Steve White (Eagle Against The Starslol Ok, so it's complete B-side
sci-fi, but it's not without it's merit)
I happened to like 'Engle Against The Stars', the idea that an alien race
I'm going to be flying to Houston, Texas to visit my brother on
the afternoon of Thursday, December 18. Any Brinellers (or even
lurkers?) in the Houston area want to meet some time between
the 19th and 23rd or so?
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Steve Sloan
I just finished reading Glory Season, bringing me to eight of his books (all the
Uplifts, Kiln People, and now GS). It led me to a question about Dr. Brin's work
taken as a whole.
It seems to me that the most important trait to DB's protagonists is stubbornness.
Now, you can call it the
Travis Edmunds wrote:
I assume it's only proper to introduce myself, so hello everyone.
Hi, Doctor Nick!
-David Gerrold War Against The Chtorr
I read the first couple, and thought they were OK, but the local library didn't have
them all.
-Terry Pratchett (Discworld series.)
Soul Music is
You are not constipated. Take my word for it I am a neuroradiologist
I take back what I wrote in the last message. There *us* something
wonky, this time with the list server software. A bunch of messages are
shunted with errors having to with decoding Unicode. In the past,
this seems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I happened to like 'Engle Against The Stars'
Didn't she write A _Wrinkle in Time_? ;-)
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Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brin-L list pages
It seems to me that the most important trait to DB's protagonists is stubbornness.
Now, you can call it the will to live, the human spirit, truss it up however you
like, but what it comes down to is his main characters seem to succeed in their
endeavors through sheer obstinancy. And
Wouldn't that only fall into your professional purview if the cause of the
constipation was CRI (craniorectal intussusception)?
At 11:13 PM 12/6/03 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are not constipated. Take my word for it I am a neuroradiologist
I take back what I wrote in the last
At 07:34 PM 12/6/03 +, Nick Arnett wrote:
I take back what I wrote in the last message. There *us* something wonky,
this time with the list server software. A bunch of messages are
shunted with errors having to with decoding Unicode. In the past, this
seems to have been caused by spam
--- Jim Sharkey
It seems to me that the most important trait to DB's
protagonists is stubbornness.
Interesting! I certainly say so, explicitly, about
the character in KILN PEOPLE. And yet, I hardly
envision it as an unwillingness to contemplate changes
in tactics. I thought Maia changed
Davd Brin wrote:
I'd be interested whether others also feel I over-use
this technique.
I think you feel too much attached to your characters, so
that you never let a protagonist die. Not even the 2nd, 3rd,
4th main characters ever die.
It's not that I don't like happy endings, but _knowing_
Davd Brin wrote:
--- Jim Sharkey
It seems to me that the most important trait to DB's
protagonists is stubbornness.
Interesting! I certainly say so, explicitly, about the character
in KILN PEOPLE. And yet, I hardly envision it as an unwillingness
to contemplate changes in tactics. I thought
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They look kinda neat, but I don't know if they're $60 neat.
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In a message dated 12/6/2003 5:32:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- Jim Sharkey
It seems to me that the most important trait to DB's
protagonists is stubbornness.
Interesting! I certainly say so, explicitly, about
the character in KILN PEOPLE.
My son turned six this past week, and unknown to me, she bought my son what might be
among the coolest toys ever: Hulk Hands
For those of you who've never heard of them, they're large, green foam hands that make
smashing noises, often followed by a growl or by Hulk SMASH!!! They are far, far
William Taylor wrote:
Stubbornness still has a general negative ring to it.
Hmm. How about persistence through adaptability.
Maybe. But it makes for a long subject line. And to be honest, I was also trying to
make a counterpoint to the recurring theme I was seeing. Which I suppose, in a way
I happened to like 'Engle Against The Stars', the idea that an alien race
might show up, mostly peaceful, just wanting to trade, and still screw up
the
Earth.
Better than to come in blasting.
Mike V.
___
I hear you on
Boy did *you* come to the wrong place. ;-) We Brinellers are the Lords of
Off-Topicness. But maybe some new blood will correct that a little.
Jim
Welcome Aboard Maru
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Well someone referred me here
Is being unwilling to give up, in the author's opinion, the most noble
human trait?
It certainly is possible. Considering the near overwhelming obstacles faced
by humanity in the Uplift Universe. How else could Mr. Brin justify the
continuation of the series?
Travis Edmunds wrote:
...
-David Gerrold (Star Trek TOS writer/War Against The Chtorr/and a few
other interesting books)
Any idea if David is on-line regularly anywhere these days? I knew him
years ago (late '80s, early '90s) in the CompuServe CEFORUM, but haven't
been in touch in ages. For
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are not constipated. Take my word for it I am a neuroradiologist
Oddly, I've had two on-line discussions today and both featured this
subject. The other one had to do with Temodar, with which I suspect you
may be familiar.
Nick
--
Nick Arnett
Phone/fax: (408)
David Brin wrote:
--- Jim Sharkey
It seems to me that the most important trait to DB's
protagonists is stubbornness.
Interesting! I certainly say so, explicitly, about the character
in KILN PEOPLE. And yet, I hardly envision it as an unwillingness
to contemplate changes in tactics. I
David Hobby wrote:
But as for Kault, the Thennanin ambassador, it was his phlegmatic
character that kept him from noticing many of the (planted) signs
of the Garthlings. If he hadn't been so thick, he might have
succeeded sooner.
That's probably a fair point. It might not have been the best
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Jim Sharkey wrote:
I just finished reading Glory Season, bringing me to eight of his
books (all the Uplifts, Kiln People, and now GS).
much snippage
BTW, I enjoyed it quite a bit. When my girls are older, it'll be
one I'll encourage them to read, I think.
There's a feminist bookstore
Jim Sharkey wrote:
For the girl that has an inner geek, but still wants to be girly.
Or, more likely, for the geeky adult with too much money and not
enough toys:
http://www.barbiecollectibles.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=B3449
They look kinda neat, but I don't know if they're $60 neat.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm. How about persistence through adaptability.
I like that one. I think it does a better job of summing up the
philosophy than anything else I've seen so far this evening.
Julia
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Jim Sharkey wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
But as for Kault, the Thennanin ambassador, it was his phlegmatic
character that kept him from noticing many of the (planted) signs
of the Garthlings. If he hadn't been so thick, he might have
succeeded sooner.
That's probably a fair point. It
In a message dated 12/6/03 7:09:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is being unwilling to give up, in the author's opinion, the most noble
human trait?
It certainly is possible. Considering the near overwhelming obstacles faced
by humanity in the Uplift Universe.
I just finished watching tonight's Justice League. JL has been great fun to watch;
it's tapped some good comics writers, which I think has definitely lifted the series.
But tonight's episode, while not stellar, featured something that amazed me.
All I can say is, if you told me twenty years
Any idea if David is on-line regularly anywhere these days?
___
I have no idea
___
I will never forget when somebody asked the meaning of BTW
I haven't heard more about the telescope buying project.
As an aside, I just put a copy of Build Yourself a Telescope onto Alibris.
Only one of about fifty copies out there.
I thought I'd mention this because, of course, we're actually in danger of
talking about SF.
William Taylor
--- Julia wrote:
There's a feminist bookstore in Austin; last time I
was in there, a
couple of years ago, they had a few shelves of SF,
most of it written by
women; of the few books written by men they had,
_Glory Season_ was
among them.
Terrific! The core SF feminists in the Tiptree
At 04:38 AM 12/7/03 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't heard more about the telescope buying project.
Unfortunately, the conversations I have on that subject are usually quite
short:
[Student, referring to a 6 reflector that belongs to the school or my old
one that I sometimes bring]:
I highly recommend you read the other Killer Bees; well worth the time.
___
Will do. I've been in a sci-fi lull as of late however, concentrating on
some of the classics. (NO, I don't mean H.G. Wells or Jules
So what do y'all think of the whole liquid mercury idea? One
wordCHEAP.(Cost effective)
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At 04:59 AM 12/7/03 +, Travis Edmunds wrote:
So what do y'all think of the whole liquid mercury idea? One
wordCHEAP.(Cost effective)
Not for a personal, portable telescope. Also poisonous.
-- Ronn! :)
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At 05:58 AM 12/7/03 +, Julia Thompson wrote:
Travis Edmunds wrote:
So what do y'all think of the whole liquid mercury idea? One
wordCHEAP.(Cost effective)
I think I missed something.
Can you fill me in?
Julia
p.s. the evening's previous posts were made one-handed, with
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
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