Re: Science Fiction Question

--- William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not listed in his bibliography under that > title. And I don't > remember reading it although I have read most of his > collected shorter > works. But I could be wrong :) > > I would say that that kind of ending, enough plot > for a trilogy

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:42 AM 1/21/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: > But again, doctors aren't exactly representative of > ordinary > Massachusettans.They tend to be the very sort of > highly-paid people who > would be likely to donate a couple hundred dollars

Re: Double Standards on Regional Bigotry

I've really struggled with how to respond to your post, but I'm going to leave my quoting to a minimum and make some general points. At 11:04 PM 1/17/2004 -0600 Dan Minette wrote: >Further, you give very little in the way of analyis yourself. The main >arguement you seem to be making is that numb

Re: Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

At 04:25 PM 1/18/2004 -0500 Gary Nunn wrote: > > >In my travels online today, I ran across a reference that took me to >another reference that eventually led me to the Yellowstone Volcano >Observatory home page. There is some very interesting information here >as well as some spectacular pictures a

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

At 04:42 AM 1/21/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: >It's not, actually. None of the people I had in mind >were in any way involved in politics. Most of them >were doctors, actually. Massachusetts politics is >very retail. But again, doctors aren't exactly representative of ordinary Massachusetta

Re: Bone Phone

> Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of internet-capable and > picture-snapping handsets, have now come up with the world's first > mobile phone that enables users to listen to calls inside their > heads - by conducting sound through bone. > Thus validating every poor schizophrenic in the world.

Bone Phone

http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/01/21/1074360813226.html Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of internet-capable and picture-snapping handsets, have now come up with the world's first mobile phone that enables users to listen to calls inside their head

Re: Science Fiction Question

On 21 Jan 2004, at 8:23 pm, Gautam Mukunda wrote: OK guys, you're my last resort on this one. A long, long time ago I read a short story by Algis Budrys named, I think, Shadow on the Stars. It was about a mercenary military genius hired by an alien empire, who ended up being a human in disguise.

Re: Wining with Dan

- Original Message - From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:32 PM Subject: Wining with Dan > As was mentioned here recently, Dan Minette's wife gave him a trip to > Napa for his 50th. Cindy and I met them there yesterday and ha

Weekly Chat Reminder

This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time, so it started about an half an hour ago. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours after the start time. See my instruction

Science Fiction Question

OK guys, you're my last resort on this one. A long, long time ago I read a short story by Algis Budrys named, I think, Shadow on the Stars. It was about a mercenary military genius hired by an alien empire, who ended up being a human in disguise. Sounds sort of dumb, but I actually ended up liki

RE: Trent Lott on recess appointments

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Tarr > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 02:56 AM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Trent Lott on recess appointments > > > At 09:55 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote: > ><

Practice? (was: Home test kit for second-hand smoke exposure)

--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julia wrote: > > Uh, yeah. How hard can it be to pee on the > >correct part of the thing, anyway? :) > Depends on how far awy you stand. 8^) > Doug > ROU Target Practice Well, apparently in some trials with actual patients, as many as 20+% pe

Re: Attn Br!n: Hoon Genius

In a message dated 1/21/2004 6:34:18 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Our artist of Contacting Aliens has not yet answered back. > > > If Brin does not do it, I'll have to try to fill in. > > > We have to have a hoon dressed up as the Mikado. > > > It's too goo

Re: Attn Br!n: Hoon Genius

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our artist of Contacting Aliens has not yet answered back. If Brin does not do it, I'll have to try to fill in. We have to have a hoon dressed up as the Mikado. It's too good. If I ever get around to building a Hoon 3D model, which I plan to do for a shirt someday, I co

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:00 PM 1/20/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: > I read Gautam's statement as implying that it was > not extraordinary for > ordinary Massachusettans to have run into one of > their Senators. > > JDG - Who has never so much as met his Congressi

Re: Trent Lott on recess appointments

> From: Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 09:55 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote: > >< > > > > > > >Trent Lott on recess appointments: > > > >THEN > > > >"Any appointment of a federal judge during a recess should be opposed." > >

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

At 11:17 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote: At 09:00 PM 1/20/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: > It's not that >far-fetched to have run into someone in eastern Massachusetts who'd have >run into some particular Congressman elected from that area sometime in >the past 20 years. Especially if you were seeking

Re: Trent Lott on recess appointments

At 09:55 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote: < > Trent Lott on recess appointments: THEN "Any appointment of a federal judge during a recess should be opposed." - Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) opposing the appointment of an African American

Re: Scouted: Home test kit for second-hand smoke exposure

> Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >but the basic statistics on second hand > >smoke have been supported by real testing. > I think it is a mistake to look for single causes > when the potential > for synergistic effects should be eviden