Holocenechat.com

2004-12-30 Thread Matt Grimaldi
Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when was David Brin going to tell us about HoloceneChat? More importantly, how long until we can use it to host the Brin-L chat (to help you test it of course)? He mentioned it about a year and a half (2 yrs?) ago, when his experience with Brin-L

Re: Holocenechat.com

2004-12-30 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:01:28 -0800 (PST), Matt Grimaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trent Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So when was David Brin going to tell us about HoloceneChat? More importantly, how long until we can use it to host the Brin-L chat (to help you test it of course)? He

Re: No Spoilers: Talking about THE INCREDIBLES?

2004-12-30 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 29, 2004, at 4:40 PM, Deborah Harrell wrote: Saw it this week - loved it! Moments of full-belly-laugh hilarity, and, as you note above, near-grief. Some of the scenes were as poignant as anything you'd see in a serious drama. Pixar does OK, yeah. Pretty consistent product. I'm just

Re: Education - or lack thereof (was: Gay Marriage)

2004-12-30 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Dec 29, 2004, at 7:00 PM, Damon Agretto wrote: that said, I did get a Dremel mototool for Xmas The image that spawns -- you carving away at your toes with a small rotary power tool, toenail dust flying all over -- is a cross between hilarious and disgusting. Thanks! :D -- Warren Ockrassa,

Re: No Spoilers: Talking about THE INCREDIBLES?

2004-12-30 Thread Steve Sloan
Warren Ockrassa wrote: Pixar does OK, yeah. Pretty consistent product. I'm just waiting for the inevitable clone movie by Dreamworks. The Amazings or something equally goofy. There's still time for them to slap together a car movie, before Pixar's car movie comes out next year. That would fit a

Re: Education - or lack thereof (was: Gay Marriage)

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Education - or lack thereof (was: Gay Marriage) On Dec 29, 2004, at 7:00 PM, Damon Agretto wrote: that said, I did get a

Re: No Spoilers: Talking about THE INCREDIBLES?

2004-12-30 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Steve Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 7:15 PM Subject: Re: No Spoilers: Talking about THE INCREDIBLES? Warren Ockrassa wrote: Pixar does OK, yeah. Pretty consistent product. I'm just

Re: No Spoilers: Talking about THE INCREDIBLES?

2004-12-30 Thread Steve Sloan
Robert Seeberger wrote: Who is doing Robots? The people who did Ice Age, Blue Sky Studios, with Fox as their distributor. __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages

Scouted: Fascist Censorship Spreads: NPR Cuts Gay Scene From Rebroadcast Segment

2004-12-30 Thread The Fool
http://www.outsidethetent.com/archives/0288.php When Santaland Diaries was first aired 12 years ago, it was more than a little daring because of its description of a flirtation with Snowball, another male elf. It became one of the most requested tapes from NPR. ... Snowball was cut from

Invasion of the Factoids

2004-12-30 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled Gentlemen Only . . . Ladies Forbidden . . . and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. -- The State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska -- The first couple to be shown in

Re: Invasion of the Factoids

2004-12-30 Thread Bryon Daly
FYI at least a few of these that I paused to check via snopes or google are false (golf, green coke, elbow), and I suspect at least a few others are as well (but am too lazy to research them all). Caveat lector, I suppose. :-) On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 20:41:44 -0600, Robert G. Seeberger [EMAIL

Re: Education - or lack thereof (was: Gay Marriage)

2004-12-30 Thread Bryon Daly
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:00:43 -0500, Damon Agretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be a cosmetic problem, but its also a real pain. I sometimes have problems with my *toes* hurting because the nails are too thick, and filing them down is tedious and time consuming (that said, I did get a Dremel

Re: No Spoilers: Talking about THE INCREDIBLES?

2004-12-30 Thread Gary Denton
The sucess of The Incredibles has already caused changes to The Fantastic Four movie. Unfortunately it looks like the changes were mainly to spend more on the F/X. Gary D. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Week 17 NFL Picks

2004-12-30 Thread John D. Giorgis
As a relatively disappointing season of picks draws to a close, I went 11-5 last week to pull to 143-113 (.559) on the season. That's only 16 games behind my Dad, who has managed a very impressive 159 - 97 (.621) for the year! The Upset Special, meanwhile, suffered a heartbreaking loss,