From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTW, Dan's aunt is getting a used computer from one of her sons. Last I
heard, she wanted Dan to help her get set up with that, but that hasn't
happened yet; maybe her son helped her. Everyone in the family was
hoping she'd get an internet connection so's
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: faux news endorsing Schwarzenegger in partisan race
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:19:53 -0500
At 08:02 PM 8/24/03 -0500, The Fool wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/08/20/holiday.wale.reut/index.html
Excerpt:
Whale Leaps Aboard Sailboat
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 Posted: 11:15 AM EDT (1515 GMT)
The 10-ton humpback whale leapt
From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNewsstoryID=3315021
Say What? Man with Ear Ache Gets Vasectomy
Excerpt:
A manager at the Doctor Jose Carlos de Espirito Santo clinic in the town
of Montes Claros in southeastern Minas Gerais State told
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:15:53PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
I had at least 5 attempts to infect my PC tonight. Anyone else
getting hits?
I've had about 10 today on my Linux box. Stupid worms, don't they know
they can't run on Linux? :-)
You complain?
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And you can't even blame some banned ex-listmember... O:-)
Alberto Monteiro
Rubs chin.. H... Could it be? Nh..
JJ
_
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Jon Gabriel wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/08/20/holiday.wale.reut/index.html
Excerpt:
Whale Leaps Aboard Sailboat
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 Posted: 11:15 AM EDT (1515 GMT)
The 10-ton humpback whale leapt out of the water onto the boat.
Sea World escapee maybe? ;-)
JJ
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doesn't GNC have some kind of card or something you pay to get, and on
certain days you get a %age off?
I used to get papaya tablets there, to take if I got bruised badly. It
helped some. I'd be very cautious about taking it right now, though.
Julia
Hi, Kevin! :)
From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm saying insomnia, because I should be asleep, but not tired at all.
I sympathize strongly. I seldom sleep more than 4 or maybe 5 hours a night.
I only sleep 7 or 8 hours on friday nights, but by saturday and sunday I'm
back to my insomniac
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
The wrongness of our approach to this problem seems so blatantly obvious to
me that I have to be suspicious of the real motives behind drug
prohibitions.
Doug
According to your theory, which would these be?
JJ
From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you wish to experiement with a non-drug solution for a sleep
disorder,have you tried Melatonin? Doesn't do much for me, but I hear it
does wonders for others. Also, Tryptophan (if you can find it somewhere
From: Sonja van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Contaminated tryptophan killed a couple of people. The FDA tracked the
problem I think. Did find this on the subject
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-tryp1.html
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/%7Edms/ds-tryp1.html
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-ltr1.html
Hi, Julia! Thanks for the kind reply. :)
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tryptophan got pulled from a lot of places sometime around 1990.
(1989? I was using it in late 1988, early 1989, and it helped me some
-- but it could have been placebo effect, for all I know.) Never tried
From: G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll say again, the story is slow and ponderous, perhaps in an attempt to
build suspense, but, instead, it builds boredom. The plot is contrived and
the conclusion, while screaming loudly and clearly sequel, is empty and
unsatisfying.
This is Clancy's least
From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/
0,6903,1020400,00.html?=rss
The Vatican instructed Catholic bishops around the world to cover up
cases of sexual abuse or risk being thrown out of the Church.
The Observer has obtained a 40-year-old
From: David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I want the figure, and the plane, and the Evil Saddam Hussein
Underground Fortress, ...
I'd have a blast with the Falling Statue Playset, complete with Falling
Statue Action. As for the Evil Saddam Hussein Underground Fortress, does
it include an escape
From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dubya with Kung Fu Grip
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:51:59 -0400
And now... an action figure.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M11532885
Jon
GSV Just Can't Make This Stuff Up
Personally, I'm holding on to my money until they release the Heroes of
Desert
Gang:
I need your knowledgeable advice and opinions on a topic which, for me, is
most sensitive.
I have two very good friends moving to Golden, Colorado.
How good is:
a. Public education
b. Quality of life
c. Safety
d. etc.
For the residents of the state of Colorado? If you know about the
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My initial reaction to the subject line:
No ***, Sherlock . . .
--Ronn! :)
What goes up, must come down. Long Live Compuserve :-)
JJ
(I miss my Sysop Flags)
_
Add photos to your
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2003/jul/22/072209695.html
Saddam Hussein's sons Odai and Qusai died in a blaze of gunfire and rockets
Tuesday when U.S. forces, acting on a tip from an Iraqi informant, stormed
a
palatial villa in northern
From: Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Revealed: food companies knew products were addictive
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 23:48:31 -0400
Welcome back, Jose! I'd been wondering why I hadn't seen any posts from
you in a
From: Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've just added a couple of pictures of Jose to the memberpix
page. Thanks to a lot of help from Dean and Dee, I came up
with a silly title for the first picture. The other picture
is a pretty cool cartoon:
From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Revealed: food companies knew products were addictive
By Robert Matthews, Science Correspondent
(Filed: 13/07/2003)
Multinational food companies have known for years of research that
suggests many of their products trigger chemical reactions in the brain
Greetings from the warm Caribbean to all...
I am currently developing essays with one of my students, for possible
publication. I'm interested to know if any of our knowledgeable list members
can point me in the right direction for information, resources, etc. on the
following topics:
1.
From: Joshua Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm an old folk, returning after a year's hiatus. I'll mostly be lurking
but I might jump in occasionally. The world is in desperate need of some
intelligent discussion right now.
Given the nature and range of topics covered on this list, I would be bold
From: Sonja van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You could say I suspect some of the reason for the war against Irak is,
besides its strategic position in the middle east, the enormous amount of
oil the country has. The fact that only humanitarian reasons are fronted
for undertaking such very
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I read in today's paper that this year's commencement speaker at The
University of Texas at Austin is someone that dropped out of that
institution and never got a degree.
Julia
A large amount of college dropouts from very prestigious institutions are
called
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jon Gabriel wrote:
There was a riot in Spain during a protest yesterday.
I love these riots to protest against violence :-)
Alberto Monteiro
These events always remind me of an obscure link in an early Python episode.
Eric Idle, playing John Lennon,
From: Damon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But does an honorary degree mean anything? I got mine the hard way, and I
would hope all those hours studying and selling text books for beer money
mean something!
Damon.
I think they have nothing but sentimental value for those who receive it.
Assuming they care
From: Han Tacoma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The World's First Brain Prosthesis
By DUNCAN GRAHAM-ROWE
Posts like these are one of the reasons for being addicted to the list.
Thanks, Han.
Any device that mimics the brain clearly raises ethical issues. The brain
not only affects memory, but your mood,
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, you pay taxes to the US government, but you don't get a say in who will
be in that government, and you don't get a say in how your tax dollars are
spent. No insult intended, but this sounds like Puerto Rico's primary
function is that of a milk cow
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, let me quote from
http://click.hotbot.com/director.asp?id=2query=puerto+rico+taxes+rsource=
INKtarget=http%3A%2F%2Fwelcome%2Etopuertorico%2Eorg%2Fgovernment%2Eshtml
Hi, Dan. Thanks for bringing these sources to my attention. I love it when I
read these
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just to review, the US regularly lets the Puerto Rican vote on their
status, and they have chosen the status quo every time.
Like I stated on an earlier post, this is just not a correct assesment of
the situation. We have yet to see the final referendum in which we have
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about some numbers?
Why not? Take your pick. You have infinite choices!! JUST KIDDING! ;-)
(A little math humor..)
What percent of your income goes to various taxes (social security,
medicare, equivalent of Federal income tax, equivalent of state income
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wait.. does that mean that all Ph.D's are *not* two-dimensional?
No, just the ones from PR. got you back
Dan M.
Well, P.R. has been a proud colony/commonwealth of the United States for
more than a century, so :)
JJ
From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Future question: suppose someone develops a voice system that can take all
that DeForest Kelley said in movies and the TV show, and can translate any
dialogue typed in to sound like him. I'm not talking about clipped,
obviously computer speech, but perfect
From: Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo wrote:
Well, P.R. has been a proud colony/commonwealth of the United States for
more than a century, so :)
This reminds me of a question that came up in a discussion I was just
having
with a co-worker. Just what exactly
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-03/12/09.15.tv
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L287219C3
Digital Production Solutions, a division of IDT Media, has acquired two
stories by late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry to turn into 3-D
animated
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So let's discuss it. Do any of you have access to more information
about this awful thing? A web site? A list of the producers? Plot
summaries?
I actually took an hour to read the novelization of THE CORE.
That's all it took? All of one hour? Wow. That
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is incredibly wonderful news. I didn't have much hope for her last
summer, a few days after she was taken. I am *so* glad this story has an
ending not involving the death of a child!
Julia
I just saw it in the news, and I couldn't be happier for that
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am greatly offended by the above tread title. Can we change it to Snail
Eating Surrender Apes instead? I happen to like cheese and feel it hurts
the cheese-producing centers of the world to link cheese JUST to the
French. MANY European nations make cheese.
I also
From: Matt Grimaldi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've had similar problems with 1st-person shooter style
games, though I got used to it after a while.
One thing that helped is to change the POV to be
just over the shoulder, behind the character, instead
of the default view from the eyes of the character.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BRIN: Re: a call to the irregulars!
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:55:17 EST
In a message dated 3/8/2003 8:41:18 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And any good idea can turn
From: d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
While we're at it, here's a query from a friend of mine.
Dear Dave,
Do you remember the Arthur C. Clarke story about skydiving from space
that is written as if it's an emergency, and then it turns out to just be a
new form of competitive skydiving? Rick
From: G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
William T Goodall wrote:
BTW, just wrapping up James Gunn's Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of
Science
Fiction. This is a great read for any Asimov fan.
George A
If you're an Asimov fan, I ask: what did you (or anyone in our audience)
think of Asimov's Magic:
From: Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've heard of people complaining of this before. I think it's a
vertigo-type reaction,
not an eye condition. You might even want to check the back of your game
manuals,
I remember seeing health warnings in some games about how to
reduce/mitigate this
From: Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any good suggestions on specific titles? Saffron has been hogging the xBox
for the past 4 weeks playing Morrowind - 5-7 hours a DAY for the last month
-j-
Okay, I'll take the bait.
For the PS2: upon re-acquiring the console, this reviewer was lucky to
Boys and girls:
Given the knowledgeable nature of our audience, I have a question to ask.
Perhaps someone here can steer me in the right direction or offer some
advice.
I've experienced serious dizzy spells and nausea bouts while playing
computer/video games. The type of games that seems to
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ahh, GOTO. I remember what a big deal it was when they installed a new
version of BASIC at the high school I was attending at the time, and it had
two brand new commands (new for us, anyway); GOSUB and RETURN. The
programming teachers immediately
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GOTO was the reason my father would not let me take programming in high
school; all the programming classes were BASIC, except that if you'd had 2
courses of BASIC, you could then take Pascal. I didn't get to take a
programming class until I could have one
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/03/04.2.shtml
+ pictures
___
Well, judging by the amount of money that Apple and Steve Jobbs lost by not
having patents on their ideas, such as the GUI, etc. I'm not surprised
Hi again, John!
Brin-L members probably won't find this interesting, but perhaps you will.
Pass this on to your wife and family. I find the news regarding the
recreation of the Rooftop Concert (the second item on the list) interesting,
to say the least. Have fun!! :)
---
Ringo
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:40:17 -0600
Well, judging by the amount of money that Apple and Steve Jobbs lost by
not
having patents on their ideas, such as the GUI, etc. I'm not surprised
they are *finally* trying to secure their piece of the pie. Had they
From: G. D. Akin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GOTO as well. Anybody remember the term spaghetti code?
JJ
An how. My instructors had no qualms about GOTOs in languages that had no
other way to implement the standard control structure. However, they had
BIG qualms about the uncontrolled use of GOTOs.
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's odd. I took Computer Science AP in 1988 and we used Pascal. Is
your AP Exam different than ours (mainland US)? Or did it switch from
Pascal to BASIC and back after I took it?
That's odd indeed. I remember when I started teaching (late 80's) when
BASIC
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bullshit. Both Jobs and gates stole those idea's from xerox. IP is a
bad idea.
Historical footnote: It should be noted that according to the tv movie of
the book Pirates of Silicone Valley, Steve Jobbs motto at the time he
started was: Good artists copy. Great
From: Steve Sloan II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I feel kinda stupid myself, because I didn't realize that
the B-Sharps' final rooftop concert on Simpsons was a
parody of a real-life event... Especially since the rest
of the episode had a lot of Beatles take-offs, including
a Yoko clone... ;-)
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I make it a point
to show it
to my students at least once every couple of years.
Be sure to teach them to spell Steve's name Jobs and the location
Silicon
Valley. And Jobs rhymes with robs, not robes.
Sorry, Nick. I was writing that message with a
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was announced recently (sorry, can't find a weblink or the brin-l post
-- from Jose, I think -- which is where I heard about it) that _Let It Be_
was going to be rereleased and remastered, removing all of the Phil Spector
add-on garbage. Hence,
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IIRC, Ezri was an only choice for the Dax symbiont
b/c it was dying on the way back to Trill, and Ezri
was the only Trill around; she never went through
Symbiont Candidate screening or school, so she was a
less-than-ideal host.
And if a symbiont can switch
From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/11/science/11KHAN.html
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,906044,00.html
Genghis Khan, super-stud: One in every 200 men alive today is a relative
of Genghis Khan. One thirteenth century Persian historian
From: Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Patriot II
In fact, if the current administration had its way, the confidentially and
quietly drafted Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, dubbed Patriot
Act II, would already be the supreme law of the land. Under this law, U.S.
citizens
From: J. van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd love to have one, but I'm afraid the electricity bill would be too
high. Playing the Holodeck version of games such as Half-Life or Unreal
would make gaming so much more... interesting... :-)
Not to mention the Holodeck Interactive Edition of the
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On at least one of those times, didn't he have to save the Enterprise from
some goof-up that he himself was responsible for?
You *don't* let a kid goof around with a starship. Period.
Julia
How a starship that represents the prime technological advance of
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I have to choose between coding COBOL and coding RPG, I would much
rather go for COBOL. I feel I can exercise a lot more control with a
computer programming language that uses instructions that resemble natural
language.
RPG is not really a
From: Gary L. Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't disagree with you at all. But I think that Saddam is winning
the propaganda campaign in this war. Marketing and perception are
powerful tools in this war as evident by the position of countries that
are normally our allies.
Which will take Saddam
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LOL! I had completely forgotten about that. How did they explain *that*
particular mutation?
I guess that was another prime example of Gene's twisting the physiology of
humanoids. Another example is found in Gene's description of Vulcan sexual
organs.
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JDG wrote:
I presume that you are referring to the United Nations Organization in
Portugeese?I'm guessing this is it, because I think that it is how it
is done in Spanish.
That is correct. ONU = Spanish meaning Organizacion de Naciones Unidas.
JJ
From: Han Tacoma [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I'll focus on Getting to know you.
Just joined the list and got caught up in this thread,
nostalgia suddenly waking up in me.
Han:
Welcome aboard. Have fun!! :)
JJ
_
Protect your PC - get
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html
Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war
Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key
Security Council members
The ghost of Nixon hovers above the UN Building...
JJ
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First of all, José, I've been referring to you as JJ and realized I haven't
asked; do you prefer JJ or José or something else?
José or something else will do. :) I use JJ for emails because it's short,
and so do most of my work colleagues, so I'll choose
Browsing thru the discussions the other night, I saw a reference to the
Star Trek TNG Writer's Bible. The thought stuck in my mind, until
I remembered that in the last Star Trek Convention I attended (back in '97
or '98) I did sign up, and attend, a How To Write For Star Trek seminar
hosted by
From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zoo Octopus Learns To Open
Shrimp Jar By Watching
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - A common octopus in a German zoo has learned
to open jars of shrimp.. Depending on how tight the lid is, it takes her
anything from 10
seconds to an hour to get it off, said Frank
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't particularly have a problem with COBOL; in fact, I like it a good
sight better than some *other* languages to which I've been exposed, like
FORTRAN (I know, I know, they do completely different things). Reggie
Bautista
If I have to choose
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is RPG? I know two things that use this AFT, but
none of them are computer languages.
RPG stands for Report Program Generator.
When I began my Computer Sciences courses in the mid-late 80's, the order in
which languages were taught was:
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I feel I can exercise a lot more control with a
computer programming language that uses instructions
that resemble natural language.
This is your feeling, but not mine. I think a computer
language that adds unnecessary symbols make it harder
to
From: William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:32:34 +
When my wife was doing a two-year computing course she had to learn COBOL.
I'd never used COBOL, and when I saw it I found it close to
incomprehensible.
You have to agree, though, that the *mother* of all
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, I disagree, seriously. Assembly language was the easiest language I
have learned. Tedious to use, but easy to understand. It followed what
was going on in the CPU in a straightforward manner, little abstraction.
True, Assembler is a very powerful tool. To
From: Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:15:01 -0500
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Well, JMS wrote probably 80% (or more!) of
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of course, TOC could be construed to be the crew of the Enterprise under
Captain Robert April, the first captain of a Federation Starship
Enterprise, or Captain Johnathan Archer, the first captain of an Earth
Starship named Enterprise, pre-Federation...
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wonder if some of that decline in popularity (of Trek) might have
something to do with market saturation. I don't think any other story
universes had more than one show on at a time back when DS9 first started
(now there are several). And DS9 *was* a
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Physical modalities like exercise, nutrition, and
meditation/focusing work (I count things like tai chi
and yoga in this category), which others have written
about, are also essential; in quite a few cases, they
are sufficient therapy.
Debbi
There Is No Gift
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/front/5247837.htm
we see a very disturbing statement by Boeing engineers. Engineers who
designed the risk analysis software package that was used to assure NASA
that the shuttle could safely re-enter the atmosphere
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think the problem with both TOS and TNG - and this
is attenuated in DS9, Voyager and Enterprise - is
the number of God-like creatures they meet. I guess
1/4 of the TOS episodes have Kirk against God, and
From: Marvin Long, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ahhh...I had the 1701 ERTL model for a long time - I still have a die-cast
TOS Enterprise that shoots little yellow round photon torpedos and has a
detachable shuttle. I bought it from Sears in the seventies with a
$20 bill I found lying on the ground in
From: Marvin Long, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And TOS doesn't have holodeck episodes.
Marvin Long
Does the continuity of The Animated Series count? They did have the holodeck
there! Courtesy of DC Fontana, I believe. :)
TAS also boasted the first holodeck goes bananas and tries to kill the
crew
From: Marvin Long, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of course, by the time ST:TMP came out, the original cast already included
a number of cultural icons - putting them on the big screen just confirmed
that status. TNG was a popular show, but as you've pointed out earlier,
it was not a cast of iconic
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But I've heard people say that Roddenberry would have never allowed DS9 to
go in the directions it did. This would have been tragic. Some of the
things that Roddenberry allegedly would not have liked, especially the
darker tone, are the things I liked
From: Gary L. Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This just goes to prove that anyone will try to sell anything. A read,
white and blue Enterprise. The tacky meter is off the scale.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3115737114category=1
193
Eww..
You'd be surprised, though, at how all these
From: Ronn!Blankenship
FWIW, my memory for trivial details is excellent. And I can drone on and
on for hours about science-related stuff without ever having to refer to
the textbook, much to the chagrin of some of my students who wish I'd shut
up. OTOH, I also have a lousy memory for names.
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you ever considered the possibility you might have Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or a learning disorder?
The following two articles are mainly about children, but I'm sure you'll
be able to find many related links.
I hope this
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Diet, exercise and environment, along with stress
management, are at least as useful as medication in controlling it.
Predicting which medications, if any, will help a person seems to be
impossible. My friend tried a dozen or more, none of which helped,
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If it's not too much to ask, where do you teach? You sparked my curiosity
with the stories about your students.
JJ
If it's not too much to ask, where do you teach?
Repeating yourself because you forgot what you typed?
;-b
Sorry! My bad. I realized
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The important things are the degree to which you have them and the degree
to
which they interfere with your life.
And it depends on what you call interfering.
Interfering of ADD into a life includes situations such as addictive
personalities,
From: Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow. I went through that list and it was basically check, check,
check... I wonder if I should look into this a little more closely?
Jim
If you think you should, then by all means do. You'll be in good company. :)
JJ
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Subject: RE: The even further decline of the Sci-Fi channel
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:26:35 -0800 (PST)
--- Gary L. Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe the
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But it took them a little while to get it right. I don't think the first
season was as good as seasons 2-4, frex.
True! Season 1 was especially notorious for being a major revolving door of
staff members. They were dropping like flies.
I personally think
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Subject: The Day the Protest Music Died
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:09:36 -0600
http://archive.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/opinion/20THU4.html
The Trouble With Corporate Radio: The Day the
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Subject: Re: L3 Re: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:57:03 -0500
Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
Actually, this relationship is one of
From: Miller, Jeffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: The even further decline of the Sci-Fi channel
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:13:31 -0800
*bonks self with soda bottle several times*
Now, if only they'd
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