Re: Segways aren't for everyone

2003-06-19 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:31 PM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Bush gets bucked... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/030612/170/4dnhg.html Umm, I thought it was supposed to have a gyroscopic stabilization system so you couldn't

New Kil'n Novel (was: New Brin Novel)

2003-06-19 Thread G. D. Akin
- Original Message - From: d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 5:20 AM Subject: Re: Brin: RE: New Brin Novel? Apparently Kil'n Time will be the sequel to Kiln People.

Re: Segways aren't for everyone

2003-06-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 11:15 PM 6/18/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote: --- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:31 PM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Bush gets bucked... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/030612/170/4dnhg.html Umm, I thought it was supposed to have a gyroscopic

Re: New Kil'n Novel (was: New Br!n Novel)

2003-06-19 Thread Julia Thompson
G. D. Akin wrote: Speaking of Kiln books, has anyone voted for the Hugos yet? I'm waiting for TORCON's PR 5 that has my code to vote on line. That class of mail takes a while to get to Korea, even in the APO system. If I don't get it by the first week of July, I'll have to snail-mail it.

Re: Segways aren't for everyone

2003-06-19 Thread listmail
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:41:54 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 07:31 PM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Bush gets bucked... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/030612/170/4dnhg.html Umm, I thought it was supposed to have a gyroscopic stabilization system so you couldn't

Re: New Kil'n Novel (was: New Brin Novel)

2003-06-19 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/19/03 1:39:34 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dr. Brin, any word on when it'll be finished or a release date? **humbly offering my proofreading services** Thanks! Alas, things are moving VERY slowly hrrrm feeling very

Re: Segways aren't for everyone

2003-06-19 Thread Steve Sloan II
Julia Thompson wrote: I saw video of it on the news at some point. It was amusing. I also saw video of both his *parents* on them, no troubles with them at all. How is it that the athletic son can't handle what the mother who broke her leg sledding with her grandchildren can? :) I heard

RE: Segways aren't for everyone

2003-06-19 Thread Miller, Jeffrey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 07:59 AM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Segways aren't for everyone On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:41:54 -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 07:31 PM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL

RE: Br!n: RE: New Br!n Novel?

2003-06-19 Thread Chad Cooper
OK, its a stinker, but here goes... What is it called when a person commits a violent act against a ditto? Assault'n Pottery with intent to Kil'n (Blame my Green!) Nerd From Hell Or a group of Terrorists/Anarchists/Deconstructionists who kidnap and ditto random people for no apparent

Re: Br?n: Stuff for the Gurps Uplift Site.

2003-06-19 Thread Deborah Harrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Hoon do not get permanent names until their leg fur turns white. At most, I thought we could have fun with the lines: Keep a watch on C'mell. Don't let her become her namesake. ...and give pitty to the readers that don't get it. Well, I'm going to show

Re: Br?n: Stuff for the Gurps Uplift Site.

2003-06-19 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/19/2003 10:31:26 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I'm going to show my ignorance or my Swiss-cheese-brain, and request enlightenment, O Umbling Chimpanzee Fencer... grin Pitty Pitty Please? Maru ;) ...Recovering from being a

Re: Br?n: Stuff for the Gurps Uplift Site.

2003-06-19 Thread Steve Sloan II
Deborah Harrell wrote: Well, I'm going to show my ignorance or my Swiss-cheese-brain, and request enlightenment, O Umbling Chimpanzee Fencer... grin The name came from a Cordwainer Smith story, The Ballad of Lost C'Mell. __

Tech-ish help

2003-06-19 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Hi folks, A friend of mine (a Green Beret currently serving in Tashkent, having just left Baghdad) just sent me a (very funny) letter in MS Word Format talking about his experiences. I was hoping to publish it on my blog (he has approved the idea) and was wondering if you guys had any ideas about

Re: Br?n: Stuff for the Gurps Uplift Site.

2003-06-19 Thread Steve Sloan II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Ballad of Lost C'mell by Cordwainer Smith. C'mell, being a cat human and a girlie-girl, wasn't supposed to fall in love with a human. SNIP Totally opposite from today's viewpoint. For Cordwainer Smith, if you looked like a human, and thought like a human, but

RE: Tech-ish help

2003-06-19 Thread Horn, John
From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A friend of mine (a Green Beret currently serving in Tashkent, having just left Baghdad) just sent me a (very funny) letter in MS Word Format talking about his experiences. I was hoping to publish it on my blog (he has approved the idea) and

RE: Tech-ish help

2003-06-19 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Gautam Mukunda Perhaps this will work... Save it as a text file and put PRE /PRE tags around it. That's for preformatted text. Then the browser will just display it as is and not try to mess with it. I do that here for some reports that we

RE: Tech-ish help

2003-06-19 Thread Nick Arnett
Copy and paste it into an HTML editor, such as the one in Mozilla (which is free, if you don't have it). That will probably do better, but you still may have to clean it up a bit. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tech-ish help

2003-06-19 Thread Reggie Bautista
Guatam wrote: Hi folks, A friend of mine (a Green Beret currently serving in Tashkent, having just left Baghdad) just sent me a (very funny) letter in MS Word Format talking about his experiences. I was hoping to publish it on my blog (he has approved the idea) and was wondering if you guys had

wierd spam...

2003-06-19 Thread Bryon Daly
I just got this (presumably) spam message today. I've never seen anything quite like it: --- Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Needed Greetings, We need a vendor who can offer immediate supply. I'm offering $5,000 US dollars just for

News from the Booby Hatch

2003-06-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
[The first two articles are spoofs -- I hope! --DBM] --- From: [deleted per request] To: 'Declan McCullagh' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: REMOVEEMAIL: Hatch goes even more nuts!! When's he up for reelection??? Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:20:49 -0400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416

_Some_ Practitioners of Religion Are Evil

2003-06-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
I know Mafiosi are traditionally Catholic, but I didn't realize that the church was taking lessons from them in problem-solving: From CNN: An alleged victim of the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Boston archdiocese was in critical condition late Wednesday after being pulled out of the

RE: Tech-ish help

2003-06-19 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Tech-ish help Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:21:16 -0700 (PDT) --- Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Gautam Mukunda Perhaps this will work... Save

Scouted: Why Humans Are Hairless

2003-06-19 Thread Deborah Harrell
Another theory on why we're the hairless apes: http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/66/79781.htm?printing=true Apparently, lack of parasites is an attractive quality in a mate. A new study suggests that humans became hairless to reduce the risk of biting flies and other parasites that live in fur

2 Corinthians 6:14 (Humor)

2003-06-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
From: Joke A Day (June 19, 2003) Joke A Day Making Fun Of Morons Since 1863 Joke A Day, Inc. http://www.jokeaday.com To join our list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Brotha Vic dropped me a line to tell me

Re: wierd spam...

2003-06-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:40 PM 6/19/03 -0400, Bryon Daly wrote: I just got this (presumably) spam message today. I've never seen anything quite like it: --- Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Needed Greetings, We need a vendor who can offer immediate supply. I'm

Re: Br?n: Stuff for the Gurps Uplift Site.

2003-06-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:29 AM 6/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Hoon do not get permanent names until their leg fur turns white. At most, I thought we could have fun with the lines: Keep a watch on C'mell. Don't let her become her namesake. ...and give pitty to the

Re: Br?n: Stuff for the Gurps Uplift Site.

2003-06-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 08:16 AM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/18/2003 4:39:58 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 01:23 AM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If five or six years, then C'mell (tentative name) becomes the second born What if she gets

Re: Br?n: Stuff for the Gurps Uplift Site.

2003-06-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:01 PM 6/19/03 -0500, Steve Sloan II wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Ballad of Lost C'mell by Cordwainer Smith. C'mell, being a cat human and a girlie-girl, wasn't supposed to fall in love with a human. SNIP Totally opposite from today's viewpoint. For Cordwainer Smith, if you

Scouted: Making Ice Cream with Liquid Nitrogen

2003-06-19 Thread Jon Gabriel
Next, on FoodTV: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/hometech/article/0,12543,458641,00.html Excerpt: Behold the smooth, sweet powers of liquid N. by Theodore Gray July 2003 ... I first heard about liquid nitrogen ice cream from my friend Tryggvi, an Icelandic chemist working in the Midwest (these

Re: Scouted: Why Humans Are Hairless

2003-06-19 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 01:02 PM 6/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: Another theory on why we're the hairless apes: http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/66/79781.htm?printing=true Their research obviously overlooked the blind date I had last weekend . . . I Suspect She Was Indeed An Ape Of Some Sort, Particularly

Re: Scouted: Why Humans Are Hairless

2003-06-19 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Scouted: Why Humans Are Hairless Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:33:42 -0500 At 01:02 PM 6/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote: Another theory on why we're the

Bear Vitals

2003-06-19 Thread Reggie Bautista
Has anyone here read _Vitals_, by Greg Bear? Any recommendations? Reggie Bautista _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

RE: Br!n: RE: New Br!n Novel?

2003-06-19 Thread Chad Cooper
So one guy says to the other... I saw one of your dittos the other day. Yeah? Yeah, he had this glazed look on his face! bumpbump..bump! and how about this tongue twister. The Ditto dittoed the ditto's ditto. RealNerd From Hell -Original Message- From: Chad Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: wierd spam...

2003-06-19 Thread listmail
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:40:39 -0400, Bryon Daly wrote: I just got this (presumably) spam message today. I've never seen anything quite like it: *snipped* I'm not sure wht the goal of this spam was. I can only think it it to get people to write to the email address provided, but I see little

Re: Scouted: Making Ice Cream with Liquid Nitrogen

2003-06-19 Thread Bryon Daly
From: Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Next, on FoodTV: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/hometech/article/0,12543,458641,00.html Excerpt: Behold the smooth, sweet powers of liquid N. At first, I thought this article was about these: http://www.dippindots.com/dd_info.asp I'm not sure if they use

Re: News from the Booby Hatch

2003-06-19 Thread Steve Sloan II
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: [The first two articles are spoofs -- I hope! --DBM] Senator wants copyright kill switches in PCs Thursday, June 19, 2003; 10:12 AM WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday that future personal computers should be required to sport

ADMIN: Bad Server mystery solved

2003-06-19 Thread Nick Arnett
For those who care... I finally figured out what happened the other day when the server misbehaved. I had forgotten that our MTA is chrooted, so it has its very own copy of resolv.conf, which we failed to update when our ISP changed. It was still able to talk to our local caching name server,

RE: Tech-ish help

2003-06-19 Thread Jan Coffey
Go to file select save as select .html I just did it on pre-formated text and pics, worked fine. --- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Copy and paste it into an HTML editor, such as the one in Mozilla (which is free, if you don't have it). That will probably do better, but you still may

Re: wierd spam...

2003-06-19 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Bryon Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got this (presumably) spam message today. I've never seen anything quite like it: --- Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Needed Greetings, We need a vendor who can offer immediate

Re: _Some_ Practitioners of Religion Are Evil

2003-06-19 Thread John Garcia
I guess Frank Keating was right. john On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 03:32 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I know Mafiosi are traditionally Catholic, but I didn't realize that the church was taking lessons from them in problem-solving: From CNN: An alleged victim of the clergy sexual abuse

RE: Br!n: RE: New Br!n Novel?

2003-06-19 Thread Jan Coffey
I use to date my gilrfriend's dito on the sly, but I had to stop. She was too needy. ___ I keep sending ditos down to the studio to try out for the new reality show. A curiur keeps bringing me back their frozen heads. Every time it's the same thing. Right before lights out I see a large feild

They're Only Words!

2003-06-19 Thread Robert Seeberger
The Washington Post's Style Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners: 1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you

The letter's up

2003-06-19 Thread Gautam Mukunda
Hi folks, The letter from the front is up - sans pictures, I'm afraid - I just don't have time right now to deal with whatever technical issues are involved. Still, some of you might find it interesting. He really is as much fun in person as you would guess from the letter itself. = Gautam

Fire on my mountain

2003-06-19 Thread Medievalbk
Well the 250 acre fire mentioned yesterday took out today 250 of 500 homes on the mountain. Probably made national news. ...but I had a feeling early today that I'd rather go watch Lord of the Rings again, than to stay at home and watch the local and national news. Maybe I'll escape tonight

Re: Br!n: RE: New Br!n Novel?

2003-06-19 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/19/2003 2:57:43 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Ditto dittoed the ditto's ditto. Did he do it diligently or dastardly? William Taylor - Or was he just diddling about? ___

Re: They're Only Words!

2003-06-19 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: 12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. Yup. Julia seriously tempted by the thought of cookies -- and hey, they came from Whole Foods, so they can't be *all* bad, right?

Re: Fire on my mountain

2003-06-19 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the 250 acre fire mentioned yesterday took out today 250 of 500 homes on the mountain. Probably made national news. ...but I had a feeling early today that I'd rather go watch Lord of the Rings again, than to stay at home and watch the local and national

Re: 2 Corinthians 6:14 (Humor)

2003-06-19 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 19 Jun 2003 at 15:09, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: From: Joke A Day (June 19, 2003) Joke A Day Making Fun Of Morons Since 1863 Joke A Day, Inc. http://www.jokeaday.com To join our list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bear Vitals

2003-06-19 Thread Jim Bertrand
Reggie Bautista wrote: Has anyone here read _Vitals_, by Greg Bear? Any recommendations? Yes. I enjoyed it. Over all I would put it into the lower middle of the Bear works. Not as good as the Darwin books. Jim ___

Come to Starfleet! ....as promised.

2003-06-19 Thread Medievalbk
Lyrics: IN THE NAVY Come to Starfleet Where can you find pleasure, search all space for treasure, learn science, technology? Where can you begin to get a cramp in your hand when your fingers make a V Where can you learn to fly, as you go to warp drive, learn alien biology? Go back to the

Re: Come to Starfleet! ....as promised.

2003-06-19 Thread Medievalbk
Sorry...I though this was a Ronn reposting. WellYa got it anyway. In a message dated 6/19/2003 8:08:30 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and the Number 1 Reason Starfleet Is Better Than the US Military... 1 No Village People song about