Shirley someone can do better than this

2006-08-17 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
My Very Educated Mother Cece Just Served Us Nine Pumpkins Carved 'X-actly'. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: RE; The Enlightenment

2006-08-17 Thread Deborah Harrell
Catching up slowly with postage... -- jdiebremse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: [Dan? I'm not recalling exactly-] One of the ideas that came from the Enlightenment is that all men are created equal. That concept means that the differences in intelligence, race,

Neighbors Stealing Wireless Bandwidth? One Man's Solution

2006-08-17 Thread Gary Nunn
One of my co-workers sent me this This is beautiful :-) One man's solution to the neighbors stealing his wireless bandwidth: http://www.ex-parrot.com/peter/upside-down-ternet.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Interesting blog

2006-08-17 Thread Deborah Harrell
More catching up- Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A surgeon started a blog recently. I found this entry particularly interesting: http://surgeonsblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/global-warming-inoperable-truth.html Amazing - a surgeon with a non-ossified sense of humor, including gasp

Re: Neighbors Stealing Wireless Bandwidth? One Man's Solution

2006-08-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On 8/17/06, Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my co-workers sent me this This is beautiful :-) One man's solution to the neighbors stealing his wireless bandwidth: Dave and I are laughing out loud... but on the other hand, just encrypt your wireless, ya dolt. Too much time

Re: Neighbors Stealing Wireless Bandwidth? One Man's Solution

2006-08-17 Thread Charlie Bell
On 18/08/2006, at 9:26 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: Dave and I are laughing out loud... but on the other hand, just encrypt your wireless, ya dolt. Too much time on his hands, perhaps. As he says I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun. Which is awesome... 'cause what are they

Re: Neighbors Stealing Wireless Bandwidth? One Man's Solution

2006-08-17 Thread Nick Arnett
On 8/17/06, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/08/2006, at 9:26 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: Dave and I are laughing out loud... but on the other hand, just encrypt your wireless, ya dolt. Too much time on his hands, perhaps. As he says I could encrypt it or alternately I could have

Re: Moving to Montana Soon?

2006-08-17 Thread Deborah Harrell
I'm still on the waiting list for this book, but doggonit, I'm going to jump in anyway (after all, not having read the book hasn't stopped me from joining the discussions at my book club!). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim wrote: I have a bit of a problem with this idea that

Re: Shirley someone can do better than this

2006-08-17 Thread Dave Land
On Aug 17, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: My Very Educated Mother Cece Just Served Us Nine Pumpkins Carved 'X-actly'. I guess it's time for a mnew mnemonic. If I hadn't heard a show on NPR today about the meeting of the IAU and the planetary mnaming conundrum, I'd have had mno

Re: Question for Charlie

2006-08-17 Thread Deborah Harrell
Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: Richard Baker wrote: snippage ... Suppose we have a time scoop that can pluck ancestors of modern humans out of the past and into the present ...enough to make up a small town's population, grabbing them at 1000 year intervals...I don't think

Re: Shirley someone can do better than this

2006-08-17 Thread David Hobby
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: My Very Educated Mother Cece Just Served Us Nine Pumpkins Carved 'X-actly'. The longer they get, the harder they are. Is there a us pumpkins nicely carved version of it for when they are in the other order? I never used mnemonics, at least until Oh, be a fine girl,

Re: Jobs, not trees! (Collapse, Chapter 2)

2006-08-17 Thread Deborah Harrell
Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It's certainly hard to convince people without food that the red- footed gnatcatcher's needs are greater than their own. Even if you can convince them in the abstract that the extinction of another species is a Bad Thing (tm), convincing them

Re: Jobs, not trees! (Collapse, Chapter 2)

2006-08-17 Thread Doug Pensinger
Alberto wrote: I can compare Bangladesh with the poorest areas in my hometown, Rio de Janeiro, who is located between sea and mountain[*]. _If_ rising sea waters is not a myth [**], then the coastal areas would be the first to sink. But no poor guys worry about ecology, and keep doing

Re: Jobs, not trees! (Collapse, Chapter 2)

2006-08-17 Thread Doug Pensinger
On Bob wrote: I just disagree with Alberto's statement that ecology is for rich people. Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations in the world and is most vulnerable to rising sea levels. Do you think that they’ll be shouting Jobs, not dry land? In a sense ecology is for the rich; it is

Re: Neighbors Stealing Wireless Bandwidth? One Man's Solution

2006-08-17 Thread Julia Thompson
Nick Arnett wrote: On 8/17/06, Gary Nunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my co-workers sent me this This is beautiful :-) One man's solution to the neighbors stealing his wireless bandwidth: Dave and I are laughing out loud... but on the other hand, just encrypt your wireless, ya

The Great Race 2008

2006-08-17 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.greatrace2008.com/ Alternative fuel and hybrid-powered automobiles will compete in an “around-the-world race” next February--the centennial of the Greatest Auto Race--to prove the viability of new automotive technologies. The Great Race World 35,000 km, New York to Paris 2008 offers