At 11:57 PM 9/17/02, Doug wrote:
The Fool wrote:
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
No, they can't. Why those guys can't read what they wrote? There ain't
no signal travelling FTL.
No individual particle is traveling above c. But the pulse is.
Pulse-Modulation.
Sure.
At 07:45 AM 9/18/02, Nick Arnett wrote:
Everyone,
A word of caution about the list setting Which topic categories would you
like to subscribe to? -- If you want to receive all messages, regardless of
topic, be sure that *all* of the check boxes in this setting are either
checked or all are
At 03:21 PM 9/18/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
[snip]
Hey, I'm just grateful to hear that someone is having a _slight_ problem
with Yahoo!, instead of the almost-constant major cluster-foulup that is
their usual service . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the
At 11:27 AM 9/22/02, Kevin Tarr wrote:
Al Gore down on the farm with a lead pipe
Is this from the new U.S. Politicians edition of Clue?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
At 02:16 PM 9/22/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 22:29 21-09-2002 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote:
You call denigrating me just because I'm not Dutch improving the
environment of the list???
The word denigrating has such a negative ring to it
People in the US have been fired from their jobs for
At 05:42 PM 9/27/02, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
There is a serious flaw in (...) Windows (...)
Anyone notice that I was quieter than usual this past week?
My system crashed Sunday afternoon.
After everything short of that failed, I reinstalled Windows. Finally, not
long before midnight
At 06:02 PM 9/27/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Jeroen wrote:
I know some people object to having to register in order to read
on-line NY
Times articles, so I took the liberty of getting a registration for
all of us.
Member ID = brinlist
Password =
At 06:05 PM 10/13/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
I wonder if
the AFLAC duck being a duck, as opposed to some other animal, explains
at least a small percentage of the success of that ad campaign? (And is
it just me, or does that duck need Valium?)
No.
Orange sauce.
-- Ronn! :)
Professional
At 06:36 PM 10/14/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/14/2002 10:55:36 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That was an hour ago. I'm calm now.
This may help.
If you ever get a phone solicitation about double pane
At 12:09 AM 10/16/02, Robert Seeberger wrote:
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=BIGBIRD-10-15-02cat=AN
A giant winged creature, like something out of Jurassic Park, has reportedly
been sighted several times in Southwest Alaska in recent weeks.
Villagers in Togiak and Manokotak say they
At 10:41 PM 10/15/02, The Fool wrote:
You get geocentricity:
http://www.geocentricity.com/
bizzare
I know it calls for a reasoned rebuttal, but for now I'm speechless . . .
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship
Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL
At 07:50 AM 10/16/02, Robert Seeberger wrote:
http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=worldnewsStoryID=1582418
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein won 100 percent of votes in a referendum for
a new term in office, official results showed on Wednesday.
Saddam's top deputy Izzat Ibrahim, reading
At 09:35 PM 10/18/02, Robert Seeberger wrote:
7. Kuykendahl Road can only be pronounced by a native.
Kirk-in-doll?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
At 01:19 PM 10/20/02, Kevin Tarr wrote:
From a motorcycle training course: When being followed too closely, slow
down. Pull over if you have to. Speeding up does not make it better. The
one problem I have, I don't like cars behind me at night in low traffic and
non lighted areas. I hate having
At 03:18 PM 10/20/02, Horn, John wrote:
My wife is thinking about starting a small business on the web. Without
credit card transactions, there is no way it will go anywhere. Is there any
easy way to start accepting credit card transactions without a big expense?
I certainly get plenty of
Apparently there are other locations, but only the Utah location was
mentioned in the story that was just on our local 10 pm news:
http://www.fetal-fotos.com/
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry
At 04:58 PM 10/21/02, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
snip
I always thought a merkin was a pubic wig, which is
why I resent the term.
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=merkin
mer·kin Pronunciation Key (mûrkn)
n. A pubic wig for women.
So maybe we could find another
At 04:07 PM 10/21/02, Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
He's not the only one guilty of that on this list, and
you might think upon the Bible verse Luke 4:23: And
he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this
proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have
heard done in Capernaum, do also here
At 04:12 PM 10/22/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 19:46 21-10-2002 -0500, Adam Lipscomb wrote:
There's a colloquialism that comes to mind:
Insanity: Doing the exact same thing over and over again, and expecting
different results.
Great -- that means that insanity is what pays the bills and
At 12:47 PM 10/22/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Please administer suitable bonking, someone
Oh. You wrote bonking, not boinking. Never mind, then: I was going to
ask if perhaps you had already experienced some, and that's why you were
sore . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would
At 04:55 PM 10/22/02, Nick Arnett wrote:
Everyone,
I'd like to offer a proposal to add a new guideline for list etiquette.
Here it is:
Please don't make multiple responses to the same thread, especially to the
same author, in a short people of time. In other words, hold those replies
until you
At 04:50 PM 10/22/02, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Julia Thompson wrote:
snip
snort :) snip
Julia
who knows why her legs are still sore, but isn't
sure why her biceps are as sore as they are
Well, I know why _I_ ache all over (Calypso, a bratty
4-year-old Paint, was quite full of
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:46:03 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Rifle, scope and tripod found in sniper suspects' car, Washington, D.C.
radio station WTOP reports.
(c)2002. Cable News Network, LP, LLLP.
An AOL Time Warner Company.
All Rights Reserved.
At 04:09 AM 10/24/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-- Police in Maryland say they have arrested John Allen Muhammad, who
sniper-case investigators say may have information about the case.
Muhammad's stepson also in custody.
At 07:03 AM 10/24/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-- Sources tell CNN two
At 08:44 PM 10/24/02, Nick Arnett wrote:
Once you're dung, we can test.
To see if the satellite phone still works, like they did in Jurassic Park 3?
--Ronn! :)
Bathroom humor is an American-Standard.
___
At 10:47 PM 10/24/02, The Fool wrote:
LONDON (Reuters) - Italian scientists have raised new health concerns
about the safety of using mobile phones, with research showing radio
waves from the handsets makes cancerous cells grow more aggressively.
I think that they still pose a far greater
At 03:48 PM 10/23/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 15:49 22-10-2002 -0700, Debbi Harrell wrote:
I've sent 2 messages (re: the UN) in the past 15 minutes, but they
haven't made it - at least to my computer.
I get the impression that there is something wrong with either Nick's
server or with his
At 11:56 AM 10/25/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
Note that JDG's and Jean-Louis' posts had brin: in the subject
line. Those messages were being forwarded to David Brin, who asked
not to have any messages sent to him (unless urgent) until after the
election.
Actually, JDG has
At 05:19 PM 10/25/02, William Taylor wrote:
In a message dated 10/25/2002 3:02:06 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Especially if you down an entire fifth of scotch in that manner.
Funny. Why do I think a Jophur would prefer vodka or uso [sp?]
ouzo?
--Ronn! :)
I
At 09:43 AM 10/25/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 21:21 24-10-2002 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
The eventual accomplishment would be John Giorgis cleaning up his act
and starting to behave like a civilised adult.
Whatever it was that John did (long forgotten by almost everyone by now)
At 09:33 PM 10/26/02, Dan Minette wrote:
I thought this might be a good time to offer general parenting advise for
those list members who have small children. I've noticed three things from
my near quarter century of parenting.
1) The single most difficult task for parents to teach children is
At 09:15 PM 10/26/02, William Taylor wrote:
In a message dated 10/26/2002 6:57:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Funny. Why do I think a Jophur would prefer vodka or uso [sp?]
ouzo?
I thought ouzo was the closest thing to alcoholic mulch.
I thought it was
At 11:20 PM 10/26/02, Doug wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
On
This is a GOOD thing. Bandwidth costs money to provide, and is a limited
resource. It makes perfect sense to charge based on how much bandwidth
is used, that is how a free market works. If you try to suppress the
law of supply and
At 11:42 PM 10/26/02, William Taylor wrote:
Ten dings = one dong
And 10 dongs = 1 dung?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
___
At 01:52 AM 10/27/02, William Taylor wrote:
In a message dated 10/26/2002 10:04:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought ouzo was the closest thing to alcoholic mulch.
I thought it was licorice-flavored lighter fluid . . . that you ignited
before drinking . . .
At 06:54 AM 10/27/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 21:33 26-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
I thought this might be a good time to offer general parenting advise for
those list members who have small children.
Why would this be a good time for it?
Maybe it is because of the whining about my
Looks like the advice given to Ilana is still correct . . .
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:27:02 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- All but one of 118 dead hostages in Moscow theater standoff died from
gas poisoning, Russia's chief medical examiner says.
(c)2002. Cable News
At 03:23 PM 10/27/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Yeah, just like the time some doofus from the cable company threw his
stuff into the backyard and went over the fence while his buddy came to
knock on the door; I was *supposed* to put the dogs out and leave about
2 minutes after they had shown up, but
At 10:53 PM 10/28/02, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[I quoted:]
In households where they were exposed five
years or more, cats had more than triple the risk.
In a two-smoker household, the risk went up by a
factor of four.
Cats ignore whoever they want to, whenever
At 10:45 AM 10/29/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
William Taylor wrote:
P.S. A single female on our list should dress up as a large
biologist/gardener alien in a tasteful pink dress with matching
pillbox hat.
Let's see how long it takes someone to figure out that she's
EMAZING.com proudly presents
Fun and Games
Joke of the Day
Thursday October 31, 2002
Q: If you're an American when you go into the bathroom, and
you're an American when you come out of the bathroom, what
are you while you are IN the bathroom?
A: European.
[Sort of on-topic with some of
At 05:04 PM 10/31/02, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Natalia was watching the Halloween Episode of Ginger
[a Nickelodeon Cartoon], and I noticed the Moon's phase
and position. Immediately, I rushed to compute the timeline:
it happens in 1999-11-01, the midnight of Halloween...
So what are your
At 11:34 AM 10/29/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
I'm still coming off the rough time from last
week (nothing like being left alone for a week with a small child and
two dogs who like to dig, at a time when the week fell into a 10-day
stretch of rain falling every day and very little sunshine for the
At 11:41 AM 10/29/02, Dan Minette wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Three nursing teachers killed at our University Medical Center. The
gunman
makes four.
And my first reaction when the police hold a news conference?
Well, there goes Jeopardy.
Not a very nice thought, but it
At 02:32 PM 10/29/02, Deborah Harrell wrote:
As for one of the subjects in this post: trying to
use someone to get at someone else is just plain
wrong. And cursing at the first someone (ie. Sonja)
is despicable. :(
Amen.
--Ronn! :)
Sometimes A One-Word Reply Is All That Is Needed
At 03:43 PM 10/29/02, Dan Minette wrote:
I'll warn you once. Never ever bandy the the reliability of data and the
certainty of observation with someone who has degrees both in science and
philosophy. You risk being subjected to a L8 post on the minutia of the
philosophy of science. grin
At 04:31 PM 10/29/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No. Frex, a 2K post from William (13:25 EST)
'arrived' approx. 45-60 min after his 3K post
And you'd think that the post written in Y2K would have arrived first, by
about 1,000 years . . .
--Ronn! :)
Okay, I Am
At 02:29 PM 10/29/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
At 15:36 28-10-2002 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Posted by you on 10/27 at 2:12 AM CDT, according to my computer.
Yeah, well, that is what your computer says. But your computer is a M$
Windows machine; how much do you trust Bill's Evil Empire? GRIN
At 07:44 PM 10/29/02, Jim Sharkey wrote:
William Taylor wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ahem.
Post.
Ehrum.
Kellogg's.
Naw, I'm holding it in Chex.
It's a Trix. Get an ax. :)
Jim Keeping the pop culture references a-coming Sharkey
A snappy response that crackles with wit
At 01:38 PM 10/30/02, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Erik Reuter asked:
Officials were also heartened by statistics indicating
that the number of blank and spoiled ballots fell by
nearly half, from 18.7 percent in the 1998 general
election to 10.7 percent in the first round of
voting.
How can
At 03:56 PM 10/30/02, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Reggie Bautista wrote:
Jean-Louis replied:
I suggest drinking Halloween floats :
1 part blond beer (eg. lager) with orange coloring
1 part Guinness which should float on the lager!
Irish bars here in KC (and presumably elsewhere)
call this
At 07:29 AM 11/1/02, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Russell Chapman wrote:
(so what does FIM mean?)
The End :-)
I've most often seen it written as Fin. Is Fim a Portuguese spelling?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
At 04:02 PM 10/30/02, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Julia wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Julia wrote:
Deborah Harrell wrote:
I'm trying to find out what the problem is: I
just got
Sonja's post on this, but Jim's was already in
my inbox before lunch, so clearly others received
At 08:12 AM 10/31/02, Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Ritu Ko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:31 PM
Subject: RE: Question for everyone
Dan Minette wrote:
Of course, all this is strictly imho.
Well, not to be
At 09:50 AM 10/31/02, Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Jean-Louis Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: RE: Dinging plans (was RE: test)
De : Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten [mailto:prutje;softhome.net]
Male
At 10:17 AM 10/31/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: Some things are too good to last
Dan Minette wrote:
I hit reply on a post
At 10:50 AM 11/2/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
How's the temperature there? That's the other thing I'm washing: warm
stuff to wear outside at night. Wednesday night, we had about an hour of
the clearest skies we've had on a lab night all semester. Then the clouds
At 11:19 PM 11/1/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
There was something from DB at some point about why the dogs weren't
part of the uplifted species on Earth. Something about them being
uplifted to where they could finally open doors, and then door
technology changed drastically, and this affected their
At 02:59 PM 11/2/02, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debbi
who is extremely grateful that Kia (12 yr-old cat)
only *vocally* expressed his displeasure with the
necessity of 'hot-packing' his abcess, rather than
resorting to armed resistance ^..^
At 07:14 AM 11/2/02, Kevin Tarr wrote:
Question: What da 'ell else interstate is there to drive on?
If there were interstate dirt roads and interstate monorails and interstate
skateboard ramps, then I could see the need for the word highway to
diferentiate one interstate system from another.
At 04:28 AM 11/2/02, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
Do you have any idea how arrogant your post sounds?
Do you have any idea how arrogant _your_ post sounds?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry
At 06:27 AM 10/30/02, Erik Reuter wrote:
Have I been dinging too much? :-)
I dunno. Have you been leaning on a doorbell button?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
At 12:52 PM 10/31/02, The Fool wrote:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/10/29/184031/40
The Great Security Panic (Op-Ed)
By mingofmongo
Thu Oct 31st, 2002 at 07:07:22 AM EST
After a good solid 40+ years of handing our credit card info to
minimum-wage workers at stores that don't shred
At 09:38 PM 10/31/02, Ritu Ko wrote:
GCU Still Sleepy
GSV Is 9am Too Early To Call It A Day And Go Back To Bed?
Sunrise is Nature's way of telling you it's bedtime.
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
At 09:54 PM 10/31/02, Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:50 PM
Subject: Aside Re: UN Security Council Reform Re: Just for the record
Ritu Ko wrote:
Ritu
GCU Still Sleepy
GSV Is
At 04:52 AM 11/1/02, The Fool wrote:
http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/11/01/human.rights.palestinians/ind
ex.html
Human Rights Watch: Suicide bombers guilty of war crimes
GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Those who plan and carry out suicide bombings that
deliberately target civilians are guilty of
At 12:44 PM 11/1/02, William Taylor wrote:
In a message dated 11/1/2002 11:16:49 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not if they shower with a member of the
opposite-to-their-sexual-preference sex.
Are there that many prisons in Australia?
Had that question been
At 02:06 PM 11/1/02, Deborah Harrell wrote:
who is extremely grateful that Kia (12 yr-old cat)
only *vocally* expressed his displeasure with the
necessity of 'hot-packing' his abcess, rather than
resorting to armed resistance ^..^
Aargh. How did he pick that up?
For a cat who loved
At 02:48 PM 11/1/02, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
.command of Ron on Jeroen's sig. And second to Adam's respons to my
first
That should have been ... comment of Ron on D'oh. :o)
Sonja
Who's Ron?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would
At 11:21 PM 11/2/02, Erik Reuter wrote:
Do you have any idea howudo you have any idea how to make a
really good chocolate chip cookie?
No, but I know where to go to buy them . . .
M . . . chocolate chip . . .
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on
At 07:58 AM 11/3/02, Jim Sharkey wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
Do you have any idea howudo you have any idea how to
make a really good chocolate chip cookie?
No, but my wife does. Every year on the day before Thanksgiving, she and
her father spend the evening making about a jillion
At 11:42 PM 11/2/02, William Taylor wrote:
In a message dated 11/2/2002 10:14:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, I feel like saying A pox on both their houses . . . except that
these days, someone would probably take it as a terroristic threat . . .
Or try to
At 07:21 AM 11/3/02, William Taylor wrote:
The line was:
Subj:Rates Have Dipped...Approvals Are Up!
And I had read it as:
Subj:Rants Have Dipped...Approvals Are Up!
*sigh*
Wishful misthinking.
ROTFLOL, though.
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the
At 05:19 PM 11/4/02, Joe Hale wrote:
I don't know if this is covered in the series, but once you start
uplifting species where do you stop? If you uplift dogs, why not cats?
Because they are already smarter than humans? After all, as someone has
said: Dogs have masters. Cats have staff.
So did I.
With any luck, sometime before the end of January I'll find out who was
elected governor.
-- Ronn in Birmingham, AL :)
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
in the pure oxygen atmosphere used prior to the Apollo 1 fire.
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship
Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL
Disclaimer: Unless specifically stated otherwise, any opinions contained
herein are the personal opinions of the author
At 10:19 AM 11/8/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Is it more expensive than getting the satelite setup
Ahem. That's sateLLite . . .
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship
Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL
Disclaimer: Unless specifically stated otherwise
At 11:17 AM 11/8/02, Erik Reuter wrote:
Have you heard of that new contraceptive patch? I saw a commercial for
it, but I can't remember the name. I haven't seen any studies about
effectiveness or side effects.
It's 100% effective if applied in the right location. Of course, so is
duct tape
At 10:28 PM 11/7/02, Steve Sloan II wrote:
Ronn Blankenship wrote, about the Alabama governor's race:
With any luck, sometime before the end of January I'll
find out who was elected governor.
Julia Thompson wrote:
So what's the holdup? I know what it was in Tarrant
County, TX and I can
At 12:49 PM 11/8/02, John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 06:57 PM 11/3/2002 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
What I am
saying is that it sounds awfully arrogant when an amateur claims to have
the One True Answer (this *is* how etcetera -- notice the emphasis on
the word is) and then add that the professionals
At 12:11 PM 11/8/02, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Steve Sloan II wrote:
I'd like to partition the hard drive and install Linux on one
of the partitions. Ideally, I'd like to have the computer ask
me which OS I want to use each time I power on the PC.
Anybody have any advice or suggestions about
At 06:46 PM 11/8/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/8/2002 5:16:17 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(Please pardon any typos I may be naking here)
Julia
You're in Nanking?
Either that or she is trying to tell us what she is wearing while
At 06:35 PM 11/8/02, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:19:37PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
However, there was at least one good reason that NASA chose not to
use pencils: the wood and graphite shavings generated by sharpening
a pencil would float in the air in microgravity,
At 06:17 PM 11/8/02, Nick Arnett wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:brin-l-bounces;mccmedia.com]On
Behalf Of Kevin Tarr
...
I understand that, but does the telex have full UPS, probably generator
based? How big of an outage would there be before you couldn't
At 12:12 PM 9/27/02, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Shades of Kiln people if the US Gov't actually does go in and kill
Hussein, what's to say they've actually killed the 'real' him?
Jon
GSV Duck Hunting in a Hall of Mirrors
From:
Reuters
BERLIN (Sept. 26) - A German television network said on
At 12:59 PM 11/8/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 12:30 PM 11/8/2002 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
Well, duh! What's the use of an overpriced piece of carbon that you'd
worry about losing or having stolen, compared to some sort of electronic
equipment? Such as, say, a
At 07:37 PM 11/8/02, William Taylor wrote:
Te audire no possum.
Well, they are fairly quiet.
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
___
At 08:31 PM 11/8/02, Robert Seeberger wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Ronn Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: Space Pen versus Pencil, was Scouted: Fireworks
astronauts and (2) perhaps getting into the electronic
At 08:48 PM 11/8/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
How about grease-pencil? What are the advantages and disadvantages to
using a grease-pencil?
I think they used them for some things. In some cases, though, they needed
to be able to write in normal-sized handwriting.
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn
At 08:46 PM 11/8/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
At 06:19 PM 11/8/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
At 11:16 PM 11/7/02, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Leo: We spent millions of dollars developing a pen that could
write in
space. Do you know what
At 12:13 AM 11/9/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
At 08:46 PM 11/8/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
*The middle finger of the gloves was stiffened so the astronauts
could use
it to press buttons on the control panel, which proved to be too
difficult
At 08:37 PM 11/8/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
Just saw a TV commercial for the Sears Big Weekend Sale.
First sequence: two guys looking at large-screen TVs. One says to the
other, If we get the little one now, we'll wish we'd gotten the bigger one
later.
Second
At 12:21 AM 11/9/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 10:34 PM 11/8/2002 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
But, they do; if you get down to the fundamental precepts of the religion.
One's can go against the pope and be a non-sinning Catholic. One cannot
violate one's own conscience.**
At 10:47 AM 11/9/02, Julia Thompson confessed:
Gee, most of *my* stuff from VS doesn't have a Made in the USA label.
Frex, today I'm wearing Made in China and Made in Portugal. (I also
have Made in Maldives and Made in Israel, to name a couple of other
places my VS stuff was manufactured.)
But
At 11:59 AM 11/10/02, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Watching Andromeda but still not knowing what the hell is this Maru
From the first, I thought the writers were trying to make some sort of
politically significant statement about the US possibly attacking Iraq, e.g.:
Beka: Dylan? The
At 06:38 PM 11/10/02, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 06:16:58PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
BTW, bringing in loaded words like tyrany and conspiricy is not
constructive.
Clarity is always constructive.
You're not married, are you?
;-)
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would
At 09:28 PM 11/11/02, Robert Seeberger wrote:
http://www.nbc10.com/news/1771649/detail.html
You're at the gas pump and filling up your car. Without even knowing it, you
may be making the one mistake that can be dangerous for you and anyone else
in the car.
Static electricity has caused fires at
At 09:25 AM 11/13/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote:
RTFA.
Uncalled for. Please be civil.
Jon Remember IAAMOAC Gabriel
Maybe we could reach a compromise? Something like
IAAFMOAFC?
splut
Alberto, thank you for reminding me that it's a bad idea
At 11:32 AM 11/13/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
William Taylor wrote:
I fold.
I spindle.
Isn't anyone going to mutilate?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
At 09:17 AM 11/14/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
Ronn Blankenship wrote:
At 06:27 AM 10/30/02, Erik Reuter wrote:
Have I been dinging too much? :-)
I dunno. Have you been leaning on a doorbell button?
We don't have a 'ding, dong' we have a 'ting
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