Re: Southern-ness test

2004-06-04 Thread Steve Sloan II
William T Goodall wrote: http://www.tricklefan.com/southern/test.html I got 30/71... Only 41/71, Southern Sympathizer. And I also had a lot of trouble with the car innard questions. :-) __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville,

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-06-02 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: Atheists Purge History

2004-06-02 Thread Steve Sloan II
Damon Agretto wrote: Can someone post the whole article for those of us that don't want to start an account? Or do we have a Brin-L account thre too? I went to bugmenot.com, and found this account: user name: utesfan password: sierra

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-05-26 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Uplift Fan-Fic Announcement: The Dorrvi -- Added Information

2004-05-25 Thread Steve Sloan II
I've added a new Vilyehm Teighlore fan-fic story, The Dorrvi -- Added Information: http://stories.brin-l.org/dorrvi.html To see the original Dorrvi listing it refers to, go to pages 106-109 of _Contacting Aliens_. __ Steve

Re: Unitarians not a religion

2004-05-19 Thread Steve Sloan II
Julia Thompson wrote: And she does all kinds of crap to get her name in the headlines anyway. Any publicity is good publicity, something like that. (Egomaniacal -!) Ick. Sounds a lot like our own Judge Roy Moore. __ Steve

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-05-19 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: What America Does with its Hegemony

2004-05-13 Thread Steve Sloan II
Doug Pensinger wrote: I agree that the US should have intervened. Do you agree, if it would have done so, it would have been dissed by a great deal of the world for imperealism? Should we have been willing to violate international law to save half a million human lives? What did the

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-05-12 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Huntsville Forbes #8 Best Place 2004

2004-05-12 Thread Steve Sloan II
I'm proud to see that Huntsville, Alabama is ranked number 8 in Forbes' Best Places for Business. Not bad at all, considering that it has the smallest population in the top 25 list, at only 354,000 people. Other Brineller homes are also on the list, including Houston at number 15, and Austin at

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-05-05 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: What America Does with its Hegemony

2004-05-04 Thread Steve Sloan II
Gary Denton wrote: Well, I learned about the reliability of the American press last year when I went to independent sources and found out that Iraq had shut down its nuclear weapons program immediately after the first Gulf War. Where did this information come from? That definitely

Re: What America Does with its Hegemony

2004-05-03 Thread Steve Sloan II
Gary Denton wrote: Well, I learned about the reliability of the American press last year when I went to independent sources and found out that Iraq had shut down its nuclear weapons program immediately after the first Gulf War. Where did this information come from? That definitely sounds like

Re: Battlestar Galactica

2004-04-30 Thread Steve Sloan II
Nick Lidster wrote: Perfectly true, anyone can be a grunt, however when your in the middle of no where, have no backup, and need to get the job done what do you do? Though you fly in the clouds, a marine is a grunt first. The 58th was heralded as the best of the best. To me they were flying

[Larryniven-L] The army is working on impact armor

2004-04-29 Thread Steve Sloan II
This is a pretty cool article that got posted to LarryNiven-L earlier today. Looks like a potentially very useful new technology. http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040429/D828HIG00.html __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville,

Re: ADMIN: Wonky server

2004-04-29 Thread Steve Sloan II
Nick Arnett wrote: I do most of my development and day-to-day work on W3K and XP... they've been very stable. I should hope so, since they had an extra thousand years to work on that first one! ;-) __ Steve Sloan .

Re: Neanderthal growth rate

2004-04-29 Thread Steve Sloan II
David Hobby wrote: It is an interesting idea: Neanderthals, though intelligent, were adapted for a low-tech, cold weather evolutionary niche. So maybe they were a different species--the debate goes on. Because dental growth is an excellent indicator of somatic development, our results

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-04-28 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-04-21 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Fwd: [Larryniven-l] ALERT: The LATEST of SCAMS

2004-04-20 Thread Steve Sloan II
Subject: [Larryniven-l] ALERT: The LATEST of SCAMS Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 02:23:10 -0700 From: Frank Gasperik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Larry Niven Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This one is good for a real laugh! From THE REGISTER I suppose it had to happen some day.

Re: Alternate History

2004-04-20 Thread Steve Sloan II
Gautam Mukunda wrote, on the Massachusetts Munster: It's from the Adams family, right? Nope, it's actually from a very similar series that ran at the same time (1964-6 according to IMDB) called The Munsters. Like the Addams, the Munsters freaked out ordinary people every week. Unlike most of the

Re: The Return Of The Cows

2004-04-17 Thread Steve Sloan II
Alberto Monteiro wrote: Jewish Capitalism: You have two cows. Your palestin neighbour has a (baby cow? what's the english name for that?). Calf. Also used for elephant and whale babies. __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville,

Re: Calafia Contest --6th try

2004-04-14 Thread Steve Sloan II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (The list is still too serious.) ---this time without hitting the control button with my wrist: In GURPS Uplift, the main continent on Calafia is named Farley. Anybody know why? I have my own idea and want to see if anyone's thinking along the same lines.

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-04-14 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-04-07 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: Anti-War Protesters Climb London's Big Ben

2004-04-07 Thread Steve Sloan II
Robert Seeberger wrote: Two anti-war protesters evaded tight security to climb London's landmark Big Ben clock tower at the Houses of Parliament as thousands marched on the first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq on Saturday. The pair unfurled a banner which read Time for Truth before

Deep South Con 42 Report

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Sloan II
I got back from Deep South Con/Mid South Con in Memphis Sunday night. It was scheduled with David Brin as the Guest of Honor, and Todd Lockwood, who I've never heard of because he seems to do mostly fantasy illustration, as the Artist Guest of Honor. Kevin Lenagh of _Contacting Aliens_ fame, and

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-03-17 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: Libertarian Purity Test

2004-03-17 Thread Steve Sloan II
Kevin Tarr wrote: http://www.bcaplan.com/cgi/purity.cgi I had 40. Kevin T. - VRWC Failed again 41, even though a lot of the questions were pretty crappy. __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL

Re: Fascist Censorship spreading like Cancer thruout Gov't

2004-03-15 Thread Steve Sloan II
The Fool wrote a particular word every paragraph: FUCK FUCK SNIP I've heard claims that men think of sex every x-number of seconds. Is this proof? ;-) __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: America, land of the Ashcroft-haters

2004-03-12 Thread Steve Sloan II
Robert Seeberger wrote: Quote: Bill Maher responded with the suggestion that the suicide hijackers of September 11th, 2001 were not cowardly because they stayed in the plane and died whereas the US military firing a cruise missile from 2000 miles away was cowardly. I uderstood it that way

Re: Race to the Bottom

2004-03-12 Thread Steve Sloan II
Gautam Mukunda wrote: Well, sort of. But it's already happened to secretaries, right? That's what voicemail/PIMs has done to that job. It's happened to a lot of manufacturing jobs - that's what automation has done. There's not any _conceptual_ difference between the two scenarios. Other

Re: Br!n: Key Human-Brain Gene Found

2004-03-11 Thread Steve Sloan II
Trent Shipley wrote: The Rats of NiMH? That's the one I was thinking about. It had fantasy elements -- the non-enhanced animals could talk, too. I'm wondering if anyone has ever written a hard science fiction version of the same premise, of enhanced rats escaping, then trying to form their own

Re: Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-03-10 Thread Steve Sloan II
Jon Gabriel wrote: Thought I'd do this, since my last post got through and I'm not sure Steve's are... I actually just forgot, but I'm really glad you remembered. Thanks! __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama =

Re: Gas Prices

2004-03-06 Thread Steve Sloan II
Robert Seeberger wrote: How much are you paying in your part of the country? $1.56 or so down the street from me, but the picture on drudge that linked to the article below shows $2.28. Yikes, that is high Last time I checked here, it was $1.699 per gallon for regular unleaded, and

Re: 'Hobbitt,''Rings' Prequel, in the Works

2004-03-06 Thread Steve Sloan II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the best voice for Smaug is already doing Elrond. That didn't stop John Rhys Davies from playing both Gimli and the voice of Treebeard. __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama =

Re: Gas Prices

2004-03-06 Thread Steve Sloan II
Damon Agretto wrote: Ah if only they made a hybrid Jetta... A man after my own heart. :-) I currently drive a silver 2000 Jetta, and my previous car was a 1994 Jetta in some sort of weird eggplanty purple color. The one before that was a 1985 VW Golf, which drove very reliably for the whole time

Re: Bases, was Re: Stirling engine queries

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Sloan II
David Hobby wrote: At the end of it, half of them say things like a cubic meter is a liter, which weighs a gram. While we're already talking about changing our number systems, maybe we should change metric to make that true, because those definitions make a *lot* more sense than the real ones.

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-03-03 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: Race to the Bottom

2004-03-01 Thread Steve Sloan II
The Fool wrote: Let's see India, China, or Russia belly up to the bar and pay their fair share of the hundreds-of-billions of dollars per year being stolen from the US Taxpayer to make outsourcing possible. ritu wrote: What does 'belly up to the bar' mean? From context, I think it

Re: This Is Spinal Ta-, er, Metallica

2004-02-28 Thread Steve Sloan II
Travis Edmunds wrote: Do you mean (A) singualarity? If so, I saw one the other night on TNG. If not...then could you explain? I probably am familiar with what you speak of, but it's not exactly rolling of my tongue. The Singularity Robert's talking about is metaphorically like a black

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-02-25 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: Bitter Mellons, Gin and Tonic, and a an Un- reasonable view.

2004-02-24 Thread Steve Sloan II
Jan Coffey wrote: Dan used a portion of that statment out of context as if I were defending Hittler and then reqested citations for that deffence. I could easily be wrong, but I read Dan's response as a request for evidence that Hitler was appalled at what was going on. I know that was just a

Re: Tyranny

2004-02-24 Thread Steve Sloan II
Doug Pensinger wrote: You know, when I witness the joy that the San Fransisco initiative has brought to those that have hertofore been unable to make their love for each other official (however temporal it's legitimacy),it makes me wonder how on earth good-hearted people can be against this

Re: Polygonorrhea [was: BRin-L - are we average?]

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Sloan II
Alberto Monteiro wrote: No more! I found the magic word that I had to utter! The spell is glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST); Whoops! I never even thought of that! That turns in the Z-buffer functionality that allows OpenGL to actually hide the parts of objects that are behind other objects.

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Irregulars Question: CGI vs Traditional Movies

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Sloan II
My sister is doing a finance class project about Pixar, and she's looking for more background and trend information: I'm researching the trend of CGI in movies. Do you know of any good websites that I could check out? I'm trying to analyze from 1998 to 2003. I just want to find out how much

Re: Irregulars Question: OpenGL

2004-02-17 Thread Steve Sloan II
Alberto Monteiro wrote: I must be doing something _really_ stupid, but why I can't draw even a simple tetrahedron with OpenGL? One of the faces does not show :-/ Is there any magic word that I must utter before it works? I have two guesses: 1) Could OpenGL be culling the back-facing polygons?

Re: Irregulars Question: OpenGL

2004-02-17 Thread Steve Sloan II
Alberto Monteiro wrote: The program is as simple as possible, and all but the first triangle appear correctly. The first triangle, however, is invisible. Essentially, this is the OpenGL part of the program: glLoadIdentity(); glTranslatef(0.0f,0.0f,-15.0f); glRotated(m_angulo,

Re: Sloan3D Store Update -- Black shirts now available

2004-02-15 Thread Steve Sloan II
Julia Thompson wrote: I don't know what's common these days. Do the dark colors include one somewhere between green and blue? :) (And would that color be available in XL?) I can certainly look. Last time I was in the local Hobby Lobby, a few weeks ago, they had some XL shirts in some

Re: FOOLish

2004-02-14 Thread Steve Sloan II
Travis Edmunds wrote: In all honesty, I have no idea what those four memes are. And quite frankly, I don't overly care. If I ever stumble across them though, I shall store them in my clueless brain. The essay where Dr. Brin described them is easy to miss, unless you've either been reading

Sloan3D Store Update -- Black shirts now available

2004-02-14 Thread Steve Sloan II
I released my first t-shirt design for sale a couple of months ago, featuring a high-quality single frame from the Izmunuti animation I created a few years ago... http://www.sloansteady.com/#anims ...showing Streaker getting hammered inside the red giant Izmunuti. The CafePress.com site I've

Re: Introducing Fenris

2004-02-13 Thread Steve Sloan II
The Fool wrote: You could make a shorter catagory that includes both religion and politics called Evil:. So, given your tendency to post political articles and essays, does that make you the list's biggest source of Evil? __

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-02-11 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Travis Edmunds Pictures

2004-02-11 Thread Steve Sloan II
I've added two new pictures of Travis Edmunds to the Brin-L Memberpix pages. To see them, go to my main picture page: http://www.sloan3d.com/cgi-bin/memberpix.cgi Or go directly to: http://www.sloan3d.com/cgi-bin/memberpix.cgi?person=travis

Re: Reviews for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ

2004-02-11 Thread Steve Sloan II
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Jews OK Mel's film MEL Gibson's controversial film about the last hours of Jesus's life is unlikely to incite hostility against Jews, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry Isn't that what they call bracelets, rings, etc. in Alabama? ;-)

Re: v*r*s question

2004-02-07 Thread Steve Sloan II
Kevin Tarr wrote: I started getting mail saying something from me was undeliverable. AVG said it had the myd**m v*r*s in it. AVG isn't finding the v*r*s anywhere else, just the mail coming in. Since them I'm getting messages coming in with the v*r*s. But I'm more confused by the returned

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-02-04 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: Irregulars Question: raising the dead in the sims

2004-01-30 Thread Steve Sloan II
Alberto Monteiro wrote: My 10-year-old daughter accidentally killed my 4-year-old's character. Is there any way to raise de dead? Alberto Monteiro in panic mode PS: yes, I know the sims is evil and must be eradicated Maybe you can generate a red-headed lesbian witch character to do it. ;-) But

Re: Uplift Timeline (was Tg Territories)

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Sloan II
Trent Shipley wrote: 620 MYA: The ecologically insensitive Lions dominate the Galaxies. Ash spreads through 30% of Galaxy One and 20% of Galaxy Two. Complex sea life on Earth. I think I remember the Cambrian Explosion being closer to 560 MYA, but it's been a while since I read about it. 12

Re: Martian Emotion (was Easterbrook on Bush's NASA plan)

2004-01-25 Thread Steve Sloan II
Reggie Bautista wrote: The Martian Way? Never heard of it. Any idea if it's available in any of the copious numbers of Asimov anthologies out there? According to the Internet SF Database site: http://isfdb.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/pw.cgi?6e2806 It's been published in these books/magazines: 1.

Re: Attn Br!n: Hoon Genius

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Sloan II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our artist of Contacting Aliens has not yet answered back. If Brin does not do it, I'll have to try to fill in. We have to have a hoon dressed up as the Mikado. It's too good. If I ever get around to building a Hoon 3D model, which I plan to do for a shirt someday, I

Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Weekly Chat Reminder

2004-01-14 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-11 Thread Steve Sloan II
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: I don't know about financial models, but I do know that judgement, especially when immediate judgement on critical issues is necessary, is affected by fatigue. For one thing, tired people tend to be grumpy people, and may do things they later regret. I think both of

Fwd: What Not to Do During LOTRs

2004-01-10 Thread Steve Sloan II
Subject: [Larryniven-l] OT: What Not to Do During LOTRs Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:34:32 - From: Nesssus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Larry Niven Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ln-l [EMAIL PROTECTED] Originally posted:

Weekly Chat Reminder

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Re: SCOUTED: Case of Foot-in-Mouth Disease Found in New York Senator

2004-01-07 Thread Steve Sloan II
Jon Gabriel wrote: After reading the article, I wondered if Apu from the Simpsons also drew ire when he first debuted. Safety in numbers. The show has slurred just about every nationality or minority I can think of, so Apu got lost in the flood. :-)

Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton

2004-01-06 Thread Steve Sloan II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re: Minimal Profits for Halliburton Maybe they should sell tee-shirts? (According to a different thread) Ed McMahon voice Hey-ohhh! /Ed McMahon voice ;-) __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville,

Re: Overpriced Shirts and Irregulars Question

2004-01-04 Thread Steve Sloan II
Kevin Tarr wrote: I'm only asking this from a business POV. There are many things I do not know and would like some details. Let me back up a step. I get t-shirts made for two groups I'm involved in. I'm assuming you are not the one making those shirts, that physically you never touch them.

Overpriced Shirts and Irregulars Question

2004-01-02 Thread Steve Sloan II
I'm pretty sure I set the price of the shirt at my online store too high, so as an apology, I've decreased it from $19.99 to $16.99. Do y'all consider $3 of profit per shirt fair? http://www.cafeshops.com/Sloan3D As for the Irregulars question, Dr. Brin suggested that I donate part of each

Re: No longer filtering.

2004-01-02 Thread Steve Sloan II
Michael Harney wrote: I'm not filtering anymore. I've reviewed recent posts in the archives, and I think I'll be fine for now. As fair warning, my last post did have a question about the best organizations for protecting wildlife, but I'm hoping any thread that comes out of my question will be

Universal Kilns Temporary Tattoos now available

2004-01-01 Thread Steve Sloan II
When I first announced my online store, I said I was planning to eventually sell temporary tattoos with the Universal Kilns logo from _Kiln People_. They are now available for sale, and they're an essential part of a ditto costume, ideal for Halloween, or Masquerade at science fiction conventions.

Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-12-31 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-12-17 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: SCOUTED/Fwd: Seasonal Puzzle

2003-12-17 Thread Steve Sloan II
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: The letters form an acronym of a Christmas song. Name the song, win my gratitude grin. Some are easy, others aren't. Here are the answers my sister and I were able to come up with this morning: 1. TCS (CROAOF) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)

Brin-L and Discover Top 100

2003-12-15 Thread Steve Sloan II
A former Brineller made number 11 out of Discover magazine's top 100 science stories of 2003, listed in the January 2004 issue. At first, scientists thought that an object orbiting a pulsar in globular cluster M4 was simply a small star or brown dwarf. Steinn Sigurdsson and his colleagues at

Re: Outlandish but exceedingly fun.

2003-12-12 Thread Steve Sloan II
William T Goodall wrote: In Heinlein's books, humans are always the toughest species in the cosmos. It was also a notion that Analog editor John W Campbell was keen on with the result that there were a couple of generations of sf where the clever/tough/plucky/lucky humans defeated the

Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-12-10 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Houston Get-Together?

2003-12-06 Thread Steve Sloan II
I'm going to be flying to Houston, Texas to visit my brother on the afternoon of Thursday, December 18. Any Brinellers (or even lurkers?) in the Houston area want to meet some time between the 19th and 23rd or so? __ Steve Sloan

Re: Science Fiction In General...

2003-12-06 Thread Steve Sloan II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I happened to like 'Engle Against The Stars' Didn't she write A _Wrinkle in Time_? ;-) __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages

Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-12-03 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: Two Towers Extended DVD

2003-12-02 Thread Steve Sloan II
G. D. Akin wrote: You're in Huntsville I am. Ronn's in the Birmingham area. __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .. http://www.brin-l.org

Announcing the Sloan3D Store

2003-11-24 Thread Steve Sloan II
I have finished what I hope will be the first of many pieces of merchandise decorated with my illustrations. This one is a shirt featuring a high-quality single frame from the Izmunuti animation I created a few years ago... http://www.sloansteady.com/#anims ...showing Streaker getting

Re: Challenge: 80's Lyrics Quiz

2003-11-21 Thread Steve Sloan II
Gary Nunn wrote: Kind of long, and my score was embarrassingly low...but fun. http://www.yetanotherdot.com/asp/80s.html I did slightly better: Final Score: 137 Now, if only I could score as well on *useful* knowledge! :-)

Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-11-19 Thread Steve Sloan II
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Re: A year ago today...

2003-11-18 Thread Steve Sloan II
Doug Pensinger wrote: I'm not sure how you would look it up. The list pre-dates the (woefully inadiquate) list archive at Yahoo. Julia would know for sure, but I'll guess it was somewhere around August, 1995. Some time after I joined the list, I sent in requests for the list digests from

Re: A year ago today...

2003-11-18 Thread Steve Sloan II
Jon Gabriel wrote: Would you be willing to email them -- completely at your convenience -- to some of us (ok, me) if we made requests? I'll be happy to. Just be prepared, because the zip files total a little over 15 MB. They also aren't very organized, with LarryNiven-L posts from the same days

Re: Explanation

2003-11-15 Thread Steve Sloan II
Dan Minette wrote: I heard that Hubberd made up Scientology as a scam to make lots of money, and didn't really believe at all. Does anyone know how accurate/inaccurate this is? I remember reading somewhere that Hubbard made a bet with another SF writer about it. He bet that he could create a

Re: Dastardly spammer

2003-11-14 Thread Steve Sloan II
Jack Amico wrote: Nick: One of my hotmail based kids must have hit one of their pages, opening a door to getting a Mirer(sp?) bar on my IE browser. I've tried everything including playing a little (remember, I'm a little past newbie) with the registry - removed everything I can find, set my

Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-11-12 Thread Steve Sloan II
This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time, so it started about three hours ago. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours after the start time. See my instruction

Re: Don't read while eating Re: Scouted: Cocoa Has More Antioxidants Than Red Wine, Tea

2003-11-11 Thread Steve Sloan II
Julia Thompson wrote: can't be any worse than what I've already dealt with this morning, right? Kosh Never ask that question! /Kosh :-) __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages

Re: Hoon family names and etiquette.

2003-11-07 Thread Steve Sloan II
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS ---Post it, Steve. Done: http://www.sloan3d.com/brinl/stories/neverassume.html BTW, which title do you prefer? Hoon family etiquette or Never Assume? __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama

Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Sloan II
This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time, so it started about three-and-a-half hours ago. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours after the start time. See my

Re: DRAFT Brin update

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Sloan II
d.brin wrote: If your large organization needs a speaker, drop by www.davidbrin.com/speaker. Needs to be www.davidbrin.com/speaker.html __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages

Re: It's a boy!

2003-10-30 Thread Steve Sloan II
Matt Grimaldi wrote: Andrew Michael Grimaldi, Born 23-Oct-2003 at 6:52 p.m. 10 lb., 8 oz. 20.5 inches Both baby and mother are doing well, though Andrew was transfered to the NICU at another hospital to monitor a couple of potentially serious conditions. He has recovered well, has

Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Sloan II
This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time, so it started about an hour ago. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours after the start time. See my instruction page

Hal Clement, Science Fiction Author, Dies at 81

2003-10-29 Thread Steve Sloan II
From his publisher earlier today: From: Heather Drucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ++Tor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Heather Drucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HAL CLEMENT, SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR, DIES AT 81 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:19:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: HAL CLEMENT, SCIENCE

Re: [A4P] Introducing Matt Lundstrom

2003-10-21 Thread Steve Sloan II
Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote: Can't help you there, but when it comes to graphics design you really ought to go talk to our local artist, Steve Sloan. Our resident timeline maniac, Alberto Monteiro, could also be of great help. Like I said, if you need help you only have to ask. Welcome, Matt!

Weekly Chat Reminder

2003-10-15 Thread Steve Sloan II
This is just a quick reminder that the Wednesday Brin-L chat is scheduled for 3 PM Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time, so it started about five hours ago. There will probably be somebody there to talk to for at least eight hours after the start time. See my instruction

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