Re: Greg Bear
After seeing several messages with Greg Bear as subject, I am wondering if anyone has read his new book, City at the End of Time. Are there any guidelines on discussing books here without giving away too much (I'm new here, by the way)? As long as I am asking questions, does David Brin have any new science fiction books in the works? I suppose the lack of new David Brin SF accounts for the lack of SF discussion here? ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, John Williams wrote: After seeing several messages with Greg Bear as subject, I am wondering if anyone has read his new book, City at the End of Time. Are there any guidelines on discussing books here without giving away too much (I'm new here, by the way)? Giving warning about spoilers has generally been the done thing. You warn: SPOILERS AHEAD and then give a bunch of lines with *something* there, so various mail programs don't decide, Hey, that's just white space, we should compress it! One thing that works fairly well is: S P O I L E R S P A C E S P O I L E R S P A C E And it's generally a good idea to do that for anything only out in hardcover, or something that's been out in paperback for less than 2 months. (Some folks can't necessarily get the books from the library and can't afford hardcover copies of all the nifty stuff we could potentially discuss here, so waiting until the paperback has been out long enough for folks to get their hands on it and read it is a generally courteous thing.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Brin: What's in the works? (was Re: Greg Bear)
Let's ask him... ;-) What *is* in the works, David? (By adding Brin: to the start of the subject, it'll get to David. If the subject drifts off, please replace that with Br!n or something like that, which helps keep his inbound mail volume down.) Nick On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:00 AM, John Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: After seeing several messages with Greg Bear as subject, I am wondering if anyone has read his new book, City at the End of Time. Are there any guidelines on discussing books here without giving away too much (I'm new here, by the way)? As long as I am asking questions, does David Brin have any new science fiction books in the works? I suppose the lack of new David Brin SF accounts for the lack of SF discussion here? ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
Is City at the End of Time part of the Eon series? I somehow missed Eon years ago when I was first reading heavily in science fiction, and I'm reading it now. I'm thinking that I probably enjoy it more now -- or at least appreciate it -- than I would have in my 20's. Olin - Original Message - From: Julia Thompsonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussionmailto:brin-l@mccmedia.com Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:08 AM Subject: Re: Greg Bear On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, John Williams wrote: After seeing several messages with Greg Bear as subject, I am wondering if anyone has read his new book, City at the End of Time. Are there any guidelines on discussing books here without giving away too much (I'm new here, by the way)? Giving warning about spoilers has generally been the done thing. You warn: SPOILERS AHEAD and then give a bunch of lines with *something* there, so various mail programs don't decide, Hey, that's just white space, we should compress it! One thing that works fairly well is: S P O I L E R S P A C E S P O I L E R S P A C E And it's generally a good idea to do that for anything only out in hardcover, or something that's been out in paperback for less than 2 months. (Some folks can't necessarily get the books from the library and can't afford hardcover copies of all the nifty stuff we could potentially discuss here, so waiting until the paperback has been out long enough for folks to get their hands on it and read it is a generally courteous thing.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-lhttp://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
John Williams wrote: ... As long as I am asking questions, does David Brin have any new science fiction books in the works? I suppose the lack of new David Brin SF accounts for the lack of SF discussion here? John-- Hi. Yes, I'm sure that the lack of new books is what causes off-topic discussion. : ) I haven't read that Greg Bear, but did just finish _Saturn's Children_ by Charles Stross. ---David Robots in space, Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Brin: What's in the works? (was Re: Greg Bear)
Thanks Nick and sorry I neglect Brin-L. Drowning for time, alas. (I blog sometimes at: http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/ ) First off... we've all just returned from a high plains family odyssey -- from Denver (the World Science Fiction convention) to Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Devil's Monument and several cool caves (a family interest of ours.) The Denver World Science Fiction Convention was a bit small (they are steadily getting smaller) but charming, friendly and one of the sweetest I ever attended. (My first worldcon ever was Denvention II in 1981.) Among the highlights: 1- SKY HORIZON received the Hal Clement Award for best science fiction novel for Young Adults...a short but exciting novel in the Heinlein tradition. 2- I got a chance to do this fabulous panel with much-talented artists Frank Wu and Teddy Harvia, in which I essentially did stand-up storytelling improv with images or elements shouted from the audience while Frank and Teddy sketched. It got rather rollicking and manic, with Frank I standing on the tables doing surfer moves, then leading the audience in chants and songs, then getting REALLY silly. There must be a dozen blog entries and youTube postings about that one event. My latest book is THROUGH STRANGER EYES -- a collection of essays and book reviews from Nimble Press. Also...controversial ...Star Wars on Trial : Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Debate the Most Popular Science Fiction Films of All Time from Benbella Books. Other news? I was a cast member on the History Channel show The ArchiTechs (http://htyp.org/The_ArchiTECHS) as well as the History Channel's most popular show ever: Life After People. Currently appearing on the science show The Universe. I helped launch a major new online venture UNIVERSE Magazine. (http://www.baens-universe.com/) Drop by for exciting stories! Including my new serial-comedy THE ANCIENT ONES... funniest thing you'll read this year! But of course I am distracted by the elections, hoping we'll at last save America and civilization from a criminal gang. (What we're seeing -- including the outright and direct theft of half a trillion dollars -- goes far beyond regular issues of mere left or right.) Thrive all. With cordial regards, David Brin http://www.davidbrin.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
From: Olin Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is City at the End of Time part of the Eon series? No, it is not related to Eon at all. City was just published this summer. Frankly, I haven't completely decided whether I liked it or not. It is a rather odd story, with elements of science fiction and elements of fantasy. It has some similarities to Bear's Songs of Earth and Power, but it seemed that Bear intended City to have more of a science-fiction setting to it than Songs. Eon was good, but I'd pass on the other books in the Eon series. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Br!n: What's in the works? (was Re: Greg Bear)
Taking this out of Dr. Brin's inbox, he doesn't need to have it cluttered with my babbling about Teddy Harvia. On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, David Brin wrote: 2- I got a chance to do this fabulous panel with much-talented artists Frank Wu and Teddy Harvia, in which I essentially did stand-up storytelling improv with images or elements shouted from the audience while Frank and Teddy sketched. It got rather rollicking and manic, with Frank I standing on the tables doing surfer moves, then leading the audience in chants and songs, then getting REALLY silly. There must be a dozen blog entries and youTube postings about that one event. One of the kindest acts toward my mother by anyone in the SF community in a SF community context was committed by Teddy Harvia. I was at a cookout with a bunch of people, most of whom had been on the ConCom for a Worldcon, and Harvia showed up with the Hugo he'd just won for Best Fan Artist. He showed it to a few folks, and then said, Well, everyone here has seen one of these before, and I pointed out that my mother never had, so he brought it over and let her hold it and examine it very thoroughly. So, my mom got to handle a Hugo award just because Teddy Harvia decided to bring it to the party and to let her hold it. (I'd been in Bruce Sterling's house and seen his Hugos on display before then, but my mom had never been in the same room, or backyard, with one up until then.) I've spent a *lot* more time hanging out with Brad Foster, but Teddy Harvia will always have a special place in my heart for that one. (Brad Foster has won a number of Best Fan Artist Hugos, as well, which is why I mention him.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
At 02:43 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: -- Mauro Diotallevi The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. Around what axis? . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
At 04:56 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote: Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time. (As in, not out in paperback yet.) How about a limerick to cheer you up? ((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0 (limerick by John Saxon) Mauro-- Thanks, but I had to google for the answer. Without having seen previous examples of the form, I got about as far as Twelve plus one-forty-four. I was having a hard time rhyming twenty with square root of four until I realized that 12, 144, and 20 have special names... I can't forget that they have special names. I mean, any time we have 144 of something, either my husband or myself says to the other, That's gross. Julia And when you have 288 . . . . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
At 07:04 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote: I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest. That's what Google is for: if you type the first four lines of the limerick into the search box, it calculates the result for you, which may be the funniest thing I've seen a long time: http://url.ie/mpi Dave Google is becoming somewhat frightening at an exponential rate, lately. I had no idea some of these features were built into the engine: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html Yeah, but if you type in Define proctocraniectomy it's useless. Julia That's because the proper medical term is cranio-rectal intussception*, or CRI . . . _ *Not anastomosis, as some mistakenly call it. . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)
At 07:42 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Dave Land wrote: Of course, there are all the ones that begin, There was an old man from Nantucket..., most of which are quite unprintable, but there is this offering: Thirty years ago he was always a young man . . . Tempus Fugit Maru . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 07:04 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: Google is becoming somewhat frightening at an exponential rate, lately. I had no idea some of these features were built into the engine: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html Yeah, but if you type in Define proctocraniectomy it's useless. Julia That's because the proper medical term is cranio-rectal intussception*, or CRI . . . Didn't work on *that*, either. Next? Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 07:42 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Dave Land wrote: Of course, there are all the ones that begin, There was an old man from Nantucket..., most of which are quite unprintable, but there is this offering: Thirty years ago he was always a young man . . . Tempus Fugit Maru There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel faster than light She set out one day In a relative way And arrived there the previous night. (Of course, it's been over 25 years since I last heard the limerick, so I might have misremembered something.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)
At 09:15 AM Friday 8/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She set out one day In a relative way And arrived there the previous night. (Of course, it's been over 25 years since I last heard the limerick, so I might have misremembered something.) Julia I have a joke book from the 1920s that that one is in. . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 09:15 AM Friday 8/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel much faster than light She set out one day In a relative way And arrived there the previous night. (Of course, it's been over 25 years since I last heard the limerick, so I might have misremembered something.) Julia I have a joke book from the 1920s that that one is in. Thank you, Ronn!! This was one that my grandmother was very fond of reciting. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)
At 09:15 AM Friday 8/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 07:42 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Dave Land wrote: Of course, there are all the ones that begin, There was an old man from Nantucket..., most of which are quite unprintable, but there is this offering: Thirty years ago he was always a young man . . . Tempus Fugit Maru There was a young lady named Bright Who could travel faster than light She set out one day In a relative way And arrived there the previous night. (Of course, it's been over 25 years since I last heard the limerick, so I might have misremembered something.) Julia They're not always wailing in Wales, You can't weigh a fish on its scales, You'll acknowledge that Mars Is found among stars But can you tell me on which boat Marseilles? . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)
This is one of my favorites: There was a young woman from Tottingham Who had no manners or else had forgotten 'em At tea at the Vicar's She took off her knickers Because, she explained, she felt hot in 'em By the by, I *loved* the math limerick. It definitely tickled me. Jim A poet who didn't know it Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Aug 22, 2008, at 8:37 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: At 02:43 PM Thursday 8/21/2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: -- Mauro Diotallevi The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. Around what axis? . . . ronn! :) I'd try the t-axis .. Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed. -- M. L. King ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Aug 22, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: That's because the proper medical term is cranio-rectal intussception*, or CRI . . . Didn't work on *that*, either. Two problems here: First, the medical term that Ronn! may be groping for (eww!) is intussusception, not intussception. Second, a CRI is a Cranio-Rectal Inversion. Google THAT and you'll find plenty of mentions. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On 8/21/08, Pat Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest. Plus three times the square root of four... The last line of the limerick was the part that gave me the most trouble when I first encountered it. -- Mauro Diotallevi The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)
On 8/22/2008 9:57:51 AM, Jim Sharkey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This is one of my favorites: There was a young woman from Tottingham Who had no manners or else had forgotten 'em At tea at the Vicar's She took off her knickers Because, she explained, she felt hot in 'em By the by, I *loved* the math limerick. It definitely tickled me. Jim A poet who didn't know it Maru on a similar note: A gay Irish Priest in New Delhi Tattooed The Lords Prayer to his belly By the time that a brahmin got down to the amen he'd blown both salvation and Kelly xponent Lim Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
At 03:35 PM Friday 8/22/2008, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 22, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: That's because the proper medical term is cranio-rectal intussception*, or CRI . . . Didn't work on *that*, either. Two problems here: First, the medical term that Ronn! may be groping for (eww!) is intussusception, not intussception. I wonder how that happened: I took some pains to get it correct before I sent it. I wonder if a spell-checker somehow decided all by itself to get it wrong . . . Second, a CRI is a Cranio-Rectal Inversion. Google THAT and you'll find plenty of mentions. Dave But a medical professional knows that they are not the same thing, and that INTUSSUSCEPTION is the more accurate term for one body part having been slid or telescoped into another. A Bad Spell Maru . . . ronn! :) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Greg Bear
Has anyone read Greg Bear's thriller Quantico? I enjoyed it. Bear always gives me some food for thought. John If you liked that you should read Blood Music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music Jon ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Has anyone read Greg Bear's thriller Quantico? I enjoyed it. Bear always gives me some food for thought. John If you liked that you should read Blood Music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music Jon ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l Thanks. It'll go on the list (which is ever expanding and never completed) john ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On 8/21/08, John Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Has anyone read Greg Bear's thriller Quantico? I enjoyed it. Bear always gives me some food for thought. John If you liked that you should read Blood Music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music You might want to consider bumping it up fairly high on your list. It was written something like 22 or 23 years ago, but still stands as one of the best biotech novels I've read. I think the original novelette won a Hugo and the expanded novel was nominated but lost to one of the Ender novels. -- Mauro Diotallevi The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 8/21/08, John Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Jon Louis Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Has anyone read Greg Bear's thriller Quantico? I enjoyed it. Bear always gives me some food for thought. John If you liked that you should read Blood Music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Music You might want to consider bumping it up fairly high on your list. It was written something like 22 or 23 years ago, but still stands as one of the best biotech novels I've read. I think the original novelette won a Hugo and the expanded novel was nominated but lost to one of the Ender novels. Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time. (As in, not out in paperback yet.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time. (As in, not out in paperback yet.) How about a limerick to cheer you up? ((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0 (limerick by John Saxon) -- Mauro Diotallevi The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time. (As in, not out in paperback yet.) How about a limerick to cheer you up? ((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0 (limerick by John Saxon) Mauro-- Thanks, but I had to google for the answer. Without having seen previous examples of the form, I got about as far as Twelve plus one-forty-four. ---David 8 8 6 6 8 Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote: Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time. (As in, not out in paperback yet.) How about a limerick to cheer you up? ((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0 (limerick by John Saxon) Mauro-- Thanks, but I had to google for the answer. Without having seen previous examples of the form, I got about as far as Twelve plus one-forty-four. ---David I got it without help. Then again, my grandmother used to tell me riddles in verse, that didn't make sense unless you grouped things correctly, so my brain has been trained to think that way. (One of the many things that make me glad I had her as a grandmother.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote: Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time. (As in, not out in paperback yet.) How about a limerick to cheer you up? ((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0 (limerick by John Saxon) Mauro-- Thanks, but I had to google for the answer. Without having seen previous examples of the form, I got about as far as Twelve plus one-forty-four. I was having a hard time rhyming twenty with square root of four until I realized that 12, 144, and 20 have special names... Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote: Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time. (As in, not out in paperback yet.) How about a limerick to cheer you up? ((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0 (limerick by John Saxon) Mauro-- Thanks, but I had to google for the answer. Without having seen previous examples of the form, I got about as far as Twelve plus one-forty-four. I was having a hard time rhyming twenty with square root of four until I realized that 12, 144, and 20 have special names... I can't forget that they have special names. I mean, any time we have 144 of something, either my husband or myself says to the other, That's gross. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: Greg Bear
I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest. http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:56:26 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Greg Bear On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Hobby wrote: Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On 8/21/08, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great, now I feel old -- I checked it out of the library in college after a friend of mine had recommended it, and it was fairly new at the time. (As in, not out in paperback yet.) How about a limerick to cheer you up? ((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^(1/2))) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 + 0 (limerick by John Saxon) Mauro-- Thanks, but I had to google for the answer. Without having seen previous examples of the form, I got about as far as Twelve plus one-forty-four. I was having a hard time rhyming twenty with square root of four until I realized that 12, 144, and 20 have special names... I can't forget that they have special names. I mean, any time we have 144 of something, either my husband or myself says to the other, That's gross. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote: I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest. That's what Google is for: if you type the first four lines of the limerick into the search box, it calculates the result for you, which may be the funniest thing I've seen a long time: http://url.ie/mpi Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Aug 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote: I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest. That's what Google is for: if you type the first four lines of the limerick into the search box, it calculates the result for you, which may be the funniest thing I've seen a long time: http://url.ie/mpi Dave Google is becoming somewhat frightening at an exponential rate, lately. I had no idea some of these features were built into the engine: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html What's really going to bake your noodle later on is, if I hadn't told you you were going to break it, would you still have broken it? -the Oracle ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote: I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest. That's what Google is for: if you type the first four lines of the limerick into the search box, it calculates the result for you, which may be the funniest thing I've seen a long time: http://url.ie/mpi Dave Google is becoming somewhat frightening at an exponential rate, lately. I had no idea some of these features were built into the engine: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html Yeah, but if you type in Define proctocraniectomy it's useless. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Limericks (was Re: Greg Bear)
Folks, They needn't have ribaldry's taint Or strive to make everyone faint. There's a type that's demure And perfectly pure Though it helps quite a lot if they ain't. Of course, there are all the ones that begin, There was an old man from Nantucket..., most of which are quite unprintable, but there is this offering: There was an old man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket; But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Greg Bear
On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Julia Thompson wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Pat Mathews wrote: I got the first line, anyway. A dozen, a gross, and a score and am far too lazy to do the calculations and figure out the rest. That's what Google is for: if you type the first four lines of the limerick into the search box, it calculates the result for you, which may be the funniest thing I've seen a long time: http://url.ie/mpi Dave Google is becoming somewhat frightening at an exponential rate, lately. I had no idea some of these features were built into the engine: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/features.html Yeah, but if you type in Define proctocraniectomy it's useless. Julia For now. I'm sure there's a module to handle that somewhere in development, at least .. They love him at a barbecue, not so much with the nuclear launch codes. -- Toby Ziegler ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
