those who can't, teach

2003-09-04 Thread Kevin Tarr
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Content/read.asp?ID=55 The Center for the Study of Popular Culture released a report that documents the stunning bias against conservative viewpoints on college faculties and speakers platforms. At 32 elite colleges registered Democrats on the faculty outnumbered

Re: those who can't, teach

2003-09-04 Thread TomFODW
The Center for the Study of Popular Culture released a report that documents the stunning bias against conservative viewpoints on college faculties and speakers platforms. At 32 elite colleges registered Democrats on the faculty outnumbered Republicans 10-1. At two of the schools Bowdoin and

Re: those who can't, teach

2003-09-04 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Center for the Study of Popular Culture released a report that documents the stunning bias against conservative viewpoints on college faculties and speakers platforms. At 32 elite colleges registered Democrats on the faculty outnumbered Republicans 10-1. At

35 weeks and still hanging in there

2003-09-04 Thread Julia Thompson
My last weekly check-up with the perinatal nurse was yesterday. Her opinion at the end of the whole checkup was that I'll make it to 36 weeks, but at the rate things are going, I will *not* make it to 38 weeks. And that's the window we were shooting for all along, and what's theoretically best

Scouted: Firefly to become movie

2003-09-04 Thread TomFODW
http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/04/film.firefly.reut/index.html The short-lived TV series Firefly is moving to the big screen. After taking his Buffy the Vampire Slayer feature film and turning it into a successful TV series, Firefly creator Joss Whedon is about to do the reverse

Humor: Pilot Humor

2003-09-04 Thread Michael Harney
Warning: the content is workplace safe if and only if it's okay to laugh your ass off at work. Pilot Humor After every flight, Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe sheet, which conveys to the mechanics problems encountered with the aircraft during the flight that need repair or

Re: Humor: Pilot Humor

2003-09-04 Thread TomFODW
Hah-hah, very funny. Except - it's not reall PILOT humor, is it? It's really MECHANIC humor. Other than that, carry on. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last. - Dr Jerry Pournelle

Re: Torcon 3

2003-09-04 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:26 AM 9/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: G. D. Akin wrote: I will be in Boston in 2004 . . . the wife has given me the thumb's up. Lucky. I would really, really like to go. Not sure that's really going to be feasible, though, with 2 kids under a year old. (What I'd hoped for was that they'd do

Space Station Music

2003-09-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
I thought this was fun: NASA Science News for September 4, 2003 A surprising number of astronauts are also musicians--and they love to play in space. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/04sep_music.htm?list818490 ...A lot of astronauts play instruments. There's even an astronaut

Re: Back from the Land of the Lotus Eaters.

2003-09-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Harney wrote: I find it terribly interesting that something as mundane as wheat can have such a profound effect on someone because of a simple failure to properly digest it. Or as mundane as milk. I'm lactose intolerant snip ...Is

Re: Space Station Music

2003-09-04 Thread Reggie Bautista
Debbi wrote: I thought this was fun: NASA Science News for September 4, 2003 A surprising number of astronauts are also musicians--and they love to play in space. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/04sep_music.htm?list818490 That isn't so surprising, really. I read somewhere that all of

Re: Back from the Land of the Lotus Eaters.

2003-09-04 Thread Reggie Bautista
Ronn! wrote: I'm not lactose intolerant, but one of my cats apparently is, as he inevitably barfs ten minutes after consuming any quantity of milk (but not if it's that lactose-free cat milk put out by one of the pet food companies, though which one I can't remember right now). A surprisingly

Re: B5 question

2003-09-04 Thread Reggie Bautista
Cleaning out my inbox, I ran across this... Kevin Tarr wrote: One of the few things I hate about B5 is the names Sinclair and Sheridan both starting with S. Jeffrey Sinclair, John Sheridan, Joe Straczynski... I'm starting to notice a pattern here... IIRC, Sinclair's middle initial is M, and Joe

Re: insomnia

2003-09-04 Thread Reggie Bautista
Still cleaning out the inbox... Jose wrote: My former therapist swore by both Melatonin and Trytophan. She would buy Tryptophan from a company in LA that marketed it as a pet medication, and then use it on herself. She even gave me a couple of samples, but it never worked well with me. Go

Re: Back from the Land of the Lotus Eaters.

2003-09-04 Thread Reggie Bautista
I wrote: lunch meets, I just love spell checkers. That's lunch meats, of course. Reggie Bautista It's Nyarlathotep's Fault Maru _ Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

Halliburton and Iraq

2003-09-04 Thread Deborah Harrell
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56429-2003Aug27.html Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded

Re: those who can't, teach

2003-09-04 Thread David Hobby
Kevin Tarr wrote: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Content/read.asp?ID=55 The Center for the Study of Popular Culture released a report that documents the stunning bias against conservative viewpoints on college faculties and speakers platforms. At 32 elite colleges registered Democrats on the