Re: Brain fart

2006-05-29 Thread Charlie Bell
On 30/05/2006, at 6:52 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: So, I'm back and I had fun. (Getting to have a mimosa How do you "have a mimosa"? The sentence structure suggests that you are not just informing us that there is one growing in your yard . . . 3 parts champagne, 2 parts orange juic

Re: Brain fart

2006-05-29 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:03 PM Monday 5/29/2006, Julia Thompson wrote: I probably should have mentioned to someone on Thursday or Friday that I would be gone this weekend, but I got little enough sleep both Wednesday and Thursday nights that I kinda spaced it. (That wasn't the worst bit of spacing I did, either.

Brain fart

2006-05-29 Thread Julia Thompson
I probably should have mentioned to someone on Thursday or Friday that I would be gone this weekend, but I got little enough sleep both Wednesday and Thursday nights that I kinda spaced it. (That wasn't the worst bit of spacing I did, either. Kinda rotten to realize 3 hours after you meant to

Re: The List

2006-05-29 Thread Bemmzim
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Re: The List

2006-05-29 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 5/29/2006 2:16:57 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Did you stay for the coda, or did you wimp out with the majority of > mindless > >Marveless minions who walked out when the credits started rolling? > > > Well since I don't remember what

Re: The List

2006-05-29 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 5/28/2006 8:50:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Did you stay for the coda, or did you wimp out with the majority of > mindless > >Marveless minions who walked out when the credits started rolling? > > > Well since I don't remember what I stayed fo

Re: Critical Features

2006-05-29 Thread Bemmzim
In a message dated 5/28/2006 8:27:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > (1) virus ( ) alive ( ) not alive. > > (2) BSE prion ( ) alive ( ) not alive. > > (Choose one and only one answer to each question.) > > > The problem with this sort of argurement is that it assumes

Re: When BatLeths Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have BatLeths

2006-05-29 Thread David Hobby
Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 08:36 PM Sunday 5/28/2006, David Hobby wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Apparently that day is here: <> "BatLeth" meant nothing to me, and it's not clear the thing is a very useful weapon. Let me elaborate: T

Why Macs suck

2006-05-29 Thread Robert G. Seeberger
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/31000/Why_Macintosh_Sucks.html True or not, its pretty funny. xponent Crash Different Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Brin. Cyrano de Bergerac's "Thrust home." (Hoo-ha!) ::rimshot::

2006-05-29 Thread Jean-Louis Couturier
On 5/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been accused of continually seeing the obvious that does not exist. I didn't remember the translator's name, and so I had to look through five different editions at the used bookstore until I found the one that matched the movie.

Re: Critical Features

2006-05-29 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:58 AM Monday 5/29/2006, Charlie Bell wrote: On 29/05/2006, at 3:26 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: So: (1) virus ( ) alive ( ) not alive. (2) BSE prion ( ) alive ( ) not alive. (Choose one and only one answer to each question.) You're making a classic error, of forcing things into pi

Re: Critical Features

2006-05-29 Thread Charlie Bell
On 29/05/2006, at 3:26 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: So: (1) virus ( ) alive ( ) not alive. (2) BSE prion ( ) alive ( ) not alive. (Choose one and only one answer to each question.) You're making a classic error, of forcing things into pigeonholes. There are some things that are alive,

Re: When BatLeths Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have BatLeths

2006-05-29 Thread Charlie Bell
On 29/05/2006, at 6:48 AM, Bryon Daly wrote: Anecdotal and mostly irrelevant story: Back during the original run of Babylon 5 (probably 9+ years ago, so forgive me if my memory is faulty), JMS (the series creator) discussed in the B5 newsgroup how the BBC Channel 4, but understandable er