Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions

2004-01-28 Thread Deborah Harrell
Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm moving into the foothills this week So I'm frantically sorting and purging, (Possibly) Dumb question: Why, if the new place is at least as big as what you have now? cha-grin Umm, because I have *piles* of

Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions (addendum)

2004-01-28 Thread Deborah Harrell
And thanks to William too! (Knew I just shoulda said Thanks everyone for the advice...) Debbi Journal-Purging Fool Maru ;) __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions

2004-01-27 Thread Dave Land
Deborah, -Macintosh Performa 6220CD/75 16/1 GB This is a really old, really slow machine with hardly any memory or disk space. Even in its day, this was only a middling Mac. Despite my status as a dedicated Mac zealot for most of the 20 years they've been around, I wouldn't recommend this

Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions

2004-01-27 Thread William T Goodall
On 27 Jan 2004, at 2:03 am, Dave Land wrote: My own 266MHz beige PowerMac mostly sits around collecting cat hairs because it's just too slow. Too slow for some things, but I have one of those working very nicely as a server running 24/7 under Mac OS X 10.2.8 . It has Apache and MySQL and a

Moving: Irregulars book questions

2004-01-26 Thread Deborah Harrell
I'm moving into the foothills this week - a situation presented that involves taking care of 5 Arabians and their barn, with a caretaker apt (that is at least as big as the place I'm in now) attached. reverent mode Manna from heaven. Truly. So I'm frantically sorting and purging, and must now

Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions

2004-01-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: brinl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 4:08 PM Subject: Moving: Irregulars book questions Books-gifts received: to read or not to read/keep/move? -Greg Bear's _Slant_ (inclined to try unless told

Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions

2004-01-26 Thread Erik Reuter
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 02:08:02PM -0800, Deborah Harrell wrote: Books-gifts received: to read or not to read/keep/move? -Greg Bear's _Slant_ (inclined to try unless told to toss) It is more or less a sequel to _Queen of Angels_, so you may want to read that first. They are both worth

Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions

2004-01-26 Thread David Hobby
Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm moving into the foothills this week - a situation presented that involves taking care of 5 Arabians and their barn, with a caretaker apt (that is at least as big as the place I'm in now) attached. reverent mode Manna from heaven. Truly. Wow. Good for

Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions

2004-01-26 Thread William T Goodall
On 26 Jan 2004, at 10:08 pm, Deborah Harrell wrote: So I'm frantically sorting and purging, and must now ask the computer-saavy here what I should have last month: I've been given 2 computers for home use (primarily I'll use for word processing and a little email, don't care about games or fancy

Re: Moving: Irregulars book questions

2004-01-26 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 04:08 PM 1/26/04, Deborah Harrell wrote: I'm moving into the foothills this week - a situation presented that involves taking care of 5 Arabians and their barn, with a caretaker apt (that is at least as big as the place I'm in now) attached. reverent mode Manna from heaven. Truly. So I'm

Re: Book questions

2004-01-11 Thread William T Goodall
On 11 Jan 2004, at 4:49 am, G. D. Akin wrote: Has anyone read Kim Stanley Robinson's Orange County trilogy? I have. Are they worth reading? I found the third (_Pacific Edge_ the Utopian version of Orange County) very dull. But _The Wild Shore_ and _The Gold Coast_ were quite good. -- William

Book questions

2004-01-10 Thread G. D. Akin
Has anyone read Kim Stanley Robinson's Orange County trilogy? Are they worth reading? George A ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l