Re: [ERPS] FYI: Sci-Fi Convention in Foster City

2002-10-08 Thread Doug Jones
Aleta Jackson wrote: > BTW, the EZ-Rocket will be on display at the Edwards AFB airshow on 25 > October. We are the _only_ civilian aircraft at the show, which its > planners intend to make up for having to cancel last year's show because > of 9/11. Should be quite interesting... ;-> Aleta Minor

Re: [ERPS] FWIW

2002-10-08 Thread Bob McElrath
I wish you the best of luck in finding employment. But your predicament gave me an idea. Last year the Perl community ponied up $55k to hire professional perl hacker Damien Conway: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/10/15/1724258.shtml This year the "Open Source Community" ponied up $100k to b

[ERPS] FWIW

2002-10-08 Thread Ian Woollard
Ok ;-) It's just been announced I'm being made redundant. If anyone knows of a cool rocketry job for someone with a degree in physics with electronics and/or professional software skills please let me know... location no particular object. (As if it were this easy ;-) ) __

Re: [ERPS] FYI: Sci-Fi Convention in Foster City

2002-10-08 Thread Randall Clague
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:59:21 -0700 (PDT), Bill Clawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't know if anyone's interested, but there will be >a sci-fi convention in Foster City. Do we want a >presence there? > >http://siliconventions.org/ I plan to be there, but as part of Contact, not representing

Re: [ERPS] FYI: Sci-Fi Convention in Foster City

2002-10-08 Thread Aleta Jackson
G. David Nordley is worth going to see. ;-> I'm sorry I can't make it up there for this: looks like fun. BTW, the EZ-Rocket will be on display at the Edwards AFB airshow on 25 October. We are the _only_ civilian aircraft at the show, which its planners intend to make up for having to cancel last

[ERPS] FYI: Sci-Fi Convention in Foster City

2002-10-08 Thread Bill Clawson
I don't know if anyone's interested, but there will be a sci-fi convention in Foster City. Do we want a presence there? http://siliconventions.org/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com _

Re: [ERPS] Rotary Rocket on NPR

2002-10-08 Thread Aleta Jackson
John Carmack wrote: > > I read it last week. "Condescending and irritating" was how I would > characterize it. Lies. Lies and mistakes and a sneering cynical attitude. Aleta ___ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/li

Re: [ERPS] Rotary Rocket on NPR

2002-10-08 Thread John Carmack
> >By coincidence I had bought this book (at Borders) on Friday. >I'm halfway through it. The basic theme is that Gary Hudson, >all the people around him, and all the people who share his >dreams (such as the attendees of Space Access '98, where she >was taking notes) are just little boys who re