Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Stiff competition for Bad Sex award

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Pratt
Link didn't work for me at first try. I'll g at it again. But I've got my own off-the-cuff addition (if it isn't on the lst already). It's from E.E. "Doc" Smith, one of his lesser known novels about Richard Seaton. In it, Seaton's best buddy, his chief engineer, is heard to exult, as their first

Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Stiff competition for Bad Sex award

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Pratt
I agree with you entirely, Carole. I try to limit affection between any of my characters to kissing and mornings after. Carole McDonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It just seems so overwrought to me. Yeah, I know sex is vitality and vital force but dang it...these guys! I personally avoid

Re: [scifinoir2] BlackBerry Users Face Shutdown

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Pratt
I heard about this yesterday in another group I'm in, and I asked the same question there- how did these guys manage to gain the right to produce Crackberries when they didn't own the right to do so? That's like me printing up copies of Zelazny's works and claiming them as my own. Brent Wodehou

RE: [scifinoir2] BlackBerry Users Face Shutdown

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Pratt
Okay, now that you'll have extra free time, hop on over to SciFi's website and get to work fixing it! Keith Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: yay! No more need for me to support all the managers on my job! I spent over four hours just last week loading software, synching up Outlook, and con

Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: World Science: Man-sized scorpion described

2005-12-02 Thread Astromancer
Here, here! Martin Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note to self- NEVER VISIT SCOTLAND. Amy Harlib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Strange science stuff! * Man-sized scorpion described: A geologist has uncovered footprints of what he says was a fearsome water scorpion bigger th

Re: [scifinoir2] To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Pratt
I heard about this website somewhere. Darn if I can remember where, but I did. Brent Wodehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I prefer Hidden Frontiers. :-) - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/startrek.html To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Bef

Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: World Science: Man-sized scorpion described

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Pratt
Note to self- NEVER VISIT SCOTLAND. Amy Harlib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Strange science stuff! * Man-sized scorpion described: A geologist has uncovered footprints of what he says was a fearsome water scorpion bigger than a human. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/0

[scifinoir2] To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before

2005-12-02 Thread Brent Wodehouse
I prefer Hidden Frontiers. :-) - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/startrek.html To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before The original Star Trek set out on a five-year mission that network execs cut short in 1969. Now a new confederation of ama

[scifinoir2] With click-to-view, who will have time for TV?

2005-12-02 Thread Brent Wodehouse
http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=14478 Dot Comment With click-to-view, who will have time for TV? By dave watson Publish Date: 1 - Dec - 2005 Television broadcasting inherited a great deal from radio. There was the whole restriction to how far the electromagnetic broadcast signal could

[scifinoir2] ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX: Who Gets Best Diversity Report Card?

2005-12-02 Thread George
FYI, in case you haven't seen these two news stories. I thought that you or somebody you know would be interested. George Captain The USS Ronald E. McNair (Boston) - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.diversityinc.com/members/18645.cfm ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX: Who Gets Best Diversity Report Card? By Brenda