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From: Charles Richmond on 6 May 2010 00:35 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > [snip...] [snip...] [snip...] > > Smart is believing only half of what you hear. > Brilliant is knowing which half. > "Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see." � Mark Twain -- +----------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | | | | plano dot net at aquaporin4 dot com | +----------------------------------------+
From: Charles Richmond on 6 May 2010 01:02 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > In article > <michelle-44FC0E.13402604052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, > michelle(a)michelle.org (Michelle Steiner) writes: > >> In article <slrnhu10oe.2jll.g.kreme(a)ibook-g4.local>, >> Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: >> >>>>> Did you know that Mark Twain wrote science fiction? I don't have >>>>> the book unpacked so I can't give you the title. >>>> A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. >>> I wouldn't classify that as Science Fiction. >> I guess that The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove isn't science >> fiction either, by your standards. How about Heinlein's By His >> Bootstraps or Jerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself? > > To me, By His Bootstraps is good SF (and just a warm-up for > "All You Zombies..."). If you want to argue over whether a > Heinlein novel is SF, try Glory Road. > " Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed, and, in the interim, we will sell our books for the most we can. Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line. ... stay there in thy closet, and toil, until the rest are agreed what to do about it." -- "Experience" by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- +----------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond | | | | plano dot net at aquaporin4 dot com | +----------------------------------------+
From: Gene Wirchenko on 6 May 2010 01:30 On Tue, 04 May 2010 23:26:34 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer(a)cs.nmsu.edu> wrote: >Charles Richmond <frizzle(a)tx.rr.com> writes: >> >> Pessimist: Looks at the glass as half empty. >> >> Optimist: Looks at the glass as half full. >> >> Optometrist: Says "Does the glass look better this way, or this >> way... this way, or this way..." > >Engineer: you know, that glass is twice as big as it needs to be.... Real Engineer: "That glass is 1.9 times bigger than it needs to be." (allowing for a tolerance) Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko
From: Gene Wirchenko on 6 May 2010 01:35 On Tue, 4 May 2010 14:49:03 -0700 (PDT), Mensanator <mensanator(a)aol.com> wrote: [snip] >Would it be nit-picking of me to point out that Gully, >as the Burning Man, jaunted across both space AND time? The word "space-time" was coined to deal with the likes of you. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko
From: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on 5 May 2010 17:47
On 05 May 10 09:51:59 -0800 "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > In article > <michelle-44FC0E.13402604052010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, > michelle(a)michelle.org (Michelle Steiner) writes: > > > In article <slrnhu10oe.2jll.g.kreme(a)ibook-g4.local>, > > Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > > > >>>> Did you know that Mark Twain wrote science fiction? I don't have > >>>> the book unpacked so I can't give you the title. > >>> > >>> A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. > >> > >> I wouldn't classify that as Science Fiction. > > > > I guess that The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove isn't science > > fiction either, by your standards. How about Heinlein's By His > > Bootstraps or Jerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself? > > To me, By His Bootstraps is good SF (and just a warm-up for > "All You Zombies..."). If you want to argue over whether a > Heinlein novel is SF, try Glory Road. Np thank you - I've been trying to forget that one ever since I read it. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/ |