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4481
A few years ago, I advertized for a Name Generator Program that would create character names based on Pal-ul-Don by Edgar Rice Burrough's _Tarzan the...
Rick Johnson
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Nov 9, 2008
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4482
From: Peggy Avatar: Guest_LoralRose To: Denis...
Peggy
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Nov 12, 2008
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4483
We released the November issue a few days ago and it's a good one! This one features an article on seeing the original King Kong on the big screen. Fiction...
WALTER BOSLEY
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Nov 12, 2008
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4484
This sounded fun so I had a go at... http://www.employees.org/~jonixon/barsoom_distance.html You can take the code and use it as you see fit, but its untested...
Jon Nixon
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Nov 13, 2008
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4485
Hi Rick - * http://www.employees.org/~jonixon/barsoom_distance.html * http://www.employees.org/~jonixon/barsoom_time.html Both are mostly untested and rely on...
Jon Nixon
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Nov 13, 2008
10:06 pm
4486
Cool! According to this I'm only 33.5 years old on Barsoom! Phil ... Phil Normand phil@... http://www.recoverings.com Replica dust jackets for the...
Phil Normand
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Nov 13, 2008
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4487
... Good work, Jon. Unfortunately, time on Barsoom is not quite that simple. You may want to check out my article at http://www.erbzine.com/mag16/1630.html ...
ekman@...
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Nov 14, 2008
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4488
Hello Fredrik - ... You included a nice little summary halfway through your article so I borrowed that and redesigned my script *...
Jon Nixon
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Nov 14, 2008
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4489
Wow! I guess I could add more columns using different rules - but it may take me a while to digest all that information ;-) - Jon...
Jon Nixon
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Nov 14, 2008
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4490
... Say, that looks very nice! I will have to write Tom and tell him about it. ... I have actually made an Earth <-> Barsoom date conversion tool myself, in ...
ekman@...
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Nov 14, 2008
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4491
... I did a story _Ayiesha, a MAiden on Barsoom_ where the heroine was 20 Earth Years and involved with a 350 year old Red man... I tossed in that part where...
Rick Johnson
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Nov 17, 2008
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4492
I think that the programs work very well for people on our level. But then, I'm not sending a free-fall satelite to Barsoom that will take two years to reach...
Rick Johnson
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Nov 17, 2008
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4493
From George McWhorter: Dear Bill, ". . . I just lost my closest friend ... Bobbie Rucker, and sang over her casket at the cemetery on Saturday ... her favorite...
Bill & Sue-On Hillman
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Nov 18, 2008
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4494
... We can. Burroughs did specify units of length and time for Venus as well. Again, unfortunately, he was not perfectly consistent. I have some discussion...
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Nov 18, 2008
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4495
... You give me the conversions and I can adapt the programs :-) Or you can do it yourself... the source should be very easy to understand. First each field is...
Jon Nixon
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Nov 18, 2008
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4496
Condolences. I didn't know Bobbie Rucker, but what I read here tells me that the world has lost a good person....
sailor.barsoom
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Nov 19, 2008
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4497
... Once I can read the code, I probably can. I do simple html and when I needed to do something more complicated, I would save a code and dissect it. ...
Rick Johnson
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Nov 19, 2008
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4498
www.ERBzine.com/news For "Wall-E" director, art mixes well with commerce Reuters ~ November 18, 2008 ...
Bill & Sue-On Hillman
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Nov 19, 2008
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4499
... I can save the webpage as a link or such but not the code that created the program. Thats odd - theres no security involved and if you're viewing and using...
Jon Nixon
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Nov 19, 2008
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4500
got it!!! I knew that if I relaxed and let my inner-nerd take over, I'd figure it out. I went to the URL and saved (took whatever suggestion the computer...
Rick Johnson
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Nov 20, 2008
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FYI, Jon found the problem (syntax error crept in when I saved the URL to wordPad). I was able to fix most but there were 2 that I was totally unable to find...
Rick Johnson
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Nov 24, 2008
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4502
An excerpt from John Norman on the? Chronicles of Gor site. Steve S./Seg "Prize of Gor is the last book published in the Gorean series. It is not the last book...
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Nov 26, 2008
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4503
Although I liked the early Gor novels, after awhile they became 200 pages of his 'women want to be slaves' philosophy, 100 pages of 'national geographic' with...
Rick Johnson
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Nov 26, 2008
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4504
rick Johnson wrote: "Burroughs had a similar 'women need to be protected because they are weaker than men. thoughts but frankly, some of his women are a lot ...
Peter Huston
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Nov 28, 2008
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4505
I think that we also tend to read Burroughs from the view of modern America where Sigourney Weaver fought and defeated numerous aliens, Red Sonja and others...
Rick Johnson
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Nov 28, 2008
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4506
Well, back in Burroughs day, there was a separate but equal shtick going on.   A woman wasn't expected to get into sword battles, but equally, women were...
Den Valdron
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Nov 28, 2008
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4507
Maybe it's been talked about already, but I HAVE to ask someone! I just read about the PIXAR "John Carter of Mars" movie that should be out in 2012 (I CAN'T...
Burke Rakers
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Nov 28, 2008
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4508
I dunno.  Gor's increasingly silly misogyny is a major turn off.  And to my mind, it helped to kill the entire swords and planets genre.   But rather than...
Den Valdron
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Nov 29, 2008
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4509
I would have to agree with Rick on the later Gor novels. I loved the first several. The first couple were a fantastic tribute to the Burroughs Pulp...
samuel_martens
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Nov 29, 2008
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4510
... As a matter of curiosity, Rick: Which of the three options for Barsoomian time do you prefer to use when you write? Or do you find that you do not need...
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