... What she said. Tony Z ... -- I'm not sure that the ability to create routing diagrams similar to pretzels with mad cow disease is actually a marketable...
Hi Everyone, I just saw Cloverfield on Sunday and my impression of it was good. I think it's one of the best sci-fi movies I've seen in a long time, which is...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/ AR2008022602728.html The Nyuk, Nyuk Stops Here A museum celebrating the Stooges? It's better...
Had a wonderful time at ConDor, with their usual great panels. Also got to share breaktfast (twice) with Sherwood and Deborah (once); sorry Dave couldn't make...
... I'll strongly second this recommendation, and add that Weinberg is a good lecturer in person, too. (When I got to the first part of this paragraph, I...
Greetings: "One is Gerhard Weinberg, _A World at Arms_, the best one-volume history of WW II ever written." I have that one. It is one heck of a doorstop. A...
... Focused histories of single campaigns are very good, and I have a wall of them (literally) in one of my rooms. What Weinberg does, better than anyone else...
... Yup. Once Germany was going to be defeated, the Japanese couldn't win against US + British forces. Tony Z -- I'm not sure that the ability to create...
Greetings: "What Weinberg does, better than anyone else I've read, is tell you how all those campaigns react on each other, and influence each other, and (for...
... There's Chandler's _The Campaigns of Napoleon_, but that mainly covers things where Nappy himself was present, and not so much other wars. (The fact that...
The best attempt I'd seen was Claude Manceron's big work, but I don't know how far he got: he was not doing Napoleon's wars and their affects so much as how...
... Napoleon was brilliant, but had many flaws, not the least of which is that he didn't understand how the system had changed because of him. chrisw...
... The other is an ego the size of Europe, along with a tendency to think that everyone else would go along with what he wanted because he wanted it. There's...
... I think the biggest problem along those lines is that he didn't think he had to honor the agreements he had negotiated. he told Alexander I that the...
Okay, heading into the second worst year financially that spouse and I ever had, I'm asking anyone who shops on Amazon to just go in through any of the links...
Anyone know someone willing to share a hotel room at the Denver Worldcon this year? I'd rather not pay solo rates for what's basically a place with a roof...
I've been promoting the Exordium books a bit after they were mentioned on one of my forums (consimworld.com, for discussion of boardgames etc.) The line "Jane...
I like that too! (i think there's way more Dunnett than Austen.) ... From: Christopher Weuve <caw@...> To: exordium-l@yahoogroups.com CC: Date: Sat,...
Are there any specific Dunnett references? I found two explicit Austen references (both just happened to come from _Pride and Prejudice_, the only Austen work...
Oh, there are oblique hints and injokes all over the books. *snerk* about the young lady. A mentor of mine used to offer young ladies about whom he might get...
And, of course, there's the whole whodunnet thread in Book 4. <runs away quickly, hands shielding head> ... -- Dave Trowbridge The Discovered Country ...
... Yet Another Reason I need to bite the bullet and buy the (no-mass- market, never-in-USBs) Dunnett books. ... Why do you think I have extra copies of...
... Perhaps, but I found Dunnett not terribly exciting, and Austen is probably more widely recognizable. Tony Z ... -- The power of any data-capture tool is...
I don't know if any of you guys would want to, but maybe if someone went to Tor's new site and spoke up for Ex, they might get around to resurrecting them, at...
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