On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 6:26:57 PM, "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." < ... I think I got one last week. She's not a big SF fan, but she is a big Dorothy Dunnett...
... Don't read his fiction. Instead, read his essays ON fiction, on the novel, the future of the novel, and his reviews of his contemporaries...like Trollope,...
I heard the term used in HBO's "OZ". A mobster was going to write his autobiography and his effeminate cellmate offered to be his Boswell. Arius "If brute...
I've jumped into the blogosphere by installing Movable Type on my web site. Go take a look, and make yourselves at home in the comments section. URL? The links...
... The links in the closing block itself were updated about a week ago... [Now, the pages those links go to -- THEY are hideously out of date.] chrisw...
1) The new website looks GREAT! 2) What's with "blog" and "blogrolled"? I am totally confused. chrisw [asking publically in case he isn't the only one who is...
Blog is short for weblog. It's a kind of personal journal on the web, wherein one talks about things of interest, and points readers to other blogs. Blogs tend...
Thanks, Dave, for bringing me (and everyone else) up to speed on blogs. ... This was going to be a question as well -- I really like the new site, and I have...
Once MT is installed, there's very little time involved. It will even install a "bookmarklet" in your browser that enables you to click and post. The time sink...
Greetings: ======================== This was going to be a question as well -- I really like the new site, and I have been thinking about what I can do to make...
... [laugh] After looking a little bit more into MT, I don't think I am going to go that route after all. But I might still, if I think that it can make it...
Chris-- You should check out the MT support forum for some ideas on how MT can support other web formats: e.g. a photo gallery. I'm working with the tool to...
... Boy meets girl, lightsaber fight, boy loses girl, space-vehicle chase, boy gets girl back, climactic battle won by pseudoreligious *deus ex machina*....
... chase, boy ... machina*. "Pseudoreligiou deus ex machina"? Explain. I didn't notice anything of the sort. Assuming you're in some way referring to the...
There was an interesting discussion on Chris' sfconsim-l list about military symbols. There was a study on military symbology. A group of civilians ...
I am trying to track down a story for a friend. He tells me that it involves using people with cerebral palsy to control spaceships. He says that the pilots...
This story plot showed up on the Lois McMaster Bujold List I'm listed on. I'm downloading the Digests now in hopes of finding it. I vaguely recall it showing...
No, that was not more info than I wanted to know. In fact, I'm shaping up a little essay on the tenno inspired by this info. I'll be creating an Exordium blog...
... I think it's a natural part of _some_ childhood education in TTS: the Panarchic civilization is large and vast and diverse enough that I don't see them...
Tony Zbaraschuk
tonyz@...
May 23, 2002 10:48 pm
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... A thought that crosses my mind is the combination of the Tianqui (sp?) and Tenno. Smell plays a large (very large) part in our mnemonic processes and...
Ryx
larkshadow@...
May 24, 2002 12:16 am
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Just for completeness: I was drawing the comparison with "decision graphics" and Tenno glyphs when Chris jumped in to set us all straight. (You can be the...
Interesting idea about scent. And lots of stuff to chew on. But the sonic aspect, while it might play a part in Tenno interpretation, wouldn't help with the 4D...
... Olfactory stimuli is a major cognative trigger that opens up immense memory storehouses dating back years, even decades (the scent of a particular blend of...
Ryx
larkshadow@...
May 24, 2002 2:16 am
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... BABEL-17 by Samuel R. Delaney Babel 17 is the secret weapon created by the enemy. It is an ultra efficient artifical language. In the novel, the heroine...
... <snip> ... <snip> ... Of course, what's basically been accomplished here is compression by leaving out all redundant elements. This shortens the length of...
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