In a message dated 3/1/2005 6:23:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, John Oliver <oliver at astro.ufl.edu> writes: >Bato001 at aol.com wrote: >> In a message dated 2/28/2005 11:03:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, >> FRIEDA2133 at aol.com writes: >> >> >>>> MedCat7 at aol.com wrote: >>>> >>>>>> I am not sure if the link would still work, but if someone >>>>>> could help >>>> >>>> me out on this, I have no clue where to look for past threads... >>>> thank you thank you. >>> >>> Hi Crystal, >>> >>> Past threads-- >>> >>> http://dragaera.info/ Click on mailing lists Click on the word >>> archive on the Dragaera line. That will get you to >>> http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi?1 Click on email that >>> looks like one you posted. If it isn't yours, Click on the word >>> <-thread-> to bring up all emails with same subject line. Click on >>> one from MedCat7.aol.com Click on <- author -> and you can see >>> every email you wrote. Then the hard part comes...finding the right >>> one. >>> >>> There is also http://dragaera.info/dragaerasearch/ But it does not >>> seem to be searching recent postings. >>> >>> Or even easier, someone nice like Chris Olson can search his emails >>> and find the link (or however he found the link). >>> >>> Bato001.aol.com wrote Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:43:10 -0500 >>> >>> >>>>> My wife saw the stickers and said that I was an idiot and that >>>>> it made no sense. I told her that you had to be there and that >>>>> it was an inside joke. She told me that in that case I was a >>>>> f*&*ing idiot. :) I can't disagree. >>> >>> Hi John D. Barbato, O.D., >>> >>> Maybe you can read your wife some of Issola: >>> >>> Vlad, an Easterner (human), talking to Teldra, an (genetically- >>> modified human) Issola: >>> >>> "'What are young Issola like?' Teldra flashed me a smile. >>> 'Obsequious to the point of irritating, or else timid to the point >>> of invisibility. What about young Easterners?' 'Brash, cocky, and >>> convinced we can beat anything that walks, flies, or swims, and >>> that we know all the answers to everything.' 'Rather like Dzur, >>> then.' 'I guess. I'm generalizing from one example, here, but >>> everyone generalized from one example. At least, I do.'" >>> >>> Issola, paperback, Chapter 14, page 211. >>> >>> Pause and see if you earn "actual chuckle" like Vlad did. >>> >>> If not, point out that Vlad, the Easterner (human), is using >>> himself as the one example. Self deprecating humor, correct? >>> >>> Or tell her the bumper sticker is like a computer infinite loop or >>> a circular argument. >>> >>> "Everyone generalizes from one example. At least I do." >>> >>> Or maybe you should not say anything about the bumper stickers >>> anymore. I think you should *not* mention to your wife that you >>> told us what she said. We do not want another Teckla/Phoenix to >>> happen. >>> >>> Bye. >>> >>> Linda G. >>> >> >> >> Ha, ha, ha. We most certainly do not enjoy the same literary tastes, >> my wife and I. Also, She really doesn't care about me talking about >> it on the list, even if she did, I am certain that it's not a deal >> breaker. Any hoo, I *am* an idiot, but not for buying the stickers!!! >> Sometimes we have to laugh at ourselves. I definately am a sci-fi and >> Fantasy geek, but at least I'm her geek. She was just ribbing me for >> being a 37 year old, well respected doctor, buying bumperstickers >> from my *internet cronies*, that only someone who has read a certain >> book would understand. I see her point, of course, but I really don't >> care!!! ;) > >And what does that make me ??? A 65 year old (nearly) retired professor >who is preparing to play an Orca in a Heros game based on Dragaera? >-- >John Oliver >Associate Professor >Associate Chair >Department of Astronomy >University of Florida >Project AST at RHO http://astrho.astro.ufl.edu >see the night sky at http://concam.net/rh/ > One of my crazy internet cronies!!!!!!!!!! -- John D. Barbato, O.D.