Bump be back later...
Posted on 12/26/2005 2:10:31 PM PST by the_red_anedote
Edited on 12/26/2005 2:21:13 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
>I'm not waveless?
I meant you ARE wavely...like an hourglass. LOL!
My mistake.
I used to expect that I would be living on a lunar colony now...but sometime in the 70s I realized it wasn't going to happen, and I was sad.
LOL! Poor Nimh!
I don't like the things I've seen in this neighborhood, and I see far too many cats along the roadside when I drive, so mine stay in.
As long as they have room to chase each other, they're OK.
Oh... LOL!
Congrats on the 6800!!!
I have always liked learning new stuff as well. It just takes me a lot longer to LEARN it now. But that's OK...some days, I remember everything! LOL!
John Campbell's "The Moon Is Hell" cured me of wanting to be too eager. (You can tell who the pioneers are, et cetera...)
But I've always been intrigued.
Bump be back later...
Okay. See you later.
I'd love to keep him in but he's a terror. The apartment is tiny and he gets bored. Then he starts screeching to be let out. Nimh will wait until you walk someplace and try to trip you then sit in front of you and cry. He took a trip on the toe of Darksheares boot last night because he darted out in front of him. Darksheare nearly hit the floor. We're in a rural area but the speeders scare me.
Back many, many, many years ago, I read a novel by Fred Hoyle who was both a scientist and an sf author called A is for Andromeda...it was my introduction into the world of SETI....Species is a sort of rip off of it, but it's been too long since I read it (about 64 or 65) I don't remember enough details.
I've read that! It was a great "we can do it!" adventure in many ways...
Shoot, started reading sf when I was 8. First novel that wasn't exactly a kid's book...some story about Mars that my dad brought home.
He also brought home Analog, which I read every month from '65 to about '75, and then off and on after that...But Campbell was still editor when I began reading it, and perhaps some of my POV was shaped by his attitude towards things.
Dang! I didn't even realize it was coming up, much less that I was going to get it! Too busy talking about SF and space travel and dreams I guess....
I know some cats have a tough time staying indoors, and I also know what it's like to have a small apartment.
The dogs and kids here are the things that scare me. Although there is a leash law in Tucson, you'd never know it.
I remember my first introduction to Sci-Fi but I think I was 12, and it was a book loaned to me by my best friend's brother. He later went into the air force, and the last I talked with him, he was programming computers in Berkeley, CA.
I still have no idea what I read. Maybe a monthly with short stories...
LOL!
Well, you can't go back and erase it! You'll just have to live with it!
Yes, and then there's Belmullet....
I don't understand how people could jeopardize their own dog by not using a leash. They can dart out in traffic in the blink of an eye.
The following dramas will be shown on BBC Television in the coming months:
A Is For Andromeda -
A contemporary adaptation of the science fiction classic, starring Kelly Reilly*, Tom Hardy and Jane Asher*.
Winter / Spring 2006, BBC FOUR
Make of it what you will!
My neighbor has two black pugs, and they are ALWAYS on the leash, even when he brings them over here. Once in a while, he will bring them over without the leashes and harnesses, but then we run the risk of being "territorial"...
Other people here are not that caring. Especially with smaller dogs. Stupid. That's the only word for them.
I was raised on a weird combination of SF movies, War movies, and horror movies back in the late fifties and 60s...but my dad was a sf junkie and the books were around the house. By 13 I had read Brave New World, my mom's high school readers, and had done most of Isaac Asimov, and was discovering George Bernard Shaw's plays. Had also read Treblinka, Guadalcanal Diary, stuff about Pappy Boyington and the Flying Tigers and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. And Dracula. And Simon de Bouviour's the Second Sex and Valley of the Dolls, but I had to sneak them, cause Mom was reading them but didn't want me to....
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