I am reduced to one-liners.
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Hope I see you at Lunacon.
Lis (on the topic of NESFA and MCFI):Xopher, the overlap goes down when there's an active MCFI worldcon bid, and drops even lower when a Noreascon is is in the offing....I've heard this before, but I don't really understand the phenomenon. Could you perhaps quantify how much of the decrease in overlap results from 1. NESFAns leaving MCFI, 2. MCFIers leaving NESFA, 3. non-NESFAns joining MCFI, and 4. non-MCFIers joining NESFA? Or is it perhaps less a change in numerical overlap than in effective overlap, due to diversion of the common members' fanac?
Right now, the overlap is probably the lowest it's ever been, what with N4 about to happen and N3 having been in 1989....Let us not forget MCFI's bid for the 1998 Worldcon, MCFI's bid for the 2001 Worldcon, and of course MCFI's notorious bid activity against a 1998 Worldcon contender after MCFI left the 1998 race. That last is especially worth remembering, as a warning against involving one's cause in political issues outside the cause's area of concern. Perhaps I should say,
Especially worth remembering, as a warning against involving one's cause in political issues outside the cause's area of concern.
Has anyone got a font that goes up to 11?
Hokay, can someone explain how 'bout that teaser headline on AOL a few days ago about "Uranium claim corroborated" or something? With a picture of the Preznetchul party at the SOTU?
I didn't ask AOL to go into details, and I didn't hear any more about it in the media. So is it a paid campaign ad on AOL? I googled up some netnoise about some Iraqi interims claiming they found uranium import documents, but mostly it's full of Rah Rah we found WMDs just like they said we knew.
Fabrication? Copies of the original fabrication? Aimlessly sowing doubt? Is there a shred of there there?
I'm really tempted to take the train up Saturday and lend a hand, but I'd better not. I sort of promised Anne we could go see F911 Saturday, and she would be disappointed (and she's not really in shape for a moving experience, and she doesn't have the fannish relocation spirit that got me into a couple of big Baltimore moves).And hey, you might think my wish to travel hundreds of miles to share your space and handle your belongings is not the most seemly thing in the world. I'm not sure, either. But I sure am tempted.
Have a good move.
Daniel Hatch:...we still have 2,000 left over.... They're really good if you're a hacker with a virus you want to upload. You can use the anonymous username and password on the CD box to get online and leave your present.Or if you want to do it right, burn 2000 new CDs with the AOL installer and your virus so other people can spread it around, meanwhile infecting their home computers and giving you their credit cards and any other information they might have on the machine.
CDs are good for distributing software to computers that don't already have network connectivity, but they don't make those any more.
If you're still looking for uses for the things, the classic is for light shows in somebody else's microwave oven.
Well, goddam, being sick sucks. Try to avoid euthanasia--I still want to hear you play that axe. I hope that's not where you caught the crud.I haven't any really new curative suggestions. Just try to get a lot of sleep and let the reading come back in its time.
... in 2004, a vote for Ralph Nader is, plain and simple, a vote to re-elect George W. Bush.More accurately, it is one half of a vote to re-elect GWB (or whoever it is you wouldn't vote for if you cast your vote for a real candidate). It's essentially equivalent to not voting, or writing in Osama or the Pope. Though if you're going to go all the way to the polling place just to shoot yourself in the foot, why not get both feet? You deserve more than the lesser of two evils.
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