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Disaster and disease and trips and computer screwups and eagles over the pond notwithstanding---we have covers, we have text, and soon we will have copyright and other details that go with it. I've been frustrated that I haven't understood the new system---which has...

Gophones are great. 10 cents a call, 100.00 a year. We were paying big for phone connectivity, mostly for phones to let us locate each other in a supermarket. OTOH, AT&T conducts psychological warfare against go-phone users: it has 4 layers of bots, some of them that...

Gophones are great. 10 cents a call, 100.00 a year. We were paying big for phone connectivity, mostly for phones to let us locate each other in a supermarket. OTOH, AT&T conducts psychological warfare against go-phone users: it has 4 layers of bots, some of them that...

The proposed mission Outside of the romance of the notion---it's brilliant. And...math beyond the speed of light. the weirdness beyond lightspeed

First I'm on the end of my contact lenses, need to order some---went to Fencon on just about the last of my lenses, didn't take a spare---now, understand, I can see far off just fine without glasses or contacts. I CAN drive without glasses or contacts. I cannot,...

sacrificed army For quite a while modern historians have been inclined to doubt the Roman viewpoint in history: if Romans reported it, it's got to be propaganda has been the view quite conspicuously on the history channel, with certain folk with whom yrs truly has...

I think there's been a discussion of this on the Alliance Union thread.

Apparently the plant has an affinity for arsenic (the atevi might think it a nice trait)---and sucks it up where available. Now, the US set acceptable arsenic levels in drinking water. But---you take to raising rice on certain ground, and apparently it will do as rice...

Thank you, Donna, for the suggestion. I don't know whether it's the silver or the sugar that's done it, but it went from a full-blown upper-respiratory awfulness to pretty bearable in 15 minutes, and I got some sleep last night in a stack of about 6 dense...

...the infamous Convention Crud. I think the fires and the smoky drive set us up for it. It's respiratory, and I'm chilled, dizzy and feel like heck, but improving. I laid out this morning and just rested. Now I'm feeling a little better...but Jane's started coughing....

We offer about 9 different formats. This has always been subject to review re the evolving technology, and we are looking at the extra time we take to convert---and vet, which is the time-heavy part---all 9 of these formats. What would be the feeling if we offered...

A Texas convention run by fen, attended by fen who read, and in a very nice, friendly hotel...pretty big convention, and panels full of people who read and enjoy sf. We were worried after our experience earlier this year, but I can say this is a convention worth...