{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5597", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 5597, "subject": "Hammerstone(2)", "messages": 7, "voices": 5, "first": "2010-05-05T15:35:02+00:00", "last": "2010-05-07T05:39:51+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<727682.1281.qm@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Stuart Hamm", "address": "hammstu at sbcglobal.net" }, "date": "2010-05-05T15:35:02+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Hammerstone(2)", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Actually form the magazine \"Discover\"\n\"..Vecna Robotics is perfecting a tank with a humanoid upper body to remove injured soldiers from the battlefield.The system, called the Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot, or BEAR, would ride into a battle zone, autonomously retrieve a wounded soldier, and then, carry him to safety in it's robotic arms\"\n...anyway, I found it interesting and the article includes a photo...\n\n???????? ? ? \n\n? ?? " } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes", "address": "danldo at gmail.com" }, "date": "2010-05-05T15:44:34+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Hammerstone(2)", "in_reply_to": "<727682.1281.qm@web81404.mail.mud.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Stu,\n\nThere are photos and videos at\nhttp://www.vecnarobotics.com/solutions/bear/index.shtml" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Stuart Hamm wrote:\nActually form the magazine \"Discover\"\n\"..Vecna Robotics is perfecting a tank with a humanoid upper body to remove\ninjured soldiers from the battlefield.The system, called the Battlefield\nExtraction-Assist Robot, or BEAR, would ride into a battle zone,\nautonomously retrieve a wounded soldier, and then, carry him to safety in\nit's robotic arms\"\n...anyway, I found it interesting and the article includes a photo...\n\n\n\n\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<636757.37420.qm@web50707.mail.re2.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Jerry Friedman", "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2010-05-07T05:08:46+00:00", "subject": "(urth) HBD GW!", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "It's May 7 in Illinois, and this seems like a good time to post a link to a poem I wrote that includes Wolfean themes. I add my best wishes for improved health for Mr. Wolfe.\n\nhttp://home.windstream.net/jerryfriedman/pilgrim1.html\n\nCandid but preferably not sarcastic comments are welcome.\n\nJerry Friedman\n\n\n\n " } ] }, { "message_id": "<6033.72.171.0.141.1273209392.squirrel@brunians.org>", "from": { "name": "brunians at brunians.org", "address": "brunians at brunians.org" }, "date": "2010-05-07T05:16:32+00:00", "subject": "(urth) HBD GW!", "in_reply_to": "<636757.37420.qm@web50707.mail.re2.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Would comments about the scansion be considered sarcastic or not?\n\n." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "It's May 7 in Illinois, and this seems like a good time to post a link to\na poem I wrote that includes Wolfean themes. I add my best wishes for\nimproved health for Mr. Wolfe.\n\nhttp://home.windstream.net/jerryfriedman/pilgrim1.html\n\nCandid but preferably not sarcastic comments are welcome.\n\nJerry Friedman\n\n\n\n _______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<373747.72937.qm@web50703.mail.re2.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Jerry Friedman", "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2010-05-07T05:23:27+00:00", "subject": "(urth) HBD GW!", "in_reply_to": "<6033.72.171.0.141.1273209392.squirrel@brunians.org>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I wouldn't consider \"This or that line doesn't scan\" or \"You could improve the rhythm of this line this way\" or \"On the whole, the meter doesn't work\" or similar comments to be sarcastic. I'd say an example of sarcasm would be \"Why don't you learn the rudiments of scansion before you make your next attempt at poetry?\"\n\nOf course if people feel the need to be sarcastic, they might not let my request stand in their way.\n\nJerry\n\n\n\n\n----- Original Message ----\nFrom: \"brunians at brunians.org\" \nTo: The Urth Mailing List \nSent: Thu, May 6, 2010 11:16:32 PM\nSubject: Re: (urth) HBD GW!\n\nWould comments about the scansion be considered sarcastic or not?\n\n." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "It's May 7 in Illinois, and this seems like a good time to post a link to\na poem I wrote that includes Wolfean themes. I add my best wishes for\nimproved health for Mr. Wolfe.\n\nhttp://home.windstream.net/jerryfriedman/pilgrim1.html\n\nCandid but preferably not sarcastic comments are welcome.\n\nJerry Friedman\n\n\n\n _______________________________________________\nUrth Mailing List\nTo post, write urth at urth.net\nSubscription/information: http://www.urth.net" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "David Duffy", "address": "davidd at qimr.edu.au" }, "date": "2010-05-07T05:33:26+00:00", "subject": "(urth) HBD GW!", "in_reply_to": "<636757.37420.qm@web50707.mail.re2.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Thu, 6 May 2010, Jerry Friedman wrote:\nIt's May 7 in Illinois, and this seems like a good time to post a link \nto a poem I wrote that includes Wolfean themes. I add my best wishes \nfor improved health for Mr. Wolfe." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Indeed!\n\nAnother Wolfe related piece of prose appeared in the April NYRSF by \nPatrick O'Leary _Half the Bargain: A Short Story_." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "| David Duffy (MBBS PhD) ,-_|\\\n| email: davidD at qimr.edu.au ph: INT+61+7+3362-0217 fax: -0101 / *\n| Epidemiology Unit, Queensland Institute of Medical Research \\_,-._/\n| 300 Herston Rd, Brisbane, Queensland 4029, Australia GPG 4D0B994A v" } ] }, { "message_id": "<10247.72.171.0.141.1273210791.squirrel@brunians.org>", "from": { "name": "brunians at brunians.org", "address": "brunians at brunians.org" }, "date": "2010-05-07T05:39:51+00:00", "subject": "(urth) HBD GW!", "in_reply_to": "<373747.72937.qm@web50703.mail.re2.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "First verse\nFourth line.\nLine eight is very clumsy. Perhaps 'With which I pronounce each sarcastic\nline' is an improvement.\n\nSecond verse\nFourth line.\n\nIt's actually quite interesting, and some of the stuff you are doing or\ntrying to do is going to be impressive when it is done. It's interesting\nenough that I am not about to attempt to pass judgement on it in its\npresent state.\n\nI will have to read it more carefully, and I may have more to say when I do.\n\n." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I wouldn't consider \"This or that line doesn't scan\" or \"You could improve\nthe rhythm of this line this way\" or \"On the whole, the meter doesn't\nwork\" or similar comments to be sarcastic. I'd say an example of sarcasm\nwould be \"Why don't you learn the rudiments of scansion before you make\nyour next attempt at poetry?\"\n\nOf course if people feel the need to be sarcastic, they might not let my\nrequest stand in their way.\n\nJerry\n\n\n\n\n----- Original Message ----\nFrom: \"brunians at brunians.org\" \nTo: The Urth Mailing List \nSent: Thu, May 6, 2010 11:16:32 PM\nSubject: Re: (urth) HBD GW!\n\nWould comments about the scansion be considered sarcastic or not?\n\n." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "It's May 7 in Illinois, and this seems like a good time to post a link\nto\na poem I wrote that includes Wolfean themes. I add my best wishes for\nimproved health for Mr. Wolfe.\n\nhttp://home.windstream.net/jerryfriedman/pilgrim1.html\n\nCandid but preferably not sarcastic comments are welcome.\n\nJerry Friedman\n\n\n\n _______________________________________________" } ] } ] }