This is what happens when you read Gene Wolfe before going to sleep... The Urth list — 11 messages, 7 voices, 17 Apr 2012 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/6238 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. ============================================================================== Fred Kiesche — 17 Apr 2012, 19:09 Read some more of the massive Best of GW volume (signed, yay!) last night. And ended up with a very strange dream... It involved members of this list (I don't think I've met any of you, but you were all there). For some reason we were chanting titles and key phrases of the stories and novels and fingering rosaries. I can't even blame eating pizza/curry/fill in your favorite dream-inducing late meal here. -- F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at The Lensman's Children ( http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc Aramini — 17 Apr 2012, 19:17 in reply to Fred Kiesche --- On Tue, 4/17/12, Fred Kiesche wrote: From: Fred Kiesche Subject: (urth) This is what happens when you read Gene Wolfe before going to sleep... To: "The Urth Mailing List" Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:09 PM Read some more of the massive Best of GW volume (signed, yay!) last night. And ended up with a very strange dream... It involved members of this list (I don't think I've met any of you, but you were all there). For some reason we were chanting titles and key phrases of the stories and novels and fingering rosaries. I can't even blame eating pizza/curry/fill in your favorite dream-inducing late meal here. I've met a few of us - better looking than you'd expect from an SF fan group! The nice thing about my name is if you put it in google images, it's really me that comes up. There are no other Marc Aramini's. I should try that with some of the other list members and see what happens, but would it be cyber stocking? hmmm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc Aramini — 17 Apr 2012, 19:19 in reply to Marc Aramini cyber stocking is even MORE sinister than cyber stalking --- On Tue, 4/17/12, Marc Aramini wrote: From: Marc Aramini Subject: Re: (urth) This is what happens when you read Gene Wolfe before going to sleep... To: "The Urth Mailing List" Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:17 PM --- On Tue, 4/17/12, Fred Kiesche wrote: From: Fred Kiesche Subject: (urth) This is what happens when you read Gene Wolfe before going to sleep... To: "The Urth Mailing List" Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:09 PM Read some more of the massive Best of GW volume (signed, yay!) last night. And ended up with a very strange dream... It involved members of this list (I don't think I've met any of you, but you were all there). For some reason we were chanting titles and key phrases of the stories and novels and fingering rosaries. I can't even blame eating pizza/curry/fill in your favorite dream-inducing late meal here. I've met a few of us - better looking than you'd expect from an SF fan group! The nice thing about my name is if you put it in google images, it's really me that comes up. There are no other Marc Aramini's. I should try that with some of the other list members and see what happens, but would it be cyber stocking? hmmm. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ António Pedro Marques — 17 Apr 2012, 19:25 in reply to Marc Aramini Marc Aramini wrote (17-04-2012 20:17): > The nice thing about my name is if you put it in google images, it's really > me that comes up. There are no other Marc Aramini's If I simply put your name in google images, I get a lot of pics of people who look like asian girls... is there something about your mascara preferences that we'd be interested in knowing? Oh, wait, I was missing the -i. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Antonin Scriabin — 17 Apr 2012, 19:32 in reply to Fred Kiesche "For some reason we were chanting titles and key phrases of the stories and novels and fingering rosaries." How do you know that isn't what I do in real life? Huh? Oh ... I mean, * yeah*, that is a weird dream! > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Fred Kiesche wrote: > Read some more of the massive Best of GW volume (signed, yay!) last night. > And ended up with a very strange dream... > > It involved members of this list (I don't think I've met any of you, but > you were all there). For some reason we were chanting titles and key > phrases of the stories and novels and fingering rosaries. > > I can't even blame eating pizza/curry/fill in your favorite dream-inducing > late meal here. > > -- > F.P. Kiesche III "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. > Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on > being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) > Blogging at The Lensman's Children ( > http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/). > > > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc Aramini — 17 Apr 2012, 19:41 in reply to António Pedro Marques oh my, what a difference an "i" makes > --- On Tue, 4/17/12, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote: > From: Ant?nio Pedro Marques > Subject: Re: (urth) This is what happens when you read Gene Wolfe before going to sleep... > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 12:25 PM > Marc Aramini wrote (17-04-2012 > 20:17): > > The nice thing about my name is if you put it in google > > images, it's really > > me that comes up. There are no other Marc > > Aramini's > If I simply put your name in google images, I get a lot of > pics of people who look like asian girls... is there > something about your mascara preferences that we'd be > interested in knowing? > > Oh, wait, I was missing the -i. > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Friedman — 17 Apr 2012, 21:55 in reply to Marc Aramini > From: Marc Aramini marcaramini at yahoo.com ... > I've met a few of us - better looking than you'd expect from an SF fan group! > > The nice thing about my name is if you put it in google images, it's really me that comes up. There are no other Marc Aramini's. I should try that with some of the other list members and see what happens, but would it be cyber stocking? hmmm. I don't think that's cyberstalking (to use your corrected spelling). If people put pictures of themselves on the Web, it's so other people can see them. This is me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JerryFriedman.jpg You look quite a bit like I had imagined, oddly enough. And if you have a picture of yourself in your Severian costume, it would probably be better than any picture of Severian I've ever seen. Jerry Friedman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc Aramini — 18 Apr 2012, 02:29 in reply to Jerry Friedman > --- On Tue, 4/17/12, Jerry Friedman wrote: > From: Jerry Friedman > Subject: Re: (urth) This is what happens when you read Gene Wolfe before going to sleep... > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 2:55 PM > From: Marc Aramini marcaramini at yahoo.com > ... > > I've met a few of us - better looking than you'd expect > > from an SF fan group! > > > > The nice thing about my name is if you put it in google > > images, it's really me that comes up. There are no other > > Marc Aramini's. I should try that with some of the other > > list members and see what happens, but would it be cyber > > stocking? hmmm. > I don't think that's cyberstalking (to use your corrected > spelling). If people put pictures of themselves on the > Web, it's so other people can see them. This is me: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JerryFriedman.jpg > > You look quite a bit like I had imagined, oddly enough. > And if you have a picture of yourself in your Severian > costume, it would probably be better than any picture of > Severian I've ever seen. > > Jerry Friedman Thanks Jerry! And thanks for the link! It is nice to put a face to the names. You teach physics and math? I always loved math, but I could never teach physics. I actually do change the way I train for those costumes. The Bruce Lee one I do a whole lot of sprinting and supersets of bodyweight exercises for like a month before Halloween. When I did the Crow, I tried to become morphologically similar to Brandon Lee, but since I'm only 5'8'' I had to create the illusion of height by hollowing out my physique - I'd have to do the same thing to do Severian real justice - and throw in some clever boots; I'm just not that tall. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gerry Quinn — 18 Apr 2012, 02:49 in reply to Jerry Friedman From: Jerry Friedman I don't think that's cyberstalking (to use your corrected spelling). If people put pictures of themselves on the Web, it's so other people can see them. This is me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JerryFriedman.jpg Okay, I give up. What does L = ? - Gerry Quinn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Wilson — 18 Apr 2012, 04:25 in reply to Gerry Quinn > On 4/17/2012 9:49 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JerryFriedman.jpg > Okay, I give up. What does L = ? My guesses are: 1. Length under relativistic Lorentz contraction. 2. Loop's electrical induction. 3. Lolita. -- Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Friedman — 18 Apr 2012, 15:44 in reply to Jeff Wilson > From: Jeff Wilson > > On 4/17/2012 9:49 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JerryFriedman.jpg > > Okay, I give up. What does L = ? > My guesses are: > 1. Length under relativistic Lorentz contraction. Correct. > 2. Loop's electrical induction. > 3. Lolita. *now working on equations to solve /Lolita/* Jerry Friedman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------