HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: In the safety of the Lurker's Lair
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:07:41 GMT

In article <keulen.714896504@possum> keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Michael van Keulen) writes:
>None that I can tell as yet ... theoretically (my theories :-)  ), warming
>shouldn't make much of a difference physiologically, although some difference
>in distribution is possible.  Sea level rises may have more of an impact, in
>that many marine plants are depth limited, so that additional water overhead
>will mean less light, and hence a change in their distribution again.  I would
>guess that intertidal marine plants would more seriously affected by this than
>subtidal ones.  Just my $0.02, off the top of my head  <:-)

Shonias decides that a half credit, 2nd year course in marine science makes
her an expert on the subject (no don't panic, I am grinning furiously while
typing!) and adds her $0.01 (I did say it was only half credit...)
"Isn't the chemical composition of the water fairly seriously dependent
on the temperature? How much affect does that have on the plants? (Guess
which bit of the course I did better in... Physical Oceanography or
Biology?  :) It certainly changes the colour of the water a lot..."

Shonias Q'Tari

Expert on everything... and if you believe that, I've got this nice piece
of real estate, just of the south east coast of Australia. Lovely views,
two islands, a bit muddy on the north one, but nice skiing in the winter...
(Hi Stumpy!)

--
***************************
We are magic in the night,
We are shadow we are light,
We are forever you and I...
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From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: In the safety of the Lurker's Lair
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:10:43 GMT

In article <keulen.714896504@possum>, keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Michael van Keulen) writes:
>>So, just what has been the effect of warming temps on the seagrass in
>>the local area?
>
>>rip
>
>None that I can tell as yet ... theoretically (my theories :-)  ), warming
>shouldn't make much of a difference physiologically, although some difference
>in distribution is possible.  Sea level rises may have more of an impact, in
>that many marine plants are depth limited, so that additional water overhead
>will mean less light, and hence a change in their distribution again.  I would
>guess that intertidal marine plants would more seriously affected by this than
>subtidal ones.  Just my $0.02, off the top of my head  <:-)

Hmmm.  Now, I'm not a marine biologist, but I grew up on the Chesapeake, so
things like marine grasses have always been of some interest to me.  I was
under the impression that relatively small changes in temperature could affect
the chemistry of the water (via such things as changing gas content), and that
could have a big effect on marine grasses.  Is my impression wrong?
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Subject: A public address
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:39:09 GMT

This is just to let everyone know that I'm moving to a new apartment on
Friday.  My new address is:

71 N. Wilson Ave, Apt#18
Pasadena, CA 91106

(818) 585-0639

Anyone who wants to write or give me a call, I'd love to hear from you!

(Oh, and this means that I now can give crash space to friends visiting the
L.A. area, unless I'm out of town or something.  Definitely call ahead.)

- Abner
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
Subject: Re: Never Never Land pt1
Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:48:53 GMT

In article <cecrPzW00VpeQ991Ae@andrew.cmu.edu> Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>     The west wall of the bar starts to bulge out, with a slight redish
>glow.  
>[...]
>SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT AND STRAIGHT AHEAD UNTIL MORNING!!!............

Shonias looks up from behind a terminal, she looks exhausted.
"Oh Bear! Please take me with you! I could do with some play just now!
But I can't take time out from all this work. So don't leave me behind,
I can be back by the time I leave!"

Shonias jumps up, wearing a strange dress that looks almost like rags,
all in blues and mauves, runs to the wall, and with just a touch of
elven magic, is off after Bear. She only hopes she can catch him up...

Shonias Q'Tari

--
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I remember,
How we talked and drank
Into the misty dawn,
I hear the voices...
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: yho@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Yue-shun E. Ho)
Subject: Re: that good old list, again
Reply-To: yho@netcom.com
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:46:01 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.000249.15121@morrow.stanford.edu> GE.LJB@forsythe.stanford.edu (Louis J Bookbinder) writes:
>
>"If you just had a birthday and you did not appear on this list, NYaaah
>NYaaah you forgot to tell me, too bad for you!  Send me your name and
>Email address, your favorite drinks and your birthday (year not
>required, besides nobody comes CLOSE to being as old as I).  Better luck
>next year.

Don't be so happy, Nick...  I've had lunch with Mentor two years ago, and
  he seemed to look older than you do (maybe due to his long beard).

silly yue-shun
From: JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET (JIM PIERCE)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: money money money or re: a square grand
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:45:11 GMT


  "Lets see. I would give 1/4 to Didi, 1/4 to SEA, 1/4 to DM
{ for the telescope of his choice... }, no idea what I would do
with the remaining amount, except get an Amiga A3000T with a 68040
installed { just announced }. Hmmmm. Actually, I would like a
'small' apartment in Tychoe Crater on the moon, with a largish
telescope with a large screen television attatched so that large
groups of people { Callahan's Patrons as an example } could look
at Solar and extra-solar objects... as a group. Sigh, I could wish
for some things that are beyond human capability, but I wont." DJ.

  "I would like more platinum bearings and platinum cirucuit
traces, and even a larger brain, " Robbie.

  "Hmm. I don't know yet... " Linda.


* <JMPIERCE@USMCP6.BITNET> Jim "DJ." Pierce; Bach. Sci. in Appl. Comp. Sci.
* USM Academic Computing on the Gulf Park Campus. Disclaimer: Standard.
* "I'm a computer operator and I'm Ok !" me.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
Subject: Re: anchovies and a filk
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 21:27:17 GMT

In article <RANDOLPH.92Aug21163400@cognito.EBay.Sun.COM> randolph@cognito.EBay.Sun.COM (Randolph Fritz) writes:
>Please tell us about the @ party!
>
>__Randolph Fritz  sun!cognito.ebay!randolph || randolph@ebay.sun.com

It's being run by Brad Templeton (moderator of rec.arts.humor, 
all-around net.personality).  Check rec.arts.sf.fandom for
updates (also, the MagiCon schedule just appeared there).

-- 
at Bell-Northern Research
voice:        (613) 765-2739
Canada Post:  P.O. Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Canada, K1Y 4H7
I do not claim that BNR holds these views.  
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
Subject: Re: A square grand
Reply-To: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:41:35 GMT

In article <BtMAwv.4By@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
>upgrade to something besides a dec vt-52....:)

Like the Heath/Zenith H19 I'm using from home?  (An H19 is a VT52 clone, except
it's got an ANSI mode).
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: My list
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:31:29 GMT

daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom) writes:
: Quotes that can be attributed to me:
:                     I doubt that anyone here in callahans has any
:                     generally used quotes that can be attributed to
:                     them.  I had a fellow put something I said in
:                     his .sig once.  Forget exactly what I said, but
:                     it had something to do with the fact that I
:                     have no empirical evidence that any of the rest
:                     of you computer people even exist as anything
:                     other than ascii files in my unix system.

"Actually, I was quite surprised to find myself quotes in someone's .sig on
alt.folklore.computers some months ago.  The person who quoted me was Kristian
Koehntopp, best known as the originator of the .sig virus, who apparently loved
my understatement when I said, 'I heard it in talk.bizarre, so I'm
skeptical...'"

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"Been there, done that
 Been there, don't want to go back"  --Brian Eno & John Cale
Current Album--Lou Reed:Berlin
Current Read--Timothy Findley:Not Wanted On The Voyage
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Michael van Keulen)
Subject: Re: In the safety of the Lurker's Lair
Organization: Murdoch University
Date: 27 Aug 92 06:21:44 GMT

rip@sequent.com (Paul T Taylor) writes:

>Well, bad news.  Elana's node has been broken... :-(
>                                                  `

So ... who broke her node, hmmmm?  Kids fighting again ... sigh! :*(

>So, just what has been the effect of warming temps on the seagrass in
>the local area?

>rip

None that I can tell as yet ... theoretically (my theories :-)  ), warming
shouldn't make much of a difference physiologically, although some difference
in distribution is possible.  Sea level rises may have more of an impact, in
that many marine plants are depth limited, so that additional water overhead
will mean less light, and hence a change in their distribution again.  I would
guess that intertidal marine plants would more seriously affected by this than
subtidal ones.  Just my $0.02, off the top of my head  <:-)

Splash!
From: ceo@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chip Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Re-Entry.
Date: 24 Aug 92 04:05:14 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.

In article <1992Aug23.160326.28857@cco.caltech.edu> lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals) writes:

>In article <EeZek=G00VpAIIyY9w@andrew.cmu.edu>, Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>I learned the difference between getting shocked with AC and DC  if I had my
>>druthers I'll take AC.
>
>As long as the point of contact isn't on the palm side of the hand.  DC hurts
>worse, but you get your palm jolted with AC and you CAN'T LET GO.  With DC, on
>the other hand, you simply find yourself sitting across the room from where you
>were before.

Um, isn't this backwards?  I thought it was DC that contracted your hand onto
whateer live object you were careless enough to lay hold of, and AC that 
threw you across the room.


--
-Chip Olson. | ceo@silver.lcs.mit.edu | ceo@gnu.ai.mit.edu 
"PROUD SPONSORS OF THOSE WHO CARRY THE TORCH"  -banner on US Post Office
across from burned-out block of stores in south-central LA.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Lydia Uribe)
Subject: I'm back....
Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:06:47 GMT

The door opens, revealing a partially overcast sky with more than a hint
of brown to it.  Soprano staggers in, trying not to drop a large pile of
musical scores and two quilts in progress.  She's still dressed in red
and black, but now it's a flame-red baggy sweater over black leggings
and soft, cuffed, over-the-ankle high-heeled black leather boots.

"Mike, could I have an ice-cold caffeine-free Pepsi, please -- and none
of that diet stuff, either!  I don't *care* if I don't need the
calories....

"I'm back from Maine, where it was one of the coolest summers on record.
In fact, summer didn't really arrive until the week before my husband
and I returned to California.  'Twas a good summer -- got some serious
singing done, some serious relaxing/unwinding done, started learning to
recognize and identify some of the edible plants in the woods and meadow
around the house, and started learning how to be a full-time domestic
engineer.

"Yup, I quit the job that I'd had for almost 15 years at the end of May --
I'm on sabbatical until the middle of January. (YAY!!)  I'm finding that I'm
thoroughly enjoying being domestic, taking care of house and husband.  And
it's a good thing too -- we returned to a house that resembles a minor
disaster.  Fortunately, he found the mess only two or three hours after it
started, so that the damage to the interior is almost all cosmetic.  But we
are camping out in the place, and probably will be for several weeks while
we try to coordinate painters and kitchen remodelers and carpet installers;
I'd *hate* to be having to juggle all that and working, too!

"Anyway, in spite of everything, it's good to be back -- and back in the
Place!"

And she staggers over to the nearest empty table (hey, an armload of
musical scores is *heavy*! ;-), drops everything onto the table, then
starts shuffling through the scores, muttering "now where *is* that
score for Cosi fan tutte, anyway...."

                                        Soprano

"You're more than beginning -- you're learning to fly;
 You feel like you're falling, but it passes in time."
                        "From Me to You", Janis Ian
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| Soprano (Lydia M. Uribe)                       uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu |
| Claremont, CA                                          uribe@hmcvax.bitnet |
|            Cats, quilts and diving - what more could anyone ask?           |
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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: keulen@possum.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Michael van Keulen)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: no subject (file transmission)
Date: 29 Aug 92 10:37:35 GMT
X-Unparsable-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 18:38:34 WST


Hi Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender (whew! can I just call you Bear?)

Thanks for your note ... yeah seagrass decline seems to be a common story
around the world, even in relatively pristine SW Australian waters.  We have
several areas here which are suffering (or have already suffered) seagrass
loss, causing great concern.  It sounds like the Chesapeake Bay story is
similar to what's happened here ... suddenly the grass is gone and so are the
fish, crabs, etc., leaving people wondering what the hell happened.  The latest
trend seems to be looking at reestablishment programs, which have so far been
unsuccessful :-(   .  Unfortunately most folks don't realize how much of the
coastal marine environment depends on seagrasses - here we have a major lobster
industry which depends on seagrass as nursery grounds; people just curse the
weed when it washes up though.  I guess times are changing slowly, and people
are starting to become aware of the implications of consumerism and
industrialization ... probably not quickly enough though.  Ah well ...

Are you living around the Bay somewheres?  I still want to see it some day ...
even if just because of what I've heard about the area.  Research papers are
such a dry source of info about places.

Ciao!

	Splash!

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Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath)
Subject: Re: A square grand
Organization: The Cat Factory
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:19:11 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.220213.12174@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca writes:
}... You have a million dollars--heck, two million or
}ten million.  More money than you could possibly get rid of without buying most
}of a city or Van Gogh's "Sunflowers".  So, what do you do?

1.  Stop worrying about money.

2.  Invest enough carefully so I never have to start worrying about it
    again.

3.  Move someplace quiet, pretty and peaceful with space for a workshop,
    books, misc. toys and the occasional guest.

4.  Go on indefinite sabbatical.

5.  Travel (visit old friends and new places).

6.  Come off sabbatical when I find something useful to do with my life.

The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@polymath.tti.com)
Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp                   Turn the rascals out!
3100 Ocean Park Blvd.   (310) 450-9111, x2483     No incumbents in '92!
Santa Monica, CA  90405
From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: Phantom address
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:24:44 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

Jilara grins at Abner.  "You do realize that you have now
given everyone in The Place leave to totally innundate you
with belated birthday greetings?"

And she stands aside in anticipation of mail cascading from
the ceiling...
--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

I was wearing black when everyone else was wearing
psychodelics.  You people are copying *me*.
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:29:57 -0400 
From: Mark Beirne Lively <ml5a+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re-Entry.
	<8219.20671@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM>

>Jilara, who has some experience with this, makes an
>observation.  "Electric fences tend to be hooked up to DC, and
>I can tell you that they definitely try to toss you for a
>loop.  One of the fits of macho from my childhood involved
>grabbing a local electric fence and seeing who could hold on
>the longest.  (I always won, by the way.)  I think what is
>actually the more pertinent point with electricity is voltage
>vs. current, though."
True Its the amps the get you.  but it the volts which get them there. 
A 12 volt battery is enough to do some sertious damage, due to the
ampage it can give on short circuit.  I have partially melt screwdrivers
that way.  A small slip a nice sized short and a big spark.  Lucky for
me my reflexes demanded that I take the screwdriver with me when I
jumped.  As is it melted the steel of it a bit.

Society for Noseless Smilies :)
Bear aka the Lord High Rulebender aka (ml5a@andrew.cmu.edu)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
From: uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu (Lydia Uribe)
Subject: Re: I'm back....
Organization: Claremont Shelter for Maladjusted Singers
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:40:47 GMT

Soprano stops shuffling scores and looks up.  Anyone looking at her can see
that she's blushing almost as red as her sweater.

"Damn noisy telephone lines -- they managed to neatly excise one sentence
from my re-entry.  The paragraph in question *should* have read:

>"Yup, I quit the job that I'd had for almost 15 years at the end of May
>-- I'm on sabbatical until the middle of January. (YAY!!)  I'm finding
>that I'm thoroughly enjoying being domestic, taking care of house and
>husband.  And it's a good thing too -- we returned to a house that
>resembles a minor disaster.  About 6 weeks ago, we got a call from the
>friend who was keeping an eye on the place for us -- one of our upstairs
>toilets broke and flooded two rooms upstairs and three downstairs.
>Fortunately, he found the mess only two or three hours after it
>started, so that the damage to the interior is almost all cosmetic.  But
>we are camping out in the place, and probably will be for several weeks
>while we try to coordinate painters and kitchen remodelers and carpet
>installers; I'd *hate* to be having to juggle all that and working, too!"

                                        Soprano

"You're more than beginning -- you're learning to fly;
 You feel like you're falling, but it passes in time."
                        "From Me to You", Janis Ian
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| Soprano (Lydia M. Uribe)                       uribe@jarthur.claremont.edu |
| Claremont, CA                                          uribe@hmcvax.bitnet |
|            Cats, quilts and diving - what more could anyone ask?           |
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From: rkoch@lonestar.utsa.edu (Ruth M. Koch)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: A Million $$$'s or More
Date: 28 Aug 92 02:02:15 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio


Here's what I would do If I Were To Become Obscenly Rich:

I would buy a large tract of land with trees, a lake and miles away
from any neighbor, and build a castle.  It would be the perfect spot
for any SCAdian, lots of room, period atmosphere.  But it would be
an SCA castle full of modern conviences (FLUSH PRIVIES) all tasefully
hidden away out of sight.  I would also support all of my friends,
provided that they contribute in some way, they artists
would have to make art, writers write and so on.  I would also have
the best tournements and revels in the Known World.

Nathan,
who will probably never realize this dream and must content
himself with just actually _knowing_ a millionaire.  (Okay, I haven't
actually met him, but I know _of_ him and may oneday meet him.)

p.s.  My castle would also be open to any Callihaners who want to
     join in on the fun.

p.s. to SCAdians.  I never remember where that damn "e" goes in
                   Known World.






an SCA castle (lots of duct tape :), and hidden within the castle w
of living in a castle and the benifits of living in the 20th century.

I would also be able to support all of my friends, the only condition
From: ceo@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chip Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.callahans
Subject: Re: In which SEA gets a job
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:48:16 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.

In article <!#jn06g.lunisea@netcom.com> lunisea@netcom.com (Stephanie Alford) writes:

>DJ looks a little puzzled but before he can ask, Didi-Sprite races to his
>side and says, "Isn't it wonderful?  Our SEA has found a job that she thinks
>will make her happy and keep her busy learning for quite some time!"

>"Oh, I guess that I should tell you what I will be doing.  Wollongong
>Group writes networking software for all sorts of platforms.  I will be
>spending half-time doing customer phone support and half-time doing
>administrative assistant support.  It is an opportunity to learn about
>different operating systems and about networking software.  I will be
>working closely with engineers again, which is what made me answer the
>ad in the newspaper.  I start Thursday (9/3) morning.  I'm excited, they're
>excited,  life is good."

Castellan gives SEA a congratulatory hug. "Welcome to the fun-filled world
of phone support!  MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....... :-)"



--
-Chip Olson. | ceo@silver.lcs.mit.edu | ceo@gnu.ai.mit.edu 
"PROUD SPONSORS OF THOSE WHO CARRY THE TORCH"  -banner on US Post Office
across from burned-out block of stores in south-central LA.