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Perko
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 Apr-30-01, 10:04 AM (EDT)
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"Eastern Seaboard!"
 
   I don't really think that my introduction deserves it's own thread, but why not?

I, perhaps foolishly, do not keep my identity a secret. You're welcome to know that my pathetic excuse for a nick is actually my last name. I would rather be called Craig. Those of you who know me may feel free to mock me. Those of you who don't may mock me as well, but it would be kind of silly...

I pride myself on being both extra-ordinary arrogant and somehow not making many enemies. We'll see how long I can keep that up...

Otherwise, nonstandard standard geek. I do have a tendancy to produce large volumes of (in my opinion mediocre) -stuff-, a small fraction of which is posted on my page, but due to finals, moving, and starting summer, my page's update has been and will be somewhat rocky.

Theme song: When irritated: Another Brick in the Wall, Pink Floyd
When happy: Hullu, but since nobody knows about that song,
the Theme from the Monkees.

Current favorite gaming system: Amber
Least favorite anime: Any anime with the whiny main character of death (think Shinji, Sailor Moon, Miaka, and countless others).

And that is that.

-Craig
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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: Eastern Seaboard! thorne May-05-01 1
     RE: Eastern Seaboard! Perko May-05-01 2
         RE: Eastern Seaboard! Laudre May-05-01 3
             RE: Eastern Seaboard! Wedge May-05-01 4
                 RE: Eastern Seaboard! Laudre May-05-01 5
                     RE: Eastern Seaboard! Gryphonadmin May-05-01 6
                         RE: Eastern Seaboard! Laudre May-05-01 7
                             RE: Eastern Seaboard! Gryphonadmin May-05-01 8
                                 RE: Eastern Seaboard! Peter Eng May-07-01 9
                                     RE: Eastern Seaboard! Sinapus May-07-01 10

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thorne
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 May-05-01, 00:11 AM (EDT)
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1. "RE: Eastern Seaboard!"
In response to message #0
 
   Like Perko (posted 30-apr, 5 days ago), I'm also proximate to the US eastern seaboard -- west of Philadelphia, actually -- and also don't invest excess effort in maintaining e-anonymity. Inviting spam is an acceptable risk, but inviting flames is silly; hence, I'm always careful to be polite.

My first exposure to UF was in my freshman year of college, in the spring of 1994, in rec.arts.startrek.tech (.creative?). IIRC, Gryph had posted the WDF Tech Manual (now deprecated) there. It was intriguing, it included pointers to ftp.wpi.edu; so during the last few weeks of school I downloaded the entire directory, and started on one of the shorter stories -- "Hammertime", I think.

It was very confusing.

So... college student visits Worcestor for job interview with Genom (knew that; saw parts of BGC that year courtesy of RPI's anime club), then SDF-shaped ship (knew that) arrives, crewed by -- who? Immortal alien college students who use 120V electrical appliances? (Didn't know *that*.) Then came the backstories for Noriko and Eiko -- which *completely* confused me when I later encountered "Gunbuster" and "Project A-ko".

More wackiness if anybody's sufficiently shocked/amused to ask...

Have occasionally dabbled in fanfic, but been prudent enough not to post any of it. Spent much time in college illustrating _Celestial Worlds Discovered_, an original SF universe and RPG created by an upperclass MechE, Rob Mayer; also did concept art for two PC games by Vicarious Visions (more RPI students), "Dark Angæl" and "Terminus". Past 18 months have kept busy writing _The Non-Sequitur Express_, an e-newsletter dedicated mostly to SF (TV and written) and whatever electronica I'm currently playing with. Played clarinet through high school. Nanotech enthusiast since tenth grade. CompSci major, now employed as mostly-Perl programmer in a Bioinformatics department.

Hmmm... any further description and identity thieves could start posing as me. Identifying numbers are easy to steal -- but personal specifics are the icing on the ruse. :)


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Perko
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 May-05-01, 01:57 AM (EDT)
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2. "RE: Eastern Seaboard!"
In response to message #1
 
   I think everyone here is a nanotech and/or AI enthusiast. I lean more towards the AI side myself, but together they make (dun-dun-dun) unstoppable killer morph-robots! No, wait, that's a bad science fiction tale...

Oops, it's getting late... I'm posting without reason. Sorry!

-Craig
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Laudre
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 May-05-01, 10:21 AM (EDT)
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3. "RE: Eastern Seaboard!"
In response to message #2
 
   >I think everyone here is a nanotech and/or AI enthusiast. I lean more
>towards the AI side myself, but together they make (dun-dun-dun)
>unstoppable killer morph-robots! No, wait, that's a bad science
>fiction tale...

Hey, I liked T2. I even have the 2-disc DVD special edition.

(Okay, technically, the T-1000 *wasn't* a nanocolony, but still...)

-- Sean --

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Wedge
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 May-05-01, 03:43 PM (EDT)
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4. "RE: Eastern Seaboard!"
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   >(Okay, technically, the T-1000 *wasn't* a nanocolony, but still...)

Actually, the novelization more or less describes it that way (without ever using the word nano or nanochine). It's been a while since I read it, but it comes down to the idea that every liquid metal molecule is it's own semi-indepandant machine intelligence, although in more of a collective sense--they work together as a single unit, and when a bit of them are seperated off they go into a homing mode to get back to the main group. Which sounds an awful lot like nanochine to me.

And before I catch hell for reading film novelizations, the novels for Terminator and Terminator 2 were better than average. Cameron also had a big part in overseeing the books (yes, he is a control freak), but it makes for some much better than expected reading. The novel for the Abyss (which was written by Orson Scott Card and was why I started picking up novels for Cameron movies at the time) was actually better than the movie until the directors cut came out.

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"You're a louse, Roger Smith."
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Chad Collier
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Laudre
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 May-05-01, 04:09 PM (EDT)
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5. "RE: Eastern Seaboard!"
In response to message #4
 
   >>(Okay, technically, the T-1000 *wasn't* a nanocolony, but still...)
>
>Actually, the novelization more or less describes it that way (without
>ever using the word nano or nanochine).

You know, I think that's what Jimbo was trying to get at, without having to explain why a nanocolony couldn't build itself moving parts or reconstruct chemicals from raw environmental materials. Thus, it was a "mimetic poly-alloy".

>And before I catch hell for reading film novelizations,

Most film novelizations are utter crap, at least the ones I've read, but Piers Anthony's novelization of "Total Recall" is one that sticks in my mind as an enjoyable read. It's somewhat a different experience than the movie, to, moreso than you'd expect from changing media; a lot of the ambiguousness -- is it all an hallucination, or is Quaid really saving Mars? -- is gone (okay, in the novel, it's nonexistent).

(And before I catch hell for liking Piers Anthony, if you take Xanth out of the picture he's a damn good writer. And Xanth isn't bad if you don't mind mindless fluff; for that matter, the first three are pretty good anyway, before he got carried away with the puns.)

-- Sean --

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Gryphonadmin
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22420 posts		 May-05-01, 05:36 PM (EDT)
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6. "RE: Eastern Seaboard!"
In response to message #5
 
   >(And before I catch hell for liking Piers Anthony, if you take
>Xanth out of the picture he's a damn good writer.

But if you take Xanth out of the picture he's written like four books! :)

--G.
remembering the day the WPI SFS stopped accepting Piers Anthony books as dues donations
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Laudre
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 May-05-01, 06:46 PM (EDT)
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7. "RE: Eastern Seaboard!"
In response to message #6
 
   >>(And before I catch hell for liking Piers Anthony, if you take
>>Xanth out of the picture he's a damn good writer.
>
>But if you take Xanth out of the picture he's written like four books!
>:)

Now that's just hyperbole...

-- Sean --
can think of a couple dozen non-Xanth Anthony books off the top of his head
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Gryphonadmin
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8. "RE: Eastern Seaboard!"
In response to message #7
 
   >>>(And before I catch hell for liking Piers Anthony, if you take
>>>Xanth out of the picture he's a damn good writer.
>>
>>But if you take Xanth out of the picture he's written like four books!
>>:)
>
>Now that's just hyperbole...

So is the size of the Xanth series.

--G.
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Peter Eng
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2051 posts		 May-07-01, 04:01 PM (EDT)
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9. "RE: Eastern Seaboard!"
In response to message #8
 
   >>>But if you take Xanth out of the picture he's written like four books!
>>>:)
>>
>>Now that's just hyperbole...
>
>So is the size of the Xanth series.
>

No, the size of the Xanth series is fnuts.

Personally, I gave up on Anthony after I noticed his tendency to stereotype. I haven't gotten around to dumping the books, but I might have an excuse pretty soon - shelf space.

Then I can hunt down the rest of the Sten series, find out who to kill to get more of Vladimir Taltos, and whatever else I need to add to the pile.

Oh. Right. Replace a rather worn-out Honor Harrington. Which, annoyingly enough, fell apart a week after I'd thrown out the receipt.

Peter Eng
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Sinapus
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 May-07-01, 04:06 PM (EDT)
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10. "RE: Eastern Seaboard!"
In response to message #9
 
   >Oh. Right. Replace a rather worn-out Honor Harrington. Which,
>annoyingly enough, fell apart a week after I'd thrown out the receipt.

...do you need a new Nimitz with that as well? :)

Patrick Chester
"...could you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"


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