In a message dated 6/27/00 9:13:59 PM Central Daylight Time, spike66@ibm.net
writes:
> After I sent the "12 dB" post, I realized what (I think) the original poster
> meant by the apparent nonsequiter "put another round in the clip." I think
> it meant (s)he had a bunch of books in the queue to read, and the Diamond
> book is added to an already long list as another round is added to a number
> of others already in the clip. I have an ever-growing queue of books to
> read too. {8-] spike
It was me who said that, actually, and that was what I meant. In my personal
shorthand, I call my reading list, the "brain clip", holding rounds of brain
ammo which I fire into my mind . . . I know that's weird.
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
Attorney ::: Vice President, Extropy Institute ::: Wilderness Guide
http://users.aol.com/gburch1 -or- http://members.aol.com/gburch1
ICQ # 61112550
"We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know
enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another
question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."
-- Desmond Morris
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jul 27 2000 - 14:14:41 MDT