<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_quote"><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On Monday, September 6th, 2021 at 3:38 PM, ddraig--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote type="cite" class="protonmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 13:44, Gabe Waggoner <<a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="mailto:lostmyelectron@protonmail.com">lostmyelectron@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div>And
after the missiles turn into the bowl of petunias and the sperm whale:
"With horror, they suddenly realized that it was fresh whalemeat." <br></div><div>And
when the alien battle fleet was, due to a terrible miscalculation of
scale, accidentally swallowed by a small dog. (I still remember playing
the Infocom text-based interactive game on my Apple IIe in the 1980s and
cackling when one of my entries triggered the "It is of course well
known that careless talk costs lives . . ." line.)<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Did
you get the microscopic space fleet in a tiny clear plastic bag? And
the peril-sensitive sunglasses that were bits of cardboard? Did you
read through all of the footnotes?<br></div></div><div><div>"oh no, not this again"<br></div><div><br></div></div><div>dwayne<br></div><div>--<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div> <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="mailto:ddraig@pobox.com" target="_blank">ddraig@pobox.com</a> ddraigbot / NSO / Connery<br></div><div> ...r.e.t.u.r.n....t.o....t.h.e....s.o.u.r.c.e...<br></div><div> <a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="http://fav.me/dqkgpd" target="_blank">http://fav.me/dqkgpd</a><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" href="http://tinyurl.com/he-is-right-you-know-jpg" target="_blank"></a><br></div><div>our aim is wakefulness, our enemy is dreamless sleep<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Ha! Indeed, I did. I loved those little nuggets of nerdy goodness. I edit a lot of science reports with footnotes, and occasionally an author will slip in a joke about how nobody ever reads them. That always reminds me of sitting there and typing "footnote 1", "footnote 2", and so on, at the prompt one day when I couldn't figure out how to get the damned babel fish to go where I wanted it to. And seeing "Isn't it fun reading through all the footnotes?" made my day.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Dwayne, my hat goes off to you, sir.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,<br></div><div>Gabe<br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px">--</span><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><br></span></div><div><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px">Gabe Waggoner, MS, ELS</span><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><br></span></div><div><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px">Science Writer–Editor</span><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><br></span></div><div><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px">7318 Edmonston Rd.</span><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><br></span></div><div><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px">College Park, MD 20740-3018</span><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://www.nasw.org/users/rgwaggoner/"><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px">www.nasw.org/users/rgwaggoner/</span></a><br></div><div><br></div>