Interesting linkies, thanks.

Post #373,587 by Another Scott 4/7/13 10:26:39 PM Reply	Interesting linkies, thanks. I don't recall reading that Heinlein story before. I'll have to add it to my pile of Things to Read... Here's a 2012 Spiegel story about the German gold - http://www.spiegel.d...rve-a-864068.html For quite some time now, Gauweiler has been pestering the government and the Bundesbank with questions concerning where and how the country's reserves are stored, and how often they are checked. He has submitted requests and commissioned reports on the topic. Last week, Gauweiler celebrated his greatest triumph to date in his gold campaign, which has been a source of some amusement for many fellow German politicians: A secret report by the Federal Audit Office had been made public -- and it contained stern criticism of the German central bank in Frankfurt. The Bonn-based auditors urged a better inventory system, including quality checks. This demand, which even the bank's inspectors saw as nothing more than routine, alarmed the Berlin political establishment. Indeed, the partially blacked-out report read like the prologue to an espionage thriller in which the stunned central bankers could end up standing in front of empty vaults in the US. I'll bet The Illuminati took it. (Sheesh.) Cheers, Scott.
Post #373,592 by Ashton 4/7/13 11:21:59 PM Reply	Hey.. I've been touting That Story for eons.. It's ending is.. well, it beats any of those expensive Car-Chase Action potboilers.. in my Infallible opinion on all matters of infotainment. All here, in pdf: [from March 1952, yet.. had I only seen it then!] http://www.scribd.co...ar-of-the-Jackpot Besides, it's entertaining--who'd a thunk it could be also predictive re. the current dystopia?
Post #373,593 by Another Scott 4/7/13 11:39:28 PM Reply	:-) Thanks.
Post #373,773 by Ashton 4/11/13 2:58:03 PM Reply	PS (and too..) There's one modrin-cliche-word, near the end which you will instantly recognize; THIS may.. be its first usage? (in context), in that 1952 (pub.-written in '51) opus. See if you can find it. It's a short word.. Bon appetit.. pity that the scanner made so may gibberish passages; there may be a better one Out There. I recently reread it: priceless deja-vu of '50s 'morality', as well as a decent aside on "statistics windows".
Post #373,790 by Another Scott 4/11/13 10:33:59 PM Reply	Thanks again. It's a good read. And very scary, the things that were going on then... I can't be sure that I found the word you're alluding to. "He suddenly felt the need for Meade" was fun though. ;-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #373,880 by Ashton 4/15/13 5:28:37 PM Reply	Hint: where he lauds the Russian astrophysicist, calls him a g _ _ _ !! ;^>
Post #373,888 by Another Scott 4/16/13 11:50:39 AM Reply	I completely missed that. Neat. Thanks.
Post #373,898 by Another Scott 4/16/13 9:01:28 PM Reply	But, the OED says... he wasn't first. ;-) http://oook.info/oed/geek.html Neat. Cheers, Scott.
Post #374,086 by Ashton 4/20/13 5:36:12 PM Reply	As I've maintained re the "quote" rituals, all along-- Nothing New under the Sun {{apropos in This context, eh?}} ie. Whatever we imagine We Just Thought-Up.. likely Has been said (even in Aramaic.) I meant: 'geek' as applied to all those preemies who grokked sodiumethylmercurithiosalicylate ... as teens; many such in IT and .. ulp, Here! Unclear if Heinlein's association with the word extended to lizard-biters or ... was focussed on Techno-geeks (as I surmise.) Thus: just maybe an early-on appropriation of the genre --> the Specific, as techno-geek. Rest case.
Post #374,088 by Another Scott 4/20/13 6:21:10 PM Reply	Makes sense. Thanks.
Post #373,797 by crazy 4/12/13 8:57:40 AM Reply	Every time he says lemming I respond with: FU, you fell for Roy Disney's scam. And then I keep reading.
Post #373,798 by crazy 4/12/13 9:05:43 AM Reply	Uhoh "a sporting rifle" was packed as part of the emergency supplies. Must be brown, since if it was black, it would be an assault weapon.
Post #373,799 by crazy 4/12/13 9:10:45 AM 4/12/13 9:42:12 AM Reply	Sigh Standard paternalistic misogynistic Heinlein. Shut up and do as you're told. again and again. He lived in the times, but I find it annoying. At least he let her shoot someone. If I gave it to my PWW to read he'd have no discomfort with it, which is something I'm trying to change. This quote is a kicker: Aside from mathematics, just two things worth doing kill a man and love woman. He had done both; he was rich What an asshole. Oh well. I'm scared to read "Stranger in a Strange Land" again, it'll probably annoy me. Edited by crazy April 12, 2013, 09:11:37 AM EDT Edited by crazy April 12, 2013, 09:42:12 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #373,881 by Ashton 4/15/13 5:41:34 PM Reply	Share that view of Heinlein, of course.. But as I've opined before ... IMExperience, "technical people" like to believe ~` that, there's a simple algorithm for Every even in life (including its creation, within our still infantile Knowledge of the Cosmos.) Technicians have been amongst the most rabidly like-my-Gramma right-wing wackos.. noticed by me: early-on. fwiw (Why should Heinlein be other-than--just a decent sci-fi writer? Confucius He Ain't. Bertie Russell has more meat--but isn't funny or terse.) And shit, man: this was written in sleepy-1951! a year just before the Somnolent Eisenhower Years. Go figure what the Murican zeitgeist WAS: before 0.001% had ever fucking Heard of zeitgeist. I vas DERE, Charlie--and up-close: IT SUCKED (a bookshelf-worth of TMI I could spin.)
Post #373,909 by Another Scott 4/17/13 6:44:15 AM Reply	Wondermark #914 http://wondermark.com/914/ :-) Cheers, Scott.
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