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Do you make a hot dog stand by taking away its chair?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Frankly, that pun was the wurst!
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Fangs for posting that, it's a wiener!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The entire Eon series trilogy is available today for only $3.99.
If you like Sci-fi this is a great series from a hugo & nebula award winning author.
The Eon Series: Legacy, Eon, and Eternity[^]
Have you read the series? Sometimes you need some good fiction to get your mind off of other things.
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Awesome! I'll check it out. 
My favorite series was by Frederik Pohl[^] called Gateway[^]. That was an amazing ride with a heart-breaking twist at the end of the first book and an amazing twist at the end of the series.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Gateway looks really good too. Pohl was one of the great sci-fi writers also.
I will check out the series. Thanks
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I looked it up on Kindle. It's actually called Heechee Saga (6 book series)[^].
[Edit] Modified the links. I didn't realize that Amazon only has 2 of the 6 books on Kindle.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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You can find most of the rest of the books in electronic form on Baen Publishing's site, all except the first. Apparently that was published under a separate license. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Thank you! I bookmarked the site. Looks amazing. 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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The Gateway series is one of those I've read and reread so often that I now have to ration myself how often I go back to it. I have the same problem with C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series and the Chanur Saga, as well as several books by Niven & Pournelle. This problem got so bad with Heinlein that I declared a moratorium on reading him. I have significant parts of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress memorized; I've probably read it more than a couple dozen times.
Fortunately my problem's been better since my daughter got married. My son-in-law owns and operates the [shameless plug] Little Professor Book Center in Athens, Ohio (U.S.). I get lots of new authors and titles for my birthday, Christmas, and Father's Day.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I hope that you have read John Varley's "Steel Beach" - partially a tribute to The Moon is a... and a cracking tale to boot.
Varley's "Titan" trilogy is my most read series I suspect.
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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I've read a lot of Varley. I reread the Titan trilogy a few months ago.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Oh, I just stumbled upon this freebie on Amazon kindle too. Sci-fi from David Drake, Sea of Venus[^]
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Nice! I just ordered a new Paper White. I no longer have my old one due to being lost in a move. I've been meaning to get a new one, but just haven't been inspired to get one until now. 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Right. Definitely not the same. So much cheese in the that trailer. 
Could barely watch the trailer, let alone the entire movie.
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But the animated series is really good. Æon Flux[^]
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Thanks, I was looking for something to read! 
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Specs add sonic rush like clockwork. (11)
I may be a little slow responding to answers, heading into a Zoom meeting...
[clue] Pair of specs. I would have said "pair" in place of "specs" originally but I didn't want to exclude the cricket-challenged. [/clue]
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I think you're safe with this one Peter - I have no idea.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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now with clue...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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isochronous
Specs = oo (also a pair in cricket is two scores of 0 by the same player, same game)
Anagram of sonic rush + oo
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Yes! YAUT
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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... what would it be?
I'm struggling, between "opinionated" and "challenging". And, BTW, the 'rules', (that I'm just making up, right now!), state that you can't have catch-all, generic words. Otherwise, I could have just gone with "annoying".
Note. I'm not planning on dying any time soon - but I know, from bitter experience, that you never can predict what life will throw at you. Every morning, when I wake up, I say to myself: "result".
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In that case, whatever the opposite of "result" is....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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