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Message #11762
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Ben Hitchcock beh01@uow.edu.au
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 14:35:01 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Interesting, ain't it?
> I've spent a large portion of my adult life as an entertainer. Meeting hundreds of people on almost a daily basis. Not one time have I ever mentioned that Nine Billion Names of God story and had a response from anyone other than "huh?".
>
> Here we are meeting people across the void of cyberspace and out of the
40 or so million people using the net, I end up on a small list of robot
enthusiasts (considered outcasts and fools by the establishment) and two
others have read that story! Gives one pause to think about coincidence
and it's function in the universe...
Make that three! I worked my way through the library picking out all the
science fiction and that was one of the more memorable short stories that
I read. My favourite was 'surface tension', not sure who it's by. If
you've read the story you will remember it. It's lucky for me that
Arthur 's last name was clarke (guess which end of the library I started
at!)
Ben
11763 Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:32:12 -0600 [alt-beam] Re: Turbots beam@sgiblab.sgi.com SG At 09:48 PM 3/13/00 EST, you wrote:
, lotus, my symet
...
the name "LOTUS"
is already taken.
http://www3.telus.net/rfws/beam/sparky/index.html
:)
-sparky
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