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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday January 04, 2007 at 12:40 AM
© Thursday January 04, 2007 at 12:40 AM SF Signal
First, I want to thank John for the trebuchet and now I will commence the building of my new weapon of destruction. Secondly, I only read Playboy for the articles - or lack of articles (clothing that is) Rawr!!!!
Posted by Tim on Thursday January 04, 2007 at 10:53 AM at 10:53 AM
The first eight chapters of VARIABLE STAR are available online at Spider Robinson's website.
Here http://www.variablestarbook.com/excerpts.html
Posted by John C. Wright on Thursday January 04, 2007 at 1:59 PM at 1:59 PM
Great trebuchet - and as an aside, has anybody else noticed how cool Make magazine is?
Posted by Scott on Friday January 05, 2007 at 4:21 PM at 4:21 PM
Yep. That's one of my many RSS feeds.
Posted by John on Friday January 05, 2007 at 5:32 PM at 5:32 PM
Helfer's way too thin for my tastes. I mean, you can count her ribs!
Give the girl a cheeseburger for Pete's sake!
Doesn't mean I still won't look.
Posted by Kev on Sunday January 07, 2007 at 6:28 PM at 6:28 PM