FORKNI-L
Digest - 16 Feb 2000 to 17 Feb 2000 (#2000-48)
Thu, 17 Feb 2000
There are 11 messages totalling 316 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Admin: I'm back
2. Vampire sight (2)
3. Forever Knight and Peanuts!
4. Upper Canada Celebration of Geraint Wyn Davies
5. Looking for beta-readers
6. Heating Oil Crunch (4)
7. help, please
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:38:14 -0700
From: Kyer <kyer@p.......>
Subject: Re: Admin: I'm back
ListMommy Evileyed us with:
> What do you mean, the house is like this because an asteroid hit it? I saw
> that episode. <g> No, I don't believe Perry brought in a pack of his
> vampire-dog friends, either. <snicker>
<Dark Squirette caught with her hands in the Ravenette-logo'd cookie jar
clearly labelled: "McLisa's stuff">
"Ummm... <munch> you don't? My hand? <yanks hand out> (hiding cookie still
stuck to it) Honestly! <chew, chew, gulp!> I was only checking for
dustbunnies! You know how those dustbunnies are when they get hungry! They
don't leave you so much as a crumb sometimes---and well, geez---lookee at
that!---I guess I was too late to stop the liddle fluff balls after all. <G>
Err... are your eyes turning crimson, or is it a trick of the light?
Gooily Grinned, :)=
Kyer
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:59:53 -0700
From: Angela Gottfred <agottfre@t.......>
Subject: Re: Vampire sight
I forgot to mention that I'm also a sometime amateur ornithologist,
specializing in owls. I swore I wouldn't respond to this topic, but I just
can't help myself.
Owls have excellent night vision; the largest owls (eg. Great Horned Owl)
have eyes as large as human eyes. They also (contrary to myth) see okay in
the daylight, although reduced light levels (sunrise/sunset) are probably
better for them. (A transparent eyelid, called the nictitating membrane,
helps to reduce the light levels while still allowing some vision.) BTW, a
photographer can tell you that there's a HUGE difference between the amount
of light you get from electric lights and from daylight, even on a cloudy day.
Great Horned Owl retinas are rod-rich, but they also have the
color-providing cone cells in the fovea, which is the point on the eye which
has the sharpest vision. The other thing that helps owls see well is the way
that their pupils and corneas are built--akin to the difference between a
"slow" lens (human eye, f/2.13) and a "fast" lens (tawny owl, f/0.92).
Long-eared owls can find dead prey at night with only .00000025 ft-candles
of illumination; humans need roughly .000075 ft-candles to see the same
target. (Johnsgard, 44-46)
Many owls also have a tapetum, a special layer at the rear of the retina,
which helps reflect light and serves as an "image-amplifier" in low light.
The tapetum is what makes the eyes of nocturnal animals such as cats shine.
Tapetums (tapeta?) can shine yellow, orange, or red. Sound like anyone we know?
Your humble & obedient servant,
Ligeia
Amateur ornithologist (ret'd)
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:32:40 -0700
From: Kyer <kyer@p.......>
Subject: Re: Vampire sight
Wrote Ligeia:> Tapetums (tapeta?) can shine yellow, orange, or red. Sound
like anyone we know?
But that would mean that vampire 'whites of the eyes' would be made of
Tapetum?
And what kind of name is that anyway? Makes me think of dancing.
Tape tum...tappy tap...tum. Tum...tum...tappy...tum
The last thing I want when I look into Milord's eyes is to be reminded of
Fred Astaire. 'Cause now when I think of Mr. Astaire, I think of that darn
vacuum commercial---which reminds me that the dustbunnies are beginning to
get out of bounds from my room and are invading the rest of the house.
Grins, :)=
Kyer, Loyal Squirette to the Knight de Brabant; Knight de Soir, Cousin to
the Knight, One of The Hungry, Le Miz, Immortal Beloved (yet flexible),
Queen O' deTypos, Paranoid-Schitzoid Knightie with Multi-Personalities who's
having a blast and an angstfest at one and the same time! kyer@p.......
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 20:10:42 EST
From: WRDRR@a.......
Subject: Re: Forever Knight and Peanuts!
In a message dated 2/13/00 6:12:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Libratsie@a....... writes:
<< Or maybe his search for mortality is like the Little Red Head Girl that
Charlie Brown wants so much. Oh, and Schroeder (sp?) - he even looks a little
like Nick as he plays his piano! >>
The Little Red Haired Girl! It is all coming together for me now.....Nick,
your search is over! have red hair.....
Casting T. F. Stone (Caddywhacked, and darn <yes>, save the Caddy first)
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:32:33 -0500
From: Marg Yamanaka <mytoronto@h.......>
Subject: Upper Canada Celebration of Geraint Wyn Davies
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to announce that we still have some slots available for
our UCC Celebration Weekend which will be held from Friday, May 19th
to Sunday, May 21st 2000. The weekend promises to be a great time with
lots of fun and friendship, as well as plenty of time spent indulging our
favourite pastime, admiring Geraint Wyn Davies. :-)
Just a reminder to those of you who are already registered, please
make sure that you reserve your room at the host hotel *before* March 19th.
After this time, the remaining rooms in our reserved block will be placed
back into the system, and will revert to their regular price. So if you
haven't already done so, it would be a good idea to reserve your room ASAP.
For more information on this event, please go to:
http://members.home.net/caddywhack/UCCcon/celebration.htm
or contact me off-list.
On behalf of the UCC, we look forward to seeing you in Toronto! :-)
--
Marg in Toronto, the City of the Knight
<mytoronto@h.......>
Visit the Upper Canada Connection:
http://members.home.net/gwducc/index.htm
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:16:27 -0500
From: Cindy Clark <clarkcindy@e.......>
Subject: Re: Looking for beta-readers
Sorry if this should be off-list, but I don't have Angela's off-list
address.
Hi Angela,
I would love to try my hand at beta-reading for you. I've been reading
fanfic both on and off line for years, but the only beta-reading I've done
for anyone is proofing procedure manuals for my supervisor.
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:25:08 -0500
From: Cindy Clark <clarkcindy@e.......>
Subject: Re: Heating Oil Crunch
Mary Combs wrote: "How would the vampires be handling the current heating
oil crunch?
I think that would be the least of Nick's worries, considering what's
happening to the price of gasoline and the mpg that the Caddy gets. It's up
to $1.60/U.S gallon for 87 octane in the Cleveland area. It's beginning to
feel like the '70's again, and once was enough for that decade<g>.
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:25:48 -0600
From: Carla Martinek <copper6500@y.......>
Subject: help, please
Hi all...
I cyber-squatted on the following listnames on Onelist in case the
listadmins ever decided to make a move (or had to) from the current
psu.edu listserver.
forkni-l
fkfic-l
However, with the merger of egroups and onelist, there appear to be
duplicate listnames. The new company is finally getting around to
combining their lists, and in the event of duplicate listsnames, they
will look at usage and # of members as a high criteria.
The egroups lists have had no postings since 1998, and attempts to
contact the listowner since last fall have been fruitless. If you are
the listowner, please speak up!!!!
Otherwise, I'm asking if any of you out there will join my two lists on
onelist, and send some messages back and forth for the next few days.
Basically, we just need to show some membership and some postings
happening. The easiest way is to cc: existing posts you do to any other
lists. And, I'd suggest setting your sub to No Mail/Web Only.
Once we've established ownership of the name when the merger comes, the
list will go inactive until such time that it's needed.
Here's the URLs for subbing:
http://www.onelist.com/community/forkni-l
http://www.onelist.com/community/fkfic-l
Thanks!!! This should only have to last a couple of days.
Carla
copper6500@y.......
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:55:48 EST
From: Lori Dehn <valideh1@h.......>
Subject: Re: Heating Oil Crunch
>Mary Combs wrote: "How would the vampires be handling the current heating
>oil crunch?
First, I would like to say, I looked at the title "heating oil crunch" and
thought, what an odd candy!?!?!
Next, I would laugh at everyone in the frozen North as Nick and company came
to spend the winter in the balmy embrace of Hawaii with me.
Bwahhahahahahaha!!!
Lori Dehn
Nick & Nat Packer with
definite Ravenette and Vaquera
tendencies, and just a
smackerel of Cousin for Flavor
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:05:34 EST
From: Marel D'arby <Avalon1449@a.......>
Subject: Re: Heating Oil Crunch
In a message dated 17/02/00 15:29:52 GMT Standard Time,
clarkcindy@e....... writes:
> I think that would be the least of Nick's worries, considering what's
> happening to the price of gasoline and the mpg that the Caddy gets. It's up
> to $1.60/U.S gallon for 87 octane in the Cleveland area. It's beginning to
> feel like the '70's again, and once was enough for that decade<g>.
It's just as well he keeps the Caddy on that continent, since the
gasoline prices in the UK are nearing $6 a gallon, enough to take
a chunk out of even his considerable resources <g>.
Marel
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:47:44 EST
From: MadiHolmes@a.......
Subject: Re: Heating Oil Crunch
In a message dated 02/17/00 8:29:52 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
clarkcindy@e....... writes:
<<
I think that would be the least of Nick's worries, considering what's
happening to the price of gasoline and the mpg that the Caddy gets. It's up
to $1.60/U.S gallon for 87 octane in the Cleveland area. It's beginning to
feel like the '70's again, and once was enough for that decade<g>.
>>
Geez... Myabe I shouldn't tell all of you that in Kansas last March/April,
prices got down to 79 CENTS for 87 octane for a good month or so....I'm sure
that Nick would have been having major flashbacks to "he good ol' days" (ie
about late 50s, I guess) where that price was the norm.
MadiHolmes
Cousine Formidable/GSS
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