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   On 1/4/2026 11:40 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > "Person Familiar With the Matter"  wrote in message   
   > news:10je7bh$264s6$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > On 1/4/2026 8:11 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >   
   >> 39. "The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse   
   >> than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same   
   >> turd."   
   >>   
   >   
   > That's laugh out loud funny.   
   >   
   > ----------------------   
   > Sci-fi author (with Larry Niven) and aerospace engineer Jerry Pournelle   
   > whose blog I followed and occasionally corresponded with was a strong   
   > contrast, a very sociable fellow with a large circle of writer and   
   > scientist friends and admirers.   
   >   
      
   I remember occasionally reading Pournelle's column in Byte Magazine back   
   in the '80s and '90s.  I briefly wrote a column in Computer Shopper on   
   the subject of the TRS 80 Color Computer.  I liked Pournelli and Mondo   
   2000 magazine's Xandor Speaks column.  I was a fan of Terrence McKenna   
   (spelling?) who wrote articles dealing with his experiences taking   
   Ayahuasca in the Amazon jungles and peyote in the Southwestern United   
   States, somehow melding his drug experiences with emerging technology.   
      
   --   
   "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of   
   doubt, while the stupid people are full of confidence.” —Charles Bukowski   
      
   "When guns are outlawed, only foreign invaders and the government   
   officials that invited them in will have guns."   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)