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Tim
On Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:49 PM, "" <> wrote:
>Tim--
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>I know this is silly, but I'm testing a theory about the spam flag. Can
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>Dave
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>> Thanks, Derek.
>>
>> I had to look at that for a second before the sentence parsed, but then it
>> was laugh-out-loud funny.
>>
>>> I thought Virus broke Promise.
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>>> From:
>>> []
>>> On Behalf Of
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 12:40 PM
>>> To:
>>> Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Since Dave N is feeling Chatty
>>>
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>>>
>>> Guys--
>>>
>>> I "broke my promise" (below) because my messages weren't coming through,
>>> and I didn't see any point in sending out the next installment if it was
>>> just going to fall into some black hole. By the time Tim fixed the
>>> problem
>>> it was several hours later, so was too late. I will return to this later
>>> today.
>>>
>>>> Test 1--I haven't seen my last one come back through yet.
>>>>
>>>>> Remember me?
>>>>> I'm conscious of the fact that I left us partway through this several
>>>> days
>>>>> ago, and don't want to let it get too stale. I'm in charge of testing
>>>>> a
>>>> .NET MVC project that has to be completed by March 31, and time is
>>> running
>>>>> out, so I have to get back to that, but I also want to keep this
>>> moving.
>>>>> I think what I'll do now is say a couple of initial things to remind
>>>> myself of where I was and send it out.
>>>>> First, as Bardbear who asked the initial question (which I still
>>> haven't
>>>> answered yet--be careful what you ask for, apparently I don't give a
>>> damn)
>>>>> and I are both Duke grads, wow, Mercer was good (or Duke isn't, your
>>>> call). If we were going to lose to anyone (in the first round) I'm
>>> actually proud that it was to the only Div 1 school that started 5
>>> Seniors
>>>>> all year. I think that's a wanted corrective to all this Johnny
>>> "Where39;s
>>>> my NBA Contract" stuff (I live in KY, home of the disease). As K said
>>>> of
>>> them with unfeigned admiration in his quickie halftime interview,
>>> "They39;re
>>>>> old and they're old together, they know what to do. They're men." But
>>> on the topic, I've established
>>>>> 1. Where "Star Viking" came from and how we refined what it means, how
>>>> that implies other groups in the same time (Guild and Free Traders) and
>>> how the RC is no longer around to tell people, "don't call us SVs,"
>>> which
>>>>> implies that the pro-Imperial guys of the Regency are probably going
>>>>> to
>>>> be
>>>>> writing history
>>>>> 2. That we were trying to nuance things to make it clear that although
>>>> we
>>>>> were already accused of being "dark" that's not what this was about 3.
>>> Why the RC was in Old Expanses, built on repurposing some of the
>>> late
>>>> MT MSs
>>>>> 4. We decided that GDW was going to commit itself to writing TNE to
>>>> demonstrate our commitment to the new line and allay fears that it was
>>> going to be unsupported the way MT was
>>>>> 5. Some stuff about the D10 to D20 system, but that doesn't really
>>>> affect
>>>>> the storyline, which is what the questions were about. (At some point
>>>>> I
>>>> may digress into "why a storyline at all?" but that's really off-topic,
>>> so
>>>>> I will try not to go into it too deeply.)
>>>>> I think that's about it, but I'll probably remind myself of other
>>> things
>>>> I've recently said as I go, even if I forgot them above.
>>>>> So if any of you are reading this now before I send out the
>>>>> resumption,
>>>> if
>>>>> it looks like I'm about to forget to touch on something I said I'd get
>>>> back to, feel free to say, "Don't forget the XYZ thing you said."
>>>>> More soon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Tim
On Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:49 PM, "" <> wrote:
>Tim--
>
>I know this is silly, but I'm testing a theory about the spam flag. Can
>you tell me if this one gets flagged?
>
>Dave
>
>> Thanks, Derek.
>>
>> I had to look at that for a second before the sentence parsed, but then it
>> was laugh-out-loud funny.
>>
>>> I thought Virus broke Promise.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From:
>>> []
>>> On Behalf Of
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 12:40 PM
>>> To:
>>> Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Since Dave N is feeling Chatty
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Guys--
>>>
>>> I "broke my promise" (below) because my messages weren't coming through,
>>> and I didn't see any point in sending out the next installment if it was
>>> just going to fall into some black hole. By the time Tim fixed the
>>> problem
>>> it was several hours later, so was too late. I will return to this later
>>> today.
>>>
>>>> Test 1--I haven't seen my last one come back through yet.
>>>>
>>>>> Remember me?
>>>>> I'm conscious of the fact that I left us partway through this several
>>>> days
>>>>> ago, and don't want to let it get too stale. I'm in charge of testing
>>>>> a
>>>> .NET MVC project that has to be completed by March 31, and time is
>>> running
>>>>> out, so I have to get back to that, but I also want to keep this
>>> moving.
>>>>> I think what I'll do now is say a couple of initial things to remind
>>>> myself of where I was and send it out.
>>>>> First, as Bardbear who asked the initial question (which I still
>>> haven't
>>>> answered yet--be careful what you ask for, apparently I don't give a
>>> damn)
>>>>> and I are both Duke grads, wow, Mercer was good (or Duke isn't, your
>>>> call). If we were going to lose to anyone (in the first round) I'm
>>> actually proud that it was to the only Div 1 school that started 5
>>> Seniors
>>>>> all year. I think that's a wanted corrective to all this Johnny
>>> "Where39;s
>>>> my NBA Contract" stuff (I live in KY, home of the disease). As K said
>>>> of
>>> them with unfeigned admiration in his quickie halftime interview,
>>> "They39;re
>>>>> old and they're old together, they know what to do. They're men." But
>>> on the topic, I've established
>>>>> 1. Where "Star Viking" came from and how we refined what it means, how
>>>> that implies other groups in the same time (Guild and Free Traders) and
>>> how the RC is no longer around to tell people, "don't call us SVs,"
>>> which
>>>>> implies that the pro-Imperial guys of the Regency are probably going
>>>>> to
>>>> be
>>>>> writing history
>>>>> 2. That we were trying to nuance things to make it clear that although
>>>> we
>>>>> were already accused of being "dark" that's not what this was about 3.
>>> Why the RC was in Old Expanses, built on repurposing some of the
>>> late
>>>> MT MSs
>>>>> 4. We decided that GDW was going to commit itself to writing TNE to
>>>> demonstrate our commitment to the new line and allay fears that it was
>>> going to be unsupported the way MT was
>>>>> 5. Some stuff about the D10 to D20 system, but that doesn't really
>>>> affect
>>>>> the storyline, which is what the questions were about. (At some point
>>>>> I
>>>> may digress into "why a storyline at all?" but that's really off-topic,
>>> so
>>>>> I will try not to go into it too deeply.)
>>>>> I think that's about it, but I'll probably remind myself of other
>>> things
>>>> I've recently said as I go, even if I forgot them above.
>>>>> So if any of you are reading this now before I send out the
>>>>> resumption,
>>>> if
>>>>> it looks like I'm about to forget to touch on something I said I'd get
>>>> back to, feel free to say, "Don't forget the XYZ thing you said."
>>>>> More soon.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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