Posts Made By: jess tauber

There is a company somewhere that will take your carbon after cremation and smash it into diamonds, which are single molecules, after all. Not quite atomic, but its REALLY YOU, not some atom you'll probably lose, and you can proudly display your family jewels, and they really will be.... 8)

Jess Tauber

ARRRRGHHH. I don't have any more hair to pull out....

More than a year ago I bought a telescope from an Astromarter (though NOT here ON Astromart), and it was shipped via a UPS-Store franchise in Ohio. It arrived very much damaged- everything from the dust cap, objective, focuser, and diagonal had major problems, all due to the shoddiest, flimsiest packing job I've ever seen. I contacted the seller. I contacted the shipper. I contacted UPS itself. Took pics. Did everything I was supposed to.

The seller was incommunicado for long stretches at a time, making it difficult to coordinate getting the insurance claim 'approved' at least according to the shipper. I ended up making many dozens of calls to the shipper, who insisted that everything that could be done was being done. Months go by. Now I'm told that the claim was denied due to the initial time frame being passed, but that he's trying to get that 'waived'.

Well I called UPS right after, and was told by them that the claim had been APPROVED. Eleven months ago. And paid to the shipper.

This is very interesting since the shipper kept asking if I could send documentation that would let them show that the telescope was worth much more than what I had paid for it (it was, for replacement cost, but I guess I hadn't understood what he was implying).

When I called the shipper today he pretended he wasn't who he was (that's happened several times, but I'm a linguist, and voices are a specialty), and was very waffly about who he'd spoken to about the insurance, etc.

As a linguist, I imagine there's a word for this sort of activity, though I dare not speak it here. Can you guess what it is? (Hint: its an f-word, though not THE f-word, though I'm bordering on using that one too).

Jess Tauber

Was out in the early evening with the unruly nephews, saw a few flashes before the moon rose. Later (alone) with the moon high in the sky managed to see 3 bright ones- but nothing else. Just drowned out (even with binoculars...). Maybe next time....

Jess Tauber

I'd be more worried about the beard, what with rumors of profiling and all...Oh, and avoid footwear of any kind.

Jess Tauber

I know what Dorothy died of...

Jess Tauber

You wish.....

I can see Bob as the Veep, Crosby as the affable Prez, and Condi played by Lamour

But seriously folks, having already spent too many long hours deciphering the mysterious asides and other clues in this movie, I have come to the conclusion that I KNOW where Bin Laden is, and has been. And you're never going to believe it.

Forget Pakistan. That was always a smokescreen. Lets look at the evidence, in the form of alignment of the names-

We have Bin. That matches the first half of MON-ica. The difference between the M and the B are trivial, if Noam Chomsky is to be believed. Then a vowel followed by an n.

Laden- match that against LewiNsky. See how all the letter line up except for the d and the w.

I'm still working on the remaining letters to see what is still hidden there- Osama, the -ica and -sky portions of the names. Middle names may be relevant too. Note how AMA, and ICA almost spell out US, AMERICA. The SKY. Coincidence???
I think NOT.

What dark imagination could ever have suspected that our greatest enemy really WAS here all along, and that Clinton really was involved in bringing about the events of five years ago. He could never have imagined how close he really was.

And you thought it was all about the sex.... >

Jess Tauber
(This is just a code name)

You guys- I see a subject line like this my mind sees a golden opportunity- and he wants his poles cut to boot!

Jess Tauber

I had voted for 'Bartles' and 'James'. But whadda I know??

Jess Tauber

Given that galaxies are mostly empty space, what ends up on the filter, hydrogen? And what do you do with all the stars that come through the pores? I suppose you need a good vacuum to use this effectively.

And is it any good on the false galaxies?

Jess Tauber

Yes, but many of those same folks believe in Santa Claus, speaking of snow...

Jess Tauber