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My dear Olorgando....perhaps our math is a teensy bit off? 😉
Or maybe you learned "The New Math" in your grade school years.
I must say, the nuns taught me better than that 😁.
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My dear Olorgando....perhaps our math is a teensy bit off? 😉"Rendezvous with Rama" is from 1973, so almost, but not over 40 years ago. It's the first book in the series of four, the only one Clarke wrote alone, and the shortest one at 243 pages in my 1990 Bantam paperback edition.
"Rama II", 1989/90, 466 pages, "Garden of Rama", 1991/98, 593 pages, and "Rama Revealed", 1994/95, 602 pages, are all collaborations with Gentry Lee.
From what I vaguely remember, Lee did most of the actual writing, with Clarke providing the framework or "skeleton". The three Lee collaborations appealed less to me that Clake's first solo book.
yeah, I've heard the "sequels" all were less than entertaining, from people who've read them."Rendezvous with Rama" is from 1973, so almost, but not over 40 years ago. It's the first book in the series of four, the only one Clarke wrote alone, and the shortest one at 243 pages in my 1990 Bantam paperback edition.
"Rama II", 1989/90, 466 pages, "Garden of Rama", 1991/98, 593 pages, and "Rama Revealed", 1994/95, 602 pages, are all collaborations with Gentry Lee.
From what I vaguely remember, Lee did most of the actual writing, with Clarke providing the framework or "skeleton". The three Lee collaborations appealed less to me that Clake's first solo book.
Argh! Must be something like Jack Benny's insisting his age was 39 for decades, forgetting a (in Benny's case more than one) decade ...My dear Olorgando....perhaps our math is a teensy bit off?
Or maybe your learned "The New Math" in your grade school years.
I must say, the nuns taught me better than that 😁.
You know who Jack Benny is???!!! Yesssssssss!!!😄Argh! Must be something like Jack Benny's insisting his age was 39 for decades, forgetting a (in Benny's case more than one) decade ...
12 years of Catholic school (grade school and high school) ....best education to be had anywhere, [edit:] almost bar none. 😎... but in base 13 it is less than 40 ...
... and nuns taught me from grades 6 to 8, too.
My parents and I lived in the US 1966-1975, in my parents' case very early 1975, in mine late.You know who Jack Benny is???!!! Yesssssssss!!!😄
I'm 35 and I know who Jack Benny isYou know who Jack Benny is???!!! Yesssssssss!!!😄
So are you going to stay 35? 😄I'm 35 and I know who Jack Benny is. I first learned about him from Looney Tunes, of course...
The Mouse That Jack Built
In this spoof of "The Jack Benny Program", a mouse with Jack Benny's personality and poor violin playing ability lives, along with a mouse version ofwww.supercartoons.net
The one I went to was a grade school of sorts - extended, perhaps, grades 1-8. When we moved from Queens in NYC just a bit over the border to Nassau County on Long Island, and I entered a definitely good public school there, I found that I had serious deficits in science, despite having had an interest in it from earliest reading age, and up to today.12 years of Catholic school....best education to be had anywhere, bar none. 😎
I'd love toSo are you going to stay 35? 😄
Yep, God bless Loony Tunes ....The folks that put it all together--cartoonists, writers, directors--- all incredibly gifted.
I can only think of one current "cartoon" show that is better than L-T in the calibre of writing...The Simpsons
Yeah, I should slightly qualify what I said....NY (metro area) has some of the best Public schools in the nation... always have. Likewise Chicago.The one I went to was a grade school of sorts - extended, perhaps, grades 1-8. When we moved from Queens in NYC just a bit over the border to Nassau County on Long Island, and I entered a definitely good public school there, I found that I had serious deficits in science, despite having had an interest in it from earliest reading age, and up to today.
Good thing I checked the link - the image that formed in my mind was what are actually the boarding schools - Andover and Exeter are names I remember from my college days. As to NY public schools, I have dim memories of Forest Hills High School having cropped up in my parents' considerations, which did have stiff admission requirements (and was an easy bike ride from where we lived). But we ended up moving to Nassau County, north shore on or by Long Island Sound.The non-denom. " Country Day Schools" were even better, but very very spendy.... even now, very good, but very expensive.
oooo....cue Twilight Zone music.....Good thing I checked the link - the image that formed in my mind was what are actually the boarding schools - Andover and Exeter are names I remember from my college days. As to NY public schools, I have dim memories of Forest Hills High School having cropped up in my parents' considerations, which did have stiff admission requirements (and was an easy bike ride from where we lived). But we ended up moving to Nassau County, north shore on or by Long Island Sound.
Yep, the Schools were literally "Day Schools out in the country" (meaning not urban, but more like in suburbia) .... as opposed to boarding schools.Good thing I checked the link - the image that formed in my mind was what are actually the boarding schools - Andover and Exeter are names I remember from my college days. As to NY public schools, I have dim memories of Forest Hills High School having cropped up in my parents' considerations, which did have stiff admission requirements (and was an easy bike ride from where we lived). But we ended up moving to Nassau County, north shore on or by Long Island Sound.
I checked Wikipedia and did find an article on FHHS.oooo....cue Twilight Zone music.....
Did you know that in the Spiderman Comic book world Stan Lee modeled Peter Parker's school on....(wait for it)...Forest Hills High School. 😮
Not just heard of it, read it in the 2003 German translation (probably a Christman present from friends), which has the title "Shipwreck with Tiger".I’m reading “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel for my honors lit class. I’m sure you’ve all heard of it before.
I'm assuming this is the 2003 third edition.I've just started Shippey's Road to Middle Earth. The first chapter seemed to be a lot of Oxford academic nit-picking but I'm hoping it gets better.
Are you referring to the Flashman character created by George MacDonald Fraser?If you like Sharpe, you should try Flashman. 😄
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