From continuing-time@ralf.org Thu Aug 30 04:25:04 2001 From: continuing-time@ralf.org (Dan Moran) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:25:04 -0700 Subject: [CT] Connor Keys Stout Moran In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Amy is about 5 months pregnant, with what is almost surely our last child -- a boy, according to the ultrasound. We're going to name him Connor Keys Stout Moran. He's due to be joining us in early January. We will have 5 children -- 3 from her previous marriage, 2 from ours; my oldest daughter is 11 now. 7 years until college bills start showing up. That's _scary_. ~~~~~ Who out there has worked in an internet startup? And who's got a good story? My current company fired the Chairman of its Board (and company founder) yesterday. I'm not prepared to talk about this yet, but by God, I'm going to; you could stretch the material from this one company into a lengthy novel. ~~~~~ I'm writing an -- article? op/ed, perhaps -- for the EFF, on DRM. I'll let you know when it runs. ~~~~~ We've agreed in principal to publish Terminal Freedom in a general edition through Quietvision. Haven't executed contracts, but I don't anticipate any problems. ____________________________ continuing-time mailing list continuing-time@ralf.org http://www.ralf.org/mailman/listinfo/continuing-time From continuing-time@ralf.org Thu Aug 30 17:19:28 2001 From: continuing-time@ralf.org (Dan Moran) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:19:28 -0700 Subject: [CT] TLR cover In-Reply-To: Message-ID: You're the third person to ask me this since this cover was finished. I'm a little startled myself -- the cover's a direct lift from a really famous Apollo photo I assumed everyone would recognize. Probably only the Earth rising over the Moon shot is better known. I didn't actually use the photo except as a model; the Earth & moon are 3DS Max models with texture & bump maps from NASA. This is the Apollo photo: http://www.QueenOfAngels.com/images/EarthPartial007.jpg -----Original Message----- From: continuing-time-admin@ralf.org [mailto:continuing-time-admin@ralf.org]On Behalf Of Casey Rousseau Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 6:50 AM To: continuing-time@ralf.org Subject: RE: [CT] Connor, Teenagers, TLR cover and Startups The cover for tLR is Way Cool! One question. Is the scale for the Earth and Moon consistent with the distance between them? I like the design and don't care if it is the 'wrong' scale for the sake of the cover, but my pedantic side was a little startled. ____________________________ continuing-time mailing list continuing-time@ralf.org http://www.ralf.org/mailman/listinfo/continuing-time From continuing-time@ralf.org Sat Sep 15 07:39:19 2001 From: continuing-time@ralf.org (Dan Moran) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:39:19 -0700 Subject: [CT] WTC In-Reply-To: Message-ID: A graphic regarding the WTC is up on the QOA website. www.queenofangels.com I have a nice high-resolution photo of the World Trade Center, pre-attack, as the wallpaper on my computer. I'll e-mail it to anyone who wants it (or put it up on QOA if enough people want it.) ~~~~~ No one on this list can believe I'm a fan of George Bush's -- and on the day of the crisis I said vicious things about the man as he was flying around the country. I am informed today by a good liberal democrat that the President does _not_ have the authority to decide where to go when the Secret Service has decided his life is in danger. If true my opinion of Bush has been raised substantially -- with the exception of that day he has hit virtually all the right notes at a time when it would have been easy to slip into belligerancy, mawkishness, or any of a dozen other traps. Taking nothing away from Bush ... another Republican who I have not been a fan of, Rudolph Giuliani, reminds me why dictatorships are sometimes attractive. You could do worse than Giuliani to run a country by fiat in time of war. He's a great man in the classic sense -- outsized and faintly ridiculous when dealing with squeegee vendors; exactly the right size for this. I don't think I've ever been more impressed by a politician. ~~~~~ Thank you to those of you who shared your experiences here. All of this is off-topic, but no more shattering event has happened in my lifetime. I believe in us. I believe the United States is stronger than this and better than this. One of my good friends, a young man named Ray, is a towelhead. I'm a mick -- my father still sends money to Sinn Fein. Another friend, Doug, is an English immigrant to the United States; he grew up in Liverpool and doesn't like getting into elevators today because my second-cousins in Ireland were blowing up buildings when he was a boy, possibly with some portion of the money my father continues to send. I love and respect my father, and perhaps I should not criticize him in this semi-public forum ... but in his financial support of Sinn Fein, in his verbal support for the IRA, he's _wrong_. I'm not a mick ... I'm a _Los Angelean_. I've got a Lakers poster and a plack with that nigger Magic Johnson on it in my office. (My boys have those niggers Kobe & Shaq hanging on their walls.) My cell phone has a Lakers logo on it. I've never been to Ireland and I _don't care_ what the English did to my grandparents. My friend Ray speaks Farsi ... but he is not a towelhead. He is a United States Marine who was born and raised in Chicago. Today he sent e-mail to the Marine Corps. telling them where he was, what his technical skills were, and offered to reenlist if they would take him. He's 23 and married. My friend Doug is in the US 10 years now; he is as much an American as I am despite his English accent. I'm not worried that we will destroy bin Laden. We will. And the Taliban, too, and a good thing, that. I only hope we do to Afghanistan what we did to Japan, for good and bad; level it, install a puppet government, install a constitution and force democratic elections. I am only a little worried that the racism that runs just beneath the skin of our country in good times, will break out and turn into anti-Arab racism. What I am worried about is the cycle of violence that the Old World has learned to live with. I do not want us to learn to live with it. Destroy the terrorists, yes. Invade the country or countries that shelter terrorists, yes. But I hope we do it the old-fashioned way; send in soldiers, and then send in money, and help rebuild the conquered. We _know_ this works; it worked for Europe, it worked for Japan. Killing people and going home again will only drag us into the cycle that Europe and the Middle East have never managed to break out of. Nothing would be more heartening to me than to watch the Congress of the United States declare war on Afghanistan, or Syria, or Iraq, or whomever we need to declare war on -- if we approach the job the way our grandparents did, and not the way that Johnson and Nixon did in the 60s and 70s. Nothing would frighten me more than another executive action, like the Gulf War, or Vietnam. That will probably fail, and in the process might doom my children to live in a world that we thought, protected by our oceans, we had managed to escape. People will forgive you for conquering their country and rebuilding it. They will not forgive you for bombing it and going home to watch the Super Bowl. ____________________________ continuing-time mailing list continuing-time@ralf.org http://www.ralf.org/mailman/listinfo/continuing-time From continuing-time@ralf.org Wed Sep 26 05:48:20 2001 From: continuing-time@ralf.org (Dan Moran) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:48:20 -0700 Subject: [CT] Milda and Lawrence at WTC Message-ID: My friends Milda & Lawrence were a block from the World Trade Center when it collapsed. Their story is here: http://www.lhdv.net/photo.htm ____________________________ continuing-time mailing list continuing-time@ralf.org http://www.ralf.org/mailman/listinfo/continuing-time From continuing-time@ralf.org Wed Oct 3 06:31:54 2001 From: continuing-time@ralf.org (Dan Moran) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 22:31:54 -0700 Subject: [CT] QOA moving In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I've reacquired QueenOfAngels.com from my business partner, and have moved ISPs. It should be back up shortly through ReadyHosting.com -- a Windows 2K/SQL Server host that my Amazing New DanielKeysMoran.com website can actually run on. I'm not sure if I'll run as QOA.com or as DKM.com -- I won't maintain two websites; one will forward to the other. I'm fond of QOA and will probably keep it; DanielKeysMoran.com/net/org will be forwarded to that URL, most likely. The QOA mail accounts will be down briefly while this is going on. Sorry for the inconvenience -- you can reach me through this account, however, dkm_1@pacbell.net. ____________________________ continuing-time mailing list continuing-time@ralf.org http://www.ralf.org/mailman/listinfo/continuing-time