From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/35581 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: luis fernandes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Hi! Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 07:53:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <15048.26656.869931.932051@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035171304 3902 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 03:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 29036 invoked by alias); 2 Apr 2001 11:55:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29031 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2001 11:55:46 -0000 Original-Received: from eccles.ee.ryerson.ca (141.117.1.2) by gnus.org with SMTP; 2 Apr 2001 11:55:46 -0000 Original-Received: from genesis.ee.ryerson.ca (genesis [172.16.1.23]) by eccles.ee.ryerson.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f32BrPH04890 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 07:53:25 -0400 Original-Received: (from elf@localhost) by genesis.ee.ryerson.ca (8.9.3/8.8.8) id HAA06417; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 07:53:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 19.34.1 Original-Lines: 30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35581 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:35581 Shorts? Canadian summers are very cold-- the air conditions set room temperature at about 15 C. No one who works inside wears shorts. No watches, please-- I'm a klutz and I've broken every watch I've worn. Also, I promised that I would never buy a watch that didn't automatically do DST->EST. I now carry a Visor instead. I was very disappointed it didn't do DST->EST but its usefulness in other aspects more than outweighed this limitation. Clocks, hmmm...maybe. Instead of stars, though, they should be comets-- the Oort cloud contains comets. You can't go wrong with T-shirts. Also, if they are long enough, you don't feel naked. Anyway I did a bit or research on Oort last night: 2000 was the centenary of his birth (d.1992); his motto was "Looking ahead in wonder". I didn't scribble this down, but I think he also discovered that galaxies spin and pinpointed the position of the Sun in our galaxy. I was thinking something like a Gnu distorted in the shape of our Galaxy. On the back, a picture of Oort or the Oort cloud and the motto and the Gnus motto (which has "cloud" in it too). There are more possiblities with T-shirts then with other novelty items.