Well, it's the end of the year here at dear old Pud U., and I've a few
things to say before I head out. First, and most unfortunately, I haven't
yet found out if my friend back home will have an account I can borrow
for this mailing list, so Dr. Morser may be effectively silenced until
next semester. If you just _have_ to get in contact with me about something,
I can be found via snail-mail at:
[address removed]
Louisville, Ky. 40207
Secondly, my final action before going into low storage(or whatever), is
to ask if any of the Social or Generalist teams would care to work on
a somewhat more flexible translator program. I have the computer skill, but
no linguistics, and there's no telling what kind of stuff that probe's going to shak
going to shake loose.
Thirdly, I'm very sorry for the last-minute nature of this message(I'm leaving
this afternoon)...I really should have given more warning, but I've been
in a real crush this week for finals.
And finally, on the subject of silencers...Actually, there _is_ a good
reason for putting silencers on military-type sniper weapons; You see,
a silenced weapon doesn't necessarily mean the sound of the round going
through the sound barrier is quiet(as has already been explained by a
number of people), but it does mean that that the sound of the actual
explosion of gunpowder is quiet(if a halfway decent silencer). Now while
that may not sound terribly useful to you, it means that there's no way
to tell(by sound, anyway) _where_ the shot was fired from...And let's
face it, as soon as some poor fool's head explodes for no apparent
reason, somebody's gonna guess that there's a sniper somewhere anyway...
Hasta la bye-bye, guys
Craig Waylan