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I wrote that book before Chris made CP. I love writing, Rama. Not just technical articles. I love writing fiction too.
And also science writings. But my science writings are not that of a scientist. A common man's understanding of science. Not a normal common man's of course. A very smart common man's. No technicalities, but very good stuff nevertheless.
Usually I mix in some slight bit of futuristic contemplation and finally my attempts at science writing ends up as semi science-fictitious material.
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Buy it, read it and admire me
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
A common man's understanding of science. Not a normal common man's of course. A very smart common man's.
I love it!
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The bit i quoted
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A common man's understanding of science. Not a normal common man's of course. A very smart common man's. -- Nish, on Science Writing
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Lekker belangrijk dit... Dat ook...
TMB!
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Albert van Peppen wrote:
Lekker belangrijk dit... Dat ook...
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A common man's understanding of science. Not a normal common man's of course. A very smart common man's. -- Nish, on Science Writing
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
Shog, you think he was swearing at me?
Possibly, but he was replying to me. Ah well, i've been called worse. Probably.
... though maybe it was just gibberish, meant to break that nice arc we had going...
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A common man's understanding of science. Not a normal common man's of course. A very smart common man's. -- Nish, on Science Writing
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Shog9 wrote:
but he was replying to me
whew! so he was swearin at ya
Shog9 wrote:
meant to break that nice arc we had going
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Buy it, read it and admire me
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Ah wait... i just checked his profile & he's from The Netherlands. So i dug up The Open Translation Engine and had a go at it. After trying a few alternate/corrected spellings, i got:
"Tasty most important this... that too"
So it doesn't sound too bad. No idea what TMB means though
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A common man's understanding of science. Not a normal common man's of course. A very smart common man's. -- Nish, on Science Writing
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It means something like: 'Very important this conversation... That too..'
It is a cynical note due to the fact that it has nothing to do with a bitmap nor dialog nor both of them... So in other words, you two are just chatting with each other about non important bussines, so please use some other media (MSN messenger, ICQ.. whatever)..
Greets,
TMB!
PS. TMB means The Mad Butcher
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Albert van Peppen wrote:
you two are just chatting with each other about non important bussines
Er, sorry!
Shog, whatcha think?
Nish
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Buy it, read it and admire me
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
Shog, whatcha think?
He's prolly right. Commenting on your sig is only remotely related to tiling and stretching a bitmap. However, it's importance could be debated; as one of the primary representations of one's personality online, a sig carries some weight...
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Hey you Whitehouse, ha ha, charade you are
You house proud town mouse, ha ha, charade you are -- Pink Floyd, Pigs (Three Different Ones)
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Shog9 wrote:
Commenting on your sig is only remotely related to tiling and stretching a bitmap.
Yeah, true. Quite remote in fact.
Shog9 wrote:
as one of the primary representations of one's personality online, a sig carries some weight...
This is also true. I used to think I change sigs fast. But you seem to have a new sig every day
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Buy it, read it and admire me
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
But you seem to have a new sig every day
It's usually closer to weekly. But i do swap in temporary ones from time to time when they seem appropriate. 'Tis a holdover from when i used a script to give all my emails random quotes for sigs... had to give it up when i went to web-based email
...although someone has managed to do it on CP now that i recall
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Hey you Whitehouse, ha ha, charade you are
You house proud town mouse, ha ha, charade you are -- Pink Floyd, Pigs (Three Different Ones)
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
maybe Roger Wright who might actually write a review as big as my whole book
Paul Watson may be more appropriate person to do that.
What is the price in Indian Rupees? I will ask my fiancee to buy that and mail it to you so that you can sign it and send back?
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Well, I'd be glad to do that Rama
But one funny thing is I won't be getting even one Rupee out of all this. But the pleasure I seek is not money, but the realization that my friends have read my first book and have partially enjoyed it, even if the only reason they actually liked the book is because they like me
Nish
p.s. I wrote it when I was 19-20. Took me a while to find a publisher. Finally found one and I had to bear 16% of printing/publishing costs. That came to Rs 96,000. Then it took them a long while to get it published. Then nothing. I ask them what happened and they said I have to market my own book!!! Blast!
Anyway last month I was chatting with Kannan Kalyanaraman and I coincidentally found my book from google. I mean there were 3-4 web sites selling my books and I didnt even know about it.
I guess I got thoroughly conned. But I don't care I'd be immensly happy if all my CP buddies read my book and tell me they liked it at least a teeny weeny little bit.
Maybe you guys can buy one book and post it to each other as a sort of chain-book.
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Buy it, read it and admire me
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
That came to Rs 96,000.
That's lot of money. You can get MSDN universal subscription in that.
Nish - Native CPian wrote:
I guess I got thoroughly conned.
Looks like that,.
But, we are proud of you.
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Nish - Native CPian wrote:
Even if you spelt it wrong,
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Don't worry Rama, i checked every place in this thread where you used 'it', and all of them were spelled correctly.
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Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. --Shog9 --
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