grok'ed it

[Shirley, Mark R]

Whoops, maybe it was... it's been 20 years.  Coulda sworn it
was Heinlein.  Oh well, won't be the first time I was wrong.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Wright [mailto:krwright at wankel.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:05 PM
> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> Subject: RE: grok'ed it
> 
> 
> That's not Heinlein, that's Frederick Pohl (I think).
> 
> "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" was my first RAH.20 years later I have 
> every book published by him. Among other things, he had a knack for 
> creating characters you'd want to meet and friends with.
> 
> krw
> 
> Wasn't it Shirley, Mark R who said:
> >Oldest Heinlein I read was the Heechee saga... 
> >
> >  > -----Original Message-----
> >>  From: Shannen Durphey [mailto:shannen at grolen.com]
> >>  Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 5:33 PM
> >>  To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> >>  Subject: Re: grok'ed it
> >>
> >>
> >>  I'm not that old, but I know Heinlein.  I got into plenty of
> >>  trouble by being
> >>  caught reading Heinlein (and Bradbury, and Asimov, and CS
> >>  Lewis, and whatever
> >>  else I could find) when I was supposed to be doing
> >>  schoolwork.  I still remember
> >>  "Oscar" the spacesuit.  I also remember the day I learned
> >>  that spacesuits don't
> >>  need heaters like the pre-moon launch sci-fi writers believed.
> >>
> >>  At one time I had a huge collection of vacuum tubes.  I
> >>  wanted to build a
> >  > computer, and all the books I was reading talked about vacuum
> >>  tubes in the
> >>  computers, so I grabbed every tube I could find figuring I'd
> >>  eventually have
> >>  enough.  Good thing I moved into car parts a few years later.
> >>   Ida been no match
> >>  for IBM.
> >>  Shannen
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Dave Williams wrote:
> >>  >
> >>  > -> "grok" is used widely amongst techo's who've read SF in the
> >>  > -> past, or have associated with SF fans.
> >>  >
> >  > >  Heinlein, "Stranger In A Strange Land", 35 years ago. 
> >>  "Just the other
> >>  > day" to us geezer types.
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