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Originally posted by jkt:
Anybody else going to the Eaton Conference to hear philnic's ground breaking lecture?

Phil gave a very informative lecture on the script writings of Ray and Harlan Ellison.

Photo of Phil lecturing attached.

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Originally posted by jkt:
...Photo of Phil lecturing attached.

...looks more like Phil singing. Or whistling. And what was that I said about being fatter and older than at my first Eaton conference?

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Originally posted by philnic:
...looks more like Phil singing. Or whistling. And what was that I said about being fatter and older than at my first Eaton conference?

My first thought was whistling, as well. You do look like you've put on half a stone or so!

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Originally posted by philnic:

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Originally posted by jkt:
...Photo of Phil lecturing attached.

...looks more like Phil singing. Or whistling. And what was that I said about being fatter and older than at my first Eaton conference?

You still look thin standing next to me...

I must say that the people in attendance actually asked intelligent questions. Very uncommon for what I might refer to as a GeekFest Conference. We can be an odd lot.

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
...You do look like you've put on half a stone or so!

Much more than that, but for the last three months I've started dropping again. jkt here immortalises me on the way back down.

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Originally posted by jkt:
...I must say that the people in attendance actually asked intelligent questions. Very uncommon for what I might refer to as a GeekFest Conference. We can be an odd lot.

Scholars, all of them. Some of them just LOOK geekier than others.

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Originally posted by philnic:

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Originally posted by jkt:
...I must say that the people in attendance actually asked intelligent questions. Very uncommon for what I might refer to as a GeekFest Conference. We can be an odd lot.

Scholars, all of them. Some of them just LOOK geekier than others.

The true scholars should be nose deep in this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...bedded&v=h0leEJyGN0M

Ray would have been on the first flight:

http://www.slate.com/articles/...es_plan_to_send.html

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Originally posted by dandelion:
The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams reported he was writing up to the day he died. Think we'd all give a pretty to know what he wrote last!

Again, Sam Weller has come to the rescue.

https://raybradburyboard.com/ev...977066916#2977066916

Emoji Dick now in Library of Congress: Ray would have never seen this coming...

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/...library-of-congress/

Smithsonian Magazine article in which Ray is mentioned.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.co...ils-that-never-were/

Smithsonian Magazine article that mentions Ray.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.co...ils-that-never-were/

OUT OF PRINT is a new documentary about books and print in the "digital revolution" and features Ray Bradbury(not shown in trailer)and several others.
Trailer, with links to showings, here (under 2 min.): http://outofprintthemovie.com/

Ray Bradbury "Story of Love":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PovjoXVF9z8

The Bradbury (a starship) is mentioned in a bit of dialog, in the latest STAR TREK movie.