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Date: 29 Nov 2006 19:37:52
From: Joe S.
Subject: Does this guy know what he's talking about??
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Amazon.com just delivered to me a copy of "The Urban Astronomer's Guide" by
one Rod Mollise.
At first look, it appears to be a useful piece of work.
Does this guy really know what he's talking about? :-)
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Date: 30 Nov 2006 01:18:14
From: Chris L Peterson
Subject: Re: Does this guy know what he's talking about??
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:37:52 -0500, "Joe S." <anon@mous.net > wrote:
>Amazon.com just delivered to me a copy of "The Urban Astronomer's Guide" by
>one Rod Mollise.
>
>At first look, it appears to be a useful piece of work.
>
>Does this guy really know what he's talking about? :-)
No, he's completely clueless. He's got some serious chutzpah writing
about the sky when he lives underneath the Gulf Coast soup and has
rarely seen it! (He does, however, seem to have a history of seeing
stars induced by a certain southern potent potable <g >.)
_________________________________________________
Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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Date: 29 Nov 2006 17:12:55
From: Brian Tung
Subject: Re: Does this guy know what he's talking about??
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Joe S. wrote:
> Amazon.com just delivered to me a copy of "The Urban Astronomer's Guide" by
> one Rod Mollise.
>
> At first look, it appears to be a useful piece of work.
>
> Does this guy really know what he's talking about? :-)
That depends--on whether he's recently taken a swig of Rebel Yell.
(The direction of the effect of said swig left as an exercise to the
reader.)
--
Brian Tung <brian@isi.edu >
The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/
Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/
The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/
My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.html
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Date: 30 Nov 2006 07:43:54
From: RMOLLISE
Subject: Re: Does this guy know what he's talking about??
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Joe S. wrote:
> Amazon.com just delivered to me a copy of "The Urban Astronomer's Guide" by
> one Rod Mollise.
>
> At first look, it appears to be a useful piece of work.
>
> Does this guy really know what he's talking about? :-)
Likely NOT...not unless he was SOBER (what's the chance of THAT?!)...
:-)
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Date: 30 Nov 2006 07:46:45
From: Joe S.
Subject: Re: Does this guy know what he's talking about??
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"Joe S." <anon@mous.net > wrote in message
news:ekl95v02pn2@news2.newsguy.com...
> Amazon.com just delivered to me a copy of "The Urban Astronomer's Guide"
> by one Rod Mollise.
>
> At first look, it appears to be a useful piece of work.
>
> Does this guy really know what he's talking about? :-)
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>
>
Well, thanks for all the comments. Read much of the book last night,
skimmed the rest and I definitely recommend it for us urban dwellers --
answered a lot of my questions and gave me some goals to shoot for.
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Date: 30 Nov 2006 07:53:32
From: Brian Tung
Subject: Re: Does this guy know what he's talking about??
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Joe S. wrote:
> Well, thanks for all the comments.
Heh. You did get at least one serious comment...
--
Brian Tung <brian@isi.edu >
The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/
Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/
The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/
My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.html
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Date: 30 Nov 2006 03:30:13
From: Humble Pie
Subject: Re: Does this guy know what he's talking about??
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"Joe S." wrote:
> Amazon.com just delivered to me a copy of "The Urban Astronomer's Guide" by
> one Rod Mollise.
>
> At first look, it appears to be a useful piece of work.
>
> Does this guy really know what he's talking about? :-)
In his previous work: " Motorcycles and Unicycles Ive Never
Ridden", a personal documentary, the author speculates about
what his life would have been like (a) had WWII never happened,
(b) had the South won the Civil War, and (c) had he not shot the
glass out of his first telescope with his Daddy's .45 calibre muzzle loader at
the age of twelve! That was the beginning of Rod's career
in astronomy.
In Chapter XVII we see Rod having departed the Venice Beach
chapter of the Hell's Angels to take up astronomy fer serious, after meeting a
deity in a vision, which turned out to be his wife, or was it his tenth child!?
Rod is not sure and neither am I. Iwasn't there!
The author would like us to believe he's been around the block a
few times, or more if you count the lies, this attribution meant to
assure any uncertain reader that Rod knows what he's talking about - on any
subject.
The fact is, the man is a lot like the first Bach. Very gifted and a
natural composer of yarns and such. But, he has never been out of
his hometown since the day he was born 56 some-odd years ago
(or whatever it is by now), he married his highschool sweetheart,
he has worked in the same church and hardware store for more
than 30 years of his life, he does not drink at all (that is pure myth),
and he has taught the same astronomy class one night a week in the same old
moss covered college for almost 30+ years, and he's so
poor he has to walk to and from the college each time - and that is where he
suddenly discovered one night during his walk home
that "urbanism" had arrived. Oh my God! Thus, his new book.
Read it. Y'all will like it.
Anonymous Semper Minimus
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Date: 30 Nov 2006 03:58:23
From: G
Subject: Re: Does this guy know what he's talking about??
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they gave him good reviews of this book...
http://www.amazon.com/Urban-Astronomers-Guide-Practical-Astronomy/dp/1846282160
http://www.astromart.com/articles/article.asp?article_id=487
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Date: 29 Nov 2006 22:35:03
From:
Subject: Re: Does this guy know what he's talking about??
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Joe S. wrote:
> Amazon.com just delivered to me a copy of "The Urban Astronomer's Guide" by
> one Rod Mollise.
>
> At first look, it appears to be a useful piece of work.
>
> Does this guy really know what he's talking about? :-)
Makes one wonder, especially when considering the nom de plume
"Rod Mollise" is an anagram for ALL, repeat ALL, the following:
Roll Deimos.
I smell odor.
I'm old loser.
Slime drool.
So mild lore.
Moose drill.
Older limos.
The title of the book, THE URBAN ASTRONOMER'S GUIDE, is itself an
anagram of the following:
Huge as tremendous brain-rot.
Enthused or boring amateurs.
Gonorrhea urinates best mud.
Aberrant sure dung smoothie.
Subhuman greed restoration.
Huge bear torments dinosaur.
Huge or bad monster urinates.
Hot, boring amateur rudeness.
:-) :-) :-)
With thanks to the Anagram Genius program, one of the best pieces of
software to ever appear; see URL:
<http://www.genius2000.com/ >
as used also in the Da Vinci Code book and movie (though I've had the
program since 1997).
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