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Posted by Steve White 2007-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-18 10:42|| 2007-02-18 10:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Grom, when did you first start reading the Kipling?

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-18 11:22|| 2007-02-18 11:22|| Front Page Top

#3 25 - 30 years ago.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-18 12:15|| 2007-02-18 12:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I figured about 20, close enough.

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-18 13:13|| 2007-02-18 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 You didn't read The Jungle Books and Kim as a child, Shipman?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-18 14:19|| 2007-02-18 14:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Sure, but Grom Ima guess is an expert, he has serious links to Kiplingesk stuff. I'm tempted to guess Anglo-Joooooooooooooo who made the move. Still confused by the New Mexico thing tho.

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-18 14:43|| 2007-02-18 14:43|| Front Page Top

#7 I meant Ima think he's a serious student of....

Posted by Shipman 2007-02-18 14:45|| 2007-02-18 14:45|| Front Page Top

#8 I DID read The Jungle Books and Kim as a child, Mowgli the Tiger stays with you for decades.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-18 16:56|| 2007-02-18 16:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Shipman, I was born in Russia and grew up in Israel (and I've read Kipling first in Russian --- there're some excellent translations).

Re NM: I spent most of my graduate, and all of my postdoc years at Los Alamos.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-18 17:21|| 2007-02-18 17:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Dammit, mowgli AND the tiger, Tiger's name is Shere Kahn.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-18 18:02|| 2007-02-18 18:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Grom, red or green?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-18 20:37|| 2007-02-18 20:37|| Front Page Top

#12 #11 ?????

Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-18 21:46|| 2007-02-18 21:46|| Front Page Top

#13 gromgoru, my little sister was at Los Alamos just last summer. She said the scientists were great fun, but nobody would get serious unless she took a permanent job there. Of course, she was there as a pre-doc programmer... ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-02-18 22:17|| 2007-02-18 22:17|| Front Page Top

#14
TW
Los Alamos is a great place. However, out of 20 odd postdocs that I knew there, only two got tenure (and for one of them it involved a serious endowment to the institution by his father). Hope it helps your sister.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-18 23:46|| 2007-02-18 23:46|| Front Page Top

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