All about Brad McFall.

Brad writes me:

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SO NO - you went off the topic.

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Yes, it was me who went off-topic. The thread was about cloning and I was talking about stem cell research. However, as I recall it was you who moved me into that thread to begin with.

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WHAT YOU SAID was that preblastulas arent technically different than the use of topology in topobiolog and this CAN have ID effects.

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If I said that I must have had one too many bloody marys 'cuz I didn't even know I could use those words in a sentence.

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An attorney in Albany told me I have a case against Cornell. But just as Bill's finger made it mine would not and not becuase I dont have a case but because I dont have money.

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That is a shame, Brad. I feel bad for you.

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Brad writes me:

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This is just great. I think we have finally arrived at the same page.

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If your page shows a number of stamps and mailings to a Dr. Willard F. Stanley then yes, I suppose we've arrived at the same one. I'm not sure why you posted this, though. It is interesting, but you didn't explain why it was relevant.Do I take it that Dr. Stanley is your grandfather? The Australian Birds thing is intriguing, is there a story behind it?

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It's no bother at all, Brad, I was just wondering what your point was.

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but really this must be just my instinctive tendency for really I am trying to stop posting not continuing to do so.

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Don't stop posting! Please.

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I don't know why I didn't respond to this before Brad; sorry, I must have got caught up in something else. There are some fascinating stamps in that collection. Your granddad was obviously a collector; are you? Are those your stamps?

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One stamp has too many things in it.

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I suppose you mean the one immediately to the right of the words "Animals on Stamps"? The one with a red background that appears to show a queen and a raccoon, among other things?

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Your grandfather was quite an important man. Until now I had not heard of bio-philately. It seems very interesting. Thanks for all the examples; I've enjoyed looking at them. I particularly liked the Japanese sheep's-head stamps.

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Nighttrain posts Brad's poem:

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HESTER WAS AHIPPO WITH A FIGURE MOST CONVENTIONAL,
BUT HER CONVENTIONALITY WAS PURELY UNINTENTIONAL.
SHE LONGED TO BE THE LOVELESIT OF ALL THE HIPPOPOTMI
FROM CENTRAL TANGANYIKA TO THE PLAINS OF OSSAWATOMIE.
SHE DREAMED OF CUTTING DOWN HER GIRTH TO FORM A FIGURE CLASSY,
THE ENVY OF THE HIPPO CLAN FROM MAINE TO TALLAHASSE.
HER SECRET DREAM, SHE WOULD ADMIT, IF ANYONE SHOULD ASK HER:
TO BE THE HIPPO BEAUTY QUEEN FROM SPAIN TO MADAGASCAR.
SHE SOAKED IN EVERY WATERHOLE FOR MILES IN EACH DIRECTION,
IN VAIN, FOR EVEN MUD-BATHS FAILED TO ALTER HER COMPELXION.
AND THOUGH SHE DIETED FOR MONTHS, HER SHAPE WAS SIMPLY FEARFUL,
SO HESTER'S DISPOSITION SOON WAS ANYTHING BUT CHEERFUL.
HER CORPULENCE PRODUCED A CHANGE IN HESTER'S PERSONALITY.
HER LONGING FOR A GREAT DEAL LESS EXCESS CORPOREALITY
LED TO A SENSITIVITY ABOUT HER ADIPOSITY
WHICH CAUSED AMONG HER FRIENDS NO END OF ANIMOSITY.
TO HASTEN THROUGH A STORY WHICH MIGHT THREATEN TO BE ENDLESS,
IT WASNT LONG TILL HESTER FOUND HERSELF COMPLETELY FREINDLESS,
TILL ONE DAY, IN A FIT OF MELANCHOLY INTROSPECTION
SHE FLOATED OVER STANLEY FALLS RIGHT IN THE HIGEST SECTION.
THE NEXT DAY, BITS OF HESTER FLOATED UP AND DOWN THE CONGO
FROM BONGA TO BASOKO AND FROM KINDU TO KASONGO.
THE MORAL SHOULD BE OBVIOUS TO ALL WHO WISH TO HEED IT.
IF YOU MISSED THE POINT, MAY I SUGGEST YOU RE-READ IT.
DO NOT COMPLAIN; BE SATISFIED WITH WHAT THE GOOD LORD GAVE YOU,
FOR WHEN YOU FEEL AS HESTER DID, THERE'S NOTHING THAT CAN SAVE YOU.
IF FROM THE FATE OF HESTER MET YOU WISH TO BE PROTECTED
DON'T LET YOUR THOUGHTS GET MORBID, OR YOU MAY BE VIVISECTED.
AND NOW, UPON THIS HAPPY NOTE POOR HESTER'S TALE IS ENDED.
IF YOU DON'T NEED THIS GOOD ADVISE, YOUR COMMON SENSE IS SPLENDID.

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I love it! Absolutely love it! It's hilarious and at the same time it has a good moral. I had no idea Brad was a poet.I've followed this thread ever since Lam started it, but somehow I missed this post. I'm glad I took the time to do another read-through.

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I'm sorry to see you're getting emails like that, Brad, but rest assured there is still plenty of interest in you.I'm happy to see that you'll be taking that course, but to be honest I hope you don't clean up your writing too much. The mystery you create can be intriguing. Sometimes I'm left feeling like the characters Nick and Honey must have felt after their evening with George and Martha in the play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, albeit without the emotional drainage.Speaking of Woolf, your writing style can sometimes be reminiscent of hers.There! Now, at long last, I've found at least one connection between that play and the historical Virginia Woolf (something I've wondered about for years). Both can remind me of you.

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"I think younger workers first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is." George W. Bush, May 4, 2005

The one on the right works, but whether or not that's helpful will be up to the individual user. All I can say is that you know a lot more about thermodynamic equilibrium than I do.Is that your voice, Brad? What you say isn't nonsensical at all, but you bring so many different scientific disciplines to bear in making a single point, even throwing in detailed bits of history, that's it's confusing to someone who isn't as knowledgeable as you are.