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echo: cooking
to: RUTH HANSCHKA
from: NANCY BACKUS
date: 2019-10-08 13:30:00
subject: Re: fish was: Shrimp

-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 10-05-19  16:37 <=-

 >  >  RH> Or just shop elsewhere and pay half.
 >  > That works, too...  ;)
 >  RH> I like seeing those 60% and higher "savings" totals.  
 > True, those are a nice carrot... ;)
 > 
 RH> I got more back than I spent in CVS today.  Now those numbers I like!

Indeed... :)

 >  > Asimov's and F&SF over the years, but only subscribe to 
 >  > Analog...
 >  RH> Oddly, science fiction folks are the ones who seem to be loyal 
 >  RH> to dead tree magazines.  We like to reread things I guess, in a 
 >  RH> digital magazines don't allow.
 > Yup... and keep the magazines for forever... How else could we show 
 > that whatever new technology there is was predicted so many years
 > ago by some astute SF writer or other...  :)

 RH> That's what I'd figured.  You can't reread digital copies if the 
 RH> device breaks or runs out of memory and you don't have them 
 RH> transferred.  If you can transfer them.

Exactly... :)  You only have it in your own fragile wetware memory... :)

ttyl       neb

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