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The Dougster

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Feb 28, 2010, 5:51:32 PM2/28/10
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I don't know who wrote this bit, but it goes like this (words spoken
by folk singers like me, the world 'round):

With a hammer and a fire could make an axe, and cut down trees, and
split kindling, and build a bigger fire, and make another hammer, and
more fire, and another axe...

or something like that.

(badump bump goes the rim shot on the side man's drum kit)

I've taken this to heart. I have reduced the problem of the self-
replicating shelter to the self-replicating machine tool, and now it's
just the self-replicating hammer, at theaters near you. I need to
write an open-source screen play for it.

I've taken it to heart. My latest business cards have Replikon
Research and my DUNS, my name as Owner, a brief quote from the above,
and my email..

If you'd like a card (call it a QSL) from me, let me know by email or
snail mail, OK?

And let me know if you want the one with the above text items

*with, or without*

the nude pic of me posing the muscleman pose, on the other side! :)

Douglas (Dana) Goncz
Replikon Research
PO Box 4394
Seven Corners, VA 22044-0394

Jim Wilkins

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Feb 28, 2010, 6:33:12 PM2/28/10
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On Feb 28, 5:51 pm, The Dougster <dgoncz.703.475.7...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> ...

> With a hammer and a fire could make an axe, and cut down trees, and
> split kindling, and build a bigger fire, and make another hammer, and
> more fire, and another axe...
> ...
> Douglas (Dana) Goncz

That's a good start, but shouldn't you be able to replicate ALL the
blacksmith's tools and the saw he used to make the bellows?

jsw

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