mklotz said:The concept of another me frightens me almost as much as it must frighten you.
Actually, it's funny because there is another me and he lives nearby here in southern California. Neither my surname nor my given name is very common so the existence of a nominative Doppelganger, especially one so close, is really surprising.
Shortly after I moved to SoCal, I was living in Westwood, quite close to the UCLA campus. I kept getting phone calls for "Professor Klotz" from students who wanted extensions to the due date of their semester projects. That's how I learned of the existence of my Doppelganger. It turns out he's a (spit) liberal arts, wine and cheese type who wouldn't know a micrometer from a C-clamp.
A few years ago, I stumbled across one of the books he co-edited at a library sale and snapped it up to put on my shelf next to the quantum mechanics text to impress the sort of people who are impressed by that sort of thing.
Oh, and to close the story, after a while I got really annoyed by the phone calls and started granting the students generous extensions on their project deadlines. I may have even told a few that they were excused from submitting a project.
Brian Rupnow said:Steve---My secret it out.---I'm a total sci-fi and fantasy hound!!! Ever since I discovered Ray Bradbury back in '61 or '62 I have been a sucker for this stuff. I have complete collections of Bradbury, Heinlein, Arthur C Clarke,---even at one time had almost the complete set of "Conan the Barbarian" and the old "Doc Savage' stuff from back in the 1930's. I had all of the "Barsoom" collection by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Tarzan creator.-Actually I had most of his Mars stuff . Steven King ain't no slouch either, but you have to read ALL his stuff to see how he ties all his books together.
rcplanebuilder said:Plink...
Brian Rupnow said:Steve---My secret it out.---I'm a total sci-fi and fantasy hound!!! ---Brian ...
:bow:Cedge said:one of only a handful of Spider Robinson fans..... author of the Callahan's Crosstime Saloon series.
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