Beam me up Scotty!! Voice recognition what a trip!I would like to extend a
warm greeting from sunny Florida to our new member, may all your replies be
fruitful, mark bethke
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From: Elbow mc <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 12:18 PM
Subject: Howdy Folks
 
 
>(This was written using voice-recognition software. It's more Emily Latella
>than  Star Trek, and has been known to embed weird things in the text. So,
if
>you are getting numeral ones instead of apostrophes, for example, I
apologize.
>Do not adjust your set. The problem is on this end.)
> *******************************************
>
>My name is Ellen Bulger, and I'm fairly new to this list. I confess I've
been
>"lurking" these last few weeks, just reading all your posts and enjoying
them
>immensely.
>
>I've always loved natural history, especially marine biology, albeit at the
>hobbyist level. I live in New Haven, Connecticut. I suppose there are
>marvelous shells to be found on Long Island Sound, but the limited
diversity
>is a bit of a bummer. It's been during visits to the Bahamas, North
Carolina
>and Florida that I've done my bit of collecting.
>
>It's only recently that I decided to immerse myself mollusk-wise. I was on
a
>liveaboard dive boat in the Bahamas. We dove off Conception Island, Rum Key
>and San Salvador. The diving was splendid but, it's illegal to collect when
>you're using scuba. (Anyway, I don't do the live shell thing myself.) The
long
>and short of it was that we got hardly any beach time and I found myself
going
>into shell withdrawal.
>
>When I got home I started pouring through books, trying to give myself a
crash
>taxonomy course. I've been sorting and sorting and puzzling my way through
>these baffling limpets.
>
>And I am thrilled to have discovered this list.
>