Re: Hou, 2000

["David Marjanovic" <David.Marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> >>Because I need to cite it now (for *Jibeinia*) and can't wait half a
year
> until it arrives.<<
> * Cool, so what publication are you writing for paper thesis, what ever
that
> you can't wait for?

I'm still a bit young for a thesis :-) , I'm writing an update to my paper
(published in November 2000 in the Dinosaur Society "Quarterly", discussed
at length at http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/2001Jan/msg00361.html
[in Unicode]) to add new discoveries and to correct the many mistakes that
many of you have pointed out. It's nothing to wait for (no new taxa
described, still no cladistic analysis) :-)

> And besides it didn't take me half a year to get the
> book, just a few weeks.

The U.S. Mail works. The Austrian one is very slow since it has been
privatised. JVP takes a month or a bit longer to cross the Atlantic by
air-mail, and Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia Supplement 2, which I ordered
before publication, arrived on December 31st.

> I hope this isn't one of those times where people
> just don't have the patience and is the now internet generation where they
> just want it now!

This one isn't one of those :-)

> * Why are you citing the lay person's book and not his bigger book? (You
> know the one that no one can get anymore?)

The way I've written the text I need to cite both.

BTW, my post "Re: Abbreviation update" should have been offlist. I
apologize. It is of a certain general interest, though.