Re: Astromundi Cluster - Was: Help!

Hi Paul,

I tried a bit of googling to see if I could find your review, but couldn't 
find it either. I've tried different combinations but either get an enormous 
number or hits or only a few irrelevant ones.

A search for "astromundi cluster" and "paul westermeyer" (with both actually 
in the quotes - for anyone out there who doesn't googlesearch much) gives 
too many search results. I did notice that most of them seemed to be SJML 
posts and tried adding "-sjml" (without the quotes). The hits went down to 
16 but your thing didn't seem to be there.

I tried a couple of other combinations (adding several sj product names and 
your name, but either got thousands of hits or only a few pages that were 
not anything to do with you). I think I'm hitting googles search term limit 
when I try to list all the SJ product names.

I'm wondering if:

a) the page your review was on has "sjml" in the text - and I couldn't think 
of a good way to filter out the several sjml mirrors that *always* come up 
on spelljammer googlesearches and flood the results,

b) the page has gone offline and googlesearch has just dropped it or,

c) the page using your review doesn't list your name or has it spelt 
incorrectly!

Hopefully it is the first thing, as then someone else will be able to find 
it with a better search string than I came up with.

If it is the second thing and you can find a sj fansite that links to your 
review, then you could use the wayback machine to look for an older copy. 
Alternatively someone might find you using a search machine that isn't 
updated as quickly as google. Anyone got any ideas for search engines that 
give you lots of dead links?

And if they spelt your name incorrectly, it might help if you could think of 
some of the words that actually appear in your review. Did you include the 
reference numbers for the products or just the names? Did you include the 
names of worlds, characters, ships or other things listed inside certain 
products? (If for example you *know* you mentioned something like the 
"batship" it would make it much easier for people to help you find this 
review.)

In the meantime, I found two pages that list the worlds of the Cluster:

http://www.abelius.org/abeliane/sjamming/sj-spheres.htm

and

http://www.sj2.us/js/Spheres/Crystal_Spheres.htm

I don't think it is written by you (as you were not credited - I think they 
both got the Cluster stuff from the same source as they both state that 
Terry Hawkins is an Astromundi Cluster expert at the end of the data). 
However, it might be of interest to the person who asked you for help in the 
first place.

The sj2.us page seems to have some extra stuff (partly finished spheres) on 
it, but the abelius.org site seems a bit quicker.

Good luck

David Shepheard
News at Ten
easyEverything Internet Cafe
London

>From: Paul Westermeyer <westermeyer@????????.net>
>Reply-To: Spelljammer Setting Discussion <SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com>
>To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
>Subject: [SPELLJAMMER] Help!
>Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:36:04 -0500
>
>This was sort of buried in my larger response, I thought I'd send it 
>separately because I really want to find my lost review.  It might have 
>been missed in the larger post.
>
>
> >And what's your take on the Astromundi Cluster, or should I ask?
> >--Blackmaer
>
>I did write it up, actually. I did all the SJ products, but I seem to have 
>lost the article I wrote that covered adventures, boxed sets, ect.  It's 
>really frustrating because I saw it posted up on someone's website just a 
>few days ago (it stuck out because it mentioned that I lacked the 2nd SJ 
>MC, which I have since acquired).  I've spent two days hunting the internet 
>and the lists archives for that article to no avail.  If anyone knows where 
>it might be found, _please_ let me know asap?
>
>
>
>
>--
>"...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?!"
>"As he has ever judged," said Aragorn "Good and evil have not changed since 
>yesteryear..."
>J.R.R. Tolkien, _The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers_
>
>Paul Westermeyer,  westermeyer@????????.net