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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask....
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2 ************************** INSTALLED: 19 JAN 85 ********************
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3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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4 ************************************************************
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5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION PLACED ON
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6 THIS SYSTEM.
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7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privately owned
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8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public.
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9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is
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10 privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all messages which
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11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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13 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the
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14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the
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15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace
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16 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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17 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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18 ************************************************************
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20 Hmmmm... The 23rd of December?
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21 Those pills they've been giving me at the home must be strong.
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22 Oh yes... At the top!!
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23 YIPPEEE!!!!!!!!
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24
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25 Dr. Frankenstupe
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26 +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_
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27
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28 lurk...
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29 drat, missed the top.
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30 Kathy: old habits are hard to kill, so I probably will wait out your next entry. I need to know Jack a bit better before
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31 I craw into his skin.
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32 All: this is not the start of a debate, but what is the hangup you have about spelling? A word that is spelled correctly
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33 although it is much easier to read, has very little flavor to it. A persons personality can be reflected by the way he
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34 shapes his letters, and over a terminal, there is no way of displaying handwriting, so the way a person spells is a
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35 wonderful way of telling more about that person.
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36 Well, I guess I'll be getting back into lurk mode now, so I'll be seeing female sheep.
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37 lurk...
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38 up 10
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39 IOIOIOIOIOI][
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40 me, what for do you want to hear youself from far away?
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41 was note on le old? put a note on the back of your hand.
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42 talk into a tape recorder and play it back.
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43 IOIOIOIOIO][
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44 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PaPa
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45 Once again the midnight early morning oil burns at the Inn. The place
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46 is slowly begining to clear out, but bodies are sleeping all over.
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47 The Innkeeper slowly scans the scene and shakes his head a few times.
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48 "What an interestingly weired bunch of patrons I have." But he knows
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49 that deep in each and every heart is goodness. He slowly turns, locks
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50 the ale tanks, and heads for bed. They will rise soon and depart.
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51 Might as well let them sleep here for the night.
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52 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PaPa Smurf 1-19 0613
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53
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54 -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
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55 My my, with this UNDergrOUND poking its head into the pictuer again, I
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56 can't help but feel that things are going from bad to worse when they
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57 are involved. If I didn't know better, I'd think that the NET was going to
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58 be in for a rough time. It's a good thing that I know better.
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59 All I have to do is think of the happy little faces stuffed in those funny
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60 looking three-piece suits, those bright offices with lots of really neat
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61 super-spy equipment, and all the cola machines they must have in each of
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62 the offices. Never a dry throat for the goody guys! (Sorry Farley)
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63 I'VE GOT IT! I think I know what I can do to get recognized a little more
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64 by those nifty men with their handy-dandy pulse-lasers & photon particle
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65 emiiting gadgets that are always sitting in their jackets to look like
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66 all those ordinary pistols. Maybe if I can, just by pure chance, happen to
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67 find out where they are currently working over some bad guys (OUTSIDE of
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68 the big and fancy branch offices) I might be able to let them see me first
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69 hand! Oh boy! Another assignment! Won't they be impressed...
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70 (Nevermind my decoder ring, where's my 98 channel police scanner?)
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71 Maybe I can find some news at the store on 72nd when I go to get some more
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72 six-pacs of cola. (they haven't been lasting very long lately...)
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73 _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ abacab _-_-_-_-_-_(7-11)_-_-_-_-_-_
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75
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76 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (fussy little mr. t)
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77 Why is it that whenever I want to get onto some juvies brand new system that
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78 their father bought them for Christmas all I get is a connection to a
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79 system that wants to play the role of a catatonic newspaper? GRRRRRRRRR!
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80 kathy: about T; "the lights are on but nobody's home." Again.
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81 Any and ALL: I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I shouldn't have even
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82 brought up the subject of boarders at all! Now look at where it's gotten
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83 me? try to do a guy a favor...
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84 CISTOP MIKEY: Well, after having met some of the frequenters of The INN, I
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85 have almost abolished all feelings of gender concerning her/it/him. All
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86 I see now are the faces that go with the names, and feel that I am inter-
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87 acting with those persons and NOT the system. (Except for those random
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88 DISK/ERRORS) >>>>OOOOPS... her/it/him refering to BWMS...
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89 th emachine itself.
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90 Sorry for being so incoherent, it seems to be a natural misgiving when I
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91 type to you. Absolutely nothing personal, I asure you.
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92 Prometheus: Hmmmm... No entries on any of the four+ systems in a couple of
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93 days. Are you feeling okay? I'll drop a quarter and give you a call.
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94 Isn't India suppose to be long distance? I guess not...
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95 ZZZZZZippy: Who knows? Maybe I might show up to the Who-ings. Prepare to
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96 see some truely vintage Dalek action if you don't mind watching the
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97 'dandy' for a switch. Have loads of fun!
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98 Lady S. Another Hmmmm... Try to convince Theus to get another unit for
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99 the ANNEX if at all possible. I MUST KNOW! Say 'ello to Hephastian (sp?)
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100 for me. (squeak, squeak)
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101 Mrs. Deagle: Hee hee hee... (menacing little green fellows...)
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102 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->the Guardian 0808 Hrs 19 Jan 85
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103
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104 |_|_|_|_|_| LADY S WHERE ARE YOU? YOU MISSED THE STORY TO YOU, ALL THAT CONFUSION FOR NOTHING|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
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105 { ^+/* ---------------- ^+/* ---------------- */+^ ---------------- */+^ }
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106 CISTOP & others in the discussion: It would seem that careful consideration
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107 of how computer hardware and software can be optimized to serve human goals
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108 and endeavors is long overdue. Most of the present lead-them-by-the-hand,
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109 menu-heavy variety have missed the mark by a country mile. (You will notice
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110 that most often used, most under utilized phrase (UF) is conspicuous by its
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111 absence.) My favorite image to illustrate the above concept shows a person
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112 holding a hammer by the head, rather than the handle. Another person in the
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113 picture says, "Sure looks like a useful tool, where's the help key?"
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114
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115 A couple of factors that carry considerable weight in the design of easy to
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116 use program interfaces are: FAMILIARITY and CONSISTENCY. BWMS probably gets
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117 a low grade on the first concept (for the first time user) but it gets high
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118 marks on the second. I suspect part of the flavor of the Backwater is from
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119 learning the outs and Inns of the system, thus becoming a BWMS irregular.
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120
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121 My personal preference leans more toward the command driven applications as
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122 opposed to the menu driven ones. The two forms can be utilized in the same
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123 program to take advantage of the best aspects of both. Menus presented in a
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124 way that is fast and nondestructive (popup/pull-down) can greatly augment
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125 a command driven program. Some of the new alternate input devices, such as
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126 the mouse, show promise but should be implemented with caution. Frequently
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127 these new trendy devices get indiscriminately attached to everything.
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128
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129 TMA: You're out of the lurk mode twice, or more, in one week. A refreshing
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130 experience to see your cryptic style gracing the Backwater. One would hope
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131 this is a precursor of your more frequent presence. Have you noticed how
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132 often the phrase 'if God had meant' (in jest of course... but as one famous
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133 writer once said, "many a serious word is said...") is used to impart some
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134 sort of omniscient magnitude to purely arbitrary human choices? Present use
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135 excluded, of course. Do continue your visibility status.
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136 { ^+/* --------------- The Mesolithic Mathematician --------------- */+^ }
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137 *********************************
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138 A definate 15 of the fog index! Hee Hee.. Sorry MEz, I couldn't resist!
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139 *********************************
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141 ****************************************************************
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142 Well, it has been done. No, I didn't swap drive a with drive b,
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143 I threw them both into the junk box. BWMS now has <gasp> NEW DRIVES!
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144 (well, almost new, one of them only has about 200 hours on it, and
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145 the other has less then 50. The are single sided TEAC drives that
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146 were pulled out of equipment (Sanyo 550) when it was upgraded to
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147 double sided drives. This should give new life to the ailing system.
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148 There will still be disk errors until these two disks get shuffled
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149 off to the archives, but that should be the end of it once they are
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150 gone. I'm glad THAT headache is over with. An added advantage is
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151 that there are no head load solinoids, so no clickity-clack all
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152 night long anymore. (Not that it ever bothered me what with BWMS
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153 being locked up in a little room all of its own.) The again, I'll
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154 never know when it is being used any more either. Oh well, every
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155 silver lining has its dark cloud....
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156 Now I wonder what will go wrong next......
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157 ********************* CISTOP MIKEY *******************************
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158 OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN
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159 Portland OR - Blake Edwards, Bo Derek, Julie Andrews, and Dudly Moore are
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160 being sought in connection with the bizarre mass murder or a Portland Family
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161 last Friday.
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162 At first, A para-military organization was thought to be responsible for the
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163 carnage, but it was later discovered that police crime lab officials had made
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164 a mistake in determining the origin of several clues found on the scene. In
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165 a prepared statement, communications officer D. Harry explained the situation.
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166 "We thought we had found the letters NET all over the crime scene, referring,
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167 of course, to the organization made famous in a series of articles written
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168 by Washington Post writer Bob Woodward. After re-examining the clues, it was
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169 found they were artifacts from the set of the motion picture '10.' A picture
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170 about a man going through a middle age crisis. It seems that most of the
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171 paraphernalia had the title of the movie spelled out, ie 'TEN', to avoid
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172 confusion with the title of Dick Clark's birthday party television show, named
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173 after the year he was born. As more details become available, we will relate
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174 them to the news media"
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175 OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN OREGONIAN
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177 --------------------------------------
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178 Mesolithic Math.: Your comments raise several questions indeed. I personally am sick and tired of having my hand held
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179 through various software programs via menus, when I would much rather stack command through command driven programs.
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180 Regardless, one can not ignore the beginning user, who when not shown all possible choices at any given situation, can
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181 quickly become bewildered and loose interest. I have seen it happen many times in my line of work. There must be a
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182 point of compromise where a meld of menu-driven and command-driven operations can be utilized for a satisfactory
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183 program for all. Much of the new software coming out now is touching on just such subjects, but so much more needs to
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184 be done. It may be a case where the initial design of a product is done by those who will code it instead of those
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185 who will use it. The mouse is a step in the right direction, although I feel most implementations as yet fall short of
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186 the mark. As the science of software engineering combined with ergonomics becomes more exact, maybe we will see a sort
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187 of renaissance in program design. Until then, we must suffer along with all the rest. I would be very interested in
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188 hearing your views on the subject. Please write back.
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189 A. Debater
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190 --------------------------------------
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192 NET NEWS BRIEF
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193 abacab dear fellow, a NET agent would never be caught dead in a three piece
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194 monkey suit unless the situation called for it. Black clothes, grease paint,
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195 quite sneakers, and small side-arms are much more de rigueur.
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196
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197 Farley was taken to another room, this one equipped with much better
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198 appointments. He was given a cool drink of lemonade, and some Hostess Fruit
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199 pies. The man who accompanied Farley was someone he had not seen before, but
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200 that did not seem to deter the man from speaking to Farley as if he were an
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201 old acquaintance. This idle chitchat continued for nearly half an hour, until
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202 a concealed claxon interrupted the two. "Sounds like trouble", the other
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203 man said. "Follow me" Farley took his advice, and they made their way down
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204 the hall, passing several heavily armed men along the way. "Looks like a
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205 full scale attack is underway. We better get to the emergency exits, just in
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206 case." The man muttered something else, which sounded to Farley like the
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207 word loam or lome, but he couldn't be sure. Just then, an explosion rocked
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208 the building, and the red emergency lights turned red.
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209 NET NEWS BRIEF
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211 ch /turned red/turned on/; ch /quite/quiet/; ch /or/of/; drat enter only!
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212 That was silly!
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213 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ETC.^^^^^^^^^^^^
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214 Something a little different.
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215
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216 A NOT-YET-TITLED-SOMETHING
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217 EPISODE X+1
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218 He shivered in the fierce warm wind. Even though the metal walls were
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219 hot against his skin, elsewhere the sweat and blood that covered him made
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220 the air feel icy. He iched all over from the caked blood but couldn't
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221 risk the sound he would make in wiping it off, even his breath would seem
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222 loud if the fans cut off again. In a way it was worse to know that most
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223 of it wasn't his. It served to remind him just how badly things had gone.
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224 As it turned out the air shaft had been one of his great bad ideas, but
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225 in all the time he had been stuck here he had come up with nothing better.
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226 The obvious sabotage he had finished first. That part was supposed to
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227 be found. It would take some time but it would be repaired. The rest was
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228 more subtle. It was also incomplete. He had been interupted, rather
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229 abruptly. That acounted for the blood.
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230 Only part of the sound monitors had been affected, they were used in
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231 a rotation and could only be tampered with while they had power to them.
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232 But the pressure sensors were easy to fix, a he had little time to hide
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233 his work, so the air shaft was the only choice.
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234
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235 Adrian
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236 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ETC.^^^^^^^^^^^
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237 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*
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238 John K. O'hara: Orders received and noted, sir. Ryan, out.
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239
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240 *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Elizabeth Ryan *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= At 3:35pm on 1/19/85 *=*=*=*=*
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241 *************************************************************************
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242 Guardian: (twilight zone music) The door creaked open and dust was
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243 filtering thru the sunlight. But the lobby was empty and
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244 my footsteps echoed thru the halls. I walked into the
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245 kitchen and called out " yooo hooo, any one home" my voice
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246 echoed backed with an errie tone. Curiousity killed the
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247 cat and I opened the dusty refrigerator. (IEEEEEE)
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248 My scream could be heard for miles around as my
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249 nightmares were realized.
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250 *********************************************kathy***********************
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251 `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'
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252 Someone once said, "It takes all kinds to make a world." If that is true
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253 then where are they all?
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254 Having bad spelling is one thing, trying to elevate it to some sort of
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255 virtue, using weak rationalizations, is quite another matter. Everyone makes
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256 their own decision whether to learn to spell or not. Whatever other kinds of
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257 impressions bad spelling invokes it quite universally gives the impression
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258 of ignorance. (Before you rise to the bait note that there is a difference
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259 between ignorance and stupidity; one is correctable by applying a little
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260 personal effort.) Spelling ability, or more likely the lack of it, is one of
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261 those emotional issues. It's interesting that many times people will spend
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262 more effort defending why they shouldn't do something than the effort it
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263 would take to accomplish it. All in all the subject gets more attention than
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264 it does accomplishment. That's why I decided to add to the discussion. I
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265 shall continue to enjoy all the entries whatever the spelling.
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266 The Jiz, that's the one but I've heard it has five verses, or was it
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267 seven. You should expand the 'Soap' outline into a story, give it a setting,
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268 develop the characters, give them some dialog and interaction to show how
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269 they feel about each other. The outline has potential, develop it.
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270 Thought for the NET: A real secret is something only one person knows.
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271 `'`'`'`' -alchemist- `'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'`'
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272 Here's a quote that seems rather appropriate, what the "user-friendly"
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273 debate going on.
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274 "The real world is not user friendly."
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275 Kelvin Throop (Analog, March 1985, p. 67)
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276 __________________________________Leonard__________________________________
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277 ps. "what with the" not "what the"
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278 ___________________________________________________________________________
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279 ************************************************************************
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280 My hero rushed in and pulled my from the refrigerator, He kissed
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281 me and rubbed my hands trying to bring me out of my terrible shock.
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282 My eyes were glassy and i was starting to shake the reallity of
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283 the terror was too much for a impressionable person like myself.
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284 I knew then I could never look at a bowl of jello with lust again.
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285 ********************************************kathy***********************
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286 p.s. i hate enter only
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287 ************************************************************************
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288 (Swish)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>(Poof!)
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289 Melissa- Thank you very much for your compliment.
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290 >>>>>>>>
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291 Seeing that a few patrons of the INN were interested, I began a story.
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292 "Have you ever seen a dragon?", I began. "'Wonderful' doesn't come anywhere
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293 close to describing them. One sight that I will never forget to my dying day
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294 is the ballet of dragons flying at dawn above the sea. Such beauty and grace
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295 in a being so large! Still, seeing them is nothing compared to actually
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296 talking to them.
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297 "Yes, they talk. They're about twice-and-half again as intelligent as your
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298 average human, so why shouldn't they? Of course, usually they have nothing to
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299 do with men. We bore them. If you approach a dragon and don't get his
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300 attention within thirty seconds, he's likely to relieve his boredom by eating
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301 you."
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302 "I've talked to one, once. I'm not a Dragonfriend, or anything like that.
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303 There's only two things a dragon will do with or to a human- talk or eat. Only
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304 if, as someone once said, you can guarantee that the former will happen and not
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305 the latter are you a Dragonfriend. Still, just talking once is an experience
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306 to remember."
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307 My small audience murmured a little while, then someone asked, "What did
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308 the dragon say?"
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309 "Well, this particular dragon was a female, named Camille. Female dragons
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310 are generally harder to talk to than males, because often they have young about
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311 that they are extremely protective of. I was younger then, and 'bravely'
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312 sought a dragon to converse with. The first words I said, and I'll swear to
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313 it, were 'How are you today, dragon?'."
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314 Someone else spoke up. "Isn't that a little dangerous to speak like that to
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315 a dragon?"
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316 "Yes, it is, but at the time I didn't know any better. She was going to eat
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317 me, but I convinced her otherwise."
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318 "How?", someone asked.
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319 "Well...", I said, beginning a long sub-story.
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320 (Poof!)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Master Changer >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>(Swish)
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321 ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]
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322 John walked slowly to his front door. It had been a hard day, his coach
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323 hadn't been easy on him. 'Nam had been quite a while ago, but the emotions
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324 still were pent up inside. He boxed to relieve them. It was a way to legally
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325 beat up someone.
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326 Abruptly, he looked up at his porch. A sea of letters and small bundles
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327 filled the entire front yard, and was beginning to overflow onto the street.
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328 He bent to pick up one. "Occupant", it was addressed. He snatched another,
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329 and yet another. ALL of the letters were addressed "Occupant". This had all
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330 the makings of a royal post office screw-up.
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331 He looked at the letters again. Slowly, anger crept over him. Someone was
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332 going to pay for this. He hadn't done anything to anyone to make him mad at
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333 him... he was only a boxer who had, at one time, been a Green Beret.
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334 John screamed at the injustice. I'll find 'em, he thought.
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335 -The life of John Keith O'Hara, Boxer
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336 [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[
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337 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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338 Portland, OR (AP): The entire fleet of schoolbuses at David Douglass High
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339 School was spraypainted last night with oange and violet phosphoresent paint
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340 spelling the word "NET" in large 10-foot letters, an official at the school
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341 reported. A massive clean-up operation was put into action this morning,
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342 finishing just moments before the buses were scheduled to leave on their
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343 routes. "Disgraceful!", said the superintendent, "Simply disgraceful! If
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344 you want MY opinion, I think it's the start of a new evil cult movement among
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345 young high school students. Whatever this 'NET' thing is, it should be
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346 stopped! Next thing you know, those evil people will have our kids wearing
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347 three-piece suits, muttering passwords, and writing their english essays in
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348 code! I personally am shocked at the whole thing."
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349 The police only have one lead, a simple plastic ID card for the 'NET'.
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350 Investigation into the matter has, so far, revealed that it could have been
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351 made at any one of two dozen novelty shops in Portland. Police are currently
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352 investigating all those people who have bought such cards in the last 30 days.
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353 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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354 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$#
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355 I thanked the man profusely for the lemonade. I didn't recognise him, but since he was being pleasant, I didn't mind.
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356 We chatted for quite some time about trivial things. He seemed about to speak about something important, but was
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357 interrupted by the sound of an alarm. This one didn't go 'Whoop, Whoop', b is was still an obvious warning signal.
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358 The man (I must really get to learn his name, I can't go on forever calling him 'the man') said something about
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359 getting near an emergency exit, so I followed him. We passed a few heavily armed men in the hall. The man muttered
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360 something about "an attack" and then said a word I couldn't quite hear. He obviously wasn't expecting a response from
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361 me, so I didn't ask him to repeat. Shortly, we arrived at a heavily armored door. The man punched a long sequence
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362 into the keypad at the right hand side. The door swung outward slowly. Soon I saw why- it was more than six inches
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363 thick, and made of no metallic material that I was aware of. The man ushered me inside the gaping mouth of the door,
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364 just as I heard firing noises in the hall behind us...
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365 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$# Farley #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$# 18:57 - 01/19/85 #$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$##$#
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366 02020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202
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368 FEPRA E[\HB _SCUD PXDZX [LD_R AXLCJ ID[CD _FP[E _EDLF NADYA FLZDC YRADP XDEAA
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369 DCDLF NARUD MXJ\C PPAIH B\AEE CZA[\ DD_FD EPFRR DPTFL ODSAD ETXGR IDALN XIADP
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371 []_RM [E_E[ \HB_K XETGC DXGP[ \HB_A XMHBL [MWO_ X[KDZ CCJ_O D[LK_ GW[K_ JE[RR
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376 UPI News -
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377 Due to business conflicts, Portland Mayor Bud 'Whoop Whoop' Clark was
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378 forced to dispose of his holdings in his Little Furry Alarm Company.
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379 Bud said that he had gotten the idea when he had accidently stepped on
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380 his pet gerble one day and it let out a loud "Whoop". Although Mr.
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381 Clark refused to disclose who purchased his company, rumor has been
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382 rampant that it was obtained by 'Little Furries Inc.' a wholly owned
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383 subsidery of McKane Industries. When asked to confirm or deny the
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384 rumor, Mr. Clark would only respond with "No Comment."
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386
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387 **********************************************************************
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388 Little furry alarm company? Sheesh!
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389
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390 Debate: Actually, I feel that the mouse is entirly blown out of proportion.
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391 It does not add all that much to user friendlyness. It is ok if you are
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392 moving things around on the screen, but then a joystick or trackball or
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393 even a graph pad work as well. A major problem with the mouse is that it
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394 assumes that you have reasonabe table space to move it around on. Mind
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395 you, I'm not saying that the mouse is not usefull, only that it is not
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396 the end all solution that everyone is looking for no matter what Apple
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397 would have you believe. The wonderfully simplistic picture they (and others)
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398 draw of only a couple flicks of the wrist and a tap of a botton and
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399 your problems are solved, is grossly in error and a misstatment on the
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400 true use and value of the computer. Sure the last thing you do to get
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401 that printout is to tap that one tiny little button, but to get there
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402 can take long hours of pounding on a keyboard. This is the area that
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403 is in desperate need of help. Easing the burden of the poor user who
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404 has to use the monster for hours at a time, or learn some new fangled
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405 whiz-bang software package. Apple has flashy demos, but when it comes
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406 to actualy doing the work, they are no better then the rest, and worse
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407 then some. I don't care for IBM's idea of a 'friendly' keyboard either,
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408 but that's another story...
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409 ********************* CISTOP MIKEY ***********************************
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410 Well put CISTOP!
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411 To ****************: Shucks, and I was going for 18 or better!! (chuckle) -Mez-
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412
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413 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ETC.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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414 A-NOT-YET-TITLED-SOMETHING
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415 EPISOD X+2
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416 Even with almost plugging the duct the gauges would read normal, and no one
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417 would check further than that. Except for the extreme lower levels none of the
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418 shafts were bigger than his arm. This was the largest and it was questionable
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419 whether he could even back up or not. he had been prone here for hours with
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420 his arms streached forward for two hours. Even with the low gravity it was
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421 intolerable.
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422 The knife had been his great good idea, and in the dark he smiled. But it
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423 was a grim smile, it had been his only good idea. The carbon blade passed
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424 through all the public detectors with no problem and even the density scanners
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425 used by the company hadn't icked it up. The small handle made it difficult to
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426 manage and it was to light to be thrown with any force but stun protectors
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427 weren't designed to stop a knife and an induction generator didn't do anything
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428 to a non-conductive blade. It was a good trade off.
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429 Right now he was not going anywhere, and worse he had no where to go.
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430 It was too soon to try to get back into security control, in fact, after the
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431 botched job he had just done there he may have to forget that entirely. The
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432 upper level sound grid would pass him, but down here he was going to have to
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433 be very carefull.
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434 The wind was slowing. He wiggled side and grimaced as the blood
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435 had caked onto the metal walls and was tearing the hair off his arms and
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436 chest. As the last rush of wind rumbled through the shaft he began to inch
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437 forward, holding the knife and smiling that grim smile.
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438 Adrian
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439 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ETC.^^^^^^^
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440 -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-
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441 Golly! You mean that I'm supposed to pick up some info on the NET from
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442 no other than MYSELF, Ian? First time we met, I fit that description
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443 almost to a 'T' 'cept for the grease paint that is... Didn't you notice
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444 that I WAS carrying some sort of a very small firearm? An 'Other' can
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445 atest to that if you'd like... Now, if only you knew who the Other was.
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446 I can't just make up these rules as I go along you know, just trying
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447 to get more than a little recognition can be hard enough...
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448 Or could being a 'kid' be of some advantage do you suppose?
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449 All the possible combinations are making my head spin... And out of
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450 the confusion came a beam of light and a word form the gods... "COLA!"
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451 _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_/from/_-_-_-_ abacab _-_-_
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452
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453 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (time flew)
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454 It seems that everything went by so fast this time around. Trying to remain caught up anymore can be a real chore, not at all
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455 as it was back when the many travelers wandered through the Ruby Valley in search of an answer. Then who could forget when
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456 Alex and Ontho found the trident? It really wasn't all that long ago... or was it? People have come and people have gone.
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457 In such secretive times it isn't polite to name names for they really haven't gone away, it's only that they've changed their
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458 appearances. (At least two that I can think of.) It's nice to know that SOME of the good things remain the same...
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459 ^^^^^
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460 kathy: You sure seem to have had time on your hands today. (tonight?)
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461 Even the two-parters can have their own twists. I liked it.
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462 Glad to see you've enjoyed the 'popcorn'...
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463 Prometheus: I know you probably won't be able to read this, it's more for the
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464 rest. Sorry to hear that you had to maim your terminal so.
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465 Zippy: Well? Did you have fun? I understand you got a bit of a lesson on the
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466 basics of Whovionomics. Interesting, isn't it?
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467 Alchemist: It might interset you to kno that I plan all my mistakes.
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468 Just kidding... Good entries. >clink< A six-pence for your thoughts...
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469 Did I miss somebody? Just leave a note... (stop da lurkin')
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470 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --->the Guardian 0547 Hrs Jul: 20
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471
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472 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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473 In general, I don't care for a mouse as either an entry tool or as a
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474 graphics tool. The main porroblem is that to use it you must remove your hands
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475 from the keyboard. As I touch-type, this slows me down considerably.
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476 Smalltalk-80, the programming language that Xerox developed at their
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477 Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), was the origin of the mouse that has been
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478 taken up by Apple and the rest. In Smalltalk, learning to program is bound to
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479 learning NOT to type (perhaps one of the reasons that I have such difficulty
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480 with it). There, since any text on the screen is accessible at the same
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481 'modeless' level as any other, most construction of text consists of moving
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482 around the screen copying and pasting blocks of text with an occasional keyboard
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483 entry. I, personally, find it much more efficient to simply type in what I
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484 want, rather than waste time searching through a system browser or group of
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485 workspaces for the wording I am after. Someone who does not touch-type
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486 would likely hold the opposite view.
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487 With the variety of folks in the world, perhaps a number of command structures
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488 would be appropriate? Roll your own -- if you like mice and windows, have them
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489 there, if not, pick your own. Unfortunately, we don't have a "st
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490 andard command interface" (excuse that last -- damn enter only!) and have to
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491 learn each application's command structure from scratch. If there were a
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492 single group of commands -- a "core" of some sort -- that were common to ALL
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493 applications, then the difficulty in learning an application would be much
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494 less. Unfortunately, at the present time, we'd likely pick the wrong core
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495 of commands and seriously hamper future efforts.
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496 pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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497
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498 |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
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499 ADRIAN: Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! I can't wait to see what this develops
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500 into. I have but one suggestion: find a title.
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501
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502 ALCHEMIST: A note on spelling. I am not a bad speller, nor am I a good one. The
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503 majority of my errors are typo or just carelessness. However, I must argue.
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504 A bad speller is not always a lazy person with a mental block. Although I
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505 realize many people have mind blocks against it. It is the way inwhich you
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506 remember that artributes (sp?) to your spelling. I know spellers who can re
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507 member whole lines from movies but often forget how to spell "excelant". There
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508 are also people that remember how to spell the long, complicated words and
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509 forget the small, everyday ones. This I believe is a reflection on their
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510 method of remembering things. All people don't remember things the same.
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511 There are some people that can't remember what their best friend looks like
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512 if they haven't seen him/her in a few days. Does this mean they don't like
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513 their best friend? No, usually it means that they remember feelings and emo-
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514 tions about him/her. Other people remember each person/thing/whatever with
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515 an assigned color. Etc... the list goes on. Therefore, I think it silly it
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516 (oops) silly to say that people forget how to spell are lazy or have mind
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517 blocks against it. Some do, granted. But, memory varies from person to
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518 person. And, the ability to remember things also varies. I'm sure that their
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519 are some memory feats that are almost impossible to you, but are simple for
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520 someone else. Now, maybe are memory weakness are mental blocks... hmm...
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521 you never know....
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522 |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|
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523 FOR SALE APPLE CAT 300 BAUD.$200,LEAVE NAME AND NUMBER
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524 -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> ->
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525 The mouse is okay for when you don't have to type anything, I agree that
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526 it's a pain to program with. I have a graphics pad and it is good for graphics
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527 but I still have a long way to go before I try to program with it. Right now
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528 I'm still trying to find software that will work with it. Joysticks are good
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529 for games but when it comes to try to do something delicate it realy needs
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530 some work. I have never had the pleasure of working with a track-ball but I
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531 imagine that it would be much like the joystick.
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532 Oh, by the way, if you know of any software programs that will work with the
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533 Apple Power Pad please leave a note for me here, thanks.
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534 -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> ->
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535 ****************************************************************************
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536 Tina found a chair and Marci sat down close to her. At the next table
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537 on Marci's right were the boys. Jack and Tony were quite blitzed at this
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538 time and not to informative. The girls knew they had been the late ones
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539 and felt no malice towards their partners. They giggled at dumb jokes.
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540 I.E. why did the bike fall over? ... it was two tired. <yuk,yuk>
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541 and what do you get when you cross Billy Jean King and Bo Derek?
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542 ...
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543 A DC10.. <double yuk,yuk>
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544 After finishing their cognac's they processed to try and get the
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545 boys home to their apartment and wait untill they sobered up. Tony was
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546 no problem so get moving, being he was quite light and still able to
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547 walk, Jack however has clumsy straight and impossible drunk, At one point
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548 he clutched at Marci's B****t and at her cry of pain, he giggled and
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549 said, "oh mommy, I luv you". At this point many of the patrons of the
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550 bar were rolling on the floor in laughter wich caused even more discomfort
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551 for our poor executives. ( oh when will this caper get off the ground floor?)
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552 **************************************************kathy***********************
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554
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555 Where there are all tomorrows.
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556 We'll see, what really is to be
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557 Where you are and where you shouldn't be
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558 For you see the place you want to be
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559 Is really over there
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560 And all you've go to do, to make it true
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561 Is take it on a dare.
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562 And it's dark in there!
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563 Are you really ready for something new?
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564 Yeah?
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565 No!
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566 The show, about to begin
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567 Drowning in all our sorrows
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568 This scene, about to unfold
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569 It'll life you up and leave you wanting more
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570 It'll take the days we do not have
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571 And can't ever see again
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572 And all you've got to do to make it true
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573 Is take it on a........!
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575 Third time's the charm (I hope)! I don't think I've seen this particular
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576 border pattern before, but if it belongs elsewhere I'll just change again.
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577 Darn, got to remember to ask the Innkeeper how to shut this darn door!
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578 ============================= Jedeves == 85/1/20 ===========================
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