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001=Usr:0 Null User 06/30/87 20:34 Msg:0 Call:0 Lines:19
1$If you are in need of help, you need but ask...
2$************************* 28 OCT 92 **************************************
3$Welcome to BWMS II (BackWater Message System II) Mike Day System operator
4$**************************************************************************
5$GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS II IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
6$ PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
7$BWMS II was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS II is a privately
8$owned and operated system which is currently open for use by the general
9$public. No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the
10$system is privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all
11$messages which I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the
12$system, it will be periodically purged of messages (only 999 lines of data
13$can be saved). To leave a message, type 'ENTER'. Use ctrl/C to get out
14$the ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering
15$the message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to
16$replace the line. To exit from the system, type 'BYE' then hang up.
17$Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
18$**************************************************************************
19$
002=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 10/28/92 22:26 Msg:7573 Call:42686 Lines:5
20 Perot: right message, wrong messenger
21 Clinton: right messenger, wrong message
22 Bush: never got the message
23
24 **********************************************************
003=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 10/29/92 07:51 Msg:7574 Call:42687 Lines:2
25 Wow, at the top of a short disk.
26
004=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 10/29/92 10:47 Msg:7575 Call:42691 Lines:24
27
28 |
29
30 Gee, Clinton should dump Gore & get Perot. Look at the
31 advantages:
32 1) don't know
33 2)gee, um...
34 3)maybe Perot could fire Congress?
35
36 |
37
38 On the bad side, Perot would work well to keep
39 Clinton from being assassinated (the old kill-Bush-you-get-Quayle-sucker
40 complex).
41
42 |
43
44 {
45
46 Vote libertarian.
47
48 H. Celine
49
50 }
005=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 10/30/92 06:54 Msg:7577 Call:42695 Lines:7
51 &*&*&*&*'s
52 Meaning is that which lives within
53 But has its genisis without
54
55 An Astral Dreamer
56 &*&*&*&*'s (Redifining myself)
57
006=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 11/23/92 01:30 Msg:7582 Call:42992 Lines:3
58 Sorry about that folks. Seems that the modem died and went to modem heaven.
59 I went back to the old modem I used to use. Luckily it was still around.
60 *************************** CM *****************************************
007=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/23/92 06:03 Msg:7583 Call:42996 Lines:6
61 &*&*&*&*'s
62 They just don't make them like they used to.
63
64 An Astral Dreamer
65 &*&*&*&*'s (Life is one long series of scenes)
66
008=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/24/92 05:37 Msg:7584 Call:43001 Lines:6
67
68 The stars may be just points of light
69 up in the sky
70 But in the larger scheme of things
71 They're balls of fire in flight
72
009=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 12/01/92 17:47 Msg:7585 Call:43024 Lines:3
73 Gad, first the modem, now a disk drive. This thing is falling apart!
74 Well, it is back up for now. At least until something else breaks.
75 *********************** cm ***********************************
010=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/02/92 07:00 Msg:7586 Call:43031 Lines:6
76 &*&*&*&*'s
77 Maybe its time for BWMS III?
78
79 An Astral Dreamer
80 &*&*&*&*'s (Out to lunch?)
81
011=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/03/92 20:01 Msg:7587 Call:43039 Lines:4
82
83 This space could have been blank. Alas, I couldn't resist the urge to
84 muck it up. G'day
85
012=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/04/92 11:25 Msg:7588 Call:43044 Lines:8
86 |
87 Geez, you would think that a 2400 could connect EASILY to a 1200...
88 must have been the bad modem. Still, here I am (after several months)
89 with a good connect.
90 |
91 Then again, it could have always been my ineptatude.
92 |
93
013=Usr:768 Bryan Bybee 12/07/92 19:56 Msg:7590 Call:43067 Lines:5
94 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
95 it's not how much you talk, it's what you put in it...
96 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
97
98
014=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/08/92 18:11 Msg:7591 Call:43077 Lines:12
99 &*&*&*&*'s
100 I suspect it was the bad modem. Hmm, what to say... Went to Pittsburgh Penn
101 for a day. It was work related, so it wasn't much fun. Of course it turned
102 out to be a great day to not be in portland, since I left sunday morning
103 (The ice sort of sucked on the way to the airport, but it was no problem
104 getting home last night.)
105
106 What else? Lots I guess, but I think I'm done for now.
107
108 An Astral Dreamer
109 &*&*&*&*'s (Fax me to the moon, and I'll be in a tiff.)
110
015=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/09/92 14:28 Msg:7592 Call:43084 Lines:16
111
112 |
113 Ah, the joys of children. Being a parent.
114 |
115 Not.
116 |
117 {
118 Um, what's up?
119
120 Or down?
121
122 Or Around Town? Dunno...
123
124 H.C.
125
126 }
016=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 12/10/92 04:44 Msg:7594 Call:43091 Lines:6
127 *()_@#*(%_)($_()_^()(%_)@%*(_#)^*_)(*~_)!@()_^*_)$#^*)_(~)_($#!_%*&@)_%*~_)
128 Mikey: Was it the modem we purchased for you years ago that died? Arg! Glad
129 you had a spare around, but too bad that other modem have to give up the
130 ghost...
131 *%)_#@%_)@(#_)(#)_%*@)_*_)!~_)$( L'homme sans Parity *)_@*)_(#)_~$!)_%$*!_*
132
017=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/10/92 10:26 Msg:7596 Call:43092 Lines:9
133 &*&*&*&*'s
134 What can one say about life? Its meaning has been discussed to the
135 point of inanity. Its quality has been described to the point of
136 insanity, and thus it seems to me we spend far to much time in
137 its practice, and far to little in its execution.
138
139 An Astral Dreamer
140 &*&*&*&*'s (Would somebody run a logic analyzer over that one or me?)
141
018=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/14/92 06:51 Msg:7597 Call:43115 Lines:3
142
143 Post or die!
144
019=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/16/92 18:46 Msg:7598 Call:43134 Lines:11
145 Execute life? Do you mean "Terminate" or the meaning of putting into motion?
146 Practice life?? How can you??? Once you are here you get no time to improve
147 your game, you MUST play. No warm up, no practice. Just see how well you do
148 in the world of the living (well you do get parental care for a brief period
149 of time I guess that could be called practice). I guess ummm...
150 AAAAAAAAAAAAAGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I don't want to
151 think about anything right now... let me be miserable...
152
153 -Aaron
154
155 This is transitory...
020=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/16/92 19:32 Msg:7599 Call:43136 Lines:4
156
157 Life is an endless series of vignets. Some funny, some sad. And most just
158 sort of ho hom.
159
021=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/17/92 13:06 Msg:7600 Call:43140 Lines:1
160
022=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/18/92 07:40 Msg:7601 Call:43143 Lines:10
161
162 Another night, another day. The time of living.
163 Master the illusion of growth. All our wonders moving
164 Towards another uphill climb. To succede
165 Well it isn't always easy. Programed like the machines
166 We work our time and we tow the line. Seldom moving against the tide
167 It doesn't really matter it seems. In the end we are the ones
168 Dreams that light our life. People who are outside
169 The existential warriors have never found there way in. Can't in
170 fact find their way out
023=Usr:707 GENE JONES 12/18/92 18:28 Msg:7602 Call:43152 Lines:1
171@I DIDN'T SEE MY ENTRY ANYWHERE WHAT HAPPENED?
024=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/19/92 08:26 Msg:7603 Call:43160 Lines:18
172 Waste encompass my mind, we all dribble silently,
173 saying the words that waste provokes.
174 Answers are never forthcoming, we spew endless nonsense,
175 in the place of intelligent conversation.
176 One sided, we place up thoughts for others to see,
177 While they pay no heed having their own thoughts to play.
178 An endless wasteful hateful existence, without acknowledgement of mind,
179 We who do not answer the call,
180 We who do not reply to the message,
181 We who pass by the post of the user before,
182 Just to waste space with our own unheeded words.
183 Repetition, redundancy, repitition of our self-proclaimed wisdom.
184 We... More than one.
185 We... Alone.
186 -Aaron George
187 (Somebody talk to me, I like poetry and the images you guys produce is
188 stunning, but I want reciprication of intellect. Hence I beg thee...)
189 Somebody... Talk... To... Me... ,... Please... ???... 8)...
025=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/20/92 08:13 Msg:7604 Call:43166 Lines:14
190 &*&*&*&*'s
191 Hello, here it is, a reply. I'm starved for good electronic communication.
192 But what to discuss? I've tried starting conversations, but it seems my
193 abbilities in that regard are far from forthcoming. Having produced
194 not even the meerist wimper in most casses.
195
196 So, a topic. How about the sales tax? Or, we could discuss the decline of
197 IBM, or music, or computers in general.
198
199 Just my thoughts.
200
201 An Astral Dreamer
202 &*&*&*&*'s (Am I the song?)
203
026=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/20/92 10:34 Msg:7605 Call:43169 Lines:36
204 |
205
206 Here, here, a debate! The merits vs. the avoided. (Dicotamized format,
207 of course). How about the effects physically produced by a person's state
208 of mind vs. the effects produced in animals, plants, and the activities
209 of nature? Or, is the Texas Supercollider really needed by scientists
210 today? What happened to the billion$ of dollars spent on Star Wars?
211 Why was it that you could get little financial aid in the 80's to go
212 to college, but you could always join the Army/Navy/AirForce/Marines
213 and get FREE money? Student loan defauts weren't THAT bad back
214 then. How is it that we know little of Japanese culture, yet
215 Japan teaches English to ALL its students, and has adopted American
216 food, clothing, and attitudes? Has America finally put on cultural
217 blinders and stoped accepting immigrants from other countries? What
218 about the use of new optical holographic memories that can stor
219 large amounts of information in a small cubic crystal? Will it ever
220 be pratical to replace hard drive subsystems with this, and what
221 kind of data rate could be sustained?
222
223 Aaron, there is plenty to debate and discuss and mull-over and
224 agree on and disagree on, it's just that the majority of people
225 suffer from apathy.
226
227 Astral Dreamer, I beseech your patience. Your timebox was currently
228 a void; I've activated it for about a day, using it's time-compression
229 feature to allow me to count prime numbers. This probably strained
230 your timebox to the limit, as the instruments indicated it was
231 at full power. I forgot to slow it down, so it was running full
232 tilt overnight. I remembered this morning, went back and turned it
233 down. It now sits idle again, with the same void. Do not be
234 angry at this misuse; I promise to be more responsible with
235 time-control devices in the future.
236
237 Thesis | AntiThesis
238
239 |
027=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/20/92 14:57 Msg:7607 Call:43170 Lines:36
240 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
241 Well Astral Dreamer, I don't understand the merits of sales tax, because I've
242 been living in Oregon all my life and we don't happen to have any (sales tax).
243 I'm not aware of the decline of IBM, because I'm using one now and the market
244 seems to be doing well for IBM and compatible products, software, etc. Music?
245 Music is a device that can be used to move the soul, and encourage emotions. I
246 like music in all forms, and yes I do mean ALL. No exclusions. Some music just
247 isn't very good, but I still appreciate it. 8) My computer is an IBM PS/1 and
248 I never knew much about it, except that it has a modem and a VGA screen.
249 Someday I want to know more about the computer world and what all those nasty
250 terms mean so when I buy my own it will be a good one. The one I'm using is
251 generally termed the family computer, but I am the only one who uses it...
252
253 What effects physically produced by a person's state of mind? What effects
254 produced by animals, plants, and nature? Obviously the human mind is a natural
255 object, how can it be contrary to that of animals, plants, and nature? We do
256 run on instinct you know... Our society has become an immense force in that it
257 limits the way we go about our instincts, but they are still there and must be
258 heeded accordingly. Wars will arise from overpopulation, disease will spread
259 quickly and overcome densely populated areas, and famine brings down population
260 even more as nature struggles to bring down the destructive forces of man. How
261 can either side win? If man prevails natures security clauses, he has doomed
262 himself and loses. However nature loses its dominating life form if it destroys
263 us all, perhaps for the better, but never the less an extinction of severe
264 impact on the galaxy. Well we should be able to muddle along... Nature will
265 win obviously, as our technology kills many of us, doubtfully all, and proceeds
266 it's rebuilding. In a billion years, all will be well... All is transitory. 8)
267 hahaha... Merry Christmas!!! I feel ill.. 8( I need a psychiatrist and Eliza
268 didn't help me much... I happen to have a desire to be in love, and ample
269 opportunity, but seem to be fighting myself due to past relationships dying.
270 I don't enjoy the idea that the next one will be the same, and I have no way
271 of proving that such will be the case, but the fear nags me and I shy away
272 from the relationship I long for... I should stop shying away from it. But
273 I can't ask her for a relationship till this big ZIT on my forehead goes away.
274 hehehe... Thanks for listening to me babble. I desperately needed to. 8)
275 -Aaron George
028=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/21/92 09:24 Msg:7608 Call:43178 Lines:17
276 |
277
278 I was speaking in the sense that man seems to be able to make direct
279 decisions about the environment (create an idea) and then make changes
280 as we see fit (act on the idea). Yes, man has "instinct", but we call
281 it "intuition" because it has been through civilization and refined into
282 something else. Other parts of nature seem to alter the environment out
283 of instinct and not direct application of thought (otherwise beehive
284 communities would be "intelligent" enough to make tools instead of using
285 the community members AS TOOLS).
286
287 As for the potential relationship, well, there's always an investment
288 in Clearasil pads... ;-)
289
290 Thesis | AntiThesis
291
292 |
029=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/21/92 13:06 Msg:7609 Call:43184 Lines:46
293 I suggest that all Man's actions are directly or indirectly related
294 to his natural instincts. Maslo's hierarchy of needs states these
295 instincts nicely in five parts: (1) The need to eat, sleep, breath,
296 etc. (2) The need for shelter/security. (3) The need to love and be
297 loved. (4) The need to achieve acomplishments, and recieve
298 recognition. (5) The need to learn and explore. Society has not in
299 essence changed these, they are still valid in our everyday living.
300 We need to eat and have shelter, so within societies structure we
301 hunt food with money instead of teeth, substituting hunting skills
302 for skills used to aquire money. The love we feel is a chemical
303 brain stimuli used to hasten reproductive instincts, we "love"
304 becuase nature/instinct tells us it's time to reproduce, and sexual
305 peaks arrive in the bearer at the time most healthy for procreation
306 to occur, early-late teens for males due to the growth hormones
307 being still strong and capable of endless sperm prodution, and late
308 womanhood for the fully grown womb and milk prodution capabilities.
309 But it is at achievments and knowledge where this query of yours is
310 directed, so my thesis is thus: Humans, like animals, are stupid.
311 They require a leader and are all simultaneously striving to become
312 this leader. They don't listen to nature, because they feel they
313 have become capable of mastering it completely, so spurn Ideas of
314 physical perfection (the strongest stallion) as a pack leader, yet
315 can't seem to take seriously the idea of a mental giant controling
316 them or they fear/resent the intelligence they are not capable of.
317 They thus stay devided with only small bands of scientists going on
318 to evolve thier brains, and small groups of bodybuilders pursuing
319 physical evolution, going actually nowhere in an unchanging world.
320 There needs to be significant environmental demands to force us
321 into evolution. This leader will be a mutant. As are all true
322 leaders... This will be the first strain of new humans brought
323 about by drastic changes in the environment. Reproduction will
324 occur and this mutation will spread to all others untill the entire
325 population is capable of survival in their new surroundings. Nope.
326 Never mind all this is just flowing out from my mind without any
327 preconception and is going to be read as a jumble of meaningless
328 ponderings. I can't explain why man is different from animals, but
329 I see similarities. We are all evolving at our own rates, so could
330 in time achieve the same as each other, were it not stifled by our
331 dominance of nature through tools, adapting our environment to us
332 instead of ourselves to it, and in the process wiping out species,
333 destroying habitats at unatural rates, giving them no time to
334 assimilate and correct their genetics to mutate. We are pulling
335 down nature with our manmade tools. I wish we could have evolved
336 differently, but we are here now, trying vainly to repair what we
337 have done, and many of us denying the problem entirely. Ah well.
338 8) -Aaron George
030=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/22/92 06:39 Msg:7610 Call:43188 Lines:11
339 Sigh. She doesn't want a relationship... She has had sex with me...
340 She doesn't want to be used as a piece of meat... If she didn't
341 feel any emotion for me, why did she sleep with me? I love her.
342 I told her so when she thought I was using her, and I must wait
343 till she sees the message before I can know if she cares. How can
344 she act like the injured party when she's not the one in love?
345 Women will always be a mystery to me. Yup, that's me Inspector
346 Aaron, working on a case part of a mystery that can never be
347 solved... Damn... My chemicals are really messing with my life.
348 Somebody shoot me and put me out of my misery.
349 -Aaron George
031=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/23/92 05:03 Msg:7611 Call:43201 Lines:21
350 &*&*&*&*'s
351 Not much time for a reply to all the stuff going on here, have to get to work
352 soon. Thesis, don't worry about CPU cycles. I ain't using 'em anyway, so
353 its better that they don't go to waste. BTW, I may be gettin back on the
354 rain slip-net. Time will tell.
355
356 About things in general. I think woman like to believe they want commitment,
357 when if fact it scares most of them as much as it scares us males. Maybe
358 we aren't so differant after all.
359
360 As for why we are here and how long it will last. These are meerly mind games
361 used to pass the time. We have at this point no way of telling, and no
362 matter what happens we will always be able to delude ourselved into
363 believing that this continues to be true. I am of course refering to the
364 collective rather than any specific we. You can trust some of the people
365 some of the time all of the people most of the time, but you can't trust
366 all of the people all of the time.
367
368 An Astral Dreamer
369 &*&*&*&*'s (Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho)
370
032=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/23/92 14:33 Msg:7612 Call:43205 Lines:1
371
033=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/23/92 14:51 Msg:7613 Call:43206 Lines:95
372 |
373
374 Um, OK, here's my .02 cents (plus a dime for inflation adjustment):
375
376 1. Man can NOT adapt to different environments very well. I would
377 surely drown underwater, or freeze/suffocate in space. This is why
378 mankind has chosen to alter the environment. It is people's hubris and
379 neglect and apathy that has brought the environment to its knees. After
380 all, ANY living creature will alter the environment; the environment is
381 a dynamic, rather than static, setting. The Earth could easily support
382 a little under a billion people without drastically impacting the
383 ecosystem. Instead of using information to help ourselves, we, as
384 people, still continue to control the spread of information. Thus,
385 we still have countries with 5-9 childred per family. At this rate,
386 the shear numbers of people will be our own downfall.
387
388 This is why I support Zero Population Growth.
389
390 2. Don't feel bad about your relationship, Aaron. Speaking as
391 a married young man, I can tell you that no matter who you're with,
392 it'll never be easy. (I personally think that this is why Romance
393 Novels sell so well- because people want to believe that it is
394 very easy to be in love) It seems that she is unsure about what she
395 wants to begin with (re-read your own message and see if you can
396 spot the contradiction), so don't stress. Women outnumber men by
397 about a 45:55 ratio, and y're bound to find someone if you keep
398 trying. Our society also dumps alot of garbage into both Mens and
399 Womens minds. By the time that people are ready to pair-bond,
400 there are so many misconceptions and misunderstandings that there's
401 bound to be some friction. Now, don't take the ramblings of this
402 young fool (me) to heart; it just seems that a)you're forming an
403 obsession with her, instead of going through the first state
404 of friendship-building, and b)she seems to either not care about
405 her situation/self/you or she lacks drive/direction/understanding.
406 I'm not trying to criticize you; just relax, sit down, and reflect
407 about how you would feel if some strange woman suddenly developed
408 a STRONG liking to you, but you didn't know what to do with her...
409
410 Hopefully, you'll gain insite into both your actions and hers. Is
411 she communicating with you? This is a big one - it's why my marriage is
412 so rocky with my wife, she doesn't always like to talk to me. I've
413 had to re-learn how to communicate with her and to be
414 patient with her decisions. We're doing pretty good now, but that
415 doesn't mean that I can just "sit down" and not put an effort into it...
416 anyway, try keeping your mouth closed when hers is open, and listen
417 carefully to what she says. When she decides to stop talking, THEN
418 approach her and find out how she feels about you. If she does the
419 following, then you know what's up:
420
421 a) acknowledges your intentions and immediately replies. This means
422 that she has SOME kind of interest in you, even if it was a "no" answer
423 she is at least respecting you as a person, you should feel honored by
424 her effort and respect whatever she says.
425
426 b) acknowledges you but not your intentions; that is, she's
427 beating around the bush and doesn't answer your questions. It's eithr
428 a uncomfortable subject for her (in which case I suggest changing the
429 subject IMMEDIATELY) or if she seems vague in her answer then she's
430 unsure about her own decisions (which means, cool your heals and let
431 her have time/space to think - but don't wait forever, you could die
432 waiting for an answer from some peope)
433
434 c) does not acknowledge you or tries to avoid your presence in
435 person; this one is fairly obvious to anyone, don't need to explain
436 rejection...
437
438 d) does not acknowledge you verbally but instead takes some kind of
439 direct action OR becomes verbally aggressive (telling you that "we" need
440 to do this or that, or dictating); This is evidence of denial. The
441 denial could be something simple (she's fighting with herself because
442 she doesn't want to have a relationship BUT she also likes you) or vert
443 very very complex (childhood or adolecent scar caused by some trauma,
444 needs professional therapy to help the scar heal enough to be comfortable
445 with herself). In any event, she will be taking this alternative action
446 instead of giving you acknowledgement because it's a form of a
447 defense mechanism. By not confronting her delima, she can remain
448 comfortable with herself, but she will fail to grow as a person until
449 she accepts the fact that there are some things she can't run away from.
450 Hence, her "action" will "defend" her "view" of herself, and she
451 remains "happy".
452
453 e) does acknowledge you but in an immature way;
454 she might need to grow before she can reach a level of relationship
455 that you are both comfortable with. Treat her like any other adult,
456 and try not to "judge" or "tell" her anything - it will make her
457 resentful and she will feel like she's constrained by you.
458
459 Geez, I guess I got a little carried away there... take this
460 with a grain of salt, don't be so hard on yourself, and remember that
461 I'm not attacking you or her in this, I'm just giving my extremely
462 biased personal opinion.
463
464 Thesis | AntiThesis
465
466 |
034=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/24/92 10:05 Msg:7614 Call:43208 Lines:20
467 ------------------------------------------------------------------
468 Well I'm not planning on placing undue stress on this situation,
469 mainly by giving up hope, but also by trying to see other women.
470 After christmas caroling and last nights party, I have opened up
471 several new possibilities for relations, but this time I intend
472 to measure my strides and keep a watchful eye on myself. I have
473 always been easily engaged in my emotions, but I will make friends
474 and shy away from relationships for a while. Let me have time to
475 get over this past pain, before moving on. Thanks for the help,
476 it was very well recieved. 8)
477 Perhaps we should do Poetry for a while, I'm in the mood...
478
479 Look here, the layman cuts at my poems again!
480 Placing my wit at risk.
481 But for what I value his wit, so rare,
482 Here takest thou this shiny disk.
483
484 (snicker...)
485 -Aaron
486 ------------------------------------------------------------------
035=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/26/92 12:05 Msg:7615 Call:43225 Lines:25
487
488 |
489
490 Aaron, it's good to hear that you have made your decision about
491 your past situation. It's also good to hear that I didn't manage
492 to give you some crummy advice - sometimes, taking the advice of
493 another person about your own relationship is the worst thing to do.
494 I'm just happy it worked out for you. Also, *DO* concentrate on the
495 friendship part (that you mentioned); I think you will find that
496 when "the time" comes as to wheather or not you would be comfortable
497 in a relationship with the other person (and vis. versa for the
498 said person), you and her will find that it'll be somewhat easier
499 and less "uptight", 'cause you'll both "know each other" already,
500 i.e. no need to hide things from each other. Good luck on
501 your pursuit of happiness...and don't be afraid of anything...and
502 last of all, never forget to be yourself.
503
504 Astral Dreamer, have you been busy? Seems I can't locate you
505 to well. Happy Holidays to you and a Merry / Exciting New Year,
506 should I not be able to find you in a few days. Will make an
507 effort with timebox...
508
509 Thesis | AntiThesis
510
511 |
036=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/29/92 04:49 Msg:7616 Call:43253 Lines:7
512 &*&*&*&*'s
513 Busy , Busy , Busy. But I am alive and well. Thanks for th holiday greetings.
514 Happy new year to all, and now its time for work.
515
516 An Astral Dreamer
517 &*&*&*&*'s ()
518
037=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/05/92 22:34 Msg:7618 Call:43333 Lines:5
519
520 How Now Brown Cow?
521
522 All creative people are crazy. They have to be to major in the arts.
523
038=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/07/92 07:58 Msg:7619 Call:43339 Lines:16
524
525 Theres a ships boat on the horizon
526 And holds a heavy load
527 Its full of all the things we've plundered
528 From the islands of this sea
529
530 On its bottom lies the anchor
531 That once held us in our place
532 So now we cast it in the water
533 But without its chaining grace
534
535 We have sacrificed all our future life
536 In an effort with no code
537 So to all our false tommorows
538 Walk the ones that can't say we
539
039=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/08/92 11:55 Msg:7620 Call:43348 Lines:11
540
541 &*&*&*&*'s
542 Ah life, the only frontier. Makes you wonder why we didn't have something
543 better to do sometimes don't it? Like maybe figuring out proper sentance
544 construction. Not to mention what the heck a paragraph is.
545
546 What is a paragraph anyways? Who cares say I.
547
548 An Astral Dreamer
549 &*&*&*&*'s (Sureal variant on a name that denotes the unreal)
550
040=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/11/92 11:54 Msg:7621 Call:43372 Lines:11
551 &*&*&*&*'s
552
553 Wow, sometimes its hard to come up with something to say. Especially when
554 I want to be clever. I think I'm suffering from clever block.
555
556 Oh well, maybe next time. Meanwhile, I have to ask what everyone thinks is
557 going to happen over the next few years?
558
559 An Astral Dreamer
560 &*&*&*&*'s (Many fish live in the sea, but some just live in water.)
561
041=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 01/11/92 14:55 Msg:7622 Call:43373 Lines:67
562 |
563
564 Here I am, glued by gravity to a lintball some 27,000 miles in diameter,
565 circling an uncontrolled nuclear reaction. Sounds like fun you say? Then
566 you should try
567
568 N E W A N D I M P R O V E D
569
570 L
571 L i ff
572 L f f eee
573 L i fff e e
574 L i f eeeee
575 L i f e
576 LLLL i f eee
577
578 ...with the miracle ingrediant, DNA! Yes, new and improved LIFE will
579 bring tears to your eyes, a smile to your face, and pleanty of fun
580 and excitement as you dodge wild carnivores who want to clean the meat
581 from your bones! And while trying new and improved LIFE, also try
582
583 R O C K - N U T S
584
585 ...the cerial that's mined, not grown! One bite of tasty ROCK-NUTS
586 will have you saying, "Gee, when can we see the dentist?"
587
588 |
589
590 Just what I've always wanted: to eat cerial, loose my teeth, and run
591 from wild animals ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Just goes to show how capitalism
592 has brought us to new and exciting levels of entertainment. And I just
593 can't wait to move up to the next stage: using a new Zero-Gravity Toilet
594 while learning subliminal Swahili and keeping the ship's airlock shut
595 to prevent decompression.
596
597 So what's on the horizon? Virtual Reality will bring us to having
598 Virtual Sex that leads to a Virtual Orgasm, which is to experience making
599 love to something and getting something back in return, even thogh
600 it didn't happen. Then we'll need Virtual Police to patrol the Virtual
601 Red Light District. I've never made love to my computer...don't intend on
602 starting right now.
603
604 When does advertising begin? Where does it end? Have you ever
605 seen an advertisement in the middle of a hardback book? Just imagine
606 how many copies of "Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" you could sell
607 if it had every other page plastered with a semi-nude model selling cheap-
608 smelling purfume, or a sporty new X200 sports car.
609
610 Ban advertising. If you wanted to know about something, you would
611 be willing to get up and go out to find it. Advertising plagues our minds,
612 saps our spirits, and cools our hearts away from those we love. Advertising
613 is the plague of the Information Age. We need to formulate some kind
614 of "vaccine", something that would selectively remove advertising fro
615 everything we see, hear, and sense.
616
617 You don't believe me? Just how many hours did YOU spend in front
618 of the TV? Listen, if you're going to absorb X-ray emmisions from a CRT,
619 might as well do it while learning something usefull; so use your computer
620 and modem more often. Call other BBS systems (including this one too!),
621 "talk/chat" to other people on multi-line systems, and most importantly,
622 READ THE MAIL LEFT BY OTHERS. You just might learn something, or worse
623 yet, you may even AMUSE yourself.
624
625 Thesis-AntiThesis
626
627 |
628
042=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 01/11/92 20:33 Msg:7623 Call:43384 Lines:7
629 *%_@#*%_)@#*%_)*%_)%(@_)#%^*@$_)^*@_(_$!_)($_)(@~_)$*@)_$%*_#)!%(!($!+$*_)$*
630 I use this system so I can learn how depressing everything is from Astral
631 Dreamer! (just kidding AD, but sometimes you get, well, a little down on
632 things). Perhaps you might try writing some B52 lyrics instead of The Cure
633 lyrics... just a dumb thot :-)
634 (_(_)*(%_@(%_+($+@_*%+@_*^+!_(% L'homme sans Parity *%_)@*_)!@(#_)%*_!*!_)%*
635
043=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/13/92 14:55 Msg:7624 Call:43390 Lines:13
636 &*&*&*&*'s
637 L'homme, I don't try to write depressing lyrics, it just tends to happen.
638 When I'm in a good mood, the last thing I'm thinking about is writting
639 poetry/lyrics.
640
641 I really should stop by sometime with the MIDI module I bought recently.
642 I think you'd be impressed.
643
644 To the world in general, hello. Are we having fun yet?
645
646 An Astral Dreamer
647 &*&*&*&*'s (Time keeps on keeping on)
648
044=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/19/92 06:49 Msg:7627 Call:43415 Lines:7
649 &*&*&*&*&*'s
650 The Light that shines on the window is only th smallest part
651 Of the the that comes from the sun, atleast to my human eyes.
652
653 An Astral Dreamer
654 &*&*&*&*'s (Closer to reality, farther from accuracy)
655
045=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/20/92 09:23 Msg:7628 Call:43422 Lines:5
656
657 To be tenacious is to never give up when you know your cause is just. When
658 you have the good fortune to be both tenacious and wise, great things can
659 be achieved.
660
046=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/22/92 06:48 Msg:7633 Call:43434 Lines:4
661
662 Today is a day very much like any other. The only real differance that I
663 can discern is that I am living it in the first person.
664
047=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/22/92 12:17 Msg:7634 Call:43435 Lines:4
665
666 If people think me stupid, I sometimes wonder if it is perhaps not because
667 I do not understand, but instead because they do no understand.
668
048=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/23/92 08:24 Msg:7635 Call:43441 Lines:3
669
670 Not as profound as you would otherwise believe.
671
049=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 01/23/92 13:44 Msg:7637 Call:43445 Lines:28
672 |
673
674 Understanding separates the fools from the foolhardy. ;-)
675
676 -Just kidding, I know perfectly well what was meant by the last few lines
677 above my message. Seems that those who do not comprehend are more
678 inclined to pass off wisdom or information as "stupid or foolish
679 non-sense", simply because they themselves do not wish to appear
680 foolish or stupid. I try to talk about what I know, and what I have
681 been told, but if I know nothing, I'll try to also come right out and
682 say it. If I can guess the meaning of new information (what we would
683 call learning in school years) then I will not bother to say
684 that I don't understand; then again, if I don't guess right, I'll
685 still try to apologize and ask for more specifics.
686
687 How do others react to this situation? Do you notice yourself
688 doing this "rejection", or do you try to comprehend the situation,
689 or do you simply do a "politician" (ya kow, if their mouth moves,
690 then they're lying). Think about what you do when confronted with
691 news that you fully don't understand... you might suprise yourself.
692
693 By The Way, where have all the callers gone? Long time ago? Seems
694 that Backwater is in need of new callers and new life, along with
695 stories and poetry and debates and satire and witicism, and all the
696 other stuff that makes a boring life not so boring ;-)
697
698 T-AT
699 |
050=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/25/92 07:46 Msg:7639 Call:43456 Lines:4
700
701 A small fish in a big pool stands a much lesser chance of being eaten than
702 the big fish.
703
051=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/26/92 08:44 Msg:7642 Call:43464 Lines:4
704
705 Sometimes a penny saved is a doller lost. Put another way, prudent frugality
706 is a virtue, compulsive frugality a vice.
707
052=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/27/92 13:34 Msg:7643 Call:43482 Lines:6
708 &*&*&*&*'s
709 Yes, there is life here. Its just slow to respond.
710
711 An Astral Dreamer
712 &*&*&*&*'s (Why do I put this stuff here anyway.)
713
053=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/28/92 06:40 Msg:7644 Call:43485 Lines:8
714
715 A teltale reminder of the thing that hid beneath your bed as a child. Is it
716 a bird, is it a plane? Is it just another user picking up the verbage of my
717 brain?
718
719 Could it be the under signed on a contract with your name? Or is it just
720 another bit of prose that looks about the same.
721
054=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/29/92 08:01 Msg:7645 Call:43491 Lines:10
722 &*&*&*&*'s
723 Fun and games, fun and games. I hate being in situations where I don't feel
724 as though I can ask questions. Especially when I know that if I even bother,
725 I'll just get ignored.
726
727 Ain't work grand? Makes me want to go to work for myself. And I just about
728 could I think. Tempting, very tempting.
729
730 An Astral Dreamer
731 &*&*&*&*'s
055=Usr:530 Jessie a. 01/31/92 06:18 Msg:7648 Call:43505 Lines:36
732 *!*!*!*!
733 By the time of eveningside, the sweet tender grasses grew.
734 No longer to be in fear, no longer to tremble under the
735 cruel hand of... of the unspeakable. Far, far into the
736 distance the sweet moon graced its tender light. How sweet
737 the field. How sweet the violins of crickets on soft breezes.
738
739 Perhaps no genteler thing nor kinder scene than this had
740 ever crossed the face of creation.
741
742 Where comist. Note the time. Play the breezes. Warm. Sweet
743 the smell rushes of the grasses.
744
745 Now the soil, well the soil it releases. Play the air again.
746 How the ...well, how the air it is sweet. Is it
747 night? Perhaps but the soil knows only the feel of purple
748 twilight. Does it cross the face of the grasses, long and
749 the grass heads hanging by their tender love of their selves.
750
751 Now again rushes the breeze. Play, play soft wuch swet
752 encompass as these. Lie upon the earth. Tender. Oh tears,
753 oh such tears of tenderness. Never again. Perhaps, but no.
754 No, again and again and again into infinity.
755
756 LOng the green grain. Yellow the...well the tender food of the
757 earth. RAin for the bees...well, no but how do you say?
758 Sweet. Lie amongst. Down, down close to the earth there is
759 sweet baby. Which baby? Oh.....child. Child of the earth.
760 Player. PLayer of sweetness. Earth, earth is moved. Silly earth.
761 So many childs like this. All learn.
762
763 Now the grasses again. Tip toe the winds...far, far across the
764 face. Rest. No more the....
765
766 Jessie
767 *!*!*!*!
056=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 01/31/92 12:00 Msg:7649 Call:43506 Lines:18
768
769 |
770
771 Who Am I?
772
773 Is it identity that creates self-perception, or is it
774 our intangible friend, conscienceness? Or are we apart from
775 our perceptions? If I am like others, then I am the same.
776 But I am also different from others, so I am apart. Which
777 leads to empass.
778
779 |
780
781 You're you, schmuck. Get a grip! If you're not you,
782 then who's inside your head?
783
784 | "I'm argueing with myself again..."
785
057=Usr:131 THE VISION 01/31/92 13:35 Msg:7650 Call:43507 Lines:6
786@_____________________________T_H_E___V_I_S
787
788 ___________________________T_H_E___V_I_S_I_O_N________________________
789 Hi all... don't recognize anybody around except Astral Dreamer. How
790 are you doing AD? Long time no talk... Anyhow, take it easy.
791 ______________________________________________________________________
058=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/01/92 07:49 Msg:7651 Call:43508 Lines:12
792 &*&*&*&*'s
793 VISION, I am as always here. Atleast some small part of me is. Some things
794 can become a part of your soul. For whatever reason, Backwater qualifies as
795 such an entitiy in my life. I don't call quite as much as I used to, but
796 I almost always get on a few times a week.
797
798 Sometimes life seems dumb, sometimes life seems grand. Sometimes life is
799 the promise that you hold in you hand.
800
801 An Astral Dreamer
802 &*&*&*&*'s (Changes keep on happening. Scenery's not the same.)
803
059=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/03/92 08:48 Msg:7653 Call:43523 Lines:11
804
805 Many have lamented the passing their years, And I must confess that I am no
806 better than they. It seems to me that when I look about, all I see is a
807 world that I am slowly failing to understand. It is the young who play
808 the game of fashion and fads the most ardently. Perhaps because it is new
809 and fresh to them, while we have grown weary of it. Of course, the older
810 generation inevitably holds the power, and thus for all their posing and
811 playing they have in fact very little.
812
813 Who knows, who cares?
814
060=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/08/92 13:41 Msg:7655 Call:43555 Lines:6
815 The words that are put forth on this page
816 Are minor players on the stage
817
818 Of the life I live inside my head
819 Yet they help keep my creative hunger fed.
820
061=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/11/92 05:45 Msg:7656 Call:43566 Lines:5
821 People wander by
822 Don't care enough to say
823 Don't care enough to stay
824 Why?
825
062=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/12/92 07:33 Msg:7657 Call:43571 Lines:8
826 &*&*&*&*'s
827 Here I am again. Hmm, been sort of silenter than normal around here recently.
828 Must be that people are still in their winter hibernation. Springs just around
829 the corner, so that should be changing soon.
830
831 An Astral Dreamer
832 &*&*&*&*'s (Still dreaming after all these years)
833
063=Usr:9 Pamela Coleman 02/15/92 11:13 Msg:7658 Call:43598 Lines:5
834
835@>.........>.........>........>.......>....>.....>....>...>..>.>>>>>>>>
836@
837@ It' not really rational... it's spit on a htplate, skittering
838@around, skipping and jumping from place to plae changing form, losing
064=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/17/92 08:42 Msg:7659 Call:43611 Lines:3
839 Sometimes life can throw you a curve ball. Its even worse when it hits you in
840 the face.
841
065=Usr:786 Ben McCrea 02/18/92 23:25 Msg:7660 Call:43616 Lines:21
842 +======================================================================
843 Hello world. I'm new here and I like what I see. Have you heard of the
844 melibdemaboral sesp? I happen to have connections with a very prestigios
845 (really prestigiouuus) physicist who has made a fantastic breakthough in
846 unification field theory. Dr. Bodough Ilgner of the Int'l Physics Asylum
847 will soon become famous due to this incredible discover. Time travel (of
848 a sort) has become possible throught the utilization of Dr. Ilgner's
849 discovery, The Melibdemaboral Sesp. In brief, the sesp works on the
850 following principle: objects immersed in the sesp experience a slowing in
851 the passing of time, providing a longer pathway into the future. In layman's
852 terms, an hour becomes approx. 62.34 sec. and a month would become 32.2 days
853 for the object in the sesp. Although applications for the sesp have yet
854 to be concieved, it is clearly a neat thing. Says Dr. Ilgner, "it allows
855 one to sneek up on the past from behind!"
856
857 Ok, so that's all nonsense. But I NEED diversions like this. Cruel world!
858 Catch me in a more poetic mood sometime, and remember, I'm generally
859 considered an overly serious individual.
860
861 - Dorian -
862
066=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/19/92 06:44 Msg:7661 Call:43618 Lines:9
863 &*&*&*&*'s
864 Welcome Dorian.
865
866 An Astral Dreamer
867 &*&*&*&*'s
868
869 Tiny little objects made of nothing more than light. Travel through the
870 inbetween and take away the night.
871
067=Usr:787 delta-v delta-v 02/19/92 22:35 Msg:7662 Call:43624 Lines:14
872 [*=*] DELTA FIVE [*=*]
873 I have three new books published on electronic surveillance, privacy, and compu
874 ter security. For details write Lysias Press PO Box 192171 San Francisco 94119
875 I don't get on here very often. Is Wassir (the friendly Albanian) or Dreamtouch
876 er still around?
877 Is Sysop Mikey still having wet dreams about Pam?
878
879 ?
880 s
881 save
882 off
883 /s
884
885
068=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/21/92 09:24 Msg:7663 Call:43639 Lines:3
886
887 A time and place, inside the ace that helps us win each hand.
888
069=Usr:789 Iolair Tiene 02/21/92 19:09 Msg:7666 Call:43645 Lines:13
889 _____________________________________________________________________________
890 Well It's Been A long time since I have Written Anything here!!!!
891 Many's the day I'd Stop by to read a story or 2 and maybe even write a line
892 or three to continue ya see
893
894 Oh Well, the days have been long and the work longer
895 and now i only have five minutes to compose something to say
896 so I'll Just let You Know I stoped by this way
897
898 21 FEB 93
899
900 Iolair Tiene
901 __________________________________________________________________________
070=Usr:789 Iolair Tiene 02/21/92 19:26 Msg:7667 Call:43646 Lines:3
902 Is There Any b o d y o u t t h e r e ?
903
904 pink floyd
071=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/23/93 07:13 Msg:7668 Call:43659 Lines:4
905
906 We exist. For a fleeting instant. We have form. But here we are void.
907 Only our words can be found. When we are not around.
908
072=Usr:54 George Freemont 02/24/93 20:38 Msg:7669 Call:43667 Lines:5
909 .................................................................
910 Rumor has it that Wassir still checks in from time to time.
911 I'm sure when he does, he'll say "Hail, and well met". Not
912 being Albanian, I have absolutely no idea what that means.
913 .................................................................
073=Usr:787 delta-v delta-v 02/25/93 01:23 Msg:7670 Call:43672 Lines:4
914 L'homme: Howzit? Have a helluva time getting onto my UUCP node, and still haven
915 t got on NETCOM...Hey, no Leroy McKane, Wassir, here?
916 I'm gonna have to come back to Orygun!
917 [=*=] Delta Five [=*=]
074=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/25/93 12:07 Msg:7671 Call:43675 Lines:3
918
919 In any concept there is a core of deception.
920
075=Usr:26 Mohammed Wassir 02/25/93 21:03 Msg:7672 Call:43680 Lines:15
921 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
922 Delta,
923 Nice to see you back at the Inn. Haven't seen much of Leroy
924 lately, rumor has it that he's been hiding out at the Lonely Hearts
925 Mission in Old Town. Do come back to Orygawn . . . it's been a while
926 since I've had a real challenge. That French guy with the funny name
927 is a real cream puff (That oughta get the poop flyin' eh?)
928 Thought I spotted Pam on Internet, but I guess I was mistaken.
929 Oh well . . .
930
931 Mohammed Wassir
932 <The Friendly Albanian>
933 P.S. I'd say Hail and well met, but I don't know what it means
934 either.
935 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
076=Usr:790 Stray Cat 03/01/93 16:46 Msg:7674 Call:43706 Lines:2
936 ************************************************************************
937 Well, since Mikey seems to be out of town I'll just have to replace the crud
077=Usr:790 Stray Cat 03/05/93 07:59 Msg:7677 Call:43748 Lines:8
938 I wrote before then post it again later when Mikey ***FINALLY*** puts up a new
939 wall (am I ungrateful or WHAT??) So now I have the space, I'm at a loss for
940 the words I had yesterday when, for some reason, I'd found in physically im-
941 possible to post graffiti here for some technical reason, I suppose. In my
942 extreme frustration I went out & purchased some books I couldn't afford just
943 to keep my mind off IT. So, when I get my act together I'll call back and
944 hope the lines are still here.
945
078=Usr:790 Stray Cat 03/05/93 18:15 Msg:7679 Call:43750 Lines:12
946 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% really, I DO need to get a grip...
947
948 (and I shouldn't have wasted that line) Since I DO tend to be offensive
949 to MOST readers here, from here on out I shall use %%% as my border so you
950 can program anything between them right on out (that is technically possible
951 isn't it?) Maybe that way I myself won't have to encounter it either. I'd
952 like to read the OTHER stuff on here without having to go through all this
953 too. One diskful by some of the regulars here could last most imaginations
954 a lifetime, if you know what I mean. Earlier today I felt like a spinning
955 swaztika just thinking about SOME of it. Thank the gods I've settled down.
956
957 When IS Mikey gonna change the disk I wonder??? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
079=Usr:54 George Freemont 03/06/93 12:48 Msg:7681 Call:43756 Lines:6
958 .....................................................................
959 Babe of the month: Laura Tyson: Chairperson of the President's
960 Council of Economic Advisors
961
962 TV Show of the month: Beakman's World
963 .....................................................................
080=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/06/93 14:39 Msg:7682 Call:43757 Lines:10
964
965 The last line in any great story is the one we most easily picture. It is that
966 last image that will stay with us, and in some casses haunt us. So, save
967 yourself a lot of time and just read the last page.
968
969
970 For my birthday I want something that nobody else has. Something like a
971 5000 pound lemon pie. Then I could invite the whole city to come to my party
972 and have a pie fight. First one to the pie splatters everyone else. Start
973 working out now, it could happen.
081=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/07/93 12:15 Msg:7683 Call:43764 Lines:18
974 ^
975 Wouldn't you like to have a flying saucer? Imagine the fun you could have
976 with rural aliens on other planets.
977 ^
978 I love the smell of asphalt. Especially when mixed with the fumes of passing
979 cars. Theres no other rush like it. Especially when you add the noise from
980 all that traffic. Ah, nature in all its unbridled glory.
981 ^
982 I remember hearing once that if Alpha Centuri were just a little closer, you
983 could get a tan from being in its light. But I just can't picture myself
984
985 Just what I've always wanted: to eat cerial, loose my teeth, and run
986 from wild animals ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Just goes to show how capitalism
987 has brought us to new and exciting levels of entertainment. And I just
988 can't wait to move up to the next stage: using a new Zero-Gravity Toilet
989 while learning subliminal Swahili and keeping the ship's airlock shut
990 to prevent decompression.
991
082=Usr:0 Null User 06/30/87 20:34 Msg:0 Call:0 Lines:1
992 So what's on the horizon? Virtual Reality will bring us to having