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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 11:08:54 PST
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Reply-To: <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (grpuabybtvr ireovaqrg)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0031] DIGEST: Personality Constructs, ff5, m2k, TAZ, R.I.T.E.S., wired
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| The bees spoke to me on the telephone,
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| asking for isdn.
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| David Blair <wax@well.sf.ca.us>
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| WAX tripped my shit hard! Just saw it in
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| Berkeley this weekend, late at night, and the
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| film simply ate my brain, gobbled it right up.
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| has become a transparent eyeball
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| <magdalen@well.sf.ca.us>
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|______________________________________________
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Most all of this is SURFPUNK VIEWER MAIL. Tidbits and queries from our
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reporters in the field. Includes an appeal for futureculture outlets
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in Athens, Georgia. Someone please jack those bulldawgs in!
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I thought I had sent a blurb on the Temporary Autonomous Zone at Komotion
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International -- but now we have some real copy on it.
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--strick
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Subject: CYBERSPACE - Is there anyone listening?
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Factsheet Five, if you didn't hear, is cleaning out the closets.
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Mondo2000: Where in Atlanta or Athens can I get a copy
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A NIGHT OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHY AND POETIC TERRORISM
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SATURDAY FEB.6,1993 AT KOMOTION INTERNATIONAL
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[san francisco, south of market]
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R.I.T.E.S. - A Reality Benchmark
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Subject: wired mindvox and well
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From: gt1420c@prism.gatech.edu (Christopher Richard Smaglick)
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Subject: CYBERSPACE - Is there anyone listening?
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 1:00:47 EST
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Greetings,
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I just wanted to make contact across the continent, or maybe just the
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phone lines. I'm interested in any cyberspace/VR heads out there who
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happen to understand Gibsonian logic.
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I'm working on a thesis RE: Spatialization of Information: Personality
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Constructs Within Cyberspace. Sounds like I know what I'm talking about
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but my heads in the process of info absorb.
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Any responses appreciated. Here's something to catch avid cyberpunks!
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-Something dark was forming at the core of the Chinese program. The
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density of information overwhelmed the fabric of the matrix, triggering
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hypnagogic images. Faint kaleidoscopic angles centered in to a silver-
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black focal point. Case watched childhood symbols of evil and bad luck
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tumble out along translucent planes: swastikaa, skulls and crossbones,
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dice flashing snake eyes. If he looked directly at that null point,
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no outline would form. It took a dozen quick, peripheral takes before
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he had it, a shark thing, gleaming like obsidian, the black mirrors
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of its flanks reflecting faint distant lights that bore no relationship
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to the matrix around it. - Neuromancer, 1984 -
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Jackin' out,
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GLICK K-
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From: Scott Dorsey <kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov>
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Factsheet Five, if you didn't hear, is cleaning out the closets.
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Check rec.mag for details.
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--scott
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To: strick@osc.osc.com
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From: jwright@moe.coe.uga.edu (Jim Wright)
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Henry, I am enjoying your surfpunk journal. There is alot of rubbish mixed
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with a few perils. There is alot of stuff on Mondo2000. Where in Atlanta
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or Athens can I get a copy or subscription and I am also looking for
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MonaLisa Overdrive. Please
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decribe both publicationPI am new to the world cybertronics!
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Talk with you later - Jim Wright
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jwright@moe.coe.uga.edu (Jim Wright)
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Department of Instructional Technology
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University of Georgia
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Can someone help in Athens, Georgia?
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In atlanta -- where to get Mondo2000 -- that's easy -- Oxford Books.
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Try the one on Pharr Road first. In athens, well, I'm only familiar
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with the "downtown metropolitan complex" of athens, but I thought I
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saw it in the newstand next to the Grill. Maybe not.
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I don't recommend subscribing; it comes too slow.
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Mondo2000 is kind of the glossy, flagship magazine that made a lot of
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this culture known to the world at large. Radikal futureYouths like
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to poo poo this rag because it's really nicely produced, widely
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available, has some really accessible articles on musicians, isn't as
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garage-kool as Boing Boing, tries to be tabloid, may make some money
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some day (not yet, R U says), etc. I make no such judgement.
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Mona Lisa Overdrive is by William Gibson. Should be an inexpensive
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paperback in any decent bookstore in the Science Fiction shelf.
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Should be trivial to special order, if needed.
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-- strick
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]
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Source: The WELL -- "g mondo" -- Topic 166: Temporary Autonomous Zone
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# 1: J Matisse Enzer (matisse) Fri, Jan 8, '93
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A night of Ontological Anarchy and Poetic Terrorism
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Saturday, Feb. 6th 1993
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8:00 PM
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2779 16th Street, San Francisco.
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$10 donation requested.
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Call (415) 241-1568 or (415) 861-6423 for more info.
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By: J Matisse Enzer (matisse) on Fri, Jan 8, '93
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THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE
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MEDIAKAOS PRESENTS THE TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS
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ZONE: A NIGHT OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHY AND POETIC
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TERRORISM SATURDAY FEB.6,1993 AT KOMOTION INTER-
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NATIONAL 2779 16TH STREET,SF AT 8 P.M. SPECIAL
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GUESTS INCLUDE;
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HAKIM BEY (AUTHOR OF T.A.Z.),
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ROBERT ANTON WILSON (AUTHOR OF ILLUMINATUS!,
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COSMIC TRIGGER, & QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY),
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NICK HERBERT (AUTHOR OF FASTER THAN LIGHT:
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SUPERLUMINAL LOOPHOLES IN PHYSICS, & QUANTUM REALITY),
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JOSEPH MATHENY (FORMERLY OF THE INTERZONE PROJECT,
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CURRENTLY OF MEDIAKAOS,AND AUTHOR OF ON
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GIVING THE MEDIA A SEIZURE: A WORK IN PROGRESS).
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SPECIAL NON-LINEAR CAVORTINGS AS ROB BRESZNY PRESENTS
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WORLD ENTERTAINMENT WAR,
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SUZANNE THOMAS OF TRIBAL WARNING THEATRE IN A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE OF CHAOS
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NEVER
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DIED!,
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AURAL SCULPTINGS BY THELEMONADE (FROM WE PRESS IN
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SANTA CRUZ),
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MUSICKAL MAGICK BY POX ECLIPSE,
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DJ CHEB i SABAH (FROM KPFA),
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MEDIA ART BY JON BRIGHT,AND NINA MATHENY,
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PLUS MORE SURPRISES!!!!!!
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CO-CREATION BEGINS AT 8:00 p.m. AT
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KOMOTION INTERNATIONAL 2779 16th STREET
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ADMISSION IS $10.00 SLIDING SCALE.CHAOS NEVER DIED!
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CHAOS IS CONTINUAL CREATION! THIS WORK IS PART OF A
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CURRENT OF WHICH THE LAST HAS NOT BEEN HEARD!
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# 5: Howard Rheingold (hlr) Sat, Jan 9, '93
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Does anybody know why a person calling himself or herself Hakim Bey
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faxed some kinda hoodoo-voodoo, phony-mojo curse to Whole Earth? We
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don't need no stinking curses to operate in a fucked up manner!
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Curses? By FAX?
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# 6: virtual madness (jonl) Sat, Jan 9, '93
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It's the latest fad.
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# 7: Evelove (evelove) Mon, Jan 11, '93
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whis they'd Fax they bad asssus down to New Orleans.
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Maybe after Austin, or something.
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# 8: Purina Yuppie Chow (jcourte) Mon, Jan 11, '93
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Somebody fax him a Stare-EO full of rude subliminal shit
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geared to rip him a new cortex. That, fellow `nauts, is a curse.
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Source: the WELL -- Topic 163: bOING bOING - Brain Candy for Happy Mutants!
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# 10: Paco Xander Nathan (pacoid) Sat, Apr 18, '92
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R.I.T.E.S. - A Reality Benchmark
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An erstwhile journalist of the serious media once proclaimed
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Virtual Reality as "electronic LSD"... Aficionados among the
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VR community kwickly retorted "Sorry, acid has a better price/performance
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ratio"
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to settle the issue. But hey,
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just what do thoze nasty
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price/performance ratios look like anyway?
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The deeply concerned staff at bOING-bOING has established
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a reality benchmark to help track this emerging commodity
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index. In phact, our study is scientifically based on your
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experiences, pfeedback, hallucinations, rants, etc. So please
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participate. Reality is at steak.
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The proposed benchmark is called RITES, for Reality
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Immersion Temporal/EcoGnomic Side-F/X. Costs are based
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on the principle that most folx tyre of their toyz after about
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six moons. Your input is EZ - simply figure out:
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1 - what you ewes to leave reality
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2 - how much that costs per week (we'll convert to US$)
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3 - how immersed you get, averaged over the entire
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session length (%)
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4 - how long that alters the knob atop your shoulders per
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session (minutes)
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5 - how many alternity sessions you typikally engorge per
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week
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Send experiential data for statistikal analysis to:
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pacoid@well.sf.ca.us
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Data sets will be proffered to the number crunching goddess
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Deuce X. M'Sheena according to the ancient alchymical formula:
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RITES = (Reality Immersion) * (Time/Session) *
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(Sessions/Week) / (Cost/Week)
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For those of ewe twisted enuf to appreciate stoichiometry,
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the RITES benchmark works out to be a percentage of Time/Cost
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following the motto: the higher, the better. So hear is an example
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table to launch ur rants:
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Item Cost/Wk RI Time/Session Sessions/Wk RITES
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Day Dreamer $15/26 wk 80% 10 min 7 97.07
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lysergic $5/hit 75% 6 hrs 1 54.00
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brain machine $500/26 wk 80% 30 min 7 8.74
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shrooms $15/gobble 70% 3 hrs 1 8.40
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VR $10k/26 wk 95% 90 min 7 1.56
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cinema $3/matinee 5% 90 min 1 1.50
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ESO/tantra $50 20% 2 hrs 3 1.44
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cocktails $45 tab 10% 1 hr 3 0.40
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PS: don't fret about calculating the last column; that task can be
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automated by our great computers, which fill our hallowed halls...
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Source: FutureCulture
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From: Paul Davilon <dav@well.sf.ca.us>
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Subject: wired mindvox and well
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 93 22:20:57 PST
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Well & MindVox: I'm on both, I never spend more then an hour every few
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weeks on the Well so I just download the conferences I want to read and
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leave. I always feel paranoid like the clock is ticking and I don't
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like it, I think the Well's pricing is too steep. MindVox is much
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better about this because its real cost effective and has a much
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edgeier and underground feel to it, it's the real thing, to the Well's
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people talking about the real thing.
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Speaking of the real thing, what is happening with MindVox? I heard
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that Kroupa blew some Wired deadline because he trashed his apartment
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and put his fist through a window? I talked to a friend of mine in NY
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who said Kroupa, his fiance, Fancher and some other guy from LOD who
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wouldn't say his name were in the emergency room yesterday. What was
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this all about and is everyone ok now?
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Wired: Who are they????? I read on MindVox that they have billboards
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and ads all over buses, subways, buildings and it looks as if every guy
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who used to write for Mondo is going to be writing for them also, or
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intead of Mondo. I know Sterling, Gibson, Markoff (NY Times and
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Cyberpunk), Kroupa, Rucker and even R.U. Sirius are there. Is Mondo over?
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The SURFPUNK Technical Journal is a dangerous multinational hacker zine
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originating near BARRNET in the fashionable western arm of the northern
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California matrix. Quantum Californians appear in one of two states,
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spin surf or spin punk. Undetected, we are both, or might be neither.
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Send postings to <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>, subscription requests
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to <surfpunk-request@osc.versant.com>. MIME encouraged.
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Xanalogical archive access soon. Why do UNIX varients work? 201-478-5400
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You are in a tiny hovel. There are all kinds of
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books and scrolls cluttering up the place. It
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looks like the home of a sage. In the far corner
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is a small bed.
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There is one obvious exit: east
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A sage.
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> Sage says in common: Hand Runesword to me.
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The sage mumbles something about your mother.
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The sage looks under his bed.
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You hear the sounds of hooves beating in the distance.
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Sage says in common: Runesword is a very evil object.
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The sage drinks some concoction he has created.
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Sage says in common: Hand Runesword to me.
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The sage pulls some newts brain from a bottle.
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Sage says in common: Hand Runesword to me.
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A skeletal man enshrouded in black rides in
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on his pale horse.
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The sage looks under his bed.
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Death grins mischievously.
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Death peers deep into your soul.
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Death says: I think that I will give you another chance.
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Death drops you off in the church,
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and rides away on his pale horse.
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