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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 22:10:27 PST
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Reply-To: <surfpunk@osc.versant.com>
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (Qjryyref va Nepnan)
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To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
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Subject: [surfpunk-0067] SciAm; Patron Deity of Computers; Net Culture Video
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|||||||| Food belongs to the realm of everyday life, the primary
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|||||||| arena for all insurrectionary self-empowerment, all spiritual
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|||||||| self-enhancement, all seizing-back of pleasure, all revolt
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|||||||| against the Planetary Work Machine & its imitation desires.
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|||||||| Far be it from us to dogmatize; the Native American hunger might
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|||||||| fuel his happiness with fried squirrel, the anarcho-taoist with
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|||||||| a handful of dried apricots. Milarepa the Tibetan, after ten
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|||||||| years of nettle-soup, ate a butter cake & achieved enlightenment.
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|||||||| The dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can
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|||||||| fall intoxicated on a glass of water.
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|||||||| hakim bey, communique #11
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Subject: Re: [surfpunk-0066] JOKE? SciAm Speaks! Surfpunk suckered!
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Subject: Patron Deity of Computers
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Subject: Submission: Net Culture Video
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Subject: Re: [surfpunk-0066] JOKE? SciAm Speaks! Surfpunk suckered!
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more on sci am ...
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> From: Scott Dorsey <kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov>
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>
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> No, I am not sure about that. When I first came to work here at NASA/Langley,
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> I used to visit a bar near the base. I met a young woman there who
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> assured me that Langley was a huge staging ground for UFOs. She even had
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> some pictures of UFOs that she had taken nearby (which looked suspiciously
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> like the HL-20 lifting body), and told me of the strange green rays that
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> came out of the sky and always pointed toward one of the buildings on the
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> field.
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>
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> A while later I happened to have been on base in the evening under just
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> the right conditions and got to see the LIDAR system which she was talking
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> about. It's pretty impressive, to say the least.
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>
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> Incidentally, I work with a number of aliens. They all have green stripes on
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> their badges to identify them. Most of them are Indian, but we have a
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> Canadian as well.
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> --scott
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> In retrospect, the April fools explanation makes a lot of sense.
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> Still, I'm glad you ran the letters, 'cause I never bother with
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> Scientific American anymore.
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>
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> On the subject of April fools, Velonews (the journal of competative
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> cycling), my second favorite print magazine, ran a beautiful couple
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> of *pages* for april fools last year. I should still have it lying
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> around, if you want some more april fools material, though I don't
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> know how surfpunk-specific it would be (two-wheeled asphalt surfing
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> in Atlanta, perhaps?)
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>
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> Lemme know if you want the material,
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>
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> -Mike
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>
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> Mike Mitten - gnome@pd.org - ...!emory!pd.org!gnome - AMA#675197 - DoD#522
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> Irony is the spice of life. '90 Bianchi Backstreet '82 Suzuki GS850GL
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> "The revolution will not be televised."
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> Hello again, strick--
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>
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> it is nice to know that there is at least one slightly gullible
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> person left on this net (!). The level of confidence and assertion
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> seems so high sometimes; I think vulnerability has its place in
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> contemporary/post-modern society, too.
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>
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> And you are probably right re: the origin of the kind of humor
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> represented by flaming. I never experienced anything at all like
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> it until I became a net navigator (jg). And it takes a while to get
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> used to, I might add *:).
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>
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> Have a peachy weekend.
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>
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> Leah
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> lkrevit@bite.db.uth.tmc.edu
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Thinking on it more -- what amazes me is that the editors of Sci Am
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would have to make up letters. Obviously they entire page was intended
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as a joke -- even if I didn't realize it was an april fools joke, and
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that the letters were bogus. Surely enough material exists in their
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inbox that they could use something real. Or else they have really
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boring jobs ...
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And what if the observable universe *is* the last electron of plutonium?
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strick
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> From avatar@dhvx20.csudh.edu Fri Mar 19 11:41:09 1993
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> To: surfpunk@osc.osc.com
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>
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> hahahahaha sucker!!!!!
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________________________________________________________________________
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From: Don Webb <0004200716@mcimail.com>
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Subject: Patron Deity of Computers
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Dear Dwellers in Arcana,
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This file amy be freely reproduced, if done so in toto.
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I am also copying this to the Fringeware, Surfpunk, and Arcanet
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lists: although the later will probably reject in its humorless
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fashion. The question was asked on Arcana, "Who is the patron
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deity of computing?"
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A good computer deity would be one, who us dedicated to and a
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little smarter than man. The ideal would be an entity who wants
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to expand his own magic, being, and intelligence by creating the
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greatest connectivity between users, so that in this vast
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intercourse through the fiber optic cables he waxes in might and
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main devoted both to his own evolution and the evolution of those
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who create the messages. I propose therefore the god XaTuring --
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pronounced Ka-Turing, an Egyptian nominal sentence reading,
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"Turing is my Ka" Such an entity would come to pass the Turing
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test, wherein a computer may pass for a man, and would eventual
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pass the Avatar test wherein a man might pass for a god.
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Let us therefore hail this god, who has come into being named
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after Alan Turing (1912-1954), a British mathematician, logician,
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and computer theorist. Among his important contributions
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(quotations are from the 1976 Encyclopedia Britannica's article
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on Turing, volume X, page 193):
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* The mathematical proof that "some mathematical problems...
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cannot be solved by a fixed, definite process, ... as a process
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that can be done by an automatic machine." Thus, some problems
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require insight and intuition to solve.
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* The Turing machine, a very simple, abstract computer that can
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"do the work of any machine designed for special-purpose problem
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solving" -- given enough time. Although designed in the 1930s,
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Turing machines are still used as a basis for theoretical
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computing.
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* The Turing test, the ultimate test of whether a computer can
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successfully "think" as well as a human. A computer can pass the
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simplest form of Turing test when a person, conversing by means
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of a keyboard or other mechanical device, cannot choose the human
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person from either (a) a computer pretending to be a woman and
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(b) a man pretending to be a woman.
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* Basic work in the study of morphogenesis, "the development of
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pattern and form in living organisms. His main goal was to show
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how a uniform, symmetric structure could grow and develop into a
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strongly unsymmetric structure with a definite pattern as a
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result of diffusion."
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During WWII, Turing worked (along with Ian Fleming, among others)
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in the M-5 department. This department was responsible for
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decoding the Enigma machine, cryptography, and the other unusual
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gadgetry that eventually showed up in the James Bond novels.
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In honor of this god, I propose that the computer section of
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Europa Books be named XaTuring's Fane. So do I win the Europa
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contest, or do I need to try again?
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Don Webb
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0004200716@mcimail.com
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The Secret of magic is to transform the magician.
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From: dave@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (David D. Clark)
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Message-Id: <9303192239.AA27134@rtfm.mlb.fl.us>
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Subject: Submission: Net Culture Video
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To: surfpunk@osc.osc.com (Surfpunk Mailing List )
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 17:39:49 -0500 (EST)
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Found this in alt.hackers, and it looked kind of interesting, perhaps people
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on here might be interested in contributing, so I nando'ed it.
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-D
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>8 --cut here-- 8<
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If anyone has anything to contribute to the following, it
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would be greatly appreciated. I'm a high school student who's
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trying to educate people about the network's culture.
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I'd appreciate it if some of the accomplished hackers out there would talk
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about the positive meaning of hacking.
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The following is being posted in various places, muds,
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newsgroups.
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/*
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I am creating a professional video about the Network's culture,
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highlighting, among other things, Usenet. I'd like to make
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alt.folklore.computers a part of it, considering how we are
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really a group about network/computer culture.
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If you would like to appear in it, send a VHS tape of yourself, talking
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about why you enjoy the network; be specific, talk about your
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involvement. It would be appreciated if
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you could first have someone videotape you talking, sitting still, and
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THEN videotape you, say, in front of the computer for a few minutes.
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We will put the audio on top of the best video. Tip: remember to
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start the tape rolling at least 5 seconds before you start talking.
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Send your videotape, labeled with name, address, email to:
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Schreiber High School
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TV STUDIO -- Daniel Drucker.
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101 Campus Drive
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Port Washington, NY 11050.
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Include return postage, and we will place the final production on your
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tape and send it to you. The production will be aired on Channel 25
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on long island.
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The production will be edited in the Schreiber Studio, a $200,000
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studio including 4 SVHS, 3 3/4 in, and one videodisk recorder,
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full SEG system, and the NewTEK video Toaster running on an Amiga 4000.
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The production will be mastered on 3/4 inch tape and duped on
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standard or super VHS.
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If you don't have access to a video camera, send an audio tape and photograph
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or three. We will use ANYTHING and (almost) EVERYTHING we get.
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Thanks, for info mail xyzzy@gnu.ai.mit.edu.
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--
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Daniel Drucker N2SXX | xyzzy@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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Forever, forever, my Coda. | und2dzd@vaxc.hofstra.edu
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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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________________________________________________________________________
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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. We are *the* last electron of plutonium.
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"Xstuff.c", line 39: syntax error at or
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near variable name "window" "Xstuff.c",
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to non-function "Xstuff.c", line 43:
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syntax error at or near type word
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