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From: TREE BEARD
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: rap music
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 01:09:21
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Message Number 5901
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>2 Live Crew's music make people want to steal wallets.
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There some people who you might want to meet. They say that T back
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swim suits cause insest. I know you were kidding but there are some
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ignorant people out there. (Yes, that is a partial quote from the
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Sarasota Herald...
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Weirdness is invading this fair land.
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Tree
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: reruns
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 01:13:57
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Message Number 5902
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I'll wait for the "Ropers" to get out on video... Then I'll have a
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4 hours jam packed Roper mania party... Pop tart anyone?
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Tree
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: weighted 4.2
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 01:18:37
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Message Number 5903
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Seems like I have to ask everyone to get off the phone... Even when I
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live by myself... Sarasota telephone lines... yek
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Tree
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: beam me up
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 01:22:03
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Message Number 5904
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I agree.. watching baseball on tv is boring! I would rather watch
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"Perry Mason" reruns all day long. Now, going to a game is different.
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The fans are interesting to watch!
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Tree
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One cold dog and a warm beer please.
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: rap music
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 01:24:36
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Message Number 5905
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Probably Lawrenc Welk's bubbling medalies...
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(SP?) Tree
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From: SPE11WIND
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: reruns
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 04:57:02
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Message Number 5906
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A re1ative heard it was being rep1aced!!!!!!!!!!by FAMI1Y TIES
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they're g0ing t0 have fam.ties, gr0w.pains, kateNa11ie, and 3s c0mpany
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between 5-7. DAMN! there g0es an0ther h0ur 0f my viewing...
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From: SPE11WIND
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To: TREE BEARD
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Subject: beam me up
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 05:01:10
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Message Number 5907
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w0u1dn't the air g0 back t0 rep1ace thespace where the ship just 1eft?
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From: SPE11WIND
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To: TREE BEARD
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Subject: reruns
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 05:02:36
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Message Number 5908
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4 h0urs 0n wrest1ing night because the wrest1ing sh0w is 2 hrs 10ng.
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From: SPE11WIND
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To: TREE BEARD
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Subject: weighted 4.2
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 05:05:06
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Message Number 5910
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Saras0ta everything... yek!
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From: THRUD
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Play Ball!
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 05:57:03
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Message Number 5911
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"Married..." is ok, but my wife suspects I only watch it to see
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the little blond. My wife is very perceptive.
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The Met scored 43 runs in three games against the Cubs - THAT'S
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Entertainment. I like baseball on the tube because when nothings
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happening, I can read a book - ya only have to look up when the
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pitch of the announcers voice changes. I watch football so that
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I can learn new synonyms for "Smash".
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"Synonyms are my life" - Bull (Night Court)
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Maybe you should change the name of this area to TV guide - we
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need to discuss something philosopical like -
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.
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.
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"How many angels can swim in the head on a beer"
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TTTTTTThrud
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From: DONTHEN
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: book
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 09:01:53
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Message Number 5912
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Hm. I really didn't like WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT very much at all.
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As a mystery it bit rocks, since the murderer isn't a character until
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the last few pages. The film isn't even loosely based on the book as
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far as I could tell; they just used three character names.
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Some of the ideas in the book were cute, but they were overshadowed
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by the fact that none of the characters in it were believable at all.
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The plot itself managed to be hackneyed, which is a considerable trick
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given the setting he used -- which wasn't nearly as interesting a
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setting as the movie's. And, the author had absolutely none of the
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subtlety present in the script. The Hollywood of his book was the
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Hollywood of 1970's California cop shows; the 1930's "film noir" setting
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worked much better. The concept of Toontown was something that Wolf
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(the author) probably didn't have the originality to come up with, yet
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the differences between the Toon world and reality -- with the
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undercurrents of racism -- formed one of the most interesting themes
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in the movie. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" wasn't really a mystery at all,
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and it wasn't as racy as WHO CENSORED ROGER RABBIT wanted to be, but it
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was infinitely more complex. This was one of those rare cases where
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Hollywood's "trashing" of the original storyline turned out to be a
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very good thing indeed.
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From: DONTHEN
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To: SPE11WIND
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Subject: Party???
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 09:11:56
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Message Number 5913
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I'm not. "Promises" and "Double-Edged Tavern" were doing the best and
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"Ace of Spades" (which would have been renamed "Ace of Swords" for
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arcane reasons) was, evidently, too complex for most people to get a
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grip on. Since you're on your way to merrily overflowing the Tavern,
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telling people what they can and can't do, and once again expecting
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everyone to have memorized the several thousands of pages of notes you
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seem to have on your world instead of being willing to play along with
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the unexpected (and perhaps even silly), I'm going to try to bring back
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"Promises" in the form it evolved into during your long modem absence.
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You might have noticed that since you started strangling the Tavern
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with your typical huge-storyline-ignoring-everyone-else, working very
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hard at removing any possibility of character interaction, the level of
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posting there has dropped off dramatically. In fact, I'm the only one
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to post there in about two weeks and I get my character threatened by
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the "referee."
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I bet playing a normal RPG with you as dungeon master is pure hell.
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You can be an extremely creative person yourself, but you seem to have
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little or no tolerance for creativity on anyone else's part in your
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world. This is something you "risk" when you let people into your
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creations; if you keep stifling them, they won't come back. It's that
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simple. As I said on C. of C., have fun p1aying with y0urse1f, d00d.
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From: RUFUS
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To: TREE BEARD
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Subject: rap music
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 10:52:12
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Message Number 5914
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You realize that T-backs cause sin. Why, I bet Satan himself designed
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these T-backs. Sin, lust, and animal sacrifices are all connected
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with T-backs. On another not, Rich Unger (owner of "Hot Flash" and pro-
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T backer) will be on Donahue[^-e] this Wednesday along with some other
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folks from Sarasota. I'm tempted to make a T-back out of the American
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flag. I'd love to see what kind of trouble I'd get into.
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From: RUFUS
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To: THRUD
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Subject: Play Ball!
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Date & Time: 06/14/90 10:56:28
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Message Number 5915
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Every time I say baseball is boring, I usually get assualted with
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comments like "It's the great American pasttime, you must love it," or
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when I comment on the lack of action in the game I get "You must have a
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short attention span." Gads...baseball...yech...I prefer watching the
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local high school ladies teams play basketball. The occasional fight is
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wonderful. To bad my school doesn't have a basketball team, or any othe
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HS sports team for that matter.
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...or a structure that could survive a wind storm.
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From: TURTLE
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To: TREE BEARD
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Subject: beam me up
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 00:01:52
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Message Number 5916
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Exchanging the person for an equivalent volume on air on the planet's
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surface is a /really bad/ idea if the air on the planet's surface is
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toxic, of a different density as the air on the ship, contaminated
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with microorganisms, etc. Putting it in space is a better idea, but
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you still have the problem of what to do with all the excess energy
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the person has when he materializes on the planet's surface. Also,
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here's another problem: suppose it takes one second to materialize.
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On this planet, in one second any given point on the planet's surface
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will have moved about seventeen miles. So not only is the individual in
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question going to materialize with a few hundred thousand newton's
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worth of excess energy, he's going to materialize in a smear that's
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about seventeen miles long. Eww...yuck!
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From: BEATLE
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To: TREE BEARD
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Subject: rap music
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 02:05:06
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Message Number 5917
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> "Saturday Night Live", and "Late Night"...
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Yeah! Those are definetely in my top five shows (which I really have
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never organized). Late Night is so weird and silly, I can't help but
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crack up. Things like "Show Us Your Photos Please" and visits from Terri
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Garr and Pheobe Cates are really great to watch... Saturday Night Live
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is pretty unpredictible. I'd love to see it live someday.
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From: BEATLE
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To: DONTHEN
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Subject: book
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 02:11:37
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Message Number 5918
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Yes, I thought it was kind of rude to introduce the murderer at the
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end. Anyway, I have no idea why I seemed to really like the book. The
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idea of racism you mentioned from the film seemed to be presented in the
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book pretty clearly. The ideas in the book were quite strange. I can't
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think how you could live with someone[thing?] where you have to READ
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everything they say. The idea of doppelgangers appealed to me. Pretty
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practical idea, too. I was thinking if you reworked the story in the
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book, gave it a different ending (my idea would be to have the genie of
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the ending make Roger's doppel real, something I suspected might happen
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when the book went off into the kettle thing toward the end), and you
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might have an interesting sequel to make into a film.
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I don't know why I liked it, but the fact that the teakettle becomes
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more and more important (even though you figured it had no significance)
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was neat (to me)...
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From: BEATLE
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: rap music
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 02:20:55
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Message Number 5919
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> ^-e
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To the power of negative e?? Interesting idea. What's the deal?
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> Make a T-back out of the American flag...
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That's a pretty good line. Something you expect from a political
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cartoon (or Dave Barry, maybe)...
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Why NOT do it? It'd get some of those politicians on your back, but
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that's about the only way you can get them to do anything, isn't it??
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From: BEATLE
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: Play Ball!
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 02:23:48
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Message Number 5920
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Hey, dude, I hate baseball also. I hate football, I hate basketball, I
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hate hockey, and I bet I hate lacrosse also. I can't STAND sports! I
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like watching them less than participating in them. I'd probably get
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slaughtered PLAYING football, but I'd die of boredom WATCHING it.
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: SPE11WIND
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Subject: beam me up
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 04:31:09
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Message Number 5921
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Well, I was thinking that they would have to transpose whatevere atmo-
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sphere that the person who was beamed down displaced into space. Do to
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possible poisen in the atmosphere. Just mussing...
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Tree
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Hmmmmmm
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: SPE11WIND
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Subject: reruns wrestle
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 04:33:28
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Message Number 5922
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Who's your favorite wrestler? (Or as my grandmother would say WRASTLER..
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Pinned Tree
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: SPE11WIND
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Subject: G-strings...
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 04:35:03
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Message Number 5923
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Yes, legally there will not be any in the state of Florida...
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It's a sad thought really, most of the people who wear G strings are
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not fashion models, and are quite funny to look at. I disagree with the
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goverment on princaple only, not because I believe that people should
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go about with there as hanging out.
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Barnett Bank had a mural done by a local artist, and it had a figure
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of some greek maybe David, anyway the figure is on all Sarasota County
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cars with them tags on it... Since I seem not to be able to think right
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now, Ill just get to the point. The artist covered the genitalia with
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a sea gull... as a joke, but also as a warning. People try and cover
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up things that they try and repress... Repression leads to violent acts
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and crazyness.. just look around, and you will see plenty of craziness.
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Tree
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: SPE11WIND
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Subject: weighted 4.2
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 04:43:29
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Message Number 5924
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Sarasota has one good thing... now if I can only think of it...
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Ohh yeah, Me.
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Just kidden, Sarasota has many good things. I just can't think of any.
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Tree
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: RUFUS
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Subject: rap music
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 04:45:40
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Message Number 5925
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Make a T-back out of an American flag, burn it while wearing it,smoke
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some crack and run for mayor. (Get a few prostitutes to hang around
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too)... You might get elected... If not, you can always sell time shares
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Tree
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: beam me up
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 04:49:38
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Message Number 5926
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People glow when they materialize. Just let that excess energy form a
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positive charge, and the energy could go into earth... I got a B- in
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physics so Im an expert (Did better in chem, got an A) Anyway the
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seventeen mile long smear would not matter, cause this should not really
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work anyway. Unless, the computer kept track of were the person was
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supposed to be and kept pinpointing that spot, even if it moved. But
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if the planet wobbles a bit, then you might have feet here, arms there,
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ect. Eww....yuck again!
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: rap music
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 04:55:38
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Message Number 5927
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New York is definetly the place to be to see live Tv... and if you
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can't get in to the shows, just grab a bag of Nachos and watch the
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homeless die of exposure...
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The Big Apple...Not enough to go around.
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Tree
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From: SPE11WIND
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To: TREE BEARD
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Subject: beam me up
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 05:04:03
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Message Number 5928
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I was ta1king time trave1 dip1acement. in that case, a pers0n/0bject
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C0u1d remetab01ize int0 s01id r0ck, because the s01id r0ck w0u1d return
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t0 where the pers0n/0bject just 1eft.
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From: SPE11WIND
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To: TREE BEARD
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Subject: reruns wrestle
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 05:06:55
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Message Number 5929
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Mr. Perfect, Randy Savage, Earthquake, JYD, Sting, The Sam0ans, Kerry
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V0n Erich, and a few 0thers. Mr. Perfect's at the t0p 0f the 1ist.
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From: TURTLE
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To: BEATLE
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Subject: Rap & T-backs
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 17:40:36
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Message Number 5932
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>Why NOT do it [make a T-back out of a flag]? It'd get some of those
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>politicians on your back, but that's about the only way you can get
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>them to do anything , isn't it??
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Well, errr, yeah, but the thing you get them to do when they get on your
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back is throw you in jail. NOT helpful.
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...if the purpose of a law punishable by a prison sentence is to protect
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the members of society from something (say, being murdered, or having
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their wallets taken), then what evil, nasty thing are you protecting
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society from by imprisoning a person whose breasts are not "covered
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by an entirely opaque material from the top of the nipple to the bottom
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of the breast"?
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From: THRUD
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: BBS LIST
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 20:38:54
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Message Number 5934
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Do you have access to a Pinelas bbs list?
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From: THRUD
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To: ALL
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Subject: slow day
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Date & Time: 06/15/90 20:42:16
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Message Number 5935
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Jeez, 14 hours between calls, and yall didn't post diddly. I might take
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up watching TV. Nah. No ball games on. Maybe I'll read some Tom Clancy.
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Just to let you know, twas a good las 24 hours. Did my accounting final
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last night - right on the A - B cusp, I hate to screw up my GPA, but
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I'm so damn glad to be through with that class, I'll take the B with
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a smile. THEN - I was working on the home of a golf club manufacturing
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executive (with about 200 clubs in his garage) and vollenteered to
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field test a few - and he GAVE me the sand wedge of my dreams. Oh
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happy day.
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Acme Thrud be gone.
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: SPE11WIND
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Subject: reruns wrestle
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Date & Time: 06/16/90 01:50:01
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Message Number 5936
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Thats quite a list... The thing I hate about wrestling is comentater
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s.. they are so stupid!
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Tree
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From: TREE BEARD
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To: TURTLE
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Subject: Rap & T-backs
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Date & Time: 06/16/90 01:52:51
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Message Number 5937
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>what evil, nasty thing are you protecting society from imprisoning a
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>person whose breasts are not "covered by an entirely opaque material
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>from the top of the nipple to the bottom of the breast"?
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They are trying to protect people from rape, insest, and bagels...
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(With double cream cheese)
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Thats what they will have you to believe!
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NEWS FLASH....
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The Catholic Church has threatend catholic senators and crongress
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people with excomunication if the officials to not take an anti-
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abortion stance.
|
||
|
||
There are similarities between the above. Both are trying to
|
||
control our morality. This is not a function of goverment! (or should
|
||
not be at least!
|
||
|
||
Tree
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: SPE11WIND
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/16/90 02:16:14
|
||
Message Number 5938
|
||
|
||
>Ancient Sumer. Bef0re war.
|
||
|
||
Before war it was called Survival of the Fittest. War is just selective
|
||
breeding on a larger scale...If ya can't f*ck 'em, kill 'em.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: Incidentally,
|
||
Date & Time: 06/16/90 02:18:20
|
||
Message Number 5939
|
||
|
||
You're probably correct to a degree. I've installed AutoCAD v10 on
|
||
a PC at work to use for some light design (and expand our limited
|
||
present system) and I think I have been 're-installing' it for about
|
||
six monthes. If I knew more about the software I would of known about
|
||
setting LISPHEAP, LISPSTACK, ACADFREERAM, and stuff in AUTOEXEC.BAT and
|
||
how to do extendedLisp functions and re-allocate RAM usage to optimize
|
||
the graphics response, what TSR to allow, how to sub-divide the hard
|
||
disk to keep drawing files from floating around with the operating
|
||
system and a ton of other stuff I keep learning daily. I wish the
|
||
software vendor knew as much as I do now, I would've spent my time
|
||
working 'with', not 'on' AutoCAD......sssssSNAKEBYTE . .
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/16/90 02:23:34
|
||
Message Number 5940
|
||
|
||
And what do we get for our military $$$$$? A bunch of idle 'threats'
|
||
that we had better not use that end up rusting away on some base in
|
||
Alaska. And where would we be if that money were spent on constructive
|
||
(as opposed to destructive) sciences???? Probable running 96,000,000baud
|
||
modems hooked to our 1,000,000 gigabyte wrist-watch PC.!.!.!.!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Money talks
|
||
Date & Time: 06/16/90 02:27:10
|
||
Message Number 5941
|
||
|
||
Well spoken! I get NASA TECH BREIFS at work and some of the stuff
|
||
that is NASA related is unbelievable. Without the militaries
|
||
backing, NASA would most likely be lacking a lot of other things
|
||
as well, like the Shuttle for instance. "Let's see, we'll build a
|
||
ship that can carry a payload in space the size of a railroad car
|
||
(or a spy satalite, or a laser weapon, or a missle detector, or
|
||
a first wave strike launcher), and we'll use it to conduct science
|
||
experiments (or weapons tests) and benifit mankind (or our military
|
||
strength and power to push dem damn Russians outta offa the Earth).
|
||
Hmmmmmm. Yeah, the government will back the shuttle.".....
|
||
|
||
.....damn politics.
|
||
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Not FemTalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/16/90 02:34:46
|
||
Message Number 5942
|
||
|
||
I'm affraid someone did say being a parent was easy. Howie Madel
|
||
said (after announcing his wive's pregnancy) "Hey don't clap. It's no
|
||
big deal. I just fucked my wife".
|
||
I'm not trying to advocate banning anything. If I had my choice of
|
||
groups to squash out of existence, gays would be well below many others.
|
||
I want to quote Sam Kineson about gays and AIDS, "Thanks for the black
|
||
plague of the eighties, guys", but I know that isn't a good stance. I
|
||
would rather quote Paul Rodreguez by saying "Sorry guys, but my ass
|
||
is definitely an EXIT only". (sorry for the Comedy Club quotes...)
|
||
I guess I'm just taking my stance that I don't aggree with it, so
|
||
I formed an opinion on it. Just like I don't aggree with power-hungrey
|
||
dicks with 30-06's blowing a deer's heart out at 1/2-mile away and
|
||
calling it a sport, I've got an opinion on that too. Like any other
|
||
parent, you tend to mold your children into your shoes, and right or
|
||
wrong, all parents do it. I don't feel guilty about my opinions nor
|
||
about wanting to guide my kids down the road I have driven. It seems
|
||
to have been engraved in my personality to have the skin crawl up my
|
||
arms and make me shudder to think about their attraction to each other.
|
||
Then again, I've seen some women that would turn me off of females
|
||
forever if I ever saw them naked........yuck
|
||
You can do what you like, just don't do it around me and I won't
|
||
throw-up on your shoes......otay????
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPE11WIND
|
||
To: TREE BEARD
|
||
Subject: reruns wrestle
|
||
Date & Time: 06/16/90 03:51:25
|
||
Message Number 5944
|
||
|
||
|
||
Y0u mean 1ike the WWF? Vic McMah0n is the rea1 0wner 0f the WWF, n0t
|
||
Jack Tunney (Just s0me guy). I think he writes the dia10gue f0r them,
|
||
especia11y Jesse Ventura.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPE11WIND
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/16/90 03:54:14
|
||
Message Number 5945
|
||
|
||
|
||
This was a time bef0re that.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPE11WIND
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: Not FemTalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/16/90 03:57:43
|
||
Message Number 5946
|
||
|
||
|
||
If there are en0ugh trees 1eft in the united states in ab0ut 7 years
|
||
t0 ba ca11ed a f0rest, I'm m0ving there. I hate civi1izati0n, (but whi1e
|
||
I'm in it I'11 be ca11ing AR!). Watch f0r my BBS (as s00n as I get my
|
||
keyb0ard fixed and get a j0b s0mewhere that'11 hire me).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPE11WIND
|
||
To: SPE11WIND
|
||
Subject: reruns wrestle
|
||
Date & Time: 06/16/90 04:03:21
|
||
Message Number 5947
|
||
|
||
I meant Vince
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TREE BEARD
|
||
To: SPE11WIND
|
||
Subject: reruns wrestle
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 04:29:39
|
||
Message Number 5948
|
||
|
||
Yesm, like the WWF. Boring, repetitve dialoug (its 4:30 and I spell
|
||
even worse this late!) with fake excitement. I think that the wrestlers
|
||
can be quite proffesional and fun to watch, but they should can the
|
||
talk, or at least have something more intelligable to say.
|
||
|
||
much like me
|
||
muk tike lee
|
||
|
||
Poetree
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TREE BEARD
|
||
To: SPE11WIND
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 04:36:39
|
||
Message Number 5949
|
||
|
||
> This was a time bef0re that.
|
||
|
||
Have I been lax? What does that mean?
|
||
|
||
Tree
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SPE11WIND
|
||
To: TREE BEARD
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 04:55:46
|
||
Message Number 5950
|
||
|
||
|
||
Bef0re war g0ds inspired by war-10ving pe0p1es.
|
||
|
||
Hangin' r0und the 01' firti1e crescent
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: BBS LIST
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 15:34:02
|
||
Message Number 5951
|
||
|
||
>Do you have access to a Pinelas BBS list?
|
||
|
||
Nope, 'fraid not. Don't even have any numbers for random single
|
||
BBSes in Pinellas floating around...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: TREE BEARD
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 15:43:10
|
||
Message Number 5952
|
||
|
||
>There are similarities between the above. Both are trying to
|
||
>control our morality. This is not a function of our government!
|
||
|
||
Depends on who you ask. According to fine, moral, upstanding citizens
|
||
like Charles W. Keating Jr, it is very much a function of government.
|
||
The honorable Mr. Keating appointed himself an "expert" on pornography
|
||
(he was an expert, you see, on the grounds that he had talked to dozens
|
||
of priests about the effects of pornography on children) and testafied
|
||
in front of the Meese Commission on Pornography, during which time he
|
||
said things like "It is common knowledge that masturbation causes
|
||
physical and psychological problems and can lead to insanity," "I say,
|
||
hell yes, legislate morality, and then enforce those laws!" "Pornography
|
||
is destructive to the well-being of women and children," etc, etc, ad
|
||
naseum. Six months later he was in front of a Congressional panel again,
|
||
this time saying "On the advice of my attorney I have decided to
|
||
excercise my Fifth Amendment rights" when asked about his role in
|
||
virtually singlehandedly causing the collapse of over a dozen S&L
|
||
institutions.
|
||
|
||
Obviously, Mr. Keating, a bastion of moral righteousness who will shine
|
||
on as a splendid role model for us all, never did really quite get the
|
||
hang of the whole "morality" thing. I wonder if it bothers him that his
|
||
actions were destructive to the well-being of investors in his S&L's,
|
||
some of whom were presumably women and children...
|
||
|
||
There is a problem with allowing someone else to dictate your morality--
|
||
does anyone /really/ think that Keating, or our illustrious governor,
|
||
or any other politician (or anyone else for that matter) is a terribly
|
||
fit guardian of the public morality? Any time anyone offers (or insists)
|
||
to guide our moral behavior, I think it's time to take a long, hard look
|
||
at that person and what he stands to gain from his selfless act.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: NASA History
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 15:58:59
|
||
Message Number 5953
|
||
|
||
Speaking of politics, NASA, and the space shuttle: Are you familiar at
|
||
all with the Dyna-Soar project started by NASA in the early 50's? The
|
||
idea was to create a winged, single-stage-to-orbit, reusable vehicle
|
||
that could ferry large quantities into space and return by landing on
|
||
a conventional runway. The Dyna-Soar was part of a larger project that
|
||
had a timeline something like: early space stations by the end of the
|
||
60's, permanently manned space stations and a moon shot by the end of
|
||
the 70's, permanently manned moon bases by the 80's and 90's. The
|
||
vehicles themselves would probably have ended up smaller than the
|
||
current space shuttle, but they had a few advantages, like the fact
|
||
that they were supposed to have on-board air-breating jet engines so
|
||
they could land under power. The Dyna-Soar project was scrapped by
|
||
Kennedy's declaration that "we will land a man on the moon by the end of
|
||
the 60's." Well, we did, but I wonder what the world would be like now
|
||
if the original plan had been stuck to. (assuming, of course, that the
|
||
government could be persuaded to provide funding for that long, and that
|
||
it didn't fall into any of a number of various political sandtraps,
|
||
and so forth).
|
||
|
||
Now, of course, we have moon rocks embedded in Lucite and a Tinker Toy
|
||
space shuttle that just plain doesn't work as advertised, and
|
||
frequently doesn't work at all.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SPE11WIND
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 16:10:00
|
||
Message Number 5954
|
||
|
||
>>The time before Sumer was called Survival of the Fittest.
|
||
|
||
>This was a time bef0re that.
|
||
|
||
The time before the advent of survival of the fittest was, in fact, very
|
||
quiet and peaceful, with no violence and no war...BECAUSE THERE WERE NO
|
||
LIVING ORGANISMS. Survival of the fittest has been the rule of nature
|
||
since the time of the first two amoebas.
|
||
|
||
Contrary to what you may find in books written by radical femenists and
|
||
nestled between scholarly works on the culture of Atlantis and
|
||
descriptions of how crystal power can be made to synchronize with
|
||
universal rythms in out-of-the-way New Age bookstores, there ain't ever
|
||
been a human civilization of any size (with more than, say, 50 members
|
||
or so) that's been entirely free of strife, violence, and other sun-
|
||
shiny things. I know lots of people will claim that this or that
|
||
ancient society that nobody's ever heard of was Utopian in every way,
|
||
and then generally go on to add "...because it was organized around the
|
||
political views that I happen to endorse," if you actually go back and
|
||
look at the real evidence you'll be disappointed.
|
||
|
||
Even Cro-Magnon man was prone to bashing his fellows upon the head with
|
||
the jawbone of an ass.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 20:27:56
|
||
Message Number 5955
|
||
|
||
I've often wondered where we would be if all the money and man-power
|
||
spent of military R&D was spent on say, medical research. It boggles
|
||
the mind.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ANYONE
|
||
Subject: Saturday
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 20:35:31
|
||
Message Number 5956
|
||
|
||
A recent trip to Tampa on Saturday raised three questions that I have
|
||
not been able to answer...
|
||
1) Would the film "Akira" been as good if it had been called, say "Bob?"
|
||
2) Will my parents get me anything similar to the SOL orbiting destructo
|
||
death beam? If not, maybe a Harrier Jump Jet, and if not that, that
|
||
really spiffy motorcycle.
|
||
3) Why in the hell did I drink about 8 glasses of water before
|
||
returning to Sarasota? I'm sure Ken found ever bump on I-75.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Saturday
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 23:07:31
|
||
Message Number 5958
|
||
|
||
> Would the film "Akira" have been as good if it was called, say,"Bob"?
|
||
|
||
Who knows? It could become a cult classic and end up on Jeopardy in
|
||
the "Bobs and Roberts" category. Where will "Akira" fit in? "Japanese
|
||
Film"? "Movies Shown in Tampa, FL in Converthed Theatres"? "Fluid
|
||
Animation"? I think if we want these categories, we have to write to
|
||
the producers. Then, we have to convince them that we DO have better
|
||
things to do than suggest useless Jeopardy categories, and they hadn't
|
||
occurred to us at that moment.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Saturday
|
||
Date & Time: 06/17/90 23:12:30
|
||
Message Number 5959
|
||
|
||
Forgive me for messing up your quote... It should have been more like:
|
||
|
||
> 1) Would the film "Akira" have been as successful if it had been
|
||
> called, say, "Bob"?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Saturday
|
||
Date & Time: 06/18/90 17:08:38
|
||
Message Number 5962
|
||
|
||
How dare you mess up my quote. You worthless slug spit in the gum
|
||
stuck to the shoe of society.
|
||
|
||
...actually, I wouldn't have noticed it at all.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: ANYONE
|
||
Subject: film
|
||
Date & Time: 06/18/90 22:58:54
|
||
Message Number 5964
|
||
|
||
I seem to have an odd feeling that someone here used to be a projection
|
||
person at a theatre. Or possibly, you might just know about it.
|
||
Anyway, here's the question:
|
||
When I went and saw Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the film was pretty
|
||
good for a 12 year old print, but it had some sections at the start and
|
||
end of the reels that were cut. Is this just because of age or the way
|
||
the film was assembled? And second, the curtains of the theatre closed a
|
||
couple times and the lights and projector varried. The manager explained
|
||
to the 15 people who showed that they had a problem with "onboard cues"
|
||
or something. I need more info, because I am kinda mixed up. I want long
|
||
and detailed explainations. I can always use more strange facts. Who
|
||
knows, maybe someday I'll become a projectionist and have to replace a
|
||
spliced section of a kiddie cartoon with "Demon Lover".
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
|
||
Date & Time: 06/19/90 01:40:57
|
||
Message Number 5966
|
||
|
||
Gee, this clock is just a few seconds ahead of my watch -- Isn't that
|
||
interesting? Which reminds me -- If every clock is different, how can
|
||
anyone be on-time!? HHmmm -- On the subject of Time, travling it is
|
||
impossible unless you are carrying an American Express and some Visa
|
||
travler's checks -- Disney dollars also help, because they are
|
||
accepted all over the word -- What we need are McDollars
|
||
!! Which leads me to the fact that every 6-piece Chicken McNugget I
|
||
have ordered /always/ had 6-pieces -- Don't these people ever screw
|
||
up? WHat if all chickens fell off the face of the Earth? We'd have to
|
||
eat Tofu McNeggets, doesn't sound good...What is tofu anyways? Sounds
|
||
like a Japaneese name to me -- Which reminds me, Akira was pretty cool,
|
||
but the ending was one of those deep-thought things that no American
|
||
can make heads or tails of...Speaking of those endings, Total Recall
|
||
was a total mind-fuck and needs to be banned from the face of the
|
||
Earth until the producers decide if it was actually real or a dream...
|
||
What if life is all a dream? It may be like the dream machine --
|
||
Just a big video game -- Like TRON except even better! Gee, TRON is
|
||
a Basic Language command -- Basic isn't the best tho, but I hear GFA
|
||
basic is cool -- It runs on the Amiga, which makes multitasking pretty
|
||
easy, even when programming a Basic program...But I hear the PC/Z has
|
||
better multitasking -- Maybe the Z-System should be made for the AMiga.
|
||
|
||
Anyhoo -- That's why this message is in the Z-Sig!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
|
||
Date & Time: 06/19/90 13:39:53
|
||
Message Number 5967
|
||
|
||
Ken, are you feeling all right? Too much Diet Caffeine Free Taste free
|
||
Pepsi? Or maybe you needed sleep?! Tofu, besides being this white
|
||
substance which can be coaxed into tasting like anything, is the sequal
|
||
to Akira. Ya see, Akira had an affair with someone which resulted in an
|
||
offspring named Tofu.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: MilTalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/19/90 16:18:56
|
||
Message Number 5969
|
||
|
||
>I've often wondered where we would be if all the money and man-power
|
||
>spent of military R&D was spent on, say, medical research.
|
||
|
||
That's easy. We'd all have life expectancies of 150 years, the common
|
||
cold would be about as common as typhoid, and a broken leg would be
|
||
considered at most a minor inconvenience. On the other hand, nobody
|
||
would program in Ada and we wouldn't have to sit through endless inane
|
||
"Be All You Can Be (tm)" TV commercials, either ("When I dropped out of
|
||
high school, I could barely figure out how to work a gumball machine,
|
||
but now I'm responsible for designing the communications network for
|
||
the entire eastern seaboard!"). I guess you gotta take the bad with
|
||
the bad.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Saturday
|
||
Date & Time: 06/19/90 16:26:11
|
||
Message Number 5971
|
||
|
||
"You worthless slug spit in the gum stuck to the shoe of society"...
|
||
I like that. I'll have to put it in my list of Quotes I'm Dying To Use
|
||
In The Course Of A Normal Conversation But Will Probably Never Get The
|
||
Opportunity To Use...along with "It's my fault your mommie and daddy
|
||
turned into monsters" (from Iczer One).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: film
|
||
Date & Time: 06/19/90 16:29:32
|
||
Message Number 5972
|
||
|
||
As a matter of fact, I used to be a projectionist at a theater, so maybe
|
||
I can help. Cuts at the beginning and end of the reels are normal,
|
||
since every time you put a movie up you splice the reel ends together
|
||
and when you tear it down you cut off about 1 or 2 frames on each
|
||
side of the splice. (When you wind the film back onto the shipping
|
||
reels, you also splice reel protectors onto each end, so the next person
|
||
who puts the film up cuts them off and loses another couple of frames.)
|
||
As a general rule, a reel is no longer considered to be viewable if
|
||
it's missing 5 or more frames at one splice, so a print generally makes
|
||
it to about 5 theaters before it ends up at 99-cent houses and gets
|
||
retired. The "cues" are small pieces of magnetic tape that the
|
||
projectionist attaches to the print as he's putting it up to control
|
||
things like the automatic shutter and (on newer projectors) the lens
|
||
changer and sound system; the placement of the magnetic tape depends
|
||
on the equipment being used by that theater, and in any event it's
|
||
/supposed/ to be removed when the film is taken down (although as
|
||
often as not a print will arrive at a theater with half a dozen
|
||
little pieces of silver tape stuck to its edge). Also, some
|
||
projectionists will use White-Out to mark the edge of the film where
|
||
two reels are joined to make it easier to take down the film (when
|
||
you're breaking it down, it's sometimes /real/ difficult to locate the
|
||
ends of the reels), and the White-Out can confuse some projection
|
||
equipment.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
|
||
Date & Time: 06/19/90 16:40:32
|
||
Message Number 5973
|
||
|
||
>What is tofu, anyways?
|
||
|
||
Bean curd.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
|
||
Date & Time: 06/19/90 22:02:01
|
||
Message Number 5974
|
||
|
||
I don't believe it.....It is a plot by those damn foireigners to take
|
||
away our all American beef fat!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Iczer One
|
||
Date & Time: 06/19/90 22:39:56
|
||
Message Number 5975
|
||
|
||
I'm currently trying to pass a law requiring all females to be naked
|
||
when operating anything capable of destroying entire city blocks with
|
||
one mis-step. I figure it will cut down on the amount of females
|
||
operating these things /and/ make for interesting viewing.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: film
|
||
Date & Time: 06/19/90 22:43:16
|
||
Message Number 5976
|
||
|
||
Your a Turtle chock full 'o information. Amazing stuff (really).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TREE BEARD
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/19/90 23:37:43
|
||
Message Number 5977
|
||
|
||
I agree completely. I just heard a story today. I do not know the
|
||
validity, but I believe it to be true.
|
||
|
||
A couple with a child visiting from Michigan came to visit Florida.
|
||
They came to enjoy the beach. So the family went to the beach with
|
||
their dog. The women got out of the car, and the dog jumped out. The
|
||
man got out, holding a beer. The child got out throwing a frisbee.
|
||
The women was also holding a Coca-Cola (in a glass bottle). They went
|
||
onto the beach. A drive-by cruiser saw them get out of the car, then
|
||
proceded to arrest the whole family. He then had their car towed and
|
||
took them downtown and they were booked. Now granted, the arresting
|
||
officer was young, inexperienced, and generaly behaving like many police
|
||
do. The Sergant had to book them because they had already been arrested
|
||
The family had to post bond, then get there car out of inpound (for
|
||
60$)...
|
||
|
||
To me this is a horror story, and it looks like the wave of the future
|
||
With road blocks becoming constitutional, and more morality laws being
|
||
innacted, we may soon be in a police state.
|
||
Pretty scary stuff.
|
||
Tree beard
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ANDREW
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Hiya
|
||
Date & Time: 06/20/90 09:48:07
|
||
Message Number 5979
|
||
|
||
I just thought Id say Aloha, this is my first time on this BBS
|
||
it looks great so far... see ya
|
||
Andrew
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: film
|
||
Date & Time: 06/20/90 13:50:51
|
||
Message Number 5982
|
||
|
||
A Turtle chock full 'o information? Sounds like it has great marketing
|
||
potential: Puzzled? Confused? Hopelessly adrift in a world where all
|
||
seems vague and uncertain? Call Turtle Chock Full O' Information
|
||
Services now. Fast, friendly responses to your most knotty questions.
|
||
Here's a sample:
|
||
|
||
Satisfied Customer: "How do I untie a Gordian knot?"
|
||
Turtle: "Use your sword, of course!"
|
||
Satisfied Customer: "Gee, thanks! I never would have thought of that!"
|
||
|
||
That's Turtle Chock Full O' Information Services, Inc. Call Now!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: God...
|
||
Date & Time: 06/20/90 15:44:01
|
||
Message Number 5983
|
||
|
||
Point taken! :> So, how've you been? It's safe to assume we haven't
|
||
spoken in a while. My computer had a first class heart attack.....
|
||
mother board bit rocks (Franklin, tm.). Anyhow....keep in touch!
|
||
-The Lady In Black
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: film
|
||
Date & Time: 06/21/90 17:28:30
|
||
Message Number 5987
|
||
|
||
Thanks for the answers... that really shed some light on the subject.
|
||
BUT, why can't they take splice the reel ends off where the two ends
|
||
meet? You don't really have to lose frames, do you??
|
||
Anyway, when Ken Ober and I are seeing Star Trek II at Litchfield with
|
||
about 15 others, when it gets over, I suggested that we ask to see the
|
||
projection booth. I think it will be an interesting and educational
|
||
experience... great, now I sound like a high school teacher.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TREE BEARD
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/21/90 17:33:04
|
||
Message Number 5988
|
||
|
||
> Pretty scary stuff.
|
||
|
||
Well, that may not have been the best way to deal with the beach
|
||
situation, but when you are not supposed to have pets, glass, or alcohol
|
||
on the beach and one family brings them ALL on the beach, something
|
||
should be done.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: SPE11WIND
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/21/90 19:27:42
|
||
Message Number 5989
|
||
|
||
|
||
....gee Mr. Science, was that before they changed the water?
|
||
|
||
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: SPE11WIND
|
||
Subject: Not FemTalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/21/90 19:29:04
|
||
Message Number 5990
|
||
|
||
Geeeeez, wish I could afford to set up a BBS.....<sigh>. Oh well,
|
||
I can barely find the time to be a user, let alone a sysop. What kind
|
||
of job are you lookin' for...I got a few 'connections' in the area.
|
||
Hope you get your keyboard fixed before your hands get addicted to
|
||
typing 1's and 0's instead of L's and O's....
|
||
|
||
I w0u1d 1ike t0 get a j0b at y0ur 10ve1y c0mapny as 10ng as
|
||
y0u d0n't make me use the keys t0 the right 0f the 'I' and the 'K'...
|
||
|
||
....would make for a 'cute' resume.....see ya'
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: NASA History
|
||
Date & Time: 06/21/90 19:35:50
|
||
Message Number 5991
|
||
|
||
I have a relative that worked on the Titan missles and the division
|
||
he worked for almost folded, until the Columbia oops. I think we'd be
|
||
better off if we had a division on science and govenment kinda like
|
||
what we've got between church and state. No taxes on space projects,
|
||
free reign...etc. We could have Praise The Launch TV shows (PTL...haha)
|
||
and raise more money then Uncle Sam has ever dropped into NASA's begging
|
||
cup. Maybe if we got Russia and US to get along, we could dump a few
|
||
bills into the space program that WEREN'T intended to used for military
|
||
weapons shortly down the road.......three, two, one......uhhhhhh
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/21/90 19:41:14
|
||
Message Number 5992
|
||
|
||
Unfortunately, a lot of the medical research is under the control
|
||
of <yuck>...businessmen. I have even heard rumors that if the doctors
|
||
discovered a cure for cancer, the American Cancer Society would have
|
||
them 'rubbed out' to keep their thousands of employees and millions of
|
||
governemt dollars rolling in. Someone even suggested that a cure for
|
||
cancer was discovered in the sixties, but it is too BIG a business now
|
||
to let it out. I think about all the people that mighta died in the
|
||
last few years to save the bottom line.......sh*t!!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 06/21/90 19:52:37
|
||
Message Number 5994
|
||
|
||
Okay Mr. Science, I need a little help. A computer at work woke up
|
||
dead the other day and when we sent it out for service, they had
|
||
replaced the hard disk (said the old one wasn't responding right and
|
||
they didn't have the equipment to service it). They yanked out the old
|
||
one a freind brought it back and gave it to me. It is a 40 mB, 977cyl,
|
||
5 head Magnetic Peripherals drive, P/N 40300. Yes for a PC compatable.
|
||
I took it home at hooked it up to my power supply and the motor runs and
|
||
when I hooked my cables up to it, the heads moved across the disk,
|
||
waited, moved out to the parked(?) position and the solenoid to lock the
|
||
heads kicked back in and the drive motor shut-off with the LED on the
|
||
front blinking on and off. Everything seems to be 'mechanically' okay,
|
||
but I'm no Hard Disk Man myself. Any ideas on what could be done to
|
||
fix 'er up? Also, my driver controller card has a flat cable run to the
|
||
floppies that both plugs come off one cable, but my hard disk only has
|
||
a single plug on its' cable. There is another power plug for another
|
||
disk drive...can I just get another cable to run another HD from my
|
||
card?......let me know, I'd like to take my memory hog PC up to
|
||
72Mb cheap if I can.....s'later
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
Subject: God...
|
||
Date & Time: 06/21/90 21:57:43
|
||
Message Number 5995
|
||
|
||
> Anyhow....keep in touch!
|
||
|
||
Gee, do I have to? Oh by the way, did you know that Bart is almost as
|
||
anal retentive as Turtle?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 06/21/90 22:08:07
|
||
Message Number 5996
|
||
|
||
1. Do you have one or two flat cables running to your hdd?
|
||
2. How many drive bays do you have, and how many are you using?
|
||
|
||
If you have a IBM PC, or another machine with full height floppy drives
|
||
count each drive bay as 2 bays (as one can mount 2 half height devices
|
||
in each). It should be relatively easy to add a second HDD to your
|
||
system, especially if you have a MFM or RLL hard disk in it now (as
|
||
these are the most common for ms-dos machines they are also fairly
|
||
inexpensive). -Raven
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TREE BEARD
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 03:43:29
|
||
Message Number 5997
|
||
|
||
Yes, I agree something should have been done.
|
||
|
||
A: They are from out of state and do not realize how backward
|
||
Sarasota can be.
|
||
|
||
B: It may be posted at points on the beach, but the ordaninces are
|
||
not posted at all paths to the beach.
|
||
|
||
C: I'm in a bad mood.
|
||
|
||
At the best, the officer could have issued a warning. Not arrested
|
||
the whole family (including a child). Or, the officer could have
|
||
written some tickets. But he did not have to arrest them. It is
|
||
illogical to have a state the depends on tourism for it's budjet to
|
||
send them home spreading tales of woe. What has to happen? A few
|
||
more dogs get shot? Or perhaps a kid cause he won't put down his
|
||
frizbee...
|
||
|
||
Treeee
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: MMA
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 11:32:36
|
||
Message Number 6000
|
||
|
||
HMmmmm...interesting. I think it's a neat name. I just use my initials.
|
||
So far about 3 people asked what the middle 'm' stood for. To save you
|
||
the trouble of asking,it stands for McDonald(no relation to the burger
|
||
clown)
|
||
I've never heard of a rotary slide rule. How did you come across it?
|
||
I also have a wild imagination,it's a little on the sick side though.
|
||
|
||
OJ (Obligatory Joke)
|
||
What do you do if you come across an elephant in the jungle?
|
||
|
||
Wipe it off,and say you're sorry.
|
||
'Bye,
|
||
MMA
|
||
(l-house)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BLACK MAGIC
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: God...
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 14:08:09
|
||
Message Number 6001
|
||
|
||
NO, CAN'T SAY THAT I DID....AND, NO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: * AKIRA STUFF *
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 18:34:13
|
||
Message Number 6002
|
||
|
||
Just to tell everyone, I have found in the AniMajic catalog 2 different
|
||
CD versions of the Akira soundtrack -- ALso, Akira is availible on VHS
|
||
tape for about $95 -- I wonder if that is translated, or atleast
|
||
sub-titled -- They don't say much about the videos -- I should call and
|
||
find out -- ANyways, I think the soundtrack was $24.95 -- If anyone
|
||
wants information, I can find it for 'em...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: * AKIRA STUFF *
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 18:37:33
|
||
Message Number 6003
|
||
|
||
Most of Animagic's stuff is direct from Japan; if it's not indicated as
|
||
subtitled, it probably isn't (there /is/ a subtitled version of it out
|
||
there but it's not an "official" release as far as I know). Streamline
|
||
Pictures, the company that produced the English language version of
|
||
Akira, has indicated they are planning to release it and other Japanese
|
||
movies they own the English-language rights to in translated versions on
|
||
videotape and videodisc, but nothing definite has been set. But at
|
||
any rate, if you order from Animagic, Anime Mart or one of the other
|
||
import places, be prepared to get an original copy of whatever you
|
||
ordered in the exact form a Japanese consumer would if they walked into
|
||
the Japanese equivalent of Camelot or Blockbuster Video, not one that
|
||
has been even slightly repackaged for American audiences....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: film
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 19:52:09
|
||
Message Number 6004
|
||
|
||
Let me try this...
|
||
Often befudled Rufus: "Just what's a Gordian knot? Is that like when
|
||
you mess up tying your shoe and it gets a really tight knot in it?"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 19:55:20
|
||
Message Number 6005
|
||
|
||
I've heard similiar (sp?) stories about an engine that got really good
|
||
milage (like 100 mpg) but the oil companies paid the inventor off or
|
||
something like that. I don't know how true it is, but I have heard it
|
||
from several different people.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 19:57:10
|
||
Message Number 6006
|
||
|
||
>automation design engineer
|
||
|
||
Huh? What exactly is that? You work on automating things I guess?
|
||
I'm thinking of engineering as a major. Most likely mechanical with
|
||
a discipline in bioengineering.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 23:33:14
|
||
Message Number 6008
|
||
|
||
The hard disk I presently have is a Seagate 32Mb HD and it has two flat
|
||
ribbon cables running to it (I think one is a 10 and one is a 17
|
||
conductor). I have two floppies (3.5HD and 5.25HD) and an open bay for
|
||
another hard disk. There is an open male pin connector port on my
|
||
controller card(I think it was for 10 conductor), but no open port
|
||
for the 17 conductor. I have a hard disk, the cabling requirements
|
||
match the one I presently have, but I can't get it to run. I think
|
||
my first problem is to debug the drive but I ain't no HD wizz. The
|
||
one I picked up lists in mail-order houses for about $595, so I'd like
|
||
to fix it if possible....thanx
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: MMA
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 23:39:56
|
||
Message Number 6009
|
||
|
||
It wasn't an effort to come across it, at the time the only portable
|
||
calculators cost $$$$$ and were not allowed in class, so my Prof
|
||
went out and bought these for everyone. It works the same as a linear
|
||
rule, except its made as a dial on a plastic card, accurate to as many
|
||
as one significant decimal places....haha.
|
||
|
||
OJ If you helped your Uncle Jack on a horse,
|
||
would you help you Uncle Jack off a horse?
|
||
|
||
'Bye back atcha.....ssssssSNAKEBYTE . .
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: godtalk
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 23:44:45
|
||
Message Number 6010
|
||
|
||
Hmmmm. we must be on the same wave length here. I was trying to tell
|
||
you about that mpg story, but I typed carburetor about ten times and
|
||
couldn't even spell it good enough to not laugh at it (yes, I'm a
|
||
crappy speller and I looked it up this time), so I left it out of
|
||
my posting. Unfortunately, I've heard just as many stories about Elvis
|
||
being alive, soooooo I don't know what to beleive any more. If its in
|
||
print "It's gotta be true". I believe the mpg stories. The oil companies
|
||
run a lot more stuff in this country then we know about. I heard that in
|
||
the late 60's/early 70's, that because Russia was using a lot of IBM
|
||
stuff in their military program, that IBM Service Parts Division had
|
||
more clout with the USSR government then the US government. What a world
|
||
eh?......
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 06/22/90 23:50:18
|
||
Message Number 6011
|
||
|
||
>automation design engineer <?>
|
||
|
||
Well, that is what my 'background' is in. My college education was in
|
||
Marine Biology. Okay, Automation Design Engineer...we design automatic
|
||
assembly systems with robotics, pick-and-place equipment, PLC controls,
|
||
servos....etc,etc to manufacture or assemble industrial products from
|
||
printed circuit boards to typewriters automatically. Sometimes they are
|
||
small machines (10' square) other times they are full factory systems
|
||
(ie- the entire plant for IBM Lexington, KY to assemble, test and
|
||
package the Selectric Typewriters from rough/raw components into the
|
||
finished product). Right now I am in charge of the CAD group and work
|
||
closely with R&D for a company manufacturing pouch form-fill-& seal
|
||
equipment and related components. It's not big into hi-tech automation,
|
||
but the packaging industry is a little behind others, so the potential
|
||
for growth is GREAT. I still dabble in robotics and automation systems
|
||
on the side. Mechanical Engineering is fun, but if you deside to take
|
||
it up, do everything you can to get hands-on experience. Too many
|
||
engineers are book-smart and practical-stupid.
|
||
|
||
Automate, emmigrate or evaporate..... (President of GE)
|
||
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 06/23/90 01:06:35
|
||
Message Number 6012
|
||
|
||
Next year I have an externship which will count for one high school
|
||
credit. All I need to do now is find either a mechanical engineer or
|
||
someone who designs prosthetics (that's what I'd really like to do).
|
||
I've always been into hands-on stuff. For instance, I learned just
|
||
what sulfuric acid can do when you get it on your hands! :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: MMA
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: jokes
|
||
Date & Time: 06/23/90 01:57:55
|
||
Message Number 6013
|
||
|
||
Here are a few jokes that I just downloaded from A.U.B.
|
||
|
||
What do you have when you have two little green balls in your hand?
|
||
Kermit's undivided attention.
|
||
|
||
What has 30,000 fee,and still can't walk?
|
||
Jerry's kids
|
||
|
||
How many polacks does it take to make chocolate chip cookies?
|
||
20. 1 to mix the batter and 19 to peel the M&Ms.
|
||
|
||
Here's a poem to tell your ex-girlfriend (I know you're married,but I
|
||
hope you like it anyway.)
|
||
Roses are red
|
||
the night is black
|
||
Why is your chest as flat as your back.
|
||
|
||
Not knowing what you like,I hope that these don't offend you.
|
||
|
||
M
|
||
M
|
||
A
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: film
|
||
Date & Time: 06/23/90 19:15:36
|
||
Message Number 6017
|
||
|
||
Once the film has been spliced, you can't splice the same frame again;
|
||
if you put two layers of tape on the film, it won't go through the
|
||
projector very well...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/23/90 19:17:42
|
||
Message Number 6018
|
||
|
||
>...[if] one family brings them ALL on the beach, something should be
|
||
>done.
|
||
|
||
Yeah, something like making less oppressive, anal-retentive laws about
|
||
what you can't do on the beach. A list of two hundred and seventeen
|
||
activities which are banned on public beaches, aech of which is followed
|
||
with "Violators will be persecuted," is not conducive to enjoyment of
|
||
public beaches--even if it DOES prevent people from seeing anything
|
||
they might not like.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 06/23/90 19:25:23
|
||
Message Number 6019
|
||
|
||
From what you described, it sounds like there's an error in the
|
||
hard disk controller, rather than the drive itself...possibly the
|
||
controller can't recognize that drive. Can you get it to do anything
|
||
/besides/ park the heads? (IE, when you fire it up, will it try to
|
||
seek Cylinder 0 before it parks 'em, or does it just sit there
|
||
frantically blinking its light?) It's possble that the drive is too
|
||
slow for the controller, or that the drive isn't communicating with
|
||
the controller correctly, or that the controller can't tell when the
|
||
drive is at cylinder 0...but these are primarily guesswork. Any more
|
||
info you can give me would help; also, you might want to ask Raven
|
||
about it...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: film
|
||
Date & Time: 06/23/90 19:34:04
|
||
Message Number 6020
|
||
|
||
Just what is a Gordian knot? Rufus, I'm ashamed of you! Go back and
|
||
re-read your history books, NOW. (Hint: Look up the life and times
|
||
of Alexander the Great.)
|
||
|
||
...go ahead, I'll wait.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: EPA & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/23/90 19:35:59
|
||
Message Number 6021
|
||
|
||
I've heard (apocryphally) of a mythical "100-miles-per" engine that
|
||
got buried by the oil companies, and think they're mostly paranoid
|
||
bunk. To start with, a car manufacturer (particularly a foreign
|
||
manufacturer, I suspect) would stand to make a LOT of money from
|
||
such a device, and the oil companies themselves wouldn't have a great
|
||
deal of say in the matter. Automotive manufacturers themselves
|
||
don't have any stake in making sure their products guzzle gas;
|
||
they aren't the ones who profit by them. Secondly, I suspect that if
|
||
there were such a device, it would probably have been replicated by
|
||
now. There are certain practical limitations on the efficiency of
|
||
any internal combustion engine, and it's difficult to imagine a
|
||
gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine capable of driving a car
|
||
and getting 100 miles per gallon unless it's going downhill
|
||
with a brisk tailwind.
|
||
...oh well.
|
||
--A realistic Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 06/23/90 19:45:57
|
||
Message Number 6022
|
||
|
||
>I still dabble in robotics and automation systems on the side.
|
||
|
||
Really? Damn, I have a friend in Ft. Myers who's really big into
|
||
armchair engineering--he's been building robots and whatnot since
|
||
he was in high school. He builds some pretty impressive stuff. Right
|
||
now he's self-employed and fabricates signs and stuff from plastics,
|
||
and builds some /really/ bizzare robots out of some of the plastics he
|
||
works with. Kind of an interesting hobby...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/23/90 20:12:52
|
||
Message Number 6025
|
||
|
||
> A list of two hundred and seventeen activities... even if it does
|
||
> prevent people from seeing anything they might not like.
|
||
|
||
Well, that is true, but my idea of enjoying the beach isn't like
|
||
everyone elses. Neither is any particular person's idea. I just don't
|
||
want to go to the beach and step in doggie-doo or cut myself on glass.
|
||
Why some beach doesn't allow frisbees, I don't know. What I DO know is
|
||
that I can't stand the beach with cigarette butts all over in the sand.
|
||
It looks sick and I do not want to walk or sit on them, much less have
|
||
them stick to my sandy, wet feet. Alcohol on the beach, maybe, but I
|
||
don't like drunk people either.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Engine
|
||
Date & Time: 06/23/90 20:34:21
|
||
Message Number 6026
|
||
|
||
Yes, the engine I heard of ran off of propane and steam and could
|
||
get up to 100 and something MPH on only two cylendars.....
|
||
|
||
-- Hidehoheho! --
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/24/90 10:25:37
|
||
Message Number 6029
|
||
|
||
Although I haven't been there lately, Clearwater beach used to do
|
||
it pretty well. There's a big pier that divides the beach, and on one
|
||
side you have music, frisbees, beer, babes, football, whatever, and
|
||
on the other side it's a bit more sedate and oriented to an older
|
||
crowd. Personally, I prefer to hit Turtle Beach (tthanks turtle) about
|
||
7 am Sunday with my paper and a jug of coffee, then when the yankees
|
||
and bluehairs start showing up I head for my AC, TV, and modem.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Engine
|
||
Date & Time: 06/24/90 10:32:03
|
||
Message Number 6030
|
||
|
||
I heard that the mars launch vehicle will be powered with two AA
|
||
batteries - energizers of course....
|
||
Also - Henry Ford is alive and well and living in Lee Ioccocas R&D lab.
|
||
Also - JFK jr and wally mondale will be the next Democratic ticket
|
||
Also - We'll come up with a subject turtle doesn't know anything about..
|
||
Nah, THAT'll never happpen
|
||
A Sunday BBQ Thrud
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/24/90 19:54:51
|
||
Message Number 6031
|
||
|
||
Those bastards, those dirty bastards. They expect me to wait around
|
||
all summer to see what happens? Those dirty bastards...
|
||
|
||
|
||
...at least the Borg [gee, where'd they get that name] could've
|
||
given Jean-Luc some hair.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 06/24/90 21:03:05
|
||
Message Number 6032
|
||
|
||
You prob. have either a st-238r or st138r hard drive. The R stands for
|
||
RLL (Run Length Limited), an encoding method which allows 1.5x the data
|
||
to be stored on the drive. The cables to the drive should actually be
|
||
20 and 34 conductor each (but every other line is probably ground). It
|
||
is a simple matter to ad another drive to your system, and another 30
|
||
meg drive should be _less_ than $595 (I see 40meg drives retail for
|
||
less than that installed). Give me a call some weekday between 7p and
|
||
1a, or even tonight. My number will be posted in e-mail (M frim the
|
||
main menu, oops, that's from).
|
||
-Raven-
|
||
ps. I also know some good disk drive repair places.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: EPA & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/24/90 21:18:40
|
||
Message Number 6034
|
||
|
||
I believe the world record is about 300mpg, but the vehicle had a top
|
||
speed of about 30 mph. It can be done, but who wants to ride a gocart
|
||
to work. -R
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RAVEN
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 06/24/90 21:21:39
|
||
Message Number 6035
|
||
|
||
There is an individual from nc who would be quite interested in this
|
||
thread, as he is doing a robotics thesis.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TREE BEARD
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: engines
|
||
Date & Time: 06/24/90 22:02:23
|
||
Message Number 6036
|
||
|
||
The problem with those engines is that they accelerate and go too slow..
|
||
remember the first sub-compact cars? They could get 50mpg highway.
|
||
If you read Popular Science March issue I think, they have carbon fiber
|
||
and other composites to make engine prototypes that are extremely light
|
||
and fast... besides being fuel efficiant.
|
||
|
||
On another note, remeber the first light bulbs? There is still
|
||
one hanging in a firestation. It's been burning since Edison made it...
|
||
thats quite a few hours. Now your lucky to get a light bulb to last a
|
||
year.
|
||
|
||
Upp, my warrenties up on my computer
|
||
bye... trkj2948uydosif
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: MNP Lev 5 & Me.
|
||
Date & Time: 06/24/90 22:55:16
|
||
Message Number 6037
|
||
|
||
Okay, I have run into some extra money that I can use for computer
|
||
stuff....(About $300) -- I have a few choices of what I can do with
|
||
it...
|
||
|
||
1) Save it for a Hard Drive and wait until I get about $200 more...
|
||
|
||
2) Purchase a cheap used SCSI interface and hope to find a cheap used
|
||
HD (Maybe even 10 Megs or something like that) to go with it...
|
||
|
||
3) [This one involves waiting until Christmas for a Hard Drive.]
|
||
Purchase a Supra Modem Plus for $129 .... This is a 2400 Baud
|
||
modem with V.42bis (!?) and MNP levels 2-5 (!?) error-correction
|
||
and data-compression ... The (!?) mean that I know nothing about what
|
||
these are, how easy they are to use, what they can be used with, or
|
||
much else for that matter ... ALl I know is that it gives me 9600 Baud
|
||
throughput when I'm calling a modem with the same protocols...Can
|
||
you (or anyone else) describe these to me a little bit -- And can the
|
||
9600 baud be used with most BBSes I call that have 9600 baud or higher?
|
||
(Eg -- /MANY/ boards that I transfer files to and from use Courier HST's
|
||
that get 19.2 K-Baud ... Can I get the 9600 Baud with those?)
|
||
|
||
I'd really like to get the modem, but if you don't think it is a good
|
||
deal, worth it, etc.. Then tell me which of the first 2 would be the
|
||
best idea...
|
||
|
||
Thanks...
|
||
|
||
-Ken Ober
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: My BBS
|
||
Date & Time: 06/24/90 23:05:59
|
||
Message Number 6038
|
||
|
||
My BBS (The ABRACADABRA BBS -- 813/378-2218 -- 8-N-1-2400) Still
|
||
has not gotten Paragon yet! I'm out of answers for everyone because
|
||
I have again lost contact with the author of the software! He's gone
|
||
into "It's time to take all the phones off the hook, lock myself in my
|
||
computer den and program the BBS" mode....This usually results in him
|
||
being un-reachable for a few weeks, and him announcing a version of the
|
||
BBS that is about 20 version numbers higher than the earlier relase. :)
|
||
|
||
Anyways, he /said/ he was sending out Paragon monday .. I /assumed/ that
|
||
meant last Monday -- SO I will /assume/ he has not sent it for one
|
||
reason or another...I will inform everyone when I get ahold of him
|
||
again...It should be in a few days -- ANywyas, keep my BBS in your
|
||
dialing directories! I SHALL RETURN! :) hehehehehe...
|
||
|
||
-Ken Ober
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:02:33
|
||
Message Number 6039
|
||
|
||
Prosthetics?!?! Wow, now that would be an interesting feild. If you
|
||
like that, my REAL dream was (and still is) to apply my engineering
|
||
skills and my imagination towards film animation (robotics for movies,
|
||
sci-fi special effects...etc). I guess if you could design an artificial
|
||
limb, you could design one for Godzilla....haha
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: MMA
|
||
Subject: jokes
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:05:38
|
||
Message Number 6040
|
||
|
||
.....(cont. from page 1)
|
||
|
||
Why doesn't Santa have any children?
|
||
He only comes once a year and that's down a chimney.
|
||
|
||
Why do women have legs?
|
||
So they don't leave a trail like a slug when they walk.
|
||
|
||
What's the difference between a truck load of bowling balls and
|
||
a truck load of dead babies?
|
||
You can't unload the bowling balls with a pitch fork.
|
||
|
||
....welp, you tell ME if you think you offended me.....
|
||
(hope I didn't offend you.......haha)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:10:28
|
||
Message Number 6041
|
||
|
||
It seeks Cylinder 0 before it parks and mechanically appears to be
|
||
functioning fine. The unit was in a PC at work and did the same thing
|
||
there as it does at home (and at home it was cabled into my existing
|
||
HD cabling which runs my 32Mb Seagate fine). It was functioning okay
|
||
at work until a couple weeks ago, just woke up dead. Are you referring
|
||
to the controller card in my PC or the controls circuitry that is
|
||
mounted directly to the HD? Do you know anyone that really knows
|
||
hard disks and could possibly take a look at it for me? ....Raven??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:14:31
|
||
Message Number 6042
|
||
|
||
My 'dabbling' has also landed me a trouble a few times. I worked for
|
||
an outfit in North Carolina and we designed and built a dual-headed
|
||
NC Router for a wood-working outfit. Before it was shipped I snuck in
|
||
and re-programmed it to router out team plaques for all the top NCAA
|
||
basketball teams (including logos) and had cut a ton of plaques. I forgo
|
||
to re-program in all the production routines and on Monday, my software
|
||
and some 'missed' plaques were found in the plant....ooops. Oh well, it
|
||
didn't hurt for tooooo long....
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:19:05
|
||
Message Number 6043
|
||
|
||
Thanks, I'll be taking you up on that.........
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: HD Help
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:23:57
|
||
Message Number 6044
|
||
|
||
It's a little late right now so I'll try and get in touch tomorrow.
|
||
If you get near a phone during the day, I can be reached at 359-4027.
|
||
That number goes directly to the phone on my desk at work. If it doesn't
|
||
get answered after about 6 rings, hang-up because I'm not at my desk and
|
||
it will be transferring you to the operator......s'later
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: SEARCH.....
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:34:33
|
||
Message Number 6046
|
||
|
||
A scan can't be terminated once it's started, an unfortunate misfeature
|
||
in this rather pathetic excuse for BBS software. It didn't really
|
||
hang on you; it just searched backward through ALL the messages in the
|
||
file (right now that's about 1,200 messages) using a text-search
|
||
algorithm written in FORTRAN 66 that's capable of searching maybe 10
|
||
messages a second. It can take a LONG time to scan all the messages...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:37:17
|
||
Message Number 6047
|
||
|
||
>Why some beaches don't allow frisbees, I don't know.
|
||
|
||
That's an easy one...fear that the county will be sued if someone gets
|
||
klonked in the head with aplastic disk, causing him to drop his glasses.
|
||
|
||
>...I can't STAND a beach with cigarette butts all over the sand. It
|
||
>looks sick...
|
||
|
||
...so that's a good reason to ban smoking on a beach, neh? And if you
|
||
think T-back bikinis look sick, why, ban them, too! And while you're
|
||
at it, if you think that bikinis in general look sick, well, get rid
|
||
of 'em. Come to think of it, there are some one-piece designs that
|
||
are rather revealing and might be considered sick...better get rid of
|
||
them while we're at it. Banning something because you think it "looks
|
||
sick" is not a good idea, regardless of how good your intentions are
|
||
or how liberal your views on other people's objectionable whatever are.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RAVEN
|
||
Subject: EPA & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:43:44
|
||
Message Number 6048
|
||
|
||
>I believe the world record is about 300mpg, but the vehicle had a top
|
||
>speed of about 30 mph.
|
||
|
||
Could it carry more than one rider? Also, was it a gasoline-burning
|
||
engine? Small four-stroke engines can get /really/ high mileage when
|
||
they're propelling a total of, say, two hundred pounds at thirty miles
|
||
per hour, sure, especially when they're running on something like
|
||
top fuel or propane. There are, in fact, things you can do to more
|
||
conventional gasoline engines to make them fuel-efficient (my Honda
|
||
Civic had a 1.5-liter four in it that got almost sixty miles per,
|
||
thanks to the fact that it used vector-controlled combustion, but
|
||
Honda's got an airtight patent on CVCC engines...) I don't think you're
|
||
gonna get a hundred miles per on a reasonably-sized passenger vehicle
|
||
with a gasoline-burning engine, though.
|
||
On an unrelated note, John Deere is now manufacturing a small IC
|
||
engine for the military for use in second-generation generators that's a
|
||
miracle of efficiency. The engine generates abut sixty horses, burns
|
||
just about any flammable liquid (gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, Type A
|
||
jet fuel, liquid propane, top fuel, you name it), and fits in a bowling
|
||
bag. It's a scavenging engine that uses a modification of vector-
|
||
controlled combustion to ignite the fuel in the cylinders. It's not very
|
||
practical for vehicles, though; it's /real/ expensive and its RPM range
|
||
is rather limited.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: TREE BEARD
|
||
Subject: Light bulbs
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:52:12
|
||
Message Number 6049
|
||
|
||
>Remember the first light bulbs? There is still one hanging in a
|
||
>firestation. It's been burning since Edison made it...
|
||
|
||
There's a couple of 'em in Edison's winter home in Ft. Myers, too.
|
||
They glow with a dim red light and provide about 7 candlepower of
|
||
illumination... :) GE makes a whole bunch of light bulbs for specialized
|
||
non-consumer applications that have amazing life expectancies, like the
|
||
67.5-watt bulbs used in traffic lights that have a life expectancy of
|
||
over 15,000 hours of constant on-off-on-off (which is kind of hard on
|
||
light bulbs). There isn't any percentage in making 'em for consumer
|
||
use, though, any more than there's a percentage in making lithium
|
||
flashlight batteries (sure they'd cost ten bucks for two "D" cells,
|
||
but they'd also last for about seven years in normal operation...)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: MNP Lev 5 & Me.
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:57:40
|
||
Message Number 6050
|
||
|
||
V.42bis is a data compression algorithm, and MNP is an error-correction/
|
||
data-compression protocol. These both can give you an effective through-
|
||
put of 9600 baud if you're talking to another modem that's doing
|
||
V.42bis or MNP 5, but that doesn't mean you're connected at 9600 baud;
|
||
what that means is that if you're sending a bunch of stuff, the modem
|
||
will use data compression on it (kinda like what happens when you
|
||
archive a file), send it at 2400 baud, and then uncompress it at the
|
||
other end. So you're still talking at 2400 baud, but it takes the same
|
||
amount of time to send, say, a text file as it would if you sent it at
|
||
9600 baud without compressing it. (If you're sending data that are
|
||
already compressed, the effective speed difference won't be nearly as
|
||
great). No, you can't talk to HST modems at 9600 baud; you are still
|
||
only talking at 2400, and if the HST modem doesn't do MNP you're talking
|
||
at plain old ordinary 2400 at that.
|
||
|
||
Myself, I'd recommend saving for a hard drive, particularly if you're
|
||
planning to go Fido with the bulletin board. You already have a 2400
|
||
baud modem, and not all that many people do MNP, comparatively speaking
|
||
...and even fewer still do V.42bis. (Besides, there are also programs
|
||
floating around, although I don't know if they're available for
|
||
AmigaDOS, that do V.42bis in software.)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 01:05:37
|
||
Message Number 6051
|
||
|
||
If it's seeking Cylinder 0 and then parking, I'd say that for some
|
||
reason the drive itself can't tell when it's at Cylinder 0, but
|
||
your guess is as good as mine as to why. First guess--the mechanical
|
||
sensor in the head-positioning assembly is out of alignment or other-
|
||
wise farkled. Since it's not working with any controller, I'd say it's
|
||
likely not the controller... :) (Good diagnostics, huh?) I'd also
|
||
suggest getting Raven to look at it (oh, Raveeeeen...), since after
|
||
all he does service the -deleted- things for a living...I'm not
|
||
all that "up" on diagnosing weird HD problems, particularly sight-
|
||
unseen.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 09:49:15
|
||
Message Number 6052
|
||
|
||
Dirty bastards ? Methinks you're too kind to the Denubian scumsucking
|
||
incestuaous bilge-drinking dipshits. If you heard a scream from North
|
||
Sarasota at 7:59, that was me. It's gonna be a long summer.
|
||
So what'll happen now? Will Riker destroy the Borg? Will Q come and
|
||
save the day? Will Jean-Luc (Lucutis of Borg) destroy the Federation,
|
||
or will our chrome domed hero prove to be more than the Borg can handle?
|
||
Will Wesley get laid ? (not a chance)
|
||
Incidently, my brother in law is here from Michigan, and he tells
|
||
me that they see new episodes SIX DAYS before us ! What the hell are
|
||
we, second class citizens - or is channel 44 a second class operation ?
|
||
A Thrud in a Quandry - or is that a nebula ?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: MMA
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: uncle jack
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 11:08:48
|
||
Message Number 6053
|
||
|
||
NO! I wouldn't help my uncle jack off the horse! I'll let him just fall
|
||
off!
|
||
MMA
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: MMA
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: jokes
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 11:12:49
|
||
Message Number 6054
|
||
|
||
I liked the one about santa! I've seen the others before,they're good
|
||
too.
|
||
|
||
What's more amazing than Moby's dick?
|
||
Lucille's balls
|
||
|
||
Why do female parachutists wear tampons?
|
||
so they don't whistle on the way down!
|
||
|
||
Little miss muffet sat on her tuffet,eating her curds and whey.
|
||
Along came a spider,who sat down beside her and said:
|
||
"WHAT'S IN THE BOWL B*TCH?!"
|
||
|
||
What do you call a designer condom?
|
||
Sergio Prevente'
|
||
|
||
Did you hear about the new car for teenagers?
|
||
It's called the C. Everet Coupe Deville. There are no back seats.
|
||
|
||
MMA
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 13:11:00
|
||
Message Number 6055
|
||
|
||
> Those bastards, those dirty bastards.
|
||
|
||
At least they gave us a good episode. I hope someone gets Riker to
|
||
take a command. I'm really beginning to hate seeing him. He has bags
|
||
under his eyes and he's getting plumper faster than William Shatner.
|
||
Let's hope if he stays that he keeps his hair, we don't want more dumb
|
||
looking toupees.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: MNP Lev 5 & Me.
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 13:15:17
|
||
Message Number 6056
|
||
|
||
You see, choices one and two would benefit the users of your BBS and
|
||
allow expanded message capability. Choice 3 would benefit yourself just
|
||
about exclusively. I don't think anyone around here has 9600 baud, so
|
||
who could call you at it. Then again, if you think that it's a really
|
||
good deal... it's your money, but why do you want people to tell you how
|
||
to spend it?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 13:18:43
|
||
Message Number 6057
|
||
|
||
> robotics for movies, sci-fi special effects...etc
|
||
|
||
Hey, when I reach my dream (being a director in the Spielberg/Zemeckis
|
||
vein), I'll give you a call!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 13:22:38
|
||
Message Number 6058
|
||
|
||
> Banning something because it "looks sick" is not a good idea,...
|
||
|
||
Hey, I did NOT use the word "ban" in my message, it's not even in your
|
||
quote from my message. All I'm saying is that someone should find a way
|
||
to keep their litter (butts) off the beach. Compare it to something else
|
||
I said. I say that people should be allowed to take glass bottles on the
|
||
beach as long as I don't step on them.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 13:27:59
|
||
Message Number 6059
|
||
|
||
> ...they see new episodes SIX DAYS before us !
|
||
|
||
OOh, the wonders of syndication!! Each station tapes the episode on a
|
||
pre-feed (eight days before we get it) and shows it any day in the next
|
||
week. Since weekends are usually more open to weekly syndicated shows,
|
||
and because Sunday has high viewership, Ch. 44 does ST:TNG on Sunday
|
||
night.
|
||
|
||
Incidentally, I will have access to the conclusion airdate through
|
||
Quantum Link. When I find it, I can access the eight-day early pre-feed
|
||
and see it before you AND your brother-in-law. Guess I'm a first class
|
||
citezen, eh??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Convention!
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 13:35:23
|
||
Message Number 6060
|
||
|
||
News Flash! (Well, not really)
|
||
|
||
Ken Ober and I are planning on attending the Trekfest convention in
|
||
Tampa on July 8. It is also running July 7. It will be held at the
|
||
Holliday Inn Tampa Airport (which I heard is near the Fox's house).
|
||
Guest will be James "Scotty" Doohan. Question and answer sessions will
|
||
be both days at 1 PM. Autographs will be given at 3 PM. Trivia games
|
||
will be played with prizes to be awarded. Door prizes will be awarded.
|
||
Bloopers and episodes will be run. There (of course) will be a dealer's
|
||
room. There probably will be at least one other guest. Admission is $12
|
||
for one day and $20 for two days. This IS NOT a Vulkon convention! Who
|
||
else is interested in going??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Hard Drives
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 14:27:49
|
||
Message Number 6061
|
||
|
||
Okay, do you think I could find a used Hard Drive (without controller)
|
||
for $150 or around there -- All it must be is SCSI ... any meg value...
|
||
See, I have come across a /very/ cheap HD controller, and if I can find
|
||
and equally cheap HD I can still have money left over for RAM expansion!
|
||
|
||
Amazing, eh?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: MNP Lev 5 & Me.
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 14:31:04
|
||
Message Number 6062
|
||
|
||
> why do you want people to tell you how to spend it?
|
||
|
||
Because when /I/ decide how to spend it, I do it stupidly... (Eg --
|
||
Turtle Comics..) And it usually doesn't benefit the people on my BBS
|
||
or anyone else for that matter, very much....Again, I'm looking
|
||
for ANY CHEAP SCSI HARD DRIVE FOR $150 OR LESS! If you have it, or
|
||
know of anyone who has it -- TELL ME ASAP! Any megabyte will do,
|
||
What I am trying to do, is be able to get the HD with the memory
|
||
expansion -- If I can't find it for fairly cheap, I'm just going to
|
||
purchase the memory expansion now and think about the HD later....
|
||
(The expansion I am purchasing will bring my total RAM count up to
|
||
1.5 Megabytes...)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 16:43:23
|
||
Message Number 6063
|
||
|
||
Next season's Star Trek lineup: Riker is commander of the Enterprise,
|
||
the nasty, bad-tempered young lady is his first officer, and
|
||
Decks 6 through 16 of the saucer are uninhabitable due to radiation
|
||
contamination incurred during the battle with the Rubik's Cube of
|
||
Doom. Picard is floating space-dust; the only thing left of him is
|
||
the neat-O laser the Borg grafted for unknown reasons to the
|
||
side of his face as a special effect. Wesley has it out with Riker,
|
||
ends up in bed with Troi, and dies a week later of acute embarrassment
|
||
when someone else beats him to the punch and saves the Enterprise
|
||
before he does. Meanwhile, The Weekly Galaxy News reports that a
|
||
party of Denubians saw the ghost of Captain Kirk in a Circle-K,
|
||
near the frozen foods, and that he was last seen running off through
|
||
the ionosphere with the ghost of Elvis and a "weird green chick."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/25/90 16:49:39
|
||
Message Number 6064
|
||
|
||
I know, I know, I was just pointing out the kind of mindset that results
|
||
in silliness like bans on T-backs and whatnot. I wasn't actually
|
||
accusing you of /having/ that mindset; I was simply (trying to)
|
||
illustrate how a personal distaste can end up expressing itself as
|
||
repression if you aren't careful. *Sigh*...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ANGEL
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: ....
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 00:57:39
|
||
Message Number 6065
|
||
|
||
Angel grabs a piano roll from the box at random and loads it into
|
||
the player. The song, (March of the Siamese Children) begins to fill
|
||
the bar, successfully covering the grumblings of the confused Turtle.
|
||
Receiving her drink from Xon, Angel sits beside the charmingly
|
||
befuddled reptile.
|
||
"Sounds as if I've missed some interesting arrivals in my short
|
||
absense. This locale seems to be a nexus of mystery. Catch me up
|
||
on the gossip; or, if not, I'll play another song. Any requests?"
|
||
Before Turtle could ask if she knew how to play "Far, Far Away" she
|
||
continued. "I've been rather busy myself this morning. Besides
|
||
settling that bit of unpleasantness with the authorities, I've
|
||
started to straighten my financial situation. I'm rather flush now
|
||
after collecting on Cartwright's insurance policy. So I've done a
|
||
bit of shopping. You like the new outfit? And, of course, the piano
|
||
you've already noticed. Oh, and I must have you out to see the
|
||
ship. She's a beauty."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: EPA & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 01:17:19
|
||
Message Number 6066
|
||
|
||
O.K. You bashed me for not knowing what a Gordian knot was [watch it,
|
||
I could have said "knot knowing..."], so explain vector-controlled
|
||
combustion is.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 01:20:56
|
||
Message Number 6067
|
||
|
||
Beatle sees them a week early (of course, he does have a dish). My
|
||
friend got a call at about 7:59 p.m. and the first words out of the
|
||
handset were "What's this 'To be continued' shit?!" I myself am
|
||
still debating as to what I'd like to see.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 01:24:49
|
||
Message Number 6068
|
||
|
||
So, what's this I hear about the "Star Trek Conclusion Episode" party
|
||
at your house? :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RICHARD
|
||
To: SPE11WIND
|
||
Subject: n
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 10:15:13
|
||
Message Number 6069
|
||
|
||
when he does, god help us all, we are in a mess now, what would it be wi
|
||
th him in office, help!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RICHARD
|
||
To: JONBOY
|
||
Subject: n
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 10:24:51
|
||
Message Number 6070
|
||
|
||
In Bradenton they still are 18 inches long.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RICHARD
|
||
To: CRYSTAL
|
||
Subject: n
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 10:45:38
|
||
Message Number 6071
|
||
|
||
Great story, but I still laugh,
|
||
when I think of the two garbage
|
||
men in the park!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: YNGLING
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Morality & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 17:21:38
|
||
Message Number 6072
|
||
|
||
Turtle -
|
||
FYI ( as if anyone really cares) - the anti-frisbee ordinance is /not/
|
||
because the County is afraid of lawsuits...I do not know why it exists
|
||
but /that/ isnt the reason. If you were on the beach and someone hit
|
||
you w/ a frisbee the County would have no liability. The County's
|
||
duty owed to you while you are using a public beach is to correct any
|
||
/known/ hazards and warn of any /known/ hazards. A frisbee is not a
|
||
known hazard unless someone calls the County and complains of that
|
||
particular frisbee prior to it striking you...and then only if the
|
||
complaint is in regards to the frisbee being a source of injury or
|
||
property damage.
|
||
The Yngling
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 20:35:44
|
||
Message Number 6074
|
||
|
||
A cliff hanger resolution party at your place ? Make it so. I'll bring
|
||
some Romulan ale (I had it smuggled across the neutral Zone) and a
|
||
genuine Deana Troi vibrating pillow - love the cleavage queen. Jeez,
|
||
I hope my wife doesn't go into labor during the first show of the
|
||
season - she might not understand when I choose to watch our bald
|
||
headed champion save sector 001 rather than coach her breathing.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: C.C.A.
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: Meaning
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 21:43:26
|
||
Message Number 6075
|
||
|
||
There is a pretty long story, but to make it simple, my spacebar
|
||
doesn't work(right now I'm using a joystick's FIRE button) so I
|
||
couldn't use my normal handle.
|
||
|
||
At the time I had >a Reader's Digest in front of me and one article was
|
||
called "Castro, Cocaine, and the Atom bomb" hence the initials C.C.A.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: EPA & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/26/90 23:38:33
|
||
Message Number 6076
|
||
|
||
AARGH! Oh benighted Rufus, doth thou know ANYTHING? Vector-controlled
|
||
combustion is a scheme by which the gasoline/air mixture in an
|
||
engine's combustion chamber isn't ignited by a spark, it's ignited by a
|
||
flame. What happens is this: you have two separate carburetion
|
||
circuits for the engine, and every cylinder has a tiny combustion
|
||
chamber off to one side, with the spark plug screwed into it. On each
|
||
cycle, you put a small amount of very rich fuel mixture into the
|
||
auxiliary chamber, and a normal amount of very lean fuel mixture into
|
||
the cylinder. The spark ignites the rich mixture, which starts burning
|
||
very easily because it's so rich. The burning mixture then spills into
|
||
the cylinder, where it ignites the lean mixture in the cylinder. That
|
||
way, you can use an unusually lean overall mix without knocking and
|
||
misfiring, since the mixture is ignited by a moving flame-front and
|
||
burns more evenly (and more cleanly). The only production vehicle
|
||
that uses that type of engine right now is the Honda CRX HF and the
|
||
CVCC Accord (early Civics also used CVCC engines, but for some reason
|
||
they don't any more).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TREE BEARD
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Light bulb
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 03:24:24
|
||
Message Number 6077
|
||
|
||
7 candlepower? Really? Thats actually enough to read a book by, when
|
||
you stop to consider that one or two candles is sufficient, if not, per
|
||
haps a strain. I was wondering if you knew what happens to those
|
||
stupid lamps along the street? In my younger days when I would go a-
|
||
wandering, they would constantly blink off when you walked under them.
|
||
Sometimes this happened several times a night... Geee, I wonder if
|
||
GTE designed them?
|
||
|
||
Just a-wundering
|
||
|
||
a-Tree
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 15:47:29
|
||
Message Number 6078
|
||
|
||
If she does go into labor during the season opener (which would be a
|
||
really rude thing for her to do) swing by my house and you can borrow
|
||
my portable TV. It's color, it's 13 inches, and it picks up 44. Of
|
||
course with all the chaos and noise, you'd better have the volume up
|
||
high.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: EPA & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 15:50:38
|
||
Message Number 6079
|
||
|
||
Ohh...that vector-controlled combustion! Now, answer me this. Just
|
||
what in Ghods name is the "Hasty Pudding Club?" My mother keeps
|
||
bugging me to do research on it. I go to the library, they have
|
||
nothing, then she tells me to look under Harverd. Geesh....
|
||
BTW, the library is computerizing the card catalog, complete with touch
|
||
screens (I think).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TREE BEARD
|
||
Subject: Light bulb
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 15:53:30
|
||
Message Number 6080
|
||
|
||
Those stupid lamps on the street go off when you walk under them for
|
||
a very good reason. The lamps are equiped with a motion sensor, and
|
||
when you walk under them they go off. This makes it easier for you
|
||
to be mugged. No one has any consideration for criminals these days.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 19:16:14
|
||
Message Number 6081
|
||
|
||
I know you didn't mean to be taken seriously, but the start of that
|
||
spew (Riker is Captain and the blond woman is his first officer) won't
|
||
be true, because it has been confirmed that Picard will be in the show
|
||
next season...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 19:19:18
|
||
Message Number 6082
|
||
|
||
> Star Trek Conclusion Episode" party
|
||
|
||
Well, I don't think we can watch it here, but if you want me to, I'll
|
||
tape it the Saturday it airs (at 6 PM) and then as soon as it's over,
|
||
I'll have Tyler deliver me and the tape to a location where annoyed
|
||
parents can't complain about how many (and what kind of) people are in
|
||
the house...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 20:22:21
|
||
Message Number 6083
|
||
|
||
Thanks for the offer, but I think I have a better idea. On Quantam Leap
|
||
Sam once halted labor by injecting a saline solution into the mother,
|
||
which got her drunk and slowed down labor. I don't know exactly what
|
||
the solution was, but I have a couple of months to find out. And id
|
||
- I mean IF - it doesn't work on Mindi, I'll try it on myself and
|
||
maybe I won't care as much.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 20:27:05
|
||
Message Number 6084
|
||
|
||
I hope this is true, because Jean-Luc MAKES the show. One element that
|
||
I think makes the show believable and enjoyable is that Picard is
|
||
just the sort of person who should be on the cutting edge of human
|
||
exploration and relations with alien cultures. He constantly emphasizes
|
||
that his mission is scientific, not military. A lot of sci-fi is heavy
|
||
into weapons and wars, and while TNG has it's share of both, you can
|
||
actually believe Jean-Luc would rather negotiate and learn than fight.
|
||
Besides, we bald headed guys haven't had a real hero since Kojak, and
|
||
I had hair down to my shoulders when he was on TV.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: concl episode
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 20:35:34
|
||
Message Number 6085
|
||
|
||
My daughter will testify that I am sometimes an "annoyed parent".
|
||
However, I might just entertain the thought of a conclusion episode
|
||
party. The question is, will I like you guys as much in person as
|
||
I do on a green screen ? And would you admittedly graphicly superior
|
||
amiga-heads make fun of my XT clone ? Interesting thought.......
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 21:34:57
|
||
Message Number 6086
|
||
|
||
Or you could stop by Beatle's and watch it a week early just to make
|
||
sure! :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: concl episode
|
||
Date & Time: 06/27/90 21:37:31
|
||
Message Number 6087
|
||
|
||
Not just the Amiga users, but EVERYONE would make fun of your XT
|
||
Clone! Apple users, C=64 users, TRS-80 users, etc, etc, etc...
|
||
|
||
We'll make you feel very insecure...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ANGEL
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Hasty Pudding
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 01:44:59
|
||
Message Number 6088
|
||
|
||
Why on earth would your mother want you to research the Hasty Pudding
|
||
Club? There must be something strange in your family's past.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: Hasty Pudding
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 12:36:29
|
||
Message Number 6089
|
||
|
||
Uhh, actually, some lady where my mom worked was reading the obits. and
|
||
asked my mom what the Hasty Pudding Club was. This sparked my mom's
|
||
interest. There is nothing strange in my family's past (but I'm working
|
||
to rectify that problem).
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 13:04:55
|
||
Message Number 6091
|
||
|
||
> On Quantum Leap...
|
||
|
||
Speaking of Quantum Leap, I have been watching the show during Quantum
|
||
Leap Week. I am sorry I have been missing it! Luckily, I have been able
|
||
to pick up the concepts pretty quickly (such as what happens to the
|
||
person whose place is being taken) with a little help from my Starlog
|
||
collection.
|
||
I really enjoyed the last two episodes (the ones about the lawyer and
|
||
the dejay) and am looking forward to watching the show from now on. It
|
||
is supposedly being moved to Friday nights in the fall.
|
||
Anyway, here's an annoying question. Does anyone have some of the
|
||
original episodes on tape? I would especially like to see the first one
|
||
(the two hour movie)...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 13:09:58
|
||
Message Number 6092
|
||
|
||
Well, on the good points for Jean-Luc, /I/ would agree, but I KNOW Ken
|
||
Ober would disagree. He hates Picard, Wesley, Riker, and Troi... and the
|
||
show in general. He still watches it, and I don't remember why.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: TREE BEARD
|
||
Subject: Light bulb
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 16:15:52
|
||
Message Number 6093
|
||
|
||
I dunno if you can read by one candle or not, but I do know you can
|
||
write long, rambling, incoherent letters by the light of one kerosene
|
||
lamp. Once you're finished, you can mail them to people who refuse to
|
||
speak to you, too. About the street lamps: We had some arc lamps
|
||
at McDonald's that were on a light sensor, only the sensor was
|
||
positioned in such a way that it could "see" the lamp. It was on a 3
|
||
minute delay timer so that headlights and stuff wouldn't cause it
|
||
to shut off the lamps, and it takes 2 minutes to fire up a mercury-
|
||
vapor lamp; result, every five minutes the lamps shut off and turned
|
||
on again. Really annoying. Speaking of which, I used to drive a
|
||
(different) VW Bug when I was working in Ft. Myers at 5 AM, and every
|
||
day I'd get up at about 4 to drive to work. My car had a /really/
|
||
noisy electrical system that spewed out broadband RF noise all
|
||
around it. On the route I took to work was a house that had a burglar
|
||
alarm installed, with one of those neat radio "panic buttons" ytou
|
||
wear around your neck in case you see dark shadows at night. Every
|
||
weekday at 4:30 when i drove past the house the burglar alarm went off,
|
||
and every afternoon on my way home I'd see an alarm company service van
|
||
in the driveway. This continued for two weeks before they finally
|
||
solved the problem.
|
||
Just thought you might like to know.
|
||
--An RF Turtle
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: EPA & You
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 16:21:52
|
||
Message Number 6094
|
||
|
||
The "Hasty Pudding Club" is an organization of Harvard individuals
|
||
who are, in a kind of peculiar quirky way, devoted in some sense to
|
||
the performing arts. They frequently give hasty pudding awards to
|
||
famous individuals for no readily apparant reason, but that's only
|
||
because (as they will probably tell you quite giddily) there IS no
|
||
apparant reason. Past winners have included Cher, who predictably showed
|
||
up at Harvard wearing almost no clothes.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 16:23:56
|
||
Message Number 6095
|
||
|
||
>The start of that spew...won't be true, because it has been confirmed
|
||
>that Picard will be in the show next season...
|
||
|
||
Yes, but will Wesley end up in bed with Troi? /That's/ what I want to
|
||
know!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: concl episode
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 16:27:13
|
||
Message Number 6096
|
||
|
||
>...EVERYONE would make fun of your XT clone! Apple users, C=64 users,
|
||
>TRS-80 users,...
|
||
|
||
...SB-180 users, LISA users, PDP users, DECsystem-20 users, Timex-
|
||
Sinclair users...
|
||
|
||
Actually, I shouldn't say that, since I now own an XT clone. Of course,
|
||
I'm planning on swapping it for a CP/M machine, but as long as I still
|
||
have it I shouldn't make fun of people who through no fault of their
|
||
own are unfortunate enough to be stuck with MS-DOS machines...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SAM
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Pop-Tarts?
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 16:45:42
|
||
Message Number 6098
|
||
|
||
Sam shakes her head at the sudden question. "No, I don't have any pop-
|
||
tarts," she says impatiently. "What you're sayin' is that you blew up
|
||
some IBM place, and now they want you dead.
|
||
So figure you can't go to the Guard without tellin' them why the IBM
|
||
people are after you, right?" She sits down on the bed next to the
|
||
sometime insurance salesman. "So how did they know where to find you?
|
||
More to the point, do they know you're here now? Figure it'd be hard
|
||
for anyone who didn't know this place to follow you here, but if
|
||
someone saw you coming this way it won't take 'em long to find you.
|
||
Got any ideas?"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Meanwhile...
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 16:52:51
|
||
Message Number 6099
|
||
|
||
The confused reptile looks somewhat disconcerted by Angel's sudden
|
||
appearance. "Hey, you got any Metal Church rolls?" he asks her,
|
||
unsuccessfully. "Um, gossip? Well, this guy came in here...yeah, well...
|
||
um, sure, I noticed the piano. It's quite lovely. I saw the outfit when
|
||
you dragged it in. Um...a ship? Here? What ship? Yikes!" The reptile
|
||
springs away from the bar stool as if expecting a large oceangoing
|
||
vessel to appear there. When it fails to materialize, he sits back
|
||
down again, somewhat uncertainly, and says abruptly, "You know, I
|
||
had a bad experience on a ship once. This guy came up to me, and he had
|
||
this bag, see, that was full of cats. I asked him why he had a bag with
|
||
cats in it, and he said something about rats deserting a sinking ship,
|
||
and...never mind. I got seasick, too. Did you know a whole lot of
|
||
dock workers have tattoos of anchors on their shoulders? Kinda silly,
|
||
huh? The Dockworkers Guild coulda been creative, used a picture of
|
||
a train station being smashed by the fist of the gods or something,
|
||
but no. Why do you have a ship? Oh, my, Mulligan looks kind of annoyed.
|
||
I bet he's going to drag Gold off and explain Ranean law to him now.
|
||
Yep, there they go. I hope Gold's smart enough to get something to
|
||
drink--that's likely to take a while. Well, at least he's not arresting
|
||
him. Hey, I like that outfit. Is it new?"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: hasty puds
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 17:10:05
|
||
Message Number 6100
|
||
|
||
Another essential part of the ceremonies at one of America's most
|
||
distinguished universities is that the members of Hasty Pudding
|
||
cross-dress when presenting the award to such luminaries as
|
||
Carol Burnett, Margot Kidder et al. I suppose this prepares them
|
||
for the life of wealthy guilt ridden liberalism to which they are
|
||
doomed. Unless your name is Oliver.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: PCP Users?
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 17:14:40
|
||
Message Number 6101
|
||
|
||
Jeez, you really shouldn't bring drug abuse into the conversation like
|
||
that.
|
||
Anyhow, while I absolutely refuse to get into an argument over machines
|
||
and operating systems, I must say that my crappy little XT clone has
|
||
managed to help me stay around a 3.8 GPA while I support a family and
|
||
go to college at night. And since the rest of the ignorami of the
|
||
world will continue to live in the world of MS-DOS, it stands to
|
||
reason that a buck can be made by a guy who trains himself to help
|
||
them all thru the jungle.
|
||
And since Ober the pinhead is sure to stick his nose in here, may
|
||
I add that anyone who professes to hate everyone on TNG and watches
|
||
it anyhow must either have no life other than TV, or perhaps has
|
||
not yet mastered the remote control.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 17:26:52
|
||
Message Number 6102
|
||
|
||
Yes yes, turtle had hit the nail on the head. At the conclusion of
|
||
the conclusion episode, the cleavage queen will take Wes to bed with
|
||
her. Unfortunately for Wes, he will be in an urn on her nightstand,
|
||
having been fried by the Borg while saving the Enterprise one last
|
||
time.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 23:15:17
|
||
Message Number 6104
|
||
|
||
I still watch the show because there is no other Star Trek on anymore!
|
||
|
||
It's been replaced with SITCOMS!!! ACK!!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/28/90 23:16:33
|
||
Message Number 6105
|
||
|
||
Wesley will end up in bed with his Right, Left, or Both Hands!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BART AND/OR TYLER
|
||
Subject: Thank you
|
||
Date & Time: 06/29/90 00:17:38
|
||
Message Number 6106
|
||
|
||
Thank you for giving me such useful information like the fact that
|
||
Bart's breasts are the wrong size and nothing /useful/ like just what
|
||
the plans were for the Tampa trek. Like where you were leaving from
|
||
and if I should join you at someones house or you come and pick me up.
|
||
If someone would be practical enough to call me on my nerd hotline and
|
||
inform me of what's going on, it would be greatly appreciated, and just
|
||
maybe the aardvark of love and happiness would lick your toes.
|
||
|
||
...oh yes, let my nerd line ring repeatedly.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/29/90 15:47:44
|
||
Message Number 6107
|
||
|
||
Actually, Wesley will end up in bed with Worf.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: PCP Users?
|
||
Date & Time: 06/29/90 18:07:20
|
||
Message Number 6108
|
||
|
||
>And since Ober the pinhead is sure to stick his nose in here...
|
||
|
||
Come, come. Ken Ober may be a knucklehead, but he's /our/ knucklehead,
|
||
so let's try to show SOME consideration for the nice gentleman.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
...or not.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/29/90 18:09:08
|
||
Message Number 6109
|
||
|
||
At the conclusion of the season opener, the Borg, having redeemed
|
||
themselves in the eyes of sapient beings anywhere by their selfless act
|
||
of public service (namely, frying Wes), will be welcomed into the
|
||
Federation with open...uh, manipulators. Unfortunately, they will soon
|
||
prove that you can't reform a bad apple when they stage a leveraged
|
||
buyout of several of the Federation's largest industries (like Joe's
|
||
All-Night Starship Fuel Depo and Ship Wash chain), build grandiose
|
||
monuments to themselves in Atlantic City, and finally vanish forever
|
||
under a mountain of debt, never to be seen again.
|
||
|
||
Wesley's ashes are used in a research experiment which involves sending
|
||
them through the Transporter backward in an effort to reconstruct his
|
||
essence from fragments of DNA sill present in the ashes. Unfortunately,
|
||
all that results is the sudden appearance of a can of Spam, confirming
|
||
some suspicions his crewmates have had about him since day 1.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/29/90 23:41:18
|
||
Message Number 6111
|
||
|
||
Well, I'm just back from galloping around the cosmos... well, Quantum
|
||
Link. Anyway, the word out is that at least four people have not re-
|
||
signed for the fourth season. Patrick Stewart and Marina Sirtis (Picard
|
||
and Troi) have not signed yet, but most likely will. Wil Wheaton has
|
||
signed, as well as Johnathan Frakes... unfortunately, they're gonna let
|
||
Frakes direct one of the fourth season episodes.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 06/30/90 03:09:32
|
||
Message Number 6112
|
||
|
||
Marina Sirtis had damned well better be back! Preferably with a lower
|
||
neck line! Meow!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: BBS
|
||
Date & Time: 06/30/90 03:10:58
|
||
Message Number 6113
|
||
|
||
Yes folks, it's the Armadillo Connection, run by your very own
|
||
Knucklehead, Ken "Donald Trump" Ober, with help from your very own
|
||
biomechanical engineer wanna be Rufus, and even more help from Beatle.
|
||
That number again is: 378-2218. It's running at 2400 baud, with 1200
|
||
and 300 available 23 hrs. 53 mins. a day. It's running on Paragon, the
|
||
BBS that will change before your eyes (or at least between your calls).
|
||
|
||
In a nut shell: 378-2218 3/12/2400 Weird SysOp and weired remotes.
|
||
|
||
...voops welcome (just don't soil the main menu)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: BBS
|
||
Date & Time: 06/30/90 17:55:58
|
||
Message Number 6116
|
||
|
||
Ya all! You MUST call my BBS soon! I'm improving it more and more...
|
||
|
||
BETTER NEWS -- I have over 1Meg of storage space left after installing
|
||
the BBS -- This means I /should/ be able to do FIDO /very/ soon -- Lets
|
||
cross our paws! Yip! :) Call!!!!!!!
|
||
|
||
The Armadillo Connection -- 813/378-2218 -- 8-N-1-300/1200/2400
|
||
ANSI and ASCII supported with more on the way if I can get the
|
||
specifications!!!!!! :)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 00:06:11
|
||
Message Number 6117
|
||
|
||
Oh well. too inebriayed to answer properlu tonight. RAVEN turmed me
|
||
on to some repair places. I haven't been around, beeen movin' my PC into
|
||
the pool yable room (livin room) besides the PC, just tryin to make sure
|
||
everything still works. "Damn them White Russians". Oh well...see ya'...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: MMA
|
||
Subject: uncle jack
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 00:10:45
|
||
Message Number 6118
|
||
|
||
Goood plan of action./ Wow, whaite a set ofg White Russians!!!! <Erp> oF
|
||
WELL WATCHIN' ShadowPlay so I guess it dopes,nt matter. Where the hell
|
||
is my keyboard????? Gotta stop drinkin' before I get on....sorry....
|
||
<erp>....damn gooooood White Russians and TANGO & CASH is GOOD......
|
||
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|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: MMA
|
||
Subject: jokes
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 00:14:46
|
||
Message Number 6119
|
||
|
||
"Hey, I my tongue up some bitches ass. You know how boaring those bank
|
||
be".....get you;re dice-man straight!!!! Ooooops, sorry for my intoler-
|
||
ance.....I'm a lil' intoxicated right now....Why not???? Damn them white
|
||
russians.......oooooooops. <erp>. Seee ya''''' does anyone else out t
|
||
there think 98 might kick 95's ass if 95 doesn't dump some of their some
|
||
add's...!?!?!?!?!?!??!??!?!?!?!?!????
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 00:20:30
|
||
Message Number 6120
|
||
|
||
You better call damn fast fast. My immagination might be pretty be outda
|
||
by you cost. weELL, where does an immagination get you these days???
|
||
Broke.....lost....forgotton.......Oh well......oooooooops.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: C.C.A.
|
||
Subject: Meaning
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 00:23:49
|
||
Message Number 6121
|
||
|
||
Understood. I geeel guiltity for understood intelleget. An oooops for
|
||
each to the source code. Oh well, no-one is understood for long. aaaaaId
|
||
Understand an answer, it must be to return. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! Let'
|
||
make a deal........too late, too drunk....oh well!!!!! It's just a movie
|
||
.....ahhhhhhhhh!?!?!?!?!? I Love You Eva........smoooooch!!!!!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: ooooops.....
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 14:49:11
|
||
Message Number 6123
|
||
|
||
Welp, it's much later an I'm almost sober again. WOW, a little
|
||
intoxicated, my ass! I'll have to re-answer to posts that I answered
|
||
last night, I think I was trying to do myself in one drink at a time.
|
||
At least I remembered that I called here, I guess I wasn't totally gone.
|
||
Gotta quit doin' that stuff. I'm too old to recover like I used too.
|
||
<owwww>. It's amazing what you can (and can't) type when you're totally
|
||
bombed...hehe. Think I need one of those intoxication switches on my PC
|
||
so I don't DRINK AND POST. Well......see all you guys around. Just moved
|
||
my PC into the house (it was in a home-made office in my garage <HOT>)
|
||
so I can be comfortable when I post and work. s'later
|
||
a sssssssssslightly sssssssssssorry ssssssssssSNAKEBYTE . .
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: jokes
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 14:56:45
|
||
Message Number 6124
|
||
|
||
> Does anyone else out there think 98 might kick 95's ass if 95 doesn't
|
||
> dump some of their ads? [detoxed version]
|
||
|
||
In a word, no. 98 lacks the variety YNF has--their playlist is all
|
||
metal and hard rock, and almost entirely current. You'll hear Poison's
|
||
new song on there, assuming you wanted to, and you'll hear "Lips and
|
||
Hips" every hour on the hour, but you're not likely to hear too much
|
||
old Moody Blues, any of Bruce Hornsby's stuff or the new ones from Jeff
|
||
Lynne and David Beirweiler. They also play just about as many ads as
|
||
95 does, and their self-promotions are downright obnoxious. I've
|
||
flipped channels on them more than once because I don't like being told
|
||
how stupid I am for liking 95. The "New" 98 Rock has the same format
|
||
as the OLD 98 Rock from a decade ago--something nobody seems to have
|
||
noticed yet--and the grace, wit and charm of a Smurf-metal version of
|
||
the "Power Pig."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 15:09:24
|
||
Message Number 6125
|
||
|
||
>Marina Sirtis had damned well better be back! Preferably with a lower
|
||
>neck line!
|
||
|
||
Well, in a manner of speaking, yes. I've just heard from Apocryphal
|
||
Publications, Ltd. (a division of Turtle Press) that Miss Sirtis
|
||
has agreed to re-sign with the cast of ST:TNG on the condition that
|
||
her character is more fully developed. Specifically, she wants
|
||
her character to be depicted in a more realistic fashion, with
|
||
hobbies (Denubian belly-dancing) and interests (the logistics of
|
||
zero-gee orgies) outside of Starfleet.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 15:13:51
|
||
Message Number 6126
|
||
|
||
>weELL, where does an imagination get you these days???
|
||
|
||
In bed with Troi in a Denubian belly-dancer's outfit (and attitude)?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 18:55:24
|
||
Message Number 6127
|
||
|
||
>Denubian belly-dancing...the logistics of zero-gee orgies...
|
||
|
||
Ohh....goodie goodie goodie. Maybe we'll soon see "Troi Look alike
|
||
contests" at some Cons. Fun fun fun./
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: cleavage queen
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 19:05:16
|
||
Message Number 6128
|
||
|
||
Much as I'd like to believe this, we all know that the ever lovely
|
||
Troi has three breasts too few to be a Denubian Belly Dancer. And we
|
||
all know that 0 Gee orgies have been passe on Betazoid(?) for decades,
|
||
even years now.
|
||
BTW, I finally saw "Hunt for Red October" (exellent) and did
|
||
anyone notice who Jack Ryan's wife was? Gates McFadden ! Our very
|
||
own Dr. Beverly. She was only on in the very beginning, had one
|
||
or two lines and was never seen again. I wonder if the TNG crew will
|
||
have the stereotyping problem the ST crew did, it seems like none of
|
||
the ST gang really had any major successes afterwards. No, I do not
|
||
count TJ Hooker as a success.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: ANGEL
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: ...
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 22:38:46
|
||
Message Number 6130
|
||
|
||
"Yes, it's a new outfit!" She was wondering how many times she'd have
|
||
to draw that fact to the reptile's attention before it sunk in. "And
|
||
you don't have to duck. The ship's safely anchored in harbor. She's
|
||
a lovely thing, a hermaphrodite brig fast as the wind. I'm looking
|
||
for a good shantyman, would you like to go to sea?" The Turtle
|
||
turned an even deeper shade of green at the thought of a sea-cruise.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: ANGEL
|
||
Subject: ...
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 23:11:25
|
||
Message Number 6131
|
||
|
||
"Gnu outfit! How dare you wear a gnu outfit." A previously
|
||
somniculous mass rose from a dark corner of the room. Vafthrudner,
|
||
frost giant of Denmark, approached the mortals gathered round the
|
||
bar.
|
||
"Abuse not the cloven creatures of my domain, lest ye feel the
|
||
ardor of my club. I didst smite Oden himself whenst he thought to
|
||
cross my land. Better you should turn yon shellhead," gesturing at
|
||
Turtle, "into a pair of shoes, than mess around with any of my gnus."
|
||
With a benign smile, the giant gestured to the barkeep.
|
||
"I am Vafthrudner, gentlefolk, but you may call me Thrud." As he
|
||
reached for the freshly proffered mug, the titan realized there was
|
||
a burning candle within.
|
||
"FOOL, I wanted a Bud Lite!"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: cleavage queen
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 23:54:07
|
||
Message Number 6132
|
||
|
||
>No, I do not count TJ Hooker as a success.
|
||
|
||
How about "Rescue 911?" Did you happen to catch our friend Bill in
|
||
a movie called, I think, "Kingdom of the Spiders," about these spiders
|
||
that overrun a town. Wow...what a movie.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Public message
|
||
Date & Time: 07/01/90 23:58:17
|
||
Message Number 6133
|
||
|
||
And now, a public message:
|
||
|
||
Griffle-snibbits.
|
||
|
||
This message payed for by SKRAM (Society to Keep Rufus' Mental health).
|
||
|
||
|
||
...okay, it doesn't fit that much.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: cleavage queen
|
||
Date & Time: 07/02/90 13:49:20
|
||
Message Number 6135
|
||
|
||
> How about "Rescue 911?"
|
||
|
||
I would say it was a success. It won a People's Choice Award, and was
|
||
renewed (not because of ratings!).
|
||
> "Kingdom of the Spiders"
|
||
|
||
Our friend Bill directed the sequel. Yes, sequel. I hope that I never
|
||
have to see that movie. If he can foul up the sequel to a GREAT movie, I
|
||
wonder how bad the sequel to a BAD movie would be.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: cleavage queen
|
||
Date & Time: 07/02/90 14:06:35
|
||
Message Number 6136
|
||
|
||
There was a sequel to "Kingdom of the Spiders?" Gee, seeing how the
|
||
spiders managed to encase the whole town in webbing, I don't see how
|
||
they managed a sequel. With Bill directing it, I don't think /I'd/
|
||
watch it, and I watch things like "Class of Nuke 'Em High."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: TREE BEARD
|
||
Subject: express
|
||
Date & Time: 07/02/90 20:27:13
|
||
Message Number 6137
|
||
|
||
Sorry I've been away (no - my own free will!) actually a self-imposed
|
||
isolation - anyway _ thanks! I've heard it's wax,cloth, dye but how
|
||
in HELL do ya get the stuff off the cloth????! Anyway I will look forwa
|
||
to further elucidation when the books are available. Thanx again
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Ziggy
|
||
Date & Time: 07/02/90 20:46:48
|
||
Message Number 6138
|
||
|
||
oooohhhh! I'm in heaven! They released David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust
|
||
on CD!!! I snarfed it up hot from the delivery van. My ex wife
|
||
screwed my LP up in a fit 5 years ago and I've been bereft!
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Vanishing Point
|
||
Date & Time: 07/02/90 20:48:42
|
||
Message Number 6139
|
||
|
||
Hi folks! <beaming smile> sorry that I've been away for awhile. I'll
|
||
explain lest I get accused of stirring the fires and splitting. I've
|
||
been writing a rather involved piece of software to measure thermistors
|
||
(temperature sensitive resistors with a HELL of a non-linearity) and
|
||
building the equipment etc etc. After a full day of true torture - I
|
||
mean like nobody has done this before and I have to become an expert
|
||
first - I really had no desire at all to turn on any of my systems at
|
||
home. Unbelievable even to myself but true.... matter of fact there
|
||
are a lot of late-nite empty mugs at Brenton Reef to attest to my
|
||
abiding interest after work. Guess what! Now that it's over - I
|
||
get to do it AGAIN!! But this time 42 of them at once on a machine that
|
||
we affectionately call "The Octopus". groan....
|
||
|
||
JonBoy
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: LADY IN BLACK
|
||
Subject: ...Earth Callin
|
||
Date & Time: 07/02/90 21:04:44
|
||
Message Number 6140
|
||
|
||
Look for mail in the private E-mail from me...
|
||
Has it been /that/ busy?
|
||
JonBoy
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: our friend Bill
|
||
Date & Time: 07/02/90 21:36:10
|
||
Message Number 6141
|
||
|
||
Bills record - ST - great
|
||
Barbary Coast - bust
|
||
TJ Hooker - bust (exept for Heather)
|
||
Directing ST movies - bust
|
||
911 - get serious, do any of yall watch this
|
||
Spiders - well, back before I detoxed, I kinda liked it
|
||
Did I miss anything ? I did see him in death valley days or some such
|
||
late at night on USA - he played an immigrant farmer who had to roll
|
||
around and fight in the mud, perhaps thats how he got the Kirk roll.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 07/03/90 01:02:42
|
||
Message Number 6144
|
||
|
||
"Troi look-alike contests" would be a good thing to see..."Troi act-
|
||
alike contests" would be better. Particularly if the show /does/ get
|
||
hobby as a Denubian belly-dancer. If they don't, i guess an act-alike
|
||
concert would be limited to dispensing sage advice in an incredibly
|
||
somber fashion, but hey. It'd also be nice to get Marina Sirtis to come
|
||
to a Furry Party some time...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: jokes
|
||
Date & Time: 07/03/90 02:09:03
|
||
Message Number 6145
|
||
|
||
I think I'll have to agree with you after today. I listened to 98 at
|
||
lunch today and heard the same song twice in less then a half an hour.
|
||
<yuck>. I wish 95 would screen their ad's a little closer and at least
|
||
make them geared towards the audience (US) that they KNOW they have.
|
||
I guess I fall for 98 in the afternoons when their format seems a little
|
||
more 'flowing' then 95's and they usually don't have a 'live' DJ on
|
||
<Thank God>. Don't even talk to me about the Power Pig......<puke>
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 07/03/90 02:13:01
|
||
Message Number 6146
|
||
|
||
>In bed with Troi in a Denubian belly-dancer's outfit (and attitude)?
|
||
|
||
Yeah, I think I was there Saturday nite. (I still have a problem typing
|
||
I as 'I' and not 'i', <whew> It was rough....). Don't care to visit
|
||
there any time soon, I think I got kicked out but I managed to retain
|
||
the belly-dancer's outfit......
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Star Trek: TNG
|
||
Date & Time: 07/03/90 11:03:02
|
||
Message Number 6147
|
||
|
||
What I'd like to see is "ST:TNG meets the Bundys." Patrick Stuart could
|
||
play Al, the Dr. could play Peggy, Will Wheaton could play Bud, and
|
||
Marina Sirtis could play Kelly Bundy. Could make for some interesting
|
||
scripts.
|
||
|
||
...Jean-Luc with one hand down his pants and Troi in a mini-skirt.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: KEN OBER
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: cleavage queen
|
||
Date & Time: 07/03/90 14:41:32
|
||
Message Number 6148
|
||
|
||
Hey! I liked TJ Hooker and Rescue 911!!!! I think old Will should do
|
||
SUPER SNACKER commercials, tho...
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: jokes
|
||
Date & Time: 07/03/90 22:09:20
|
||
Message Number 6149
|
||
|
||
I almost wanted to barf one morning listining to the idiots on 98
|
||
pulling a "wild and cahrayzie guys" routine and trying to tell me why
|
||
they were so much "cooler" than 95. And then to top it off they started
|
||
to act like being a delinquent in school was the ultimate - I wouldn't
|
||
listen to those creeps on a bad bet. After all - I would fear for when
|
||
the music finally stopped and I would have to listen to them again!
|
||
Ron & Ron carry things a bit far sometimes but are by and large one of
|
||
the best DJ's I've heard. They are comparable to Dr. Don Rose in San
|
||
Francisco and he is of international fame.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: Earth?
|
||
Date & Time: 07/03/90 22:14:52
|
||
Message Number 6150
|
||
|
||
I just noticed... where's Chip? Lady in Black? Acapulco Gold? Even
|
||
Yngling is sparse of late...
|
||
By the way Turtle... I finally was forced to put the Apple together so
|
||
the CP/M stuff is "available". I will see if I can capture a directory
|
||
and comment it as to what the stuff is and then you can pick-n-choose.
|
||
I finally took the box of books aout of my car as it was obvious I was
|
||
gonna be delayed awhile. I will try again next week. Leave me yer
|
||
address again in case I lost it 18 something in the apartments next to
|
||
SuperAmerica etc etc.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: ober
|
||
Date & Time: 07/03/90 23:49:53
|
||
Message Number 6151
|
||
|
||
T> And since Ober...is sure to stick his nose in here, may I add that
|
||
T> anyone who professes to hate everyone on TNG and watches it anyhow
|
||
T> must either have now life other than TV, or perhaps has not yet
|
||
T> mastered the remote control.
|
||
|
||
If that's who I think it is, then well spoken. Funny!
|
||
|
||
(Sorry, I just got here...I've been reviewing all the old messages.)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: BBS
|
||
Date & Time: 07/03/90 23:57:22
|
||
Message Number 6152
|
||
|
||
Yeah, Yeah....ok already.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 07/03/90 23:59:44
|
||
Message Number 6153
|
||
|
||
About your hard drive...could you tell me exactly what is the problem?
|
||
I work on PC's & other computers for a living...(hrumph), maybe I can
|
||
help.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: cleavage queen
|
||
Date & Time: 07/04/90 00:08:14
|
||
Message Number 6154
|
||
|
||
Kingdom of the Spiders...very third rate.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: our friend Bill
|
||
Date & Time: 07/04/90 00:11:51
|
||
Message Number 6155
|
||
|
||
Yeah, you missed an episode of Kung Fu...where he was a Scot, and (fool)
|
||
tried to take Kane in a fist fight.... Lost, of course. (Different
|
||
script writers.)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: I'm Back!
|
||
Date & Time: 07/04/90 00:32:40
|
||
Message Number 6156
|
||
|
||
Crispan walks in just as the two uniformed men are leaving the bar.
|
||
He can't help but notice that one looks a little reluctant, while the
|
||
other looks as if he'd rather be sitting in some dentist's chair.
|
||
He passes the piano, noting the repiar work on the wall behind it, and
|
||
moves over to sit at the bar, one seat down from where Angel and Turtle
|
||
are facing a large, brutishly dressed man.
|
||
Xon walks over, still looking with a slight intrest at the large man.
|
||
"Well," he says at last "look who's back. What would you like?"
|
||
Crispan thinks momentarily about the mead, but remembering the last
|
||
time he'd had some, decides on somthing different. "Something..." he
|
||
speaks louder, to talk over the (hollow, noisy) music. "Something in
|
||
a bottle, that has a seal on it."
|
||
Xon frowns briefly, then grins. "Right." He returns in a second,
|
||
with a sealed bottle of water. "Here."
|
||
Crispan looks over, and speaks loudly, "So who's the Norse Giant?"
|
||
His words fall nicely into the abrupt silence the ending song leaves.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: JONBOY
|
||
Subject: Earth?
|
||
Date & Time: 07/04/90 01:26:36
|
||
Message Number 6157
|
||
|
||
Jonboy, you wouldn't happen to have a spare serial card sitting around
|
||
you'd like to part with? It would go for a good cause, mainly my BBS.
|
||
So far, all the hardware I have for it is used, and if it all speaks
|
||
with one another after I put them in the Franklin Ace 1000 (the case
|
||
that can withstand at least 160 lbs. standing on it) I'll have the BBS
|
||
up and running.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
Subject: cleavage queen
|
||
Date & Time: 07/04/90 01:29:22
|
||
Message Number 6158
|
||
|
||
The Specialist! He's back and he's reviewing movies. I didn't catch
|
||
all of "...Spiders" and it was on at 3 a.m. or so. The only thing that
|
||
kept me from turning it off was my friend screaming "Kirk."
|
||
|
||
..."Scotty, beam us up. We're surrounded by spiders."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: JONBOY
|
||
Subject: Earth?
|
||
Date & Time: 07/04/90 01:53:15
|
||
Message Number 6159
|
||
|
||
Well, Chip is in Washington, DC, doing work for the Republican party
|
||
(trying to convince minorities that they should vote Republican, a job
|
||
he doesn't seem a likely candidate for -- especially since he isn't a
|
||
Republican). Acapulco seems to have dropped back to only calling the
|
||
Suncoast City BBS. This is doubly annoying now that "Ranean Tales" has
|
||
started again; we've had to push his character to a back table finally
|
||
to get things rolling, since a lot of the /other/ characters were
|
||
waiting on him from when the story left off.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THRUD
|
||
To: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
Subject: slivovitz
|
||
Date & Time: 07/04/90 15:59:23
|
||
Message Number 6163
|
||
|
||
"Vafthrudner of Aalborg, friend, a homeless wanderer in a strange
|
||
land." With that, the colossus tosses down his Bud Light and slams
|
||
a gold coin on the bar and glares at Xon. "Now might you bring a
|
||
tankard befitting a Frost Giant of the Old Order! And while you're at
|
||
it bring a round of Sliv for me and these three here," indicating
|
||
Crispin, Turtle and Angel.
|
||
"Are you Rooshins?" the gargantuan Dane queries the threesome. "The
|
||
Rooshins sank a nukular submereen off my island and poisoned my land -
|
||
I'll not drink with Rooshins." As Xon hurries over with the drinks,
|
||
Thrud remembers that there is a Vikings game on TV and asks him to
|
||
change the channel.
|
||
Noticing that the bar is silent and all eyes are upon him, Vafthrudner
|
||
blushes and gestures at the piano. "Does anybody know 'Ride of the
|
||
Valkyrie?'"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: New subject.
|
||
Date & Time: 07/04/90 17:01:45
|
||
Message Number 6164
|
||
|
||
R> I didn't catch all of "...Spiders" ...
|
||
Don't feel deprived.
|
||
R>..."Scotty, beam us up. We're surrounded by spiders."
|
||
"Coptan! Uh canna do it! The taransporters are covered with
|
||
tribbles!"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
To: THRUD
|
||
Subject: piano
|
||
Date & Time: 07/04/90 17:07:42
|
||
Message Number 6165
|
||
|
||
Turtle, Angel and Crispan all echange glances.
|
||
"No," ventures Crispan, "but I know a little chopsticks." He gets
|
||
up and starts towards the piano.
|
||
"Waitaminute. I spent good money on that, and I'll not have anyone
|
||
messing it up." Angel gets up and starts browsing the rolls. "Now,
|
||
let me see." She starts picking over titles, mumbling "Too dumb, too
|
||
sappy, too...."
|
||
Crispan shrugs, and heads back to the bar. As he sits, he notices
|
||
the blank stare that Turtle is giving him. Crispan waves his hand.
|
||
"Hello? Anyone home?"
|
||
Turtle blinks.
|
||
Crispan looks nonplussed, and turns his attention to the Giant.
|
||
"..."
|
||
Turtle jumps to life. "Crispan! I thought I knew you. You know, I
|
||
was saying to myself, I'll bet that I know that guy, I've seen him some
|
||
where before, but I could not for the life of me figure out where! I
|
||
was thinking, Metallica concert? Rush concert? Noooo, not those, but I
|
||
just knew that I knew you! I saw you here, last night! Right?" He
|
||
looks away, frowning. "Or was it?"
|
||
Crispan looks at Xon, who shrugs and looks away.
|
||
He turns his attention to the Giant, once more. "So, thanks for the
|
||
drink. Where..."
|
||
"'Ows 'at?" Angel has changed the roll in the piano player, which is
|
||
now plinking out some outlandish tune in a slightly sharp key. "I mean,
|
||
'How is that?'"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: *
|
||
Date & Time: 07/04/90 17:54:20
|
||
Message Number 6166
|
||
|
||
[From Xonzoff]
|
||
|
||
"What's a television?" I say, suddenly tired. It's only, what,
|
||
half past noon and somebody's ordering a round? Angel already has a
|
||
drink and gives me a quizzical look when I bring her another one; I
|
||
point at the giant in explanation. Where DID that fox go, anyway?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 01:58:49
|
||
Message Number 6171
|
||
|
||
>Yeah, I think I was there [in bed with Troi in a Denubian belly-
|
||
>dancer's outfit] Saturday night...
|
||
|
||
And you're COMPLAINING? Hell, I'd give Donthen's right arm to go to bed
|
||
with Troi! I'm particularly attracted to her nice, large...
|
||
shoulder blades. Her knees aren't half-bad, either. Come to think of it,
|
||
she doesn't have any body part that's half bad, and she has more than
|
||
a few that are more than half-good...ahem, I'm going to stop now.
|
||
|
||
...so what'd you do with the outfit?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: KEN OBER
|
||
Subject: cleavage queen
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 02:01:46
|
||
Message Number 6172
|
||
|
||
Bill Shatner's perfect role: making Froot-Loops commercials. That way,
|
||
nobody would care that he can't direct for diddly squat.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: JONBOY
|
||
Subject: Earth?
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 02:03:03
|
||
Message Number 6173
|
||
|
||
>...where's Chip?
|
||
|
||
Washington.
|
||
|
||
>...the Lady?
|
||
|
||
Blown five motherboards in two weeks...aah, IBM.
|
||
|
||
>Acapulco Gold?
|
||
|
||
Workin' for Info World, and too busy to call out.
|
||
|
||
As far as CP/M stuff goes: I'd be quite happy--nay, absolutely ecstatic,
|
||
running over with joy--to see your CP/M catalog. I'm currently residing
|
||
at 1895 Sanford Circle; that's the apartment complex right between
|
||
De Soto Rd. and SuperAmerica on 301 (we have our very own traffic light
|
||
now, so you can't miss it even if you try), in Building 12; just look
|
||
for a remarkably ugly gray Baja Bug. Also, if you'd like an obsolete
|
||
computer or two to take home with you, hey, it's a buyer's market over
|
||
here. Just moved machine #12 (a Heath H-89 with a ton and a half of
|
||
peripherals and about a dozen 77-track 5.25" floppy drives) in here, and
|
||
my other half is quite unamused. (Heck, she'd probably pay /you/ to take
|
||
some of the TRS-80's...)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: TURTLE
|
||
To: WYVERNERS
|
||
Subject: Goin' Nowhere
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 02:12:26
|
||
Message Number 6174
|
||
|
||
Xon arrives with drinks; Turtle looks at his uncomprehendingly, then
|
||
with a "what the hell" expression tosses it back and turns to the
|
||
towering Norse myth. "Uh, you know, Crispan being here reminds me of
|
||
this time this really large nasty-looking person came running after me
|
||
with a club, and....awwqk!" He gasps, stares wildly around with the
|
||
look of a man who's just noticed that his house is on fire and there's
|
||
a six hundred pound kangaroo rat lunching on his Porsche, then picks up
|
||
the empty mug and turns it over. "What was THAT, battery acid with just
|
||
a touch of lime??!! Yikes, anyway, this guy was coming after me with thi
|
||
club, because I was trying to get into this tent, see, where there was
|
||
this wizard...you know, that's really obnmoxious music. Hey, Crispan,
|
||
know anyplace I can find shells for a...never mind. You know, there's
|
||
this turnip farmer named Crispan in Raneahdros somewhere. He has NO
|
||
life. Maybe I should give him mine." The turtle turns back to the bar,
|
||
picks up the mug again, and gazes into its depths searching for
|
||
enlightenment, looking for all the world like he dearly wished someone
|
||
would come along and say somethig profound to the sound of soulful
|
||
music. When it didn't happen, he looked around again, and brightened.
|
||
"Say! You don't have anyone chasing after you with illegal weapons
|
||
today! I bet you're happy about that, huh?"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Earth?
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 13:43:30
|
||
Message Number 6175
|
||
|
||
>>...the Lady?
|
||
>
|
||
>Blown five motherboards in two weeks...aah, IBM.
|
||
|
||
FIVE MOTHERBOARDS IN TWO WEEKS!? How? BTW, she was on CofC yesterday.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: Earth?
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 14:22:23
|
||
Message Number 6176
|
||
|
||
> Chip...trying to convince minorities...Republican
|
||
|
||
Does he support legislation against flag burning?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 14:24:52
|
||
Message Number 6177
|
||
|
||
> doesn't have any body part that's half bad,...
|
||
|
||
Sure, but I personally think she's a little too thin. She's still
|
||
quite interesting to drool over. By the way, would you like a picture of
|
||
Troi to scan into the Mac and do some "modification" a la Kei & Yuri??
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: cleavage queen
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 14:27:03
|
||
Message Number 6178
|
||
|
||
> Froot-Loops commercials.
|
||
|
||
"And now, William Shatner for Froot-Loops..."
|
||
::William Shatner, without his girdle::
|
||
"Hello, I'm William Shatner, you may remember me as Captain Kirk on
|
||
Star Trek, and if you don't remember that, you have no idea in hell who
|
||
I am. Kelloggs has generously agreed to double my normal appearance fee
|
||
to tell you how much I love Froot-Loops. As a matter of fact, through
|
||
the 70's when I was out of work, Froot-Loops helped me attain my current
|
||
weight of a trim 346 pounds. Also, if you buy Froot-Loops now, you'll
|
||
get a free glow-in-the-dark plastic 1-inch replica of the Enterprise.
|
||
So, follow my girth and enjoy the weighty taste of Froot-Loops....
|
||
Did I hear someone say Super Snacker??"
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: BEATLE
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Earth?
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 14:32:41
|
||
Message Number 6179
|
||
|
||
>> Where's Chip?
|
||
|
||
> Washington.
|
||
|
||
Is that supposed to be GOOD news or BAD news?
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Subject: drink
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 17:14:59
|
||
Message Number 6181
|
||
|
||
Crispan notes Turtles violent reaction to the drink called "Silva" and
|
||
decides immdiately against imbibement of any sort. He waits till the
|
||
Giant turns to listen to Turtle, and dumps it into the spitoon next to
|
||
him. It dissapears with hardly a sound. He wonders briefly if such a
|
||
substance could be illegal, but dismisses the idea.
|
||
He sets the empty glass on the counter and turns to answer Turtle's
|
||
question.
|
||
"Yes."
|
||
Turtle waits for a few seconds, probably expecting Crispan to say
|
||
more, but then turns his mad harrange back to the giant.
|
||
Crispan turns his attention to Angel.
|
||
"So, you got a ship, did you? Tell me all about it. I like ships."
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: RUFUS
|
||
Subject: Calling...
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 20:59:27
|
||
Message Number 6184
|
||
|
||
Well, I only have one super serial card that I use to convince my Apple
|
||
that there really are other computers - nice computers that will talk
|
||
in a nice sort of way given the proper circumstances... I would
|
||
rather not cripple my Apple beyond the framework of what it already is..
|
||
I DO have a Prometheus 1200 baud modem that I will dispose of for the
|
||
absolutely ridiculous sum of $75. It is an internal modem that exactly
|
||
imitates the supers serial card with a HAYES 1200 stuck on it. I have
|
||
to shake my head when I think that I paid $340 for it 5 years ago!
|
||
Anyway - I understood that 1200 is what you'd be running anyway. I
|
||
really do use the serial card to talk to my CP/M machines and my IBM's.
|
||
I *still* have to use my Apple to get certain Statistical work done
|
||
because I don't have anything that works on the IBM. Mostly I need
|
||
software that curve-fits - preferably to a specified degree polynomial.
|
||
Anyone know of anything?
|
||
JonBoy
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: DONTHEN
|
||
Subject: Earth?
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 21:07:16
|
||
Message Number 6185
|
||
|
||
Hehhe - have him piss off the Frost Giant and get turned into a
|
||
grease spot for his efforts! Serve him right after his rather "klunky"
|
||
entrance which forced quite a bit of jockying around for everyone.
|
||
And THEN to further stir the mud by getting moony-eyed over another
|
||
recent arrival "whasshername". Ya 'know a story line can only stand
|
||
so much before it starts to sound like Danielle Steele is scripting it!
|
||
I will probably enter my character after a suitable interval AND I get
|
||
a better "feel" for the story line - I can't help but wish some of the
|
||
others had been so inclined.
|
||
A Lit-Crit JonBoy
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: TURTLE
|
||
Subject: Nahhhh!
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 21:16:28
|
||
Message Number 6186
|
||
|
||
Gee! And I thought summers were for screwing off and felt bad - where
|
||
the hell did these folks get the burst of ambition. Gee - too bad about
|
||
Lady having motherboard problems - if you know how to get in touch with
|
||
her I have an 8 Mhz XT motherboard she can plug in until hers gets
|
||
straightened out. Or mayhaps she would like to borrow my laptop. Or
|
||
I even have an assembled 12 Mhz XT with a 20 meg harddrive! As
|
||
for the CP/M stuff - I will be happy to get a listing - I have tons of
|
||
CPMUG stuff which some is garbage & some is Gold. There are enough
|
||
programming languages to keep anyone going plus macro processors games
|
||
DBASE, SuperCalc, WordStar, Project Management stuff, too much fer my
|
||
feeble brain to remember but it is on about 200 floppies. I got rid of
|
||
an H-89 when I left Utah too! 2 floppies, HDOS and a H-19 terminal
|
||
(also an ADM-3A and an ADDS Viewpoint) I still have the cassette
|
||
software (debugger, BASIC etc) if you want it... Lessee - I'll see
|
||
your TRS-80 model I and raise you an Osborne I! I know how wimmin are -
|
||
I just got rid of one -- no sense of humor when it comes to toys - I
|
||
mean they actually ask questions like :why do you need another computer?
|
||
What a silly question!!!
|
||
(Hope Crystal doesn't take this serious!)
|
||
JonBoy
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: JONBOY
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: computers
|
||
Date & Time: 07/05/90 21:29:16
|
||
Message Number 6187
|
||
|
||
Gimme the MAC and I'll suck it into a couple of rendering packages that
|
||
I have (hehehehehehe oh boy.....)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: cleavage queen
|
||
Date & Time: 07/06/90 01:41:42
|
||
Message Number 6188
|
||
|
||
Your really weird. But at least that was amazingly funny.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: RUFUS
|
||
To: JONBOY
|
||
Subject: Calling...
|
||
Date & Time: 07/06/90 01:44:14
|
||
Message Number 6189
|
||
|
||
yea, I'll be running at 1200 baud. I tried using a Prometheus ProModem
|
||
w/ the BBS software. The software just belched and the card hid
|
||
in the corner. That was my first modem, which I sold to get an
|
||
Apple Cat (damned fine modem, just the fact that I had to send it to
|
||
California every week kinda pissed me off. Relay never worked right.).
|
||
Luckily, the people I got it from refunded my money. Then I purchased
|
||
a VenTel from a friend (that's what the BBS will be using). Then
|
||
I picked up another modem the last day of school which I later sold to
|
||
The Specialist. Now I have a 2400 baud Zoom (aack, gag) modem. And
|
||
somewhere in there I lent the VenTel out to Donthen.
|
||
Like you really care about the history of my modems.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: CRYSTAL
|
||
To: JONBOY
|
||
Subject: Nahhhh!
|
||
Date & Time: 07/07/90 14:14:32
|
||
Message Number 6191
|
||
|
||
Don't worry JohBoy when it to comes to Turtle and ANOTHER computer
|
||
I just close my eyes and hope he picks the right answer. But fitting
|
||
more then 13 computers in an apartment this size is crazy.
|
||
* CRYSTAL *
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: BEATLE
|
||
Subject: Earth?
|
||
Date & Time: 07/06/89 21:54:37
|
||
Message Number 6192
|
||
|
||
No, Chip doesn't support legislation against flag burning. Go back and
|
||
reread the original message -- he's not a Republican. (This is not to
|
||
say that all Republicans are for legislation against flag burning, but
|
||
it seems to be a real big partisan issue now that there's nothing else
|
||
more pressing for the two "sides" to argue about.)
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: DONTHEN
|
||
To: JONBOY
|
||
Subject: Earth?
|
||
Date & Time: 07/06/89 22:02:32
|
||
Message Number 6193
|
||
|
||
Actually, the guy getting moony-eyed over Oversoul Seven's character,
|
||
Deva, was "Lord Valar," who seems to have vanished once again into the
|
||
mists of BBS'ing.
|
||
|
||
I'm going to try to get some of the Ranea stories over here for
|
||
downloading for people who are interested in learning more about the
|
||
world. My computer was actually turned on for the first time in three
|
||
months yesterday -- everything works (amazingly enough), but the
|
||
keyboard is almost completely shot. The spacebar is effectively dead,
|
||
making the system unusable for, well, just about anything, especially
|
||
BBS'ing and word processing.
|
||
===========
|
||
|
||
From: SNAKEBYTE
|
||
To: THE SPECIALIST
|
||
Subject: HD
|
||
Date & Time: 07/06/89 22:57:07
|
||
Message Number 6195
|
||
|
||
Okay, about my disk. A freind of mine at work has a PC that came down
|
||
from Chicago last year and it is used to run AutoCAD. The other day it
|
||
woke up dead. I checked it out and it would not recognize that there
|
||
even was a C: drive. He took it to CAD CENT
|
||
===========
|
||
|