May 2013
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Funcoland? Who the hell knows what they’re up to! ☯94NOV
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Fresh off the press today: it has been announced that Software Etc. and Babbages will merge. ☯94AUG
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I’m not quite sure how I ever lived without Quicken and TurboTax. ☯94FEB
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Programming is much, much easier than writing a novel. It is even easier than writing a text book. I have attempted all three. ☯94FEB
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Years ago I saw an article about how this person bought a wonderful Apple II, but he couldn’t figure out what to do with it. ☯94FEB
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Why do we need to compute? ☯94FEB
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Off the net, I run a BBS, write database templates for birdwatching, compose music, and make scripts for accessing the “datahighway.” ☯94FEB
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On the net, I play games, edit a weekly digest about Queensrÿche, maintain two FAQS, and do lots of mail. ☯94FEB
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I’m not giving very good odds that Steve Jobs will be the leader of the next generation of personal computing. ☯92FEB
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Apple’s recent ads for their PowerBooks and Newtons have attempted to tell people what the heck these nifty gadgets can be used for. ☯94FEB
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Software giant Microsoft has denied rumors that it acquired the Roman Catholic Church and exclusive electronic rights to the Bible. ☯94DEC
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I began programming in 1968 on a CDC 1604. I used Fortran (when the sucker did not force me to use binary). ☯89MAY
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This entire GOTO debate seems to be indicative of the quality of programmers available today. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH GOTO. ☯89MAY
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Don’t hold your breath waiting for head mounted retinal projection systems. They are many years off. ☯92DEC
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In the November 1992 issue of the Virtual Reality Report, there is an article titled “Head Mounted Displays May Damage Vision.” ☯93JUL
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I saw a listing for nude GIFs of the crew from the NEXT GENERATION. Where are they? ☯91OCT
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Does anyone know of a huge repository of Star Trek TNG pictures in GIF or JPEG format? ☯93DEC
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My roomate has ALL of the Star Trek TNG episodes recorded on about 30 tapes, and he has them cataloged in a database on his computer. ☯92AUG
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Star Trek: The Next Generation provides a vision of the future. That vision owes much to two Mac IIs with 8MB of memory and a Mac SE. ☯91APR
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I think that a ‘retinasaver’ would be a good idea. ☯92DEC
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LOOK OUT! I’M UNDER ATTACK BY THE FLYING TOASTER COMMANDOS!! ☯92DEC
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I wonder if people will write “screensavers” for VR glasses so that the terminal prompt won’t get burned into your eye. ☯92DEC
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Could you disconnect me from the net please? ☯93AUG
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I’m still getting mail, please disconnect me A.S.A.P. ☯93AUG
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OK, I confess, I work for the IRS, and our computers are really outdated. ☯92JUN
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I used to back-up my computer with Photonix II, but I noticed that it wrote the letters “FTA” in the first nibbles of the disk. ☯92FEB
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Let’s discuss the “cool” places to FTP from, how to FTP/Telnet, and how to be polite about FTP’ing. ☯93JAN
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Does anyone know how I can convert a MacPaint image to something the a Symbolics 3675 Lisp machine can read? ☯88NOV
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Does anyone have a C routine to fill a n-sided polygon with a user specified pattern using UIS graphics? ☯89NOV
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Am I missing something or is it really true that I cannot specify a pixmap to be used in tiling a polygon? ☯89NOV
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I was wondering if someone could e-mail me the names of the American Gladiators both past and present. Thank you in advance. ☯93OCT
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I saw a poster in my gym for American Gladiators tryouts next week. For more information, pick up an application at 7-Eleven. ☯92FEB
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Does anyone out there know if the American Gladiators Fan Club is still in operation and how to join? ☯92DEC
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A long time ago, I had a file called MOUSEMAN.LZH that described how to use an IBM mouse on the Amiga. ☯93MAY
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Busloads of alternative techno-freaks from all over the planet will descend on this event. You wouldn’t want to miss that, would you? ☯93MAY
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Remember the Galactic Hacker Party back in 1989? We’re back! ☯93MAY
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Times have changed. Many who were violently opposed to computers in 1989 have now discovered word-processing and desktop publishing. ☯93MAY
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techno-anarchists /
cyberpunks /
system managers /
stupid users /
paranoid androids /
Unix gurus /
whizz kids /
warez dudes
☯93MAY
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hackers /
phone phreaks /
programmers /
computer haters /
data travellers /
electro-wizards /
networkers /
hardware freaks
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A friend of mine is buying his girlfriend a cordless phone for her birthday. He’s also buying himself a scanner and a tape recorder. ☯90JUL
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Unless you want to provide entertainment for the scanner freaks in the neigborhood, you should use discretion on a cordless phone. ☯90JUL
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If you want to protect your conversations, then keep your transmissions to yourself and stop polluting the airwaves. ☯90AUG
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Disks accumulate <junk> faster than beds accumulate <dust bunnies>. ☯93JUL
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Let’s organize a net.load at Lost Prairie. We could video it and make some GIFs. ☯93JUN
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My new housemate has no concept of noise pollution. She had my answering machine and my phone both turned up full volume. ☯92JUN
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I recently opened my home to a woman who moved here from L.A. The riots scared her out of the bloody city and into my spare bedroom. ☯92JUN
