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- Path: sparky!uunet!pilchuck!li
- From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
- Subject: Re: An Introduction
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.220000.8756@data-io.com>
- Sender: news@data-io.com (The News)
- Organization: Data I/O Corporation
- References: <20NOV199200171179@romeo.caltech.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:00:00 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <20NOV199200171179@romeo.caltech.edu> dkrum@romeo.caltech.edu (Krum, David Michael) writes:
- >The crowd has hushed a bit. Dave looks around for some kind of response.
- >
- >"Dad," he whispers to Boss Troll, "What is this place anyway? Did I touch on
- >some cultural taboo here? Is this a bar? Is this virtual reality? Is this
- >cyberspace? Is this the holodeck or 10-forward?"
-
- "All the above and then some." says a rather plain looking Asian woman,
- about 5'10" tall, in black sweatpants, khaki green sweatshirt, neon *PINK*
- hightops, and a bit big for her lettermens jacket that has a big orange
- calTech on it. "Hi, I'm Liralen Li, a Lloydie of '85." She grins,
- "Dan'l's around here, somewhere, too, he's of my House and class. My
- hubby's John Rostykus, Lloydie, '86, who was roommate to Dave Gallup, one
- of the few Lloydies who were also initiated as a Page Boy due to social
- ties. I was also a social Flem in my time."
-
- She grins at all the baffled looks from everyone else. "First thing every
- Techer asks another Techer is 'What House?'."
-
- "Hmmm..." says Liralen, looking at all the questions, "No taboos. I don't
- think there *are* any anymore. Out and out name calling/ 'flaming' as
- it's known elsewhere on the net is pretty much out. It's sorta a bar.
- 'Where everyone knows your name.' Especially with your dad already pretty
- active here. VR? Yup. Using verbal cues as the medium. Seems to work
- pretty good. Cyberspace? Yup." She chuckles at the last two,
- "Youngsters." she says softly, smiling, seeming to ignore the fact that
- she's been carded the last three times she's been in a RL bar. And the
- last time she was dressed the way she was, she was carded by a grocery
- store clerk who had apologized profusely after doing so and blushed while
- he said that in the lettermen's jacket she looked like a high school boy.
-
- She blinks to see the grocery store counter and the clerk, and at the
- blink, it all disappears.
-
- "Yup. Anything's possible..."
- --
- Liralen Li | "... and how you feel can make it real | - _US_
- aka Phyllis Rostykus | Real as anything you've seen | Peter
- li@Data-IO.com | Get a life with this dreamer's dream." | Gabriel
-