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- From: an8288@anon.penet.fi (Seattle Meanderings)
- Subject: Seattle Meanderings, #001
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.173638.13229@fuug.fi>
- Sender: anon@fuug.fi (The Anon Administrator)
- Organization: Anonymous contact service
- X-Anonymously-To: alt.personals
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:24:51 GMT
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- USENET is a very weird thing.
-
- The hard part is figuring out which part is the weirdest. There are a lot of
- newsgroups in the running, but alt.personals has to be in the top ten.
-
- Personally, I view alt.personals with the same kind of horrified fascination
- that witnessing an autopsy warrants. On the bad side, there's the seemingly
- endless flame wars, the unpleasant spewings of sorlin@wherever, and so on; then
- there's the strangeness of, for example, the seeming omnipresence of Rai, or
- the endless stream of "SM ISO anybody" posts. . . . It all adds up to a
- weirdness quotient matched only by being around my parents at Christmastime.
-
- This isn't to say that it's all bad. In fact, some of it is quite fun. But,
- at least for me, I've never found enough reason to overcome my reluctance to
- jump into the ongoing topics.
-
- So I'm trying something a little different. I'm not all that interested in
- posting Yet Another "SM ISO"-style article. What would be the point? It's
- old, it's been done. Besides, I'm a complicated kinda guy. :) So instead,
- I'm just gonna post whatever's on my mind from time to time, and maybe, if I'm
- lucky, it'll be at least a little interesting to *someone* out there. . . .
-
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-
- So. Where to begin?
-
- At the moment, it's early morning in Seattle; just after 4:00 in the morning,
- to be a bit more precise. I'm just starting to get sleepy, it seems -- there's
- that gentle scratchiness behind my eyelids, and I don't seem to be resisting
- gravity as well as I was an hour ago. Not that I was resisting it that much
- anyway -- the terminal I'm using is next to a couch, and I've been lounging
- around for over an hour dinking around with things most of the night: working
- on a story I've been writing, compiling some source code that I snarfed off the
- network over a month ago, and so on. Well, okay, I've been goofing off, but
- it's been productive nonetheless.
-
- And it's been a pleasant evening/morning, too. A have an Enya CD quietly
- playing on the stereo (I can just barely hear it over the noise of the fan in
- the terminal), and I had some pizza for dinner at around midnight tonight. Not
- that frozen pizza is all that good, generally, but this time I took the time to
- finely chop a green onion and spread that on, sliced a few mushrooms and
- arranged the slices around the pizza, and topped it with more mozzarella and a
- scattering of parsley. I was pleasantly surprised -- it was better than I
- expected. Now if only I could keep the crust from getting soggy, I'd have it
- made. :)
-
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-
- Top Ten Silly Things I'd Like the Opportunity To Do Sometime
-
- 10. Be able to say "Fire all weapons," and have it actually *mean*
- something.
- 9. Drop a really huge rock into a large body of water from a helicopter
- hovering at about 1000 feet.
- 8. Teach "Conversational American English" in Japan---*my* way.
- 7. Meet Rick Loomis, of "Flying Buffalo, Inc." fame.
- 6. Work with someone to create a bunch of computer-animated short subjects
- for those International Animation Tournee people.
- 5. Be a consultant for computer-game writers because of my range of
- experience, and my creative ideas. Or just get paid for writing games.
- Or designing fonts.
- 4. Host a syndicated television show called "Cooking for Bachelors."
- 3. Pay off all but four cents of my college debt, and never pay the rest.
- 2. Blow up something real good. Perhaps a sky-blue Ford Pinto hatchback.
- 1. Go back in time to 1963 and set up a whole bunch of video cameras along
- the motorcade route in Dallas.
-
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-
- Well, I really should get to bed now. If you feel like dropping me a line,
- please do so -- I'll be gentle. . . . :)
-
- "I just know that somewhere, my high-school guidance
- counselor is having a good laugh."
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