A late reply
James Kibo Parry
> Subject: Home VCRs
> Newsgroups: net.misc
> Path: utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb
> Date: Wed Feb 10 08:53:19 1982
>
> My suggestion is to hold off. Sony and the other manufacturers have
> agreed on a *new* standard, neither Beta nor VHS; it's scheduled for,
> I believe, 1984 or 1985.
I would like to agree with that, too.
Please forgive the lateness of my reply.
-- K.
Mmmm, archivey.
The Avocado Avenger
>In net.misc, smb@unc wrote:
>> Subject: Home VCRs
>> Newsgroups: net.misc
>> Path: utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb
Mmm. Bangey.
>> Date: Wed Feb 10 08:53:19 1982
At 9 am on a Wednesday in 1982, I'm reasonably sure I would have been...
in school, in a small town in Kansas (population 700 or so). I would have
been having one of the most miserable days of my life, probably because
Valentine's Day was coming up, and Kansas white trash tends to get really
mean and nasty on VD if they don't have a woman to beat up.
>> My suggestion is to hold off. Sony and the other manufacturers have
>> agreed on a *new* standard, neither Beta nor VHS; it's scheduled for,
>> I believe, 1984 or 1985.
>I would like to agree with that, too.
>Please forgive the lateness of my reply.
Hey! My VCR says "VHS"! I've been had!
Stacia * The Avocado Avenger * Life is a tale told by an idiot;
http://www.io.com/~stacia/ * Full of sound and fury,
Remove the guacamole to reply! * Signifying nothing.
Matt McIrvin
"Kibo" Parry) wrote:
>In net.misc, smb@unc wrote:
>
>
>> Subject: Home VCRs
>> Newsgroups: net.misc
>> Path: utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb
>> Date: Wed Feb 10 08:53:19 1982
>>
>> My suggestion is to hold off. Sony and the other manufacturers have
>> agreed on a *new* standard, neither Beta nor VHS; it's scheduled for,
>> I believe, 1984 or 1985.
>
>
>I would like to agree with that, too.
>
>
>Please forgive the lateness of my reply.
It was a standard based on a video recording of Super 8 film showing a
hologram of an oscilloscope trace of Lissajous figures generated by
piezoelectric crystals driven by a phonographic needle on a record of
brain waves from the late Natalie Wood watching a Showscan film of Nolan
Bushnell's Androbots riding a roller coaster in Hell. The method was
carefully designed to infringe on no existing patents, though it did
infringe on several rejected patent applications, most of them for
perpetual motion machines.
Closely related was the "interactive multimedia LP-ROM," an innovative
technology whose only known examples were lost to humanity when Carl
Sagan shot them into interstellar space.
I will re-use that joke once every five years UNTIL SOMEBODY LAUGHS.
The LP-ROM gave a *warmer* image than the CD-ROM. I wouldn't know what
that means, except I have Marshall McLuhan right here.
--
Matt McIrvin http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/
Carlos Froggy May
Kibo just now replied to:
: >> Subject: Home VCRs
: >> Newsgroups: net.misc
: >> Path: utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb
: >> Date: Wed Feb 10 08:53:19 1982
Hey! Kibo just created the longest thread in the Usenet's
temporal dimension! (Well, there may be older ones still
going, but they're probably in my killfile.)
Then that Matt McIrvin (mmci...@world.std.com) d00d said a bunch
of stuff, including:
: Closely related was the "interactive multimedia LP-ROM," an innovative
: technology whose only known examples were lost to humanity when Carl
: Sagan shot them into interstellar space.
: I will re-use that joke once every five years UNTIL SOMEBODY LAUGHS.
Okay then; I'm laughing, I'm laughing.
Feel free to reuse it in 2004 anyway.
: The LP-ROM gave a *warmer* image than the CD-ROM.
I will resist riffing about 78-ROM or Wax Cylinder-ROM.
Unless I come up with anything actually clever by 2004. Or 1904,
whichever comes first.
: I wouldn't know what that means, except I have Marshall McLuhan right
: here.
IYKWIM! In bed! On fire!
...oh, nevamind.
-- Froggy-ROM
* Fro...@neosoft.com ** "The Information Super-Frog" [dibs] *
http://www.angelfire.com/la/carlosmay/
The Avocado Avenger
>Kibo just now replied to:
>: >> Subject: Home VCRs
>: >> Newsgroups: net.misc
>: >> Path: utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb
>: >> Date: Wed Feb 10 08:53:19 1982
>Hey! Kibo just created the longest thread in the Usenet's
>temporal dimension! (Well, there may be older ones still
>going, but they're probably in my killfile.)
"The World's Longest Thread", and "alt.fuck-the-skull-of-jesus", are the
only threads that have taken permanent residence in my killfile, and I
plan on never letting them out. I don't care if they will eventually be
antiquities and "little cultural nuggets", I will never read them ever
again.
>Then that Matt McIrvin (mmci...@world.std.com) d00d said a bunch
>of stuff, including:
>: Closely related was the "interactive multimedia LP-ROM," an innovative
>: technology whose only known examples were lost to humanity when Carl
>: Sagan shot them into interstellar space.
>: I will re-use that joke once every five years UNTIL SOMEBODY LAUGHS.
>Okay then; I'm laughing, I'm laughing.
>Feel free to reuse it in 2004 anyway.
We'll all still be here, and we'll all remember it.
>: The LP-ROM gave a *warmer* image than the CD-ROM.
>I will resist riffing about 78-ROM or Wax Cylinder-ROM.
Or Abacus-ROM.
>IYKWIM! In bed! On fire!
IWPTA "on bed in fire"... which wasn't really any funnier.
Joseph Michael Bay
>Closely related was the "interactive multimedia LP-ROM," an innovative
>technology whose only known examples were lost to humanity when Carl
>Sagan shot them into interstellar space.
HAW HAW HAW!! I BET THEM ELPEE ROM'S HAD NEKKID PICTHERS OF PEOPLE!
>I will re-use that joke once every five years UNTIL SOMEBODY LAUGHS.
>The LP-ROM gave a *warmer* image than the CD-ROM. I wouldn't know what
>that means, except I have Marshall McLuhan right here.
Marshall McLuhan this. I got yer Marshall McLuhan Right Here.
--
Joseph M. Bay Lamont Sanford Junior University
Putting the "harm" in molecular pharmacology since 1998
"Bother," said Pooh, as he gazed upon the unspeakable visage of Cthulhu.
Shlurp. Shlurp. *BOING*. Shlurp. Shlurp. *BOING*. Shlurp. Shlurp. *BOING*.
E Teflon Piano
mmci...@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin) wrote:
}Closely related was the "interactive multimedia LP-ROM," an innovative
}technology whose only known examples were lost to humanity when Carl
}Sagan shot them into interstellar space.
ANSI did *not* shoot an LP-ROM into space. All interactive LP-ROMs ever
produced were devoted to inculcating in 7th graders the other side of this
conversation, in French:
Hello, John, how are you?
Okay.
We are going to the beach.
Oh, that's a shame.
FUK, I've broken my leg!
}
}
}
}I will re-use that joke once every five years UNTIL SOMEBODY LAUGHS.
That's a longer period than Haley's Comet, named after astronomer Haley Mills.
}
}
}
}The LP-ROM gave a *warmer* image than the CD-ROM. I wouldn't know what
}that means, except I have Marshall McLuhan right here.
Marshalls are too harsh,man, What you want to get is a Vox Populi. They
R0CK!!1
--
Institute for Misapplied Psychometry fellow E Teflon Piano is founder of the
Internet 'Lectronic Legal Society. Teflon is a mark owned by duPont. E is E
poly(TFE) Piano Enterprises' [dibs] for ironic hyperbole and elitist satire.
ŠE[dibs] 1994-1999
Shawn David Struck
> -- K.
>
> Mmmm, archivey.
>
You actually LIKE those? Man, I still don't get why people order those
on their pizza.
EWWWWWWWW!!!!!!11!!,
--Shawn David Struck
"Now that's a name that sounds cool when William Shatner says it. Me,
I have the kind of of name that sounds cool when Leonard Nimoy sings
it."-James "Kibo" Parry, on my name as compared to his.
My chunk of web: www.saucybard.com/shawn UIN: 14131899
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