unshort shameful addiction confession
Kent Paul Dolan
to think about which newsgroups to use]
It was the author of "million reader web-comic"
Dreamland Chronicles,
http://www.wowio.com/users/searchresults.asp?txtSearch=%22Scott+Christian+Sava%22
who first led me to WOWIO.com by a mention in
his comic's blog.
Now I have 0.9 gigabytes / 102 items downloaded,
sixteen more items queued, and my hard drive is
starting to bulge at the seams. Not all of
everything I want is there, I'd like a lot of
computer science reference stuff, of course, but
there's a lot of poetry, political history,
classical novels, biography, and other very readable
stuff, free for the cost of download and of having
modest advertising in the beginning and end of
downloaded documents. As Scott notes on his site,
http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/
so far the clientele is limited to US residents, due
apparently to advertisers wanting to know that they
are paying for ads read by people who can actually
buy their products, but that's still a big chunk of
all Internet users (though less than half since as
far back as 2002, if I recall correctly).
Authors of current works get a tiny royalty for each
document downloaded from WOWIO.com, so
downloading is a low pain way to support authors
whose work you admire.
The damages so far to my hard drive, not the titles
of the original PDF files from WOWIO.com, but the
titles I gave them so I'd know what I had when I
looked at the directories where they are stored:
Already read:
LullabyVol1WisdomSeeker_01_45710.pdf -- comic
LullabyVol1WisdomSeeker_02_45711.pdf -- comic
LullabyVol1WisdomSeeker_03_45712.pdf -- comic
TheSecretGarden.pdf -- famous children's novel
TheDreamlandChronicles_01_44236.pdf -- comic
TheDreamlandChronicles_02_45709.pdf -- comic
TheDreamlandChronicles_03_60702.pdf -- comic
Currently reading:
FarewellToTheStarlightInWhiskey_59148.pdf -- poems
Downloaded but not yet begun:
2006BritannicaWorldData_58202.pdf -- reference
ACitizensGuideToEcology_55785.pdf -- biological science / current
politics
AdamsVersusJeffersonTheTmultuousElection_48988.pdf -- political
history
AMatterofBlue_62632.pdf -- poems
AmericanOriginalALifeOfWillRogers_48990.pdf -- biography
AmericasFoundingDocumentsTheChartersOfFreedom_48989.pdf -- political
history
AnAbruptClimateChangeScenario_44234.pdf -- political forecasting
AngelsForTheBurning_60701.pdf -- poems
APortraitOfTheArtistAsAYoungMan_52983.pdf -- famous autobiography
AreWeHardwiredTheRoleOfGenesInHumanBehavior_42958.pdf -- biological
science
AssemblingTheTreeOfLife_47442.pdf -- biological science
BeforeAndAfterTheFall_60700.pdf -- poems
Beowulf_52984.pdf -- epic poem
BrightHunger_60699.pdf -- poems
BrownVersusTheBoardOfEducation_48991.pdf -- political history
CatsCradle_42961.pdf -- famous excellent novel
DantesDivineComedy_52985.pdf -- epic poem
ElegyWithAGlassofWhiskey_62631.pdf -- poems
Emma_52986.pdf -- comedy of manners classic novel
EmpireOfLibertyTheStatescraftOfThomasJefferson_48992.pdf -- political
biography
EnginesOfCreation20_41378.pdf -- nanotechnology science
FromBabelToDragomans_50484.pdf -- current political analysis
GreatPhysicistsTheLifeAndTimes_56888.pdf -- mini-biographies
GroundedAngelPart1_61363.pdf -- comic
GroundedAngelPart2_61364.pdf -- comic
GroundedAngelPart3_61365.pdf -- comic
GroundedAngelPart4_62628.pdf -- comic
HatingAmerica_50485.pdf -- current political analysis
HowToMakeALivingAsAPoet_47443.pdf -- personal economic strategy for
"unusual" income sources
ImpossibilityTheLimitsOfScience_59145.pdf -- philosophy of science
InDarwinsShadowTheLifeAndScienceOfAlfredRusselWallace_64233.pdf --
science biography
InspirationAndIdeasACreativitySourcebookForGraphicDesigners_47444.pdf
-- reference artist guidebook
JaneEyre_52987.pdf -- comedy of manners classic novel
JRobertOppenheimerALife_56889.pdf -- science biograhpy
LookingBackward_54047.pdf -- famous early science fiction novel
LullabyVol1WisdomSeeker_04_55784.pdf -- comic
LullabyVol2PowerGrabber_01_45713.pdf -- comic
LullabyVol2PowerGrabber_02_47440.pdf -- comic
LullabyVol2PowerGrabber_03_47441.pdf -- comic
NorthangerAbbey_56890.pdf -- comedy of manners obscure classic novel
NotesFromUnderground_54048.pdf -- famous novel of existential
philosophy
OffSeasonInThePromisedLand_62629.pdf -- poems
OnLiberty_54049.pdf -- famous political science tract
OnTheOriginOfSpecies_64234.pdf -- evolutionary science
ParadiseLost_54050.pdf -- epic poem
Philosophy100EssentialThinkers_42959.pdf -- capsule philosophy
PiratesAnIllustratedHistory_50486.pdf -- virual coffee table book
PlatosEthics_64231.pdf -- famous philosophy
PoemsSeries_I_54051.pdf -- famous poems
PoemsSeries_II_54571.pdf -- famous poems
PoemsSeries_III_54572.pdf -- famous poems
PrideAndPrejudice_54573.pdf -- comedy of manners classic novel
RestorationOfTheRepublic_50487.pdf -- political advice for the US
ScienceTruthAndDemocracy_62630.pdf -- political philosophy of science
SelfReliance_54574.pdf -- personal philosophy
SenseAndSensibility_54575.pdf -- comedy of manners classic novel
ShoelessJoe_60698.pdf -- novel base for movie "Field of Dreams"
SixDaysOfWar_50488.pdf -- recent political history
SLAN_44233.pdf -- famous science fiction novel
SlaughterHouseFive_42962.pdf -- world class anti-war novel
Sonnets_55781.pdf -- Shakespeare's, in particular, poetry
SurfingThroughHyperspace_66102.pdf -- cosmological science
TheArtOfWar_41379.pdf -- famous advice to generals
TheAscentOfScience_59144.pdf -- overview of historical and current
science
TheBattleoverHetchHetchy_44235.pdf -- environmental history
TheBetterAngelWaltWhitman_52351.pdf -- biography
TheBookOfEvidence_64235.pdf -- philosophy of science
TheFirstStepsInAlgebra_66104.pdf -- math textbook
TheFundamentalsOfDrawing_59147.pdf -- art textbook
TheGreatDesignParticiclesFieldsAndCreation_66103.pdf -- science of
physics and cosmology
TheLab00_58198.pdf -- comic
TheLab01_58199.pdf -- comic
TheLab02_58200.pdf -- comic
TheLab03_58201.pdf -- comic
TheMarketplaceofRevolution_52353.pdf -- political analysis
TheModernRevolutionInPhysics_66105.pdf -- science overview
TheNatureOfMathematicalKnowledge_66101.pdf -- philosophy of science
ThePrince_41380.pdf -- famous advice to political rulers
TheScarletLetter_56887.pdf -- famous classic novel about intolerance
TheSirensOfTitan_42960.pdf -- science fiction
TheTheoryOfEverything_41377.pdf -- cosmology
TheVelveteenRabbit.pdf -- classic children's novel
TheWhistle_64232.pdf -- personal philosophy
ThusSpakeZarathustra_56886.pdf -- philosophy
ToolsOfTheAncientGreeks_55782.pdf -- technology history
TrialAndErrorCreationAndEvolution_52352.pdf -- evolution science
UnderTheCopeOfHeaven_52354.pdf -- US political history
Utopia_61362.pdf -- novel of philosophy
VenusAndAdonis_61361.pdf -- epic Shakespeare poem
VirtualRealism_44237.pdf -- modern technology
Walden_41381.pdf -- autobiographical personal philosophy
WaldenPondAHistory_52355.pdf -- biography
WillowWineMirrorMoon_59146.pdf -- poems
WithTwentyFiveSoldiersOfLead_55783.pdf -- personal philosophical essay
FYI
Go thou and do likewise, if the price suits you.
xanthian.
SCARECROW
> [followups set to "poster" to force respondents
> to think about which newsgroups to use]
>
> It was the author of "million reader web-comic"
> Dreamland Chronicles,
>
>
> who first led me to WOWIO.com by a mention in
> his comic's blog.
>
> Now I have 0.9 gigabytes / 102 items downloaded,
> sixteen more items queued, and my hard drive is
Do you think you have enough material to win a local poetry contest?
Do any aliens post there... It seems that's what you need to
plagiarize to win a national/international competition, because
plagiarization within the Earth's archives only leads to crash and
burn. [1]
--
At war with the planets
At war with all mankind
[1] http://www.harvardindependent.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=9906
Ace Lightning
>[followups set to "poster" to force respondents
>to think about which newsgroups to use]
notice i *didn't* send it to misc.misc...
>It was the author of "million reader web-comic"
>Dreamland Chronicles,
> http://www.wowio.com/users/searchresults.asp?txtSearch=%22Scott+Christian+Sava%22
>who first led me to WOWIO.com by a mention in
>his comic's blog.
>Now I have 0.9 gigabytes / 102 items downloaded,
>sixteen more items queued, and my hard drive is
>starting to bulge at the seams. Not all of
>everything I want is there, I'd like a lot of
>computer science reference stuff, of course, but
>there's a lot of poetry, political history,
>classical novels, biography, and other very readable
>stuff, free for the cost of download and of having
>modest advertising in the beginning and end of
>downloaded documents.
Project Gutenberg has an *astonishing* volume and range of
content, and it's free. remember a while back when a bunch
of us took it upon ourselves to rewrite Nietzche? i used
Project Gutenberg to obtain the original, so i could rewrite
it.
SCARECROW
> Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
> >[followups set to "poster" to force respondents
> >to think about which newsgroups to use]
>
> notice i *didn't* send it to misc.misc...
>
> >It was the author of "million reader web-comic"
> >Dreamland Chronicles,
> >who first led me to WOWIO.com by a mention in
> >his comic's blog.
> >Now I have 0.9 gigabytes / 102 items downloaded,
> >sixteen more items queued, and my hard drive is
> >starting to bulge at the seams. Not all of
> >everything I want is there, I'd like a lot of
> >computer science reference stuff, of course, but
> >there's a lot of poetry, political history,
> >classical novels, biography, and other very readable
> >stuff, free for the cost of download and of having
> >modest advertising in the beginning and end of
> >downloaded documents.
>
> Project Gutenberg has an *astonishing* volume and range of
> content, and it's free. remember a while back when a bunch
> of us took it upon ourselves to rewrite Nietzche? i used
> Project Gutenberg to obtain the original, so i could rewrite
> it.
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/
Admit it, Ace... You wouldn't have responded to this if I hadn't. It
goes high in your lexicon when I reply to something you get to reply
to it and make a separate thread so that the children of the future
getting the thread are more likely not to obtain my imperial response.
You will get yours in the end. You think you have paid your dues, oh
my gawd honey it's just starting. You gonna pay out the nose and you
gonna pay hard.
nikolai kingsley
> Admit it, Ace... You wouldn't have responded to this if I hadn't.
if you were one of the fuckers who ganked my UNDEFENDED AND UNARMED
Merlin in the asteroid belt around QSF this morning, you will pay
dearly. no-one sodomises Goonfleet and gets away clean, not even in 0.0
sec space.
Ace Lightning
>Admit it, Ace... You wouldn't have responded to this if I hadn't. It
>goes high in your lexicon when I reply to something you get to reply
>to it and make a separate thread so that the children of the future
>getting the thread are more likely not to obtain my imperial response.
>You will get yours in the end. You think you have paid your dues, oh
>my gawd honey it's just starting. You gonna pay out the nose and you
>gonna pay hard.
what the *fuck* are you talking about? i replied to Kent's original
post on this topic, and AFAIK i was the first one to reply to
this particular one. i didn't see any other replies, although i do
have to admit i wasn't looking for yours in particular. y'know,
not everything in the world is about you.
and i *really* don't appreciate the vague threats.
Kent Paul Dolan
> what the *fuck* are you talking about
Julian's becoming slowly but steadily more
irrational with time, and in a way different from
his usual cyclic problems.
This time around it seems to be something a little
more serious than just missed meds leading to a set
of manic streak precursor postings.
His connection to reality seems to have snapped
pretty badly, not that it has ever been all that
splendid.
Consider the recent posting in which he claimed to
have been participating here for "over two years"
when what was more correct was "nearly twelve
years".
Life seems to be fuzzing out for him.
His attack on you is just one instance of a recent
scattershot set of attacks on "the usual suspects"
in talk.bizarre.
This looks a lot more like some substantially
psychotic behavior on his part than like his usual
manic outburst, snapping back at perceived insults
that exist only in his paranoid imaginings, but only
time will tell.
Expect more and more such outTbursts in the future,
if he follows his usual manic streak posting
pattern.
The pity is, except for one outburst a while back,
he's been fairly stable now for quite a while, meds
seemingly functioning effectively for him.
Quantum valeat.
xanthian.
Ace Lightning
>>what the *fuck* are you talking about?
i seem to remember that he made a somewhat similar vague
threat to me a year or two ago - again, over something that
made no sense at all (i think it was something i'd said to
nikolai). i mean, i'm not *afraid* of him - he'd have to
make a determined effort to find out my "real" name, or any
other personal details, in order to stalk me, and besides,
i don't think he's likely to. however, making non-specific
and context-free threats to a person is just *rude*, y'know?
nikolai kingsley
> i seem to remember that he made a somewhat similar vague
> threat to me a year or two ago - again, over something that
oh, he threatens me all the time. when he's not proclaiming me his
successor. i'm kind of proud of that.
SCARECROW
Yeah that was me. I'm going to do it again too, if you don't answer
your ship's email.
--
Kent Paul Dolan
> oh, he threatens me all the time. when he's not
> proclaiming me his successor. i'm kind of proud of
> that.
Hey, he keeps telling the world that this toothless
geezer is some huge and present danger to the
survival of all humankind, pretty funny to a guy who
sometimes can't go out the door for weeks at a time
(from anxiety syndrome).
[The fiancee and I were down to scavanging the
shelves for food before I finally got clear-headed
enough to walk the hundred yards to Safeway last
week after being stuck inside for three weeks.]
With me, "proud" isn't exactly the word I'd use,
more "bemused".
xanthian, a.k.a. "Ming the Housebound"..
(David P.)
> making non-specific and context-free threats
> to a person is just *rude*, y'know?
No it isn't. It's *bizarre* ! !
.
.
--
SCARECROW
> [The fiancee and I were down to scavanging the
> shelves for food before I finally got clear-headed
Kent, you're batty as hell. Now you've got yourself thinking you and
your fiancee are termites. Clear-headed for you is eating your fill of
glass marbles.
--
Ace Lightning
well, you're actually *entertaining*...
Ace Lightning
>>making non-specific and context-free threats
>>to a person is just *rude*, y'know?
>No it isn't. It's *bizarre* ! !
if that's "bizarre", then so is lighting your farts.
Gary Heston
Ace Lightning <acelig...@monmouth.com> wrote:
>Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
>>>what the *fuck* are you talking about?
>>Julian's becoming slowly but steadily more
>>irrational with time, and in a way different from
>>his usual cyclic problems.
>i seem to remember that he made a somewhat similar vague
>threat to me a year or two ago - again, over something that
>made no sense at all (i think it was something i'd said to
>nikolai). [ ... ]
IIRC, Julian was the one threatening to come to MOUNT.BOB and
cause problems, then posted pretending to be his father to
try and deflect some of the heat.
(Quick--who still has a MOUNT.BOB shirt? Who else is wearing
one as you type? Anyone heard from Jenine or Gnat lately?)
That was 1997; I doubt he's any less a blowhard now.
Gary
--
Gary Heston ghe...@hiwaay.net http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/
Yoko Onos' former driver tried to extort $2M from her, threating to
"release embarassing recordings...". What, he has a copy of her album?
Ace Lightning
>IIRC, Julian was the one threatening to come to MOUNT.BOB and
>cause problems, then posted pretending to be his father to
>try and deflect some of the heat.
>(Quick--who still has a MOUNT.BOB shirt? Who else is wearing
>one as you type? Anyone heard from Jenine or Gnat lately?)
>That was 1997; I doubt he's any less a blowhard now.
the only thing worse than a raving lunatic is a raving lunatic
who's *BORING* at it.
SCARECROW
> In article <TuKdnTyOvcxPTqTbnZ2dnUVZ_t2tn...@comcast.com>,
> Ace Lightning <acelightn...@monmouth.com> wrote:>Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
> >>>what the *fuck* are you talking about?
> >>Julian's becoming slowly but steadily more
> >>irrational with time, and in a way different from
> >>his usual cyclic problems.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> >i seem to remember that he made a somewhat similar vague
> >threat to me a year or two ago - again, over something that
> >made no sense at all (i think it was something i'd said to
> >nikolai). [ ... ]
>
> IIRC, Julian was the one threatening to come to MOUNT.BOB and
> cause problems, then posted pretending to be his father to
> try and deflect some of the heat.
>
> (Quick--who still has a MOUNT.BOB shirt? Who else is wearing
> one as you type? Anyone heard from Jenine or Gnat lately?)
>
> That was 1997; I doubt he's any less a blowhard now.
You do not recall correctly. As history would have it, I attended
MOUNT.BOB. All the postings by my father in this newsgroup have been
my actual father. I don't feel like pulling it up right now, but see
the posting by Anthony Garcia in which he says that he called the
number provided in one of my father's posts and was surprised to talk
to him and not me.
--
SCARECROW
You know what? You don't have the vaguest idea of who I am. You've
skimmed over a few of my posts, belched and got bloated on some garlic
and then pinned your fiery heartburn on me. From my standpoint it is
obvious that you have diminished my contributions and put your
favorite serial killer's head over mine in all the picture shows your
brain makes to make you understand me. You are the one who is boring
because you have stereotyped me and stigmatized me, and what's sad is
that you get this basis from the wacked out Dolan postings which you
lap up like warm milk. You'll skim over this post and say it is more
of the same, that I am inhuman and repulsive and so on...
--
Ace Lightning
>>the only thing worse than a raving lunatic is a raving lunatic
>>who's *BORING* at it.
>You know what? You don't have the vaguest idea of who I am. You've
>skimmed over a few of my posts, belched and got bloated on some garlic
>and then pinned your fiery heartburn on me. From my standpoint it is
>obvious that you have diminished my contributions and put your
>favorite serial killer's head over mine in all the picture shows your
>brain makes to make you understand me. You are the one who is boring
>because you have stereotyped me and stigmatized me, and what's sad is
>that you get this basis from the wacked out Dolan postings which you
>lap up like warm milk. You'll skim over this post and say it is more
>of the same, that I am inhuman and repulsive and so on...
you're not "inhuman and repulsive", you're annoying and repetitive.
there have been times when your posts were interesting, and it
was even fun to interact with you... but not lately. i don't equate
you with *any* serial killer (not that i have a "favorite" one in
the first place), because i don't think you quite fit the parameters.
you're an intelligent person, and it makes me sad to think that you
can't, or won't bother to, maintain better control over your mental
state. (i mean, i don't think *anybody* in t.b. is completely sane,
least of all myself, but some of us do orbit a little closer in than
the Oort Cloud.)
and it's obvious that *you* don't have the vaguest idea of who *i*
am, because if you did, you'd never have referred to me getting
heartburn from eating garlic; i'm violently allergic to the stuff,
and all its botanical relatives, and everyone who knows me knows
about this.
nikolai kingsley
>> if you were one of the fuckers who ganked my UNDEFENDED AND UNARMED
>> Merlin in the asteroid belt around QSF this morning, you will pay
>> dearly. no-one sodomises Goonfleet and gets away clean, not even in 0.0
>> sec space.
>
> Yeah that was me. I'm going to do it again too, if you don't answer
> your ship's email.
oh, crap. where's the email button? *PANIC* THEY'RE SHOOTING AT ME, MILO!
--
"They're shooting at EVERYONE, Yossarian."
nikolai kingsley
if done on rollerskates, with some kind of nitrous-powered afterburner
involved, yes. i wonder if Scott Dorsey still has that wind-tunnel in
back of his place.
Scott Dorsey
>Ace Lightning <acelig...@monmouth.com> wrote:
>>Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
>>>>what the *fuck* are you talking about?
>>>Julian's becoming slowly but steadily more
>>>irrational with time, and in a way different from
>>>his usual cyclic problems.
> [ ... ]
>
>>i seem to remember that he made a somewhat similar vague
>>threat to me a year or two ago - again, over something that
>>made no sense at all (i think it was something i'd said to
>>nikolai). [ ... ]
>
>IIRC, Julian was the one threatening to come to MOUNT.BOB and
>cause problems, then posted pretending to be his father to
>try and deflect some of the heat.
Are you sure? I thought that actually _was_ his father.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Ace Lightning
better yet, forget the roller skates and do it in zero-G.
Gary Heston
Scott Dorsey <klu...@panix.com> wrote:
>Gary Heston <ghe...@hiwaay.net> wrote:
[ ... ]
>>IIRC, Julian was the one threatening to come to MOUNT.BOB and
>>cause problems, then posted pretending to be his father to
>>try and deflect some of the heat.
>Are you sure? I thought that actually _was_ his father.
No way to be sure; back then, he still had the capacity to post
short items that were coherent.
Anyway, he didn't show then, I doubt he will now.
Scott Dorsey
>
>if done on rollerskates, with some kind of nitrous-powered afterburner
>involved, yes. i wonder if Scott Dorsey still has that wind-tunnel in
>back of his place.
Got seven left. The one big enough to hold a full-size 747 is shut down
now, but we still have one big enough for a 737.
(David P.)
> nikolai kingsley <shera...@invalid.alphalink.com.au> wrote:
>
> >if done on rollerskates, with some kind of nitrous-powered afterburner
> >involved, yes. i wonder if Scott Dorsey still has that wind-tunnel in
> >back of his place.
>
> Got seven left. The one big enough to hold a full-size 747 is shut down
> now, but we still have one big enough for a 737.
NO YOU DON'T !! HUSH !! SKEDADDLE !!
.
.
--
Kent Paul Dolan
> [followups set to "poster" to force respondents
> to think about which newsgroups to use]
> It was the author of "million reader web-comic"
> Dreamland Chronicles,
> http://www.wowio.com/users/searchresults.asp?txtSearch=%22Scott+Chris...
> who first led me to WOWIO.com by a mention in
> his comic's blog.
And now the "addiction" part proves all too real.
With 1,265,537,527 bytes and 151 documents
downloaded [I'm 63, when in this life am I going
to find time remaining to read over a gigabyte of
books?] I find myself starting to shake when my
books-selected-to-order falls below the daily limit
of 5, and I go scrambling for new categories to
ravish.
The WOWIO.com help pages put it this way:
Why is there a limit on the number of books per day?
It's a Tragedy of the Commons thing.
The current limit is 5 free ebooks per reader per day.
I am obviously become part of that Tragedy.
Soon, "Readers Anonymous" clinics will be springing
up all over the WOWIO.com catchment area.
xanthian, word-addict.
(David P.)
Kent Paul Dolan <xanth...@well.com> wrote:
>"(David P.)" <imb...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, but the plan to reach 9 or 10 billion is set
>> in stone,
>
>It's only set in stone if blockheads like you
>succeed in preventing government subsidized (or
>other essentially "free to the user" (because the
>users most in need of it are very poor))
>distribution of conception prevention technology.
No, it's governments that are the obstacle to
the distribution. Most of 'em only care about
power for themselves. Most of the aid (including
education) that comes to the poor countries goes
through the government first, so the people don't
get much. That ain't gonna change.
.
.
--