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Tiny Dr. Tim
<bfwestley> hey ho
<Freqman> do not point your robot directly at the sun...
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<mrlyn_lry> no vowels
<Freqman> hey... I know I just got here... but I have to go... I
accidentally dialed up on the WRONG PHONE LINE... gasp...
<Freqman> be right back...
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<mrlyn_lry> <Merv voice> "Well be right back..."
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<Freqman> so... am I back?
<SO> No, youre not.
<Freqman> Whos here then...
<Freqman> Are we alone?
<SO> BW will be in a sec, Im just along for the ride.
<mrlyn_lry> im here
<mrlyn_lry> I dont always have this window frontmost
<SO> Or, SO YOU SAY!!!! <insert dramatic music>
<Freqman> always on top... thats my moto
<mrlyn_lry> MR moto to you
<Freqman> motto... moto... so you say... I had a car once who I named
Mr.
Moto... twas an early Mitsubishi
<mrlyn_lry> maybe proctor could do a peter lorre voice for them
<SO> <P
<SO> Crap windows keyboard....
<mrlyn_lry> windows got keyboards now - I suppose your pants have a hard
disk?
<Freqman> Chan or Moto...? Personally I like Moto better (Im a big Lorre
fan) "Didnt you ever see me in Casablanca???"
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<mrlyn_lry> Havent seen many Mr. Moto movies; not many Chan for years,
either (except Jackie)
<cease> hi yall
<SO> I gotta agree with ya on Lorre - CAMP EXTREME[tm]
<mrlyn_lry> ho ha
<Freqman> hee guard turn perry dodge thrust ho!
<mrlyn_lry> OK, lets ask the anglican guy with the japanese name what he
thinks of Lorre playing Mr. Moto
<SO> Anglican guy mwith as
<SO> DAMN KEYBOARD!!!
<mrlyn_lry> you sound like basil fawlty
* SO sez sorry... used to a type 5...
<cease> so? the gas company?
<Freqman> Its amazing how hollywood just didnt wanna put asians on the
screen in staring roles... Mr Moto, Charlie Chan, Dr. No... and Kung Fu
<SO> We had a gas delivery today, as a matter of fact. HOT WATER AND
COOKING AVAILABILITY FOR ALL MY MEN!!!!
<mrlyn_lry> Number one son Keye Luke was the real deal
<Freqman> supporting actor
<Freqman> he no star of show
<cease> change your nick, bf?
<mrlyn_lry> myrna loy played a lot of asian parts, too
<mrlyn_lry> yeah, cat
<mrlyn_lry> just for fun
<Freqman> at least SULU was real
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<LeatherG> Is there no topic tonight?
<cease> oh i see. leather and her significant o
<Freqman> +tn
<LeatherG> Whats that mean?
<LeatherG> Hi,cat
<Freqman> whats it all mean mr and mrs john q smith from any town usa?
<cease> more Sugar
<Freqman> MORE sugar
<LeatherG> Wheres the Tiny Dr. tonite?
<SO> Ahhh, honey, honey,,
<Freqman> doot doot doot doot doo doo
<LeatherG> ACCKKKK!! BUBBLE GUM!!
<Freqman> Asprigum was my favorite flavor
<SO> I always preferred laxative gums.
<Freqman> i like my laxatives to have a nutty chocolate flavor...
<LeatherG> I thought you preferred suppositories.
<SO> Laxative gums == past tense.
<Freqman> gingavitis
<SO> Suppositories == anytime.
<Freqman> bleeding gums
<LeatherG> Is laxative == past tense like the pluperfect subjunctive?
<SO> Suppositories wont help bleeding gums.
<cease> doc tech told me he was off to south carolina tonight
<LeatherG> Ill miss him.
<SO> NO YOU WONT
<LeatherG> Er, okay ...
<Freqman> you cant bowl with an unarmed man...
<cease> dont know where tiny is
<LeatherG> working late, maybe
<SO> I meant that in a THREATINING way, ya know.
<SO> Missppelledd and all.
<LeatherG> Uh-oh, what are you going to do to Doc?
<Freqman> maybe if you practice... you wont miss him
<SO> BRB - need 2 of the 4 food groups.
<LeatherG> cigarettes and tequila, I think that wou
<cease> did you folks all get ninos cd?
<LeatherG> Not me. Is it worth getting?
<LeatherG> This was the recording of the radio show?
<cease> right
<cease> very very much so, leather
<cease> and i heard the broadcast via real audio feed
<mrlyn_lry> Im planning to, but I procrasna too much
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<mrlyn_lry> I must be on it, I called in
<cease> the conversations between the broadcasts are priceless
<HasNoName> Hello...
<cease> too many hs
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<mrlyn_lry> cat: what do you mean? The feed during commercials?
<HasNoName> Huh. How about that?
<cease> yeah
<LeatherG> Ill have to get out of my post-holiday-funk funk, then, and
order it.
<TinyDrTim> Better late than never, eh?
<cease> and the commercials! youd think they were Ft but theyre real
<mrlyn_lry> boy, save the best for nonbroadcast...
<LeatherG> Hi, TDT, and hi, HasNoName
<cease> they way proc and ossie react to them is better than dear
friends
<LeatherG> oooh, cat, Im definitely gonna get it.
<mrlyn_lry> so they can hear the commercials and they rag on em?
<TinyDrTim> Now youre all catholic, er, uh, opped
<LeatherG> I used to be Catholic, now Im opped
<HasNoName> Ah, the ChanServ, the NickServ, and the Holy Op...
<TinyDrTim> Hello everyone. did I miss anything?
<LeatherG> No, we didnt say anything, we were waiting for you.
<cease> theres a sort of female viagra substance that broke the boys up.
may well show up on their next album
<cease> hi tiny
<SO> #PNIG KiddyPron
<mrlyn_lry> I remember the real commercial, but we didnt hear their
comments
<cease> also they talk to nino and allan
* TinyDrTim is flattered that Babs waited for him . . .
<TinyDrTim> Hi Cat!
<cease> say rather different things than when on air
<LeatherG> <snork> he believed me!
* TinyDrTim wants to check his lag
* SO challenges TDT to a... to a... Oh well, never mind.
<LeatherG> Your lag is very nice, TDT.
<TinyDrTim> Youre on, SO!
<cease> a hot cheese lag?
<cease> naughty
<LeatherG> He is SO on!
<TinyDrTim> Everyone under 3 seconals to the Tiny dr. :-)
* SO challenges BW... (you know the shtick)
<TinyDrTim> SO is SO ON?
<TinyDrTim> That so and so
<Freqman> and so on
<cease> wwatch those seconals, tiny. you might wind up dead on mexican
train tracks and the subject of another seem real theatre play
* TinyDrTim should be so lucky - hahahah
<HasNoName> So, did anyone get those MP3s from the site not to be
mentioned in a public forum?
<TinyDrTim> Why so quiet?
<SO> Anyone wanna talk abou robots?
<TinyDrTim> What mp3s
* TinyDrTim chuckles
<cease> rules of order?
<Freqman> theyre not programmed for self defense
<SO> If you believ Asimov.
<TinyDrTim> I, luckily have the entire 12 album collection on tape
<cease> i heard a few clips when they were up, but i already have the
dear
friends shows
<SO> BTW, yesterday was HAL 9000s second birthday.
<cease> and asimov didnt believe anybody
<LeatherG> Robots Rules of order = Star Trek Prime Directive: handy way
of
engendering narrative conflict to hang a story on.
<TinyDrTim> BRB - Jehovahs Witnesses at the door again. . . grumble
grumble
<cease> true
<Freqman> ah grubs again....
<cease> they can all hang together, or theyll definitely hang separately
<SO> Star Trek (TNG) Prime Directive: when in doubt, do a lame story
involving the HoloDeck.
<LeatherG> And have Q save everything at the last minute.
<cease> oh, its the martin king holiday! so thats why doc went awol
<SO> Q RAWWWWWWKS!
<HasNoName> And involve Wesley if possible.
<cease> guess he had a dream
<SO> RAWWKS LIKE NEKKID MOLE RATS!!1!!
<cease> you yanks have the best holidays!
<LeatherG> He dreamed of going to South Carolina? Well, what the hey.
<Freqman> mall rats?
<LeatherG> I didnt know we had any holidays that werent on a Monday.
<SO> Ash Wednesday.
<Freqman> Good Monday
<LeatherG> No, I mean *holiday* holidays.
<LeatherG> And I DONT count Christmas!
<Freqman> holly daze
<SO> Holly daze - thats what I do at work evry day.
<LeatherG> Every day is a Holly daze for SO.
<cease> yeah im on permanent vacation myself
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<LeatherG> Speaking of Christmas, how SO and I spent Christmas
Eve--giving
him his first listen to "Dont Crush That Dwarf"
<LeatherG> Oh, man, theyve CONVERTED HIM!!!!
<Freqman> Oh dear oh dear
<SO> I giggled.
<cease> wow. first? last month?
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<Freqman> practically a virgin
<SO> Practically?
<cease> coming, mother
<LeatherG> Hes only heard that and "How Can you be/Nick Danger" once.
<LeatherG> TDT, I thought the Jehovahs Witnesses had gotten you.
<cease> he has a whole lifetime of ft to look forward to
<SO> Im getting paged by a horny kid. BRB.
<TinyDrTim> That was weird . . I slammed the door in their faces, one
guy
hollered "God'll get ya", then I come back and my puter is locked up.
Coincidence?
<LeatherG> Nope. Better repent. Run after them waving money.
<TinyDrTim> Ok - BRB
* TinyDrTim is just kidding
<cease> yep
<Freqman> hmmmmmm... a boy w/horns?
<cease> does he have a 666 tatoo?
<TinyDrTim> Maybe it was that porn site I was perusing . . .
<Freqman> Bless us oh holy grid, and please pass the ammo...
<TinyDrTim> Grid your horns, boys.
<cease> pass the lord, and praise the ammo
<TinyDrTim> pass the praise and lord the ammo
<Freqman> Ah most honorable praise....
<TinyDrTim> mrlyn_lry - why the new handle tonight, Bri?
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<LeatherG> Geez, thats Bri? Good thing I didnt say that thing about him
aloud!
*** Mr is now known as MrMoto
<TinyDrTim> You got something to say Mr?
<MrMoto> Ah yes...
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<StephenFosterKane> StephenFosterKane finally shows up (or manages to
return)...hello to all of you from North Kingstown, RI at 9:33:34 PM
EDT.Providence: no report
<TinyDrTim> Thanks for whispering it ot me, Babs . . .
<StephenFosterKane> hello all
<mrlyn_lry> just for fun
<LeatherG> Tee hee
[StephenFosterKane:#firesign PING]
<TinyDrTim> Heya, klok
<SO> STOP THAT
<mrlyn_lry> I dont know if people know Im merlyn leroy in acf-t
<cease> hi klok
<cease> nor care, bf
<TinyDrTim> We do, but were not people, Bri
<StephenFosterKane> here briefly, bak later in full stereo...
<MrMoto> Not since they changed the water
<LeatherG> SO is getting paged by all kinds of horny kids tonight. Where
are they getting his nick?
<mrlyn_lry> Im also bill clinton in my spare time
<LeatherG> So that explains it...
<TinyDrTim> Where are they getting his pager #?
<cease> bill has spare time?
<MrMoto> spare tire biter for me
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-
lets PARTY!
<TinyDrTim> We wont be able to see it here in the Great NW, klok . . .
grumble grumble
<MrMoto> everyone put underwear on their heads and help me storm the
embassy...
<cease> aha, you must have received your copy of neal amid, klok
<LeatherG> I dont have enough underwear for all my heads.
<cease> diet cola for everyone
<StephenFosterKane> not yet Cat, and you know your weather next week fer
sure, TDT?
<StephenFosterKane> is it fog season out there again?
<LeatherG> Im going to go shoot me a fog!
<MrMoto> no thank you... how do you say no in barbarian????
<LeatherG> "No in barbarian" How bout you?
<StephenFosterKane> with an axe!
* HasNoName has been wanting to have a fog fry for ages... mmmm....
<TinyDrTim> klok - its the same from October until May
<MrMoto> axe you a question... Ill ... ummm
<HasNoName> "No in barbara ann"?
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promise Ill never do it again
<TinyDrTim> Babs - shoot me a moon!
<MrMoto> stay on top of things...
<LeatherG> I would, TDT, but I have this cat on my lap.
* LeatherG waits for pussy jokes
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* TinyDrTim wont stoop that low - hell leave it up to SO
<StephenFosterKane> oh yeah, that little layer of cloud that hangs
around
at 200 ft all the time
<FreqMan> Thats just what your expecting us to do....
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<cease> and i dont have a lap top
<LeatherG> So youre not that tiny after all?
<StephenFosterKane> those laptops always burn mine
* TinyDrTim begins to recite "The Owl and the Pussycat"
<TinyDrTim> went to sea, in a beautiful pea green boat . . .
* MrGoodwrench begins to rebuild a balky carb...
<cease> and you can pea into the stream
<LeatherG> and thats IMPORTANT
<MrGoodwrench> WHERES THIS DAMN BOLT GO?!?!?!?!?!
<cease> to the jolly green giant
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<FreqMan> bolt of pure energy?
<StephenFosterKane> socket to her
* LeatherG shows MrGoodwrench just where it goes
<mrlyn_lry> hey freqman, is mrmoto available as a nickname, or did the
nickserve bug you?
<TinyDrTim> You can pee into a balky carb too!
<StephenFosterKane> what is a carb?
* SO doesnt mind having a bit of a lag
<FreqMan> seems available... just thought Id change it back... for the
dear friends who know me as freq
<TinyDrTim> SO hasnt figured that out YET Babs?
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<Merlyn_Le> damn
<cease> sounds like bergman at least, none too happy about mp3 dear
friends
<TinyDrTim> carburetor
<Merlyn_Le> hey sephenfosterkane, howd you get so long a name?
<LeatherG> Thats whats fun about him, TDT--watching him discover things
for the first tiem.
<StephenFosterKane> sorry
<cease> yeah, bf, you sound a lot better on ninos cd than on real audio
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<LeatherG> I hear people look taller on RealAudio than on CD.
*** klokwkdogistheactualnickigener is now known as klokwkdog
* TinyDrTim laughs out loud at Babs, or with Babs . . .
<cease> i have no idea what nino looks like. that black box thing
<klokwkdog> only if theyre not virtual people, LG
<cease> leather, you should get so to hear the first 4 firediscs in
order,
as one long play
<TinyDrTim> On CD they look flat and round
<SO> Thats cause Real Audio uses lossy compression algorithms. CD ==
.bmp
RA == .jpg
<cease> the way the lads eventually conceived of them, in Big Book of
Plays
<LeatherG> I cant find my copy of Waiting for the Electrician!!!!
<FreqMan> uh oh
<klokwkdog> and then theres DVD...<G>
<cease> buy another one
<TinyDrTim> Gimme two!
<LeatherG> I havent found that one, Cat.
<cease> get the cds. the liner notes are worth it
<HasNoName> SO: I thought CD didnt compress at allo, just digitized...
<SO> 2!!!
<klokwkdog> sorry, only one per family, TDT
<HasNoName> allo?
<klokwkdog> hnn - CDs are the pits
<SO> It was a joke. A bad one.
* TinyDrTim grumbles again
* HasNoName wonders what he meant by that...
<cease> hes falling...into the pit!
<LeatherG> Ive got "How Can You Be" on CD, and I can get "Bozos" if my
vinyl turns out to be too messed up, but not "Electrician."
<FreqMan> i need to find a few albums I dont have... Im psyched about
doing my radio show again.... and Id love to have more FT material to
expose to the youngins
<klokwkdog> its all a matter of what you focus on
<cease> your show will be real audioable, freq?
<TinyDrTim> watch what you expose to youngins, Freq . . .
<cease> you have all the lodestone stuff?
<LeatherG> Im gonna get "Dear Friends" if thats still available, havent
heard that since college, lo these many decades ago.
<FreqMan> actually... it will be on the net too...
<cease> whens it start?
<SO> BRB - NMM
<FreqMan> i plan on playing a little Firesign in every half hour show...
I hope I can get it on the air in a few months... I want to get 10 shows
in the can before they start airing them...
<TinyDrTim> Babs - get the "Back From the Shadows" double LP
<cease> is that on cd?
<FreqMan> The station is looking into automation (so they can stay on
the
air when student djs flake out and miss their shows... ) My show will be
part of the automated rotation too...
<TinyDrTim> Yep. I have it right here.
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<FreqMan> I need to get that Back from the shadows AND forward into the
past...
<klokwkdog> klokwkdog watches one more fade into the ether
<FreqMan> already?
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<cease> i was cut off
<TinyDrTim> at the past?
<cease> ouch!
<Merlyn_Le> yeah, Back from the Shadows has a lot of Dwarf
<LeatherG> Thanx, TDT. Ive been meaning to do some record buying, now
that the holidays are over.
<FreqMan> black helicoptors...
<cease> if they were pink, would they scare anybody?
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<cease> welcome back, bf
<LeatherG> Pink helicopters? Hell, yes, they would!
<SO> cease: I just saw youre coming in from @home - whattya hear about
the impending
<SO> UDP?
<TinyDrTim> I got mine from MoFi, which is now tits up (pardon the
expression, Babs) but I know you can get it from Lodestone and/or
Freditor
- Maybe even Rhino
<cease> impending what?
<cease> helicopters?
<cease> cops ride horses up here
<SO> UDP.
<cease> that is what?
<SO> Sorry - [ENTER] ke is too big.
<HasNoName> Usenet Death Penalty, cat.
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<FreqMan> dont touch that dwarf... come inside... Im Dr. Weird....
<LeatherG> HI, BB
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<klokwkdog> which datagram protocol??
<_Bunnyboy_> lo dere
* _Bunnyboy_ SPROINKS between his brackets
<cease> my at home server dies so often, a death penalty would be
redundant
<cease> bunny!
<TinyDrTim> Hi Dave - Whats shakin?
<klokwkdog> hi BB
<_Bunnyboy_> TDT: Only mah tail
<SO> UDP == UseNet Death Penalty. The major Despammers are getting ready
to cancel evrything coming from @home in an effort to eliminate the
UseNet
spam.
<LeatherG> It wont take effect until 1/18 at earliest.
<klokwkdog> send it to etoys!
* TinyDrTim bets his nose is twitching too
<cease> i didnt know that
<_Bunnyboy_> send it to Microsoft!
<_Bunnyboy_> and AOL!
<SO> GAH!!!!
<LeatherG> @Home is being given time to clean up its act first.
<LeatherG> Read the @home internal NGs, Cat.
<klokwkdog> thats AOL/Time-Warner to YOU!
<cease> i guess i should
<TinyDrTim> I heard Gates is resigning as CEO of Microshaft? Is it
rumour
or real?
<cease> does that mean i wont be able to post to alt.ft no more?
<klokwkdog> true
<SO> Bill Gates resigned as CEO of MS tonight, on a side note.
<cease> even thru Deja?
<HasNoName> yes, TDT.
<_Bunnyboy_> TDT: Is true. Hes gonna be...an ARCHITECT!
<LeatherG> NO, you can post thru Deja.
<SO> Through Deja - no prob.
<TinyDrTim> What . . . . ..?
<cease> no, hes gonna play minor league baseball
<FreqMan> I heard that he resigned as CEO to head up one of the other
heads of the dragon...
<klokwkdog> in his place, the quiet, calm, even-tempered and highly fair
Steve Ballmer...
<HasNoName> Weirdly enough, just before getting on IRC tonight, I was
watching "Pirates OF Silicon Valley"...
<_Bunnyboy_> Chief SOFTWARE Architect, and Nobodys Sweetheart!
<TinyDrTim> Maybe he'll fight Tyson?
<cease> think of the balls youll have
<SO> Cicely?
<LeatherG> And swim the English channel?
<klokwkdog> I guess Kindly Uncle Jack (Trameil) wasnt available to MS at
the time...
<TinyDrTim> Youre too young to think about that, Beulah Balls
<HasNoName> Doesnt the Dali Lama go to Steve Ballmer when he cant find
innner peace?
<FreqMan> wah de doo dah
<cease> of nigeria?
<_Bunnyboy_> Yer too young to think about Virtual Balls, B.U. Lah
Balls...ehrm...Ballmer!
<FreqMan> quick, another lama is escaping...
<SO> Ballmer? We live close to there!
<TinyDrTim> I think Steve Jobs would make a great CEO of Microshaft
<FreqMan> TDT... haha hahahahh ahhah ahha hahah (cough cough cough) ha
hah
ahhahah
<cease> did any of you read that ezine that posted to alt.ft last week?
great interview with krassner and article about pk dick
<klokwkdog> I think hes just upset that MS didnt tap HIM Chief Software
Architect!
<TinyDrTim> :-)
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<cease> Paradign shift or something
<SO> If I was a stockholder, Id vote for Torvalds.
<klokwkdog> hi low
<TinyDrTim> no, I only read good books . . .
<SO> Paradigm shaft.
<lowlandr> well hello mr and mrs john q public
<cease> low
<_Bunnyboy_> lo low
<klokwkdog> Linus humor too strange
<klokwkdog> wouldnt work with stockholders
<TinyDrTim> Hi, Low
<FreqMan> Powerful Gasoline, a clean windshield, and a shoeshine!
<_Bunnyboy_> Over
* TinyDrTim realizes that greeting is getting old
<SO> Wouldnt work with stockholders? Good.
<lowlandr> hes turnin over!
<cease> anyway, krassner talks about life after The Realist
<SO> IN HIS GRAVE.
<cease> wants to put it on line as The Virtual Realist
<klokwkdog> you need someone powerful, expressive...someone good with a
gun in a pinch, like ESR
<FreqMan> Roger
<TinyDrTim> Daltrey
<cease> and me/
<FreqMan> hmmm virtual realist... what a concept
<SO> ESR?
<cease> paul thinks so
<klokwkdog> sorry, Cat, pse context krassner for me?
<cease> i hope that means i can talk to him online instead of those
messy
faxes and stamps and shit
* TinyDrTim borrows from Peter to pay Paul. that makes Peter sore. and
who
can do business with a sore peter?
<cease> interview in ezine called Paradign Shift which spammed the
alt.ft
newsgroup last week but is worth reading
<lowlandr> an amazinating angle freq
<SO> We didnt see the spam.
* SO sez HAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
<klokwkdog> SO - Eric Raymond
<TinyDrTim> an amazing freqin angle
<cease> paul was on bergmans first radio show, the original radio free
oz
on kpfk, 66
<FreqMan> its as plane as the nose on my face...
<cease> theyve done at least 2 radio shows together i know of
<LeatherG> Im still not getting it, klok. Eric Raymond ....?
<klokwkdog> OK, gotcha Cat, thanx
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<cease> klok,read pauls autobiography Ravings of an Unconfined Nut.
great
stuff
<klokwkdog> "The Cathedral & the Bazaar", etc. do a man fetchmail
<cease> hey catherwill. havent seen you hear in many moons, suns,
asteroids
<bfwestley> eric raymond of new hackers dictionary? Im in htat
<bfwestley> that
<CathrWill> Hi, Cat. How goes??
<klokwkdog> OK, nut auto, will attempt
<cease> paul has a joke in Neal Amid too
<TinyDrTim> Welcome, Will
<cease> well, since you were last here or what, exactly, bill
<CathrWill> Was just watching the Millionaire quiz show. One of the
phony
answers was Anytown, USA.
<CathrWill> LOL,Cat.
<TinyDrTim> Not Billville?
<cease> which made you think of joining us here?
<CathrWill> I dont get many opportunities in this time slot.
<_Bunnyboy_> lo MudMaster
<cease> ive seen your posts to alt.ft though
<bfwestley> Regis Philbin is so annoying, Im glad theres a word to
describe killing him: regicide
<CathrWill> Just happen to be in a hotel in EST zone, sector R.
<TinyDrTim> Youre always welcome, CW
<klokwkdog> SO: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
<CathrWill> Yes, he sure is.
<TinyDrTim> Bri - LOL!
<lowlandr> all that you wanna be a millionaire crap...let eddie the
blind
jepordy dood play mwahahahaha
<CathrWill> Tough to do this from SoCal -- its dinnertime.
<klokwkdog> LOL, bfw; why does ANYONE watch those shows, even the BBC
one?
<_Bunnyboy_> bri: No, thats only if hes the King. THE KING!
Loooooooooooo, the KING approaches!
<TinyDrTim> But maury Povich is worse, IMHO
<FreqMan> ahhhhhhhhhhh
<HasNoName> Oh yeah, and the secret of the universe is...
* LeatherG applauds
<_Bunnyboy_> toto: It woiked!
<klokwkdog> ahhhh
<klokwkdog> nite BB
<cease> i just remembered you in the context of elayne
<TinyDrTim> Ok, we only lost a few lines
* Editor's Note: Here are the missing lines:
<LeatherG> Some of us take drugs unseriously.
<klokwkdog> DEATH TO FIRELOGGERS!
<FreqMan> hmmmmm
<cease> and some down right humourusly
<TinyDrTim> Uh oh - We lost a bit of the log - Everybody be quiet til he
comes back
<FreqMan> shhhhh.
<_Bunnyboy_> Y'know, I'm chilly, hongry and tired. See yez next week,
troop.
<FreqMan> nothin nothin nothing nothing nothing
<LeatherG> Bye, BB.
<klokwkdog> come back, comeback -= we do love you firelogger; it was
only a joke
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<FreqMan> ahhhhhhhhhhh
<HasNoName> Oh yeah, and the secret of the universe is...
* LeatherG applauds
* Now back to the chat already in progress:
<HasNoName> Oh, wait, its back...
<FreqMan> sniff
<CathrWill> Understood -- its been a long time.
<LeatherG> Ah, my iron lung is working again!
<FreqMan> check
<lowlandr> the secret is...wear it on yer head like a hat :)
<klokwkdog> we get paid by the line, right?
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<CathrWill> I mostly lurk these days. I went back to the shadows.
<FreqMan> column inch
<FreqMan> one from column a
<HasNoName> When we last joined #firesign, Bill was going to reveal the
parent of Marshas child...
<FreqMan> two from column b
<klokwkdog> do I get residuals on this? what about the videotape
receipts?
<LeatherG> I mostly lurk, too, CW.
<klokwkdog> LOL, hnn
<cease> you were one of the irc orginals, with has no name, frank bland,
mudhead, who else
<TinyDrTim> elayne and doc Tech?
<klokwkdog> any Chinese restaurants still use column system?
<HasNoName> And one of the MUSH originals, with Spider, me, etc.
<CathrWill> Elayne, HNN who is still here unless its another HNN
<cease> no, doc showed up years later
<cease> yeah, it was elaynes baby
* TinyDrTim hangs his head
<HasNoName> What ever happened to Greg/Spider/Ogdred?
<cease> as it were
<cease> i wonder
<klokwkdog> or is that just one more item that will have to be
documented,
making FST stuff need its own "Annotated Alice" -style companion?
<cease> he was supposed to meet me at the 94 firesign show but never
showed
<CathrWill> We used to MUSH every Saturday afternoon.
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<HasNoName> I know his regular page got replaced by his resume for a
while, then that went 404, and he never turned up on the group
anymore...
* HasNoName hasnt checked in a while to see if the mush is still
there...
<cease> elayne was always trying to get me into that. my irc nick doc
tim
was from that
<CathrWill> Mudhead is still archiving Planet Proctor butdoesn;t show up
here I guess.
<HasNoName> I think the character I created for you is still in there,
cat...
<CathrWill> Its still there, exactly as we left it and very, very dusty.
<klokwkdog> gad, theres even a parody, "The Circus Midget and the
Fossilized Dinosaur Turd"
<cease> funny thing last week. just as we were shutting down, a
"mudhead"
shoed up. wonder if it was richard
<cease> or someone with the same nick
<HasNoName> Or at least, he hasnt been here recently.
<lowlandr> old same nick fa la la la la la la la la la
<cease> im in touch with the original mudhead all the time. he took of
my
daughters web site when doc tech got too busy with the firesign site
* HasNoName might have some of the old IRC logs from way back, will have
to check and see who was here...
<cease> no there was a more recent mudhead, no relation to r.arnold
<cease> very confusing
<cease> richard arnold hasnt been here in years
<klokwkdog> speaking of 404, has anyone else pulled a 404 on the
userfriendly.org site? they got a nice haiku up there
<HasNoName> Hold your thumb on the log, cat - that way I never get
confused...
<FreqMan> what??
<CathrWill> HNN, the mush is now CWRU tinycwru.tinymush.org 4201
<cease> now just my thumb is confused
<lowlandr> but what about my pickle?
<cease> its in yur pocket, low
<HasNoName> Yeah, I just connected for old times sake... weird thing - I
still have that mail from you thats not from you...
<klokwkdog> keep away from my pickle!
<lowlandr> ah i thought it was a roll of dimes hehehehe
<LeatherG> Speaking of MUSH, etc., anyone read "My Tiny Life" by Julian
Dibbell?
<cease> that should be "took over" bits site
<klokwkdog> well, thats a fine pickle youve got us into now, TDT
<FreqMan> may I take your hat and coat sir?
<klokwkdog> no LG
<cease> the tiny tim story?
<TinyDrTim> What did I do?
<cease> my goats already eaten them
<klokwkdog> we assumed as much, Cat
<LeatherG> Its about a guy who spent waay too much time in a MOO--and
his
ruminations about it.
<CathrWill> Them wuz the good old daze, huh??
<TinyDrTim> Take you hat and jacket off . . .
<LeatherG> But its more interesting than it sounds. It took off from his
Village Voice article "A Rape in Cyberspace," which is available on the
Net.
<klokwkdog> LOL, LG
<FreqMan> Most honorable sir... TDT... I will...
<klokwkdog> sunk in the MUD, eh?
<LeatherG> OOps, I just saw that one, Klok.
<CathrWill> I did that, Babs -- too much time in VR -- after many years
I
feel I can come into something like this and not get hooked again.
<TinyDrTim> Remember what Onan Winkedinque likes . . .
<HasNoName> Malmborg? Stanley... names from the past keep coming up like
hot fish on a three week bender...
<lowlandr> ah the blue moss?
<cease> the whole moo, mush thing doesnt appeal to me. if i wanna play
multiple identity stamp games, i write radio plays
<klokwkdog> hey, I read Cryptonomicon last week, not bad, except the end
<CathrWill> I remember that article, back in 1994.
<LeatherG> I do Usenet Performance Art.
<cease> as good as snow crash?
<TinyDrTim> I do my own thing . . .
<LeatherG> Dont tell me the end, klok. Ive only read the first few
chapters.
<FreqMan> thats groovy
<LeatherG> V. different from Snowcrash.
<HasNoName> Someones used Regnad this year...
<cease> and boy will nick be pissed
<CathrWill> Theyre all still there on the MUSH -- Malmborg was an early
player from Plano. Stanley solved the entrance exam but never stuck
around.
<klokwkdog> or participate in FST chats, Cat?
<klokwkdog> cant say, since I havent read the other two
<TinyDrTim> And my own thing, right now, is to get my reports done. So
adios and sweet dreams, Dear Friends . . .
<cease> nah, im the same old cat, weak after weak
<cease> gnight, tiny
<klokwkdog> Its kind of a massive rotation (in the worst
multi-dimensional string sense) around his 1996 Wired article, The
Longest
Wire on Earth, Cat
<TinyDrTim> Nite all - Catch ya next week, eh?
<lowlandr> he I go to werk on monday first time in years
<lowlandr> heh
<lowlandr> errr
<klokwkdog> nite TDT
<TinyDrTim> L8R
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<cease> first work or first monday?
<lowlandr> yes!
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<HasNoName> I remember when I first got on IRC how long it took me to
not
put a " in front of everything...
<Nin0> Hi all
<cease> is that a good thing?
<lowlandr> i don think so cat
<cease> alas
<klokwkdog> klokwkdog watches one more fade into the ether
<klokwkdog> wow, major blast here
<cease> that was several at a time
<klokwkdog> the House of Lords is busy tonight; hi Nino
<klokwkdog> and alak?
<cease> el nino
<lowlandr> ive been writin software at home for 3 years, monday i start
"downtown"
<cease> i was just telling bf and all to get your cd
<Nin0> cease: got your package today but havent had time to listen yet
<klokwkdog> BFD, eh, low?
<Nin0> thanks!
<lowlandr> bfd?
<cease> gad, i havent worked in a down town since leaving central tokyo
in 88
<Nin0> I guess you got your package?
<cease> me? i be packed
<cease> and aged
<klokwkdog> big, er, flaming, deal
<cease> the hour hour firesign for some reason never discussed
<cease> guess too few of us ever heard it but it was brilliant
<lowlandr> i heard a great line the other day, very fst
<cease> hope they put it in the museum of radio if nothing else. and the
earlier oz shows even better
<lowlandr> "Its nice to dream of what i hoped i wished for"
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<cease> perhaps a bit bittersweet for ft, but nice
<klokwkdog> that hurts, so late at night <G>
<FreqMan> wow... I was lost... but now Im found...
<lowlandr> was blind but now i sea
<FreqMan> oh blinding light...
<lowlandr> stop blinding me
<cease> watch out for that ocean!
<FreqMan> seems a bit fishy to me
<HasNoName> How can you be in two paradigms at once when youre not
anywhere at all?
<Nin0> klok - youre getting outrageous ping times...about 40 seconds
here
and 20 from Firelogger. Notice any lag on your end?
<lowlandr> its a flip flop springhead
<cease> for nickles
<CathrWill> That was really strange, HNN.
<FreqMan> hes just a shell of a man, but if you hold him to your ear -
you can hear the ocean roar.
<lowlandr> just follow the rubber yellow line
<cease> 20 pennys lane in the road
<klokwkdog> wow, 15 degrees, 40mph wind blowing at house
<lowlandr> woot
<CathrWill> You in upstate NY, klok??
<HasNoName> 100 pennys a day cat...
<klokwkdog> havent been paying attention to the tech side of the chat;
let me test
<lowlandr> and change
<HasNoName> I had 29034 peenys on the mush... why, thats over half a
months rent...
<cease> a hardaway to live
<CathrWill> But you get no interest, HNN.
<klokwkdog> yeah, 16-20 sec; time to ditch the glass and head for true
liberty
<lowlandr> im laggerd
<HasNoName> Yeah, CW, thats why no one ever logs in there any more...
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<lowlandr> heh
<StephenFosterKane> StephenFosterKane finally shows up (or manages to
return)...hello to all of you from North Kingstown, RI at 10:35:35 PM
EDT.Providence: no report
<Nin0> Hi FF!
<StephenFosterKane> well, thats better.
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<lowlandr> way down upon the swaneee ribba
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<klokwkdog> no, Im not in upstate NY, but upstate CANADA seems to be
coming to me thru the window
<Firefried> Hows the new year?
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<lowlandr> sorry i lost my bearings
<klokwkdog> Oh Cath, you missed that: no, Im not in upstate NY, but
upstate CANADA seems to be coming to me thru the window
<cease> we don got no states
<klokwkdog> pings now 1-2 sec
<CathrWill> Its freakin cold here in Albany too, man. And the wind am
whippin
<cease> fried
<lowlandr> i saw a squirrel rub vicks vapo rub on his nuts...
<lowlandr> errr
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