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- From: pel@maximo.enet.dec.com (Phillip E lujan)
- Subject: Re: Uh....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.145429.17570@e2big.mko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <2B609382.17762@news.service.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:54:29 GMT
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- Starknight's tracking systems inform him of another newbie in the Place...
-
- In article <2B609382.17762@news.service.uci.edu>, eaeu282@orion.oac.uci.edu (Ching-I Chen) writes:
- |>Someone is sitting in front of a computer terminal, amid a forest of
- |>SUNs, WYSE's, IBM's and Mac's. Confused-looking college students wander
- |>in and out of the computer lab, trying to appear in control when in fact
- |>they are incredibly lost. She feels lost too, not even able to remember
- |>her own name... but she still grins goofily at the blinking orange cursor.
- |>The cursor does not smile back.
- |>
- |>Someone does not know what she is doing, but she is enjoying it nonetheless.
- |>The undigestible remnants of the tuna-and-vegetable surprise she wolfed
- |>down at lunch today are settling in her stomach. In a matter of hours she'll
- |>no doubt be nauseous. But she'll enjoy it nonetheless.
- |>
- |>Someone hopes she isn't disturbing the usual going-ons here. If so, she
- |>apologizes and regrets her actions deeply.
-
- "Disturbing? You want to see disturbing? Look at my asinine attack on Doug...
- THAT'S disturbing. New patrons never disturb us..."
-
- |>Someone is trying to say something. You can barely hear it through the
- |>Shakespear's Sister tape blaring in the background. It sounds like... is
- |>she cussing? No, now she's shaking her head. "F.A.Q!" she shouts
- |>emphatically. Gesticulating wildly (is there any other way?) she manages
- |>to convey that she'd like the said F.A.Q. if at all possible.
-
- "Anyone? I didn't even know there WAS a FAQ for the Place... I just kind of
- jumped in in the middle of some threads I enjoyed. Of course, I'm a long time
- fan of Spider Robinson's, so I at least had a clue..."
-
- |>Someone is now smiling. The weekend is about to begin, and although she
- |>knows she's about to drown in a sea of organic syntheses, she is enjoying it
- |>nonetheless.
- |>
- |>
- |>Delilah
- |>(using this account... trying
- |>to get another)
- |>
- |>"It's great to be young and insane."
-
-
- "Amen to that. Insanity is the only true constant..."
-
- Starknight
- spr@abo.dec.com
- Disclaimer: Huh? What'd I say?
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