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- D I S K O V E R Y
- by Dave Moorman
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- Serendipity: Finding what was not
- sought. That is the byword of my life.
- In college, I produced and directed
- many (very marginal) television shows
- on our campus cable station. Some
- times, just rolling a student 16mm
- file and playing a Frank Zappa record
- proved perfect. Or the high school TV
- class ran out of material after eight
- minutes of their 30 minute show. But
- one of their guests was a jazz dancer,
- who marvelously improvised until we
- could get a short film loaded and
- running.
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- That was when I serendipitously
- discovered that I do not believe in
- serendipity. I [depend] on it! Things
- have a marvelous way of falling
- together. Recently, I have been
- contemplating my journey as a pastor
- -- mostly from one small town to
- another. This is more interesting
- because when I was 15 and my family
- moved from my (population 1000) home
- town, I was glad to be shut of
- everything small and rural.
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- But since my 35th birthday,
- "Someone" has conspired to put me in
- small towns until I figured it out.
- Even Garrison Keillor helped with his
- honestly loving sketches of Lake
- Wobegone. Now I understand how
- villages live -- and why.
-
- Serendipity. Stumbling across C-64
- emulators in 1999. Doing eLOADSTAR for
- the PC. Then, just as Fender and Judi
- were ready to give it up, Sheri and I
- suggested we give LOADSTAR a go. And
- since then, every issue and every
- encounter with LOADSTARites has been
- filled to the brim with serendipity.
-
- This issue is just such a fruition
- of fortuitousness. I have documented
- the accidents and coincidents in the
- various documents. And I invite you to
- expect serendipity in this issue --
- and all you encounter!
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- DMM
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