SURFPUNK Technical Journal 057

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 18:07:06 PST 
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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (/\/\3d|u/\/\ |z +|-|/-\ /\/\3$$/-\g3) 
To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal) 
Subject: [surfpunk-0057] POEM: Bonks.  Fleeps.  Doodledrons.  ; mailart 

|               {\bf Virtual Sex and other misconceptions.}  When 
|               discussing possible application areas, the popular 
|               press never fails to ask about pornography.  While 
|               this probaby says more about the press' fascination 
|               with sex than about VR's potential, many new 
|               technologies, including the VCR, {\it do} often 
|               survive early stages via niche pornography markets. 
|                
|               In a broader sense, the press has done the same 
|               disservice to VR that it did to artificial 
|               intelligence.  The researchers with the wildest claims 
|               get the air time, and the rest of us are left to deal 
|               with the unrealistic expectations.  In fact, many 
|               researcher are already shunning the term VR and using 
|               labels such as "virtual environments" for their work. 
|                
|               The popular Steven King film {\it Lawnmower Man} and 
|               Timothy Leary's rantings about "electonic LSD" have 
|               fueled a misconception that VR in some way involves 
|               drugs, or produces a drug-like experience, which is 
|               patently false.  The press has also talked at length 
|               about bypassing the current I/O technology and 
|               establishing direct neural connections, as described 
|               in the 1984 William Gibson novel, {\it Neuromancer,} 
|               which popularized the term {\it cyberspace.} 
|                
|               Randy Pausch, University of Virginia,  
|               in "Hot Topics: Three Views of Virtual Reality", 
|               IEEE Computer, Feb 1993, p80. 

 
I think the following is the first copylefted poem I've seen. 
(Jason's a nExtDude who wants so build some VR.) 

Actually there's haiku (by Bill Joy?) in the sources to "expreserve". 
Unfortunately I don't grep them at ftp.uu.net -- "vi" must not be free. 
I think I've freed the haiku before, but can't find it now. 
                                                                --strick 
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 01:12:41 -0600 
From: Jason Asbahr <Asbahr@UH.EDU> 
To: strick@osc.versant.com 
Subject: A Poem 

Greetings, Striq!  :) 

Thanks much for the TAZ info!  I am studying it and will reply when 
I can be articulate...  Already, it seems like Truth on tap... 

--- 

Bonks.  Fleeps.  Doodledrons. 

 
Things unspeakable speak to me 
In the dark, 
alone and unafraid, 
I greet them. 

Leather Goddesses upon high! 
They leap down, their whips 
flailing about in sudden wind 
and Land upon glittering crystal 
shelves, which aren't really, and 
hang there suspended in plexiglass 
disregard of the accepted laws of physics. 

Fuck You! they screech, gesturing 
at passing Physicists (floating by), 
whose confused faces are covered and revealed, 
covered and revealed, by their flapping white coats... 

Small pieces of paper flutter in the breeze, 
holding secrets, secret diagrams, explaining 
the true mechanics of the universe, 
but MECHanics charge too much, 
and who really trusts them anyway? 

 
Copyleft 1991     Jason Asbahr 

 

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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 15:04 GMT 
From: Don Webb <0004200716@mcimail.com> 
To: Fringeware <fringeware@wixer.cactus.org> 
To: surfpunk <surfpunk@osc.osc.com> 
To: ARCANA <ARCANA%UNCCVM.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu> 
To: Arachnet <Arachnet%UOTTAWA.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu> 
Subject: Mail Art Listings 

Dear Fringeoids, 
Dear Surfpunks, 
Dear Dwellers in Arcana, 
Dear Archanetters, 

I received in my snailmail box the hugest listing of 
international ongoing mail art shows, that I have ever seen.  If 
you've ever wanted to get plugged into the International mail Art 
scene this is your chance send $2.00 to 

 
Ashley Parker Owens 
POB 597996 
Chicago, IL 60659 

And ask for _Global Mail_. 

                Don Webb 

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        From: ahawks (pinkerton floyd) 
        Subject: r3: /\/\3[>|u/\/\ |z +|-|/-\ /\/\3$$/-\g3 
        Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 13:10:16 MST 
         
        Mark Baldwin, not Bob, says: 
        | 
        |a question which probably shows my age [?]: 
        | 
        |how doez one pronounce agr1ppa?  pleaze explain where i can 
        |find this information instead of flaming, if it exists some 
        |where... 
        | 
        |-mArK. 
         
        well, you can obviously e-pronounce it, do you really need to 
        pronounce it? 
         
        how do u say..........31|+3...... 
         
        [that is a real word, btw] 
         
        usually the 1 is an l, like in k-k001.....k-k001 is cool sarcasm.... 
         
        ie, B1FF is k-k001.....00's are o's....3's are e's....+'s are t's.... 
        |'s can be i's.....[> |> |) can all be d's....|) can be p, when (| is 
        q...|< is k....>| is e-dyslexia....$ is s, esp. when refer-ing to 
        compu$erve... ! can by i's or l's.....@ is a, sometimes even 
        @narch-e... # used to be E, i think, or soething, but I don't see that 
        1... * is O in different cyber-dialects...[ is c in dialect 2, err 
        too... \/\/ is w, /\/\ is m.../-\ is a, |-| is h, |3 is b, |_ can be 
        l, but that's |_/-\/\/\3.....|\| is n, |\|||/| is trendy music... \/ 
        is v, ob\/iously....>< is x....z is often = s (warez), e is often = a 
        (tha), c is often = k (|<-|<001), f = ph (phun), ph = f (fone)... 
         
        it's just |<001 31|+3 pc for the |) ( generation. 
                                         | 
         
        most of this died c. 84-85, but B1FF and k001 survive for god gnows 
        why. 
         
        0|<, |\|0\/\/ |<|[>[>|3Z g0 & s3+ ^ a|\| 31|+3 ph|1+3r. 
         
        ^ really obscure cave drawings. 
        -- 
         
             andy 
         
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        Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 14:20:43 PST 
        From: mark@ganymede.apple.com (Mark Baldwin) 
        Subject: Re:  r3: /\/\3[>|u/\/\ |z +|-|/-\ /\/\3$$/-\g3 
         
        ()|<...| |<^[11||Da |)1(|<=D |_|P oN +Ha+...| _|u$+ \/\/Az|/|'+ 
        $|_|r3 1|= 1+ \/\/uZ +h3 $a/\/\3... 
         
        -/\/\ / |~ |<. 
         
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