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Viewer Discretion vol. 2 issue 6 Oct. 12:99
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\ \/| |i s c r e t i o n ISSN 1481-2266
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T h e r e a r e 8 0 d a y s r e m a i n i n g . . .
In this issue:
WELCOME
QUOTABLE
ASSTUTE HALL OF FAME BY ANTI-PRESS
THE HORROR SECTION - FROM MORBUS
QUOTABLE ANDY
CLANDESTINE SHITE
ETC
:: WELCOME ::
Welcome to the "lucky rocket ship underwear" issue. And speaking of
rockets and pockets, Angie C. had this to say about last issue's
addendum's little bit of trivia about Pokemon/Pocket Monsters:
> not to worry
> i play with pocket monsters regularly
> and they're great fun
>
> (there's logic behind the name Pikachu, yknow...think about it)
I know Angie too well to make any comments on this (but man would I
like to! <g>) because I'll just end up in trouble. However if any of
you out there want to make comments, send them to v_d@iname.com and
I'll publish them - much to Angie's chagrin...
For those of you who have heard my bitching about long hours setting
up the new, expanded PC lab where I work and are curious as to what it
looks like, here is a beta page of a live web cam view for ya:
http://pandora.calumet.yorku.ca
This only shows about 18 of the 24 computers and nothing of the Mac
side (which is located through the door at the top left of the image).
In other news... After I sent out the addendum last issue to try and
please (what a fucking mistake) that slug AFeXT, he sent this note in
reply:
> No no! http://www.blairwoods.com is right now, I finished
> up the design!
So I don't have a clue which of his pages or sites are active or not.
Man, you try and be nice to some people....sheeit <g>
We have an interesting article (articel?) from Anti-Press this issue -
it's about a digital deer caught in the headlights of the future.
Really. Read it and find out.
And Goatboy was going to send some huge assed reply in about last issue
but it got swallowed up in ether. Ah t'well as the newly found Morbus
would type.
And in even other news... Anti-Press#10 is now available. You can
subscribe to A-P at Antipress1@aol.com or read it on that web thingy at
http://www.disobey.com/low/listings/anti-press.shtml. According to A-P
himself this issue "features great "articels"" - not to mention a nice
public health message about the spread of Canadian VD. Uh huh.
Anyways, enough of me - here we go again...
:: QUOTABLE ::
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two
minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like
two hours that's relativity."
-Albert Einstein (submitted by Andrew M.)
"How's my driving? Call 1-800-eat-shit"
-bumper sticker seen on a car on Toronto's highway 401
"hiugly"
-motorcycle license plate seen in Toronto
:: ASSTUTE HALL OF FAME BY ANTI-PRESS ::
*Future Dazzles, Stuns Myopic Editor*
(C) Copyright 1999 Anti-Press
Where is that bright future they promised us in college?
The world is pretty dim to our jaded eyes. When it comes to work we
have either been unemployed or underemployed. But we've also been an
"old" dog trying to learn new tricks to get closer to that shining
tomorrow in the distance.
Years ago we took a special training course for unemployed bums such as
ourselves to learn how to use the latest computer technology. Back then
we were still trying to land a job as a reporter, targeting a
particular newspaper for an opening. With the ubiquity of computers we
thought we would have an edge by being trained in the most up-to-date
programs, especially word-processing.
It turned out as part of the special training course the instructor
arranged a tour at the paper where we sought work. The editor showed
the class around, talking about the paper's conversion to computers.
We asked him if having a computer background gave an edge to someone
applying for a reporter's position.
No, he lied. We can train a complete computer illiterate on our system
in a couple of days. Didn't make any difference at all, he claimed.
Checking up on his statement, we talked to an employee some time later
and that person said it took him at least a month to feel completely
comfortable with the new system-- not just two days. So much for that
editor's claim. (And you thought management-types in the news media
were more honest than businessmen and politicians?)
Anyway, after being blown off by that editor for the umpteenth time, we
lost interest in the tour-- until the instructor mentioned that one day
there would be no "paper" in newspapers, i.e. everyone will get their
news via computer. As such newspapers wouldn't exist. This POV makes
sense, especially with the savings in distribution. No more printing,
sorting, bundling. No more truck drivers or underpaid kids getting the
paper to the customers. To draw a comparison, when was the last time
the milkman rattled those glass bottles early in the morning in your
neighborhood? That scene is only found in classic movies and history
books.
The editor, a student of the old school, shrugged off such a drastic
change. People getting their news only on a computer screen-- nonsense!
He held up a copy of the latest edition, saying, "They'll always be a
newspaper. People will always want it in print, on paper. Let's say if
you want a copy of a wedding announcement. You can hold that page in
your hands; you can cut out that announcement and save it in your
scrapbook. Now how are you going to do that with a computer screen?"
The instructor had no problem responding to the editor's challenge.
"Simple," she said, "a reader would print out a copy on their own
printer."
The editor was caught off-guard. He paused, couldn't think of a
prepared public relations answer, and just changed the subject. During
that sudden pause he was like a deer in the headlights-- standing there
on the information superhighway, a decrepit buck an instant before
roadkill, helplessly transfixed by the oncoming rush of the bright
future.
:: THE HORROR SECTION - FROM MORBUS ::
First Morbus disappears for a few weeks then he reappears brandishing
this new bit of ammunition in his world domination plans -
http://www.disobey.com/horror
- scheduled for release on Halloween. Sounds just dramatic enough for
a Morbus project <g> But seriously, having been privileged to test
run the beta of this sight I can say that it is going to be the horror
site online that all other horror sites are judged by. Check it out
and send Morbus some nasty notes from the preliminary page that's up
right now.
:: QUOTABLE ANDY ::
Yes, once again, more quotes from the Quotemiester himself, Mr Miller.
If you want to receive his quotes directly then send a note to:
amiller@teleport.com and tell him VD sent ya.
* Life *
"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a
thorn."
-Louis Adamic
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which
to burn."
-David Russell
"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a
poor hand well."
-H. T. Leslie
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they
seem more afraid of life then of death.
-James F. Byrnes
"Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday
life."
-Judith Viorst
* Virtue *
When the sun comes up, I have morals again.
-Elayne Boosler
They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to
learn. Therefore the smarter you think you are, the dumber you really
are.
-Chris Hamono
* Luck *
"Some days even wearing my lucky rocket ship underwear doesn't help"
- Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes)
* Philosophy *
Madness is rare in individuals but in groups, political parties,
nations, and eras it's the rule.
-Nietzsche, 'Beyond Good and Evil', 1886
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present
controls the past."
-George Orwell
* Love *
"Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's
genitals through his wallet."
-Robin Williams
"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
-Billy Crystal
"See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only
enough blood to run one at a time.
-Robin Williams
:: CLANDESTINE SHITE ::
This is a secret message for Paul L. - You know who you are... Your
pipe is ready. I repeat, your pipe is ready. Destroy this message
after you read it Paul and contact me via landline (telephone) at the
prearranged number (mine). Woohoo spyshite yippee!
:: ETC ::
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Next issue October 25/99
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