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Apollo BBS Archive - June 1, 1991

Mail from Apro Poet
Date: 06/01/91  Time: 19:13:32

 My wife wrote that "one Step" poem and the first time I
read it I thought of you.  While my system was down I kept
reading references to the existence of time.  All I could do
at the time was to jot "Rod" in the margin.  So I have your
name in all my philosophy books.  People borrow them and ask
"Who's Rod?"  HAHAHAHAHA!  It really is amazing how the people
with the heavier academic credentials don't seem to reject
your time argument lightly.  In some cases they seem to agree.
Or at least they believe the existence of time cannot be
proven.
                              Apro Poet

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 1:Wow, "One Step" was totally a great poem.  It should be shared by all.
 2:
 3:Thanks for your comments concerning time.

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Message: 7446
Author: $ Mike Carter
Category: Idea for thought
Subject: Michael's noise
Date: 06/01/91  Time: 22:43:13

I lived in an apartment that had a pair (group) of some really
boisterous mexicans next door.  When they rose a rucus, I'd just
pound the plaster a few hefty whallops and they'd shut up.
In Connecticut, a friend of mine was renting a house. His neighbor
would play in his band practice out in their semi-arizona room.
We rigged some 100 Watt tri-banders together with a fosgate superamp.
Then we'd play stuff like Mozart, Tcharkovsky (sp) etc. They got the
idea without any gripes. BTW, the speakers were pointed out the window.
As for your current dilemma...if you're worried about his stability..
then the thing to do is make him worry about yours. If it were my neighbours
doing that, I'd toss 3-4 home-made M-80's out in the backyard (mine)
each night. If you can make your own, that is..
One every 5 minutes until he shuts up. Wait until he goes to bed, then
crank on some loud stuff of your own. 
The guy in back of me where I live now is a fine example of this. The people
who *used* to live next door to me and whom had a very noisy dog got
the blunt end of his wrath. He spent 2 days looking through the phone book
until he found their number. Then, whenever the dog started its nightly
serenade, RINGGGG...RINGGGGG. John said it took 3 nights before the guy
caught on. Then, on the 4th night when the dog started up, before John
could reach for the phone, the guy next to me was belting his dog
and telling it to shut the **** up. It worked. Personally, I think that
was one of the better instances I've had the opportunity to witness.

Long before we cranked DJ's and alter-pirates, the Demon Dialer software
I wrote was designed specifically to counter-hose with a neighbor in
"Mr Nike's" apt complex. This guy lived on the second floor and would
sit out on a lwn chair, drink beer and cuss, jeer and yell at people by
the pool or just walking nearby. One time Lawrence called ye police shoppe.
Next morning we found his car with a 6-pak of RC cola poured all over it.
His life was never the same after that. He lost use of his phone, thanks
to Demon dialer and Ma Bell (at the time), who through their COSMOS computer
provided us with his phone number. We shut his electricity off continually
at all hours of the night in the middle of summer. No direct contact with
your neighbour is the best way...especially if the weanie is unstable.
Go through his trash a couple times. Get billing statements and the like.
Find out who he works for and everything you can possibly get. Once you have
laid out all the info on a table, there's bound to be something of interest
that will help you strike at home base. 
Some of the first things I would do for that situation would be:
(1) Find his phone number using the cole directory at a public library..
    you can find the phone number to a residence if you have an address
    and providing it's not unlisted. Then, demon dial his butt until
    the cows come home. (Make sure the dialing starts when the noise does
    and ends when the noise does.) remember; you're training him.
(2) Put together one ** VERY ** loud firecracker or noisemaker. Set it
    off remotely in your backyard. Next day, plant another one and have it
     ready for when he turns that set on. It sould only take 3-4 times.

If you're not the type for that kind of noise - making, a safer and
somewhat more expensive alternative is to put together the following:
Using a portable tape recorder, a good stereo amplifier and a couple of
65-100 watt speakers do the following;
Push play and record on the portable tape. Place the portable tape in front
of one of the speakers, both of which should be pointed in his general
direction with a couple of open windows. The feedback from the tape which
by the way, needs to be hooked into the stereo "LINE IN" plug.
The feedback will generate an ear-piercing 3600KHZ (approx) tone of which
we are all probably familiar with. Amplify this through your amp at about
50% power and you and your neighbours will beg for mercy. So I suggest
donning a set of ear plugs.
 
NO? One last item which is truly annoying, cheap and nasty. Go buy one
of those chincy Radio-Shack sound - effects bull horns ; you know the
ones with the programmable silly-tune keyboards attached? Put that out
your window and let her rip till the batteries run down.
Of course, to get any sleep with this fool next door to you , you're going
to need ear-muffs anyway..so you might as well submit to the inconvenience
until he gets your drift, or your adam's apple..whichever comes first.

Well, after a quick discussion with my wife, she came up with a
*real* good one. Although somewhat illegal (so is the fireworks one,alas)
this one is a real doozy. I even stopped and looked at her strange when
she mentioned this....my wife? this is *MY* wife saying this?
What she aksed first off was; "Is the TV set left out?"
Next came the suggestion; Buy a BB gun and blow the tube.
You'd have to shoot the tube with a brass BB, and it'd better be from
some other direction and NOT from your house. You can also buy .22
acorn caps. These are 1/4 the size of .22 "BB" caps..all that propels them
is a double dose of the primer. Of course, make sure he's not sitting there.
Wait till he goes for a beer. ( Evil grin )
 
A serious solution to all this, however, is simple. ( Don't be like some
folks around here and take me seriously on those last ideas ;-)
The solution depends on if he has (and is using) cable to his TV.
If he is not.....I have a schematic for a very simple and easy to use/make
TV jammer. It can be tuned to jam all channels from 2-15, one at a time,
using a small variable capacitor. With a 60-inch antenna (copper wire),
the effective range is about 150 feet. Dangle this out your window and
tune the jammer from inside. He'll be furious. Completely wipes the
reception out, video and all. 
I used to sell these for $45.00 a pop when cable was still very new.
Of course, a pair of scissors will fix the cable.
    -Mike

Message: 7450
Author: $ Rod Williams
Category: Chit-Chat
Subject: Scissors/cable
Date: 06/02/91  Time: 02:40:01

Didn't Rich Fohl think of that?

I do like the idea of the tv jammer.

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Message: 75483
Author: $ Sandi Marlin
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: hello...
Date: 06/01/91  Time: 12:23:50

Hope everything is going well...

Message: 75484
Author: $ Sandi Marlin
Category: Question?
Subject: By the way...
Date: 06/01/91  Time: 12:28:11

Yes, okay, it's been ages since I've been around and I seem to have suffered
a serious case of brainfade...
Just what did I say about "cows in hell?"

Message: 75485
Author: $ Melissa Dee
Category: $tatus users only
Subject: The _Kane_ GT
Date: 06/01/91  Time: 16:24:28

Will be moved to next Sunday, same time, same place.  That should give
everyone enough time to pencil it into their calendars and maybe it won't be
as busy then, either.  Check out the film sig for more details! 
"Rosebud..."

Message: 75486
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: Tales & Tall Stories
Subject: We're Doomed
Date: 06/01/91  Time: 19:24:07

Psychosis is linked to computer

UPI COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A young man became so mesmerized 
by his computer that he was hospitalized with a "computer
syndrome" that made him unable to distinguish between the
real world and computer programs, a Denmark medical journal
reports.
  The journal said the unidentified 18-year-old contracted
the new form of psychosis, called computer syndrome by three
doctors at Copenhagen's Nordvang Hospital, after spending
12 to 16 hours a day in front of his computer.
  The doctors said the young man began to think in 
programming language, waking up in the middle of the night
thinking, "Line 10, go to the bathroom; Line 11 next."
  The patient told the doctors "he discovered that man is
only a machine.  There is no difference between the computer
and man."
  In *Weekly for Physicians*, psychologist Bent Brok and
psychiatrists Eva Jensen and Erik Simonsen said, "He merged
with the computer and afforded it supernatural qualities."
  In the end, he suffered from insomnia and anxiety and had 
to be hospitalized.  The article did not indicate his present
condition.
  The young man's preoccupation with computers is not 

Message: 75487
Author: $ Apro Poet
Category: Tales & Tall Stories
Subject: We're Doomed
Date: 06/01/91  Time: 19:31:38

unique, but his psychotic condition is unusual, Tuesday's
report said, warning against "many young people's excessive
preoccupation with computers."
  The three doctors said that the computer is used by youths
as a substitute for human contact because it always responds
in a rational manner but that the stress on logic can lead 
to immaturity and emotional limitations.
  The computer trade itself also seems to be aware of the
problem.
  "A large group of young people -- about 95 percent of them
boys -- are computer freaks who live for nothing but the 
machine," said Lars Knudsen, 32, manager of a Copenhagen
computer firm, Professional Datainformation.
  "The typical computer freak is between 14 and 16," said
Knudsen, a former freak himself.  "He gets up at 2 in the
afternoon and sits in front of the screen until 4 in the
morning.  He drinks 3 liters of Coke and has no girlfriend."

Message: 75488
Author: $ Steve MacGregor
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Ann
Date: 06/01/91  Time: 20:51:59

  You're confusing the words "suffering", and "long-suffering", probably
because one is contained in the other.

  We all live in a   ....,,,,________nnhn____   yellow subroutine

Message: 75489
Author: $ Steve MacGregor
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: Melissa/Spilling
Date: 06/01/91  Time: 20:53:48

  The Biblical passage about spilling seed was about Onan (in Genesis), and
what he actually did was simply pull out early.
  The sin was that he was refusing to get his sister-in-law pregnant, as
required by law.
 
  We all live in a   ....,,,,________nnhn____   yellow subroutine

Message: 75490
Author: $ Peter Petrisko
Category: Chit Chat
Subject: POEM
Date: 06/02/91  Time: 01:25:41

     The Jill Moore poem was excellent.

   POST UPLOADED AND WRITTEN BY ROD*******

I nominate Judge Philip Marquardt to the Supreme Court.

If a certain percentage of the the population of the United States
indulges in marijuana use then shouldn't there be representation from the
Highest court in the land as guaranteed in the Constitution?

There has never been a documented death from marijuana use.  As I am
typing this, a death is being caused by the use of alcohol and someone is
dying from lung disease from abusing tobacco.

Any substance can be abused, be it red meat, milk and cookies, or just
plain mouthwash.

Big business interests seem to be keeping the hemp plant at bay.  Perhaps
now is the time to invest in hemp futures.

If marijuana were legalized, like it is and has been for many years in
Holland, then yes alcohol use would go down still further but so would auto
accidents and quite a number of other ills.


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