NUMBER OF LINES: 992 001=Usr:0 Null User 06/30/87 20:34 Msg:0 Call:0 Lines:19 1$If you are in need of help, you need but ask... 2$************************* 28 OCT 92 ************************************** 3$Welcome to BWMS II (BackWater Message System II) Mike Day System operator 4$************************************************************************** 5$GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS II IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION 6$ PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM. 7$BWMS II was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS II is a privately 8$owned and operated system which is currently open for use by the general 9$public. No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the 10$system is privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all 11$messages which I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the 12$system, it will be periodically purged of messages (only 999 lines of data 13$can be saved). To leave a message, type 'ENTER'. Use ctrl/C to get out 14$the ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering 15$the message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to 16$replace the line. To exit from the system, type 'BYE' then hang up. 17$Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system. 18$************************************************************************** 19$ 002=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 10/28/92 22:26 Msg:7573 Call:42686 Lines:5 20 Perot: right message, wrong messenger 21 Clinton: right messenger, wrong message 22 Bush: never got the message 23 24 ********************************************************** 003=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 10/29/92 07:51 Msg:7574 Call:42687 Lines:2 25 Wow, at the top of a short disk. 26 004=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 10/29/92 10:47 Msg:7575 Call:42691 Lines:24 27 28 | 29 30 Gee, Clinton should dump Gore & get Perot. Look at the 31 advantages: 32 1) don't know 33 2)gee, um... 34 3)maybe Perot could fire Congress? 35 36 | 37 38 On the bad side, Perot would work well to keep 39 Clinton from being assassinated (the old kill-Bush-you-get-Quayle-sucker 40 complex). 41 42 | 43 44 { 45 46 Vote libertarian. 47 48 H. Celine 49 50 } 005=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 10/30/92 06:54 Msg:7577 Call:42695 Lines:7 51 &*&*&*&*'s 52 Meaning is that which lives within 53 But has its genisis without 54 55 An Astral Dreamer 56 &*&*&*&*'s (Redifining myself) 57 006=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 11/23/92 01:30 Msg:7582 Call:42992 Lines:3 58 Sorry about that folks. Seems that the modem died and went to modem heaven. 59 I went back to the old modem I used to use. Luckily it was still around. 60 *************************** CM ***************************************** 007=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/23/92 06:03 Msg:7583 Call:42996 Lines:6 61 &*&*&*&*'s 62 They just don't make them like they used to. 63 64 An Astral Dreamer 65 &*&*&*&*'s (Life is one long series of scenes) 66 008=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 11/24/92 05:37 Msg:7584 Call:43001 Lines:6 67 68 The stars may be just points of light 69 up in the sky 70 But in the larger scheme of things 71 They're balls of fire in flight 72 009=Usr:1 CISTOP MIKEY 12/01/92 17:47 Msg:7585 Call:43024 Lines:3 73 Gad, first the modem, now a disk drive. This thing is falling apart! 74 Well, it is back up for now. At least until something else breaks. 75 *********************** cm *********************************** 010=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/02/92 07:00 Msg:7586 Call:43031 Lines:6 76 &*&*&*&*'s 77 Maybe its time for BWMS III? 78 79 An Astral Dreamer 80 &*&*&*&*'s (Out to lunch?) 81 011=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/03/92 20:01 Msg:7587 Call:43039 Lines:4 82 83 This space could have been blank. Alas, I couldn't resist the urge to 84 muck it up. G'day 85 012=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/04/92 11:25 Msg:7588 Call:43044 Lines:8 86 | 87 Geez, you would think that a 2400 could connect EASILY to a 1200... 88 must have been the bad modem. Still, here I am (after several months) 89 with a good connect. 90 | 91 Then again, it could have always been my ineptatude. 92 | 93 013=Usr:768 Bryan Bybee 12/07/92 19:56 Msg:7590 Call:43067 Lines:5 94 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 95 it's not how much you talk, it's what you put in it... 96 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 97 98 014=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/08/92 18:11 Msg:7591 Call:43077 Lines:12 99 &*&*&*&*'s 100 I suspect it was the bad modem. Hmm, what to say... Went to Pittsburgh Penn 101 for a day. It was work related, so it wasn't much fun. Of course it turned 102 out to be a great day to not be in portland, since I left sunday morning 103 (The ice sort of sucked on the way to the airport, but it was no problem 104 getting home last night.) 105 106 What else? Lots I guess, but I think I'm done for now. 107 108 An Astral Dreamer 109 &*&*&*&*'s (Fax me to the moon, and I'll be in a tiff.) 110 015=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/09/92 14:28 Msg:7592 Call:43084 Lines:16 111 112 | 113 Ah, the joys of children. Being a parent. 114 | 115 Not. 116 | 117 { 118 Um, what's up? 119 120 Or down? 121 122 Or Around Town? Dunno... 123 124 H.C. 125 126 } 016=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 12/10/92 04:44 Msg:7594 Call:43091 Lines:6 127 *()_@#*(%_)($_()_^()(%_)@%*(_#)^*_)(*~_)!@()_^*_)$#^*)_(~)_($#!_%*&@)_%*~_) 128 Mikey: Was it the modem we purchased for you years ago that died? Arg! Glad 129 you had a spare around, but too bad that other modem have to give up the 130 ghost... 131 *%)_#@%_)@(#_)(#)_%*@)_*_)!~_)$( L'homme sans Parity *)_@*)_(#)_~$!)_%$*!_* 132 017=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/10/92 10:26 Msg:7596 Call:43092 Lines:9 133 &*&*&*&*'s 134 What can one say about life? Its meaning has been discussed to the 135 point of inanity. Its quality has been described to the point of 136 insanity, and thus it seems to me we spend far to much time in 137 its practice, and far to little in its execution. 138 139 An Astral Dreamer 140 &*&*&*&*'s (Would somebody run a logic analyzer over that one or me?) 141 018=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/14/92 06:51 Msg:7597 Call:43115 Lines:3 142 143 Post or die! 144 019=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/16/92 18:46 Msg:7598 Call:43134 Lines:11 145 Execute life? Do you mean "Terminate" or the meaning of putting into motion? 146 Practice life?? How can you??? Once you are here you get no time to improve 147 your game, you MUST play. No warm up, no practice. Just see how well you do 148 in the world of the living (well you do get parental care for a brief period 149 of time I guess that could be called practice). I guess ummm... 150 AAAAAAAAAAAAAGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I don't want to 151 think about anything right now... let me be miserable... 152 153 -Aaron 154 155 This is transitory... 020=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/16/92 19:32 Msg:7599 Call:43136 Lines:4 156 157 Life is an endless series of vignets. Some funny, some sad. And most just 158 sort of ho hom. 159 021=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/17/92 13:06 Msg:7600 Call:43140 Lines:1 160 022=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/18/92 07:40 Msg:7601 Call:43143 Lines:10 161 162 Another night, another day. The time of living. 163 Master the illusion of growth. All our wonders moving 164 Towards another uphill climb. To succede 165 Well it isn't always easy. Programed like the machines 166 We work our time and we tow the line. Seldom moving against the tide 167 It doesn't really matter it seems. In the end we are the ones 168 Dreams that light our life. People who are outside 169 The existential warriors have never found there way in. Can't in 170 fact find their way out 023=Usr:707 GENE JONES 12/18/92 18:28 Msg:7602 Call:43152 Lines:1 171@I DIDN'T SEE MY ENTRY ANYWHERE WHAT HAPPENED? 024=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/19/92 08:26 Msg:7603 Call:43160 Lines:18 172 Waste encompass my mind, we all dribble silently, 173 saying the words that waste provokes. 174 Answers are never forthcoming, we spew endless nonsense, 175 in the place of intelligent conversation. 176 One sided, we place up thoughts for others to see, 177 While they pay no heed having their own thoughts to play. 178 An endless wasteful hateful existence, without acknowledgement of mind, 179 We who do not answer the call, 180 We who do not reply to the message, 181 We who pass by the post of the user before, 182 Just to waste space with our own unheeded words. 183 Repetition, redundancy, repitition of our self-proclaimed wisdom. 184 We... More than one. 185 We... Alone. 186 -Aaron George 187 (Somebody talk to me, I like poetry and the images you guys produce is 188 stunning, but I want reciprication of intellect. Hence I beg thee...) 189 Somebody... Talk... To... Me... ,... Please... ???... 8)... 025=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/20/92 08:13 Msg:7604 Call:43166 Lines:14 190 &*&*&*&*'s 191 Hello, here it is, a reply. I'm starved for good electronic communication. 192 But what to discuss? I've tried starting conversations, but it seems my 193 abbilities in that regard are far from forthcoming. Having produced 194 not even the meerist wimper in most casses. 195 196 So, a topic. How about the sales tax? Or, we could discuss the decline of 197 IBM, or music, or computers in general. 198 199 Just my thoughts. 200 201 An Astral Dreamer 202 &*&*&*&*'s (Am I the song?) 203 026=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/20/92 10:34 Msg:7605 Call:43169 Lines:36 204 | 205 206 Here, here, a debate! The merits vs. the avoided. (Dicotamized format, 207 of course). How about the effects physically produced by a person's state 208 of mind vs. the effects produced in animals, plants, and the activities 209 of nature? Or, is the Texas Supercollider really needed by scientists 210 today? What happened to the billion$ of dollars spent on Star Wars? 211 Why was it that you could get little financial aid in the 80's to go 212 to college, but you could always join the Army/Navy/AirForce/Marines 213 and get FREE money? Student loan defauts weren't THAT bad back 214 then. How is it that we know little of Japanese culture, yet 215 Japan teaches English to ALL its students, and has adopted American 216 food, clothing, and attitudes? Has America finally put on cultural 217 blinders and stoped accepting immigrants from other countries? What 218 about the use of new optical holographic memories that can stor 219 large amounts of information in a small cubic crystal? Will it ever 220 be pratical to replace hard drive subsystems with this, and what 221 kind of data rate could be sustained? 222 223 Aaron, there is plenty to debate and discuss and mull-over and 224 agree on and disagree on, it's just that the majority of people 225 suffer from apathy. 226 227 Astral Dreamer, I beseech your patience. Your timebox was currently 228 a void; I've activated it for about a day, using it's time-compression 229 feature to allow me to count prime numbers. This probably strained 230 your timebox to the limit, as the instruments indicated it was 231 at full power. I forgot to slow it down, so it was running full 232 tilt overnight. I remembered this morning, went back and turned it 233 down. It now sits idle again, with the same void. Do not be 234 angry at this misuse; I promise to be more responsible with 235 time-control devices in the future. 236 237 Thesis | AntiThesis 238 239 | 027=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/20/92 14:57 Msg:7607 Call:43170 Lines:36 240 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 241 Well Astral Dreamer, I don't understand the merits of sales tax, because I've 242 been living in Oregon all my life and we don't happen to have any (sales tax). 243 I'm not aware of the decline of IBM, because I'm using one now and the market 244 seems to be doing well for IBM and compatible products, software, etc. Music? 245 Music is a device that can be used to move the soul, and encourage emotions. I 246 like music in all forms, and yes I do mean ALL. No exclusions. Some music just 247 isn't very good, but I still appreciate it. 8) My computer is an IBM PS/1 and 248 I never knew much about it, except that it has a modem and a VGA screen. 249 Someday I want to know more about the computer world and what all those nasty 250 terms mean so when I buy my own it will be a good one. The one I'm using is 251 generally termed the family computer, but I am the only one who uses it... 252 253 What effects physically produced by a person's state of mind? What effects 254 produced by animals, plants, and nature? Obviously the human mind is a natural 255 object, how can it be contrary to that of animals, plants, and nature? We do 256 run on instinct you know... Our society has become an immense force in that it 257 limits the way we go about our instincts, but they are still there and must be 258 heeded accordingly. Wars will arise from overpopulation, disease will spread 259 quickly and overcome densely populated areas, and famine brings down population 260 even more as nature struggles to bring down the destructive forces of man. How 261 can either side win? If man prevails natures security clauses, he has doomed 262 himself and loses. However nature loses its dominating life form if it destroys 263 us all, perhaps for the better, but never the less an extinction of severe 264 impact on the galaxy. Well we should be able to muddle along... Nature will 265 win obviously, as our technology kills many of us, doubtfully all, and proceeds 266 it's rebuilding. In a billion years, all will be well... All is transitory. 8) 267 hahaha... Merry Christmas!!! I feel ill.. 8( I need a psychiatrist and Eliza 268 didn't help me much... I happen to have a desire to be in love, and ample 269 opportunity, but seem to be fighting myself due to past relationships dying. 270 I don't enjoy the idea that the next one will be the same, and I have no way 271 of proving that such will be the case, but the fear nags me and I shy away 272 from the relationship I long for... I should stop shying away from it. But 273 I can't ask her for a relationship till this big ZIT on my forehead goes away. 274 hehehe... Thanks for listening to me babble. I desperately needed to. 8) 275 -Aaron George 028=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/21/92 09:24 Msg:7608 Call:43178 Lines:17 276 | 277 278 I was speaking in the sense that man seems to be able to make direct 279 decisions about the environment (create an idea) and then make changes 280 as we see fit (act on the idea). Yes, man has "instinct", but we call 281 it "intuition" because it has been through civilization and refined into 282 something else. Other parts of nature seem to alter the environment out 283 of instinct and not direct application of thought (otherwise beehive 284 communities would be "intelligent" enough to make tools instead of using 285 the community members AS TOOLS). 286 287 As for the potential relationship, well, there's always an investment 288 in Clearasil pads... ;-) 289 290 Thesis | AntiThesis 291 292 | 029=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/21/92 13:06 Msg:7609 Call:43184 Lines:46 293 I suggest that all Man's actions are directly or indirectly related 294 to his natural instincts. Maslo's hierarchy of needs states these 295 instincts nicely in five parts: (1) The need to eat, sleep, breath, 296 etc. (2) The need for shelter/security. (3) The need to love and be 297 loved. (4) The need to achieve acomplishments, and recieve 298 recognition. (5) The need to learn and explore. Society has not in 299 essence changed these, they are still valid in our everyday living. 300 We need to eat and have shelter, so within societies structure we 301 hunt food with money instead of teeth, substituting hunting skills 302 for skills used to aquire money. The love we feel is a chemical 303 brain stimuli used to hasten reproductive instincts, we "love" 304 becuase nature/instinct tells us it's time to reproduce, and sexual 305 peaks arrive in the bearer at the time most healthy for procreation 306 to occur, early-late teens for males due to the growth hormones 307 being still strong and capable of endless sperm prodution, and late 308 womanhood for the fully grown womb and milk prodution capabilities. 309 But it is at achievments and knowledge where this query of yours is 310 directed, so my thesis is thus: Humans, like animals, are stupid. 311 They require a leader and are all simultaneously striving to become 312 this leader. They don't listen to nature, because they feel they 313 have become capable of mastering it completely, so spurn Ideas of 314 physical perfection (the strongest stallion) as a pack leader, yet 315 can't seem to take seriously the idea of a mental giant controling 316 them or they fear/resent the intelligence they are not capable of. 317 They thus stay devided with only small bands of scientists going on 318 to evolve thier brains, and small groups of bodybuilders pursuing 319 physical evolution, going actually nowhere in an unchanging world. 320 There needs to be significant environmental demands to force us 321 into evolution. This leader will be a mutant. As are all true 322 leaders... This will be the first strain of new humans brought 323 about by drastic changes in the environment. Reproduction will 324 occur and this mutation will spread to all others untill the entire 325 population is capable of survival in their new surroundings. Nope. 326 Never mind all this is just flowing out from my mind without any 327 preconception and is going to be read as a jumble of meaningless 328 ponderings. I can't explain why man is different from animals, but 329 I see similarities. We are all evolving at our own rates, so could 330 in time achieve the same as each other, were it not stifled by our 331 dominance of nature through tools, adapting our environment to us 332 instead of ourselves to it, and in the process wiping out species, 333 destroying habitats at unatural rates, giving them no time to 334 assimilate and correct their genetics to mutate. We are pulling 335 down nature with our manmade tools. I wish we could have evolved 336 differently, but we are here now, trying vainly to repair what we 337 have done, and many of us denying the problem entirely. Ah well. 338 8) -Aaron George 030=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/22/92 06:39 Msg:7610 Call:43188 Lines:11 339 Sigh. She doesn't want a relationship... She has had sex with me... 340 She doesn't want to be used as a piece of meat... If she didn't 341 feel any emotion for me, why did she sleep with me? I love her. 342 I told her so when she thought I was using her, and I must wait 343 till she sees the message before I can know if she cares. How can 344 she act like the injured party when she's not the one in love? 345 Women will always be a mystery to me. Yup, that's me Inspector 346 Aaron, working on a case part of a mystery that can never be 347 solved... Damn... My chemicals are really messing with my life. 348 Somebody shoot me and put me out of my misery. 349 -Aaron George 031=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/23/92 05:03 Msg:7611 Call:43201 Lines:21 350 &*&*&*&*'s 351 Not much time for a reply to all the stuff going on here, have to get to work 352 soon. Thesis, don't worry about CPU cycles. I ain't using 'em anyway, so 353 its better that they don't go to waste. BTW, I may be gettin back on the 354 rain slip-net. Time will tell. 355 356 About things in general. I think woman like to believe they want commitment, 357 when if fact it scares most of them as much as it scares us males. Maybe 358 we aren't so differant after all. 359 360 As for why we are here and how long it will last. These are meerly mind games 361 used to pass the time. We have at this point no way of telling, and no 362 matter what happens we will always be able to delude ourselved into 363 believing that this continues to be true. I am of course refering to the 364 collective rather than any specific we. You can trust some of the people 365 some of the time all of the people most of the time, but you can't trust 366 all of the people all of the time. 367 368 An Astral Dreamer 369 &*&*&*&*'s (Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho) 370 032=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/23/92 14:33 Msg:7612 Call:43205 Lines:1 371 033=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/23/92 14:51 Msg:7613 Call:43206 Lines:95 372 | 373 374 Um, OK, here's my .02 cents (plus a dime for inflation adjustment): 375 376 1. Man can NOT adapt to different environments very well. I would 377 surely drown underwater, or freeze/suffocate in space. This is why 378 mankind has chosen to alter the environment. It is people's hubris and 379 neglect and apathy that has brought the environment to its knees. After 380 all, ANY living creature will alter the environment; the environment is 381 a dynamic, rather than static, setting. The Earth could easily support 382 a little under a billion people without drastically impacting the 383 ecosystem. Instead of using information to help ourselves, we, as 384 people, still continue to control the spread of information. Thus, 385 we still have countries with 5-9 childred per family. At this rate, 386 the shear numbers of people will be our own downfall. 387 388 This is why I support Zero Population Growth. 389 390 2. Don't feel bad about your relationship, Aaron. Speaking as 391 a married young man, I can tell you that no matter who you're with, 392 it'll never be easy. (I personally think that this is why Romance 393 Novels sell so well- because people want to believe that it is 394 very easy to be in love) It seems that she is unsure about what she 395 wants to begin with (re-read your own message and see if you can 396 spot the contradiction), so don't stress. Women outnumber men by 397 about a 45:55 ratio, and y're bound to find someone if you keep 398 trying. Our society also dumps alot of garbage into both Mens and 399 Womens minds. By the time that people are ready to pair-bond, 400 there are so many misconceptions and misunderstandings that there's 401 bound to be some friction. Now, don't take the ramblings of this 402 young fool (me) to heart; it just seems that a)you're forming an 403 obsession with her, instead of going through the first state 404 of friendship-building, and b)she seems to either not care about 405 her situation/self/you or she lacks drive/direction/understanding. 406 I'm not trying to criticize you; just relax, sit down, and reflect 407 about how you would feel if some strange woman suddenly developed 408 a STRONG liking to you, but you didn't know what to do with her... 409 410 Hopefully, you'll gain insite into both your actions and hers. Is 411 she communicating with you? This is a big one - it's why my marriage is 412 so rocky with my wife, she doesn't always like to talk to me. I've 413 had to re-learn how to communicate with her and to be 414 patient with her decisions. We're doing pretty good now, but that 415 doesn't mean that I can just "sit down" and not put an effort into it... 416 anyway, try keeping your mouth closed when hers is open, and listen 417 carefully to what she says. When she decides to stop talking, THEN 418 approach her and find out how she feels about you. If she does the 419 following, then you know what's up: 420 421 a) acknowledges your intentions and immediately replies. This means 422 that she has SOME kind of interest in you, even if it was a "no" answer 423 she is at least respecting you as a person, you should feel honored by 424 her effort and respect whatever she says. 425 426 b) acknowledges you but not your intentions; that is, she's 427 beating around the bush and doesn't answer your questions. It's eithr 428 a uncomfortable subject for her (in which case I suggest changing the 429 subject IMMEDIATELY) or if she seems vague in her answer then she's 430 unsure about her own decisions (which means, cool your heals and let 431 her have time/space to think - but don't wait forever, you could die 432 waiting for an answer from some peope) 433 434 c) does not acknowledge you or tries to avoid your presence in 435 person; this one is fairly obvious to anyone, don't need to explain 436 rejection... 437 438 d) does not acknowledge you verbally but instead takes some kind of 439 direct action OR becomes verbally aggressive (telling you that "we" need 440 to do this or that, or dictating); This is evidence of denial. The 441 denial could be something simple (she's fighting with herself because 442 she doesn't want to have a relationship BUT she also likes you) or vert 443 very very complex (childhood or adolecent scar caused by some trauma, 444 needs professional therapy to help the scar heal enough to be comfortable 445 with herself). In any event, she will be taking this alternative action 446 instead of giving you acknowledgement because it's a form of a 447 defense mechanism. By not confronting her delima, she can remain 448 comfortable with herself, but she will fail to grow as a person until 449 she accepts the fact that there are some things she can't run away from. 450 Hence, her "action" will "defend" her "view" of herself, and she 451 remains "happy". 452 453 e) does acknowledge you but in an immature way; 454 she might need to grow before she can reach a level of relationship 455 that you are both comfortable with. Treat her like any other adult, 456 and try not to "judge" or "tell" her anything - it will make her 457 resentful and she will feel like she's constrained by you. 458 459 Geez, I guess I got a little carried away there... take this 460 with a grain of salt, don't be so hard on yourself, and remember that 461 I'm not attacking you or her in this, I'm just giving my extremely 462 biased personal opinion. 463 464 Thesis | AntiThesis 465 466 | 034=Usr:771 Aaron George 12/24/92 10:05 Msg:7614 Call:43208 Lines:20 467 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 468 Well I'm not planning on placing undue stress on this situation, 469 mainly by giving up hope, but also by trying to see other women. 470 After christmas caroling and last nights party, I have opened up 471 several new possibilities for relations, but this time I intend 472 to measure my strides and keep a watchful eye on myself. I have 473 always been easily engaged in my emotions, but I will make friends 474 and shy away from relationships for a while. Let me have time to 475 get over this past pain, before moving on. Thanks for the help, 476 it was very well recieved. 8) 477 Perhaps we should do Poetry for a while, I'm in the mood... 478 479 Look here, the layman cuts at my poems again! 480 Placing my wit at risk. 481 But for what I value his wit, so rare, 482 Here takest thou this shiny disk. 483 484 (snicker...) 485 -Aaron 486 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 035=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 12/26/92 12:05 Msg:7615 Call:43225 Lines:25 487 488 | 489 490 Aaron, it's good to hear that you have made your decision about 491 your past situation. It's also good to hear that I didn't manage 492 to give you some crummy advice - sometimes, taking the advice of 493 another person about your own relationship is the worst thing to do. 494 I'm just happy it worked out for you. Also, *DO* concentrate on the 495 friendship part (that you mentioned); I think you will find that 496 when "the time" comes as to wheather or not you would be comfortable 497 in a relationship with the other person (and vis. versa for the 498 said person), you and her will find that it'll be somewhat easier 499 and less "uptight", 'cause you'll both "know each other" already, 500 i.e. no need to hide things from each other. Good luck on 501 your pursuit of happiness...and don't be afraid of anything...and 502 last of all, never forget to be yourself. 503 504 Astral Dreamer, have you been busy? Seems I can't locate you 505 to well. Happy Holidays to you and a Merry / Exciting New Year, 506 should I not be able to find you in a few days. Will make an 507 effort with timebox... 508 509 Thesis | AntiThesis 510 511 | 036=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 12/29/92 04:49 Msg:7616 Call:43253 Lines:7 512 &*&*&*&*'s 513 Busy , Busy , Busy. But I am alive and well. Thanks for th holiday greetings. 514 Happy new year to all, and now its time for work. 515 516 An Astral Dreamer 517 &*&*&*&*'s () 518 037=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/05/92 22:34 Msg:7618 Call:43333 Lines:5 519 520 How Now Brown Cow? 521 522 All creative people are crazy. They have to be to major in the arts. 523 038=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/07/92 07:58 Msg:7619 Call:43339 Lines:16 524 525 Theres a ships boat on the horizon 526 And holds a heavy load 527 Its full of all the things we've plundered 528 From the islands of this sea 529 530 On its bottom lies the anchor 531 That once held us in our place 532 So now we cast it in the water 533 But without its chaining grace 534 535 We have sacrificed all our future life 536 In an effort with no code 537 So to all our false tommorows 538 Walk the ones that can't say we 539 039=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/08/92 11:55 Msg:7620 Call:43348 Lines:11 540 541 &*&*&*&*'s 542 Ah life, the only frontier. Makes you wonder why we didn't have something 543 better to do sometimes don't it? Like maybe figuring out proper sentance 544 construction. Not to mention what the heck a paragraph is. 545 546 What is a paragraph anyways? Who cares say I. 547 548 An Astral Dreamer 549 &*&*&*&*'s (Sureal variant on a name that denotes the unreal) 550 040=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/11/92 11:54 Msg:7621 Call:43372 Lines:11 551 &*&*&*&*'s 552 553 Wow, sometimes its hard to come up with something to say. Especially when 554 I want to be clever. I think I'm suffering from clever block. 555 556 Oh well, maybe next time. Meanwhile, I have to ask what everyone thinks is 557 going to happen over the next few years? 558 559 An Astral Dreamer 560 &*&*&*&*'s (Many fish live in the sea, but some just live in water.) 561 041=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 01/11/92 14:55 Msg:7622 Call:43373 Lines:67 562 | 563 564 Here I am, glued by gravity to a lintball some 27,000 miles in diameter, 565 circling an uncontrolled nuclear reaction. Sounds like fun you say? Then 566 you should try 567 568 N E W A N D I M P R O V E D 569 570 L 571 L i ff 572 L f f eee 573 L i fff e e 574 L i f eeeee 575 L i f e 576 LLLL i f eee 577 578 ...with the miracle ingrediant, DNA! Yes, new and improved LIFE will 579 bring tears to your eyes, a smile to your face, and pleanty of fun 580 and excitement as you dodge wild carnivores who want to clean the meat 581 from your bones! And while trying new and improved LIFE, also try 582 583 R O C K - N U T S 584 585 ...the cerial that's mined, not grown! One bite of tasty ROCK-NUTS 586 will have you saying, "Gee, when can we see the dentist?" 587 588 | 589 590 Just what I've always wanted: to eat cerial, loose my teeth, and run 591 from wild animals ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Just goes to show how capitalism 592 has brought us to new and exciting levels of entertainment. And I just 593 can't wait to move up to the next stage: using a new Zero-Gravity Toilet 594 while learning subliminal Swahili and keeping the ship's airlock shut 595 to prevent decompression. 596 597 So what's on the horizon? Virtual Reality will bring us to having 598 Virtual Sex that leads to a Virtual Orgasm, which is to experience making 599 love to something and getting something back in return, even thogh 600 it didn't happen. Then we'll need Virtual Police to patrol the Virtual 601 Red Light District. I've never made love to my computer...don't intend on 602 starting right now. 603 604 When does advertising begin? Where does it end? Have you ever 605 seen an advertisement in the middle of a hardback book? Just imagine 606 how many copies of "Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" you could sell 607 if it had every other page plastered with a semi-nude model selling cheap- 608 smelling purfume, or a sporty new X200 sports car. 609 610 Ban advertising. If you wanted to know about something, you would 611 be willing to get up and go out to find it. Advertising plagues our minds, 612 saps our spirits, and cools our hearts away from those we love. Advertising 613 is the plague of the Information Age. We need to formulate some kind 614 of "vaccine", something that would selectively remove advertising fro 615 everything we see, hear, and sense. 616 617 You don't believe me? Just how many hours did YOU spend in front 618 of the TV? Listen, if you're going to absorb X-ray emmisions from a CRT, 619 might as well do it while learning something usefull; so use your computer 620 and modem more often. Call other BBS systems (including this one too!), 621 "talk/chat" to other people on multi-line systems, and most importantly, 622 READ THE MAIL LEFT BY OTHERS. You just might learn something, or worse 623 yet, you may even AMUSE yourself. 624 625 Thesis-AntiThesis 626 627 | 628 042=Usr:11 L'homme sans Par 01/11/92 20:33 Msg:7623 Call:43384 Lines:7 629 *%_@#*%_)@#*%_)*%_)%(@_)#%^*@$_)^*@_(_$!_)($_)(@~_)$*@)_$%*_#)!%(!($!+$*_)$* 630 I use this system so I can learn how depressing everything is from Astral 631 Dreamer! (just kidding AD, but sometimes you get, well, a little down on 632 things). Perhaps you might try writing some B52 lyrics instead of The Cure 633 lyrics... just a dumb thot :-) 634 (_(_)*(%_@(%_+($+@_*%+@_*^+!_(% L'homme sans Parity *%_)@*_)!@(#_)%*_!*!_)%* 635 043=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/13/92 14:55 Msg:7624 Call:43390 Lines:13 636 &*&*&*&*'s 637 L'homme, I don't try to write depressing lyrics, it just tends to happen. 638 When I'm in a good mood, the last thing I'm thinking about is writting 639 poetry/lyrics. 640 641 I really should stop by sometime with the MIDI module I bought recently. 642 I think you'd be impressed. 643 644 To the world in general, hello. Are we having fun yet? 645 646 An Astral Dreamer 647 &*&*&*&*'s (Time keeps on keeping on) 648 044=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/19/92 06:49 Msg:7627 Call:43415 Lines:7 649 &*&*&*&*&*'s 650 The Light that shines on the window is only th smallest part 651 Of the the that comes from the sun, atleast to my human eyes. 652 653 An Astral Dreamer 654 &*&*&*&*'s (Closer to reality, farther from accuracy) 655 045=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/20/92 09:23 Msg:7628 Call:43422 Lines:5 656 657 To be tenacious is to never give up when you know your cause is just. When 658 you have the good fortune to be both tenacious and wise, great things can 659 be achieved. 660 046=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/22/92 06:48 Msg:7633 Call:43434 Lines:4 661 662 Today is a day very much like any other. The only real differance that I 663 can discern is that I am living it in the first person. 664 047=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/22/92 12:17 Msg:7634 Call:43435 Lines:4 665 666 If people think me stupid, I sometimes wonder if it is perhaps not because 667 I do not understand, but instead because they do no understand. 668 048=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/23/92 08:24 Msg:7635 Call:43441 Lines:3 669 670 Not as profound as you would otherwise believe. 671 049=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 01/23/92 13:44 Msg:7637 Call:43445 Lines:28 672 | 673 674 Understanding separates the fools from the foolhardy. ;-) 675 676 -Just kidding, I know perfectly well what was meant by the last few lines 677 above my message. Seems that those who do not comprehend are more 678 inclined to pass off wisdom or information as "stupid or foolish 679 non-sense", simply because they themselves do not wish to appear 680 foolish or stupid. I try to talk about what I know, and what I have 681 been told, but if I know nothing, I'll try to also come right out and 682 say it. If I can guess the meaning of new information (what we would 683 call learning in school years) then I will not bother to say 684 that I don't understand; then again, if I don't guess right, I'll 685 still try to apologize and ask for more specifics. 686 687 How do others react to this situation? Do you notice yourself 688 doing this "rejection", or do you try to comprehend the situation, 689 or do you simply do a "politician" (ya kow, if their mouth moves, 690 then they're lying). Think about what you do when confronted with 691 news that you fully don't understand... you might suprise yourself. 692 693 By The Way, where have all the callers gone? Long time ago? Seems 694 that Backwater is in need of new callers and new life, along with 695 stories and poetry and debates and satire and witicism, and all the 696 other stuff that makes a boring life not so boring ;-) 697 698 T-AT 699 | 050=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/25/92 07:46 Msg:7639 Call:43456 Lines:4 700 701 A small fish in a big pool stands a much lesser chance of being eaten than 702 the big fish. 703 051=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/26/92 08:44 Msg:7642 Call:43464 Lines:4 704 705 Sometimes a penny saved is a doller lost. Put another way, prudent frugality 706 is a virtue, compulsive frugality a vice. 707 052=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/27/92 13:34 Msg:7643 Call:43482 Lines:6 708 &*&*&*&*'s 709 Yes, there is life here. Its just slow to respond. 710 711 An Astral Dreamer 712 &*&*&*&*'s (Why do I put this stuff here anyway.) 713 053=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/28/92 06:40 Msg:7644 Call:43485 Lines:8 714 715 A teltale reminder of the thing that hid beneath your bed as a child. Is it 716 a bird, is it a plane? Is it just another user picking up the verbage of my 717 brain? 718 719 Could it be the under signed on a contract with your name? Or is it just 720 another bit of prose that looks about the same. 721 054=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 01/29/92 08:01 Msg:7645 Call:43491 Lines:10 722 &*&*&*&*'s 723 Fun and games, fun and games. I hate being in situations where I don't feel 724 as though I can ask questions. Especially when I know that if I even bother, 725 I'll just get ignored. 726 727 Ain't work grand? Makes me want to go to work for myself. And I just about 728 could I think. Tempting, very tempting. 729 730 An Astral Dreamer 731 &*&*&*&*'s 055=Usr:530 Jessie a. 01/31/92 06:18 Msg:7648 Call:43505 Lines:36 732 *!*!*!*! 733 By the time of eveningside, the sweet tender grasses grew. 734 No longer to be in fear, no longer to tremble under the 735 cruel hand of... of the unspeakable. Far, far into the 736 distance the sweet moon graced its tender light. How sweet 737 the field. How sweet the violins of crickets on soft breezes. 738 739 Perhaps no genteler thing nor kinder scene than this had 740 ever crossed the face of creation. 741 742 Where comist. Note the time. Play the breezes. Warm. Sweet 743 the smell rushes of the grasses. 744 745 Now the soil, well the soil it releases. Play the air again. 746 How the ...well, how the air it is sweet. Is it 747 night? Perhaps but the soil knows only the feel of purple 748 twilight. Does it cross the face of the grasses, long and 749 the grass heads hanging by their tender love of their selves. 750 751 Now again rushes the breeze. Play, play soft wuch swet 752 encompass as these. Lie upon the earth. Tender. Oh tears, 753 oh such tears of tenderness. Never again. Perhaps, but no. 754 No, again and again and again into infinity. 755 756 LOng the green grain. Yellow the...well the tender food of the 757 earth. RAin for the bees...well, no but how do you say? 758 Sweet. Lie amongst. Down, down close to the earth there is 759 sweet baby. Which baby? Oh.....child. Child of the earth. 760 Player. PLayer of sweetness. Earth, earth is moved. Silly earth. 761 So many childs like this. All learn. 762 763 Now the grasses again. Tip toe the winds...far, far across the 764 face. Rest. No more the.... 765 766 Jessie 767 *!*!*!*! 056=Usr:758 Thesis Antithesi 01/31/92 12:00 Msg:7649 Call:43506 Lines:18 768 769 | 770 771 Who Am I? 772 773 Is it identity that creates self-perception, or is it 774 our intangible friend, conscienceness? Or are we apart from 775 our perceptions? If I am like others, then I am the same. 776 But I am also different from others, so I am apart. Which 777 leads to empass. 778 779 | 780 781 You're you, schmuck. Get a grip! If you're not you, 782 then who's inside your head? 783 784 | "I'm argueing with myself again..." 785 057=Usr:131 THE VISION 01/31/92 13:35 Msg:7650 Call:43507 Lines:6 786@_____________________________T_H_E___V_I_S 787 788 ___________________________T_H_E___V_I_S_I_O_N________________________ 789 Hi all... don't recognize anybody around except Astral Dreamer. How 790 are you doing AD? Long time no talk... Anyhow, take it easy. 791 ______________________________________________________________________ 058=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/01/92 07:49 Msg:7651 Call:43508 Lines:12 792 &*&*&*&*'s 793 VISION, I am as always here. Atleast some small part of me is. Some things 794 can become a part of your soul. For whatever reason, Backwater qualifies as 795 such an entitiy in my life. I don't call quite as much as I used to, but 796 I almost always get on a few times a week. 797 798 Sometimes life seems dumb, sometimes life seems grand. Sometimes life is 799 the promise that you hold in you hand. 800 801 An Astral Dreamer 802 &*&*&*&*'s (Changes keep on happening. Scenery's not the same.) 803 059=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/03/92 08:48 Msg:7653 Call:43523 Lines:11 804 805 Many have lamented the passing their years, And I must confess that I am no 806 better than they. It seems to me that when I look about, all I see is a 807 world that I am slowly failing to understand. It is the young who play 808 the game of fashion and fads the most ardently. Perhaps because it is new 809 and fresh to them, while we have grown weary of it. Of course, the older 810 generation inevitably holds the power, and thus for all their posing and 811 playing they have in fact very little. 812 813 Who knows, who cares? 814 060=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/08/92 13:41 Msg:7655 Call:43555 Lines:6 815 The words that are put forth on this page 816 Are minor players on the stage 817 818 Of the life I live inside my head 819 Yet they help keep my creative hunger fed. 820 061=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/11/92 05:45 Msg:7656 Call:43566 Lines:5 821 People wander by 822 Don't care enough to say 823 Don't care enough to stay 824 Why? 825 062=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/12/92 07:33 Msg:7657 Call:43571 Lines:8 826 &*&*&*&*'s 827 Here I am again. Hmm, been sort of silenter than normal around here recently. 828 Must be that people are still in their winter hibernation. Springs just around 829 the corner, so that should be changing soon. 830 831 An Astral Dreamer 832 &*&*&*&*'s (Still dreaming after all these years) 833 063=Usr:9 Pamela Coleman 02/15/92 11:13 Msg:7658 Call:43598 Lines:5 834 835@>.........>.........>........>.......>....>.....>....>...>..>.>>>>>>>> 836@ 837@ It' not really rational... it's spit on a htplate, skittering 838@around, skipping and jumping from place to plae changing form, losing 064=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/17/92 08:42 Msg:7659 Call:43611 Lines:3 839 Sometimes life can throw you a curve ball. Its even worse when it hits you in 840 the face. 841 065=Usr:786 Ben McCrea 02/18/92 23:25 Msg:7660 Call:43616 Lines:21 842 +====================================================================== 843 Hello world. I'm new here and I like what I see. Have you heard of the 844 melibdemaboral sesp? I happen to have connections with a very prestigios 845 (really prestigiouuus) physicist who has made a fantastic breakthough in 846 unification field theory. Dr. Bodough Ilgner of the Int'l Physics Asylum 847 will soon become famous due to this incredible discover. Time travel (of 848 a sort) has become possible throught the utilization of Dr. Ilgner's 849 discovery, The Melibdemaboral Sesp. In brief, the sesp works on the 850 following principle: objects immersed in the sesp experience a slowing in 851 the passing of time, providing a longer pathway into the future. In layman's 852 terms, an hour becomes approx. 62.34 sec. and a month would become 32.2 days 853 for the object in the sesp. Although applications for the sesp have yet 854 to be concieved, it is clearly a neat thing. Says Dr. Ilgner, "it allows 855 one to sneek up on the past from behind!" 856 857 Ok, so that's all nonsense. But I NEED diversions like this. Cruel world! 858 Catch me in a more poetic mood sometime, and remember, I'm generally 859 considered an overly serious individual. 860 861 - Dorian - 862 066=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/19/92 06:44 Msg:7661 Call:43618 Lines:9 863 &*&*&*&*'s 864 Welcome Dorian. 865 866 An Astral Dreamer 867 &*&*&*&*'s 868 869 Tiny little objects made of nothing more than light. Travel through the 870 inbetween and take away the night. 871 067=Usr:787 delta-v delta-v 02/19/92 22:35 Msg:7662 Call:43624 Lines:14 872 [*=*] DELTA FIVE [*=*] 873 I have three new books published on electronic surveillance, privacy, and compu 874 ter security. For details write Lysias Press PO Box 192171 San Francisco 94119 875 I don't get on here very often. Is Wassir (the friendly Albanian) or Dreamtouch 876 er still around? 877 Is Sysop Mikey still having wet dreams about Pam? 878 879 ? 880 s 881 save 882 off 883 /s 884 885 068=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/21/92 09:24 Msg:7663 Call:43639 Lines:3 886 887 A time and place, inside the ace that helps us win each hand. 888 069=Usr:789 Iolair Tiene 02/21/92 19:09 Msg:7666 Call:43645 Lines:13 889 _____________________________________________________________________________ 890 Well It's Been A long time since I have Written Anything here!!!! 891 Many's the day I'd Stop by to read a story or 2 and maybe even write a line 892 or three to continue ya see 893 894 Oh Well, the days have been long and the work longer 895 and now i only have five minutes to compose something to say 896 so I'll Just let You Know I stoped by this way 897 898 21 FEB 93 899 900 Iolair Tiene 901 __________________________________________________________________________ 070=Usr:789 Iolair Tiene 02/21/92 19:26 Msg:7667 Call:43646 Lines:3 902 Is There Any b o d y o u t t h e r e ? 903 904 pink floyd 071=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/23/93 07:13 Msg:7668 Call:43659 Lines:4 905 906 We exist. For a fleeting instant. We have form. But here we are void. 907 Only our words can be found. When we are not around. 908 072=Usr:54 George Freemont 02/24/93 20:38 Msg:7669 Call:43667 Lines:5 909 ................................................................. 910 Rumor has it that Wassir still checks in from time to time. 911 I'm sure when he does, he'll say "Hail, and well met". Not 912 being Albanian, I have absolutely no idea what that means. 913 ................................................................. 073=Usr:787 delta-v delta-v 02/25/93 01:23 Msg:7670 Call:43672 Lines:4 914 L'homme: Howzit? Have a helluva time getting onto my UUCP node, and still haven 915 t got on NETCOM...Hey, no Leroy McKane, Wassir, here? 916 I'm gonna have to come back to Orygun! 917 [=*=] Delta Five [=*=] 074=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 02/25/93 12:07 Msg:7671 Call:43675 Lines:3 918 919 In any concept there is a core of deception. 920 075=Usr:26 Mohammed Wassir 02/25/93 21:03 Msg:7672 Call:43680 Lines:15 921 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 922 Delta, 923 Nice to see you back at the Inn. Haven't seen much of Leroy 924 lately, rumor has it that he's been hiding out at the Lonely Hearts 925 Mission in Old Town. Do come back to Orygawn . . . it's been a while 926 since I've had a real challenge. That French guy with the funny name 927 is a real cream puff (That oughta get the poop flyin' eh?) 928 Thought I spotted Pam on Internet, but I guess I was mistaken. 929 Oh well . . . 930 931 Mohammed Wassir 932 933 P.S. I'd say Hail and well met, but I don't know what it means 934 either. 935 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 076=Usr:790 Stray Cat 03/01/93 16:46 Msg:7674 Call:43706 Lines:2 936 ************************************************************************ 937 Well, since Mikey seems to be out of town I'll just have to replace the crud 077=Usr:790 Stray Cat 03/05/93 07:59 Msg:7677 Call:43748 Lines:8 938 I wrote before then post it again later when Mikey ***FINALLY*** puts up a new 939 wall (am I ungrateful or WHAT??) So now I have the space, I'm at a loss for 940 the words I had yesterday when, for some reason, I'd found in physically im- 941 possible to post graffiti here for some technical reason, I suppose. In my 942 extreme frustration I went out & purchased some books I couldn't afford just 943 to keep my mind off IT. So, when I get my act together I'll call back and 944 hope the lines are still here. 945 078=Usr:790 Stray Cat 03/05/93 18:15 Msg:7679 Call:43750 Lines:12 946 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% really, I DO need to get a grip... 947 948 (and I shouldn't have wasted that line) Since I DO tend to be offensive 949 to MOST readers here, from here on out I shall use %%% as my border so you 950 can program anything between them right on out (that is technically possible 951 isn't it?) Maybe that way I myself won't have to encounter it either. I'd 952 like to read the OTHER stuff on here without having to go through all this 953 too. One diskful by some of the regulars here could last most imaginations 954 a lifetime, if you know what I mean. Earlier today I felt like a spinning 955 swaztika just thinking about SOME of it. Thank the gods I've settled down. 956 957 When IS Mikey gonna change the disk I wonder??? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 079=Usr:54 George Freemont 03/06/93 12:48 Msg:7681 Call:43756 Lines:6 958 ..................................................................... 959 Babe of the month: Laura Tyson: Chairperson of the President's 960 Council of Economic Advisors 961 962 TV Show of the month: Beakman's World 963 ..................................................................... 080=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/06/93 14:39 Msg:7682 Call:43757 Lines:10 964 965 The last line in any great story is the one we most easily picture. It is that 966 last image that will stay with us, and in some casses haunt us. So, save 967 yourself a lot of time and just read the last page. 968 969 970 For my birthday I want something that nobody else has. Something like a 971 5000 pound lemon pie. Then I could invite the whole city to come to my party 972 and have a pie fight. First one to the pie splatters everyone else. Start 973 working out now, it could happen. 081=Usr:84 Michael Miller j 03/07/93 12:15 Msg:7683 Call:43764 Lines:18 974 ^ 975 Wouldn't you like to have a flying saucer? Imagine the fun you could have 976 with rural aliens on other planets. 977 ^ 978 I love the smell of asphalt. Especially when mixed with the fumes of passing 979 cars. Theres no other rush like it. Especially when you add the noise from 980 all that traffic. Ah, nature in all its unbridled glory. 981 ^ 982 I remember hearing once that if Alpha Centuri were just a little closer, you 983 could get a tan from being in its light. But I just can't picture myself 984 985 Just what I've always wanted: to eat cerial, loose my teeth, and run 986 from wild animals ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Just goes to show how capitalism 987 has brought us to new and exciting levels of entertainment. And I just 988 can't wait to move up to the next stage: using a new Zero-Gravity Toilet 989 while learning subliminal Swahili and keeping the ship's airlock shut 990 to prevent decompression. 991 082=Usr:0 Null User 06/30/87 20:34 Msg:0 Call:0 Lines:1 992 So what's on the horizon? Virtual Reality will bring us to having