__ __ \ \ /_/i e w e r issue 6 vol. 2 Oct. 12/99 \ \/| |i s c r e t i o n ISSN 1481-2266 \__| |/ v_d@iname.com | _ |/ archived at disobey.com |___|/ http://www.disobey.com/text/ __ __________________ _ __________________ _ _________________ __ __ ________________ _ __________________ _ ___________________ __ __ ______________ _ __________________ _ _____________________ __ 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! ) 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 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 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 :: You can catch VD. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. If you want VD delivered to your mailbox, send an empty email to: v_d-subscribe@makelist.com Conversely, if you don't want VD, figure it out (it has something to do with empty mail and v_d-unsubscribe@makelist.com - duh). If you have something you'd like to see in VD or an idea for a section you'd like to write or whatever, type it up and send it in a note to v_d@iname.com or don't. 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