Msg: 5777 *Conference*
04-24-95 15:21:29
From: WALT LARSEN
To : RICHARD HANSON
Subj: "CRAZY LIKE A FOX!"
Hello, O Rick - he, the Major Domo of the California "Rick's," in contrast to that other Rick, proprietor of Rick's American Bar & Cafe & Saloon in - where was it now????! Ohh, yes .... CASABLANCA! with a wild and crazy (talk about 'crazy') chick named Ingrid - (you got any Ingrids out there? I'm in the "market" for one, if she has a Model 100 with PUDD, so much the better - But SeRiOuSlY, Rick - thanks for the welcome - I was greatly relieved to see that you are still "in action" at the 'same old stand' - Some guy was (before I came upon the scene) "bad-mouthing" (it seems) you and "Club 100," on CIS's Model 100 Forum; saying it was some kind of an operation some guy ran out of his bedroom, and had nowhere near the range and authority of, say, the InterNet or CompuServe or maybe not even DelPhi... Now, WE know that's not true - but he went on to say, as I recall, and I conceivably (just barely conceivably) COULD be SLIGHTLY mistaken... that you and (well, maybe not YOU actually) "Club 100" were either defunct or close to it !!! - This unsubstantiated statement sent me running off full-tilt (and I hardly ever run full-tilt any where for any thing any more...HARDLY ever, that is) to see if indeed such was the case. To my uttermost relief, I found that he didn't know what the H*ck he was talking baout... as I had susupected all along. So - here I am, a paid-up subscriber... I figured you needed more paid-up subscribers, and fewer of those "dead-beats" you have listed (serves 'em right; if good ole New Yawk where I come from [Brooklyn, that is...], they would have trouble with their knee-caps (jus' kiddin', Rick; that kind of stuff is REALLY frowned-upon in Brooklyn, at least in those neighborhoods where I ever hung out [Bensonhurst {where, among many others, Carl Sagan was born and grew up}, Bath Beach, Coney Island, Greenpernt, {oops! sorry; that should be GreenPOINT}, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Hamilton, Red Hook, and other places like that {Marine Park, Canarsie, New Utrecht, Flatlands, East New York, Bushwick, etc. -- ahhh, the good ole daze! I wax nostalgic already, for Ebbets Field and the REAL (Trolley) Dodgers, etc. - but dat's anudder story). Well, I don't wanna tie up your lines (good woid "wanna" - ever think about it? Saves two "T's and a space...or at least, it's just five characters, as opposed to SIX characters PLUS a space (7 total). Still can't quite quell the old "byte-fighter" instinct, developed "back when" maximum memory was a HUGE 64K, for those fortunate few who could afford it; and a good price for a 10meg "Winchester" drive was about (give-or-take a few hundred; mostly "take") $1,000 ($100/meg). Today, in an era of unprecedented inflation over the last fifteen or so years, despite the best efforts of good-intentioned and not-so-good intentioned people, the price/per/meg has come down(?!) to about FIFTY CENTS/PER/MEG?! But I guess I don't have to tell you that... Gotta go now - before I wear out my welcome. Next thing, after subscribing to the classiest BBS west of the Mississippi (maybe even East of the Mississsippi, too - but for some reason, "they" almost ALWAYS say that. I don't know what's so mysterious about the Mississippi... I've crossed it on wheels and in the air more than a few times, and I never noticed anything much significantly different on the west bank of the Miss than on the right bank...?) - is to learn how to type. I figure after sixteen years of fiddling around with these gadgets, all of them with keyboards, I ought to learn how to it RIGHT! And I don't have too much patience with fancy GUI's - I use 'em if I have to (and increasingly, it seems one DOES have to, if one wants to use much of the "modren" software...). Enuff already - take care - wlarsen@libby.org out - 30 -