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


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