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From: ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis)
Subject: Re: Howard moves Jonathon Brandemeier
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:35:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.032904.11245@news.acns.nwu.edu> staggers@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Ken Staggers) writes:
>I've been away for a month so I am not sure if this has been mentioned,
>but Howard will be coming to the Chicago area next month!
>
>The deal is that WLUP will move Johnny B OUT of the morning slot (his official
>stmt is that he is tired of waking up at 4am for the last 10 years, and
>welcomes the change) on WLUP-FM and will move to the afternoon slot (on
>
this is a pile of crap.  my guess is that stern would have a field day
going against johnny b. and wlup probably figures why give stern fodder
for material.  after all, why should johnny b move otherwise?  he's got
the number 2 am radio program in chicago after wgn's bob collins.  the
two were generally considered to appeal to different audiences so, for
all intents and purposes, johnny b. was considered #1 for his kind of
show.  now he's going to move to another time slot and risk losing some
of that audience because he's "tired of waking up at 4am"?  i dunno,
seems the $1.5+million/yr salary he was pulling could buy a lot of coffee.

>WLUP-AM, I think).  WLUP-AM will then move their afternoon talk show,
>Steve and Garry, to WLUP-FM morning drive.  And then, Howard will be
>moving his syndicated show to WLUP-AM in the mornings starting next month.
>
>So in a way, mgmt seems to think that Howard vs Johnny B would never
>work, and hopes that Howard and S&G will divide and conquer the morning
>audience better than Howard and Johnny B could.
>
i suppose wlup would figure that:
	a)s&g would present a less attractive target for stern's attacks, or
	b)s&g are probably less concerned than johnny b about what stern
	  say about them

it seems rather interesting that they're putting stern on am [not the most
viable frequency band in chicago].  in one sense, i'm wondering if wlup is
floating the stern show in chicago as a sort of trial balloon to see how it
would fly here.  it would seem that they would have gotten some indication
of how well the show would be received here by checking the nielson ratings
that his show pulled here [i don't know how well he did here].  either way,
the choice by wlup would seem to significantly limit stern's potential
audience in chicago.

>Shame I am moving to the west coast (Silicon Valley) next month :(
>
>--Ken
well, maybe KOME will pick the show up one of these days.  stay tuned,
and remember:

	don't touch that dial!  there's KOME on it!


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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:53:22 EDT
From: Tony R. Marasco <TRM900@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Radio Show (10/5)

Well, Howard is planning one whale of a story against Hard Copy.  I missed
HC, but apparently a "fan" of his who works for HC waited for days to get
a comment from Howard.  Howard was cold to Audrey, as he usually is to
other members of the press.  Of course Howard believes all press about
him always turns up negative.  He is almost always correct.

Howard wanted to find out why a "fan" would let a negative story go by.
He called her today at 5AM and attempted to grill her - to which she resisted.
As a rebuttal to the HC presentation, Howard is gathering as much dirt on the
people at HC to present his own "investigative news story."  He claims he
has a full page on Audrey so far.  That was five minutes after he officially
began the attack.

More on this as it becomes available...
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From: patm@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Pat Murphy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
Subject: Anyone Willing to Summarize Stern??!
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:11:10 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA



There are hundreds, if not thousands, of HS fans throughout this
great land of ours that either (1) used to live in an area where
the show was broadcast but have since moved; or (2) have never heard
howard in the radio format.  It would be a great service if some
one or some group could summarize the radio show on a weekly
basis (providing all the nasty highlights) or, god-willing a
daily basis...

Any giving souls out there?
(may the almighty stern bless you and keep you in Robin's bosom)

peace,
pjm (waiting for the king of all media to conquer the rockies)
From: rah@public.BTR.COM (Richard A Hyde  rah@btr.com)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Re: Quake Day - Minus 4
Keywords: wizard, quake, predict, sky quakes
Date: 27 Sep 92 15:40:53 GMT
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, MtnView CA. Contact: Customer Service cs@BTR.COM

In article <8166@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> weiss@turing.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) writes:
|
|When the quake hit, Oakland moved a bit east, pulling on the bridge.  The
|section that failed was designed to fail before the rest of the bridge, so as
|to act as a "fuse" of sorts.  Because of this, that particular section of
|bridge rested on a lip.  Unfortunately, the lip was not quite long enough to
|hold the roadway after a "stretch" of the magnitude seen in the Loma Prieta
|quake.  Nonetheless, the bridge behaved as expected and predicted by the very
|engineers who designed it.  The rest of the bridge was never in danger of
|collapse, especially once that one section gave way.
|-- 

From "Competing Against Time" Report to Governor George Deukmejian from
The Governor's Board of Inquiry on the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake:

"The 50-foot-long upper and lower closure spans of the Bay Bridge over
Pier E-9 fell when the bolts failed that conected the pier with the 290'
truss span to the east.  Another span at pier E23, close to the eastern
edge of the bridge was near failure of a comparable type."

Essentially, the span at pier E-23 came within 1/4 inch of falling off it's
supports.  The spans were not designed at work as a "fuse" as far as I
can see.  In fact, the engineers solution to the problem was to install
special high strength bolts in place of the ones that sheared.  Kind of
like wrapping a fuse with aluminium foil (if that were the case)

The Board goes on to say that "No engineering assessment of the dynamic,
seismic performance of the Bay Bridge has ever been made."  and...

"The Bay Bridge may not bee presumed to be adequately earthquake resistant
just because it was only slightly damaged during the Loma Prieta
earthquake an has since been repaired".   "... Nor was the level of
shaking sufficiently close to that expected in major earthquakes to test
the strength of bridge elements."

The Board goes on to say how well the Bridge was constructed (quality wise)
and comments that maintenance has been excellent.  However, it was built
before any real usderstanding of earthquake dynamics was available.

Interestingly, there was also cracking around the pier-bases at Pier E-17.
CalTrans intends to jacket these piers in a similar fashion to the jacketing
going on at freeway overpasses.

I think the bottom line is that we *don't know* how the Bay Bridge is
going to perform in the next quake.  Reading the engineering study, I'd
bet that the structure as a whole will stand, but that one or more
sub-structures will fail that will render the Bridge impassable for several
months.  

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From: PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Movie arrives, dinner delayed
Date: 6 Oct 92 00:16:43 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Add our names to the fanlist.  Mike's movie just arrived late this
afternoon, and we all watched immediately.  Better than food!  Amazing!
Rated 3.8 by my daughter Jessica, who has a scale of 4 and has given only
one 4 in her life (_M_).  I use a ten scale myself, and this is definitely a
ten.  Loved it.  What a wonderful combination of sweetness and silliness!
Craig, who joined the fun late, is withholding his rating until he sees the
whole thing.

Tusen takk, Mike!

Paula
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,alt.self-improve,alt.california
From: wallace@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Glenn Wallace)
Subject: Re: Permission needed - Author of "Practice Random Kindness"
Keywords: guerrilla goodness, kindness, acts, Marin, california, legend
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 20:50:03 GMT

jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) writes:


>   "PRACTICE RANDOM KINDNESS AND SENSELESS ACTS OF BEAUTY"

>Anyone who's cruised the Newsgroups has seen that phrase, often
>used in a somebody's sig-quote.  Do you know where it came from?
>The answer may be read below.  Do you know where its creator is,
>or the writer of this article?

It must be very popular - it is a bumper sticker over here in the
'bush'.


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From: cmraman@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Focused on Infinity)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,alt.self-improve,alt.california
Subject: Re: Permission needed - Author of "Practice Random Kindness"
Date: 30 Sep 1992 00:22:26 GMT
Organization: a concept alien to most civilised minds.
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu
Summary: e-mail available
Keywords: the WELL


In article <wr_p64-.wisner@netcom.com> wisner@netcom.com (Bill Wisner) writes:
>The phrase was coined several years ago by a woman from Mill Valley, whose
>name I unfortunately can't remember.  One of the San Francisco Chronicle's
>back-page columnists (Jon Carroll, I think) wrote about her recently.
>She tends to be difficult to keep track of - good luck finding her.
>So if you really want to know who she is, go to your library and
>grunge through the last month of so of the Chronicle.

Alternatively, you can e-mail Jon Carroll and ask him. He has responded to
my e-mail requests for clarifications on information that he published, so
I daresay he'd probably respond to anyone. :)

His address (which he has given out in his column, so I feel safe in
reproducing it here) is jrc@well.sf.ca.us .

Good luck in your continuing investigation, Mike.
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From: wisner@netcom.com (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,alt.self-improve,alt.california
Subject: Re: Permission needed - Author of "Practice Random Kindness"
Keywords: guerrilla goodness, kindness, acts, Marin, california, legend
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:48:18 GMT
Organization: Trailing Edge Technologies, Mountain View, CA

The article is also not original to Glamour magazine.

The phrase was coined several years ago by a woman from Mill Valley, whose
name I unfortunately can't remember.  One of the San Francisco Chronicle's
back-page columnists (Jon Carroll, I think) wrote about her recently.

She tends to be difficult to keep track of - good luck finding her.

So if you really want to know who she is, go to your library and
grunge through the last month of so of the Chronicle.

w.
From: daz@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (David A. Z.)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Re: Quake Day - Minus 4
Keywords: wizard, quake, predict, sky quakes
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:33:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <24SEP199214414812@csa2.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
 writes:
 
> [...] No one knows how to build a 
>house that can withstand a once-per century earthquake without falling,
>at least at reasonable cost.  Even if money were no object I'm not sure
>it could be done.
 
        I unfortinately forget the name of the island/country where it
is built, but I have seen a documentary on PBS regarding exactly that
sort of building.
 
        The building in question has two sets of concrete reinforced
basements.  One is a large hole in the ground, and the other is the
one to which the actual building is attached.  
 
        The two basements are seperated by large pieces of rubber that
are attached to the lower basement and support the slightly smaller
foundation above them.  The theory is that ground under the building
could shake/shift/open up 6 to 8 inches in any direction, and the 
pieces of rubber will simply bend in one direction or the other and
movements.
 
        The building is built on an island which is VERY prone to
quakes (sorry.. I'm really bad at remember the name of just about
anything) so with any luck (good?/bad?) we'll eventually find out
for sure if it works or not.
 
        - David  ..ummmm.. whatever my last name is.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: The Director's Cut 
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:40:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.011536.1@happy.colorado.edu> etpegg@happy.colorado.edu writes:
>When will WOSAT, the Director's Cut, be released? All the good movies
>seem to be getting rereleased with extra seconds of footage these
>days. I want to see those extra seconds!

I hear that the new version of WOSAT includes the full version of the
exploding head scene, as well as two new sex scenes, one involving a
revolving frob and Tinkertoys.  Also, there are subliminal messages saying 
"Listen to Judas Priest, smoke crack, and then kill yourself."

It also includes that all-important Lost Ending in which the
nuclear-powered 30mph briefcase goes critical and destroys Los Angeles,
exploding on the steps that Laurel and Hardy moved the piano up.  The
final shot is of a now-mutated Wizard, glowing bright green.

							-- K.

(well, okay, sometimes my imagination runs away with me... or without me.
Mike, will you film my autobiography?)
From: cc4b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Brian Cox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Re: Bitmapped Wizard?
Date: 6 Oct 92 02:20:31 GMT
	<BvLE9L.4tB@world.std.com>
	<Eenmzcy00gpIBAulU2@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Senior, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Um, Andrew - I think one of us has the sequence of events messed up.

I found your postscript code and tried it - but it didn't look quite right.
Then I found a bitmap version of the logo that had been posted to the net.
I brought the bitmap into Freehand and traced it (and polished the
tracing a bit), then saved the file.
As far as I know, Shawn Knight is the only other person with my copy of
the logo artwork. (of course, half the net has the eps version now.)

I think you have EPS versions mixed up.

Unless of course, you re-did your re-doing of the original EPS to create
yet-another reduced PS of the logo from my re-tracing?

Chris

ps.  Of course, I am also the one who argues against the invariance of
causality in General Rel.
From: pcalvert@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Littering sign in WoSaT: is there a sublim?
Date: 7 Oct 92 00:23:17 GMT
Organization: Economics, University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: eco.economics.adelaide.edu.au

Hiho,
	managed to find a video player that had frame advance so I 
	happily frame stepped through WoSaT, straining my eyeballs
	in the process.
	I didn't have the subliminals list with me, but I was amazed
	at how many I picked up, *and* upon reading the list again,
	how many I missed.

	One thing did bother me though. The freeze frame was pretty 
	jumpy. so I found it hard to make out many words.
	I would like to know what the words are on the No Littering
	sign that appears just before Mike picks up the can and 
	tosses it back at the Truck driver "You dropped this good buddy."

	It says NO something something.
	(And no, its not in the sublim list (at least the one I've got)).
	Can anyone help me out on this one?  Mike?

	BTW, if any other Aussies are watching, I can dub as well.
	Not guaranteed to be the *highest* quality (my copy's been 
	watched a fair bit), but you will be saving on postage costs,
	and have a copy that *does* work on Australian TVs.
	(I didn't say any of the above if you are a lawyer type person.
	 I have been subliminally conditioned to 'not' stop the 
	 creative spirit ;^)

								...sage
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    email : pcalvert@economics.adelaide.edu.au  &  sage@maria.wustl.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
From: keithd@bigguy.timeplex.com (Keith Dickinson)
Subject: Re: Bitmapped Wizard?
Organization: Ascom Timeplex Inc.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 12:15:06 GMT

In article <1992Oct3.030540.16689@ccu.umanitoba.ca> shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich) writes:
>Now that my Jittlov Demo tape has arrived, I need some Wizard pics to
>laser print onto the videotape label.  Does anyone have a nice head-and
>shoulders portrait of the Green Jacketed One, or perhaps a 300 dpi version
>of his .sigfile (preferably the original upon which the ASCII art version
>was based) that they could post?

I sent Mike several B/W IFF images (640x400x16grey) that I snatched in freez-
frame mode from the lazerdisk.  I'm sure the Jovial Green Wizard (gotta avoid
them name infringments ;) could pick one out and arrange to have it tossed
up onto the net.

L8r G8r
 Keith

WARNING: I'm going to Kansas for 6 months.  Expect no FAST replies from me!
From: ewhac@ntg.com (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Re: Is Mike having a go at us?
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:11:29 GMT
Organization: Politically Incorrect Software, Ltd.

In article <1992Sep23.103703.15792@husc3.harvard.edu> joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes) writes:
>Hmmmmm.  Mike's .sig keeps changing.  Mike, are you doing stop-motion in
>your .sig???  I wish I'd saved them all...
>
	I *have* saved them all (except for T minus five) and am planning
making an animation out of them just to see what happens.

	I'll let y'all know...

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Bitmapped Wizard?
Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 05:37:12 GMT

In article <1992Oct3.030540.16689@ccu.umanitoba.ca> shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich) writes:
>Now that my Jittlov Demo tape has arrived, I need some Wizard pics to
>laser print onto the videotape label.  Does anyone have a nice head-and
>shoulders portrait of the Green Jacketed One, or perhaps a 300 dpi version
>of his .sigfile (preferably the original upon which the ASCII art version
>was based) that they could post?

Incidentally, if anyone has a large black&white bitmap, or a nice paper
version, that they can send me, I will trace it as PostScript contours,
and then we'll have a PostScript version that we can enlarge to any size
without fear of the dreaded 'jaggies'.  This goes for the WoSaT logo,
pictures of Mike, and anything else that people would like to have in
PostScript format... (I've blown logos up to six feet across this way to
see how they'd look on trucks.)

(Interesting aside note about animation: I've just acquired a very nice
semi-shareware Macintosh utility by Chris Suley, "Zipple".  It replaces
the Apple menu-bar icon with any color animation (in a 16x16 cell,
unfortunately) that you can draw.  Today I made a quarter-inch tall
version of the "Brady Bunch" title sequence which has been playing
continuously in the corner of my screen as I write this.  I've also got
Spot drooling, a can of living Spam, "Bob" smoking his `Frop, etc.  I'll
try to post these when I can, for those whose Macs need more Slack.)

							-- K.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
From: jshockey@world.std.com (John C Shockey)
Subject: Re: Bitmapped Wizard?
Summary: Fix for PostScript code
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 10:24:40 GMT

In article <1am0elINN9nt@agate.berkeley.edu> mbkomor@anableps.berkeley.edu
(M. Beth Komor) writes:
>In article <YenVTKW00UhWA3xLEH@andrew.cmu.edu> Christopher Brian Cox <cc4b+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>Here's a version I made from one of the bitmaps that came across the net
>>a while back.  Freehand version is available upon (limited I hope)
>>request.
>>
>>Chris
>>
>>ps. anybody remember the 20page square KGB logo we hung off Wean hall?
>>pps. I wish the Freehand EPS header was smaller
>
>***********
>
>Tried running up a screen of this over @ Michael Thornburgh's in SCRUZ & kept
>getting errors. He suspects there might be some assumed stuff missing that 
>normally just resides on yer home system. If this is so, could you please post
>it?
>
>
>
>
>Thx!
>
>-Meriday Beth
>>


I suspect that the file was correct when sent, but it got "fixed" along
the way. There are two places where long lines have been divided in
inconvenient places.

1) The word "left" was divided after the "l". Look for a line starting
   with "eft".

2) A comment line was divided. Look for a line starting with "incorrectly".

I removed the line break in each case and the errors went away for me.

One other possible problem that might get a few people. This is an EPS
file, which means there is no "showpage" operator at the end. If you
send it directly to a printer, rather than import it into some layout
or drawing program, and you get no errors but also no output, try adding
a line with "showpage" at the end. (My apologies if everyone knows this
already.)

John Shockey
jshockey@world.std.com

Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,alt.california,alt.self-improve
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:50:01 -0400 
From: "Andrew C. Plotkin" <ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Permission needed - Author of "Practice Random Kindness"
	<1992Sep28.205003.15762@trl.oz.au>

jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) writes:

>   "PRACTICE RANDOM KINDNESS AND SENSELESS ACTS OF BEAUTY"
>Anyone who's cruised the Newsgroups has seen that phrase, often
>used in a somebody's sig-quote.

Not just there. I was driving up I-95 from DC to Philadelphia last
month, and saw that slogan posted on a billboard by the side of the
road. A real, full-size advertising billboard. No company name, no
telephone number, no "this space for rent", nobody trying to take credit
-- just the phrase. 

"Damn, maybe there is hope for the planet," is what I said at the time.

(Note -- the phrase is misquoted almost as often as it's quoted. Mike's
version above is the correct one. (You can tell because it's a partial
pun on the cliche phrase "senseless acts of violence".))

--Z

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."