HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mporter@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mitchell Porter)
Subject: Re: Blurb for McKenna's "Timewave Zero"
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 11:03:21 GMT

mstemper@ems.cdc.com (Michael Stemper) writes:

>>As related by McKenna in his talking book, True Hallucinations, the
>>theory of Timewave Zero was revealed to him by an alien intelligence
>>in the wake of a bizarre quasi-psychedelic experiment conducted by him
>>and his brother in the Amazon jungle in Colombia in 1971.

>Was McElwre with him?

*grin*

>>                                  If his theory is confirmed then we
>>can look forward to a rough ride (but a highly interesting one) in the
>>twenty-three years leading up to the climactic end- point of history
> ??????????????????
>>in December, 2012.
>              ????

>I suppose the psychedelics explain the three year gap?

The blurb was probably written in 1989.

Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: webber@world.std.com (Robert D Webber)
Subject: Re: Flashback from hell - comments?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:14:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.211514.6846@muddcs.claremont.edu> ipierago@fenris.claremont.edu (Ian Pierago) writes:
>
>I was discussing the psycological causes of flashbacks (as opposed to the
>false belief that LSD causes them by chemical means) with a friend when she
>related the following story about a flashback her SO had.  It was obviously
>a tramatic experience and neither of them use LSD any more because of it.
...
[story of friend:]
...
>his eyes - he couldn't even speak but it looked like he was trying to scream.
>He threw his arms around his head, trying to protect it from something - I
>grabbed for the wheel and was trying to drive while he was pressing the gas.
...
>a field to get it to stop.  He eventually snapped out of it.  I asked him
>what happened - he said this huge snake had burst out of the road and was
>heading straight for the car with its mouth open - he was going to serve
>but then he saw them everywhere.  He even said there wer little ones in the
>car trying to eat his eyes.  He was mortified.  He said he couldn't ever
>remember having had a trip that involved snakes before.
>That was enough for me.

A friend of mine who suffers from narcolepsy has/had hypnogogic
hallucinations which were more or less like that, though she
didn't specifically mention snakes.  More like signs uprooting
themselves from the roadside and chasms opening in the road ahead.

That doesn't say whether or not the incident described was a "true"
flashback, but suggests that there is at least one other explanation.
Having that happen to someone I know, not during an actual trip,
wouldn't have put me off LSD.

If your friend's SO also exhibits a lot of daytime drowsiness or
drinks a _lot_ of coffee and still conks out early he should probably
talk with an MD, but I don't think there are any illnesses that
_specifically_ have a symptom of seeing giant snakes in the road.
Maybe the DTs.

Bob


-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu (Peter F. Couvares)
Subject: Re: MJ and Asthma?
Keywords: mj, asthma, steroids.
Organization: Amherst College
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 01:59:56 GMT

gaspar@inf.ethz.ch (gaspo) writes:
>[...] I have seen references and various
>notes how good MJ smoke has a beneficial effect for people with Asthma.
>(something to do with intra-aeolus dialation or some such).
>[...] the FOAF
>is currently taking 4 different nasty synth-drugs (incl. steroids) for
>the Asthma, and need some hard (or at least just printed) facts to
>convince them to tell the synth-pushing doctor to bugger off.

	I wouldn't be so quick to declare pot a better solution than
steroids. While steroids may have lots of nasty side-effects, they
work very well. Marijuana's asthma-relieving properties seem to be
less consistent. First have your friend try smoking pot to see if it
helps. If it does, great. If it doesn't, stick with the steroids. But
don't ditch the doctor until you know for sure.

-Peter

pfcouvar@unix.amherst.edu (Peter Couvares)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs
From: sbrock@teal.csn.org (Steve Brock)
Subject: Eggleston: Ancient and Modern
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:59:36 GMT

MONTGOMERY CLIFT: BEAUTIFUL LOSER by Barney Hoskyns.  Grove
Weidenfield Press, 841 Broadway, N.Y., NY  10003-4793.  Illustrat-
ed, bibliography.  192 pp., $30.00 cloth.  0-8021-1512-8

                             REVIEW

     My favorite Montgomery Clift movie has to be one of his first,
"Red River," called by some the "Western Mutiny on the Bounty." 
How can you not admire someone who stands up to John Wayne?
     Hoskyns, in his second look at the life of a tragic Hollywood
life (his first was on James Dean), portrays Clift as "emotionally
disturbed, sexually confused, and physically destroyed by the use
of drugs and alcohol."
     Beginning with Clift's shy and introverted early years,
Hoskyns charts his introduction to Hollywood and examines his roles
in "Red River," "The Misfits," "The Search," "A Place in the Sun,"
"From Here to Eternity," "I Confess," and many others.
     Seemingly at his peak, but actually so badly depressed that he
could barely work, Clift was driving home from a party when his car
went out of control and he struck a telephone pole.  Hoskyns
describes his attempts at a comeback, finishing "Raintree County"
full of painkillers, but things were never the same.  One of the
most poignant photographs in the book shows Clift "resting," flat
on his back on the back of a horse.
     Clift, already down, continued to sink lower.  Never fully
recovered from his injuries, there were rumors of "gay cocaine
orgies" and his last ten years have been described as "the cinema's
longest suicide attempt."  Hoskyns titles the last chapter of the
book, covering the period 1960 to 1966, "The Inner Circle of Hell."
     Clift's last days were harrowing.  He seldom left his New York
Brownstone, eating raw steak and baby food, and died from a heart
attack caused by arteriosclerosis.
     This is a sad, although sympathetic, story of an actor "who
never knew what he was or what he wanted to be."  Don't give this
as a gift to a person that you want to feel better.
     Hoskyns, when he's not writing biographies, is a rock and roll
critic and performs in the band Cry America.  Speaking of Clift and
rock and roll, give a listen to REM's "Monty Got a Raw Deal" on
their new album "Drive."

Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,rec.arts.books
From: sbrock@teal.csn.org (Steve Brock)
Subject: Crime Scene by Mitch Gelman (Newspaper reporting)
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:40:50 GMT

CRIME SCENE: ON THE STREETS WITH A ROOKIE POLICE REPORTER by Mitch
Gelman.  Times Books, 201 E. 50th St., N.Y., NY  10022.  277 pp.,
$21.00 cloth.  0-8129-2084-8

                             REVIEW

     Gelman, a police reporter for the New York Newsday newspaper
until earlier this year (he was transferred to the crime, health,
and urban affairs beat), has penned an uneven look at how crime is
investigated by newspaper reporters.
     Beginning with a too-in-depth look at his developmental years,
Gelman, the son of a magazine editor, finally gets to his tenure as
an editorial page researcher and pastry-getter at the paper.  He
knew he would rise up the ladder, but he was energetic and
aggressive.  Once, he sent the editor of the paper a cinnamon-
coated brioche in an interoffice envelope to show his frustration
with still being a guest in the newsroom.
     Shortly after, he was moved to a small press office at the
downtown Police Headquarters.  The story now begins to pick up
steam.  Gelman's first story for the paper is a murder that he is
too graphic in describing, and has to be toned down by an editor. 
     He learns the ropes slowly, but relentlessly, finally getting
a byline, having his first story on page one, feeling lost when his
boss goes on vacation, maintaining friendships with victims of the
crimes that he covers, and being part of a team that wins a
Pulitzer Prize.
     But when he turns away from his descriptions of crime
investigations, Gelman falters, especially when he discusses the
trials of keeping a romance with a co-worker under wraps.  Some of
his descriptions are forced, as when, more than a year later, he
remembers exactly what an editor is wearing when he talks to him.
     When he's after a story, Gelman's a bulldog.  When he veers
into other realms, he's a poodle.

Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,rec.arts.books
From: sbrock@teal.csn.org (Steve Brock)
Subject: Heroes and Anti-Heroes (Photography)
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:37:14 GMT

HEROES AND ANTI-HEROES: MAGNUM IMAGES, by the staff photographers
of Magnum Images.  Random House Books, 201 E. 50th St., N.Y., NY 
10022.  Illustrated (23 color and 208 black and white photographs). 
231 pp., $65.00.  0-679-41178-X

                             REVIEW

     Magnum Images, begun in 1947 by a consortium of photojournal-
ists, has been the foremost news photo agency in the world, but
it's hard to understand this feat when paging through "Heroes and
Anti-Heroes."
     Since many of the photographs in this volume were to accompany
feature articles and weren't under a news deadline (the photogra-
phers weren't rushed), they should be rich and dramatic, but they
are literally two-dimensional, ordinary, and lacking in appeal.
     There are a few exceptions:  Richard Nixon in 1955, looking
like Dan Ackroyd's impersonation of Jack Webb in "Dragnet;" Albert
Schweitzer and Mother Theresa on facing pages, one looking like a
shaggy dog, the other looking like a pug; or Alfred Hitchcock
posing with a bird on his cigar.
     But these depictions, even the action ones, still come across
like the standard publicity fare, suggesting little in themselves,
other than an accompaniment to a story.  The words, obviously, were
more important.


Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,rec.arts.books
From: bab2@nestor.cc.bellcore.com (barter,elizabeth)
Subject: Book on jewelry making 
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:16:01 GMT
Followup-To: poster

Last week someone posted a review of a book on
jewelry making (I can't remember the exact name or
author).  At the time I didn't pay attention, but
now I think it might be the ideal christmas gift
for my sister or one of my nieces.  Could that
kind person, whoever they were, email me the information?

Thanks

Beth


Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,rec.arts.books
From: cjh@tinton.ccur.com (Christopher J. Henrich)
Subject: Re: Wallpaper and the Artist by Marilyn Hapgood  (Art)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp., Tinton Falls, NJ
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 22:02:12 GMT

In article <Bxo8Ey.2n8@csn.org> sbrock@teal.csn.org (Steve Brock) writes:
>WALLPAPER AND THE ARTIST: FROM DURER TO WARHOL by Marilyn Oliver
>Hapgood.  Abbeville Press, 488 Madison Ave., N.Y., NY  10022. 
>Illustrated, index, bibliography, notes, directory of manufacturers
>and shops.  272 pp., $85.00 cloth.  0-89659-933-7
>
>                             REVIEW
>
>     Many famous artists have had second careers.  No, they didn't
>flip burgers on the evening shift to make ends meet when their
>paintings weren't selling - they had a secret passion that provided
>them with an outlet for their fanciful flings - they designed
>wallpaper.
[rest of fine review deleted]

The review did not mention Maurits Escher, whose graphic art, often
inspired by geometrical symmetry, sometimes even resembles wallpaper.

Is it possible that Ms. Hapgood overlooked Escher?  He's very popular
with mathematicians, some of whom have written whole books analyzing
his work from the viewpoint of group theory.  But I can imagine that
the "art world" might boggle at Escher, precisely because his
mathematicality is alien to it.

Regards,
Chris Henrich
Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,rec.arts.books
From: sbrock@teal.csn.org (Steve Brock)
Subject: Re: Wallpaper and the Artist by Marilyn Hapgood  (Art)
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:30:30 GMT

You're right!  No mention of Escher.  As an ex-printer, I've loved his
illusions for years.  Good catch.  -- Steve
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical,misc.books.technical,ca.wanted,misc.wanted
From: gafter@netcom.com (Neal M Gafter)
Subject: Wanted: 1990 (31st) FOCS Proceedings
Reply-To: gafter@netcom.com
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Snailmail: Neal Gafter, 2350 Mission College Blvd #500, Santa Clara 95054
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:12:20 GMT

Does anyone have a copy of IEEE's "Proceedings: 31st Symposium on
Foundations of Computer Science" (1990) that they'd like to sell?
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
From: matrix@well.sf.ca.us (Frank Dunn)
Subject: SILICON MIRAGE: NEW BOOK ON VIRTUAL REALITY
Organization: Matrix Information Services
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:37:52 GMT




There is a new book available on the topic of VR.



       SILICON MIRAGE: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF VIRTUAL REALITY
            by Steven Aukstakalnis and David Blatner

   FOREWORD BY JARON LANIER, FOUNDER AND CHIEF SCIENTIST, VPL RESEARCH.




The first two paragraphs of the Foreword read as follows:


"Reading this book is a delight for me because it fills a suprisingly
long-standing gap in the literature of virtual reality. For the
enormous amount of interest and activity that virtual reality has 
inspired over the last few years, it is absolutely remarkable that I 
have had no book to recommend to people who come to me with the simple
question, 'What can I read to understand what this is all about?' I
feel that now there is such a book, and you are holding it in your hands.

Silicon Mirage is organized around the human sense organs, and this is
entirely appropriate. Virtual reality is distinct from other 
configurations of computer technology in that it places the human being
in the center. When we work with virtual reality systems, we begin with 
the question, "What, exactly, is a human body and how might we design
a machine that will most comfortably suit the natural modes of 
perception and action of a person?" So I am delighted to see an 
exposition that starts with the human body and nervous system and treats
the virtual reality equipment as transient attempts to mirror that
biological invarient."
----

In a clear, easy to understand style, Silicon Mirage covers everything
from the underlying mechanisms of sight, hearing and the sense of touch,
through the design of head-mounted displays, binaural 3-D sound, and
tactile/force feedback devices. There are also chapters on the human 
factors considerations of immersive VR systems, applications from a 
broad cross-section of industries and more.


SILICON MIRAGE: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF VIRTUAL REALITY
by Aukstakalnis and Blatner

328 pgs, 120+ photos and illus, 4 pgs. color plates, pub Nov. 1992
by Peachpit Press (ISBN 0-938151-82-7).

PRICE: $15.00

Available at bookstores across N. America the day after Thanksgiving
or immed. by sending a check or money order for $15.00 + $5 for 
P/H to:


Matrix Information Services
Book Dept. 
18560 Bungalow Drive
Lathrup Village, MI 48076
(313) 559-1526
(313) 559-1436 (Fax)
matrix@well.sf.ca.us


Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
From: nas_ps@geds01.jsc.nasa.gov (Pradip R. Shah)
Subject: Fluid Mechanics/Thermo
Reply-To: nas_ps@geds01.jsc.nasa.gov
Organization: G.E. Government Services
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:38:03 GMT

Does anyone have the following books which they would like to sell ?

1.  Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by  Fox & McDonald

2.  Thermodynamics  by Van Wylen & Sonntag 

Pradip Shah  GE  USA
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From: lightnin@guardian.WPI.EDU (Reality's Comic Relief)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical,misc.books.technical,rec.arts.books,soc.college,soc.college.grad,misc.misc
Subject: Book Exchanges
Date: 19 Nov 1992 01:15:20 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: guardian.wpi.edu

I am currently involved in a project that is working on finding methods
of exchanging books among college students.  The goal of our project is
to find a method that both undergraduate and graduate students could use
with equal ease to buy and sell textbooks, and other books of interest.
We are just beginning and are looking for information about what methods
to achieve this goal have been tried at other colleges.

Any information you can send us about what methods your college may have 
used to exchange books between students would be appreciated.

Please contact our project at any of the addresses below:

android@wpi.wpi.edu
lightnin@wpi.wpi.edu
petra@wpi.wpi.edu

Thank you.

-lightnin

Derek G Bacon        | "But his bosses didn't like him, so they shot him into 
lightnin@wpi.wpi.edu |  space."     - MST3K Love Theme
Gadaiyio Takeimienei |=========================================================
Writer of USFP       | "Oh Fluffy, I never knew." -Earth Girls Are Easy
From: Mark.Kraml@f250.n514.z17.illusion.tpg.org (Mark Kraml)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
Subject: Brain Sex
Date: 18 Nov 92 02:58:54 GMT

Hello William!

Saturday November 14 1992, William Li writes to All:

 WL> From: wli@cs.sfu.ca (William Li)
 WL> Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
 WL> Subject: Brain Sex
 WL> Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
 WL> @Message-ID: <1992Nov14.182309.1060@cs.sfu.ca>
 WL> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 18:23:09 GMT

 WL> I'm looking for the author/publisher/etc of a book called
 WL> "Brain Sex".  I had it recommended to me as a source on
 WL> gender differences.

check with the CBC they had a show called "brain sex" about gender diff. it
was part of the series "Witness" i think.

Mark
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng)
Subject: Drawing Fonts on 24bit color display
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:58:23 GMT

I Need to be able to draw fonts on a 24bit color resolution display.

Can anyone point me to a source of 
	1) font drawing code
	or
	2) bitmapped fonts
	or 
	3) whatever that can help

Nothing fancy. I just want to be able to print some numbers, names on a
24bit color graphics screen.

Thanks in advance.

jin meng
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: cl27111@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher  Lindsey)
Subject: Re: Detecting number of mouse buttons (not INT 33,0)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:34:25 GMT

	The problem that I am having is that I am linking together several
.OBJ files, and I don't want to declare a variable as global (for reasons
too detailed)...  The delay is only about one second, but that interrupt
also resets the mouse, which I don't want to do...

	Many programs have their own drivers built-in; how do they determine
the number of buttons?  I guess what I'm looking for is information that
is related to ports, etc.  i.e. send a value to the serial port+1, look at
top three bits, whatever...

Christopher Lindsey -- Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Univ. of Illinois
From: "mitch feldhandler" <mitch.feldhandler@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: my_tsr
Date: 19 Nov 92 22:39:27 EST
Reply-To: "mitch feldhandler" <mitch.feldhandler@channel1.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

AK>in the interrupt routine. At least you will be at a "known state" and
AK>can go from there. Just remember to POP all registers in reverse order
AK>at the end of your routine.
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From: beshir@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Abubaker Ali Ibrahim)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: How to get ascii from -(356---> 315 character)
Date: 19 Nov 1992 01:37:18 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
	
		I am wrting a programm,(text editor) and I want
		to assign the ascii to defferent character which
		is more than the ascii(256) how I can increse
		to get it to 315, in turboc or pascal
		please e-mail...
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Originator: beshir@csd4.csd.uwm.edu


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From: aas@stan.xx.swin.oz.au (SERGEJEW A)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: How to generate interrupts from lpt port?
Date: 20 Nov 92 08:15:50 GMT
Followup-To: alt.msdos.programmer
Organization: Comp. Centre, Swinburne University of Tech., Melbourne, Australia

I have a student who is trying to convert a psychophysiology program
from polling to interrupt-driven and we've struck a conceptual hurdle
with the input side of things.  The idea is to have a couple of push
buttons under the control of the subject be registered by the PC.
Previously the buttons had been connected to a games port and the right
port addresses polled to catch the button press.  Moving to an
interrupt-driven model, since we couldn't figure out how to generate
an interupt from the games port, we thought we'd try instead the control
lines of the centronics lpt port.  The only problem is, although polling
can catch lpt status changes, we can't figure out how to set an interrupt
off this either.

Can anyone tell us how to do this if it is possible at all?  If not,
does anyone have any bright ideas on how to generate an interupt on a
button-press?

Thanks in anticipation
Alex.
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Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Thanks, and another question.
From: dab3@Ra.MsState.Edu (David A. Besancon)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 08:22:40 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University

I would have autoexec call a batch file say:   \
note that is chr(255) \ chr(255)
while dos does not like a space in a file name (although B.A.S.I.C. will allow
it) alt 255 is not considered a space (obviously since 32 is the code for that)

by the way you may enter the any character by its code by holding down the alt
key and typing its code on The NUMERICAL key pad.

(this should shak him up pretty good, as I have done it several times before.
)

--
David Anthony Besancon           |--   BitNet: BESANCON@USMCP6.BITNET
University of Southern MS        |-1 InterNet: dab3@ra.msstate.edu
       OR:                       |-2 InterNet: besancon@seabass.st.usm.edu
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Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: jena@longs.lance.colostate.edu (jennifer archie)
Subject: MSDOS FAQ site?
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:42:37 GMT
Organization: Good Ole Colorado State U.
Keywords: questions


Does an ftp site exist for FAQs relating to this group? If
so, where can I find it?

thank you in advance ;-)


-- 
         JENNY < GE'NIE > 

         Disclaimer:

		     mes opinions sont a moi...meme si elles n'etaient
		     pas a moi, je doute que personne ne les
		     veuille.

COLORADO STATE UNIV. : jena@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c