From: an8288@anon.penet.fi (Seattle Meanderings)
Subject: Seattle Meanderings, #001
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: alt.personals
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:24:51 GMT

USENET is a very weird thing.

The hard part is figuring out which part is the weirdest.  There are a lot of
newsgroups in the running, but alt.personals has to be in the top ten.

Personally, I view alt.personals with the same kind of horrified fascination
that witnessing an autopsy warrants.  On the bad side, there's the seemingly
endless flame wars, the unpleasant spewings of sorlin@wherever, and so on; then
there's the strangeness of, for example, the seeming omnipresence of Rai, or
the endless stream of "SM ISO anybody" posts. . . .  It all adds up to a
weirdness quotient matched only by being around my parents at Christmastime.

This isn't to say that it's all bad.  In fact, some of it is quite fun.  But,
at least for me, I've never found enough reason to overcome my reluctance to
jump into the ongoing topics.

So I'm trying something a little different.  I'm not all that interested in
posting Yet Another "SM ISO"-style article.  What would be the point?  It's
old, it's been done.  Besides, I'm a complicated kinda guy.  :)  So instead,
I'm just gonna post whatever's on my mind from time to time, and maybe, if I'm
lucky, it'll be at least a little interesting to *someone* out there. . . .

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So.  Where to begin?

At the moment, it's early morning in Seattle; just after 4:00 in the morning,
to be a bit more precise.  I'm just starting to get sleepy, it seems -- there's
that gentle scratchiness behind my eyelids, and I don't seem to be resisting
gravity as well as I was an hour ago.  Not that I was resisting it that much
anyway -- the terminal I'm using is next to a couch, and I've been lounging
around for over an hour dinking around with things most of the night:  working
on a story I've been writing, compiling some source code that I snarfed off the
network over a month ago, and so on.  Well, okay, I've been goofing off, but
it's been productive nonetheless.

And it's been a pleasant evening/morning, too.  A have an Enya CD quietly
playing on the stereo (I can just barely hear it over the noise of the fan in
the terminal), and I had some pizza for dinner at around midnight tonight.  Not
that frozen pizza is all that good, generally, but this time I took the time to
finely chop a green onion and spread that on, sliced a few mushrooms and
arranged the slices around the pizza, and topped it with more mozzarella and a
scattering of parsley.  I was pleasantly surprised -- it was better than I
expected.  Now if only I could keep the crust from getting soggy, I'd have it
made.  :)

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Top Ten Silly Things I'd Like the Opportunity To Do Sometime

   10.	Be able to say "Fire all weapons," and have it actually *mean*
	something.
    9.	Drop a really huge rock into a large body of water from a helicopter
	hovering at about 1000 feet.
    8.	Teach "Conversational American English" in Japan---*my* way.
    7.	Meet Rick Loomis, of "Flying Buffalo, Inc." fame.
    6.	Work with someone to create a bunch of computer-animated short subjects
	for those International Animation Tournee people.
    5.	Be a consultant for computer-game writers because of my range of
	experience, and my creative ideas.  Or just get paid for writing games.
	Or designing fonts.
    4.	Host a syndicated television show called "Cooking for Bachelors."
    3.	Pay off all but four cents of my college debt, and never pay the rest.
    2.	Blow up something real good.  Perhaps a sky-blue Ford Pinto hatchback.
    1.	Go back in time to 1963 and set up a whole bunch of video cameras along
	the motorcade route in Dallas.

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Well, I really should get to bed now.  If you feel like dropping me a line,
please do so -- I'll be gentle. . . .  :)

			"I just know that somewhere, my high-school guidance
			 counselor is having a good laugh."
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