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From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Subject: Re: wanted: The WOSAT Laserdisk
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:21:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.213705.3036@panix.com> dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
>Some earlier posters stated that they had picked up the WOSAT laserdisc. 
>HELP!  Where is it?  I've trteid and tried and I can't find it.

You can get it from Laser Craze in Boston Mass for $18. I don't have the number
handy, but you can get it from 1-800 information.

Michael


-- 
Michael Kaufman | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on
 kaufman        | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
  @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be
                | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die.     Roy Batty
From: mbkomor@anableps.berkeley.edu (m.b.komor)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Re: Toys
Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:16:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: anableps.berkeley.edu
Summary: ...I've had the same thot :)
Keywords: *LOTS* of new Jittlov films!!!

In article <PHR.92Dec22192354@napa.telebit.com> phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes:
>I saw "Toys" (the new Robin Williams movie) the other night.  A
>weird, somewhat disturbing movie, basically a thumbs up but I -don't-
>recommend it for little kids.  A lot of it was MJ-style stop motion
>animation of toys in a toy factory, hence my post to this newsgroup.
>I kept thinking I wish someone would turn MJ loose with a budget like
>that!  

Mee2. Wonder if enuf people *wrote*...

Hmmmm.... -wouldn't it be nice? :)

Best,

Meriday Beth

mbkomor@mica.berkeley.edu

Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
Subject: Toys
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:23:54

I saw "Toys" (the new Robin Williams movie) the other night.  A
weird, somewhat disturbing movie, basically a thumbs up but I -don't-
recommend it for little kids.  A lot of it was MJ-style stop motion
animation of toys in a toy factory, hence my post to this newsgroup.
I kept thinking I wish someone would turn MJ loose with a budget like
that!
From: mbkomor@remarque.berkeley.edu (m.b.komor)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Re: wosat poster
Date: 27 Dec 1992 07:13:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: alt
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
Summary: Hope this helps! :)
Keywords: Wizard, poster, mail-to address, pun!

In article <199226.4700.1300@dosgate> "john. martin" <john..martin@canrem.com> writes:
>I have seen many messages about this poster on this conference
>includeing messages from Mike himself but one big question remains in my
>mind.  WHERE THE HECK DOES ONE SEND THE REQUEST / MONEY / MAILER TUBE TO
>?    Any help greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> * SLMR 2.1a * My reality check just bounced.

The address to send to for the Wizard poster is:

	902 Maltman Avenue
	Hollywood, CA 90026-2714

Get it there quick--before he runs out!

*Best,*

-Meriday Beth

mbkomor@mica.berkeley.edu
<sorry 'bout that pun; i jest *couldn't* resist ;D >

Xref: sparky alt.fan.mike-jittlov:1079 alt.politics.kibo:300
From: "john. martin" <john..martin@canrem.com>
Subject: wosat poster
Reply-To: "john. martin" <john..martin@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 26 Dec 92 19:04:11 EST

I have seen many messages about this poster on this conference
includeing messages from Mike himself but one big question remains in my
mind.  WHERE THE HECK DOES ONE SEND THE REQUEST / MONEY / MAILER TUBE TO
?    Any help greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

 * SLMR 2.1a * My reality check just bounced.
--
Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:36:59 EST
From: <PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Happy Boxing Day

I was going to post the words to the Hollywood song from TWOSAT because (a)
someone requested them and (b) I thought it would be a nice Christmas treat
for the Jittlovians.  However, I'm having some trouble with a few of the
words, so could you pop the tape in your vcr and see what you think?
Thanks!

There's a magic place
That can glorify your face.
All it takes is cash and talent.
You could star in Hollywood.

Then you'll dance along the glitter walk.
Movie fans will point and talk.
You're the center of their view.
Their fantasy....[something]

Studios and movie agents.
Sign your name and sign your soul.
And as you [join?] their cast of thousands,
Hoping for that starring role.

But is it worth the pain and strife?
To sacrifice your private life?
To risk your friends and true love dream?
For minutes on a silver screen?

That's the Hollywood dream.
--
Paula Ford   | Internet: pxf3@psuvm.psu.edu  | PO Box 674
"Snaefridh"  | Bitnet:   pxf3@psuvm          | Hollidaysburg, PA 16648
Den som har droemt Udfaerd og Daad senker ej Sejl uden med Sorg,
                                  --Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson
From: adric@access.digex.com (William Johnson)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Re: RePosted Favorite-1
Date: 30 Dec 1992 02:29:26 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
Keywords: Kibo, sig

In article <1gpq5bINNejk@gap.caltech.edu> jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) writes:
>
>(After James "Kibo" Parry - UseNet Icon Extraordinaire - posted
> his typographical tour d'avalanche in alt.fan.mike-jittlov:)
>
>
> [MEGA MONDO HUGOID .SIG DELETED FOR SPACE]
>

Could it be?  My favorite Wizard talking in glowing terms about someone
I personally know?  James "Kibo" Perry MUST be the same James "Kibo" Perry
who once Embodied (bad pun) the name "King Body", and who went, for a short
time, to the fabled Rains-all-year Polystyrene Institute.

(I hate line noise, in case that last line was garbled to you all and not
just for me).

Anyway, if so, I am in aw, that someone who's sole passions is Fonts and
obscure humor magazines named Fred is now eliciting such responses from
The Mike, while I, lowly fan, have merely once managed to receive a short
letter from His Wizardry, explaining why he could not come to the convention,
Genericon II, which I was on the planning committee for, a couple of years
before Kibo came on the scene to be seen at later Genericons.

Life is just too intricate for words.  And besides that, I'm quite loopy.

Known as Will in real life (whatever THAT is), I remain,

Adric (because Kibo probably won't recognize me without my RPI pseudo)

-- 
==============================================================================
Copyright (C) 1993 by William Johnson  All rights wronged, all lefts made
                                       without benefit of turn signal.

Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,sci.skeptic,alt.politics.kibo
From: payner@netcom.com (Rich Payne)
Subject: Re: WIZARD - the Nostradamus of Movies!
Keywords: Wizard, Kuwait, bizarre, "coincidence"
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:02:53 GMT

In article <1gn8o0INNok5@gap.caltech.edu> jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu (Mike Jittlov) writes:
[vaporized]
 
 
>As a matter of fact, just take the official business name of SGE - 
>Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment, Inc. - which has 36 letters and
>characters.  Now, add up all those numbers, 1+2+3+(...)+34+35+36.
>That's right.  They total 666.  (It's...just...too...close.)

I'm curious, why are abbreviations counted -as- abbreviations, rather
than the word they stand for, and why is punctuation counted, since
it is not part of the name, per se.

Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment Incorporated

Number of letters is 43, sum of numbers is 946.
 
>(Maybe I should just go with the flow - find a lawyer named Moses.)
>
>                           *   *   *
>
>EPILOGUE:  the WIZARD movie is still in limbo, the conflict is
>still unresolved.  And wouldn't you know it - the conflict in
>the Middle East, whatever its real agenda, also doesn't appear
>to be resolved, and the apparent villains are still in charge.

Do you really think that the conflict in the middle east will be
resolved?
 
>But perhaps, when WIZARD is rightfully regained, repaired, and
>redistributed - and justice is dutifully applied to those who
>so richly deserve it - Hollywood and the rest of the World will
>know peace and plenty.
>
>_________________________________________ ___._`.*.'_._ ________
> Mike Jittlov - Wizard, etc        .   . +  * .o   o.* `.`. +.  
>  Hollywood, CA 90026-2714        '   *  . ' ' |\^/|  `. * .  *
>jittlov@gumby.cs.caltech.edu   (: May All Your  \V/  Good Dreams
>  <& alt.fan.mike-jittlov>     and Fine Wishes  /_\  Come True:)
>============================================== _/ \_ ===========
>
>Copyright 1992 by Mike Jittlov (& all the protection that affords)  
>
>
>                 To think I could be wasting all
>                 these intellectual aerobics on
>                 just making another movie...
>


Rich

payner@netcom.com
From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Finally got the Wizard on LD!!
Date: 22 Dec 92 11:39:39 GMT
Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu

I just bought "The Wizard of Speed and Time" on laserdisc.  It was
only 19.98!

I'd forgotten how much fun it was!

I love the Cheech & MacKenzie cops... the "Bob" face on the pizza
van... all the gizmos at Mike's house... the little old lady watching
the filming... the Hollywood Jumping Wall... and of course the
subliminals.

I chuckled when I read the credits... Richard Kaye's names everywhere,
with a tiny little "Mike Jittlov."

As for getting back at the esteamed business partner: why not sic
Disney on him?  There's a couple of Disney trademark infringements in
the garage sale scene, and since you're not making any money off of
it, it stands to reason you're not liable for it.

BTW, what's the real reason behind the no-shaking-hands rule?
--
William R Ward                         __o   Bay View Software
VoiceMail: +1 (408) 479-4072         _ \<,_  Internet:  hermit@cats.ucsc.edu
SnailMail: 1803 Mission St. #339    (_)/ (_) BITNet:    hermit@cats.bitnet
           Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA
From: hoppie@nemesis.East.Sun.COM (Tom Hopkins)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Re: RePosted Favorite-1
Date: 22 Dec 1992 13:54:33 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc., Billerica, MA. 
Distribution: world
Reply-To: hoppie@nemesis.East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: nemesis.east.sun.com

In article GF2@world.std.com, kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
>
>Incidentally, I declared the 988-liner "closed" a week or two ago, and
>now I'm working on a completely different one.  (Also, the PostScript
>200K one is still floating around, and I keep promising I'll get back to
>work on the 3-D stereo 24-bit TIFF one when I have time.)
>
>Should I make the new one 132 columns wide?  255?  1000x1000?

The new sig should be constrained to 20, or perhaps even 10 columns.
The constraint will force you to distill every bit of creativity into
those few characters per line.  Naturally, this will also tend to
increase the number of lines, which could be considered an added
benefit.

Also, the 10 columns should be on the right side of the screen.

-Tom Hopkins <hoppie@turbo.east.sun.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
From: dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein)
Subject: WOSAT and LD subliminals
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:22:43 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

someone (sorry, didn't catch id) mentioned that his original LD player,
which had digital memory to stoore CLV images, did not display the fields
with some of the WoSAT subliminals.
  
I have a similar LD player (one of the Pioneer series), and while I don't
(yet) have my copy of WoSAT, I've noticed something on the player which
just -might- get you back in business.

There is a setting for "digital" memory, which dos something wierd or
another.  I can't quite figure it out from the instructions (or, for that
matter, what happens when I toggle it), but my WAG is that it has
something to do with the "field/frame" deal in NTSC.
  
so... I suggest you toggle it while single framing.  don't know if it will
work, but you never know...

good luck
dannyb@panix.com

Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov,alt.religion.kibology,alt.fan.warlord,alt.good.news,misc.test
From: nobody@dev.null (nobody)
Subject: Re: RePosted Favorite-1
Keywords: Kibo, sig
Reply-To: nobody@dev.null
Organization: none
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 14:34:25 GMT

kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry) writes:
> Incidentally, I declared the 988-liner "closed" a week or two ago, and
> now I'm working on a completely different one.  (Also, the PostScript
> 200K one is still floating around, and I keep promising I'll get back to
> work on the 3-D stereo 24-bit TIFF one when I have time.)

> Should I make the new one 132 columns wide?  255?  1000x1000?

Actually, I think that a 1000x1000 ASCII barphic would look really neat
displayed in an xterm window using a one point font.  The mind boggles.

> The new one even will have my coat of arms, and a nice Welsh poem about it.

> (It's green with silver chevron, three wolves, erased.  No, not like THAT.
> "Erased" in heraldry just means their heads with bloody remnants of
> their neck, as opposed to neatly sliced off or the whole wolf.)

Don't tell Peter da Silva about it.

Q:  What's for dinner?
A:  Bloody Remnants of wolf neck!  Mmmm Mmmm Good!
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:49:59 EST
From: <PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
Subject: Re: Happy Boxing Day

No, no, no, Will.  Don't ask Mike.  We want another movie, don't we?  Let
the man work in peace.  Paula
--
Paula Ford   | Internet: pxf3@psuvm.psu.edu  | PO Box 674
"Snaefridh"  | Bitnet:   pxf3@psuvm          | Hollidaysburg, PA 16648
Den som har droemt Udfaerd og Daad senker ej Sejl uden med Sorg,
                                  --Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson
Newsgroups: alt.fan.mike-jittlov
From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
Subject: Re: wanted: The WOSAT Laserdisk
Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Date: 26 Dec 92 15:26:03

    You can get it from Laser Craze in Boston Mass for $18. I don't
    have the number handy, but you can get it from 1-800 information.

I haven't had the great luck with Laser Craze.  I ordered a disc
2+ months ago and they said they had it in stock and I should receive
it in a few days.  A month and several followup calls later I finally
got it and it was defective (bad spot about 30 minutes in causing
several minutes to be skipped).  They told me I could send it in for
a replacement but it was out of stock again so it would be a couple
weeks before I got a new copy.  Figuring I'd rather have a defective
copy than no copy, I ordered a 2nd copy (they told me I could send
back the 1st for a refund when the 2nd arrives).  A month later,
I haven't gotten the 2nd copy yet.

They've been quite nice over the phone but gotten a lot of information
wrong.  I don't think they're trying to rip anyone off but they seem
disorganized.  I'd say order from someplace who really has it in stock,
if possible.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
From: starhunter@cix.compulink.co.uk (Peter Boulter)
Subject: Re: New? Pern book
Reply-To: starhunter@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:41:00 +0000


In article <bygrbmj@lynx.unm.edu>, kogoma@vesta.unm.edu (Taki Kogoma) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.024655.17255@samba.oit.unc.edu> Michael.Gunderson@launc-
hpad.unc.edu (Michael Gunderson) writes:
>>
>>  Just got my latest flyer from the Science-Fiction Book Club, and along
>>with all the normal fare was a Pern page including a book called _Rescue
>>Run_ by Anne McCaffrey, supposedly set 49 years after DragonsDawn.
>
>Hmmm...I diddn't see that in the last packet from the SF book club I
>received...must be in the next one.  (Goody! ;-)
>
>(I guess this book is the long-awaited 'Pern Anthology'.)
>

Well I certainly hope it is the 'Pern Anthology' and that it will soon
be available here in England.
When you do get the book perhaps you could let us all know about it.

Thanks.

Peter.

-------------------------------------------|     HAPPY NEW YEAR
 *   *    Peter Boulter                    |    or should that be   
  ***     ---------------------------------|     HAPPY NEW TURN ?  
 *   *    starhunter@cix.compulink.co.uk   |     to all on a.f.p.
-------------------------------------------|
From: morpheus@cco.caltech.edu (Kynn Bartlett)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
Subject: Re: (MUSH) Those Wacky Cross-Gender Impressing Dragons
Date: 24 Dec 1992 15:42:40 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: globie.caltech.edu

In article <30199@hoptoad.uucp> ambar@cygnus.com (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
>Should these violations (not the reasons behind them, even, just the
>existence of the violations themselves) then be taken as support for
>minor violations of theme?  If so, then why bother with the theme at
>all?  We'd surely live in a lot less fear of Anne's lawyers if we simply
>made up our own little universe of little cuddly creatures, big
>impressive creatures, danger and derring-do, love and lust.... and
>didn't call it Pern.

>				AMBAR

Buh?

Call me stupid or something (and you have before, on similar issues),
but you're staying that biiiiiiiiig violations are a-okay and hunky-dory,
but little violations are bad bad bad?

What's little to one person is big to another.

Methinks you'd feel differently, Ambar, if your main character were
a fighting dragonrider rather than a gold rider.  Most of the female
fighting riders I've talked on PernMUSH would like the option of taking
an honorific just like their male counterparts.

     ___________                                             ___________
     |         |             M A L A C H I T E               |         |
     |   '"'   |                                             |   '"'   |
     |  '"""'  |                 Brum Hold                   |  '"""'  |
     |  """""  |                                             |  """""  |
      \'"""""'/           morpheus@cco.caltech.edu            \'"""""'/
       \_____/   "Yo he yo!"                 "Rice is Nice!"   \_____/
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
From: chris@keris.demon.co.uk (Chris Croughton)
Subject: Re: honorifics, MU*s, bronze/gold pairings 
Distribution: world
Organization: Keristor Systems
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:42:47 +0000

In article <1992Dec22.185545.18359@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> jmorrill@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu writes:

>Everything we discuss here is speculative, we have no other choice. I just
>finished a long reply where I speculated why golds can not chew firestone and
>flame. The *real* reason they can not is that Ann says they can not, my
>explaintion is but a mental exercise.

That's what I said originally - I'm glad someone agrees <g>...

>You will not throw a monkey wrench in the MU*s that allow women to ride colors.
>The reason that woman ride the colors on MU*s is because the game would not
>work otherwise. We can make up any explaination we want, but the fact is, a
>good leader on a MU* (be it wizard, craftmaster, etc) when faced with a choice
>between what makes the game work better, and what is in the Pern books, will
>conveniently ignore the books. This is nothing new, the MU*s have conveniently
>ignored AtWoP.

And most of the offline fannish Weyrs as well - both allowing women to
Impress and ignoring AtWoP, or at least AIVAS.

>I guess for some reason, I feel this need to be flamed, because it occurs to
>me that denying honorifics to female riders of the colors is sexist.  You
>need these riders to fill the Weyrs, therefore they must be given all rights,
>duties, responsibities and privileges given to male riders. No ifs, ands, or
>books!

I agree with you about the honorifics.  I was under the impression that
the Weyrs (offline and MU*) allowed woment to choose whether they used
them or not, but apparently at least some of the MU*s are still
restrictive...

>I have no opinion on whether males should be able to impress golds and
> females impress bronzes. I am one of those rare players that preferrs to
>play a crafter. I will say that if Ambar is hearing people discuss it
>during the hatches, it may be something that should be considered.

I have an opinion, but since I am not a dragonrider either, it doesn't
carry much weight.

Keris @ Ista Weyr 9th Pass (offline)

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern
From: smartin@Canada.lsil.com (Stephen Martin)
Subject: Re: So, is it over?
Organization: LSI Logic Corporation of Canada, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:49:24 GMT

I think it's over, the computer's last message was directed at the reader not
the poeple of Pern. Sure Anne could continue on or go back in time and fill
it out some more but it would be flogging a dead horse. I'm sure that
she has other stories to pursue. Personally I'm glad, I liked the series and
have a good feeling about finnally finishing it some 10 years after I started
it. As for what happens to the Dragon riders? My guess is that they band
together and open Pern Airlines charging the people of Pern a few marks a
head for shuttling them around.
--
---
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Phone: (416) 620-7400     LSI|LOGIC|    Suite 1110, 401 The West Mall,        
Fax:   (416) 620-5005        |     |    Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada.
Email: smartin@lsican.uucp   -------    M9C 5J5
 or    smartin@Canada.lsil.com
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pern