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whee (pandora@flowbee.interaccess.com) wrote:
: : : the article wasn't FOR people in 2600, it was for 3rd word readers, a lot of 
: : : whom are probably online in some way shape or form, and may well have a 
: : : passing interest in your little hacker club . . . what'd you want from aaron, 
: : : anyway, a treatise exalting your every word, every action?
: : Gosh. You sure told me.

: My commentary, and I believe Sarlo's response (sarlo, hon, you seen the 
: pitiful article yet? Really quite sad.) had little to do with whether or 
: not 2600 was portrayed as "exalted beings" (I could give a damn, I have 
: no involvement with them whatsoever...) and quite a bit to do with the 
Nay, but i've heard it paraphrased from several people. It sounds like the 
general media trash that has been going about about anything to do with online 
"you're how old?" "fifteen" and you were able to get access to what?" " the 
zima beer web page" "W0W!&^@#*! d03zzz b33r k0m3 0ut 0f th3 skr33n!?!?" ..(but 
i digress...). Infact, should one actually attend a 2600 meeting, the term 
"exaulted being" is infact the last words that would escape the persons beings 
as all we do is sit around, get smashed, occasionally prank someone, or talk 
about computers. I'm not sure where the humble "goddess" gets her information, 
but where this farmboy comes from, that usually doesn't indicate that we have 
the high uptanding social values so honored by the Pump Room...

: fact that the article was BAD.  Pathetic, sad, lame.  I wish I had it in 
: front of me, I'd quote, but suffice to say that it's of the same 
: intellectual calibre as any random slice of the mainstream media's 
: attempt to portray "those kooky, wacky hackers (or as they put it, 
: "haqrz" *nudge* ain't that just kooky...?) on the 
: cyber-virtual-information-superhighway-thingee-that-we-don't-even-make-
: a-half-assed-attempt-to-understand.....LOOK, WE'RE CUTTING-EDGE 
: NOW...Coming up next week: nutty love stories about computer geeks who 
: met and fell in love over e-mail!!! Ain't that weird??"
Sounds like a Tonight Show skit.

Remind me not to do TV interviews either.

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Sarlo Davis - sarlo@ripco.com  [l0ck]  |  The pope thought it was funny when
              sarlo@igcom.net  [HuH]   |  he excommunicated me. He didn't
"ThAY sh0ulD g0 2 KFC, kauZ n0th1ng 1z |  count on me excommunicating him
laymer than 2dayz KFC!@# ThEy'r3 juzt  |  when I disconnected his phone..
fynGer l1Ck1ng laymerz" - Netw1z, '94  |          - Anonymous, 1995
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