If you ask me, drugs are a BAD idea. I mean, if it's not you, then it's not
you. I would rather be ME and be sitting in a basement, rather than some
powder, effectively turning my body into a slave.
Also, drugs are getting to be the past. Ask a group of junior-high
schoolers about drugs. 9 out of 10 will say that they're a mistake. As for
tobacco and alcohol, that's border-lined, but many are anti-tobacco, but
alcohol.... that's kind of next-generation. We're getting there.
Tim D. Hotze
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To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
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Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: PDP-8/Es available
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Uncle Roger wrote:
> At 11:07 PM 1/21/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >>I'll leave this public since it might be useful to someone...I'm 29
now
> >>but when I was 16 or 17 my parents
expended GREAT energy trying to
get me
> >Well, I AM 17, and I'm up to 30 computers or so... Let me see if I
can
> >remember them all, my web site is a
partial listing.
> One other item that was pointed out to
me in the collectibles forum
of
> Compuserve -- teenagers who collect things
rarely get into trouble.
You
> don't see them spending money on drugs or
liquor or whathaveyou, and
they
> don't often end up in jail. (Yes,
I'm an exception, but I wasn't
actively
collecting anything in high school.)
What exception? In high school I actively collected science fiction
books since computers weren't affordable yet to a high school kid -- I
wore a slide rule on my belt because (1) I used it (2) that honestly
was
the easiest way to carry a Pickett and (3) the
HP-35 came out in my
junior year of high school priced about $395.00 more than I had on
hand.
(SNIP)
If you ask me, it is better to have a social life and do drugs (though
I am firmly against drugs, tobacco, alcohol, and firearms) than not
do drugs and sit for years in the basement without seeing the light
of day. It seems to me that since we all die anyway, might as well
enjoy. I am not brave enough to take that approach, so I sit at my
computer all day (when I am not at school-I am in 9th grade).
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